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EDGAR LUCIEN LARKIN

At age of 42 years

THE

MATCHLESS ALTAR
OF THE SOUL

SYMBOLIZED AS A SHINING CUBE OF DIAMOND, ONE CUBIT

IN DIMENSIONS, AND SET WITHIN THE HOLY

OF HOLIES IN ALL GRAND ESOTERIC

TEMPLES OF ANTIQUITY.

EDGAR LUCIEN LARKIN

Director of the

LOWE ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY
Mount Lowe, California, U.S.A.

Member Mercer County Scientific Association, Aledo,
Illinois, 1875; Member Illinois Natural History So-
ciety, Ottawa, Illinois, 1879; Director New Windsor
Observatory, New Windsor, Illinois, 1880; Member
American Association for the Advancement of Science,
Saratoga, New York, 1883; Director Knox College
Observatory, Galesburg, Illinois, 1888; Member
World's Electrical Congress, Chicago, Illinois, 1893;
Director Lowe Observatory, Mount Lowe, California,
1900; Editorial Writer, Hearst Syndicate of News-
papers, San Francisco, California, 1901; Member
Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco,
California, 1901; Member Southern California Acad-
emy of Science, Los Angeles, California, 1902; Mem-
ber World's Electrical Congress, International Con-
gress Arts and Science, Astronomical Society of
America, St. Louis, Missouri, 1904; Member National
Geographical Society, Washington, D. C., 1907; Mem-
ber World's Theosophical Society, Adyr, India, 1907;
Member British Association for the Advancement of
Science, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1909; Member Indian
Academy of Oriental Science, Tinnevelly, India, 1912;
Member Krotona Institute of Theosophy, Krotona
Temple, Hollywood, California, 1914; Member Astron-
omical Society, Los Angeles, California, 1914; Member
Proximo Club, Los Angeles, California, 1915; Mem-
ber Westlake Art Club, Los Angeles, California,
1916. Special Writer for Magazines.

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EDGAR LUCIEN LARKIN

Box 1643, Los Armeies Ca?.
1916

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EDGAR LUCIEN LARKIN

RADIANT ENERGY, 1903

WITHIN THE MIND MAZE, r 9 u

Copyrigted, 1916
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EDGAR LUCIEN LARKIN

All Rights Reserved

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED

TO MY

THRICE BLESSED MOTHER.
WHEN I WAS YOUNG SHE TAUGHT ME

THAT
THE EARTH, SUN AND STARS WERE MADE IN SIX DAYS.

A FEW YEARS LATER
SHE LEARNED THAT THIS IS NOT TRUE.

THEN SHE TOLD ME.
INSTANTLY MY MIND BECAME FREE.

HER THANKFUL

AND LOVING SON

EDGAR LUCIEN LARKIN.

1916

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CONTENTS

MATCHLESS ALTAR OF THE SOUL 1

NOON MESSAGE 16

UNEXPLORED REGIONS AND DEEPS 35

EXTERNAL THOUGHT REALMS - 46

ARE THERE SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF SOUL? - 56

BLESSINGS OF SOUL ILLUMINATION 81

INDIVIDUALITY AND PERSONALITY 85

ESOTERIC MYSTERIES OF BRAIN AND THINKING 89

A SOUL NOT ALLOWED TO MANIFEST 93

VARIED STUDIES OF THE SOUL - 98

Two PLANS OF SALVATION 114

THE STILL SMALL VOICE OF ONE'S SOUL - 119

RENEWING, TRANSFORMING AND TRANSPOSING 127

PARTING OF THE WAYS 138

SCIENCE OF MIND SERIES 142

SUGGESTION - 158

UNCONDITIONED MIND 168

No EVOLUTION IN ATOMS AND MOLECULES 185

SUBMERGENCE OF THE SOUL - 201

GROPING WITHIN THE OUTER COURTS 212

IMPRESSIVE THOUGHTS OF ANTIQUITY - - 218

MIND AND SOUL RECOGNITION 234

ART AND THE SOUL 238

EARLY ARYAN IDEAS OF THE SOUL - 245

MODERN PSYCHIC EXPLORATION - - - - 251

ANCIENT THEORIES OF ANNIHILATION - - 263

DEFINITION OF THE SPIRIT OR SOUL - - - 274

INTEGRATION OF BOOK BETWEEN ITS LIMITS 283

THE HUMAN SOUL. By Mary T. Longley - 290

MIND. By Albert Abrams, M.D. - 296

STATEMENT

Creative-Mind, the Soul of the Universe, the
human soul, fractions thereof, eternity, infinity,
human existence, space, time, thought, brain,
life, words, thought-forms, the Sidereal Uni-
verse of matter, the Earth and its place therein,
the mind universe and Man's place therein, the
destiny of souls, entities now phasing and
expressing in Man, are formidable problems,
intricate and perplexing, more than we realize;
and more complex, than we can think of at
present, or explain. Recent explorations, both
in Mind and Matter, have not simplified; they
have really deepened the Mystery around and
about the Soul. The more we discover, the
deeper the Mystery, and wider.

REASONS FOR WRITING THIS BOOK

Perhaps, it is well to state my reasons for
writing this book on the Soul, a work which has
required that I stop studying the physical sci-
ences while writing.

At the age of twenty years, I read a book on
Oriental philosophy. It told of the vast systems
of Asia, Egypt, Greece and Rome; and this in
outline. Next I studied books on each system
separately. The intricate philosophical theories
of the Soul and Man, as formulated in ancient

vi Priceless Linguistic Discovery

India, fascinated me; as well as those of the
Semitic race; and those of that mystery race,
the Egyptian.

I kept on reading these, to me, intensely fasci-
nating books, treating of remote antiquity, of
thoughts of long vanished races, of their ideas
of the world in which they found themselves;
and made this discovery: All of the venerable
books and Antique Scriptures revolved around
the Soul. The sacred books of the East were,
then, being translated from Sanskrit to English
by Max Muller.

I was fascinated with the very word, Sans-
krit. I read all I could get; and delved
deeply into the vast and wonderful literary
and philosophical mine, opened for the English-
speaking and reading students by the discovery
of ancient and long lost Sanskrit; one of the
chiefest linguistic discoveries ever made, rank-
ing with the discoveries of the keys to Semitic
Cuneiform and Egyptian Hieroglyphics. The
discovery of these three was as great in
human speech, as was the discovery of Kepler's
Three Laws, and the measuring of the distance
of a star in astronomy.

I kept on reading, until on a certain day,
I made a discovery. My age was twenty-six
years. Meanwhile, I published a long series,
as I read, in a local county weekly newspaper.
By the way, this series was republished in
"Reason" in 1914-15, a magazine here in Los

The Aryans vii

Angeles. I had sensed, in these studies, the
presence of a mighty Mind dominating, as if
some external Mind had impressed the pro-
found philosophers of Ancient Aryan India.
During six years, I had been absorbed and re-
velling in the inextricable labyrinths of Archaic
Oriental Philosophy, Mysticism, the esoteric,
the hidden; and all would have passed into
oblivion, had I not written the articles entitled
"The Aryans" for the county paper. This
series has shaped, modified and impressed my
career on earth, so far; and is impressing now
as I write. Had I not written this series in my
youth, it is doubtful if I would be writing this
book now. The articles, week after week, were
cut out and pasted in a scrapbook; and the very
character, direction and trend of my life has
been influenced by my early series on things,
thoughts and systems of thought, of Asia,
Egypt, Greece and Rome.

ANOTHER DISCOVERY

And it came suddenly. I was far in the rear
of advance made during the six years, in Astron-
omy, Physics and Chemistry; and rusty in the
glory of my life, Mathematics.

A large box was secured, every Oriental book,
including the scrapbook, all these things, manu-
scrpit and notes, were placed therein, the lid was
nailed on, there to remain twenty-five years.

Then the box was shipped from Illinois to
California, and up to the Lowe Observatory.

viii Pathetic Questions

There it was opened, the books removed, and
placed on shelves; and the familiar scraps of
youth, there they were. They were placed in
a drawer to remain during fourteen years, from
1900 to 1914, when they reappeared in the good
magazine, "Reason."

Meanwhile, I published a new series of Ori-
ental Aryan Metaphysics and Philosophy, in
the u San Francisco Examiner." This resulted in
another kind of experience, an event, or
rather a perpetual series of events the coming
of questions.

My first article in the new Aryan Series was
published in August, 1902, and others followed
rapidly. Then came the flood of questions, by
mail from many widely separated parts of the
world; and the flood is now on, for as I write,
there are thirty on my desk still unanswered for
lack of time.

INCREASE OF QUESTIONS SINCE THE
WORLD- WAR BEGAN

And many are pathetic: "Is there a Soul?" ;
u ls the Soul immortal?"; u Are Mind and Soul
the same?"; "Is there actually a future state?";
"Tell us of Death"; "Does the death of the
brain affect the Soul?"; "Are Souls out of the
body able to impress, or communicate with those
in the living body?" these come by hundreds;
and of every phase and kind, some being so
unique and strange, that they are a mind study
in themselves, and cause wonder to see what

Changes in Questions ix

remarkable thoughts can be originated in the
mind, phasing as human; and it is a psychologi-
cal fact that the questions come faster since the
terrific war burst upon suffering humanity.

Changes in the scope and character of these
questions are easily detected. The very course
of human thought is in some process of change;
these questions relating to Mind and Soul are as
sensitive to change as are thermometers to vari-
ations of heat, and barometers to changes in
pressure of air. These new kinds of questions,
philosophical, as well as sorrowful and pathetic,
have been, and now are, so persistent, sincere
and earnest, that, to answer a portion of them,
I have decided to write this book: "The Match-
less Altar of The Soul," and I send it forth with
the hope that it will carry consolation to many
of the friends who have honored me by
questions.

It may seem anomalous to send out a book
on the Soul to a world at war. I thought of
this, carefully; and, finally, it seemed to me to be
the very time to give it to those harassed by
troubles and forebodings, and by disturbances
in otherwise peaceful minds; and my hope is
that the war will end before the book appears.
Lowe Observatory, Mount Lowe, California,

U. S. A., September 1, 1916.

THE MATCHLESS ALTAR OF
THE SOUL

HAT the still small voice within,
may now speak in louder tones, is
one prominent object of this book.
At a time, when one half of the race
is sunk in the madness of war, the
other half must keep the Divinity that is in
man alive.

This portion of the book is now being writ-
ten, this word at 4 A. M. on January 5, 1916,
in one of the most remarkable places on Earth,
in the wonderful city, Los Angeles, California,
United States of North America. Remarkable
because it is a mighty metropolis of the concen-
trating Aryan race on the Pacific Ocean shore.
This historic race, started from its Upland
Valley home, north of the Himalayas, many cen-
turies ago. It reached the Atlantic, piled up,
as a surging wave of humanity, dashed against
the sea, crossed it, reached America; and came,
with such momentum, that nothing could stop its
march, even to the West; and is now building
an Empire by the Pacific Sea, beside which, all
Empires ever reared, dwindle into comparative
insignificance.

Every perplexing question, that has arisen
during the march from the Himalayas to the

1

2 Good and Bad

Pacific Ocean, must be settled finally, here in
the coming to be, blessed, Golden West. Good-
ness must increase, and begin to increase here
and now. This process of expanding is the
Salvation of Man. He must be saved; be res-
cued from evil.

GOOD AND BAD

There exists the bad and good. We must
positively become good. This is known to sci-
ence. It is as intensely scientific to say: "We
must be good, pure and true," as to say: "The
integral of all differentials in existence is 1, the
unit, 1."

Salvation is as scientific as measuring the dis-
tance of a star, and weighing it, even if 10,000
times more massive than the sun; or more than
three billion times the mass of the earth; or of
measuring the diameter of one electron, a
dimension so minute, that, if humans could
place electrons side by side in contact, a row, one
inch long, would contain 12,700,000,000,000.
Both achievements, measuring and weighing an
electron, i. e. f finding its mass, have been accom-
plished by recent science.

But, saving the race, has been neglected.
There are good, pure and true humans ; but the
vast majority, the uncounted millions, what of
them? They are now living in every grade of
evil, from mild to intense; and half at war.
Humanity assay offices, melting pots, are here
by the Pacific Sea, from Canada to Mexico.

New Human Combination 3

Very fires of purification must burn and blaze
here, and the good that is in man be freed from
the dross of error.

Paul de Longpre told me that Aryans, and
others, are, for the first time in history, hemmed
in between mountain and the sea, in a semi-tropic
climate, in an area of fruit and flower land,
inclining toward the south, here in Southern
California. The effect is the development of a
new human type. This new race must be made
moral, or Divinity will expire in the humanity
circuit.

But Joseph cannot save himself; Mary must
help; a Madonna must come to the rescue.
Modern women are securing their natural rights
for the first time in human progress, all along
the shores of the Pacific, the domain of the civi-
lized Aryan.

For the regal woman, Caroline M. Seymour
Severance, lived, toiled for human Salvation,
and died in Los Angeles ; but the blessings com-
ferred by her upon women are expanding daily,
here and everywhere on American soil.
THE SUBMERGED SOUL OF MAN

The long obscured Divinity, expressing in
human mentation, is beginning to rise to the
supernal light, to an illumination. A manifest-
ing era is opening, and, here in the West, there
is room in the Inn; all is ready. I here assert
and state, that events now beginning, and to
be wrought out more fully on the Pacific Coast,

4 The Deeper Consciousness

will have an effect, so marked, that future his-
torians will look upon it as cosmo-terrestial.
THE SUBCONSCIOUS

The subconscious Mind is expressing, as
never before. At no period, since our race
migrated from that now historic mountain-
bound valley, North of the Hindu Kush range,
and 800 miles East of the Caspian Sea, many
centuries B. C., has the subconscious mind made
any demonstration comparable to that now
beginning here.

As I write, dawn is bursting from clouds in
the East. It is typical of the dawn of a better
and brighter day in the mind of the new mag-
nificent race, now forming here between the
Sierra Madre range and the ocean shore, here
in Southern California; an actually blessed area
of smiling earth; for nature wears a perpetual
smile here.

MOUNTAIN WRITING THE TRUE GRAND
AVENUE

Let us think of a wide and smooth highway,
a grand boulevard, extending from our present
plane of existence, through mists, to the sun-
shine, or, rather, Cosmic glow of the plane of
being beyond. Let the name of the wide and
level boulevard be Perfect Way; and may this
writing, in the solitude and stillness of a distant
mountain peak, in the computing room of a
large astronomical observatory, builded for sci-
entific truth, be the tracing of rapid and earnest

Go Sin No More 5

words, that may have hidden and occult potency
and power on the real and true small voice,
able to gently lead, lure and urge the reader
to at once step in the path !

And Sin no more.

This is a rigid, fixed and forever set Law of
Nature. We must not, by any manner of means,
neglect Salvation. The search after Salvation
is absolutely scientific, as scientific as the act of
weighing suns or electrons, or determining
atomic weights.

Positively, we must be saved or lost. I here
assert this statement to be a rigid scientific fact.
It is a law, and we must save ourselves, and by
work. The human individuality saves itself;
or fails. Nothing within human research is
clearer than this.

We must traverse the Blessed Way to the
very doors of the white palace in Mind Realms
Supernal, free from matter. Philosophy of the
Soul, from remote prehistoric times, has borne
one burden becoming free from matter. This
is as true as mathematical formulas; and man
has sought helpers. Messiahs and Madonnas
have repeatedly shown, by paths all leading to
the white way of the soul; and this adorned
with flowers whose petals are as condensed
light. They cast light on the path. All who
are attuned to the harmonics Divine may walk
on this road. They must be illumined.

6 Experimenting With Man

ILLUMINATION

Illumination is one of the most impressive
words; and is descended from very ancient
times. It is a basic word, and is a flower of the
Soul.

Every great and good name in history is that
of one having received illumination. "Able to
Receive." I do not know of other three words
more awe-inspiring. We simply must make
ourselves "Able to Receive," or we will not
receive. How can words be plainer? The
moment, when the Nations of the world find
that these statements are rigid Science, then
they will really seek salvation.* If not, there
remains no hope for man. His creation, plac-
ing on earth, and career, in that sad case, are
failures.

AN EXPERIMENT

The Creator is actually experimenting with
humans; gave them free agency; is not dictat-
ing; lets them be free; does not make them auto-
matic; does not control their thoughts; gives
them mental freedom. The result of the trial
of this definite plan is the half of them have
plunged into war. What will the harvest be?
What the end? The price man is now paying
for the blessing, the priceless thing free
agency to do as he pleases, is the act of war;
and all other errors. And mankind must make
this capital discovery of free agency in some
coming age or era. Here is an awful saying,

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Manu-

The Price of Mental Liberty 7

but true : it is better to engage in a terrific world-
war, if that is required to enable him to make
this supremely important discovery, and profit
by its use in coming ages; than to have been
created not a free agent, but bound in mental
servitude.

Free mind must be discovered, if half of the
race falls in slaughtered heaps.

In forty-nine years of writing, I have not
written a more impressive, imposing, and, to
me now as I write, here in silence on a moun-
tain, all so still, that it seems some power desires
me to write it, any sentence more overwhelm-
ing and awe-inspiring, and the very pen seems
to bear on the paper with greater than usual
pressure. The sentence. Thus : it were better
that an entire half of the human race expire in
war, than surrender free mental agency. See
this: it were better that every human die, and
thus annihilate the race, than annihilate free-
dom of mind, for freedom is also a most
remarkable word. Positively Mind must and
shall be free.

MIND TENSION AND POTENTIAL

I feel like writing this: there exists Cosmic
mind pressure, tension and potential. These
are words, always applied to electricity; but it
now seems, that there is a mind-pressure, pre-
cisely as if thoughts, Cosmic in their nature,
are pressing on human mental entities. Certain
it is, that there are thoughts, arising into expres-

8 The Word Made Flesh

sion in many parts of the world, seemingly
impossible for unimpressed minds, now phasing
as human, to think.

It may be that there is one Cosmic, Universal,
All-pervading Mind, and that each subconscious
portion, that each Soul, is, as it were, one
infinitesimal part a mentoid. Incredibly deli-
cate, fine and excessively sensitive, ultra-ultra
microscopic ends of filaments, or nerves, radiat-
ing from condensed centers usually called cells
in the brain may attract these inflowing
cosmical mentoids, and translate them into
thoughts, in word-form. For no mind can even
hope now in the present state of mental sci-
ence, to imagine the unfathomable meaning of
the mysterious, ancient and arcane words, these
esoteric four :

"THE WORD MADE FLESH"

The nature, career on earth, and destiny of
man is involved in these very remarkable words.
They were so important throughout antiquity,
so arcane, profound and esoteric, that Grand
Hierophants, standing before Cubic Altars of
initiation, in the most Holy of Holies, in the
interior chambers of sacred temples, spoke them
to kneeling candidates with awe, at low breath.
Colossal, marble, gem-adorned temples have
been erected to teach to initiates this wondrous
thing, "the word made flesh," and escape there-
from, at death.

Cubic Diamond Symbol 9

Divinity hovered around and about man,
when the word was made flesh. We may never
solve the mystery. It may be inscrutable; "but
the women clothed with the sun," stood near the
Altar of the Soul in ancient temples, reared by
magnificent orders of initiation, and symbolized
in this book by a cube of diamond these women
were Madonnas, clothed in robes of light super-
nal, so brilliant, that the inspired writer could
only say "Clothed with the Sun," and the radi-
ant light from robes sublime, and from faces
Divine, fell in rays, streamers, and glorious
bands pure white light upon the cube of dia-
mond, penetrated to the center and illumined
the whole interior with glow of light Celestial,
with radiance Supernal. This ancient symbolic
initiation around and about the Cubic Altars,
conceived to be one solid diamond, I have
decided to apply to modern self-salvation.
SELF SALVATION

"The word made Flesh" has more meanings
than, perhaps, any other four in the entire lit-
erature of Mankind. Life, birth, living, being,,
maternity, thoughts of the highest, thoughts,
at uttermost summit of human sublimity, recog-
nition, becoming aware of a blessed divinity
presence, salvation of man, hope, love, aspira-
tion, grace, beauty, perfection of humanity,
expansion of the soul, a Divine-human circuit,
these and more entities, of the highest human
are concentrated into the four initiatory words,

10 Release of Truth

spoken over and again in the most solemn,
inspiring, regal and imposing manner to the
initiate by the wondrous women clothed with the
sun, in holy rites, to candidates and by Grand
Hierophants at other stages of the arcane rites;
for the New Testament is now, just beginning
to release to the minds of moderns, able to
receive, a few faint mysteries. After the lapse
of nearly twenty centuries, the Gates of Mystery
of the inconceivably wonderful New Testament,
are unfastened, and are now, just at the instant,
being very slowly lifted up. For the everlast-
ing gates shall be lifted up. At present an
exceedingly faint glimmer of light can be seen
coming from beneath the huge gate of mystery;
that is, by eyes able to see.

RELEASE OF TRUTH

I would not be surprised, now, at any time,
say, perhaps, within a year, or five years, to
hear of a few words of truth being uttered in
some part of the world by some minister,
or adept scholar, regarding the real meaning of
the New Testament.

Let the owner of a ship place sealed orders in
a steel box, with instructions to the Master, not,
on any account, to open and read, until a given
longitude and latitude, far and away out at sea,
be reached. Now the New Testament is precisely
such a sealed order. The lock of the box has
not even received the Key. Then the contents
of the sealed envelope within are totally

The Turning of The World 1 1

unknown. The place within the sea has not
been reached; but my amazing letters tend one
way the point to be reached by the ship on the
deep is not far ahead.

The Omnific and Arcane term : "The Word
made Flesh," is of such mighty import, that I
am now writing it, well along into the night
with no humans near. I am alone, and no
words I am able to write, can hope to convey
any idea to the mind of a distant reader, any
concept of the imposing solitude. It is the time
and place for words from afar. The stillness
of the mountains is so imposing, that I must
speak of it at each writing. Each chapter of
this book must contain some mention of the
splendors of mountain observatory silence.
Again I must write of the colossal mountain
peaks, standing all around from the East,
through the North and to the Northwest, they
seem to be standing guard over this summit, lift-
ing high its precious telescope. Deep and wide,
solemn and mystic, now become the Cosmo-
earthly Messiah and Madonna idea.

It is a central fact, about which humanity
revolves. I like to often write this : the incred-
ible stillness, silence, and wondrous quiet are
now so absolute, that I wish to hear the solid
globe, this world, turn on its axis.

Let this symbol be applied to the basic
humanity-divinity idea of the entire human race,
revolving around the Messiah and Madonna

12 The Night Side of Nature

idea. This idea is a cosmic yet humanity
centre. And now I want to write this again : "It
is a cosmic-humanity centre"; the centre is in
the Soul. Can it be that space-mind is articulate,
that it speaks? Many of my readers, beyond
a doubt, would think so, if they could be up
here now if alone.

I wonder, if those living on plains near the
sea level; or those who have never seen a moun-
tain, been upon the summit of one at midnight,
can form any mind-picture, any soul-image, or
subconscious idea of what mountain peak night-
life really is like.

I am sure they cannot; at least, I could not
until I came to this summit in the Sierra Madre
range, rising from an enchanted paradise on
earth, Southern California; and here I have
written books at night, during sixteen years, and
books by day; midnight, Cosmo-negative;
noon, Cosmo-positive. Night, writing on the
first night I came up here, August llth, 1900,
was mysterious; and it is now, in these silent
hours. The Mind-Universe is more magnifi-
cent than the entire universe of millions of
suns, as seen in the great telescope from out
dustless air. My Creator, the Master Creative
Mind, is good to me in permitting the use of
the telescope on this summitt, in pure air, and
the happiness of writing so much in honor of
the Mind Supreme the Mind Divine ; and the

We Must Be Good 13

expressing of Divinity in man, or to man, is
always in thoughts that are words.

When I think of the fact, I always think of
Sanskrit the basic langauge of our race. The
very root words are Divine.

AN EARLY MORNING MESSAGE

And there is happiness in the morning. So
vivid is the impression of goodness, streaming
over the earth and man, as the sun rises, that I
wish to write saving words, to those who are
cast down. The burden of this sunrise-writing
is the avoidance of evil; for, to avoid evil, and
especially to forever escape its sure and dire
consequences, is as scientific as it is to weigh
a pair of giant revolving suns in space-deeps;
or to find what chemical elements are incan-
descent in these mighty globes by means of the
diffraction grating; or to listen to the extreme
outside layer of atoms of steel speaking to you
in that marvel of the ages the telegraphone ;
or to transform electricity from the one-mill-
ionth up to one million volts ; or to speak kindly
to those in sorrow.

How to save yourself, is really more scien-
tific, in mind realms, than to do all of these
scientific things, in the realm and region of mat-
ter, however wide is its distribution in Cosmic
space; for one object in writing this book is to
tell, announce, and send out messages, saying:
"Mind is greater than Matter; mentoids are
greater than electrons; and the Soul is greater

14 Science of The Soul

than its active, in the body, coadjutor, the work-
ing Mind. The quiescent, and placid, Deep Sea
of the Soul is more magnificent than the every
day objective Mind, and far more exalted.
MlND-SPIRIT

Some writers use the word spirit; but the
wondrous Sanskrit occasionally makes use of
but one word for mind and spirit, deeming the
two words identical in meaning. This is indi-
viduality, the real ego; for the word, person,
means mask. We build little additions to our
masks daily, and deceive ourselves by accretions
of matter and continuations thereof. The real
and true salvation, escape from every trace of
evil, is as scientific as Newton's Principia. The
thread of pure gold, leading us out of labyrin-
thine caves of gloom, as seen shining in Bun-
yan's Pilgrim's Progress, is as the glow in a
scientific book. The science of the Soul is more
imposing, if not yet so accurately defined, than
any science dealing with matter. This is because
we cannot see, weigh, and measure the Soul.
Good books are appearing that are helpful to
the Soul in trouble.

All literature, that leads one into this majes-
tic boulevard, is scientific; for it is the object
and aim of all normal persons to step into the
Perfect Way, and march with all sojourners in
Wayside Inns, when they start along again after
a period of rest. The sentence, spoken by
Jesus: "Ye must be born again," is as scien-

Transforming and Renewing 15

tific as to weigh the gigantic sun, Sirius, and its
companion, and thus prove that both contain
833,600 times more matter than the Earth.

"Be ye transformed by the renewing of your
mind," Rom. 12:2, is more intense in rigid sci-
ence, than to transform electricity from low to
high potential, as extremely important as that is.

Transformation of the Mind is only one step
higher, however, than the transformation of
electricity; and the step is just as high as Mind
is higher than matter.

FASCINATING MYSTERIES
And he said unto them, "How is it that ye
sought Me? Wist ye not that I must be about
my Father's business?" "And they understood
not the saying which he spake unto them." Luke
3 :49-50. Of course they did not understand
for the New Testament is a SECERT rite of
Initiation. For how beautiful is the Madonna,
holding in her arms her son; and how beautiful
is he when at the age of twelve he was in one of
the world's most esoteric temples.

NOON MESSAGE

January 9, 1916.

OW, at instant of noon, there are
resting books and manuscripts, that
have accumulated; and they are
lying, as I happened to place them,
entirely at random. I wish now to
try out an experiment of opening them at ran-
dom ; close the eyes and put the point of a pen-
cil on the open page; then read the entire
sentence.

First, I repeat these words: Messiah
Madonna, the shining ones in the vast mind-
world, kindly lure and lead; guide and direct
the pencil to words thou desirest me to give to
troubled humanity; and let thy selected words
be as a noon, or positive message, to a world
in wars and tears. For, Messiah Madonna,
these two are the Soul manifesting in mys-
teries beyond our present conceptions. Of
course, current exoteric concepts of these ideas
at times border on the absurd.

The first book taken up is "Pearls From
Many Seas," compiled by Rev. T. B. McClure.
Opening, the page almost fell by gravity. I was
startled, upon opening my eyes, to find the
pencil resting on a picture of a mountain, two-
thirds the way up from the plains below, to the
16

Exoteric Of ten Absurd 17

summit; but this observatory is two-thirds the
way up from the orange tree groves, now, with
branches bending low with golden fruit, and
adorned with blossoms sufficient to grace all the
brides in the world on January 9th, to the snow
clad summits above.

The page, opposite and preceding the picture,
reads, "Sunset," beneath which title the words
are: "Nature has a thousand ways and means
of rising above herself; but incomparably the
noblest manifestations of color are in the sun-
sets among the high clouds. I speak especially
of the moment before the sun sinks, when his
light is pure rose-color, and, when this light
reaches the zenith, there is then no limit to the
multitude, and no check to the intensity, of the
hues assumed. The whole sky from horizon to
the zenith becomes one molten mantling sea of
color." From Ruskin.

This I know to be true, from fifteen years of
life within and above the clouds. I have seen
colossal heaps of clouds, standing as mighty
masses directly south of the observatory, stand-
ing high over plains, 900 square miles of fruit
and flower-laden plains of ever living green.
During every hour of the year, there lies this
supernal expanse of green leaves and golden
fruit.

There! I heard the exhaust of two huge
mogul engines, just starting with a train of
sixty-three cars of oranges to Denver, Chicago
and New York.

18 Supernal Colors

Indeed! I agree with Ruskin. I have seen
every shade, every delicate, pure and exquisitely
refined harmonic tint of the solar spectrum; and
these combined in gorgeous colors over the
whole sky, above the hundred summits, at both
sunset and sunrise ; and every illuminated cloud-
form that can be imagined; and those that can-
not by the most vivid imagination of poet or
artist.

When I came here on August llth, 1900,
there stood a row of posts on the canyon's rim.
These supported tables, upon which artists used
to come and try to paint the world-famous col-
ors of Mount Lowe sunsets. The plane tables
have vanished; no use to edeavor to imitate the
Master Artist of Nature.

Then they came to photograph the stupen-
dous scene of mountain peaks, olive, fig, and
orange tree orchards, and onward to the sea;
and fill in faint imitation colors with brushes.

But in the impressive now, they come with the
new type, sensitive, autochrome plates, and
instantly transfer the splendors in real colors.
This discovery makes man a transcendent being.

Next book to be opened is "Psychic Phenom-
ena, Science and Immortality," by Henry Frank.
Pencil rested on: "Since Schwann and Schlei-
den, in 1838 and 1839, made the epochal discov-
ery of the cellular origin and constituency of
organic life, the entire biological world has
turned its fascinated attention to the structure,

Nerve Filaments 19

mechanism and governing laws of the proto-
plasmic unit," p. 387.

Indeed, the biologists, then, received a mighty
impetus to search and analyze. And now, at
this writing, that transcendent triumph of trans-
cendent man, the new ultra-ultra-violet-energy
microscope, is in active use during every minute
in each year, in cell and nerve filament explora-
tion. The humble start in 1838, has now become
a race to find who shall be first to discover the
primordial unit of life.

Jacques Loeb's books of refined research are
in the library room; but this period of writing is
to include only books lying around my huge
circular table, as placed at random. I wish to
make another trial with Frank's remarkable
and comprehensive book; thus: "All knowl-
edge of his past life before the accident was
totally gone; all his scholarly attainments; all
his higher scientific and linguistic acquirements;
all the memories of his former experience,
seemed to have been wiped out by the destruc-
tive violence of the catastrophe," p. 249.

This was the world-renowned case of Rev.
Thomas C. Hannah, who fell from a carriage,
and was rescued in a state of unconsciousness.

The conscious mind was annihilated; but the
subconscious was alive; it restored health, and
caused the conscious mind to appear. To quote
further: "When the patient came to himself,
he was like one just born. . . . The patient

20 Duality of Man

now is but a few weeks old two selves seem to
dwell within Mr. Hannah. It seems to be a case
of double consciousness; and the patient is now
in the secondary state" p. 250. This case
attracted world-wide criticism. It proved the
duality of man; the conscious working mind;
and the deep Soul. When health was restored,
the Soul resumed sway over the brain.

Next book: u Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress."
The pencil stopped, moving down page 159 at
this : "Christian, give me leave to put in a word.
You ought not so slightly to speak of this mat-
ter; for this I will boldly affirm, even as my
good companion hath done, that no man can
know Jesus Christ but by the revelation of the
Father; yea, and by faith, too, by which the
soul layeth hold upon Christ." This is a pro-
found esoteric Mystery, and cannot hope to be,
even faintly undestood, by any not initiates into
the splendors of the Order of Melchizedek.
The Christ Idea is known to be A Way.

Next. The Bible, II Samuel 14:20: "And
the woman answered and said, 'As thy soul liv-
eth, my lord the King, thy servant Joab, he
bade me, and he put all these words in the
mouth of thine handmaiden.' ' Thus the word,
Soul, was in common speech in remote antiquity.

This is a wonderful opening, apparently at
random; but may, indeed, be directed. In this
book, it is ever assumed that the reader is more
or less aware of the teachings and revelations

Soul An Archaic Word 21

of the immense mass of psychic literature, that
has appeared in nearly all of the written lan-
guages of mankind, since 1848. I infer this
acquaintance of the reader with some things in
this gigantic literature; for, if not, the reader
would not now be reading these pages. Were
I to give titles of books, pamphlets, mono-
graphs, drawings automatically drawn, and writ-
ings entirely automatically written with five to
fifty times the rapidity of the normal writer,
and merely catalogue titles of hundreds of thou-
sands of reports, results of psychic explorations
in all countries and under all conditions and cir-
cumstances, and under all scientific tests, devised
by detectives surpassing good Mr. Sherlock
Holmes, the list would swell into a book of
titles larger than this volume. Had the reader
become fairly conversant with this literature,
now rapidly taking front rank in the literature
of the world; and will step into the first line of
advance when the present world-war effects die
out; he would know that the words of this wise
woman of Tekoah, told the exact truth of the
fact, that beings from some higher sphere, state
or realm, have, in all ages, visited the Earth. I
have proofs in my possession that these beauti-
ful beings of splendor now appear in earth-
realms, as of old; and that their visits are
becoming more often than even fifty years ago.

A LIVING MIND REALM
If not from another realm, but all from exist-

Mind Manifesting

ing human sources, from living humans, then
the human being is so inconceivably complex, so
elaborate in Mind organization, so intricate,
that imagination is submerged by the evidence.
It doth now appear that all these wondrous
things are more easily explained by attributing
them to external sources, than to internal, to
entirely incarnate human sources; for entirely
new, and inexplicable laws, of immaterial
Nature, are detected in activity, daily, in many
parts of the world in laboratories of research-
ers in the vast psychic part of the universe.

New Testament, John 10:25: u jesus
answered them, 'I told you, and ye believed not:
the works that I do in my Father's name, they
bear witness of me.' ' The name, Jesus, the
idea, the Christ Idea, is now expanding again;
more are now thinking of Jesus, than at any
period since he went away. More books are
appearing on his life and works, teaching and
precept, than ever before; but these are free
from an enormous load of legend, rubbish and
superstition. Some really esoteric things in the
mysteries are to be seen here and there in cur-
rent literature.

ESOTERIC NAMES

The literature about "The Man of Sorrows" ;
"Finisher of Faith"; "First and Last"; "Good
Master"; "True Light"; "Most Holy" "Pre-

cious Corner Stone"; "Prince of Peace"
Foundation"; "The Man"; "The Way"

"Sure
"The

TEIvESPECTROSCOPE

Attached to the Lowe Telescope. The Spectrocamera
is shown at end of tube.

The Cosmo-Terrestrial Order 23

Truth"; "The Life"; "Wonderful"; "Word";
"Son of Man"; "Son of the Highest"; and,
behold these titles, "High Priest"; and this
wonder, "The Lord sware and will not repent,
Thou are a priest forever after the Order of
Melchizedek," Hebrews 7:21, for the entire
Bible, Old and New Testaments combined,
revolves around this Priest after the Order of
Melchizedek," Hebrews 7 :21 ; as its axis of rev-
olution.

To give out esoteric glimpses of this Grand
Celestial-Terrestial Order of Supreme Mag-
nificence, is one object of the Hebrew Scriptures,
for all that has ever occurred on Earth, regard-
ing knowledge of the Soul, outside of this
mighty order, shrinks into insignificance, by
comparison. Within its sacred chambers, and
before its altars, glowing with soft radiance of
unfed light, for untold centuries, humanity, long
ago, reached a summit of great Mind-power.
This Order may release the truth, after the dire
effects of war have passed. There must then be
a general readjustment throughout all that part
of the earth called, Christendom.

Mathematicians, after long work in solution
of problems, arrive at a point where it is neces-
sary to reduce coefficients; to rearrange the
order of exponents; to rearrange terms; trans-
pose equations, clear of fractions; deduce new
equations; solve them; discover differentials at
the base of the Laws of Nature; and then

24 To Re arrange Terms

summate, and thus integrate them all as between
set and fixed given limits. Then the Order may
decide to take Christendom in charge, and make
a general world-rearrangement, as in the case
of Mathematicians, dealing with intricate com-
plex formulas, and with complex and compound
qualities, magnitudes and dimensions.

ALL BIBLES CONTAIN TRUTHS AND ERROR

Next. "Chapter from the Bibles of the
Ages," by Giles B. Stebbins. Pencil rested on:
"The early Christian apologists, living face to
face with the elder religions, made no exclusive
claims."

Tertullian declared the soul to be an older
authority than prophesy, II p. 229. This is
right; the still small voice has been heard by
men and women in all ages, even for thousands
of years, before Christianity became welded to
politics, things of the earth, when its mission,
at first, was, not only to aid right living here,
but mainly to prepare for a future state. The
Magnificent Creator, the Master-Mind, is
mathematical ; every atom, of every known kind
or chemical element of matter, is made of a
definitive, counted and mathematically arranged
number of electrons; and this assembling was
done by an inconceivably wise and all powerful,
mathematical mind. This Master absolutely
does not demand, nor require, human worship;
but does demand study.

Study to Supplant Worship 25

The only objects of love and adoration are
lesser intelligencies in the Mind-world that affect
humans, and, now revealed by hundreds of
revealers, to be on and around the earth. If
one has an impulse to worship, these, or any
master within this realm, well and good let
him so adore, venerate, honor, love, and wor-
ship. I heard this remark once: "She just
worships herself." Right, if she really and truly
worshipped her subconscious mentality, her own
Soul; this is the near entity to worship, and
every normal, right-thinking human ought, by
all means, to worship, honor and obey the Soul
until death do them part.

For, if each human being would thus do, and
that always in every condition of life, the race
would be completely transformed; and sin anni-
hilated; humanity would be as the Creator
intended; for worship of the Soul is a thing of
transcendent beauty and holiness. It is sacred
in the extreme. This true and sincere worship
of your Soul, dear reader, is a very deep scien-
tific matter. I here assert this statement to be
truth absolute.

Anything tending to keep you away from all
manner of sin and evil is not only religious, and
ethical, but is rigidly scientific.

This is a union of science and religion, bind-
ing indeed, for one meaning of the word religion
is, to bind; binding personality to soul is the
chief work of humans.

26 Bind Self to Soul

PARADISE LOST

Then Milton, "Paradise Lost," vii. 327-361 :
"For of Celestial bodies, first the sun, a mighty
sphere he framed, unlight ones first, though of
ethereal mould; then formed the moon, globose,
and every magnitude of stars, and sowed with
stars the Heavens thick as a field of light; by
far the greater part, he took, transplanted from
her cloudy shrine, and placed in the sun's orb,
made porous to receive."

But the Master Mind formed many millions
of suns along with ours. Could the great Milton
have known that recent photographs, 25,787 of
them, all of the same size, covering the entire
celestial vault, made in clear nights, show about
one hundred million dots on negatives, each the
image of a sun, many being more than a thou-
sand times larger than our sun, his mind would
have been filled and submerged with limitless
awe. And could he have been aware that the
galaxy is strewn with suns by hundreds of mil-
lions, piled in banks and terraces, raked into
giant windrows, or sprayed into wisps and
streamers of countless suns, he would have been
overwhelmed.

SUNKEN CONTINENTS

A terrestial paradise has actually been lost;
there have been happy humans here on earth,
at high estate, probably more than once. Auto-
matic hand writings now continually recount, the
glories of sunken continents, races, nations and

Congeries of Suns 27

cities, where the highly scientific peoples used
electricity in more ways than we do now.

The marvelous book, "A Dweller on Two
Planets," gives skilled drawings of electrical
airships and submarines, in use in the sub-
merged continent in the Atlantic Ocean, named
Poseid, and, also, Atlantis, 39,000 years ago.
They must have had some kind of paradise
there; for the code of laws as automatically
written by a boy's hand at incredible speed, are
so much in advance of laws in existence now,
that the United States could greatly benefit by
adopting them in the Constitution; for they
cured the insane and criminals instead of punish-
ing them with our present severity and ferocity.
ARYAN REVELATIONS

Then I opened the remarkable book, "Studies
in Saiva-Siddhanta," by J. M. Nallasvami Pil-
lai, Madras, India, 1911 ; and the moving pen-
cil halted at: u The Four Paths." u So that all
our understanding of Him until the final goal
is reached will be merely fictitious, or to use
a better word, symbolical. The conception,,
whether that of the Bhakta or Yogi, Hindu or
Christian, will only be symbolical. We introduce
a real element into it when we introduce love in
our conception of Creative Mind. And this con-
ception naturally divides itself into forms, that
of master and servant, parent and child, friend
and friend, and lover and loved. All other
conceptions can be reduced into these four.

Fifty Centuries of Contemplation

There are love and knowledge in all these dif-
ferent forms of Bavana, or Sadana."

"As our Lord and Master, we do Him and
His Bhaktas, loving service, obedience and rev-
erence. In the Master, we lose our own ident-
ity." It was not my design to enter the vast and
intricate labyrinth, the winding ways, nor the
chambers of the mighty Aryan religions, as I
have already published two long series on these
exclusively fascinating religious theories. Suf-
fice it to say, that our own great Aryan ancestors
whiled away, in all probability, more than fifty
centuries, along the now classic banks of the
Indus, Jumna and Ganges rivers, in serious
contemplation. It would seem that these grand
thinkers, philosophers, sounded every depth,
and rang all possible changes on religious
thought; and I did not propose to quote from
any of their great standard bibles, as the four
Yedas of the Aryans before they migrated from
their highland home, north of the Himalayas,
nor from the Avesta, the scriptures of the Iranic
branch. I thought only of quoting from the
great bibles produced by the Aryan race within
the last sixty-five years; but this scripture analy-
sis, Saiva-Siddhanta, was in the heap on my
table; so it was opened at random, with the
result here given.

This book is one of the most beautiful, har-
monical works on the religions of India, ever

J^oman in Sacred Song 29

written. It is a close analysis of the Tamil
and ripe in scholarship on every page.

Next. The impressive book, "Woman in
Sacred Song." This is a classic volume of 833
large pages, entirely filled with poems, written
every one by a woman. Pencil fell on the lines :

We're a band of busy gleaners,
Toiling on life's harvest plain;

And we follow fast the reapers

Gathering up the scattered grain.

The Master hath need of the reapers,
And, worker, He calleth for thee ;

Oh ! what are thy dreams of Ambition,

To the joys that hereafter shall be." p. 411

And this poem is appropriate, along with
all of the others, at random; for when the
results of the war are being felt during succed-
ing years, there will be a call for workers in
these high humanity fields, beyond the power of
toilers and workers for the Master to answer.
A POLARIZED MIND-REALM

Next: p. 120, "To-Day," by Grace M.
Brown. "Faith and fear are exactly the same
force acting in different rates of vibration, and
both magnetic from opposite expressions of
magnetic polarity. Faith is positive and attracts
constructive conditions, and fear is negative and
attracts destruction." This is extremely apro-
pos. It opens up a door to a psychic chamber,
as inscrutable as the truths taught for ages in
the mysterious chambers of the Labyrinth at

30 The Labyrinth of Arsinoe

Lake Moeris, in Egypt. The abstruse words,
rates, vibrations, and the excessively recondite
word, polarity. Physical science makes the most
elaborate use of polarity in all dynamic electri-
cal mechanisms. It is the standing enigma of
physical science; but here in this profound sen-
tence in a book on psychology, polarity is applied
to such intense human entities as faith and fear.
Polarizing influences are of the highest, in the
entire domain of electrical science.

ESOTERIC THINGS

Then my pencil fell on p. 93, Sinnett's "Occult
World." The reading is: "I wrote a letter,
addressing it to the Unknown Brother. It
was a happy inspiration that induced me to do
this; for out of that small beginning has arisen
the most interesting correspondence in which I
have ever been privileged to engage." The
replies that came, from a real member of the
highest Order in India, were extremely remark-
able, and the first ever consented to be written
to a European. They are as occult as the
Hebrew Kabala; the wisdom of the Chaldean
Magi; that of the Essenes; of the Hierophants
of Meroe; and of the very wonderful wise men
of Egypt, the Pyramid Builders. The letters
to Mr. Sinnett are as remarkable as any ever
written. What we call occult, is to the adepts
of India, descendants of a line extending back-
ward and away into prehistoric antiquity, sci-
ence of a high order.

Ancient Secret Orders 31

Thus the passing of a stone through a board
is as scientific as spectrum analysis, and celestial
telephotography.

But ancient Ayran science was more along
Mind-lines, than material. The mighty Ayran
orders, as well as Iranic, Assyrian, Hebrew,
Parsee, Egyptian, Mereotic, Grecian and Etrus-
can, were secret. Wisdom was not allowed to
escape the lodge room, the Holy of Holies, the
crypts, the chambers, the adyta of the vast tem-
ples of all ancient nations.

The Brother, one of a long ancestry of
Brothers back to prehistoric ages, revealed to
Mr. Sinnett, that all occult wonders performed
by them were all based on laws of Nature as
rigid and invariable as the laws, now known and
being discovered by physical science. We use,
in all work in electricity, the phenomena of
induction, of counter currents, and of induced
electro-magnetic energy; but the Adepts actually
employ these laws in their apparent, but really
not, miracles. There cannot be a miracle all
that occurs or can occur is based on law.
RECENT PHYSICAL SCIENCE

Experimental science is not yet 300 years of
age; but the so-called occult science has been
studied during an unknown number of thou-
sands of years, in all, at least 50,000 years. The
Ancients studied Mind, conscious and subcon-
scious, also super, but did not have telescopes,
microscopes, spectroscopes, bolometers, voltme-

32 The World of Matter

ters, dynamos, motors, electro-magnets, audion
amplifiers, diffraction-gratings, and the sensitive
orthochromatic ultra-ultra-violet energy plates;
but the most remote philosophers were aware
of a force, whose existence has not been discov-
ered by these complex and elaborate scientific
instruments.

The fact is, that this elusive energy cannot
be detected by any kind of physical instrument,
any optical, chemical, thermal or electrical
apparatus, or mechanism, so far invented; but
there are Adepts now on earth, able to use this
mode of energy.

Many romancers, under the impression that
this phase of energy exists, have written of it
under the name of vril. Of course, this vril is
really some phase of electricity, not yet discov-
ered.

The coming race is to re-discover, or at least
become aware of the existence of this mighty
power; or mayhap, when humanity is able to
receive, the Brothers of the Order may release
this wisdom.

See this fact: If the Adept should now reveal
knowledge of how to use this force, the mad
monsters, now keeping up the war in Europe,
would totally annihilate entire nations. Then
Mongols, by millions, would occupy the land;
for, I am aware, that very remarkable human-
ity-events are here now. The Adepts are wise
they must not release wisdom now.

Knowledge Kept In Secret 33

Marconi has just given, in an interview, facts,
long known to those who study electricity. His
words are: "The next war will certainly be
more scientific than this one. Engines of destruc-
tion are bound to grow more enormous and
fantastic. Inventors are working everywhere
to this end. All this is not much when we reflect
that electricity has great surprises in store for
us. Electricity has infinite power; yet it has not
been employed as an arm of destruction."

Several years ago, I wrote U A Night Message
to Modern Man," in which I said: U A11 war
debts on earth will be repudiated, and forever
remain unpaid." This prophetic financial report
may come true ; for if the present murderers slay
each debtor, who will be able to pay debts? Let
us hope that the "mystic vril" will not be discov-
ered; or knowledge of it released by Adepts
until men overcome, by free mind agency, the
inborn animal-derived thirst and craving for
murder and wholesale fighting.

UNDISCOVERED LAWS

The passage of solid matter through matter;
the passage of a glass of water through thick
cloth; these, and a hundred more such "phe-
nomena," so called, but really natural, now daily
occurring, are all due to a higher phase of elec-
tricity, the electronic state, known to Adepts, but
not yet discovered by science in the use of any
kind of instrument. The reader must be con-
vinced that no such thing as a miracle can exist.

34 Solids Through Solids

Read Edward Bulwer Lytton's "Zanoni," "A
Dweller on Two Planets," by the Master Phy-
los, the "Strange Story of Ahrinzeman," and
others, for accounts of this strange, cosmic elec-
tric force.
MIND FORCE MANIFESTING ALMOST DAILY

Really, is the limit of mind phasing in man
infinity?

The astounding revelations in the rapidly
expanding mind-realm in Melbourne, as given
monthly in the magazine, Harbinger of Light,
indicate super powers. The revelations made
to Archdeacon Colly, Rector, Stockton, Eng-
land; the writings received from visible forms
by Madame d'Esperance, in London; the star-
tling revelations made to Professor Hiram Cor-
son, Cornell University, and the very remark-
able occurrence recounted by Alfred Pansini,
in Bari, Italy, these all and many others, reveal
that man, able to progress, actually progresses
within the Spirit-Realm.

UNEXPLORED REGIONS AND
DEEPS

HAVE peered within deeps of
human mind; and seen things, not
detected by modern psychology ; and
here state, that there are entities in
the mind of man, that are appall-
ing in hideous depths, sinister and forbidding,
mean and of horrible aspect. See accounts of
nameless atrocities, even in the 20th Century in
modern Europe.

One belonging to an Order, handed down dur-
ing many thousands of years, is able to read
between the lines of the letters of the Adept to
Sinnett. Thus the Brother wanted to release
knowledge to Sinnett, and, perhaps, to others,
ready to receive, but hesitated, fearing that
times were not propitious; men's minds not
being prepared for truth. A "prophetic scheme"
is mentioned.

Akas, or as some write, Akashic substance,
may possibly exist. Its nature, if so, is unknown
to physical science, but matter may be resolved
to force, whatever its nature, whether electronic
or magnetonic; but the existence of this formid-
able resolved energy is asserted to be a rigid
fact. Physical and mental entities are related;
thus the Adept mind can act on matter; while

35

36 Wisdom of a Million Years

for mind to act on mind was common, even in
archaic times, archaic to us, but to them modern.
Thus, p. 98 : "So far for science as much as
we know of it. As for human Nature, in gen-
eral, it is the same now as it was a million years
ago."

The reader must not lose sight of the fact
that this was written by a highly intellectual
member of an Initiatory Order, handed down
from father to son, and Grand Hierophant to
Grand Hierophant, for ages upon ages, before,
what we idly call history begins.

UNKNOWN ENTITIES

For I affirm and assert, that there are stran-
ger things now, and ever have been, on this
planet since man appeared, than is ever dreamed
of in present highest imagining. Letters and
communications to me prove this statement. The
Adept asks, p. 98 : "What, then, would be the
results of the most astounding phenomena, sup-
posing we consented to have them produced?"
The reply to his own question is : u An endless
struggle with prejudice and ignorance."

And it is possible that the Adept sensed the
approach of a world turmoil. The letters were
written in 1880.

To now say, that there may exist a mighty
phase of cosmic energy, not discovered, is scien-
tifically allowable. All men of science are under
the constant impression, that they have scarcely
more than entered the vestibule of the stupen-

Mind Preceded Life 37

dous temple of science. The letters to Sinnett,
by this Ayran Adept, are a valuable addition to
modern research literature. Adepts, no doubt,
now influence the minds of modern inventors.

Next book: "Mind in Nature," by Henry
James Clark "The group of beings, to which
the next animal belongs is more directly allied to
Rhizopods than to sponges; but what distin-
guishes the Actinophryians, as the group is
called, from the two foregoing, is that they, at
least some of them, have a distinct cellular
structure ; and yet, though the cells are very dis-
tinct, they exhibit a low state of development, as
low, perhaps, as could possibly obtain without
failing to be genuine cells." (P. 43.)

But beings, scarcely higher than organized
water and protoplasm, have cells. The human
mind manifests in the brain of a Newton, Her-
schel, Newcomb, Edison, in cells, and their nerve
filaments.

One electron in a cell may receive a thought.
Or place this theory in the opposite way one
mentoid in a cell may send out one electron.
Mentoids and electrons explain many interior
and obscure things; for some state, phase, kind
or quality of electricity manifests in the nervous
systems of all animals from "monera to man."

Clark's book is one of the most valuable
works on life and mind, ever written; I should
have said: "Mind and Life"; for mind is the
base of all there is.

38 Marvels of Words

This is the teaching of my book: "Within
the Mind Maze." A benighted human read it,
and sent a criticism up here saying I had placed
the "cart before the horse."

A WORD STUDY

And the next book opened was my own:
"Within the Mind Maze." Pencil rested on
this: p. 403 : "Anxiety, distress" (Latin, anxius,
ango).

Yearn is Anglo-Saxon for eager; while, solici-
tation is Latin, from sollus, entire, and cice,
citus, excite. Thus our entire being is involved
in desire.

Love fills a very large extent in a book on
psychology; likewise in the world's literature,
story, poem, drama. Ample psychological proof
is at hand everywhere to substantiate the fact,
that humanity centers and revolves around love;
but often debased. This is why all concepts of
the Creator include the attribute, love.

See this inexplicable mystery, in a study of
words. Love is a desire-word; but desire is
based on the Latin word, desidero, de, form,
and siden, sider, star. Sideros is Greek for iron,
the chief metal that absorbs magnetism, appar-
ently attracting magnetic energy to itself. Steel
retains absorbed magnetism permanently; but
steel is iron to which has been added an infi-
nitesimal quantity of carbon; and carbon is posi-
tively the most remarkable element known to
chemists. It is the intimate associate of all life,

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whether in plants or animals; it is incandescent
in all suns, but it is diamond when crystallized,
and lampblack, in another state or form.

One of the most remarkable linguistic and
scientific coincidences is this, the Latin word for
star is the Greek word for iron. Both are incor-
porated in the word desire; but desire is the
basic word for humanity; for, did we not desire
anything, we should be passive, stupid and inac-
tive beings. The entire human-mental structure
is based on desire. Positively : we would not lift
a hand without first desiring to do so ; and this,
to secure some object or do some work. This
impressive word is at the base of that phase of
mind named, human.

Indeed, I am gratified, that the pencil point,
when I opened my eyes, was found to be resting
on the word, desire, near the middle of the left
side of p. 403, of my own book. This was
written four years ago. I hurried on, and
although my desire was intense to write more on
this striking combine of word roots, in two of
man's great basic languages, the classic Greek
and Latin; both based on man's chief classic
speech, the inconceivably beautiful and illimit-
able base of Ayran speech, the Sanskrit. Let
this Cosmo-human idea be here expanded: the
Greek word for iron was used in the Latin word
for star.

But these races had no telespectroscopes, and
could not possibly know that iron is incandes-

40 Know Thyself

cent in the largest suns ! and plentiful in our own
modest star the sun. Then the common term,
used in all books on Astronomy: sidereal uni-
verse, is literally in English, Iron Universe.

The solution of the question, why the Greek
word for iron was adopted by the Latins for
star, is cheerfully left for the reader.

The elaborate, intricate and highly complex,
and at present, almost entirely, and totally un-
known entity the Mind, and, also, language,
are by far the most fascinating themes for study ;
that is, "the proper study of Mankind is man" ;
and shorter "Know thyself" ; but self is un-
known to even the latest psychology. Meteors,
now constantly falling on the earth from space
deeps, often contain iron; and, also, carbon, in
the form of minute crystals diamonds.
PRECIOUS ELEMENTS

Oxygen is the most valuable, measured from
the standpoint of life : we would die in less time,
if deprived of oxygen in the air, than, if our
supply of any other element should be suddenly
cut off. Carbon comes next in value, since it is
in food.

This wondrous carbon is the admiration of
chemists and physicists. Thus, place a diamond
beside lampblack, and note the difference in
physical properties. These are both absolutely
pure, and absolutely alike both carbon; for
diamond has been produced by terrific heat and
pressure, at the same time; and pure refined

Folly of Jewel Worship 41

lampblack has been produced in the fierce heat
of the furnace, without pressure. Carbon comes
next in value to oxygen, because it is the base of
food; not because it is capable of solidifying
into diamonds. The fabulous price paid for
diamonds is entirely fictitious. The only value
diamonds have is for use in cutting glass, drill-
ing rocks in mining, ruling the fine lines in dif-
fraction gratings in spectroscopes, a real value,
and other minor uses in arts.

The next most valuable possession of man is
iron. All metals, known, dwindle into insignifi-
cance in precious value in the presence of this
mysterious element iron. This is because it
can become magnetic. About 6000 uses of elec-
tricity, in our modern civilization, would
instantly vanish, if iron should lose its amazing
power of becoming a magnet, when a current of
electricity flows in a wire, coiled around it; elec-
tric railways, motors, dynamos, telegraphs, tele-
phones, light and heat, would come to an end*
and modern civilization with them, if iron,
should fail to become an electro-magnet.

And the present age of steel would end at.
once, if carbon, one of the most wonderful ele-
ments known, should lose its completely un-
known power of making soft iron into hard
steel.

And the quantity of carbon, required to con-
vert a ton of iron into a ton of steel, is so minute
as to arouse astonishment; and, it may be, that

42 Immanency

one electron in a brain filament can produce
amazing results.

Thus, we have discovered in this word-root, a
real psychic research, desire, iron, carbon, dia-
monds, lampblack, stars all suns, magnetism,
love, attraction, steel and electro-magnetism, in
this remarkable cosmo-human combine of root-
words, cosmic because the word star appears;
and then we have iron in our blood, bodies, and
it circulates in the tissues of the brain.

I must omit a study of hydrogen, of hydro-
carbons, or this book will become a word of
astro-chemical research ; for the love-lorn always
speak of stars and diamonds ; then desire love,
may be a phase of electro-magnetism or it may
be a phase of the sub-conscious, which is to say,
of the Soul. The list of words, derived from
the Greek and Latin, thus reveal a cosmo-
humanity circuit; for we depend on prehistoric
languages for our own. No new root-words of
iiuman speech now appear.

Here is another study: I opened the Mind
Maze book mechanically, moved the pencil down
page 385, with eyes closed, when I was aston-
ished to find the point resting on the word
"immanency" in the 15th line. This seemed sur-
prising, and startling enough. The entire para-
graph is : "The word immanency, appeared in
classic philosophy, existed during a few decades
of centuries, and died out; but it is now being
revived; it is appearing in recent literature in

Inspiration Reappearing 43

many parts of the world. Beyond doubt, in this
abstract mental way, there is a method of
research of almost supreme power. At all
events, it is by far the oldest of all plans.

Immanency was the plan of mind and nature-
research, adopted by very wise philosophers of
antiquity from remote Ayran times around and
about the Himalayas to recent that is, to
Greek times around and about Olympus. Ath-
ens, the porch, the grove, Plato, these and more,
are little modern things in the presence of the
ancient researches on immanency.

Immanency is a vast psycho-mental subject,
and cannot be treated here without swelling this
book to undue proportions.

The vast mind-world is manifesting. There
certainly is a mind-pressure penetrating, mod-
ern, quite modern, very recent, mind; and the
tension, of outside mind is increasing.
RENEWED INSPIRATION

Since prehistoric inspiration ceased, there has
not been any great renewal of outside mind-
influence until now. It is here. An immanent
mind-world is expressing. The new books, writ-
ten within ten years, furnish the proofs. More
mind studies are now on, than at any period
within that minute fraction of human time on
earth, called historic.

I am surprised at the number of books writ-
ten by reincarnationists, who assert that the
world's most famous philosophers who lived

44 Reincarnation

and died, hundreds of centuries ago, are now
reappearing, reincarnated in modern brain fila-
ments. If not incarnated entirely, these masters
of metaphysics, who flourished, many writers
now say, in Atlantis, at all events, who lived in
Meroe, Memphis, Arsinoe, Tentyra, On, Thais,
Jerusalem, Nineveh, and far older places in the
distant east, are now manifesting in recent, and
even now alive brain-areas. "Indwellers," those
coming in from temples and shrines, and before
cubic altars of a very remote past, are supposed,
by these writers, to be occupying areas in brains
and directing modern minds along their paths,
the ways they traversed when alive, that is,
within embodiment.

WHO ARE WE?

But who are we? What do we really know
about ourselves?

There, that inexplicable word, Self, has just
appeared on this paper ; sub- or super-consciously
I have written this word self and selves; but
have no idea of their meaning. This is, because
I know nothing of personality, what it is, or how
it manifests in the excessively delicate filaments
of the brain, which either convey thoughts to
cells or from them.

Cells send thoughts, and the capital problem
of the ages is to now explore, until we find
whether they receive, or originate. If they
receive, then immanency is rapidly increasing;
mind-pressure, as it appears, is forcing cells

Mind Potential 45

to receive, with a force stronger than ever
known in any historic epoch. Knowledge, dis-
covery, invention, study, or exploration, research
and analysis are rapidly increasing. Surely, we,
the reader and I, are wandering within some
obscure initiatory corridor or chamber far
within the Mind Maze.

I am fascinated with this word immanency.
It relates to Mind, a personality, hovering near;
and precisely, as if this external Mind is striving
to imbue our minds with thoughts of its own;
this Immanent Mind-Potential is striving to so
intensely impress our minds, that it will be
joined or incorporated with ours. It is certain
that external mind entities are now impressing
and manifesting in incarnate human minds in
many parts of the world; for men and women
have recently behaved as if their brains had
been dominated by external human minds.

EXTERNAL THOUGHT
REALMS

T is useless for the reader longer to
resist this subject; there is an exter-
nal thought realm, and human intel-
ligences are therein. These have
power to impress the minds of
humans, that are functioning in a body of flesh;
and this power is being used with such an in-
crease, that the presence of external minds is
being demonstrated so often and in so many
places, that immanency is the most fitting word.
The next book to let fall open, and allow the
pencil to move slowly down the page, and then
open my eyes to read the word upon which it
rested, was the last grand bible, a bible of the
ages, a late-day revelation.

The last to be given to man by the wondrous
exterior mind-world, "Psychosophy," by the
mind and hand of Cora L. V. Richmond. The
pencil had halted on the word "Splendors" in
line 13, p. 121.

The sentence in which it appears, reads:
"Among the splendors of the Heavenly State,
the Divine Beings are known by their perfec-
tions. In this state of manifestation, they must
be known by that which they came to illustrate
or declare attributes."
46

A New Bible 47

This is from a grand bible, one that ranks
with any of the fifty or more that have appeared
during all the ages from before history, until
1915, the date of publication, the giving to mod-
ern man of New Scriptures, "Psychosophy."
There is a state of human existence beyond this,
the terrestrial. The inspired hand wrote the
two words "Heavenly State." The inhabitants
are known by their perfections. They are good,
and are called Divine Beings.

But these beings are of human nature; they
have, in this Heavenly State, exalted human
attributes. They have all manifested within a
human brain and body. This philosophy is so
profound and withal, so vital to each human,
now living in a body, that I wanted more under-
standing; so I closed the book, and then, upon
opening, these two sentences were touched
by the point of the descending pencil: p. 12,
u The state of the Soul is what we are now con-
sidering ; this divine unit, or entity, being uncre-
ate, there are no new Souls added to the uni-
verse, and there are no souls taken from the
universe. All Souls having being forever, there
can be no change as regards their being, their
relation to other Souls, the number of them; nor
can what constitutes the usual conditions of time,
and space, and sense, affect them or their rela-
tions to Deity."

The other sentence is : u The Soul is a revela-
tion unto outward nature. As consciousness is

48 Soul Sense Time

in the Soul, so every attribute, expressed by
consciousness, is in the Soul. As you must go
to the Soul ultimately for all that promises
expression, herein we deal with the Soul in its
absoluteness. We are not dealing with time
and space and sense at all now. We have not
yet arrived at matter. If is is impossible for
you to think of the Soul thus, do not try to
think, simply perceive; for not all that is think-
able is true ; that is more true which you cannot
speak nor think, but can perceive." P. 13.
THE REAL HOLY OF HOLIES

The other fifty-four bibles of mankind have
no more remarkable language; none is able to
teach us of the Creator, but the Soul, the sub-
conscious mind, perceives and knows. The entire
sacred writings of the human race do not con-
tain any more impressive, awe-inspiring, and all-
important words than these: "You must go to
the Soul for the source of all intelligence."

We must so greatly honor, love and adore
our own Soul, that the mental attitude
approaches the sublimity of worship. I want to
write these imposing words again : we must sim-
ply worship our own Souls. If each normal
human would do this, render this love and hom-
age, the destiny of individuals, and therefore
the race, would almost completely change.

Note that the word, Soul, always begins with
a capital letter S. The sub-conscious Mind,
within each normal human mind, is the real

Soul the Holy of Holies 49

Holy of Holies, the innermost state, and should
be the shrine and altar of true and pure wor-
ship; and, if the reader objects to the word
worship, owing to the most appalling, long-
continued and horrible distortions and aberra-
tions of the human mind, coupled with hateful
authority in matters of so-called "worship," and
persecution, let him substitute the words love,
honor and obey the real Soul, its admonitions
and dictates, all from within.

And this, adopt: u Love, honor, obey your
Soul," a good substitute for the now obsolete
word, worship.

A WONDERFUL LETTER
I receive remarkable letters from all direc-
tions. They contain every idea, that one would
think could be expressed in words, and from the
first of the new humanity series of letters, my
mail has abrupt changes in kind, subject and
quality, containing startling ideas. The greater
part is due to articles I have published. Dur-
ing a number of years, after I made ascent
of the great inclined cable railway, and assumed
directorship of the observatory, my publica-
tions were nearly all on astronomy, electricity,
physics and the laws of the physical universe.

Finally, the long-time fascinating lure to
resume writing on mind, psychic phenomena
and the marvelous prehistoric Aryan specula-
tion, Metaphysics, and such themes, leading to
writing on Vedanta, founded by Badarayana;

50 Give Us Ancient Light

Samkhya, by Kapila ; Yogi, by Patangali ; Purva
Mimamsa, by Gainini ; Vaiseshika, by Kananda,
and Naya, by Gotama, predominated, and I
wrote a series, which, upon publication, tapped
an entirely different mind-flow, extending across
the earth; for immediately, letters came of a
nature never before received. This flood, sub-
merged the current of letters, on usual scientific
subjects.

"Oh! how glad we are that you have com-
menced to write on the higher things;" "We
gladly welcome you to our ranks;" "You are
beginning to see the light;" "The Soul of the
world is shining upon thee;" "You behold the
light;" "We hope you will give all there is in
Vedanta;" "Do not step aside from the Way;"
"Explain all of the Ayran religions;" "Tell us
of the true Soul;" "Give us ancient light." "We
now know you are a reincarnated Atlantean
Philosopher;" "You are swinging a censer
again;" "You were a high-priest before an At-
lantean Altar;" "You were before Egypt;"
"Give more explanation of the Mimamsa;"
"Give us the interior of things ;" "Lead us up to
the light of the ages" these, and a hundred, a
thousand more.

But there is an anonymous letter, now lov-
ingly held in my left hand, as I am rapidly
writing. I feel a very strong and impetuous
desire to write each word in this book.

Here it is:

A Remarkable Letter 51

"Message May 30, 1909. I awakened from
deep, dreamless, refreshing slumber, with a
sense of the familiar call to 'silence'; and said:
'Very well, what is it? I sensed immediately
that it was Mr. Larkin's needs. In my own
mind (normal objective mind), I hastily exam-
ined my secret thoughts, to see if they could
have any bearing upon the present occasion;
but no remembrance seemed to justify that con-
clusion. So I listened to : 'That although he is
an expert in solving mathematical problems of
the universe, can measure, weigh and calculate
stupendous propositions, thereby arriving at
marvelous conclusions with an exactness that
impels to awe, admiration, and even adoration
of the Great Infinite, as expressed in space, yet,
with all his comprehension of these external
measurements, he is unable to fathom the mys-
tery of the starting point from which all things
come.

' 'He may cabalistically read the heavens, yet
he does not know the meaning of Aleph in his
own Soul; although a magician in the computa-
tions of weights, measures, forms, colors, and
the other various analyses of external attributes.'

"I said, 'I don't see why I am awakened to
write this kind of work. It seems impertinence.'
Reply: 'You are not to understand, but do. You
are to lead him back to the starting point. He
is too far away for his own Soul's good; and
that is all that counts in eternity, which is only

52 Higher Rates

one phase of the dot. You understand the law
of vibration, so thoroughly, that you can see
how a mind may vibrate through all the forms
of material manifestations, under the principle
of the superior controlling the inferior, and how
that the same rate of vibratory mind can not
control higher vibratory rates.

" 'Here is his trouble, to call out his own
higher rates, and so follow the series of state-
ments to a greater depth of conclusion.

" 'For in the interior of one's own glorious
depths lies all possible source of material for
outward expression. He can, correctly, accu-
rately jugglarise with all the dimensions of
space, including the law of interstices; and yet,
is unable to work his propositions backward to
the point of beginning, and comprehend the
first principles of Aum the point, the dot
the beginning of all measurement, and from
which evolutionize all possibility, that presents
the factors to those stupendous dimensions with
which he is familiar. He can step from point to
line; push lines across surfaces; leap from plane
to plane; can be in the midst of the perispheres
of spheres that merge, sub-merge, and super-
merge into each other, and not get lost; yet, he
does not know the simple philosophy of the dot,
the beginning of all measurement, all number,
the philosophy of all existence. He can soar
with conscious appreciation and exactness to the
outermost bounds of existence ; but cannot pene-

Soul the Alladm Lamp 53

trate the innermost channels from which all the
exterior flows.

" 'This is what he needs to prove his life prob-
lem. To understand that the Soul is one's own
"Alladin's Lamp" is to understand the value of
the dot. The telescope reveals stars in the
silence of space; but in the silence of the Soul is
mirrored more closely the Master Mind; and
although he may converse freely of the celestial
galaxy, yet he is afraid of the seven genii that
respond to his call from his own depths. He
can behold and talk learnedly of the Mind Cre-
ative in the universe; but does not know of the
Master of glories in his own Soul the source
the dot, the point of view for him.' '

The name of this remarkable letter writer
had apparently been signed and torn off. I
have often read it. I have not the remotest
idea of the identity of the person sending it, nor
have I the envelope, nor postmark. It ascribes
to me greater mathematical and analytical
power than I possess; but to me, the very im-
pressive sentence is: "The Soul is one's 'Allad-
in's Lamp.' " This statement is the very light on
our path, and the stamp of revealed truth. It,
the Soul, is the channel whence all exterior things
flow. The Soul of man is his perennial source
of all that flows from the interior mind the
oftentimes subconscious, really submerged and
obscured. "Full many a gem of purest ray

54 Obey Thy Soul

serene," its unfathomed deeps hold in seclusion,
because not explained.

And now, as I write at midnight, this letter
seems to speak to my Soul, as an actual revela-
tion from the soul-realm. The writer was awak-
ened from deep and dreamless sleep by the re-
vealer, an external intelligence. The hand of
the writer was actually directed, by this revela-
tor, through his brain. It is a revealed, and,
therefore, inspired writing, directed to me from
the cosmo-terrestrial mind-soul realm. Its value
is beyond all computation, for it reveals directly
to me that the Soul is the real shining light
within.

What would the reader think of a letter,
written directly by an intelligence, that sud-
denly awakened an unknown writer from sleep
to write? Read the story of Aladdin's lamp.
The intelligence, writing the letter to me, makes
this very startling and impressive comparison.
Not only a still small voice within, but a shining
lamp to guide, lead, lure and direct the object-
ive personality is this wondrous Soul.

Worship of the mighty Master Mathemati-
cal Creator is not only useless, not required, but
obscures our real duty, the listening to the still
small voice; and dulls the gaze upon the light
of the Soul within.

I assert, again, the mighty Creator does not
require worship. The substitute for this is lov-
ing study of the Soul. Become well acquainted

Agree With Thy Soul 55

with your own Soul. Love her and rightly obey,
at any cost, the slightest and most severe demand
know thyself, conquer self, gain victory over
every sin.

Ask the Soul to help, as you would ask a
friend to help you lift a weight. Study daily
and hourly the laws established by the Creator
in the universe, and likewise study the Soul.
This is your life duty, reader.

Is your mind beset by any trace of doubt,
whatever, cast it out, and make a solemn com-
pact, promise and agreement with your Soul, to
listen to the warnings, admonitions, and to all
it impresses silently upon your objective person-
ality; for that, actually passing all understand-
ing, will surely come to all who will set up this
study and research and before the holy sacred
and true shrine, the Matchless Altar of the
Soul.

The reader may be mystified by the word
"dot" in this most remarkable revelation, in this
letter sent to me. This is the only English word
that can convey the very ancient Aryan philoso-
phy and revelation, before India was settled by
our ancestors, pouring through the rock-hewn
passes in the Himalayas, as they emerged from
this beautiful mountain valley home, and spread
all over the sunny plains of what is now called
the Punjab. The word point would also express
the highly philosophic meaning, the point where
Mind started creative processes in space, that of
creating electrons.

ARE THERE SCIENTIFIC
PROOFS OF THE EXIS-
TENCE OF THE HU-
MAN SOUL?

HE differential of a fraction having
a variable numerator and denomi-
nator is the differential of the
numerator multiplied by the denom-
inator, minus the differential of the
denominator multiplied by the numerator,
divided by the square of the denominator."

This priceless law can be proved by one per-
son to another and has been during three cen-
turies. And this basic law has already expanded
the human soul.

"An explicit function is a variable whose value
is expressed in terms of another variable or
other variables and constants."

The word explicit is from explicitum, mean-
ing unfolded; that is; an explicit function is
one that has been disentangled from the other
quantities. But one mind can receive absolute
proof from another mind that this law is truth.
Any finite quantity divided by an infinite is an
infinitesimal; and any finite quantity divided by
an infinitesimal is an infinite."
56

Law of Light 57

Proved since Newton and Leibnitz both dis-
covered the mighty calculus. From infinity
expressions, containing the sum or difference of
finites, the finite may be dropped without affect-
ing the ratio."

Proved with absolute proof. Then, if mind
is infinite, matter may be suppressed without
changing this magnificent equation.

"The orbits of the planets are ellipses, and
the sun is in the common focus of them all."

Proved with rigid accuracy since discovery by
Kepler, fundamental in mathematical astronomy.

"The current-strength in any circuit is directly
proportional to the sum of the electromotive
forces in the circuit and inversely proportional
to the sum of the resistances."

Ohm's Law. Proved over and over again
since Masters applied themselves to equations
connected with electricity. This splendid law
is at the base of all modern electrical engineer-
ing science.

"Light passing from a rarer into a denser
medium is refracted toward the perpendicular
to the surface ; and passing from a denser into a
rarer medium, is refracted from the perpen-
dicular."

Basic, and without this great fact in nature,
we could not have any lenses, i. e., telescopes
and microscopes. "The intensity of radiant
energy at any point varies inversely as the
square of the distance of the point from the
radiating body."

58 No Proof to Another

Fundamental and proved with absolute dem-
onstration. And there are several hundred
grand standard laws of Nature now known and
proved.

The Masters prove them to themselves, to
other Masters, and to all students; that is: all
persons accept the proofs, which must be, as
proofs are absolute that is based on mathe-
matics, and all persons must accept, for they
find themselves unable to reject and give a rea-
son for rejection. The laws are classified under
the head of a very remarkable word Truth;
that is, Science.

THE SOUL OF MAN

Now is there rigid and absolute proof of the
existence of the human Soul? The answer to
this supreme question must be given.

Proof cannot be given by one person to
another; if one human becomes aware that the
Soul exists, no trace of proof can be given to
another.

This fact is one of the most momentous and
important that ever entered the realm of human
thought.

The wonderful books, the world's great
standard sixty-six bibles, give no proof that a
Soul exists in man, or survives after the death of
the body. These venerable books, take it for
granted that all who read accept the existence
of the Soul without question. Or strive to keep
the fact of the Soul's continued life, if there are

Difficulties of Proof 59

such facts of immortality, secret; or give out
ambiguous terms and language concerning the
Soul's life beyond the bodily death.

In the mighty laws, given above, four are in
pure mathematics, in which the relations of
quantities, rather than their absolute values, are
sought, and these relations are expressed by
abstract numbers.

Kepler's law applies to motions of worlds;
Ohm's law to rates of flow of electricity and
resistance; and the law of refraction is a law
of light.

The law of radiation is that of all radiating
energy. But is there a law of the Soul? Many
say there is, many say not; but none says there
is no law of mathematics. The reason for this
anomalous state of things is this: what one
would receive at once as proof of the existence
of the Soul and its survival of disintegration
of the body, another would at once reject; but
none rejects mathematics, simply because it is-,
true.

But have we no truths of the Soul ? The fact
is, science has no proofs that all would accept
as in the case of the august science of numbers.
The Soul realm cannot be handled by any scien-
tific instrument. Then science deals only with
matter.

Often have I been asked is there a science of
mind. At first one would say, no; because we
do not know what mind is; this is untenable.

60 Mind Studies in Chaos

There is a science of electricity, but none knows
what it is.

I have replied: not enough is known of the
attributes and properties of mind, to constitute
a science. Recent researches have shown the
mind, its attributes, the person, the individual,
the Ego, to be so elaborate and complex, that
no set of rules can now be formulated. The
individual may never be understood by mind in
brain, as it is a part of Supreme Original Mind.

No, there is no science of the mind at pres-
ent. All is chaos in the mind realm to us ; but
beyond doubt all is harmony in the Master Cre-
ator Mind. This has been disputed by some, in
my hearing and by letters, saying, the Creative
Mind is actually experimenting, and one very
disastrous experiment was the creation of the
life that is in man and the separation of human
.units of mind mentoids from the original.
From study of events in the midst of the state
of mind of Europe, as I now write, this idea
seems to be plausible.

There are three prominent stones in the tem-
ple of the mind, will, intellect and reason. Cre-
ative and human will decide to act, intellect
matures the plan, and reason, the final arbiter,
by means of some internal process now
.unknown, reacts on the will. This is a process
so intricate that mentalists now do not even pre-
tend to explain. Nor are they able to explain
introspection, retrospection, memory, or recall.

Why Weepest Thou? 61

Re-vision, summoning long forgotten sights
and sounds up from the deeps of the subcon-
scious, are all beyond comprehension in the
present state of mind study.

Literature now teems with these terms : hid-
den power, latent forces, the occult powers, etc.
THE EMOTIONS

Then there is the extensive, complex and intri-
cate part or grand division of mind the emo-
tions, with its immense number of varying sides
and facets, its changing tints and shades. For
the emotions now rising, now subsiding are as
tides. But these are tides in the Soul. The
emotions are ebbs and flows, the surgings of the
Soul when in the prison matter.

Soul, therefore, is a local humanity word, and
is spoken, subject to matter; a Divinity circuit in
flesh.

The most ancient idea is : we originally came
from afar. "Why weepest thou?" "Oh!
merely weeping because I am entangled in mat-
ter" ; may be asked a Soul with this reply. This
question is indeed impressive: "why weepest
thou?" the reply is at the base of our entire
intricate emotional nature. Perception and
desire are deeply seated in human mentation.
Sensing is another; while reflex effects in the
Soul are elaborate. Emotions at times surge
over the intellect and submerge will.

The throne room of the Soul is in the brain,
protected by the rigid skull. A part of the

62 Coming Out To See

brain, the optic nerve, comes out to see, with its
expansion, the retinas of the eyes. How the
eye reports what it sees is totally unknown
how are images in the retina translated to the
personality; and how does the personality invent
words to express itself, names and qualities of
objects mirrored on the retina, then to nerve
and brain and expressed to the personality in
the ever-recurring standing inscrutable mys-
teries words?

Thus : I cannot write of Soul without coming
to the mystery of mysteries, words human
speech, soul-units mentoids. A human per-
sonality may, therefore, be a congeries of
words : a thinker of words or in words.

Go singing all the day long, if you so desire;
you may think tuneful words and be a congeries,
that is, a personality of harmonies, a personality
of harmonic words and strains.

If you are, then you are in a harmonic ratio
with the Grand Mind Divine, over all and
within all.

I was asked, in pathetic tones, by an earnest
seeker: "Cannot I know my own Soul?" Indeed
I was affected and regretted that I had been
asked this momentous question.

I had to answer no. You are living with a
constant companion you are unable to under-
stand; but you can ask it to help you day by
day. Urging people to ask of their Souls is
one object of my writing this book.

Fractions of Infinite Mind 63

This I answered, and relieved the tension of
the mind by saying "Your Soul is a part of the
Infinite Mind, and we cannot yet understand
Infinity." The questioner was greatly relieved,
in objective and subjective minds, in personality
and individuality.

If there is a troubled Soul reading these
words, my reply is the same, we cannot under-
stand here and now, because we are enchained
in matter; for matter is as black glasses before
the eyes.

It is certain that "the kingdom of the Master
Creative Mind is within you." You are not in
that kingdom, just the reverse.

SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF THE EXISTENCE
OF THE SOUL

A soldier in India was walking along with
hundreds more from a ship to a dock on a
plank. The ship was beating against timbers
of the dock in a rough sea. The soldier fell into
the water and the ship crushed him to death
against the pier.

His mother in England saw his complete
body, and dressed in uniform. She reported
the case to army officials in England. Longi-
tude was computed and time was the same as
the death of the soldier, seen in England
within the same minute of time.

This phenomenon is classed under the head
phantasms of the living. And several thou-
sands are now on record, as well attested as the
words of witnesses in courts.

64 Apparition of Dying Son

Now, was the apparition in England the Soul,
astral body, spiritual body, subliminal self, ego,
personality, individuality, or mind suddenly
enclosed in matter, dense enough to reflect light
as seen by the mother; for any object to be vis-
ible, it must emit its own light or reflect light
that has been received.

Or did the mother sense mentally the form
of her son?

There is no modern scientific fact in astron-
omy, physics, electricity, chemistry and optics,
better attested and proved than the cases of
apparitions far and away of the dying that is,
at the instant of death.

Now it would be highly interesting to know
if any time was required for the vision of the
man in India to traverse the distance to Eng-
land. Light is known to move with the speed
of 186,324 miles per second, and would move
from India to England in a minute fraction of
one second of time. This case was of a man
dying. But what of the living ?

A WONDROUS PSYCHIC EXPERIMENT
I will give a case of the apparition of the
Soul, or personality, of a man in perfect health.
A psychic research circle was being held in Lon-
don, with the object of striving to demonstrate
telepathy between London and another circle
in the United States, and these experiments had
been successful, in former trials.

From India to England 65

Thoughts had been received at both ends, and
recorded in each. But at one session in London
a man from India was invited to attend. This
stranger to the circle said that he would cause
the Soul of a friend in India to appear in the
room. There were thirteen well educated and
trained men in the room in London, beside the
strange gentleman. The form of a human being,
a Hindu in full Indian dress, appeared and was
very clearly seen by all in the room.

The stranger recognized the apparition of
his friend in far away India, who was there alive
and well.

Now was the Soul of the Hindu still in his
body in India ; and some entity all unexplained
in the form of his body in London?

The idea is : when the Soul leaves the body,
the body dies; but the Hindu was asleep in
India.

Then what went to London? Mind, body,
astral-shell, aura, aural form, aural influence,
clothed thoughts, mentoid, or other self, ego,
or subliminal? The reader may select any of
the excessively intricate complexities.

See the striking difference, the soldier was at
the instant of death in India, also in England;
the Hindu, in India was living, in health, but
asleep, and was seen by thirteen men in London.

The stranger informed the men that he had
often performed this remarkable experiment.

66 Outgoing Personality

Then some entity can leave a human when,
asleep and go afar, appear there, and return.
This fact has been known during several thou-
sand years.

But in this case, there was proof in a mod-
ern psychic research society.

It is not known if this Hindu was in sleep sa
profound that he could not dream this is an
interesting point. If he could dream then it
would appear that there are two minds or two
persons in each human. One is able to leave
and return.

But the being, mind, person, or Soul had the
remarkable power of assembling atoms or mole-
cules of matter into a form dense enough to
reflect light, for thirteen men all saw him dis-
tinctly in a well lighted room.

But the Hindu in India may not have been
in normal sleep. A strange personality may
have entered the body, or brain of the Hindu,
displaced his astral or Soul, leaving it free to
appear in London after clothing itself in matter.

Complete trance is caused by an incoming per-
sonality, the taking of complete possession, and
displacing the Soul, ego or astral. This has been
known since prehistoric times. It is common all
over the world now. Psychic study is not at
present a rigid science owing to confusion of
terms.

Each human body is known to be surrounded
by an aura or emanation. Many persons can

How Make Self Visible? 67

see these around their friends as well as around
strangers.

Now, did the Soul of the Hindu clothe itself
with the aura in India, and go with it to
London; or assemble the garb or clothing on
arrival in London, from the auras of men in
the room? Psychic history is filled with accounts
of human apparitions dressed in their own style.

This case awakens whole series of thoughts.
How did the Soul, working mind, ego or astral
of the Hindu, make itself visible in London?
It may be lowering rates of vibration. There
are sounds caused by vibration too rapid to be
heard; and entire regions of the spectrum too
rapid to be seen, away out in the new ultra-ultra
violet. Thus, thoughts cannot be seen or heard,
vibrations are far too rapid. Then the Hindu
enrobed his Soul or personality in matter, or
lowered the rate of vibration to leave India and
suddenly appear in London. In either case,
proof is had of the exceeding complexity of the
human organization. Clairvoyant sense rates
too rapid to be sensed by other persons, not
sensitive to these high rates. Even this entire
event will be rejected as proof of the existence
of the Soul by some who say that the apparition
in London was merely a temporary astral shell,
which will vanish when the Hindu dies. This
hypothesis is also intricate; for how did it
make impression in London? And there are
they who say this is no proof of existence of the

68 Rates Lowered

Soul ! And no proof of the Soul's immortality,
these people say. Others hold : this event to be
proof. And a jury in a court here in Los Ange-
les condemned a man to prison. A new trial
was had before another jury; some testimony
given ; they read the testimony as printed to sec-
ond jury. Man promptly acquitted; but they
had different attorneys in second trial. Proof
to one person may be just the opposite to
another. And this is the problem around and
about the Soul ; but not around and about mathe-
matics, proof is absolute for all who explore its
supernal beauties. But whether the Hindu per-
sonality used its own aura, or those of the men
in London, or made its ego visible by lowering
the u soul-rate" of itself slow enough to be seen;
whatever the cause, the event is one of the
most impressive and awe-inspiring that ever
came before a psychic research society.

The form seen in London must have been a
body of some kind, as it sustained the appari-
tion of clothing, the Indian garb or dress.
Cloth was, therefore, materialized, or ethereal-
ized, or something as atoms or molecules low-
ered rates.

At all events there was a form in London,
having consistency enough to stop light and
reflect it away, to enter the eyes of the thirteen.

But an explanation may be that the visitor
hypnotized the thirteen suddenly, and made
them think they saw an apparition.

New Corridors Opened 69

If so, then a vast series of mysteries is opened,
the visitor thrust his will, Soul, ego, mind, or
personality into thirteen men, and caused them
all to see the apparition as he willed them to
see it. This, if true, greatly adds to the com-
plexity of humans even here in flesh.

To do this he must have had the form of a
Hindu in his mentality. The theory of con-
trol by hypnosis, or enhanced rates of vibration,
is a mystery as deep, if not deeper, than the
hypothesis of the astral or Soul of the Hindu
really clothing itself with aural matter and
appearing in London.

For the more critical and careful the research,
the deeper becomes the mystery of the human
personality. There is nothing within the entire
range of science that can compare with a human
in intricacy, highly refined and elaborate
complexity.

The mere fact of a personality, so mastering
itself as to be able to assemble atoms or mole-
cules of matter into a form dense enough to
reflect light and be seen, is to me, one of the
most impressive facts of nature. The Hindu
in India had learned how to do this amazing
thing; or the visitor in the research society in
London had learned how to do it.

In either case, this wondrous event shows the
man, the Hindu in India and the visitor in Lon-
don, to be Masters of strange human powers,
that made them transcendent.

70 Temple Holy of Holies

See this : the visitor in London had to will the
Hindu, the personality of the Hindu, to put the
brain and body to sleep, leave the body and
come to London.

Then telepathy half way around the world
is an actual occurrence, a mighty mind power,
a living fact.

But this telepathy is of vast antiquity, is
before history, was in use before the pyramids.
It has never died out, always on earth in the
minds of humans, and now exists.

But it is now increasing, strange things are
increasing.

HOLY OF HOLIES WERE SPIRIT COMMUNION
ROOMS

For the Holy of Holies in the vast temples
of antiquity, the rooms in which the Grand
Hierophants entered at appointed times, were
Soul activity centres, and centres of telepathic
communication all over Asia to and fro. In
fact, the splendid altars in these magnificent
gold and gem adorned temples were really
Altars of the Soul.

That is : Soul is the dominating idea of human-
ity. The hierophants knew of the Soul and at
least some, if not all, of its latent powers
latent to us, for there surely has been a loss to
humanity.

It is called the Lost Word. And this is
hedged about with mystery. A few descend-
ants of these Hierophants, Grand Masters of

Cosmic Consciousness 71

arcane mysteries, are now living; they know
the word; and they may speak it, if times
become propitious. It could not be heard, now
in the din and roar of cannon, nor amid the
screams of the wounded and dying in a world at
war.

If consciousness is able to traverse the dis-
tance from India to London and make expres-
sion, then possibilities beyond all present imag-
ining are rising like coming ships from the sea.
At any time there may be startling revelations.
The war itself is a revelation, for forces greater
than the powers of monarchs and generals are
now influencing human beings.
THE MYSTERY OF COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS

"Cosmic consciousness is now expressing," is
the burden of many letters received up here.
Consciousness, to be cosmic, must be totally
independent of brain, pineal or pituitary glands,
or the entire system of nerves and their ganglia
in the human body. Therefore, it requires no
rest, like the working mind, in sleep. Sleeping
is a little local experience ; but personality, a con-
geries collected of units of consciousness, exists
as long as the units hold together in the colony,
how long, is not now known to the objective
mind.

Here is a question ; does the conscious person
the Soul know how long it is to exist as a
separated entity from the Master Soul of the
Universe, and all within? Cosmic consciousness

72 Soul Thinks of Infinity

troubleth not itself with time limits. Time is a
little local entity here in the matter-realm, and
depends on the rotation of an infinitesimal,
the earth. Duration is all unaware of the
minute insignificant word time. Let us per-
sonify thus : Eternity has never heard of Time.

I am at a loss here on this summit, in glorious
sunshine, to assemble words to express to the
reader the wonders of personality, a unit of
mind, a separated mentoid. It thinks of its
Source, the Master Mind, Supreme, Creative,
Pure and Divine.

The Soul thinks eternal things. All thoughts
are concentrated in the portion of mind, express-
ing in that inconceivable marvel, the layers of
the brain. Some being, the person of a mathe-
matician, uses this thin cortex to weigh one hun-
dred million suns. A personality of refinement
is a concentration of the finer forces of the
Mind-Universe; for there is a Mind-Universe,
and it is of vastly more importance than the
material structure. It is increasing tension and
potential; is pressing upon the brain layers of
some men and women, who are giving out
entirely new, for man, at least, intricate mind-
problems. All these words are enhanced in
power, if the deeper word, Individual, is sub-
stituted for person.

The printing presses of the world are roar-
ing and thundering, turning out floods of litera-
ture of the Soul. This fact is to me a phase

Supernal Numbers 73

of proof of the existence of the Soul. To
others, this modern phase, in the terrestial
career of man, is not proof. The case is com-
parable to a disagreeing and agreeing jury, after
listening to the same evidence.

Only mind is eternal; matter is not, because
all matter is assembled electrons. The Mind
that created electrons is able to take them apart,
and thus end the entire material universe.

This idea of building and disintegrating the
universe of matter is one of the oldest in liter-
ature. The Bhagavad Gita mentions it.

But mind exists before and after successive
appearances and disappearances of matter; but
the mind, now phasing in human brain-areas, is
the same in inherent nature as that of the Pri-
mordial Creative Mind. This is always sensed
by me in revelling in the ravishing glories and
sublimities of the amazing calculus. This is
Divine ; and its transcendent truths, eternal. It
was discovered by personalities manifesting, one
on the surface of the brain of Newton; the;
other on the surface of the brain of Leibnitz.

To me, the stupendous calculus is a scientific
proof that the mind in man survives the death
of the brain. This, because the mind assem-
bled from mentoids mind units into the per-
sonality named Newton; and that other assem-
bled personality, named Leibnitz, used brain
areas to formulate calculus.

74 Within the Brain Maze

Surely the reader will not for a moment
assume that the cells in the brain originated the
mazes of thoughts in the calculus; for the cells
of the brain of these two mighty masters, under
high power microscope, are internally precisely
like the cells of a life-long man who did not pro-
duce new mentation; but the cell surface, the
areas, are complex in the extreme, as if the indi-
vidual had stamped itself thereon, and went
away.

The mind entities, that telepath to each other
here on the earth and flesh plane, simply use
brain cells as centers of mind radiation. Clair-
voyant and clairaudient manifestiations, now so
common everywhere, do not originate in brains
the minds, able to produce these intricate
things, merely use brain surface, cells and con-
necting filaments as instruments.

Therefore, the minds existed before the brain
cells developed, and must, therefore, exist after
the brain disintegrates. This is because in clair-
voyance, clairaudience, and psychometry, ideas
appear totally unknown and unheard of by the
personality that all along has expressed in that
brain. This personality is completely displaced
for a time.

The foreign personalties go away, evacuate,
when the owner of the brain retakes possession ;
and this occurs almost daily in different parts of
the world, to the astonishment of friends, neigh-
bors and onlookers.

The Queen's Chamber 75

One of the world's great students of mind
and personality, William Phillips, Clackamas,
Oregon, writes: "Often times, during hours of
night, am I awakened from sleep by the sweetest
music imaginable, both vocal and instrumental;
one kind of such music at a time; other times
both kinds of music, in concert. The first notes
of music seem in the distance, but coming nearer
and nearer, until I awake. Nor do I awake
from the intonations, but from the sweet soul-
penetrating melody of the tunes."

This is one typical case, out of perhaps
five hundred in my possession. I cannot give
more than one of a kind within the limits of this
book; and this hearing of cosmic music, and
seeing of the singers and players, is also prehis-
toric; and has been heard in the Queen's Cham-
ber in the pyramids of Suphis in Egypt, and in
courts of the temples of all ancient nations.

If predictions in my letters, now coming
daily, are half true, cosmic music will again be
heard on earth; and tuneful Divinity-strains.

But the singers, heard by Mr. Phillips, and
by thousands more throughout all historic
periods, were human, and had existed in human
brains, and bodies. This to me is proof that,
Souls, or personalities, exist before coming into
fleshly tabernacles, and exist after departure.
This is not paranoia, for many of the most able
and intellectual men and women have heard.

Others say, "No proof, merely dreaming";

76 Summon Latent Powers

but dreams are as remarkable as the appearance
of these cosmic choirs. For instance, there are
thousands of cases on record, where difficult
mathematical equations have been solved and
written out during sleep, by persons who could
not possible equate them when awake ; and there
are cases, where the person, writing out the
equations, could not understand them next morn-
ing, but later they proved to be exact and true.

The fact is ; another personality, a mathema-
tician, came, usurped the brain area, impressed
the cells to cause the sleeper to rise, get pencil
and paper and write the intricate formulas.

My theory is that a personality who had lived
in a human brain and body, since disintegrated,
came into the brain area of the sleeping student,
and caused him to arise and write the formulas,
under his, the visitor's control. Another, to me,
proof that a personality lives after its body
expires. No proof to others; they are still seek-
ing some other explanation. And always more
intricate, not of least resistance, not the simplest,
and most natural.

The entity of a discarnate personality is all
the more probable, if the student could not
understand the high equation after solution.

The reader is advised to summon latent pow-
ers from within. Neither you nor I have scarcely
more than commenced this highly important
work. Let us launch into the deep ; the Soul Sea
is infinitely beautiful; and pull from the shore

Psychometry 77

of matter and time, beginning now, beginning
now, is my solemn admonition.

Many books and magazines are now being
published, saying that all thoughts originate in
the mind-realm, and to be effective on the earth-
plane use brain areas as instruments for that
purpose. This subject is receiving much thought.
The Soul receives from other Souls gone on
before. This is; all thoughts manifest, first in
a thought-world, then here.

This immense subject has many apparently
plausible arguments in its favor; but it is an
obscure line of research and will not be entered
in this book. This thought-form world encir-
cles the earth, and is, therefore, terrestial,
human and not far away.

Psychometry is a remarkable mind-property,
and is profound. All matter receives impres-
sions, due to the impact of force. Thus a sen-
sistive plate, exposed to light, fixes an image in
the silver bromide molecules of the object, send-
ing in direct or reflected light.

The image appears when the plate is devel-
oped. All surfaces receive the impact of radi-
ant energy, as light, heat, electrical impulses
and waves. These affect the extreme outside
layer of atoms, which are fixed and set by the
incoming energy.

This is well exemplified by that marvelous
instrument, the telegraphone. Energy, stored
in sound waves, is projected against the external

78 Human Vibrating Force

layer of iron molecules, may be, atoms, by elec-
tric force.

A spoken word, to the receiver, makes a fixed
form in iron atoms on the smooth surface of
the moving disk, or wire, as the case may be.
No indentations, as in phonographic speaking
or musical records; the atoms are fixed or set
in word-forms by magnetism.

But revolve the disk, or unwind the spool of
wire, in front of a like magnet pole, and it will
release the stored energy, and speak to you the
words as first spoken to the machine, with the
utmost accuracy. The receiving magnet releases
the stored energy of the spoken words.

All external layers of atoms on all substances
must receive vibratory forces, and store with
varying degrees of permanency, according to the
substance. But a psychometrist is aware of the
state of these layers of atoms. The state of
mind of a person coming near, or touching, an
article, or object, can be read by an accom-
plished psychometrist.

I give one typical example. I wrapped a
stone meteor in six thicknesses of brown paper,
and handed the package to a psychometrist.
Instantly he said : "This body fell from space."
And the number of psychometrists is increasing.

All abstruse mind-potencies appear to be on
the increase, and, in almost every race in the
world, increasing actually; or we hear more of

Differences in Rates 79

them in the rapidly increasing flood of litera-
ture on these recondite-personality subjects.

The assertion that all humans are alike is
exploded. The psychometrist, the telepathist,
the mind-reader, the disintegrator and integra-
tor of solid matter, and the passage thereof
directly through other matter; those able to take
melted lead, or sulphur, in their mouths, hold
their hands in the midst of living white hot
coals, and walk bare-footed over white hot
embers, these, and more humans, are very dif-
ferent from every day ordinary folk.

The vast Soul- World is as clearly visible to
one who has discovered his own Soul, and how
to use it, as the physical world is to our eyes;
and at no time within the historic period has this
faculty been absent. In fact, history opens with
this faculty, or power, in full activity.

The reader may rest absolutely sure and cer-
tain, that there is the human Soul; that Souls
after leaving the human body inhabit this pop-
ulous realm; and be doubly assured, that men
and women exist, and have existed during thou-
sands of years, having the faculty of looking
directly, by means of their Souls, into this vast
realm, unseen by the sense-eyes of men.

Since nothing exists but electrons ,and these
only have been created, they, who assemble a
human form, dense enough to reflect light suffi-
ciently intense to project a photograph on sen-
sitive plates, must have learned a law of nature,

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all unknown to others. These rare and fleeting
forms are doubtless composed of electrons, free,
or, if combined, their state is at present unknown
to chemists and electricians; but forms appear,
as many as eighteen have been seen to form and
vanish in a room within an hour, and these
ranged from children to old age; all under rigid
scientific test conditions.

Some say that this startling fact is not proof
of the existence of the Souls of the eighteen;
but the forms were composed of the aural mat-
ter surrounding the persons present; but if this
is the true explanation, it follows that Man is
all the more intricate and complex. My theory
is, that excarnate human personalities came
from their realm, and assembled electrons, or
atoms, into forms around the eighteen Souls.

THE BLESSINGS OF SOUL
ILLUMINATION

ITHOUT acute, trained, and illum-
inated seeing-sense within, one will
fail to perceive the deeper and
wider meaning of the greater, or
interior, universe. One can walk
directly into the door of a labyrinth, and not
sense the beauties on all sides; and it is harass-
ing to walk along in the beautiful world the
earth wearing dark spectacles.

And how about a reserved seat in the Grand
Auditorium, in the Centre of the Temple of
the Soul? Do not stand in line, and then secure
a seat in the gallery, or not at all.

At present, humanity is clad in sable robes
of mourning, sobbing over some great loss in
the remote past. The Soul of the race has
actually met with some overpowering loss,
such as a word, revelation, or some mind-
faculty. The mind of man is under some phase
of hypnotic spell, some wondrous attribute of
perception, seems to me, to be latent. The most
persistent tradition in all the bibles, mysteries
and interior rites, is that a terrific loss has been
suffered. Since the loss is mental, and, since
mind cannot express without thinking, and then
writing or speaking words, the loss is always
symbolized as a lost word. The very Soul has

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lost a word. I have often heard speakers in
Masonic Mysteries sorrow over this loss.

AN EXPERIMENT THAT HAS, OR Is Now
FAILING

The Word made flesh has proved to be an
experiment. To me, the idea that the Mind
Supreme is experimenting with man is inspiring.
Reader, it is your solemn duty, as well as mine,
to search for the lost pleiad in your Soul. You
know perfectly well, that good and evil exist.
You know, with great intensity, this set fact.
Good will give happiness; evil will give you
pain.

However talented you are, you have not the
ability to escape this law. It is at the base of all
there is; and you know that tendency toward
evil still exists in every human. The sure result
of yielding, is pain. There cannot be any result
besides pain. This is the law. But full power
to resist evil has been lost. The explanation is
beyond our reasoning faculties; but the fact of
loss remains. Lead us not into temptation was
a mystery of initiation in temples in the distant
past.

For the mighty Biblical Psychology states,
over and over again, in many ways, that to man,
there was revealed, from higher realms, original
Wisdom. Reason against this fact, as long and
persistently as you may, read these bibles, and
all traces of opposition to this fact of man, will
be crushed. This fact of the loss of Ancient

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Wisdom, could it now be proved to modern
man, would change the literature of the world.
If this fact becomes universally known, a search,
like the critical search of a detective, would be
undertaken. The mysteries of the labyrinths of
all shrines and temples would be revived, and the
search would be on, by night and by day, with
activity greater than the centuries' quest for the
Holy Grail; for modern illuminati are now
aware that the loss really was the Pearl of Great
Price. See how exquisite this deep psychology !

Reader, preparations are being made to draw
aside the exquisitely embroidered curtain now
hiding a gate of precious gems, which leads to
the very throne room of the Labyrinth the
home of the Soul. Interior studies are being
made, a new light a golden glow is shining
far and away within the remotest corridor.

What shall we see when the veil is partly
turned? The dimmest light is shining through
the veil of the temple, just enough to make us
aware that a light is there.

This book is being written, mostly at night,
on a mountain summit, with the earnestly
longed-for hope of years, that the writings may
aid in lifting the veil of blessed Isis, the
blessed Mary, and reveal these regal Souls to
moderns. I am sure they are clad in mystic
robes of exquisite beauty, and that they live in
harmony Divine.

We see the Sidereal Universe, the congeries

84 The Deep Within

of suns, but we do not see the interior struc-
ture. It may be sensed, however; one may be-
come intensely aware of its living within the
other, the outer, and, also, within the Soul;
and the Soul within it.

Behold the mystery! it is true the search
for the magnificent within is indeed a Divinity-
search ; and it is a search made within the Soul.
At present we see the veil before the Soul, as
through a glass darkly; but truth is surely shin-
ing; we shall know all that is possible before
departing this house of clay, this temple of
matter.

THE SPLENDORS OF THE MIND

A harmonic, well trained and carefully nur-
tured mind is the highest entity in existence.
The perfect mind is that, at height and base-
it is the Mind Creative.

To me, this fact is as well grounded and
established as the Newtonian law of gravita-
tion; or Kirchhoff's three wondrous laws of the
spectrum; namely, that the separated parts of
mind, manifesting, as humans, are parts from
the original Creative Mind. To sense this
fact, the mind must be disciplined, trained and
expanded.

For me this has been made clear, but I can-
not prove it to one who would doubt. The
unutterable splendors of a mind open to admit
Wisdom Divine, that is, wisdom of the Soul,
are so great, that I make no attempt to
describe.

INDIVIDUALITY AND
PERSONALITY

HAVE been asked many times to
give the difference between the inner
meanings of these two words of dif-
ficult comprehension. Could we now
put ourselves in the places of the
ancient humans, who originated words, read
their minds, and find out what they were think-
ing when they made words, our ways of think-
ing would meet with a great change. The Uni-
verse hath not a deeper mystery than that of
words. They are concentrated and released
thoughts. If we knew the origin of the archaic,
or root, words of human speech, our knowledge
would be vastly expanded.

INDIVIDUALITY

An atom of any element, known to chemists,
is the smallest portion that can exist as that ele-
ment, as iron, carbon, zinc, oxygen, helium,
chlorine, etc. Divide an atom of any element,
and identity is at once lost; original electrons
appear. Limitless wonders of mind, Soul, ego,
self, spirit, are discovered in the exquisitely
fascinating research into the origin of the words
we speak. We moderns got the roots from the
ancients, they who lived in a remote antiquity,
in the beginning of our languages; and are now

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getting; for, when a new discovery is made, in
science, logic, art, mathematics, we go away
back to prehistoric times for a word to express
the newly discovered thing.

Here is a fascinating word-study from the
"Standard Dictionary of the English Lan-
guage." Dividual; adjective; (archaic).
Shared with others; divided, separate. Latin,
divius, divisible; from divide, divide. Indi-
vidual; not capable of being divided without
losing identity; existing continuously as an
entity; single, determinate. Individual; Latin
in, not, and dividuus.

An individual can not be divided without
destroying it; and the human spirit, mind, ego,
the I, the real thing, is an individual. It is
mind; to divide is to destroy. But this is impos-
sible; for it is an individual part of Original
Mind; for man is mental; and the mind in man
is of precisely the same, in kind, as the Primor-
dial Creative Mind.

For me the endless labyrinths of the calcu-
lus are proof. The Mind in Creator and man
is exactly alike. That in man is a separated
part, an indivisible, indestructable entity, an
individual : and this is the highest thought that
.can be thought by the individual, temporarily
manifesting beneath a load of brain matter.
PERSONALITY

The lexicon reveals the root, the origin, thus :
Persona ; Latin, a mask worn by actors. Com-

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pounded of per, through, and sonous, to sound.
That is, the face of an actor in a drama, can
not be seen; no expressions of the features ca^
be thrown into the dramatic acting; the actor
must be presented to the audience through
sound.

The actual meaning of the term, human per-
sonality, is this: a human, wearing a mask on
his face ; but, in the highest dramatic effect, the
mask hides the individual completely, while
itself, the deceptive mask, only is seen.

There is no similarity in the little-understood
words, individual and person. The Creative
Mind appeareth not in the mere person, the
mask-wearer; but is within the wondrous indi-
vidual, changeless, indivisible, and as eternal as
its Source, the Mind Divine, the Mind Supreme,
the Spirit Creative. Thus our daily waking and
sleeping mind is, as it were, a person; and we all
wear masks; only an expert mind-reader can
find out what the person is like, or what he is
thinking.

But only Creative Spirit is able to read the
Spirit, phasing in man, as an individual, sep-
arate from itself; and both are temporarily con-
nected with organic life, manifesting for the
time, in living congeries of nerves, fibers, and
excessively delicate filaments in the cortex of the
brain.

The entire scheme and plan of our present
human phase of being is intricate, complex and

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elaborate, beyond our powers of explanation in
the present state of psychic science, studies in
manifesting mind, and exploration in the Uni-
verse of Spirit.

I wonder, if the entire plan is "a scheme of
necessity."

Thus all esoteric things, the world's great
standard mysteries of Initiation, and all exo-
teric, the world's more than one thousand re-
ligions, revolve around the soul. I have draw-
ings of interiors of prehistoric temples where
candidates were receiving knowledge of the soul
from hierophants. They are always kneeling
at a cubic altar, with the Master standing at the
right. But truths about the soul were always
whispered, in archaic times; and are now whis-
pered "low breath" in every arcane mystery
in the world.

Thus people have actually gone from Europe
and the United States to India, to be initiated
into these excessively exclusive and arcane
Orders handed down from an antiquity so great
that our little histories seem recent strata of
thought. Thus I have conversed with mighty
scholars with fascinating interest on two occa-
sions. I said, "You are a Himalayan initiate."
Each said "I am." Readers must surely be
filled with great admiration for the Matchless
Altar of the Soul.

ESOTERIC MYSTERIES OF
BRAIN AND THINKING

O think; a process whose nature
is so utterly unknown, that we can
not think of it; and the product is
thought.

Thus 5 plus X equals 9; or, five
plus X equals nine. The first sentence may be
said to contain 13 thoughts; and the last, 19;
or both consist of 5 thoughts. For, 5 may con-
tain 4 thoughts, one for each letter, F-I-V-E,
or, one thought, 5.

The question