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Man's Greatest Discovery
MAN'S .
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HENRY
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Six Soul Culture Essays.
THOUGHT AS POWER.
TELEPATHY: THE MISSING LINK.
THE ULTIMATE OF POWER.
LIFE: ITS POTENTIAL POWER.
VIBRATION.
THE VICTORY OVER DEATH.
HENRY HARRISON BROWN,
Author of "How to Control Fate through Suggestion," "Not
Hypnotism, but Suggestion," and Editor of NOW.
The Soul looketh steadily forward, creating a world be-
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is the flowing robe in which she is clothed. Emerson.
The potential of Life is Immortality and that without
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To MY READERS OF 2002.
What to me is Perception, to you is History.
The Century between us will shape into the sense-life of
the race that which now has form only in Thought.
In that eternal world where we are one, I greet you.
You understand.
Copyrighted, 1902, by Henry Harrison Brown.
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FORE-
These essays are TRUTH to me. They wrote
themselves. I was but the instrument through
which thought crystallized. They -welled up from
a full heart and were moist with tears of joy.
When the significance of the Greatest of all human
discoveries dawned upon me, like Saul of Tarsus,
I was stricken with the magnitude of the Percep-
tion and for several days lived as one in a trance.
The sub-conscious life was the only reality. I lived
that which I have here written.
When the Thought crystallized into the title of
this book, like the Greek of old I cried, "Eureka,"
and paced my room in rapture. I clairvoyantly
perceived the wonderful possibilities that lay^ in
the Discovery. Like a mighty spiritual wind,
such as the old Hebrew seers felt when they proph-
esied, was this perception of fulfillment.
"The hour now is when men shall no more worship
God either in temple or on mount, but shall know
themselves almighty and deathless," was the Voice
within me.
I saw man as Conscious King of himself, and "I
AM POWER" was the Affirmation then realized.
In this spirit was the first essay written. Day by
day, since that September morning, have I entered
more and more into the Realization of the Vision
then vouchsafed me. Each succeeding essay has
only increased the responsibility which I, as Henry
Harrison Brown, have felt, as the instrument for
that "which has been from all eternity," as it finds
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expression in and through me. I am possessed
with the desire and purpose to keep my personal-
ity behind the curtain and to have Truth for which
I stand recognized by the world. This desire is
now overruled by this same Perception and Power,
and I must say this much that the centuries to
come may find it as History. I must also add:
Truth and I are one!
Since Truth is eternal, this book is eternal. The
paper on which it is written may perish but the
Thought vibrations, never. This generation may
pass from sight but MAN will live forever. This
generation may have individuals who realize Truth
and never die. Generations to come will all so
realize and earth will be redeemed from the results
of undeveloped human powers. The Potential of
Life is IMMORTALITY, and that without pain,
sorrow, disease or death.
I know of 110 other attempt in literature to demon-
strate from the position of modern science the
Unity of Soul and matter under the thought of a
Present Immortality. It being a fact that
that the thought of these essays is in
accord with that of advanced thinkers along
many lines, I have prefaced each one with numer-
ous quotations. Limited in my library advantages,
I have given what I found. But finding so many
in my limited range of authorities, what must there
be to him who has the range of the large libraries
denied, by location, to me?
I have only carried their principles and their deduc-
tions farther and have done this through the scien-
tific spirit and method, basing all my deductions
upon observed phenomena. If my position is
false, the physics of the world is also false.
The phenomena of Telepathy, Levitation, and
Clairvoyance are as familiar tome as that of chem-
istry to the professors of that science. I have been
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healed by Thought. I heal by Thought. I send
and receive messages by the wireless telegraphy
of Mind. By this method I am in communication
with those individualities with whom I can estab-
lish sympathetic vibration, whether they are in
the sphere we call the sense-life or in that we call
spirit-life, for these spheres are one to the unfolded
Soul.
By means of my Psychometric faculties I read the
inner life of man or rock, and know only Soul, as
the maker and builder of all external life. Know-
ing this from over thirty years' experience, I were
false to Self, to Truth, to my fellowman did I not
write that which I know, that it may be a stimu-
lant to others, helping them to realize that they
are not body, but Mind, and are deathless. I can
only affirm: that which I am, all men are. The cen-
tury that now is will see all this phenomena the
common life of the advanced races. Telepathy is
the promise of that unfoldment of latent power
which means for earth the fulfillment of all that
poet, priest, and seer have foreseen. Feeling this,
I have only let Truth have its way through me.
It has clothed itself in the best robes of language
it lound in the storehouses of my brain.
Written first for the columns of my little journal,
NOW, these essays, perhaps, have the crudities of
the haste of newspaper preparation, but better so
than that I take the fire of inspiration from them
by the cooling process of criticism. So, oblivious
of critic, I put them forth in this form for those
\vho can feel the Truth in them. I thus awaken
those vibrations in the Thought ocean, in which
all humanity is engulfed, which will find other
brains fitted by special training for their manifes-
tion along similar and co-ordinate lines.
Thus this little book, the child of my inspiration
and love, is set a Bethel-stone to mark the begin-
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ning of this Psychic Era that ushers in the Millen-
nial dawn of Perfect Manhood.
In the Faith that Love and Truth will soon lead
Man to this victory, I am
HENRY HARRISON BROWN.
"NOW" Office, San Francisco, April, 1902.
Ring, bells, in unreal d steeples,
The joy of unborn peoples.
Sound trumpets far off blown,
Your triumph is my own.
Parcel and part of all,
I keep the festival;
Fore-reach the good to be,
And share the victory.
WHITTIER.
I.
THOUGHHT AS POWER.
An Explanation and a Prophecy*
Recently, at my class, we tried an experiment, old
to me, and yet then and there it burst upon my
comprehension that in this experiment lay Power.
Later, I saw that this discovery of Power was
man's greatest discovery; that more lay in it for
the good of the race than in any previous discov-
ery. This revelation grows upon me, and no surer
has any scientist been of the worth of his discovery
than I am of this. Here is the experiment:
Five persons were concerned in it. One sat on a stool. Two
stood at the side of the person at the knees, two behind the
shoulders, all breathed in unison, and all raised their hands
together, palms pressing together, all except index fingers clos-
ed. As their hands came up the fourth time, the fingers were
placed under arms and knees and the person was lifted without
any sense of weight. This was also done with a person lying
down, and with a table. With a friend, I have lifted a heavy
stone thus. I am sure that a few persons, by practice in breath-
ing and moving in unison can in this way practically annihilate,
In any given case, the law of gravity.
I call attention to this experiment because I am
sure that it means more for the welfare and develop-
ment of the race than Franklin's discovery, with his kite,
of the identity of lightning with the electricity in
the Lyden jar, means more than the discovery of
the North pole will mean, more than the inven-
tion of the spinning jenny, the invention of the
steam engine or the electric motor; than the dis-
covery of ether, or the marvels of modern surgery
have meant in civilization. This is a tremendous
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claim. But from years of study of the significance
of certain allied mental and psychical phenomena,
I am free to make the claim and to prophesy that
FROM THIS EXPERIMENT WILL COME THE
GREATEST SCIENTIFIC APPLICATION OF
POWER THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN. It
may be that in it we have a key to a lost art, that
of the Egyptians in transporting their huge stones
and the silent building of Solomon's Temple. I can
no more tell what it has for the future than Watts,
when he toyed with steam and found it force,
could foresee the engine of today; or the chemist
who first found that there was explosive power in
nitre, charcoal and sulphur,could foresee the use of
it in modern battleship; or he who first found pow-
er in electricity could foresee the present wireless
telegraphy. POWER is what a man is seeking.
Found, it is to be applied. The first is Discovery;
the next is Invention. These two make human
progress.
The discoverer of power is the world's benefactor.
To apply this is Progress. Every new discovery
of power marks an epoch in human history. Fire,
wind, water, steed, steam, caloric, electricity, have
each marked great epochs of civilization. Of all the
past discoveries, the greatest was that of fire.
Through fire, man has been enabled to conquer the
world of external vibrations, known as the world
of matter. Imagine a world where fire should be
unknown. Suppose the secret of fire was lost to-
day beyond recovery. What death and desolation
would follow. Fire was the beginning of human
development. From it, all our science, art, and
religion have sprung. Fire is Power. Up to that
time, savage man had known only the power of
his own brawn. Club and stone were the instru-
ments through which Power within made itself
manifest. Ages have passed. Power has been de-
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veloped; Power has been controlled; Power has
been discovered; Power has been harnessed.
Through the mastery and application of Power,
man has conquered all the Without. He has used
external Power. Is there other Power? What is
the Power that has thus found, developed, and
harnessed, this external Power? Where does it
dwell? It is the Power IN man. It is the Power
of Ideas. This is recognized. Ideas rule the world.
But that they are any kin to these external forces
has scarcely been conceived, much less believed, un-
til the last century. The greatest gift that the
nineteenth century gave the twentieth, was the
demonstration that Thought is aFoimofEnergy.
This is the greatest gift of all the centuries. It is
Man's Greatest Discovery and marks the beginning
of the Psychic Era: the Dawn of the Millennium.
Today it is known, among thinkers and investiga-
tors, that Thought is Power. It is THE Power
that controls all other Power.
THOUGHT is POWER! THOUGHT IS POWER!
This is the greatest discovery, that of fire comes
next. This is destined to make as great an ad-
vance in human progress as fire made in the ages
past. Thought will be consciously used as Power.
Its possibilities are unlimited. No imagination
can picture what man and his world will be after
a century, ten centuries, of the conscious use of
Thought. Thought is as tamable as lightning, as
easily controlled as steam, and as unerring as
gravity.
Let me quote from one of the great books of the
last century upon the other great discovery of that
century, Prof. E. L. Youmans' work upon "The
Conservation and Correlation of Force, ' ' published
in 1864. In speaking of the law of Conservation
of Force, Prof. Youmans says:
Thus the law characterized by Farady as the highest in phys-
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ical science which our faculties enable us to perceive, has a far
more extended sway; it might well be proclaimed the highest
law of all sciences; the most far-reaching principle that adven-
turous reason has discovered in the Universe. Its stupendous
reach spans all orders of existence. Not only does it govern
the movements of the heavenly bodies, but it presides over the
genesis of constellation; not only does it control those radiant
floods of power that fill eternal spaces, bathing, illumining,
and vivifying, our planet, but it rules the actions and relations
of men and regulates the march of terrestrial affairs. Nor is its
domain limited to physical phenomena; it prevails equally in
the world of mind, controlling all the faculties and processes of
thought and feeling. Star and nerve tissue are parts of the
same system stella and nervous forces are correlated. Nay,
more! Sensation awakens thought and kindles emotion, so
this wondrous dynamic chain binds into living Unity the realms
of matter and mind through limitless amplitudes of space.
Thus early did a far-reaching scientist perceive the
fact that has since been demonstrated: that the
realm of Life is one and that it is all Force. Tel-
epathy has verified this statement. It is the link
connecting the hitherto divided parts of life, called
matter and mind, into one, and making of Nature
a Unity. No fact in all the history of human life is
more potent than this. Telepathy is the missing
link in science. Mind and Matter are by it weo,
never to be divorced, and henceforth we shall deal
with Mind as we have with matter, and with
thought as we have with electricity. We shall
learn the power, the laws, of thought, and shall
harness it to Human Will and Desire. Thought
as Force means the Redemption of the world from
all old conditions. Almighty Power lies in thought,
and, unlike all other power, it cannot be monop-
olized.
It is open alike to all men. Its only limit is human
ignorance. As the Without has been made to serve
man's will through knowledge, so now will the
Within become subject to him. The mighty realm
of Mind will become the theatre of human activity
and all its power be consciously used to bless.
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All this lies in that simple experiment. What is
the power that lifts the person? It is that which
lifts our feet and hands; which is subject to our
will in all our conduct: THOUGHT. It is the
first demonstration we have that Thought is
not only Force to move through space without
visible conductors, but that* Thought is also Force
to lift ponderable bodies. We fill up with Thought
by unison in breathing and movement. The same
thought fills the five persons as five lamps are fill-
ed from one dynamo. Thought fills us. We use it
as we will and it lifts the man. This simple state-
ment is more eloquent than all rhetoric can be. I
cannot think of the greatness of the fact without
tears. It means more than all other facts to the
race. Thought is force that can be made to affect
ponderable matter. " Chalk marks don't draw-
cars!" said a railroad man. Chalk marks will
draw cars, when thought is put into them to do
so. This is the Prophecy: Thought will in the
future become subject to conscious control. We
shall yet intelligently do all that the Hindoos are
now credited with doing.
Life is subject to will. Thought is a maniiestation
of Infinite Life. Thought is Infinite. . We know it
is Power. It is one with all other forms of power.
Its source is limitless. It will flow through us in
any required amount. We can direct it to any de-
sired end. This is demonstrated by telepathy; by
bodily renovation; by the building of body to will.
Thought will be used to control all the lesser forms
of force; to direct fire, water, wind, wave, light,
electricity and gravity. The fire will cease to burn
at command. " The wind and the -wave obey him."
Plant and animal life will come at his thought to
him willing servants. Dream! Illusion! Rhapsody!
all this may be called. It is only the calm reason-
ing from present scientific knowledge. Let it stand
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for future generations to verify. The time is now
for us to begin this dominion of Mind over Nature.
Beginning with our own body, we will progress
until even the largest of our environments is sub-
ject to our will.
Would you win? Begin now to control SELF-
manifestations by controlling Thought, and by
recognizing that it does the work. As you have
used in the past other power, now use this. NEVER
BEGIN TO DO A THING UNTIL YOU ARE READY. And
you are not ready until, like the engine on the
track, you are filled with Power. The hasty, the
worried, the fearful, the irritable, the impatient,
the doubtful, the fault-finding, are all like the en-
gine that has punctures in the boilers, or has no
fire. They are not ready. Get ready by first filling
up with Thought. As in the experiment, breathe
and think. Consider what to do; think of it; and
breathe slowly, with this concentrated thought.
All calm, patient, concentrated persons do this.
All happy, healthful and successful persons do this.
It is the secret of their success. Before they move
to do, they let the Thought fill them possess them.
The Suggestion and the Affirmation must have
time and opportunity to fill the organism with its
power. This done, then this Power,this Thought,
does the work. Think and breathe before you act!
This is the Law of Power.
This is the conquering force in man that will give
him dominion over all things. Its scientific dem-
onstration is in the simple experiment given above.
I challenge the world upon this. Try it. Learn
that by concentration, Thought -will, through the
individual, accomplish any Desire. Emerson said
this long ago, but we have just learned it: "From
within or from behind, a Light shines through man
upon things. The man is nothing, but the Light
is All."
II.
TELEPATHY**
The Missing Link*
The Power that manifests throughout the Universe distinguish-
ed as material, is the same Power which in ourselves \vells up
under the form of Consciousness. Herbert Spencer, in "Princi-
ples of Sociology."
Its stupendous span reaches all orders of existence. * * * It rule*
the actions and relations of men. Prof. E. L. Youmans, on the
"Law of Conservation and Correlation of Energy."
Thought and feeling themselves, which can neither be weighed
nor measured, do not admit of being resolved into modes of
motion." John Fiske, in "Through Nature to God."
The immortality of our thoughts and actions is a corrolary of
the doctrine of the conservation of energy. Peter C. Austin,
Ph. D., of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute.
Mind and matter appear to us as an irreducible quality.
Editorial Review in Popular Science Monthly.
That mind and nature must at last be the same, that physical
laws and mental laws must be identical, is essentially involved
in what has been said as to the relations between matter, force
and movement. Buchner, in "Force and Matter."
That one body can act upon another at a distance through a
vacuum without the mediation of anything else, by and through
which their activity and force may be conveyed, is to me so
great an absurdity that I believe that no man who has a ca-
pacity for thinking can ever fall into. Newton, in "Principia."
The gulf which separates * * * the organic from the inorganic
bodies, is not closed up, and none of our hypotheses help us to
bridge the gulf. Prof. Chon, of Breslan, at a meeting of Ger-
man physicians.
These extracts not only show that there is to
science and philosophy a ' 'missing link," but they
also demonstrate that the scientists recognize this
and the necessity of supplying it. There is not
uniformity among them. The principle of Unity
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compels Spencer and some others to affirm, with
Youmans, the unity of the Law. Fiske recognizes
the Law, but illogically denies that thought and
feeling come under it.
But among those who see the necessity, the logical
fact of unity and the universality of the Law, it is
at best with them not a fact, but merely an opin-
ion. No proof do they have except that which
should be the most convincing Perception. This
"Gulf" is non-existant.
The fact of this missing link illustrates the
limits and the ignorance of science upon this most
important subject. In regard to Thought, the in-
vestigators are today where scientists were one
hundred years ago in regard to special creation.
They lack facts upon which to rest the feeling of
truth. For all truth begins in feeling. "Thoughts,"
says Edward Carpenter, "are dying feelings." All
truth is self-evident. Men are obliged to reason
themselves into errors. Truth is perceived by the
Soul is felt is self-evident. All men feel Unity.
They feel that Law is universal. Because they do
not have the necessary facts, they reason from
those they have and build up fine, but erroneous,
theories.
So builded the man who demonstrated, by reason,
that steamships could not cross the ocean, and the
reverend who, in my boyhood's hearing, reasoned
that chloroform could not be possible,because God
intended man to suffer pain. In biology, the "miss-
ing links" are the dividing lines man has made be-
tween the species. Were all the facts in evidence,
there would be no species. There would be one
unbroken line of development. So here, when all
the facts that are at man's disposal shall be allow-
ed to testify, there will be no missing links in Life,
no break in Law. There will be one unbroken line
of evolution from protoplasm to Love, one chain
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from God to rock, and from rock to God again.
Lizzie Doten has expressed this beautifully:
God of the granite and the rose,
Soul of the sparrow and the bee!
The mighty tide of Being flows
Through all its channels, Lord, from Thee!
It springs to life in grass and flowers,
Through every grade of Being runs,
Till from creation's radiant towers,
Its glory flames in stars and suns.
God of the granite and the rose,
Soul of the sparrow and the bee!
The mighty tide of Being flows
Through all its channels back to Thee!
Thus round and round the current runs,
A mighty sea without a shore,
Till men and angels, stars and suns,
Unite to praise thee ever more!
Is this truth or is it mere poetry? Is it feeling or
is it reason? I cannot conceive of a person who
will not feel that it is Truth. Can you not reason
it so? Spencer, Buchner, and others, have so rea-
soned. But can you prove it? Can it be proven?
What will this proof mean? What will the discov-
ery of this link between granite and Soul mean to
the race? Where in the list of human achievements
will it rank when found?
It will mean, first of all, the abolishing of Death
from human thought. It will mean the demon-
stration of Life forever. It will demonstrate all
the hopes of the race to be facts. It will demon-
strate as realities, all the desires of the race for
continued communication with loved ones who
have not died, but who have changed environment.
It will mean the demonstration of infinite faculties
in Man, and an infinite Life in which to develop
them. It will demonstrate that Man is not yet
born; that birth is before him; that all these eons
he has been gestating in this womb of flesh, await-
ing birth. Now he will soon be born and, when
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born, will not need undertaker, grave nor sorrow.
All this past life of man has been filled with
premature births; men born out of time, before
time. They have, like five months babes, had to
be nurtured in the nurseries of the Spirit till they
were able to walk alone. Earth has been a char-
nel house when it should have been a paradise.
Ignorance, which is only undevelopment, is cause
a necessary cause in the evolution of Man. Now
he is no longer "coming," he is here here in the
recognition of himself as ONE with that Power
which is ALL.
He was the slave of Law until he learned to be its
servant. Now he is becoming its Master. Becom-
ing Law! Becoming Conscious Law! And no long-
er slave, or servant, he is King over himself. Emer-
son, seeing beyond all other seers, this MAN,
exclaimed: "CONSCIOUS LAW IS KING OF
KINGS."
This one fact of telepathy accepted, we have the
missing link. This will necessitate a complete re-
volution in obedience to the Law of Evolution
a revolution that will change all present civiliza-
tion as much as the ancient has been changed by
astronomy, magnetic needle, printing press, dis-
covery of coal, application of steam, and the appli-
cation of electricity. A change as great will be
wrought by this fact developed into the Art of Liv-
ing as has been wrought by all of these, for it will
locate ALL POWER within the Man. He can do
anything, because he is Conscious Law, and his
creative power is Thought. All he has now to
learn is how to use Thought intelligently, learn
as he has learned to use steam, and he will have
"dominion over all things."
This fact, this "missing link," is TELEPATHY-
THOUGHT TRANSFERENCE. Telepathy is de-
fined by Prof. Crooks as "the transmission of a
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thought, or an emotion, from one person to
another without visible means of contact." This
is a common phenomenon. It has been ignored,
denied, feared, considered canny and mysterious,
simply because its cause was not known. When
once thought is put into the catagory of vibration,
and considered one of the modes of Infinite Energy,
then all is clear. Telepathy places it there. This
discovery is man's greatest. Things, events, per-
sons, are to be measured by results. Great things
require the perspective of centuries. The Law of
Conservation and Correlation of Forces, which
Prof. Youmans tells us was in 1864 characterized
as "the greatest discovery of that half of the cen-
tury," had then been over half a century in obtain-
ing recognition. Even now it is not fully accepted.
Its greatness is not appreciated by even scientists
themselves. Every day its far reaching power is
being revealed.
So is it \vith this simple fact this every day fact
this fact of telepathy, from which has been coined
the saying, "The devil is always near when you
are talking about him." It is so simple, so com-
mon, that it is considered valueless; but, "the
stone the builders rejected has become the head of
the corner." All the phenomena of the various re-
ligions of the world, of the mystics and psychics,
of ancient and modern Spiritualism, all the strange
and mysterious in life, are made clear when it is seen
that Thought is Power; that the Universe is One; that
Life is One. Mind acts upon mind, therefore there
is no separation. All we have to do is to learn to
talk in thought and not in oral speech; to listen
to thoughts, and not with the external ear to the
slower vibrations called sound. All the intelli-
gences that ever lived are then with us and we
with them. As all fishes in the sea, or all birds in
the air, are in one common vibratory medium, and
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can at will converse, so are we in Thought in the
ALL.
But greater than this: THOUGHT is ALL THE POW-
ER, for all is Mind. Matter never had existance.
All is Mind. All is Vibration. All man's power is
the Power of Mind. This Power is directed by
Conscious thought. It can be directed to do any-
thing. It can literally "move mountains." Telep-
athy, demonstrating that thought is force, does
not stop at the mere transmitting of vibrations
between mind and mind, but, since all things are
only materialized mind (reduced vibrations when
compared with thought), it follows that things
feel thought waves, and that we can learn to con-
trol things by thought. The Hindoo does this,
we can. Here then is the wisdom, the insight, and
the greatness of Professor Dolbear, who makes
this remarkable statement, perfectly in harmony
with the position taken by this book:
No one may assume for an instant that the possibilities of
other phenomena are limited to such interactions as have here-
tofore found expression in treatises on physics. Indeed there is
evidence \vhich cannot be ignored with safety, that physical
phenomena sometimes take place when all ordinary anteced-
ents are absent, when bodies move without touch, electric, or
magnetic agencies, movements which are orderly and more or
less subject to volition. In addition to this, is still other evi-
dence of competent, critical observers, that the subject matter
of thought is directly transferable from one mind to another.
Such facts do not invalidate physical laws nor make it needful
to modify present statements concerning energy. If such things
be true, they are of more importance to philosophy than the
whole body of physical knowledge we now have, and of vast
importance to humanity. For it gives religion corroborative
testimony of the real existence of possibilities for which it has
always contended. "Matter, Ether and Motion," p. 353.
"If?" There is no "if" to one who will seek. Not
an hour but the psychometrists, clairvoyants,
telepathists, are demonstrating this fact that
thought is power and that it is transmitted from
mind to mind (as Professor Dolbear, in the preface
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of an early edition, thinks possible,) through the
ether. I demonstrate it daily in my psychometric
readings. I receive feelings and read from them the
character of the sender. At times, I receive the
thoughts. A letter, no matter from whom or
where or when written, tells me, as I hold it and
listen to it, the character, the mental and physical
conditions of the writer and often his past, and his
environment; and many times his friends and
their thoughts, for it opens to me his thought-
world. Here then is the "missing link" which
science and philosophy have long needed to unite
them in one. The link is telepathy with its dem-
onstration of thought as force. It nnites physics
and metaphysics, science and philosophy, science
and religion, matter and spirit, in one whole.
Each of these branches of knowledge is now con-
cerned with some links in the endless chain of Energy
to the exclusion of others. The chain is one as
God is ONE. Life is One! Energy is One! We are
to study Life as One, makeing no dividing lines
where Nature has not. "What God hath joined,
let no man put asunder."
ESSA.Y III.
THE ULTIMATE OF POWER.
The Universe Is
Nor can we venture to speak of Life as one of the varieties or
manifestations of energy. Prof. Wm. Crooks.
All about us, and within us, exist rates of vibration known as
forms of energy, some of them forced by man's ingenuity to re-
cord themselves by aid of mechanism, others yet waiting this
sort of detection. Recording devices to reveal the laws of light,
heat, chemical affinity are familiar, but no one yet in a similar
manner records thought or gravity. Wm. J. Martin, in Cen-
tury Magazine.
Force is not gravity, nor electricity, nor magnetism, nor chem-
ical affinity. But WILL is the typical idea of Force. Dr. Brown,
Dean of Boston University.
It is evident that there will eventually take place an integra-
tion by which all orders of phenomena will be combined and
recognized as differently conditioned forms of one ultimate fact.
Herbert Spencer.
We know nothing of the ultimate of force. Science is already
getting something like a firm hold of the idea that all kinds of
motion are but forms of one persistent Force, arising in one
fountain head of Power. Duke ofArgyle.
All phenomena are in their ultimate analysis known to us only
as facts of consciousness. Prof. Huxley.
Thoughts and feelings are the fundamental facts from which
there is no escaping. John Fiske.
The laws of thought are the laws of the universe. Buchner.
Thought is Power. Victor Hugo.
Great men are they who see that spiritual force is stronger than
material force; that thoughts rule the world. Emerson.
This last quotation, fron Emerson, shall be the
text of this essay. Science and philosophy have
ever sought for the ultimate, for the origin of
Power. Religion has ever been the recognition
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and worship of Power. Theology has been a sys-
tem of belief in Power. Theology assumes a begin-
ning of things, which is only a beginning of the
manifestation of Power in things or by things or
through things. From the earliest theology to
the latest, it has been the incarnation of Power
that has received praise, thanksgiving, sacrifice,
and, where possible, love. Omnipotence is the God
of the world. Power has thus been recognized as
ONE, even before modern science so decided. The
Greek, placing Fate above all the gods, located
Power as ONE. Monotheism is the belief in the
ONE Power.
Thus Power has been the ONE principle without
which no other could be. It has been the ONE-
thing without which there was no-thing. With
Power Omnipotence all things were possible.
Hence in the Ideal, Power has been the chiei and
the prime constituent. To subdue, to create, and
to exercise Power, has been man's ambition. For
Power is Lite and Life manifests in Power. So
much Power, so much Life. From child making
mud pies, to Edison in his laboratory; from negro
voodoo, to Episcopal bishop; from seance, to syn-
od; from club, to dynamite; from water, to gas;
from wind, to electricity; from pugilist, to com-
mander-in-chief; from toy boat, to Dewey's fleet;
from ward-boss, to king; from money, to magnet-
ism; from medicine, to Mental Science; there has
been only one cry, one desire, one hunger. It is the
infinite demand for Power, never to be satisfied
until man finds and manifests infinity.
To meet and to satisfy this God-demand within
himself, he has conquered the external forces and
made them obey his will, only to find greater de-
sire and greater unrest. He conquered the wild
horse and made him his servant. But the power
that conquered the horse is greater than the horse.
2k MAN'S GREATEST
The horse never yielded to the physical power man
exerted. But to .... what? He conquered wind
and made it fill his sail and bear him wherever he
would. He is more powerful than the wind. He
chained the water and fed it with flame, until, har-
nessed, it became his slave. That which harnessed
steam is more powerful than steam.
He reached out into space and, grasping the bolts
of Jove, taught the gods how to wield their power,
as he buckled them to his cars and made the fires
of heaven his torches and their dynamic forces his
messengers. But the Power that could thus teach
the gods is greater than the lightning. Lightning
would ever have remained lightning and been self-
destructive, had not man Thought come to en-
fold and direct. Man virtually made electricity by
converting destructive Power, through direction,
to use. In man, then, lies the greater power the
Power that can control all Power, not himself.
Everywhere else is the principle recognized that it
takes superior Power to control any form of Pow-
er. Why not recognize the same law here? The
conqueror comes in some greater form of Power.
This principle is admitted and yet, because of pres-
ent methods of thinking, it will be said: Man mas-
ters because he is man because he thinks and
builds mechanism through which Power may act.
True. If Thought can thus direct, is not Thought
Power? The very banks of the river are Power.
The still car is Power and only superior Power
can move it. Nothing can move nothing. Nothing
can direct nothing. Only Power can direct Power.
Had man any sails until he thought ' 'Sails?"
What caused him to think ' 'Sails?" Recognition
of, and faith in, external Power. Faith led the
way to achievement. As long as man recognizes
only external Power, what Emerson calls "Mater-
ial force," he will have faith in that alone and will
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use that alone. When he shall recognize interior,
* 'Spiritual," Power, then he will have faith in that
form and will learn to use it. He once was used
by the "material" forms of force which he now
controls. He is now used as a leaf in the Missis-
sippi of Spiritual Thought-Power. He will learn to
use it, and then be the Master of Fate. When he
thinks of himself as Power, he will use himself as
Power and will be Power. Then will all other
forms be obedient to him or be useless. Thought
is Power. It is the highest form of Power that
man, the director of the Omnipotence in himself,
can use. He is Thought. He is Power conscious
of itself.
Jesus said: "The kingdom of God is within you! "
"Kingdom" means, if it means anything, Power.
That Power is God. God is Omnipotent and Ever-
present. Then it follows that where God is, or
where God's kingdom is, there is Omnipotence.
He is daily manifesting the Universal Power with-
in himself. He IS Omnipotence. Can Omnipotence
be limited? Not by Itself. Man only can limit
himself. Self-Limitation is then the only possible
limitation to the power of man. This limitation
is a thought man places over himself. This thought
is born in ignorance. When he knows himself as
he is, he will not be limited. The power to limit is
equal to the power limited. Man, therefore, as an
individual, balances the Absolute. He is the equal
in Power to all that is not himself. The Me and
the Non-Me are equal. The Universe is ONE. The
ultimate seat of power, so long sought, is found.
It is in man. The Ultimate Power so long sought
is MAN.
As far as Man is concerned, he is all power, and
has only to use that which he himself IS. Any
power outside himself has influence upon him only
so far as he, by recognition of it, has given it power.
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He confers upon things their power to harm. He is
master, and can still every tempest by his " Peace ,.
be still," when he comes to know himself as Soul.
Ignorant of his heir ship to the Crown of Life, he
yields himself a slave where he should reign as
king. He manifests all his power in those ' 'Funda-
mental facts" of Fiske, Thought and Feeling. He
can control all that is not himself, and also him-
self, by those laws that Buchner calls "Laws of
the Universe," for they are only the Laws of
Thought. Since man can control thought, he is
the Master of the Universe and "a Law unto him-
self." His Universe is his body and his environ-
ment. He is as supreme in his individual Universe
as God is in the Absolute Universe.
That "Will, "of which Dr. Brown speaks, is the per-
sistency of Force, the Law of Crystallization, the
Survival of the Fittest, the Descent by Heredity,
and all "natural laws" of science and philosophy,
to which man now holds himself responsible and
to which he will be slave until he shall, as an in-
dividual, control, by his Will, the undifferentiated
Will that is manifesting through him. That "In-
tegration' ' Spencer prophesies is made a fact by
"Man's Greatest Discovery." It is demonstrated
daily by the facts of Telepathy and Mental Healing.
To assume, as in the common belief, that all man
can do is to direct physical force, or to relegate, as
does Prof. Crooks, Life to some other origin than
that of ordinary force, is to limit man to the use of
external force, and this to the neglect of himself as
force. It is to shut the gates of the "Kingdom."
"Lift up your heads, O ye eternal gates, and the
King of Glory shall come in! Who is the King of
Glory?" MAN. Man recognizing himself as Pow-
er. Religion and Science are now so wed by this
discovery that hereafter they are One. One in the
recognition of Power, and all Power as One.
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Why am I thus positive? Because as surely as the
early electricians saw that they were dealing with
Power, and felt then all the possibilities it held for
the future, so do I realize the possibilities of thought
when directed, as it can be, by the Conscious Will.
Not long ago I blindfolded a boy and thought to
him, "You will go and touch the mantel." Soon
his body swayed and, had he not stepped, he would
have fallen forward. He was soon touching the
mantel. I mentally requested a young man, who
did not know that I was going to experiment with
him at the time, "Bring me my clock." He went
at once to the shelf and brought it to me. Asking
the boy why he went, he replied: "I felt pulled
that way." The young man said: "I felt impelled
to do it." What pulled, what impelled? Thought
as Power. It is true that it may be said that I
awakened Thought in them. If so, Thought did
the work. That which awakens Power is Power.
That is all I am now demonstrating. Some form
of vibration went from me to them.
Accumulate enough of vibration, or of energy,
which is the same, and something must move. A
lady requested me to treat her daughter by the
absent method. I told the girl mentally that she
would be well at such a time, and that all pain
would leave at such a time; told her to goto sleep,
and to awaken at such a time, all of which she did.
Thought is Power. Demonstrations similar to these,
thousands of teachers and healers are making.
Who shall limit the Power of thought? Faith can
move mountains. Faith is only Thought united
with, and directing, all the Soul torces. Faith is
the Self-Suggestion of Power. Faith is a Sugges-
tion of the Conscious man dropped into the Infin-
ity of the Unconscious. Faith is telling the Soul
what to manifest. Faith is the Conscious Power
of God. Faith is the Power of the Conscious God.
ESSAY IV.
Its Potential and Its Conservation*
Potential: Anything that is possible. Bacon.
Conservation: The fundamental principle of modern physics: -
that the total amount of energy in nature is constant; that
it can neither be increased nor diminished. Century Diet.
Life is not the result of organism, but the reverse. Haeckle.
Life is only a particular kind of mechanics. Virchow.
Consciousness: The common condition of Self-Knowledge.
Sir Wm. Hamilton.
Out of the deeps of Ultimate Being proceeds the outgoing, act-
ing Life. The energy behind all evolution is the progressive
consciousness of God. Bradley, in" Appearance and Reality."
Our conscious life is a stream of varying physical states which
follow one another quickly, in a perpetual shimmer, with never
an instant of rest. The elementary psychical states, indeed lie
below consciousness, or, as we may say, they are sub-conscious.
We may call these primitive pulsations the psychical molecules
out of which are compounded the thoughts and feelings that
-well up into the stream of consciousness. John Fiske, in
"Through Nature to God."
There can be no scientific doubt that Life obeys no special or
exceptional laws. * * * It must be regarded as the result of a
different interaction of chemical and physical forces, or a par-
ticular complicated round of mechanical motion. Buchner, in
"Force and Matter."
If my body came from brute, though I sensate from their own,
I am here. This is my kingdom. Shall the royal voice be mute?
Hold the scepter, Human Soul, and rule thy province of the
brute. Tennyson.
Each Soul is in focus of world * * *
For there transformation is wrought,
Where forces are changed into Thought.
/. W. Powell, "The Soul."
When once the "Great Discovery" was made,
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through telepathy, that thought is, like heat,
sound, light, a mode of motion, identical in princi-
ple with all other forms of motion, then was the
way open for the study of Life also as a mode of
motion. Uutil then, Life was outside the possibil-
ity of study. Its phenomena could be catalogued,
but Life itself was an unknown quantity.
Thought is Life transformed in accordance with
Nature's one unerring law of Conservation. Force
is transformable but non-destructible, non-creat-
able. Thought, being a form of force, had an an-
tecedent form. In this antecedent form, which we
term Life, it passes through the brain and becomes
thought. As it passes out of the brain, it ceases
to be thought. It becomes some other form
of Vibration. It is not lost. Though we may
not follow it now, we shall sometime do so. It is
safe to infer that part of this force is changed to
Will, and from Will is changed into the power to do,
into that power which acts in unison with chem-
ical power. By the action of each mode of motion
upon each, is caused the phenomena we call the
visible conduct of man.
Not yet has the beefsteak been traced by conversion
to the thought of the noon. To so attempt to
trace thought, would be to trace the origin of the
steam in the boiler to the boiler itself. The boiler
causes the steam only as one of the many factors
at work. Without the boiler, there would be vapor
but no steam. We trace steam to water and heat;
water and heat to still other forms of force. To
trace steam to boiler, would be reasoning in the
circle which traces thought to food. Food and
some other force must make the phenomena of
physical life. We trace water and iron back to the
One energy. They are One in the Universal Sub-
stance. (One in God, as theology truly says.) Not
yet by any process has chemistry been able to con-
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vert one into the other, or to trace the change
irom food to thought, and I do not think it possible.
Thought and body are two manifestations of the
One. But they are manifestations of two streams
of power that start from the One, which, flowing
side by side, make by interaction the phenomena
of the visible universe. They are never converted,
or transformed, into each other. One is ordinarily
called matter, the other is called by Science, Ether;
by Soul Culture, Spirit. Both are forms of motion.
Both flow from the One, the Undifferentiated, the
Unconditioned, the Unconscious, the Homogeneous,
* * * "The Undivided Whole
Of which each creature forms a part."
By a series of actions and interactions, the poten-
tialities of the One are manifest. The process is
called Evolution.
There is not the slightest -warrant for saying,
"thought is the product of the brain;" this is put-
ting the cart before the horse, putting effect for
cause. Before brain was, Life was to build it.
After Life has left the brain, brain ceases to be.
Life builds brain. Thought is Life transformed.
When Life leaves brain, brain decays. We call this
death. But decomposition is the result of the same
force that was concerned in building brain as con-
structor under direction of the master, Life. One
of the streams of Eternal Energy departs from
body and leaves the other the Chemical to work
alone. After death only chemical, automatic action
is found where had been intelligent, self-directive
action. Life is a mode of motion, but it can man-
ifest only throught contact with some other mode
of motion. Science has heretofore hesitated about
calling Life a mode of motion. Many scientists
and philosophers have replied, when asked if Life
is identical with other forms of force, "No!" All
who did believe Life to be motion were called ma-
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f UNIVERSITY )
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terialists. Even Spencer admits that we must seek
a spiritual origin. With the accepted principle of
Unity, all thinkers will be forced, before the century
ends, through the demonstration of this Greatest
Discovery, to recognize Life as one form of the One
Energy. And it will not be considered materialis-
tic to do so, for the present distinction of matter
and spirit will pass away. All will be, in thought,
neither matter nor spirit, but will be the Nameless
and Unknown ONE who manifests through these
two streams of Motion.
Life is the ultimate power in man. Its absence is
death. When Life goes, thought goes. Well says
Tennyson:
Life and Thought have gone away
Side by side,
Leaving doors and windows wide:
Careless tenants they.
The primal manifestation of Life in man is Con-
sciousness. The primal manifestation of the One
to Man, is Life. Be it where it may, in sand-grain
or in Cherubim, it is Life. Each phenomenon is
the manifestation of the One Life.
Like all other forms of motion, Life (Spirit) must
Eass through transformations, or it would be only
itent, unmanifested Life. Into how many forms
Life is transformable, we will not dogmatise, but
they must be limitless. Consciousness is one.
There are changes in nerve tissue in every act of
consciousness. There must be a corresponding
change in that which uses chemical force to cause
the phenomena of physical life.
Thus consciousness is transformed Life. It is the
resultant of prior conditions of sensation. Sensa-
tion is the result of contact with other forms of
force. Sensation is transformed Life. Born of sen-
sation, is Thought. Man says, "I feel." Then he
says, " think because I feel." Then he says, "Be-
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cause I feel and Think, I AM." Thus Life is con-
verted into sensation, then into Thought, and
these two make the Conscious Man, the I AM.
In all the change there is no loss of original force.
Only a change is given to the direction and, pos-
sibly, to the velocity, of atoms, in which the two
forms offeree lie in potentiality, and this change
gives that form of motion we call Life. Thought
is Force, therefore Life must be. This has the Great
Discovery done for science: It has discovered Life.
Life as a mode of motion is limitless. From simple
protoplasmic cell, it manifests through growth.
Growth is but the play of these forces in constant
change. Life is not change; Life is Power and it
manifests through change. Could Life remain
constant but the billionth part of a second, it
would be annihilated. Eternal motion means eter-
nal change.
Life is a constant stream of power flowing into
expression in millions of forms, but all from the
One Source. It builds its organism for manifesta-
tion by transformation of itself, just as electricity
is changed to light by the conservation of force.
Light is not electricity. Light is Light, whether
from sun, combustion, or electricity. So when
thought manifests, it is not Life, but thought.
Life is limitless, indestructible, convertible into
thought. It is first converted into feeling. This
conversion is accomplished by means of the senses.
In this word * 'senses, "we have the key to a further
analysis of Life's changes.
Sensation is the first change in the transformations
of Human Life. Before we felt, we were not indi-
viduals. We were only potential power in the
One. Feeling is the first step toward individuality.
Potentials of Infinity are we still. It will take all
eternity to manifest all these possibilities. We are
manifesting and, because we are manifesting, we
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are. By virtue of this recognition of our own ex-
istence, we are individuals. Should the Ego ever
cease to feel, it would cease to be an Ego. It would
become only a possibility in Infinity.
Individuality begins with feeling. With feeling,
consciousness begins. Individuality becomes per-
fected with Self-consciousness. When the indivi-
dual can say, "I am," he has attained perfection as
an individual, and has won immortality.
Consciousness is only the recognition by the Ego
of that which is not itself. This recognition conies
from contact with some other force. The Ego re-
sponds. It thus knows itself. From sensation
come the special senses. These are only varieties
of feeling. Feeling is the motion the Ego sends
out. Thus we rightly say: an e-motion an out-
motion.
As Life is limitless, so is emotion. The most pow-
eriul emotion, we call Love. From emotion, by
conservation, comes Thought. Life is thus chang-
ed in form, but not in potential. Thought, then,
is as limitless as is Life and Emotion. Thought is
Life manifest through the cerebrum. Love is
Life manifest through all the rest of the nervous
system. Thus again do we find Thought as Power.
How great the error to call thoughts "things."
They are not things, but thought creates things.
Things are made out of thought, as one form of
power, in union, or combination, with some other
form or forms of power. Electricity is not a thing.
It is power. When it is in resistance with some
other form of power, then we call the resultant
things. A thunderbolt is a thing, but it is electric-
ity, plus the resistance and attraction of other
forces. No thing is ever formed from one form of
force alone. Thought enters into combination
with other forms of force and builds body; then,
through hands, it builds whatever it wills. It is
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silently building, in union with silent forces, still
other things as yet unrecognized.
Thus Life and Thought are no longer unknown
forces. As we know electricity, we know them.
We will learn to use thought in carrying out our
desires, as we now use electricity and chemical force
in telegraph and cannon to carry out our purposes
in other fields of activity.
Thought is Love transformed. Like Thought and
Life, Love is limitless. It is the e-motion of the
Ego. There is but one possible out-motion, there-
fore Love is the only possible emotion. As it is
not Life and death, but more or less Life, so it is
not Love and hate, but more or less Love. Love is
the Master Passion. We are in the habit of so
naming only those states of intense passion, but
this is naming only a degree, and not the emotion.
The one motion from the Soul is directed and con-
trolled by different thoughts. It is the thought
accompaniment that differs and is named, and not
the emotion. There is onh r Love. Wherever is the
most perfect manifestation of the Indwelling God,
there is the most perfect manifestation of Love.
Conversely, where there is the most perfect mani-
festation of Love, there is the most perfect mani-
festation of Life. For Life and Love are one. Love
is only Life in expression. Let Life manifest in
Love, and there is health. People are sick and die
because they do not love enough. The streets are
filled with dead and dying persons, dying because
they will not let Life flow through them into ex-
pression. Repression is death.
Were it not for Love, there would be no reproduc-
tion of the species. But for Love, no daily repro-
duction of the body. Love is the measure of life.
Corrolary: To be in health and enjoy life, we must
be loving. Whenever we give any lesser degree of
Love than normal, then cells created by the larger
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degrees die. This decay causes poison and disease
is the result. Cure: More Love.
Here, in a nutshell, is the whole of mental science.
Here, in the same shell, is the whole of Professor
Elmer Gates' chemical discovery regarding the
effects of emotions upon health. Have no ill-feel-
ings, no ill-thoughts, would you have health. Be
happy and you will be healthy. It is happiness
that creates health. The rule of science is that of
Jesus: "Love the Lord (within) with all thy heart,
soul and mind. Love thy neighbor as thyself."
Hereon hang all the mental and physical sciences.
But when Love passes through the brain it becomes
thought. Thought is limitless. Life and Thought
are one. To think is to live. Only as we think,
we live. The measure of our thought is the meas-
ure of our life. The thinker is a healthful person.
But do not confound the thinker with the reasoner.
Thinking is the spontaneous action of the mind.
It is Life in activity. It is spiritual activity. Rea-
soning is mere intellectual activity . It is not think-
ing. It is arranging Thoughts that are dead; they
have an objective value, but are spiritually dead.
Reason is for the objective life. The Soul knows. It
perceives Truth. The intellect applies Truth thus
perceived to the needs of the objective life. But
to try to live by reason is like man trying to live
off of stones for bread. Man does not live by
material food, but by every thought that cometh
from the Sub-conscious (The Inner God) into the
conscious life.
Love and Thought, by the conversion of energy,
are only transformed Life. Therefore, to think,
and to love, is the all of Life.
When the Human Soul came to say, "I think and
I feel," then, because it had power to decide upon
its manifestations and to choose pleasure from
pain, it became Self-conscious. Through this
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choice, it became self-creative. It therefore cannot
die. Every act of self-consciousness is an act of
re-creation. It may change its environment; may,
through this Law of Conservation, change the
manner of manifestation, but "I" must henceforth
ever be "I," because it must ever know that it is
not something else. Thus has Telepathy solved
the problem of immortality, solved it by the same
law that has solved the indestructibility of force.
The greatest of all discoveries has demonstrated
the necessity of immortality, through the trans-
formation of unconscious, undifferentiated, force,
into differentiated and conscious forms of force,
and these again into individualized and self-con-
scious forms. From Motion, Self-conscious motion
has been evolved, and the purpose of the Absolute
is accomplished. Henceforth with this Self-con-
scious form which we call Ego, the Absolute has
no place as master. Life is subject to the Self-con-
scious One MAN. The steps of this evolution are
easily traced in the slower vibrations we call mat-
ter by biology. Here we have traced them in the
higher vibrations of spirit. The missing links in
the chain of evidence, that Prof. Dolbear says are
wanting, are found.
If it could be shown that Life itself and the mind of man were
in some way associated with atoms of some sort * * * the hopes
and longings, cherished by mankind, for a continuous existence
would give way to convictions as strong as one has in any
physical phenomena. Prof. E. A. Dolbear, in "Matter, Ether,
and Motion."
ESSA.Y
VIBRATIONS
The Soul is a harp, I remember,
Where vibrating cords are of Consciousness strung,
And Cosmos forever is harper,
Who strolled down the ages measured by sun
With songs of the mighty Becoming.
Prof. W.J. Powell, in "The Monist."
It nettles one that Truth should be so simple. Goethe.
There is no speech; there are no words; their voice is not heard;
but their melody extendeth through all the world. Lesser's
translation of the Psalms.
The language of tone is the language of the spheres; it is the
language of the universal world; it is the language of the
angels. Dr. C. W. Emerson.
The whole fabric of human thought and human emotion is
built up of likeness and unlikenessjust as much as the material
world, in all its beauty, is built up out of undulations among
invisible molecules.; Jo hn Fiske, in " Through Nature to God."
The atoms of the indifferent molecules are held together with
varying degrees of tightness they are tuned, as it were, to
notes of different pitch. Prof. Tyndall.
Thirty-two vibrations per second equal the lowest tone ear can
catch; 32,768 vibrations the highest. * * * The vibrations of
the red ray are 450 thousand millions per second; those of the
violet are 750 thousand millions per second. Prof. Crooks.
The lowest tone perceived by the human ear is a vibration of
24 per second; the highest is 4,700 per second. The lowest
note of the piano is 24 per second, too low to be perceived as
tone. The highest key is 3,500. Highest on the piccolo is
5,700. Highest pitch of man's voice. is 64; of woman's, 1,044.
--Sydney Lanier.
From the extreme red to the extreme violet, between which are
embraced all the colors visible to the human eye, the rapidity
of vibrations steadily increases, the length of the other waves
produced by these vibrations diminishing in the same propor-
tions. I say, "Visible to the human eye," because there may be
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eyes capable of receiving visual impressions that do not affect
ours. There is a vast store of rays, or more correctly waves,
beyond the red, and also beyond the violet, which are incompe-
tent to excite our vision; so that, could the whole length of the
spectrum, visible and invisible, be seen by the same eye, its
length would be vastly augmented. Prof. Tynda.ll, in "The
New Fragments."
Particles in vibration strike our nerve points in one way and
we see light, or color; in another way and we feel heat. Our
nerves and brains transmute the motions into forms of sensa-
tion. The brain is the translator of motion into images; of
sensation into ideas. There is no reason why there should
be any limit to the modes of molecular or etherial motion; but
our senses, as we call our translators, are but few in number,
hence we recognize but few of them. Peter C. Austin, Ph. D.
P. C. S., in Christian Register.
Lord Kelvin, the greatest physicist in the world, has this year
come out with a paper which casts a doubt 011 the prevailing
molecular and ether theories. He thinks there is no definite
limit to the universe. He says that the dynamic theory which
asserts that light and heat are modes of motion, is at present
obscured by two clouds. Prof. John Towbridge, of Harvard
University, in San Francisco Examiner.
Since, through Telepathy , thought is demonstrated
to be a mode of motion, it follows that whatever
we have found to be true of one mode, must be
true of all modes, for these modes are only different
rates of speed; or, what is the same thing, are of
different pitch. Thought is subject to the same
laws, to the same regularity, to the same methods
of control, and the same methods of study, as are
light and sound. Of these two modes of motion,
we know the most. Music is the most perfect of
the methods we have of studying motion. Sound
is slow enough to measure. It can easily be
handled by the human will.
Through the study of light and tone, we find that
vibrations pass through octaves. There is a reg-
ularity and a system, and that order can be under-
stood and followed in composition. He who fol-
lows that order, wins by touching the human Soul.
When the right combinations are made, the Soul
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is touched; that is, it vibrates in response. Sym-
pathetic vibration is established.
Here we have the key to the practice of Mental
Healing; to the power of the orator; to the power
of song, cantata, picture, statue, storm, fire, and
whatever in the external starts a vibration, an
emotion, within.
Thought being a form of force, it passes in vibra-
tions or, in better terms, in undulatory waves from
brain to brain. Feeling being also a mode of mo-
tion, it passes in similar waves from soul to soul.
The difference in the two is similar to the difference
between sound and light. Both are ONE in origin,
but differ in speed. Thus Emotion and Thought
differ. The merely mental healer cures by the force
of thought, which awakens sympathetic vibration
in the brain of the patient, just as striking C in
one octave on the piano causes the C in the other
octaves to vibrate, or as the violin on the table
vibrates when certain cords are played upon the
piano. But the spiritual healer cures by awaken-
ing the same sympathetic vibration in the Soul,
through love. When the love nature is awak-
ened and Thought, by Suggestion, directs it, then
is the healing power, strongest. This can be a fact
only in those most highly developed spiritually.
In these it is limitless in its power for good. It is
typified in Jesus, who spent his whole life in doing
good; loving so much, that those who came into
His presence were healed. This development is
possible to all. We have only to raise the pitch of
our radiations from those we now have to those
of a higher octave. Love will develop this. If we
Love enough, we shall not only be whole ourselves
but will be wholesome to all who meet us, to all
of whom we think.
As the vibrations of electricity pass where sound
will not, so will thought go where electricity will
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not, and love will go where thought will not.
Sound-waves will not pass long distances over the
wire. Electricity will. So man loads the electric-
wave with a sound-wave of his choice, and elec-
tricity, which was ready to go that way, carries
it. Thought and Love work together in the same
ways. Love goes, but it must carry the Thought-
wave to produce the conscious and the chosen effect.
Love alone would never cure without a thought
of health accompanying it. It would intensify the
activity of the soul in the way it was going. Love
is help in the way of power, but it is not directive.
Thought the will of the conscious man must
come in to give direction. Suggestion must be that
the chosen activity can be. Otherwise there will be
activity, without self-direction.
The Force that directs individual expression is
Thought. The Force that is directed is Love.
The time will come when, through the demonstra-
tions of Telepathy and the study of Suggestion,
man will study Thought and Love, as he now
studies light and sound. He will formulate his
knowledge of these into science and develop an Art
of Thinking and Loving. The promise and the
prophecy of this is herein the present schools of
Mental Science, and in the fast developing Art of
Suggestion.
Thus do the phenomena of Telepathy contain
within them more for the good of the race, contain
more promise for the future of man than all
the previous facts he has gathered. Thus is it that
when man demonstrated Thought to be a form
of Force, to be a mode of motion, he made his
Greatest Discovery.
All that we know of Vibration is true of Thought
and Love as forms of Vibration. As other forms
of motion have been studied, so can these two,
which we now throw into the catagory of force,
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be studied. As all lesser forces are less only -when
compared with some other forms of lower pitch,
and as all lesser forms are subject to the greater,
it follows logically and scientifically that all other
forms of force are subject to the greatest form,
Thought. They will obey human will. Thus is
Thought master of all the other forms of the One
Universal Energy. Love and Thought being ONE
in Man, it follows that Love is the only manifesta-
tion of the Absolute. Thought is the Individual
expression; Love, the Absolute expression. The
design of evolution being to bring the Individual
into supremacy, to bring Man into "the Kingdom,"
it follows that Love, which is the highest mode of
motion in the ONE, should thus be subject to the
only form of individual, self-directed motion,
Thought. Love must be thought-directed.
In his Thpught,each man differs from all other men.
His individual stamp is placed upon his perception
of Absolute Truth. But Love is in each individual,
one and the same. Thus does Individuality con-
sist only in the pitch, or in the octave of thought
in which each individual moves. As these octaves
are limitless and as there is no limit to the possible
range of pitch, it follows that there is no limit to
the variety of Human Life. ONE in origin, ONE
in substance, ONE in possibility, ONE in the Abso-
lute Truth, we are Individuals only in the sphere of
Thought. Only to the degree that a person thinks
for himself does he attain Individuality. To Think
is to be an Individual. To Love is to Live. Love
is the primal energy; Thought is the Human.
Thought can raise or lower the pitch of life. Love
can keep life in the animal scale, or octave, where
man started, or it can raise it daily in pitch toward
the Ideal Man, as typified in Jesus and other seers.
Through Telepathy, this is demonstrated. It
demonstrates that each person has the power.
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by his thought, to depress or raise the
dominant note of his life; that each person can
raise or lower the pitch of his expression; that he
can control himself in all his being, thus becoming
self-controlled.
The possibilities of this Discovery cannot as yet
be dreamed, but that it is the Greatest of all human
discoveries, the century will demonstrate. Thought
-will yet control, where now we use the lesser forces.
Nature's finer forces will need no crude machinery;
\vill need no dynamos, no locomotives, no wires.
The only dynamo is the Human Soul; its wires
and tracks will be Thoughts. But the material
world will be the play-ground of the Conscious
Life in Man, and he, because he is "Conscious Law,"
be "King of Kings."
VI.
THE VICTORY OVER DEATHS .* *
Levitation, Materialization, and De-materialization*
The final enthronement of man over all material things and
conditions, is the very end or purpose of creation, or of the cul-
mination of life in this world. Dr. J. H. Dewey, in "The New
Age Gospel."
Thou hast made him a little lower than thyself and hast crown-
ed him with glory and honor; thou madest him to have do-
minion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things
under his feet. Psalmist.
This fact (Telepathy) has a more tremendous import than any
discovery of the age. Shelton, in Christian.
This new science (Telepathy) is yet in its formative stage, but
in its possible applications in the realm of psychology and
mental development, it promises to vastly transcend in its
emancipating and revolutionizing results, even those of elec-
trical science in the realm of physics. Dr. Dewey, in Christian.
The movements of heavy objects without any possible contact,
by Slade, was of common occurrence. Prof. Zollner, in "Trans-
cendental Physics."
Slade laid a book and a bit of pencil on the slate. * * * The book
vanished and, after having been looked for everywhere, it fell
several times from the ceiling. Baron Hcllenbach, in "Letter
in Transcendental Physics/'
She at times saw him (D. D. Home) while he was reading, sus-
pended in the air some 3 or 4 feet over the chair in which he
had been sitting. Bulwer Lytton, in "All the Year Round."
On one occasion, when a number of friends were present, Home
desired the windows to be opened and he floated out of one
and into another, 70 feet above the ground. Report by Lord
Lindsey of a seance at Lord Amberley's castle.
The vase was a large one of stone, holding some six "gallons of
water, yet as the Fakeer's knotted staff was pointed toward
it, it began to slide along the court, reached the open glass
doors which divided the apartment * * * There it paused, then,
as if reflection had ensued, it slowly floated up a loot from the
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ground, came in through the glass doors, then gently subsided
to the ground and still slid on, until it stopped at the Fakeer's
feet. "Art Magic."
If such things (thought transference and movements of physical
bodies without physical contact) are, they are of more impor-
tance to philosophy than the whole body of physical knowledge
we now have, and of vast importance to humanity. Prof. A.
E. Dolbear, in "Matter, Ether and Motion."
I predict that, when once he has found the way, he will have no
use for all the cumbrous machinery called science, nor for much
of the present mechanical or motive power. Occult manifesta-
tions of the One Power will do all that is now done, and more,
with less labor, cost or friction, than is possible even with
liquid air. "Chalk marks don't draw cars," once said a rail-
road man. But we are much nearer that time when some man-
ifestation of force less tangible than chalk marks will draw
cars than was the possibility of lightning drawing them when
Franklin drew it from the clouds. Henry Harrison Brown,
in "How to Control Fate through Suggestion."
The laws of the Conservation of energy, evolution, etc., which
express the Unity of Nature, are at present dead laws and
statements, being merely intellectual; but when man comes to
feel, as a distinct sensation, his continuity with external objects
and his absolute inward unity with all grades of creatures,
man, animals, plants, etc., Nature One, namely Self then
those laws, or facts, will have their right and everlasting place
in his cosmos, the outer or intellectual form will drop off, but
the facts themselves the feelings will be found to be eternal.
Edward Carpenter, in "Modern Science."
Thought is Power! Where is the limit to Power?
What is the limit to Power? When these questions
are answered, the limit to Thought is found. Power
in every manifestation is limitless. Limitation is
in the form of manifestation; in Power, never.
All is Motion! One Energy! One Motion! One
Power! One God! These affirmations are synony-
mous. Manifestations differ: Cause is One. * 'Dif-
ferences of administration, but the same Lord,"
said Paul, with rare insight. "Diversities of opera-
tion, but it is the same God," he says again. Again
he says, showing that the words had to him the
same variety of meaning that we give to Energy,
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Motion, and Spirit: "All these worketh that one
and selfsame Spirit." It has taken two thou-
sand years for man to attain the scientific percep-
tion of the fact which Paul perceived intuitively.
The discovery of the Law of Conservation of
Force enabled man, sixty years ago, to say: "All
Energy is One." Man's Greatest Discovery enables
him now to say: Thought is a form of Energy! The
Universe is one Substance, whose manifestation is
Motion.
"One God, one Law, one Element,
And one divine, far off event,
Toward which the whole creation moves,"
says a later poet than Paul, from the same intui-
tion.
What is the limit of Power? The limit of wind,
wave, water, steam, electric power? What is the
limit of light, magnetism, X-ray, heat, and grav-
ity? They are limitless.
By the use of musical tones, Keely raised a power
he could not control. It destroyed his every ma-
chine, softening Bessemer steel to the consistency
of putty. He no more knew the Power he had
evoked, than did Franklin know that which he
drew from the cloud to make chips and straws
dance between his key and the ground.
Where is the limit to Electricity? There is none.
What is the limit to its application? Human igno-
rance! All limitations to Power in any direction
are those imposed by man. Nature in one form of
motion is as limitless as in any other. Behind
each manifestation of Power lies Infinity. Deep
and enduring as the glacial marks on the granite
ledge, let this truth be etched upon your intellect,
then you will have no trouble with my thought.
All is One and that One is Omnipresent; not omni-
present in any one manifestation of Power, but in
all. The possibility of Infinity lies behind every
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manifestation. There is no limit to Everpresent
Power.
Beyond all dream of man, is the possibility of the
One. As sand-grain to a world, is any dream of
achievement compared to the Possible. Beyond
the possibilities which man has found in the lower
pitched vibrations, lie those which he now dimly
sees in the vibrations of Thought and Love. To
know Power, to apply Power is the whole possible
endeavor of man. From cave to " White City,"
he has only learned how to apply Power. What
Power can do, he can do, for he is Power!
Until now, he has sought and used Power outside
himself. Now, through his Greatest Discovery,
Thought is Power! Love is Power! Life is Power!
he realizes that the soul is only a CENTER OF POW-
ER IN POWER. He has within himself all Power.
Thus Man has, whenever he will take it, Dominion
over all other manifestations of Power.
Man has just awakened to a knowledge of his
place in Unity. He is entering his "kingdom."
Where Law heretofore ruled him, he will now, as
Conscious Law, rule Law, and thus BE Law. O,
the grandeur, beauty, glory, and the Almightiness
of this Discovery! Lift up your heads, ye eternal
gates and the king of glory shall come in! Who
is this king of glory? The Lord strong and mighty!
But that Lord is Man, coming to consciousness
of his Power.
Among the possibilities that lie within the Power
of Thought are those already mentioned and others
hinted at, in the excerpts that introduce this essay.
Knowledge is but the recognition of Power. Class-
ified knowledge is Science. Science applied is Art.
There is as yet no Science of Thought, and but
very little knowledge of it. The Art of Thinking
is almost unknown.
It is the glory of the new century that it starts
DISCOVERY. ... 4-7
with the glimmerings of the Light which will yet
illumine all mankind. That will make Illuminati
of every one. That this Light is now unknown,
"rejected of men," was to be expected. That many
who have seen this Star in the West are blinded
by its Light, is necessary to their evolution. But
in the movements called "Spiritualism," Christian
Science , " " Divine Science , " " Mental Science , ' ' there
is born today the Savior that was to come. Christ
in Its second coming is here! The Advent already
IS. Light has broken through the vestments of
mortality and Immortality has come to light in
the discovery of Thought as Power.
The Science of Thought has begun. The Art of
Thinking is at hand. Man is learning How to
think and What to think. When he thinks as he
can and will think, there will be no sickness, disease,
poverty, accident, suffering, or want. This is as scien-
tific a prophecy as was ever made in a chemical
laboratory. "When I know how to harness steam,"
said Watt. When any one knows how to harness
thought to his desire, then will he not only mas-
ter all environment, but he will fulfill the prophecy
of Paul: "The last enemy to be destroyed is Death. ' '
Bodies are Thought-builded. They are Thought-
destroyed. What Thought does unconsciously
under Law, Thought can do consciously under
Law. Thought under Law builds diseased bodies.
Thought under Conscious Law will build imperish-
able bodies. Thought under Law destroys bodies.
Thought under Conscious Law will regenerate
bodies, will purify them, will refine them, will lift
them in their pitch until hands that feel only, and
eyes that see only, on the plane of the senses, will
also see and feel, at will, bodies that are still here
but unseen. The bodies in which men live, when
made under Conscious Law will be made and un-
made at pleasure, as the possessor shall raise or
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lower them in pitch, just as the musician changes
the pitch of his instrument. This Jesus did. "I
-will lay down my life and I will take it up again, ' '
he said. He laid his body in the tomb. He took
it up again. He passed through closed doors at
will. He ascended in the scale of vibrations until
he ''passed out of sight" of the gazers, but is here
still. This is within the Power of Thought. All
can and all will do this when they THINK
ARIGHT.
Some of the possibilities of Thought are shown
in the transference of messages from mind
to mind, the transference of pictures by Clair-
voyance or of individuality by Psychometry. When
I hold the letter of an absent person, a stranger,
and once come into sympathetic vibration with
him, I become him for the time being. I feel as he
feels, I think as he thinks, I act as he acts, for I
LET his thought act through me and I become
transformed for the time being into his image.
Mental Healing, which is only Thought and Love
transference, is a fact, testified to by thousands.
Healing by Suggestion is testified to by other thou-
sands; Magnetic Healing, by millions. Success in
ever}^ walk of life, born from Right Thinking, is tes-
tified to by thousands more. Success by dollars,
books and arms is giving -way to Success by
Thought alone.
Horse and lion tamer and serpent charmer succeed
by the Power of Thought alone. Flora Paris
Howard tells in her book, ''Idols Dethroned," of
clearing a fruit garden of insects by concentrating
thought upon them. Mr. Boucher, whose article
appears in the "Addenda" to this book, controls
the rattlesnake on the prairie by thinking to it.
Many persons tell me of gaining in this way immu-
nity from flies, fleas and mosquitoes. Why not?
As the Mississippi carries driftwood, so -will the
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strong radiations from an individual as a center
of Power carry away all undesirable things, from
bacillus to man. Facts are easily found by him
who seeks them, that testify to the Power of
Thought to move bodies without physical contact.
Some things seem moved by persons who are in
bodies we do not see. Wherever they are, they are
human still. They can only use Power that is
open to all. When these facts of Telepathy and
Levitation are known, the observer can well say,
with Professor Dolbear of Tufft's College, that
they mean more for the future of mankind than
the whole body of phenomena with which science
at present deals. Soon will scientists see that all
present knowledge is primary and has its value
only as the first rung in the ladder leading from
the cave of matter to the plain of Motion, from
the darkness of body to the sunlight of Spirit.
As Power is unlimited, and as manifestations differ
only in the pitch of vibrations, we may learn to so
raise the pitch in which we manifest that we may
become invisible to those who can manifest only
upon the Lower-Octaves-of-Humanity. That this
is possible, that it is scientific, note what Art is
already doing. The solid iron becomes liquid when
man, by applying heat, raises its pitch. Applying
still more heat, it is so raised in its vibrations that
it passes from sight. But it is not destroyed. It
still IS. The Human Intellect cannot yet trace it,
but it exists as some thingm higher oetaves. Why
may it not be the foundation upon which man, in
his higher octaves, may stand?
When I go into a chemical laboratory, if I do not
become positive to the atmosphere, I see that
whole interior of the room as a transparent, irri-
descent solid. It is as real to me as is the spectrum
the Professor thro ws from the prism. He sees but
the spectrum. I see both the spectrum and the
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vibrations that are above the range of the spec-
trum. Because I so see, the professor thinks me
"a little off," if he does not say something more
strongly indicative of his belief in my insanity.
Apply this fact logically. Here is the demonstra-
tion of the claims so many make for physical immor-
tality. The question is not, Will Mrs. Eddy or
Mrs. Wilmans live forever without passing the
change we call death? The question is, Is death
a necessity? They are teaching Truth. They may
fail to demonstrate, but that failure will only be
the failure of those who failed -where Marconi suc-
ceeded. If others had not tried and failed, he
would never have succeeded. So, sometime it will
be demonstrated that Death is an unnecessary
procedure on the part of any person; then the Ego
will pass to the higher vibrations without it. As
iron is lifted, by the intensifying of its vibrations,
from solid to gaseous, so will man lift himself. He
is lifted now by sudden transition, by LAW. He
will lift himself as Conscious Law, gradually. By
Law he now goes through Death to other oc-
taves of life b} r chemical action. By Conscious Law
he will go without Death, by Thought action.
While he located Life, Cause and God outside him-
self, he was subject to the Unconscious Law that
controlled the without. When he locates Cause and
God, as he does Life, within himself, then will he
BE law. Since he is "Spirit conscious of itself,"
since he says, "I AM!" he must become Conscious
Law and, as such, he passes at will up and down
the scale of vibrations.
All who once had these coarse bodies we call mor-
tal, are now somewhere on the infinite scale of
vibrations. They are bodies still. They who made
themselves Light before the change, are now cen-
ters of Light; are not in bodies, but are bodies of
Light. Those who did not so develop while in
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these mortal bodies, are now centers of less radia-
tion, and are bodies of the grays, merging into the
blacks, until at last they, who lived most carnal-
ly, are in blackness, lost even to clairvoyant vision.
The only difference between the Caffir Negro and
the saintly mother is the place each occupies in the
infinite scale of radiations. Each person is ' 'sensi-
ble" to us if he is within the limit of our perception.
If he is without the limit of our recognition of vi-
brations, he does not exist for us.
All the difference between the cave-man and the
scientist who finds his bones, is the pitch of the
radiations that come from each as a center of
power. The modern scientist sees and knows
more than he knew who left the Neanderthall skull.
It \vould have been natural for the cave-dweller to
deny the knowledge of Darwin, but it is insanity
for the Darwins of today to deny the phenomena
of thought as presented by Mental Science. They
who will not accept these facts are mental cave-
dwellers. They are living in matter are dwelling
in the cave of the body. They will seem to the
reader of this book in the year 2000 as the Mound
Builders seem to us.
The range of vibration is limitless. Evolution is
but the passing from octave to octave of Life God
and making It, or Him, manifest to sense. By
Right Thinking, we may pass thus to immortality
as easily as we have passed from post horse to
electric motor.
This possibility has been prophesied by seer and
metaphysician. But it is the claim of the author
that this is the first time that the prophecy of
Jesus and Paul has been scientifically demon-
strated. No scientific demonstration was possible
until thought had been demonstrated as a Mode
of Motion. That once determined, all the rest
follows with the certainty that invention followed
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the discovery of the Law of Conservation. By
right thinking , we may develop our sight so that
-we can see beyond the range of telescope. In the
same way , we may learn to live above the plane of
the senses.
Mrs. Eddy, Mrs. Wilmans, T. J. Shelton and others
have seen this from intuition and have verified it
from metaphysics. Their vision is true. These
essays upon "Man's Greatest Discovery" is the
first attempt to bring Immortality without death
into harmony with physical science, and to make
Thinking, Living, and Immortality parts of a
Universal Science, whose primary chapter is Phys-
ics, and the last is Soul.
ALL those who are today believing and teaching
"The Conquest of Death" are Johns in the wilder-
ness of materiality , crying: "Repent! turn in your
thought, and live above the sense life, and you
shall never die. Think, 'Live forever/ and you will
live forever!"
This is no new thought to me. By intuition, I saw
it in 1870. I began to lecture in 1873 upon "The
Victory over Death," in which I prophesied death
would be no more. It was then only a logical
conclusion. For these thirty years, I have been
seeking and \vaiting for the scientific evidence. Not
till the writing of these essays did I find it. In do-
ing so, I have found it for all humanity. The seer
comes first, with his vision; the philosopher next,
with his reason; the scientist last, with his Law.
In these essays is given the Law. They are more
important to humanity than any ever before given
the press. I know this is an extraordinary claim.
But it is the importance of the Truth presented
and not the man who writes, nor the way in
which they are given. These essays are a center
of Thought Vibrations that will shed Light when
I am forgotten. I am the instrument for Truth.
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I wish no credit for them they wrote themselves.
They have opened to me a new world. They have
lifted me into the seventh heaven with Paul. I
KNOW them truth. That is enough. This is the
first time I have thrust my personality upon my
readers. As evidence as to the instrument through
whose hand Truth wrote "Man's Greatest Discov-
ery," this must, for future generations, go on the
record. So let it be!
4i Man's Greatest Discovery," Telepathy, banished
death from the world. It fulfills the promises of
the Ages. It opens the door for the new century
to usher in the Millennium. * 'Death is swallowed
up in Victory." But greater than this is the proph-
ecy of Human Power given us by the Greatest
of Seers. His matchless line, that is at once per-
fect poetry and perfect science, that is religion and
fact, shall close this series of essays, written from
the Illuminated I AM, and for the generations that
are capable of hearing the Word,
"And Conscious Law is King of kings."
A Successful Experiment in Levitation.^
I requested a warm personal friend and an ex-pupil
-who possessed a power of concentration I have
never seen surpassed, one who in his youth became
a most successful operator in the Art of Sugges-
tion, and who is now a most successful healer, to
write for NOW an account of an experiment which
he once related to me. He has kindly done so. It
comes as a demonstration of the truth in "Man's
Greatest Discovery." Here is his letter:
ABILENE, KAN.
Dear Mr. Brown:
You ask me to relate the experiment in Suggestion in which I
caused a subject to float. It was during the year of the won-
derful experiments in Hypnotism and Occult Forces that at-
tracted the attention of my friends and the public 1896.
Having spent much time and study upon the Science of Hyp-
notism and the Art of Healing, my principle-; teachers being
Prof. A. W. Connett and Henry Harrison Brown, I attained
quite a notoriety by my public work. Among the many ex-
periments that seemed to border on the miraculous, and yet
are only a demonstration of the power of the mind over the
matter, were some that cause us to believe that some day we
shall counteract gravitation by mental concentration. My
experiment was as follows:
My subject was a physically strong gentleman, weighing about
one hundred and fifty pounds He had been with me a number
of years and I had experimented with him from my first lessons.
He was a perfect sensitive. Having never failed in any experi-
ment, and believing that all things are possible to him who
knows the law, I decided to try to counteract the action of
fravity.
had him lie on his back upon a carpeted floor. I determined
that I would raise him from the floor without any physical aid.
I believed this possible from the fact that arms and limbs could
DISCOVERY. ... 55
be raised by my simply making passes over them and willing
them to move.
I then placed him in a cataleptic condition, causing his muscles
to become perfectly rigid. At the same time, I suggested to
him that he would be raised from the floor simply by my Sug-
gestion. I made passes from his head to his feet, as if I was
charging his body with my magnetic force, all the while orally
Suggesting, and concentrating my own mind on this thought:
"Now you are in a perfectly susceptible condition and will re-
ceive every \vord I give you. You cannot hear nor think of
anything but what I allow you to think. My thoughts are
your thoughts and my will is your Law. Your body is be-
coming lighter. It is losing weight. As I charge it with my
magnetism, I take away all resisting force and your body be-
comes lighter than a feather. The least wind will blow you
away. Now you are getting lighter, lighter, lighter, and you
soon will float. You are now gradually rising; you are float-
ing, floating. You are floating."
As I gave the last suggestions, after making the long passes
from head to feet, I placed my hands over his breast and raised
them as if to raise him with them. As I did so, his body lifted
clear from the floor with the exception of his feet. I passed my
hand along under him until I reached his feet, so that 1 know
his body was several inches from the floor. It was thus sus-
pended for at least one minute, then it gradually settled down.
He relaxed and awoke.
The experiment produced a peculiar effect upon the subject. For
several days afterwards he said that he felt as if he was walk*
ing in the air and was light-headed. He refused to experiment
farther.
I firmly believe that, with repeated trials, his body could have
been made to float. Yours for Love and Truth,
OTIS L. BOUCHER, D. M.
Verifications of the Position of the Author,
In the thought of this Discovery, attention is call-
ed to "Mack, the Boy Wonder," and his feats of
overcoming gravity. The editor of the Magazine of
Mysteries says: "We have closely questioned him
as to the cause of his strange power. 'Years of
steadfast concentration,' was his reply."
56 MAN'S GREATEST
Dr. L. Miller of Duluth, Minn., sends an interest-
ing letter. He says:
The articles upon "Man's Greatest Discovery" and "The Miss-
ing Link," are bringing together -what should have long ago
been summarized, for Thought is Omnipotent Creator. I am
sure that a great truth is connected with breathing the "Breath
of Life" with simultaneous physical effort. Mack, the Boy
Wonder, was in my office yesterday. He claims that he does
not breathe deeply to perform levitation of the body while
some one lifts it from the \vaist, but he simply concentrates his
mind and his body is easily lifted up to the heighth of the lifter's
head. On the other hand, when he concentrates against being
lifted, a man has great trouble in raising him from the floor.
Asked for an explanation of this gift, he says it is psychic; and
indeed this seems the only shadow of explanation. He says he
is nervous, and thinks his power may in time leave him. He
can also increase his weight on the scales.
So writes Dr. Miller. "Psychic" names, but explains
nothing. What do you mean by it? How do you
do it? What is the Power? We are after this. I
claim it is THOUGHT. Methods may be number-
ed by millions. It is "concentration," but concen-
tration of what? Concentration ol some Power?
What is the power?
As to the nervousness, that would come from the
excitement and from the life led as an exhibitor;
also from ignorance in using the Power, not to
manifest health and intelligence, but simply to
show what he can do. When he shall think of Use
and Health with his exhibitions, he will neither be
nervous nor fear loss. If there be loss, it will be
because he fears it.
From another source, I find this statement about
Mack:
On the scales he can vary his weight (123 Ibs.), tipping the
scales at 800 or at 98. In the Chicago American office, he de-
fied the strongest person there to lift him from the ground, and
no amount of energy seemed able to raise him.
Scientists have studied him and can give no clear
explanation. One great Professor thinks it a form
of "nerve resistance." Which is as clear as a fog
DISCOVERY. ... 57
to obscure but not to reveal. Try THOUGHT,
Professors, and declare your theories of gravity
false and weight to be merely a sensation' that one
need not feel when he will not.
Similar reports of the Power of Thought through
concentration come to us concerning Viggo Lerche
of Alto Pass, 111. This is the press report of his
manifestations :
He used an iron poker, several feet long and quite heavy. Stand-
ing it against the wall at an angle of 45 degrees, he seated him-
self a few feet distant and focused his eyes on the top of the
poker. Within a few seconds, it began trembling, then gradu-
ally rose to a perpendicular position. After standing a moment,
it moved toward him in short juinps.
Mr. Lerche can affect any wood or metal object, such as um-
brellas or canes, in the same way. He can be induced to exert
his strange mental power only a short time before going to
bed, as he says it makes him deathly sick unless he can take
refuge in sleep.
While attending a Copenhagen college several years ago, he
accidentally discovered his power. He was sitting on the lawn
with his face in his hands and his eyes on a small stick at his
feet, lamenting a quarrel he had had with a schoolmate, when
suddenly he noticed the stick wriggling. Wondering if he had
gone crazy, he rubbed his eyes, took his bearings, and again
looked at the stick. Again it showed signs of life. Then he
realized that he had been endowed with a wonderful gift.
Helen Wilmans says of this in Freedom:
Of course I cannot be sure that what is told of Viggo Lerche is
true, bnt from what I know of the power of thought and of
the power of the individual to transmit his thought to another
person, it would not surprise me to know that the statement is
positively true.
It has been noticed that in treating a patient, even though the
healer addresses the mind of the patient, the thinking part of
him that the thought he sends out seems to enter the patient's
body first; that it seems to make its impression there even be-
fore the patient's brain perceives that trie impression has been
made.
In lull accord with the position assumed in " Man's
Greatest Discovery," that man will use Thought,
58 MAN'S GREATEST
or Life, as a motive power, is this extract from an
article in St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Dr. Charles Tuckett, a retired St. Louis Doctor, is exhibiting-
in his home, at 4563 North Market street, the most extraordi-
nary little railway in the city a railroad whose motive power
is the nervous energy of the human body.
Dr. Tuckett believes a time is coming when science will so con-
fine the energy in the human system that, by grasping a lever,
a man may run his automobile with the life force that is in him.
To illustrate his discovery of nervous energy as a motive pow-
er, Dr. Tuckett has strung a copper wire in his home and has
placed upon this a tiny truck. By rubbing his hand on a piece
of paper and hanging it on the truck, he can pull the car for-
ward, or back it, across the room by holding his hand a few
feet away, the principle being that of the magnet.
Experiments.
From the many reports of experiments, the follow-
ing reports are selected:
Mrs. M. A. Winans, of Kansas, writes:
I have helped to perform that experiment in September NOW
many years ago, but did not realize where the power lay. Four
girls could lift a heavy man with ease when properly done.
That is, there must be no foolishness nor laughing mixed with it.
C. H. Doty of Juniata, Neb., writes:
When I was a boy, somewhere from 1837 to 1840, we perform-
ed the experiment of "blowing each other up." One
would lie on his back on a table or counter. Several, say four
or eight, would stand on each side of him with one finger ex-
tended under him. Then all were to blow a long, steady, con-
tinuous breath upon his breast until we felt somewhat light-
headed. Then we raised our fingers and he would come up
with us. I would like your explanation.
Here is the explanation: THOUGHT IS POWER.
Power can be applied in millions of ways.
Onfa, of New Mexico, writes:
A sea captain, at an evening party in San Francisco, gave an
illustration of what he termed an "Oriental Trick." He se-
lected six young ladies, then placed himself upon the floor in a
rigid condition, and placed the ladies, one at his head, one at
feet, and two on each side one at elbow and knee. They were
DISCOVERY. ... 59
then commanded to lean over, each placing the index finger of
the right hand under the points mentioned. The order was
given to breathe in unison and to lift with the finger with the
first breath. At first breath the ladies raised the captain level
with their heads, and then with the second lifted him above
their heads and lowered him to an upright position by first re-
moving the finger from the feet, then from the knees, balancing
him for a moment on his elbows ere his feet reached the floor.
This story was told me by one of the ladies who took part in
the experiment.
I quote from Edward Everett Kale's book, "Low-
ell and His Friends," page 190, this remarkable
reliable case of Telepathy:
The person who was the recipient of the message tells it thus:
I spent the night before Commencement on a lounge in Hollis
21. I could not afterwards remember dreaming of anything
in particular; but as I woke I heard
"And what they dare to dream of, dare to die for."
Rather good sentiment," 1 said to myself; "it seems appropri-
ate to the day" then just dawning. And so I dropped off
again.
The dinner was spread in the green. < My seat
was just about the middle. Mr. Lowell was about under the
window of Hollis 21. When he arose he waited until all was
quiet before he commenced reading. (It was his masterpiece,
"The Harvard Commemoration Ode.") As he came to the
words,
"Their higher instincts knew
Those love her best,"
I began to feel, not that I had heard this before, but that some-
thing was coming that was familiar.
"Who to themselves are true,"
went on the reader. "Hullo!" I said to myself, "I ought to
know the next line."
"And what they dare"
"Yes, but it isn't going to rhyme," and this without distinctly
repeating the rest of the line.
But when he observed, "to die for," would not rhyme with
"True," Lowell came to his relief by saying:
"And what they dare to dream of, dare to do."
Says Mr. Hale: "So well authenicated a story of sympathy
and telepathy seems worth repeating."
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