OCCULT TRUTHS.

A m onthly magazine hinting at Divine Alchemy or that wisdom and those mysteries which alone can be understood by initiates.

“ Etre toujours Philosophe.”

- EDITED BY ANAGARAKA CASKADANANDA.

PUB LISHED BY CHAS. W . SMILEY, WASHINGTON,D. C.

Entered at the Post-office in Washington, D, C., as second class matter.

Vol. I, No. 10. SCORPIO, OCTOBER 23,1899. $1 per Year.

A CONFESSEDLY INTELLECTUAL RELIGION.

A ssem bled in W ashington, September 27, 1899, was the Pan-P resbyterian Alliance containing the most scholarly men of that church. Its sessions opened with an address by Rev. John De Witt, Professor in the Princeton Theological Seminary entitled “The Attitude of the Reform ed Churches Towards the Holy Bible.’’ W e cordially assent to the truth of a statement made by him after describing the historical attitude of pro- testantism toward the Bible on the one hand and in sharp antithesis, the new biblical criticism which de mands to be heard and accepted : “It is perfectly clear th at w e have reached a crisis of belief. Of the neces sary result of the wide acceptance of the new critical conclusions upon the churches and people it is not nec essary to enlarge. W e can all see that in the event of such an acceptance there will be a revolution in our ec clesiastical and religious life. It will be impossible for the B ible to continue to hold [in our minds] the supreme place it holds to-day and this ancient support having been withdrawn or weakened, many of us w ill seek some other support in its place or as its ally, like sacramen- tarianism w ith sacredotal directors,or estheticism with

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its gratifications, or mysticism with its [to us] vague but powerful emotions. . I am inclined to believe, how ever, that because of the INTELLECTUAL [not his capitals] habit bred in our people and our churches by education of almost four centuries, the first halting- place of the most of us will be rationalism.” And may the time hasten ! Rationalism is one step nearer tru th than the position of intellectualism you now occupy. That must be the outcome. It results from the false corner-stone of all the so-called reformed churches.

Many mystics have had to travel over that identical pathway. Blessed is he who does not halt there long er than is needed to learn the limitations of intellect and the unsatisfactoriness of rationalistic conclusions. This corner-stone he thus described : “The exaltation and exclusive employment of Holy Scripture produced in the reformed churches a distinctive type of Chris tian character which I think w$ are justified in calling the INTELLECTUAL type. Of course in using this term I am saying nothing about intellectual g ifts and attainments. I am endeavoring to describe a religious type. I am only endeavoring to be true to history, in describing the genius of the great family of churches whose representatives we are. Because our type bf Christianity is DISTINCTIVELY IN T E L L E C T U A L , we of all the churches are, perhaps, most vitally interested in the fate of the Holy Bible. For if the Holy Bible were once discredited, what would be left to the reformed churches but the platitudes of natural ethics and the half-starved and hunger-bitten dogmas of natural religion ?” Good and grand ! But your dis tinctively intellectual type must and shall stand the severest intellectual criticism from the new biblical critics in your midst as well as' from the world with out. It shall be measured by the measure you have se lected and must go down. Your fears will be realized

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and there shall be left to you only the “platitudes” and “dogmas” before twenty-five years more have passed. Your chief |eprner stone of. intellectualism is rotten for religious purposes.'7 It can foster belief ; it never can lead to faith. Faith comes never till the intellect has been crucified, dead and buried. Faith is the gift of God—-not an intellectual product. Intellect is an ab-

; solutely impassable wall between man and God. No ray of light or of faith can pass through it. It must be absolutely thrown down and repudiated 'ini order to open up any communication between God and man.

Your reformed churches rightly discarded tradition, the claims of a corrupt priesthood, sacramentarianism, improper reliance upon the fine arts, the vague and powerful emotions of mysticism ; but you lost all trace of apostolic power. You never have healed the sick, never have opened blind eyes, never have entered lion’s dens, never have handled poisonous serpents, never have taken poison into the body, never have raised the dead, never have shown the spiritual or astral body, never have given demonstration that there is no birth and no death, never have uttered a prophecy, never have seen God in the burning bush, never have walked through fire and sword unscratched, never have sus pected that telepathy, clairvoyance, mind reading, thought transferrence, prophetic dreams, visions, psy- chometry and kindred powers all flow to-day as ever from knowing the Christ power in its fullness. You have no lot nor part in any of these matters all of which Jegus taught his disciples and the early church exer cised for 200 years, and secret orders have exercised to this day and still exercise. Your intellectual religion is an error, a snare, a delusion, and is of no earthly use aside from producing your ministerial salaries ex cept to aid the natural ethics and conservatism which many secular organizations contribute to equally with

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reformed churches and without pretense of being- re ligious.

Why can you not discover that intellect is good only to measure intellectual things, but that “spiritual things must be spiritually discerned ”? Presumably because you do not know the difference in fundamental essence between intellectual and spiritual things. A vague idea exists that there is some difference but no clergyman ever gives a clear description of, the differ ence because spiritual illumination has not yet replaced his intellectual illumination to which he trusts in all his affairs of life. Spiritual illumination cannot come except through the “Holy Spirit” (Special Breath) which occurs during cessation of pulmonary breathing. This latter can be secured only by practices unknown to the “reformed churches.” In reforming ou t,th e abuses of Catholicism, they parted with every trace or hint of the breathical (i. e. spiritual) powers and fell to intellectualism of creed. This is the ‘ ‘fa ll’ ’ described in Genesis, from intuition which is direct contact w ith the Sun of righteousness to the poor Moonshine of in tellect. God gave the Sun of breathical intuition to rule if we would let it, but as man was destined to go into the dark, he gave the Moon of intellect to rule the night. The “reformed churches” are without ex ception floundering in the moonshine of intellectuality and must die thereby exactly as did the Jewish church nineteen hundred years ago.

If this religion is “distinctively intellectual” as you truly claim, then is it distinctively human. If human then is it the exact opposite of divine and is a religion only in name, the very unfortunate fact which explains why only the moneyed people attend church.

Professor De W itt’s use of the word “ m ysticism ” shows that he has had absolutely no heart-experience of mysticism, hence of union with the Absolute. A ll

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self-styled “ religion” which is devoid of suck a secret and m ystical union is a false religion and is not a re linking- (re-ligio) to the One from whence all have jour neyed like prodigal sons. One trace, one glimpse of th is experience ends forever all intellectual discussion over the verbalness of scripture. He who is illumined by a not-pulm onary B reath (Sanctus Spiritus) sees in Genesis a description of a path over which he has come and in Gospel m yths the means he has used for again reaching union w ith a “ father” whom he so foolishly left long ages ago in order to feed upon the husks of in- tellectualism . Judaism lost the secret Breath and

, went down ; it never was more devoid of spiritual power and of living tru th than are “ reformed churches” today. In tellectualism can never know mysticism and will alw ays m isrepresent it when seeking to mention it. In te llec tual criticism of the gospels will prove beyond controversy inside 25 years th a t the alleged trial of Jesus and his crucifixion outside Jerusalem on a cross betw een tw o thieves is not and never was history. W here then w ill be even your “platitudes” and “dog m as?” T o the mystic, all this is welcome. The Gos pels are W orth a thousand times more to him as divine fables than they could be simply as history. But he knows the lesson of those fables and that lesson I can not say “ saves him ” though he is saved. I t is the m ysterious record of how he got saved. But intellect was not “ in i t ” a t all. The ever living and eternal es sence called C hristos alone can save from the human self. W hether a Nazarene was Christed 1800 years ago is not the v ita l question, but am I Christed through crucifixion of intellect, sensibilities, and w ill || Has it w rought the “ g rea t w ork” of establishing a secret b rea th ing in w hich pulmonary breathing ceases, while one is in conscious union w ith the All ? Away with all dogmas, p la titudes and higher intellectual criticisms.

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Know Thyaelf If Thou Wouldet Know God.

The great command of Socrates was “ know thy se lf.” He did not urge people to know God. He knew God and that knowledge enabled him to see how to lead others to the same knowledge. It w ill appear to every human mind strange that he should take such a course to such an end, but it was the only way. It is now the only way and is a sure way. This whole sub ject is a mystery to the human mind and lies occultly hidden where only the worthy can reach it. W e write about it but we do not explain it. W e are forbidden to do so by an interior monitor and by the unbelief and ridicule which people in general would shower upon our declarations if we went farther into explanation. T his much of clue those who know more may give to those who know less. You will never, never, never know God till you first know yourself. Whoever,upon being asked if he knows himself, replies that he does not, and most will frankly admit it, does not know God and has confessed it in his declaration that he does not know self. How can this be ? Simple as two times two when you are in the secret. Unfathomable when you are not in the secret. Go to work then to g et ac quainted with what is within by introspection. So long as you find yourself within, you w ill never find God anywhere. The only place to find God is where self was or used to be and of course that is also within. Now the secret is almost laid bare. Only the thinnest gossamer veils it. If you cannot tear that off you must keep it on and confess you do not know either God or yourself.

There are outrageous fools ,who go about prating “ I am ,” or “ I am G od.” Never was greater blasphemy and there is no other blasphemy. T hat is blasphemy pure and simple. God is the Not-I, the N ot-self. I am all except God, viz. delusion and folly. Your con-

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sciousness will never know God till divorced from the I, the ego, the self. Knowing the latter and submit ting it to anihilation, the God-consciousness is the All Beside it there is none else. God never §aid “I” ex cept by metaphor. There is no self, no ego, no I in God or appertaining to God and when you know God you w ill know this fact.

T h e subjugation of the self is the one only teaching’ of all the bible stories. Those stories were not history but f u l l y teach this one only path to all goodness. Abraham was called upon, according to the fable to subjugate his own reason, will, feelings (the self) by going exactly counter to their dictates in the most cruel murdering of his only son “as a sacrifice.’’ The sac rifice w as of Abraham’s ego. When he had made that surrender of reason, will and feelings all was accom plished and the balance of the program was counter manded.

T he Jonah story teaches identically the same thing. In face of the inevitable doom of the ship and all on board, he was compelled to consent to give up his life but when he had proven his willingness to be drowned the myth brings him and the ship safe to shore.

T he Jesus story elaborates and enlarges upon this one idea, the absolute crucifixion of all one is,has been, or seemingly will be. With great detail the story em phasizes this one only problem of true existence the total loss of the self, but as in the cases of Abraham, Jonah, Noah and Jesus, that having been done, all turns out right in reserrection, salvation, redemption, happiness. Such is the one only cornerstone of every true religious system, of every drama, of life itself. Upon the accomplishment of this ego-loss comes knowl edge o f God,

T his is a paradox beyond grasp of the mere intellect. He that seeks to save his life, the ego, shall lose it.

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I W ill Do W hat I W ant to Do.

It is a strangle psychic law, yet a law, that we better do anything* we really want to do, be it labelled good or bad. Remember there is no evil—the reverse of g-ood and that the Creator has made it possible for us to do nothing- out of which w ill come no g-ood. G et that law absolutely fixed, that nothing-is unmitigated evil. T he prohibitions of the ten commandments are sim ply warn ing's that the ‘doing- of those thing's w ill cause suffer ing- and that we w ill come to w ish that w e had not done them. Thou shalt not steal is no more a moral command than thou shalt not eat or drink ttpexcess or thou shalt not cut off thy rig-ht hand. W e may do all these thing’s if we want to. If a passion si-ezes us to do something- “aw fully w icked’’ and persists and insists, had we not better take in the consequlnbes of so-doing as a deferent to repetition ? I f I w ant to wade in mud and water like a dog-1 w ill do so. Probably one ex perience may cure me. I f I w ant to 'taste th e forbid den fruit of sensuality, w hy should I not do so and filled w ith shame and perhaps disease learn not to w ant to. I f I w ant to g-et drunk w h y hot g e t drunk, have a swollen head and be disrespected by a ll men p l l* I don’t want to ?

It is surely a great m istake to forcibly repress youhg people from taking their fill of folly* U nsatisfied rlpng- ing and desire may even unseat reason. Desire is to be conquered and if it cannot be conquered b^ reason and counsel then it needs to be surpressed by bitter experi ences. T he m ystic looks to the suppression o f every desire as fu lly as you look to conquoring w hat you call wrong desire. E nlightenm ent show s us at len gth th at every desire is wrong and w e should come to w here ,we have no desire. Then w ithout exertion w e float upon the infinite sea of boundless b liss. T here is no desire that does not end in suffering, the adepts say. D esire

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is born of the Kgo. I desire. When there no longer is an I, only the Not-1, there is no desire. God never had a desire, never will. In the infinite good are all things and there is no room for desire because of limitless abundance. How to suppress the I ? By. every possible feelf-humiliation, even going td the “anxious bench” to be prayed over by fanatics. Will its suppression and the suppression will come. Submit gladly to any aw ful scandals providence heaps upon you. As Job was (tortured till nothing remained of him, so will you be crucified on the way to adeptship.

K arm a and its Destruction.

I P le a s e explain Karma. I have been told that what we sow now we l^arely reap in the next incarnation, that we cannot possibly change

the next karma but can change this 'one although under the same law as. the next one.—S. A. P . '

. Theosophy is doing great good in proclaiming what t ie church ignores, but foolish theosophy ignores what

; t ie church tries to proclaim. So long as you stay human perm itting the ego to dominate, and conscious of self hood, the law of Karm a works. Watch your own life a id you can see Karm a working all the time. I ar rived a t the Dewey parade to-day late. There was no Chance to see. So I began to sow Karma. I worked all the Children in sight into good places, for the moment trying to forget self, but knowing the law. Soon the CBDwd opened and let .me right up to the front. I al ways concern myself to get other people fixed nicely in full consciousness th a t if I sow wheat I shall reap w ieat and often I stare in amazement to see the best

i |iic e s open for me w ith the very beauty of a miracle. I zm as selfish as the farmer who in order to reap,sows •wisely. M ost of your K arm a comes back home in a few days or hours. W atch it. Only a little will go, over to next

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incarnation, such as general habits and acts commited late in life like double murders etc., which necessitate your being murdered twice. Theosophy leaves us, how ever, w ith this endless chain about our necks and con signs us to despair and fate. It ignores the C hristos redemption and the transubstantiation from human to divine which instantly term inates the operations of un pleasant Karma in such cases. Behold a m ystery: “ W e shall all be changed, in the tw ink ling of an e y e ,’’ from human to divine through destruction of the human egg-shell which releases the divine life w ith in . T h a t change may be after you have passed through one thous and more incarnations, during which tim e K afm a works its ju st effects upon you, or it may be long before you finish this present incarnation. So long as the I re mains, Karma w ill work upon it, but the I is a tempo rary, delusive excrescence, an egg -sh e ll, a parasite upon infinite beauty and wisdom. In the la tter is no undesirable Karma. Tomorrow, yea today, the indw ell ing essence of a negative nature called C hristos ma,y destroy the positive ego (I) g iv in g inM leu o:fe Christos and Ego, the Sanctus Spiritus. T h e C hrist say s : “I f I go not aw ay the Comforter w ill not come. | ’ In the total loss of the tw o, arises the third, as in chem istry

the positive acid and the negative a lkali eat up each other and leave neither acid nor alkali but a neutral sa lt. T he same is true w ith positive and negativeiebc- tricity and throughout nature “redem ption” is symbol ized to us. in everything. T h e seed dies and rots in order to release new life. So do “ I ” .

So then, no longer does the law (Karma) reign oyer us when w e have been C hristed and lost the E g o . T ill then, we m ust reap an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth which is none other than the law of K arm a. But th is being Christed is no such th ing as “ conversion.” Christians are con-verted (turn around) but I have ne/er

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found a Cbristed Christian. “Whatsoever a man (a human E)go) soweth, that shall hfc(the human) also reap* ’ ’' But cease today to .be hu-man, let self become ^extinct through recognition of the infinite' Allness at work always in your mortal body, and the whole busi- pfess’ of human sowing and human reaping terminates instantly ju st as the clock stops the instant the earth ^quakes., This infinite mir^fle may take place in the carnal body, and your fellow men may not discover a change from human to divin^B They dont know the divine yvfien they se^ itAnymore than you do, but when

llpansforin^d you will know that you have been freed febm all bondage tol Karma, to sin,'to death, to the |p iahets,ito excarnate spirits, to fear, to ignorance, to impotence. When the change has been wrought, ex-

fistehcl^m a mortal body'may continue at will a thous- and£y6ars, miracles of every natdfe bable wrought,all knowledge, and all ppwers.r{eali2;ed. This is the bliss oiftiNifvana. But earn you undergo the change ?

Correspondence.

A S in c e r e Truth Seeker,^^Vrites: “I have looked for truth in Christianity, bn. materialism, in astrology, in palmistry, in mental healing-, and while finding some-truth, in all, I have hot been able to finjd truth as heralded by the ©Gcultists who promise sure relief from 1'ickness and poverty. I even patronized that great I-AM, Thos. J. Shelton, whose “silent word” (7) .must have been absorbed by some otherstteedy mortal, for I am still poor (5) and somewhat sick. Pov erty is often the cause bi , sickn«ess.- ; Is.itian evidence of ignorance ,or pf ||l>ily., and is, wealth the representative .©f wisdom and of “true liv ing” |»W ot ndit,. for I-know some very poor wise-men,(3) and some very ignorant rich-men who know absolutely nothing of the “inner breath” nor have they been compelled to undergo the agony through redemption. I have noticed: that, after extreme mental anguish, financial .benefits were thrust upon me as from a pitying father to a repentant son. A test of the promise ‘ ‘ whatsoever ye s’lSjask,’’ etc (4| dissipated all .belief ih obtaining immunity from sin and debt .as well as sickness. Why is-It necessary that benefits be obtained throug-h. (.6) suffering-,?. We have many examples of suffering in-

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creased by w an t. W hy d oes th e ru le w ork b u t one way ? Fate (2)

is tru th or. i t is error. I f error, it is strange that those who have Ju p iter in ill-a sp ect a t b irth ra re ly i f ever become wealthy, whether

• th ey are aw are o f th e a sp ec t or n o t. A s you see I have become skep tica l but am a lw a y s open to co n v ic tio n . A n honest skeptic makes an h o n est con vert. I w a n t som e in fa ll ib le t e s t (i) as to what is truth for to be truth it m ust be in fa l l ib le .—C. T . S .

A N S W E R .

So m a n y p o in ts are ra ised ab ove th a t it is hard to satisfy them at once. Brief com m en ts w ill be m ade tru stin g - to fu tu re opportunities for details.

(1) The One Sure G uide to T ru th . The one only infallible guide to truth is your own intuitional nature, which is a deep-seated sub- consciousness. Its seat is at the solar plexus or centre of the body. By practice you will learn to distinguish between deliverances of the brain and those of the solar plexus. The latter are often alluded to by ignorant people, who when questioned how they know they are to have a certain future experience rep ly: “I feel if (not think it) inmy bones.” It has taken complete possession of their consciousness. Women often have this in advance of fatal accidents about to befall husbands and sons. A friend of mine by the name of Gibbs, intend ing to take a night train from Stanton, Va., to Cincinnatti, was so overwhelmed during the day'with ‘'indescribable feeling” (hoi opin ion) that he must not go that he could eat no supper and later yjsould not walk. He abandoned his trip at 8 o’ck p. m., whereupon he be came calm and slept well. Next morning he learned that the train had been wrecked and many killed. With practice, abstract truth may be drawn from this source. I have obtained knowledge pf f u ture events, of unknown facts, and of abstract truth in the form of dialogue between myself (the thinking Ego) and this divine, infalli ble essence which centres at the solar plexus. I admit that weeks and months of a special training were necessary to bring me to abil ity to do this. The first and great preparation is an incessant desirfe to become acquainted with this intuitional power such that one will be constantly introspecting to catch its operations. M any so-called worldly men get it without knowing how and use it in business a f fairs. Women very generally recognize it because their lives are purer and more unselfish than men’s lives.

(2) Fate. It is fated that all the forces we set at work shall pro duce their legitimate consequences but it is not fated that we shall set this force at work today and that tomorrow, though I believe it is fated that we shall acquaint ourselves sooner or later with all the forces, good or evil so-called, for they are all good. The laws of as trology are undoubtedly true and w ill rule us as by fate un less we by will-power do w hat shall overcome the stars. But w hile we can rule the s ta rs and destroy for the tim e being so much of fate, I do not

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believe it best to do so. I am under Virgo and I better conform this incarnation thereto than to try to break its force. Gain will be fast- est if we utterly abandon all use of our separate wills and keep in the divine tide.i Very Poor Wise-men. No wise man is poor unless he prefers

to use his powers for the acquisition of knowledge. Every wise man may be rich i f he cares to be. A wise man would rather not be bur-

f dened with the care of very much property. The ignorant rich-men are ignorant only intellectually but they are intuitional and would dose their riches if they were devoid of wisdom. They have wisdom as to property but may not have wisdom as to the maintenance of health. Wisdom is intuition, not intellect.

(4) Ashiitg and Receiving. The churches are full of people who ask and never receive. The world is full of those who receive seem-

pffngly, without asking. You cut your quotation too short. You omit ted “faith .,?i There never was a thing asked in faith which^ailed to come. But faith is intuitional knowledge that the way is open. Few church people ask in faith. They have no knowledge of intuition, hence of faith. This however," is true ; if you ask but one thing at a time and hold the desire till you get it before asking another,there

will be ho failure and weeks will not pass before you shall see things shaping to fulfill your wish; ’©fscoiirse your wish must be a consist ent !abd possible thing. You cannot wish to be rich and poor at the same time. You must not wish to sell your horse at your price, but

£; if youIwish €b sell and are willing justice should fix the price, the purchaser w ill come. You must not waver in the desire to sell. You need not advertise. Your wish will bring the customer to you.

i(.S) Poverty. I am unable to find a person in poverty who does not ifdeserve poverty and who is not to be kept in poverty to prevent his

doing mischief. I have hunted everywhere in, vain for a poor man who1 is a good steward fit to be entrusted with the care of money. Everybody is trusted with all the property it is safe to let him have. Many people seem to have too .much for their good and no one too lit tle. How much money do you give your children when you know they Will use ifvf q their own or other’s injury ?":■ Every human being may have all he wants provided he first fits? himself to be a good steward. I am surprised at times that “God” lets certain men have as much as they have-—n e v e r that he keeps poor men poor. I will take the cpn- tract to make every poor man well-to-do for ten per cent if he will obey my financial instructions. The money I see squandered all the time by those who do not own their own houses makes me , shudder and wish to close their purse-strings. Being out of work is solely due to folly and speaking anthropomorphically ; it pains “God” to see men such fools that they must be “punished” with idleness, I have never seen a day since the age of 16 that there was; not twice the work ahead that I could do. Since being an employer, I have had hard w o r k to find enough honest and faithful workmen to dp the work that

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could be furnished. In all this wide land, with half a million tram ps there is not a single case of necessary idleness. In 1895, a tram p lay on the grass in Philadelphia sickened of his life. He said : “ Dam, I will now work for any wages I can get.” A voice w ithin immedi ately said : “Go South.” He- let the psychic forces lead him. He came straight to Washington and to my shop not know ing w hither he was being led. There he applied for and received a job. In six weeks he was foreman of the shop. I never saw or heard of him until he reached the place, at an hour when another workm an had ju st quit work from laziness ; and occultly speaking to m ake a place for him, but later he turned out to be a gambler, thief and drinker, so that he had to go tramping again.

(6) Suffering. If men would learn by precept there need be no suffering to secure benefits. We are told : “There is no nam e given under heaven or am ong men whereby we must be saved” except the Christos which usually m eans su ffering. It makes us suffer in or der to humble and sttbd'ue the Ego which has exalted itself. T he E go w ill not down unless it is struck in the face. If it exalts itse lf again im m ediately, it m ust be struck and suffer humiliation again , bu t it is entirely possible to b ring up a child 3 0 that all this m ay be avoid ed. We suffer in g e ttin g back to be as little children. Except weibe- come as little children we cannot know intuitionally. That suffer ing may,however, be m inim ized i f su itab le religious teachers can be raised up who w ill teach truth, not creeds, for love, not for money. A fter the crisis of Novem ber w hen co n ju n ctio n of all the p lanets ushers in the new dispensation there w ill be su ch raised up. We are upon the eve of the m ost a m azin g ch a n g es in th e w orld , psychic, re lig ious, political and social. Su fferin g in crea s in g w a n t means th a t Nature is p roducing red em p tiv e s u ffe r in g b y n a tu ra l m eans.., T he tra m p g e ts ba re fo o t so a s to m a g n e tiz e h is body b y ea r th c o n ta c t and help opens his in tu itio n s .

(7) The S ile n t W ord , I do not admire the boastful “IfAM,” but if he spoke health or success to you in the silence and you were not m a d e healthy or successful it was because you were not in the re quisite negative (receptive) mood. He nor any other “God” can im part to you unless you become passive and willing to receive. Your general unrest and scepticism is not a negative comditon. It is rather a positive because a critical one. Your I asserts too much of doubt and unrest. You are not like an infant passive in its mother’s arms, which you must be in order that I-AM may hypnotize you with health or success. Play the infant towards I-AM Shelton and you will be as truly hypnotized by h im as you d e s ire to be. There can be no doubt of that.

Fin,ally, if you will enter upon a thorough study and practice of what you can find in this monthly you need not reso rt to hypnotism. Dkvkwu'K vour own d iv in ity and live in its sunshine, in h ealth , in abundance.

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Getting Well.—I gave a copy of “The Method of Healing” to a Mrs. Gaffney who read it and carried it on her person for days at a time. T hen she gave it to a man to read who was sick in bed with consumption. T he reading did him so much good that he got up and and has gone to Canada to visit. He is constantly getting better.— Mrs. M. A. Bryan, Orchard H ill, Mich.

D e a r S i r : I have completed the reading (28 days) of the pamphlet “The Method of H ealing, etc.” Some days I had to read it in the m orning instead of the even in g as I found it more convenient. I trust that th is did not make any difference. I am quite satisfied that I have derived m aterial benefit from its readings so far as my health is concerned. T he w ife too is better and I have no doubt but that this has com e about by m y ta lk ing only health to her. Your book has certa in ly changed m y manner of thinking and while I have been healing m y se lf I have helped to heal the w ife at least so far as to cause her tp fee l and th ink better. Very Sincerely, Geo. H. Booth.

Canon C ity , Colo,, S ep t, 2 1 , 1 8 9 9 .

I am pleased, yes, much pleased w ith the sentim ent your publica tion g iv es out. W e have so m any different m agazines, journals, etc. that claim to teach the truth, that it is a great pleasure to receive o n e

that really has truth for i t s purpose. The article “How Christos Redeem s” is a fter m y own heart. I know it to be true, and only wonder that others have not found out long ago, this principal of re dem ption. W hen w ill the world do away with the ridiculous idea, of vicariousness ? I have for m any years considered it the most danger ous of a ll doctrines taught. To m y mind it is only a license for wrong doing, to sa y naught else, o f its perniciousness. I most heartily endorse the expressed v iew s on “ Development of Supernatural Pow ers.” T hey are sound and true. May you continue to prosper in your grand efforts to further the cause of truth.—G. H. Scofield, Pomona, C al., Sept. 1 6 th , 1 8 9 9 .

Psychic Phenomena.

What Belief D o es .—Mrs. CathrineK etterer of 1122Third ave., New York City, w idow of John Ketterer, a Brooklyn jeweller, visited a doctor on Sunday Sept., 17, 1899 who told her that death was near. On Monday she w ent to M ount S inai H ospital to be examined. The doctor told her so sh e reported, that her heart was so much enlarged that she m igh t die a t any tim e, that one o f her lungs was gone, that she carried two turners and had a diseased liver. She came home very much depressed and grew more and more despondent. On Wednes day Sept. 20, in despair over her supposed condition, she suicided by usin g a rubber g a s tube connected w ith the gas jet. This neces sita ted an autopsy. Dr. O’H anlon, coronor, found the heart, lungs

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could be furnished. In all this wide land, with half a million tramps there is not a single case of necessary idleness. In 1895, a tramp lay on the grass in Philadelphia sickened of his life. He said : “Dam, I will now work for any wages I can g e t .” A voice within immedi ately said : “Go South.” He* let the psychic forces lead him. He came straight to Washington and to my shop npt knowing whither he was being led. There he applied for and received a job. In six weeks he was foreman of the shop. I never saw or heard of him until he reached the place, at an hour when another workman had just quit work from laziness ; and occultly speaking to make a place for him, but later he turned out to be a gambler, th ief and drinker, so that he had to go tramping again.

(6) Suffering, If men would learn by precept there need be no suffering to secure benefits. We are told : “There is no name given under heaven or among men whereby we must be saved” except the Christos which usually means suffering. It makes us suffer in or der to humble and subd'ue the Ego which has exalted itself. The Ego will not down unless it is struck in the face. If it exalts itse lf again Immediately, it must be struck and suffer humiliation again, but it is entirely possible to bring up a child so that all this may be avoid ed. We suffer in getting back to be as little children. Except wejjbe- come as little children we cannot know intuitionally. That suffer ing may,however, be minimized if suitable religious teachers can be raised up who will teach truth, not creeds, for love, not for money. After the crisis of November when conjunction of all the planets ushers in the new dispensation there will be such raised up. We are upon the eve of the most amazing changes in the world, psychic, re ligious, political and social. Suffering increasing want means that Nature is producing redemptive suffering by natural means. The tramp gets barefoot bo as to magnetize his body by earth contact and help opens his intuitions.

(7) The Silent Word, I do not admire the boastful “DAM,” but if he spoke health or success to you in the silence and you were not made healthy or successful it was because you were not in the re quisite negative (receptive) mood. He nor any other “God” can im part to you unless you become passive and willing to receive. Your general unrest and scepticism is not a negative conditon. It is rather a positive because a critical one. Your I asserts too much of doubt and unrest. You are not like an infant passive in its mother’s arms, which you must be in order thatl-AM may hypnotize you with health or success. Play the infant towards I-AM Shelton and you w ill be as truly hypnotized by him as you desire to be. There can be no doubt of that.

Finally, if you will enter upon a thorough study and practice of what yon can find in this monthly you need not resort to hypnotism. Dkvkuo ph vouk o w n DIVINITY and live in its sunshine, in health, In abundance.

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G e t t i n g W e l l . — I g a v e a co p y o f “ T h e M ethod o f H e a lin g ” to a M rs. G a f fn e y w h o r e a d i t a n d ca rr ied it on h er p erson for d ays a t a t im e . T h e n s h e g a v e i t to a m a n to read w h o w a s sick in bed w ith c o n su m p tio n . T h e r e a d in g d id h im so m uch good th a t he g o t up and a n d h a s g o n e to C a n a d a to v is i t . H e is c o n s ta n tly g e t t in g better.

M rs. M . A . B r y a n , O rch a rd H il l , M ich .

D e a r S i r : I h a v e c o m p le te d th e r e a d in g (28days) o f th e pam phlet“ T h e M e th o d o f H e a l in g , e t c .” S o m e d a y s I had to read it in the m o r n in g in s t e a d o f th e e v e n in g a s I fo u n d it m ore co n ven ien t. I

tr u st t h a t t h i s d id n o t m a k e a n y d ifferen ce . I am q u ite sa tisfied th at I h a v e d e r iv e d m a te r ia l b e n e f it fro m it s rea d in g s so fa r as m y h ea lth i s c o n c e r n e d . T h e w i f e to o i s b e tte r an d I h ave no doubt but th a t th is h a s c o m e a b o u t b y m y t a lk in g o n ly h ea lth to her. Y our book h a s c e r t a in ly c h a n g e d m y m a n n e r o f th in k in g and w h ile I h ave been h e a l in g m y s e l f I h a v e h e lp e d to h e a l th e w ife a t le a s t so far a s to c a u se h e r to f e e l a n d th in k b e tte r . V ery S in cere ly , Geo. H. Booth.

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I a m p le a se d , y e s , m u ch p le a se d w ith th e se n tim en t your p u b lica t io n g iv e s o u t. W e h a v e so m a n y d ifferen t m a g a z in es , journa ls , etc. th a t c la im to t e a c h th e tr u th , th a t it is a g r e a t p leasu re to rece ive ONE th a t r e a l ly h a s tr u th for i t s pu rp ose. T h e a rtic le “ H ow C hristos R e d e e m s” i s a f t e r m y o w n h e a r t . I k n o w it to be tru e, and on ly w o n d er th a t o th e r s h a v e n o t fo u n d ou t lo n g a g o , th is p rin cip a l o f re d e m p tio n . W h e n w il l th e w o rld do a w a y w ith th e rid icu lous id ea . o f v ic a r io u s n e s s ? I h a v e for m a n y y e a r s con sid ered it th e m ost d a n g er o u s o f a l l d o c tr in e s ta u g h t . T o m y m ind i t is o n ly a lic e n se for w r o n g d o in g , to s a y n a u g h t e ls e , o f i t s p ern ic io u sn ess. I m ost h eartily en d o rse th e e x p r e s se d v ie w s on “ D ev e lo p m en t o f Supernatural P o w e r s .” T h e y a re so u n d a n d tru e. M ay you co n tin u e to prosper in your g r a n d e ffo r ts to fu r th e r th e c a u se o f tru th .— G. H . Scofield, Pom ona, C al., S e p t. 16th , i8 g g .

Psychic Phenomena.

W h at B e lie f D o e s .— M rs. C a th r in e K e tte r e r o f 1122Third ave., N ew Y o r k C ity , w id o w o f J o h n K etterer , a B rooklyn jew eller , v isited a d octor o n S u n d a y S e p t ., 17, 1899 w ho to ld her th a t death w as near. O n M onday sh e w e n t to M ou n t S in a i H o sp ita l to be exam ined. The doctor to ld h er so sh e rep orted , th a t her heart w as so m uch en larged th a t sh e m ig h t d ie a t a n y t im e , th a t on e o f her lu n g s w as gon e, that sh e ca rr ied tw o turners a n d h ad a d isea sed liver . S h e cam e hom e very m uoh d ep ressed a n d g r e w m ore and m ore d esp on d en t. On W ednes d a y S e p t. 20, in d e sp a ir o v er her su p p osed con d ition , sh e su icided b y u s in g a ru b b er g a s tu b e co n n ected w ith th e g a s jet. T h is n eces s ita te d a n a u to p sy . D r. O ’H a n lo h , coronor, found the heart, lu n gs

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and liver to be entirely healthy and no trace of tumors was found. There was trace of slight internal disease only. ‘ She m ight have lived many years, as she was only 43 years bid, but for her belief that she must die.

F a ith C U rers.—Sister Antoinette Jackson*organized a Mount Zion Sanctuary in September, i882, in Chapel Avenue,-Greenville, N. J„ upon 4 acres of land fronting New York Bay. A church has also been built at 525 Bramhall Avenue, Jersey City. A t the m eetings are prayer, preaching, singing, and the anointing of sick persons with oil. Many testimonials o f those who have been healed are g iven . Consumption, cancer, paralysis, blindness, drink habits, tobacco habits, passion for gambling,and many other things have been cured. She herself was healed in i880, while praying. She heard a voice within cry: “Daughter, thou art healed.” The pains were gon e. Rest and peace had come. With them came bodily v igor such as she had never before had. The same voice bade her build the church which has been erected. She asked no aid-and solicited no m oney but it came pouring in from those who had been, cured till; there is now a surplus of $100,000 in the treasury. No collection is ever taken up at any service. Not only are no people discouraged from g o in g to doctors but they rather like to have doctors diagnose case|M before they are healed. A creed funs somewhat like th is : The Son o f God has come into the world and gone away .but the Lord Jesus w ill come again ; the Holy Spirit has come upon earth and is gtill h e r e ; h ea l ing is through faith in the name of Jesus C hrist

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21. A re There Other Causes o f D isease B esides W rong Thought ? Yes, wrong desires and wrong opinions.' 22. What is i t to be Pure in H eart ? To be free from a ll w rong thoughts, feelings, or opinions. To have no envy, m alice, jea lou sy , hatred, unkindness, passion, uncleaness, fear, se lfishnsss, im petu ousness, laziness, sympathy with sin, disease, or fo lly .

2j . Why is i t I do not g e t A nyth ing in the Silence ? Because you dont go into absolute silence o f thou gh t Keep on try ing t ill you do.

24. What W ill Become o f Those N o t S p iritu a lized in T his L ife ? Try it again in another. Same that becomes o f any other work you dont do today. It simply goes over to tomorrow.

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O f t h e 87 p a g e s , 5 r e la t e to Id o ls D eth ro n ed and five to in flu en ce o f m in d u p o n a n im a ls . T h e n f o l lo w 20 o th e r ch a p ters on various top ic s . T h e a u th o r s a y s t h a t s h e h a s p u t in se c ts a w a y “ b y th e spoken w o r d .” “ Y o u m a y s p e a k o n c e or m a n y t im e s b efore you are freed fr o m t h e p o w e r t h e in s e c t w o r ld h a s o v er you , b u t sp eak on and hold on u n t i l y o u g e t i t . ” “ I f y o u h a te th e m , th e y w ill h a te and s t in g y o u .” W e t h in k t h e b e e s w i l l n o t s t in g i f le t a lo n e ev en i f hated.

H o w e v e r m u c h m e a t e a t e r s lo v e b ed b u g s th e ir lo v e w ill not repel so m u c h a s t h e d e c a y in g m e a t a t tr a c ts . T h e se b u g s w ill n ot touch a

• c le a n b o d y n o u r is h e d o n p u re fo o d h o w ev er m uch h ated. F lora has m ore to l e a r n b e fo r e a s s e r t in g : “ L o v e th e m and th e y w ill le t you a lo n e a n d g o to t h e ir h o m e s ,” i f b id d en “ in th e n am e o f the C hrist (tr u th ).” T h e r e a r e t r u th s r e g a r d in g a n im a ls th a t the author m igh t f e e l a f t e r to a d v a n ta g e . T h e a u th o r a d v e r t ise s to g iv e treatm ents p r e s e n t or a b s e n t b y t h e p o w e r o f th e sp o k en w ord, fo r cash.

T h e F r i a r s in th e P h i l l ip p in e s . R ev . A m b rose Colem an, O. P . M a r lie r , C a l la n a n & Co.. B o s to n , 1899. I f y o u w ish to know the “ o th e r s id e ” o f t h e u r g e n t a p p e a ls m ade b y P r o te s ta n ts in the in t e r e s t o f th e ir s o -c a lle d “ C h r is t ia n ” m iss io n s , send f ifty cen ts for th is b o o k a n d r e a d i t . T h e fr ia r s are m en o f se lf-a b n eg a tio n who g iv e u p a l l f o r a c q u ir in g d iv in e k n o w le d g e an d pow er. T h e m ission a r ie s o f p r o te s a n t is m a r e sa la r ie d p rop agators o f creed.

M is c e lla n e o u s T h o u g h ts .— M r. S . G . S h royer, fo O klahom a City, O k la , h a s s e n t tw o p a m p h le ts on w h a t h e c a lls D iv in e Science. The p a r a g r a p h s a r e r e la te d to v a r io u s to p ics and persons in clu d in g M oth er E d d y a n d F a th e r In g e r so ll. S om e o f h is observations we co r d ia lly e n d o r se .

M isc e lla n e o u s N otes.

S o u l a n d S p i r i t . — T h e s e w ord s are u su a lly supposed to m ean one • a n d th e sa m e t h in g . R e c e n tly , th e w riter had an opportunity to ask

B ish op J o h n F . H u r s t o f th e M eth od ist church w ho is one o f its lead in g sc h o la r s a n d h e sa id h e h ad a lw a y s used them synonym ously. Read th e f o l lo w in g q u o ta t io n s a n d y ou w ill see th a t th ey are so used that th e y c a n n o t p o s s ib ly m ean th e sam e.

Y ou r whqj.e sp ir it , so u l a n d body be preserved b lam eless unto the c o m in g o f ou r L o r d J e s u s C hrist, i T hes. 5 : 23.

T h e w ord o f G od i s q u ick and pow erfu l and sharper than an y two ed g ed sw o rd p ie r c in g ev en to. th e d iv id in g asunder o f soul and spirit. H eb . 11 i2.

T h e f ir st m a n A d am w a s m ade a liv in g s o u l: the la st A dam ,a quick e n in g sp ir it . I Cor. i5 :45.

B ehold m y se r v a n t w h om I h a v e chosen : m y beloved in whom m y so u l i s w e ll p lea sed : I w il l pu t m y sp ir it upon him and he shall show

' ju d g m en t to th e g e n t ile s . M ath. i 2 : 18.

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Ye have purified your souls in. obeying- the truth through the spirit; unto unfeigned love. i. Peter x : 22.;’J>v;will speak in the anguish of my sspirit; I will complain in the

bitterness of my soul. Strob 7 : 11.The almighty hath vexed my sou l; all the while my breath is in

me and the spirit of God is in my nostrils, ffob 27: 2, 3iWith my soul have I desired thee in the n igh t; -with my spirit with

in me will I seek thee early; Isaiah 26 : g.In whom my soul delighteth. I l a » vpnt my spirit upon him;-

Isaiah 42:1.

The Dark Dav.^ J B.'MaT *9,.1780, it became so- dark allpy^r New England that people cpuld not read good print in. open Mr. a t . midday. It continued from iO o’clock in the morning until midnight People could not tell the time by watches, Tread, mkbrLtyansact busi ness without lights. The fowls went to ropst in midday. When th e - darkness passed, the full moon had the appearance of ablood. Whit tier has commemorated it in a short poem. The immediate atmipsVl pheric cause has not been worked out but doubtless w ill be. (£01 e ©d?,*’ cult cause is supposed to connect in some way with prophecy ?th a t: “In those days, after that tribulation the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light.’-’ So they turn ttysee ihe:connec tion. The Catholic-haters find that theAower of papa4y? was over thrown in France in i798'and much injured in, i776 by the, U&, laration of Independence, The great Iyisbonearthquake of 1755s.'|s supposed to be also connected. They try to fit in these (^vent^mtQ prophecy but they manifestly have- not got it right ^ef.: .

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The Esoteric. Its author has . got around to notice Bi|| in these words: “Seems rather inclined to be anti-Christian and, -v®|y|hould judge, leans towards spiritualism.” If you regard the churches? of to-day as true exponents of what is £hrIstian,,you m ay msff us anti- Christian. We are. however, in full accord w ith thepfeioteric l i ie and teachings of the first century Christians while equally so with those of all other religions in their purity. Regarding the character,pow ers, and presence of those intelligences which are n,ot seen by the ma. jority of people we are followers of Paracelsus and Jam B l® h« teut have no connection with money-making mediums. We do not deny however that some of their phenomena are genuine. T h e editor of the Esoteric is hardly fit to expond esoteric things "unless‘ he is familiar with all the above. We claim to be in thipeSpteoric urselves.

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