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Eternal Youth at Eighty & Beyond

This book is dedicated to all who struggle to understand what Life is all about, who desire to know from where they came, why they are here and where they are going. It is dedicated to their discovery of an answer that gives them what they truly seek — an identity with the Source of Power to which they may turn for comfort, and advice that will help them to bring forth all the potential Powers they brought with them in the beginning and still waiting to be expressed.

This book is not about diets or exercise, except to outline the need for both if one is to have anything approximating health and freedom from pain and tears. The time and effort required in dieting and exercising appals most people. Just the act of contemplation keeps them from starting either program. Others are too busy pursuing the goddess of success most evenings, and are too tired in the mornings to go through the great ritual. Usually, we continue "putting off" diet and exercise until something physical hits, and diet and exercise become "musts."

We include, at the end of this book, the reasons for dieting and some uncomplicated exercises as simple charts or schedules to follow. They are the minimum in "musts" if one is to have 100 percent efficient physical equipment for daily living.

Authors have written thousands of books on psychology and metaphysics, and countless others on diets and exercise. Each has something good to offer, and some are better than others. Still, the beginner may be greatly confused when dealing with them and deciding which to follow.

The only way to avoid confusion is to take the best from each. Work at it until you find the right combination of foods and exercises to suit your individual needs and schedule. Then hold to the use of the schedule, breaking the routine only often enough to make life just a bit more spicy. Nothing works unless we follow it continuously.

Identity, Purpose & Knowing

Why are we writing "another book?" Well, we need to cover all the different phases of living and their impact on each another in one book. It seems we need more real effort to live life based on its interrelationships instead of by unrelated broken-off bits of this and that. Without integration, we cannot organize and fit all life’s phases together to form a smoothly working whole.

This book seeks first to give us an identity with our Source: "Where did I come from?" Next, it seeks to establish our contact with that Source: "Why did God create me, then leave me out here all alone?"

After establishing a perfect original, completely natural contact, we move on to answer the next question: "How can I know that I am making this contact?" Then the final question, "When do I make this contact?" The answer is now and it is always now. Now is an escalator in time and space carrying us away from eternity on one hand and into eternity on the other hand. It is always now.

This book attempts to explain our fourfold being. We must obey Laws on each of four levels to be strong, healthy and happy. If we omit one level, we are bound to be lopsided in our living and unbalanced in some way. All illness stems from an imbalance somewhere in our fourfold relation to life. Laws govern us from the spiritual to the mental life, through the emotions and so on into the visible portion called the physical life of the body. The outer physical portion of our being is only a machine upon which life registers itself for us to see through physical eyes.

A Textbook for Life

The universal basis for this book is found in the Bible, a book on life covering every phase of our expression. Stripped of all nonessential and controversial matters, it is just a textbook on how we are to live perfectly. Everyone can find a character in real life to fit the worst and the best of Bible characters. They were only people trying to get along under difficult situations.

The New Testament is the greatest book ever written or given to the world on psychiatry. The great Teacher, Jesus the Christ, knew everything that is to be known about the silly weaknesses and failures of men.

Jesus trained twelve men the whole way in little more than three years. They were ordinary, almost uneducated men, who hadn’t much to offer him but their love and loyalty. Two thousand years ago the twelve covered everything that needs digging out in man now. They knew what would cause dry rot of the mind and heart, and wrote about it. We can find every how-not-to-do-it for today in what they wrote there.

So, though we may reject the Bible in part or totally, though we may repudiate Jesus as a Messiah, we need to accept both as a way for perfect living. Beyond its beauty and poetry, the Bible is a practical textbook, when sought as such. It provides an "easy" way to learn how to live properly, without sagging at the seams and dragging our heels in the dust.

Think about living life in joy and being more alive every year. If these words should help give you a reason for accepting fourfold life as the whole of life, we will have accomplished its purpose. The world will be one step nearer to becoming the "deathless, ageless, abiding" life that is immortal and Eternal Youth right now.

God-Consciousness From the Beginning

Memories from childhood are still as clear in my mind as when they happened, even after eighty years of living and all manners of experience. They are the reason and basis for the material in this book.

With many old daily experiences faded or wiped out entirely, with all the people involved long since gone, these episodes have lived on. Each has a bearing on the direction of my search and how I found the material in this book.

These episodes set the keynote of my life. They opened a door, always swinging wide, which nothing that ever happened could close.

I have spent eighty wonderful years living the life more abundant, a life of asking, seeking, knocking and always finding the right answer at the right time. Not always at my right time but always at the right time!

First Memory — Four Years

The first mental image, still vivid as a conscious memory of being told about age, was of being lifted high enough in gentle, loving arms to look down the length of a narrow, peculiar bed. I fully remember thinking that here lay the Sleeping Beauty of the fairy tale. The shining white satin gown and the red rose held between the fingers of lovely, crossed hands impressed me. My feeling of fascination never faded for the beautiful Titian hair and exquisite features of the sleeping lady.

My beautiful mother’s voice lingers a lifetime later, telling the small child that this was her Aunt Lenora wearing the gown she was to have worn that night as Marguerite in Faust. I was not consciousness of anything else, not the room, traveling there or home again, but fully aware of a brilliant white light covering the "sleeping" lady and her beauty.

Above all, a memory still alive at eighty of a very childish vow, followed and fulfilled years later, to grow up to be like Aunt Lenora and sing in a white satin gown.

Second Memory — Six Years

Picture a small girl sitting with her back against a high board fence, looking out over a sea of tall grasses waving in the light breeze blowing across the prairie. Her eyes see just above the tops of the tall grasses, so the view appeared as the colorful picture in the book she held.

Jean d’Arc, sword held high, sat upon her white horse at the head of her army. The child’s vision encompassed a vast, vague host of angelic beings, all marching on some indistinct pilgrimage, but most definitely led by the six-year-old.

Third Memory – Eight Years

Inside the house behind the high board fence, a mature eight-year-old is caring for a small two-year-old sister on a dark, snowy afternoon in midwinter. Their parents are attending a communion Sunday at their church. The community is on the outskirts of a city, with only twice-a-day one-car steam engine service for transportation. The afternoon train will arrive at the crossroads at 5:30 p.m. on this dark day, with early twilight coming around 4:00 p.m.

The child is responsible and quite able to keep a wood fire going in the stove, though not allowed to light a kerosene lamp. At dusk, she heats milk on the range and makes toast from bread already cut. Fruit and pudding are left for them on the table.

The children undress and go to bed as dusk falls, although the room is not dark because of the snow on the ground. A coyote awakens them, howling at the edge of the forest beyond the high board fence. The older child shivers from fear but remembers to call upon the Lord Jesus whom her parents have taught her to love and trust. She really knows nothing of how to pray beyond, "Now I lay me down to sleep."

Nevertheless, she looks around for Jesus and there he is! Just as mother and grandmother had told her he would be. A pearly-rosy light filled the whole room, and he stands there on a cloud just at eye level with his shepherd’s crook, the angels round him, smiling as they should.

Here is born her lifelong vision of Jesus, alive and available just as he has promised, her lasting, lifelong freedom from fear stems from this memory. His presence was not due to any dream state of consciousness. It was real. He spoke no special words but he was there. Nothing could touch or take from her that shining, beautiful presence. Afterward she always knew!

Fourth Memory — Ten Years

A young girl is just becoming conscious of her identity. Her mother has been healed of a severe stomach disorder and joins a small church that believes in healing. The church is founded upon the revelations of a twelve-year-old girl. The vision of Jean d’Arc revives in her heart and mind, slowly growing to the point of remembering early visions. Desire is reborn also to become a girl-leader and write a book of inspired revelations. The visions are still vague and indefinite but desire is becoming stronger each day.

She engages in much pondering and rereading of the book by the girl-prophetess, also pondering the required daily chapter of the Bible. Her sense of consecrated dedication is growing and increasing.

Fifth Memory — Twelve Years

As a twelve-year-old, she finally decides to be baptized by immersion. Her dedication and consecration are very real, making deeply binding vows. It was a winter baptism in an icy cold stream. The minister’s alpaca robe floated atop the stream as he led her, one of many, into the water.

When she recovers from the complete blackout and illness caused by swallowing part of the icy stream, she has no memory of anything except the crowd singing, watching the immersions, and a picture of the minister’s long legs covered with lambs’ wool to the ankles, and the shivering cold.

The feeling of consecration is gone entirely. There was no high exhilaration or sense of ecstasy caused by feeling closer to God — all of which they had promised. She had no desire left to become a prophetess or a Jean d’Arc, no sense of fulfillment or long-anticipated glory.

She has a feeling instead of being let down in some way, yet also a real sense of relief. Feeling so relieved confuses her, and the sense of having completed something necessary, of having finished something that "had to be done."

Sixth Memory — Fourteen Years

"Common sense" buries dedicated vision beneath its practical ways of the world in school and social life. A very critical attitude takes over consecration as she sees smug, self-righteous faces under heavy sermons telling of death and what happens after they put the body in the ground.

A deeper resentment against those who teach and believe that God could leave some of His creations out of His Heaven. The years between twelve and fourteen build a full resentment against being treated in such ways after being created by an all-powerful God.

Finally, she completely repudiates both ideas, especially about burial, and begins building the presumptuous idea that any worthwhile God must be tired of looking down upon faces so grim and so self-satisfied. A desire grows to do something about it, but she does not know what to do or how to go about it.

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The Creative Tools of Ascension
The Long Pilgrimage to Reach Eighty

I have lived eighty years! Every year is a challenge to seek more life, to learn more about life, to grow more in grace.

Years are a challenge to live! I mean LIVE, not loitering along half-alive, not seeking to escape from life, not hiding when life’s blows hit hard, not blaming God or man when no one offers shelter or sympathy, not wearing a robe of self-pity because "no one ever understands."

I started nearly seventy years ago, ignorant of psychology. I had no idea of what the Laws of Life meant or that there were such special Laws. All I had was my pride, which as it turned out, has served me well. Had I known in the beginning of my pilgrimage to eighty just where my desire for knowing would take me, I might have grown discouraged just thinking about it. I might never have taken that necessary first step on the highway to Eternal Youth.

My pride demanded that I face whatever came along each day and take it with my chin up and a smile, always making the world believe I liked it, had been waiting for it all my life and that it was the frosting on my cake! Those first decades were spent living day by day, growing into maturity, belonging to an old-fashioned family and marrying in my seventeenth year. I had been raised in a church, sang in a church and loved the church with its ritual.

I recovered from a twelve-year-old’s disillusionment to a renewed sense of consecration and devotion, not to a church, not to a minister, but to the teachings Jesus gave in the Sermon on the Mount. Early vows compelled me to the determination to follow every Law faithfully. Added to the Sermon on the Mount were six words I found in the Bible, which represented exactly the kind of God I wanted to worship, a God who is "deathless, ageless and abiding" and the same "yesterday, today and forever."

Since my one desire was to live life and not leave it, I was determined to keep my body "ageless." With this goal in mind always, I began to search for Laws that would help me to live the right way and to keep my body as perfect as possible. I bravely started to discover for myself what Law meant and to "work out my own salvation."

The answers did not come all at once. The lessons I had to learn were hard, and year after year found me still searching. Two decades later a library opened where I lived. Although it was limited, I discovered some ancient teachings on Law, and staying youthful as part of honoring the body as a "Temple of the Living God."

Laws for Living

Looking back toward this humble beginning, it seems almost impossible that all the Laws incorporated in this book have been unfolded to me. I have tried them all in my eagerness to learn and to know. Very soon after starting, they first began to teach me temporary self-control and then the eternal beauties of soul-conquering.

My first self-made Law was to show God a smiling face. This worked wonders for me in the world of sales, which circumstances forced me to enter. I had to provide for two small boys.

Joining salesmanship classes, and self-interest, gave me the second Law and both worked for me as Laws of self-discipline and self-control.

If I were to have salary increases to meet my growing needs, I must please everybody. To do this, I decided I must never "miss a trick." Nothing must get by me, so I learned one of the greatest of all Laws of Success, never miss a detail!

Nothing is too small to be overlooked. This led me to see where others were neglecting details and I began to collect every detail left undone around me. It not only paid me great dividends in salary and promotions but made me alive and alert in mind and body.

Because I felt sorry for God having to look upon such homeliness, I learned to smile and laugh. Because I needed salary increases, I learned to pay Attention to Details. This has given me wide-open eyes and a quickened brain capacity. How it worked!

Through picking up the details neglected by others, one might naturally feel that one had become a doormat. Well, one might if the "picker-upper" labors under self-pity. However, here pride of identity comes in: A smile always protects one from becoming a "worm" or a "doormat." Something about taking everything with a smile is frustrating to those who love to use others as foot-scrapers or carpets!

To see so-called enemies frustrated also kept me from being hurt or humiliated. I learned positively to enjoy seeing them unable to understand what had happened to them. In this way I learned a third Law, to mind my own business and forget the other fellow and his indoor sports!

Perfected Personal Expression

I do not know how long it was before I stumbled onto the next Law, which became the most important in my step from just self-control to soul-conquering. Suddenly, there it was. Others had given me much literature on right living, and I was discovering how many, many things I had to overcome. The fact that I was to become "as perfect as my Father in Heaven is perfect" bothered me.

It was in pondering this that I discovered my next step: I must stand and declare "This is good" no matter what it looked like on the outside. Not always could I mean the words when I said them but my devotion gave me one virtue. I realized that I had to try it, though I could not see the "how."

Conquering is a slow business at best and one’s ability fluctuates with the hours and what they bring. That fire-spitting, hydra-headed dragon and monster of self-pity would creep in at times and seek to take control. Through this very process, I saw the truth clearly.

When I stood and prayed with all my heart and soul for the Love of God to possess me, for that instant I was as perfect as my Father in Heaven, though I fell from grace in the next hour. Finally I began to know that when I did declare everything good, things had a chance to work themselves out for good, without any apparent help from me.

"This is Good" Recreates the Perfect

This new and perfect Law came to me when I was losing my vision. I must stand, or fall by everything I had ever believed. I had always been absolutely certain of God’s Presence and Power in my life. Now my living intensified itself in devotion, and I could act as if God already restored my eyes. Under such a test, self-interest fades. One has outer, positive confirmation that there is a Power that lifts and transcends beyond anything earth can present as an obstacle. One also finally gains Comprehension above any previous knowing.

We must make the call for more life earnestly and in deep devotion. Then God answers our call in every way, and for anything we require. It may hurt to stand and say "This is good" when everything on the outer is conspiring to make things look impossible. We must ignore the things that are contrary to our desires, and keep making the declarations.

My eyes did not return to perfect vision all at once. No instantaneous miracle was mine, but a building for strong, steady growth, which is sometimes much better than a speedy recovery. It took two years of continued declaring each day for my sight to grow stronger, until one day I forgot all about my eyes. There they were, perfect as they still are at eighty. I use them as much as I desire, without glasses of any kind.

The Law of Lifting

With this experience, I added another Law to my list of daily "musts": "And I, if I be lifted up," shall lift everyone who contacts me by silently declaring them perfect.

These Laws took me through a heavy "trial by fire." My vocal cords were torn loose in an accident. I awakened in the hospital to hear someone telling my son that I would never talk again. I earned my living through my voice, using it every day. Instantly I declared that what God had created in the beginning, He could recreate for me now, since I could not do it for myself nor could the doctors help.

The pain was tremendous as I kept forcing air through the vocal box. Still, I used the hoarse croak I had instead of a voice persistently, declaring it perfect a thousand times a day. It worked.

No trace remains in my speaking voice and my singing voice is coming back again. Not an old voice either! God’s Voice is youthful and beautiful and can never grow old. My vocal cords are not my voice; that is a vibration direct from the Source. All I could do was exercise and use what I had, still declaring and knowing that God can recreate anything He once created, for the mold is still in the Creative Mind of the Source.

This pilgrimage that started so long ago shall go on through all Eternities, for we can never comprehend all that we think we know now. Every Law we obey builds a new step in our personal escalator of life that can only go UP, never down.

When we live today in the most beautiful way we can imagine, all our tomorrows will be ever more wonderful. We will grow more youthful and beautiful because God works!

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You Can Reach Eighty Years on Atomic Energy

"Beloved, now are we children of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be."
I John 3:2

To live is to breathe. To breathe is to live! No one can stop breathing and live. From the inanimate through the whole animate world, everything on earth must use two factors in common, breathing and twenty-fours each day. From atom to man, breathing is the only way to be alive!

I found no short cut to eighty years. Life must be lived year by year and all the days between. Once born, we cannot escape from life. To become ill or unconscious does not stop life in any way. The hours, days and years keep right on rolling, piling up for every individual on earth, whatever his station in life, conditions or circumstances behind his problems. We have only two ways to follow, two choices to make in meeting life — either cowering behind something real or fancied while forever seeking escape, or head-on and unafraid.

Life’s hazards are the same for everyone, although the situations may be different. People may have different temperaments, but the need to live and breathe hour by hour is the same. It makes no difference that most pain and suffering are self-inflicted. Any failure to conform to life causes the breaking of Laws, which always reacts detrimentally upon the individual.

Life never conforms to any individual. Everyone, to live smoothly, must conform to life.

Agreeing & Adjusting

The greatest present lesson to learn is how to adjust to life and conform to time. The most depleting of all inner conflict comes from our inability to measure time correctly.

While we can easily adjust to the use of new timesaving machines, we find it difficult to adjust to new hours of leisure, because our emotional life is involved. We worry about wasting leisure hours and allow new time to slip by without using it for anything constructive. We must redeem time if we are to get enough good living out of twenty-four hours each day.

Opinions, prejudices and manmade laws to the contrary, we cannot change or set aside life’s hard realities to suit anyone’s whims or convenience. To seek escape from the physical body while shouting that there is no life after death proves nothing.

Any ordinary use of common sense should convince everyone of one inevitable fact: No one has conclusively proven nothingness instead of an afterlife. So, stacking up a few handy credits for use "over there" while waiting for the final reckoning might be better than awakening in some distant time and place to find that we need credits!

What pays us the greatest dividends? To accept life as we find it and to conform to the Laws as given, especially that of measuring time.

To spend our lives agreeing and disagreeing, adjusting and fighting, always adds more fuel to the inner conflicts. Never conquering our selfish demands that life conforms to whatever "poor little me" desires, is living life the hard way.

Inner conflicts rage consciously or unconsciously in our submerged portion, the subconscious. We can liken it to an iceberg with only the smallest tip rearing its head from the water. Only the smallest portion of our fourfold being shows above the surface, that portion known as the outer sheath. The physical body, upon which the reactions of the other three portions register, is all that the world sees or knows.

Breath Is Life

From our first cry as an infant to the last breath taken when we leave our earth body, we must breathe. We inhale ourselves into our bodies at birth and we exhale ourselves from them at transition, or what we call death.

Experience begins with that first breath of the newborn, and ends only when one takes the last earth breath. We call the time we spend between these two climactic experiences living.

The whole expression of our lives depends upon our breathing, what we think about breathing, how we breathe, and what emotions we send forth upon each exhalation. What we send out must return to us — Grandma always said the "chickens come home to roost!"

What Grandma did not know is that what we send out collects other "spirits" like unto itself and returns to us with everything it picked up on its travels around the world — everything like unto itself. This is why we repudiate things when they hit us; we feel we do not deserve such blows. Perhaps the thought going out on our breath was small, but now it has a family.

The Scientific Approach

Science is a form of revelation. Science combines all the same old substances that have always been here on earth waiting until we reach that point in development where we understand how to use them. We apply scientific principles to recombine old substances into new materials for construction and for daily living. All the new labor-saving devices make for easier living, but with them come the added responsibilities for handling the emotional complexities they have produced.

Science has now expanded from the physical, mechanical realm to study the submerged portion of life with its hidden mysteries. Science is uncovering vast inner realms of mind.

The still unexplored subconscious holds the reasons for all of our limitations. Science is becoming more concerned with the relationships between those submerged portions, which we cannot see with physical eyes but do exist. The unseen portions show themselves in the outer portion, in the physical body, speech and actions. Scientists know that what we knew as truth yesterday is not good enough for today’s living.

God: The Source of Power & Life

Most of our present unrest, uncertainty and limitations stem from one outstanding fact: Humanity has lost all contact with and awareness of a Source of Power greater than itself. We must have a conscious identity with an established Source of Power to lean upon, ready to be drawn upon whenever we need something greater than self.

In refuting the old idea of a personal God, humanity was broken into unidentified fragments. Then, because of our inner urge to have a Source of Power, we actually exalted ourselves into the place left empty in consciousness when we repudiated God. We then proceeded to exalt ourselves into insecurity because we had nothing left to depend upon outside self.

Humanity will never be complete, happy or even satisfied with only self to worship. This is the reason humanity, in its search for something greater than itself, follows demagogues and evil ideas.

Life itself fills us with an undying urge to follow something with devotion, something to which we may cling with faithfulness. Therefore, we come to the place where this compelling urge causes us to accept new ideas. We turn to today’s psychological findings and metaphysical principles to achieve a solid background and needed foundation for our lives.

Our Identity With Our Source

We soon discover that by study and practice we can establish a certain secure identity with a Source that is immutable, invincible, unchangeable and immovable. Our Source is ever there to be called upon; it fills all the emptiness, all the loneliness. Security takes their places, confidence and trust take over, holding us more securely than hope. An inner knowing fills our lives with new peace and joy.

For a long time, science refused to accept either psychology or metaphysics as exact sciences. Metaphysics deals entirely with that which is unseen, invisible. Psychology deals with the submerged world of mind. Until recently, we rejected what science could not "see" because we had no machines with which we could measure the "invisible" world. All this has changed because science itself is now proving what the practicing metaphysician has always known.

With machines of its own construction, science is now measuring the whole of the submerged portion of man. Scientific researchers are now producing technology and machines to prove what men in the past have proven individually for themselves through their own experiences.

All scientific calculations, after geometry, are based upon a metaphysically postulated "dot," which we extend into a line to form a plane. The little dot and line are not there, except by the grace of metaphysics in action.

There is no good reason why we, as individuals, may not postulate for ourselves an unseen Source of All Life, a Source from which we came and upon which we may draw for our life while we are "in the flesh" of an earthly body.

Mass: The Lowest Expression of Light

I am a spiritual, mental, emotional Being dwelling in a physical body. The body is not I.

Einstein led the way in proving that mass, energy and light are one substance with different rates of vibration. Therefore, we should find no difficulty in relating our being to our physical body or to the Source from which we came.

Light lowered in vibration finally becomes the mass of which all material things are formed, including the physical body, which we can see with our eyes. Just as steam can be lowered in vibration into ice, so does Law work to give us any heavy material substance.

One declaration of "Let there be Light" and we breathe that Light with every breath we inhale. Light inflates the atoms in our physical bodies, which when combined with the food we use for fuel produces the visible outer body.

Metaphysicians have declared that there is but One God or Being who expresses as all Mind, all Power, all Substance everywhere and in all things, animate or inanimate. This brings us automatically to the fact that the most important portion, the Source of All Life-portion of our fourfold being, must be the high spiritual portion. It is the Source of All, the beginning of our breathing all the potentialities, the attributes and qualities of the One God.

The Source is only Godlike in expression as us when we allow that the spiritual portion to govern our whole life. An individual is no more God than a thimble full of ocean water is the ocean. Yet, we can become anything we can envision for ourselves because we are not broken-off fragments, but have permanence as part of the whole.

Breath: Our Contact With the Source

God gave us breathing as our instant and constant contact with all the life in the universe. Breathing is personal, no one can breathe for another. No one can take our Source from us. From this concept of a Source of All Life comes such an assurance for daily living that man has never devised anything comparable.

Whether we call this postulated Source of All Life God, Being, Mind or Principle does not alter the fact of its existence. We can prove it by the same use of logic and reasoning that we apply to all science, but not wholesale.

We are fourfold, spiritual, mental and emotional with a body to dwell in. Each is a very distinct individual, each different from all others. Each must prove every Law of Life for himself or herself, individually and alone.

No one can prove God or Spirit for another. Our many choices about the path we must follow and the Laws we must accept determine our method of proving. We build our present decisions on all our past choices, experience and knowledge gathered through years of living.

Some knowledge we may have received from teachers, some from experience but all is available when we must decide. It needs no persuasion to convince the most hardened agnostic that every man has a mind of his own and is more than able to use it when choosing his own path and way of life.

Fourfold Man

We are fourfold in our universal nature: Spiritual, mental, emotional and physical. We must unfold on all four levels of consciousness simultaneously, if we are to avoid the outer world’s law of "decline," maintain perfect balance and hold to Eternal Youth.

To unfold on one level at the expense of the other three causes an imbalance or illness — spiritual, mental, emotional or physical — sometimes upon just one level but often on all four levels at once. It should be evident at once that if we leave out the spiritual portion, the other three levels will suffer from a life deficiency, the inevitable result of which is slow decline into old age.

If breathing is the only contact we have with the Source of All Life, then the highest spiritual breath must feed the other three levels. We must consciously breathe this Breath of Life deeply to permeate every portion of the individual. It is the inflowing Spirit of God as the Source of All Life, lifting, vitalizing, quickening, and purifying the whole being.

The Breath of Life

The Breath of Life moves through the mental life, down through the emotional life and into the actual body sheath. Deep, high breathing is the only possible way to keep the inner atomic sheath within the physical cells inflated with energy.

This is the Power of God, Light transformed into immediately available physical energy through the act of our breathing. Our life itself, all our actions, whether mental, emotional or physical, depends upon this God-given natural gift and ability to transform pure Light into Energy through our breathing.

Only high, deep breathing that consciously contacts the Source can furnish us with enough potential atomic power for our daily living. It is this potential energy held within the atoms of the cells in the physical body that we transform by explosion into the kinetic energy we use in every action of life, whether spiritual, mental, emotional or physical.

We can and do, by one consciously taken deep breath, transform this spiritual Light into the energy we need to run our life on all four levels of consciousness, especially the body in which we dwell.

So far, the air we breathe is free. Everything else requires an expenditure beyond just plain effort. Air is limitless, powerful in energy for our use and waiting for us to draw upon it for life. If we need more life, we need more conscious breathing.

Life is not found in creeds, dogmas or in rituals. These are man-formed means of seeking contact with our Source of All Life. All our thinking about God, repeating creeds, faith in dogmas, even kneeling for rituals cannot provide Power from our Source, although they may comfort us and give us a feeling of peace.

One deep, high breath, taken with gratitude for the gift of Light added to a sense of being lifted, will flood the whole body with Light and a feeling of strength. This Light-into-Energy feeling is youth itself in expression. It is Eternal Youth here and now, alive and alight with the Life of God.

Oriental philosophies emphasize the importance of breathing but fail to emphasize that we must obey Laws on all four levels. So, although breathing is life itself, much confusion has existed about the Law and about living.

If ordinary physical breathing were the whole answer, fewer people would grow old and lose their physical equipment through decline. The answer is not found with those who practice deep, conscious breathing just to stay young. Thousands of truth-seekers have done just that and lost their bodies from some malfunction at the very time when they could have been reaching their peak of usefulness and productiveness.

Law & The Breath of Life

Breathing is the first necessity for life and should take first place in our consciousness. However, we must also follow faithfully other definite, important Laws on the other three levels. This is the only way to keep pace with the vitalizing Power released to the outer body, the only way to take advantage of our heritage of Eternal Youth.

With conscious, deep breathing, the right kind of food and the right use of rest and exercise, our brain is capable and equipped to care for the physical metabolism completely and produce perfect health. It does, except where mental or emotional conflicts create interference with the body’s natural rhythms.

The metabolism continues while we sleep. Rebuilding the physical body at night can be done only under complete freedom from the weights imposed upon it by the mental and emotional stresses indulged in throughout the day.

When one does not believe in the spiritual portion, the breathing cannot reach high enough to supply what we need of condensed Light. The watered-down portion that enters the body is not great enough for each day’s energy consumption. The explosion that takes place within the atoms is in exact accord with the quality of energy released when we transform Light through breath.

Joy & Love Contact the Source

An athlete may or may not believe in the spiritual part of man when he breathes. Still, his joy of life in his love for the sport contacts the Source of All Life. He builds a beautiful physical body because of this contact. He touches upon the two great and necessary Laws of the mental-spiritual levels: Joy and Love, and his use of these Laws makes the high contact for him.

However, unless he has some spiritual realization, even the greatest athlete finally is subject to the old age idea. Not because he wore out his body or used it too much and too hard, but because he believes in the inevitability of earth’s laws of emergence, maturity, and decline.

Everyone is born under these earth laws of emergence, maturity and decline, but each has a choice along the way. We can either succumb to opinions, prejudices and self-indulgence, or accept the Laws of the spiritual life as our Source of Power and Life and live in Eternal Youth. Then emergence, maturity and decline become the Spiritual Laws of Emergence, Maturity and Ascension!

Feeling weak or old means that lack of conscious deep breathing has drained the atomic body of the Light of Life. The only way to replenish this atomic energy is by deliberate and constant deep breathing. Depleted and collapsed atoms within the cells of the physical body cause old age. This is why we hear "old age is creeping up on me!" The whole body starves a little at a time as our breathing becomes shallower.

Real energy and youthfulness come when we permeate every cell with the full Light of the Source made possible through every deep, high breath from the "live wire" of Omnipotence. We make such contact when we are glad to be alive and thankful for a new day to meet and live. Laughter fills our hearts just because God is! We accept and know that we can "glorify God" in our body. When we know that we dwell in the "Temple of the Living God," then we have found Eternal Youth.

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Man: Instrument of the Creative Impulse

"In the beginning God created."
Genesis 1:1

God desired to create, and a universe was born. The Mind that is God in-breathed under this original all-compelling Creative Impulse until an inevitable explosion followed. Under many such explosions, Light condensed itself into a pool of Power and Substance that we call a Source. This Source contained everything, all that God would need for the creation of universes, angels or men.

When God created us, He gave us a brain surrounded and protected by the Golden Bowl we call the skull. Our brain is a built-in computer so great that we have explored only a very small portion of it. It is so great that no matter how complex a mechanical computer we build, we can touch but the fringes of the brain’s capacity. This perfect machine was all ready for us to develop. We have been slow in awakening the cells and vitalizing the already strung nerve "wires."

God created man’s perfect brain for Divine Mind to use in functioning through His creations. Also, it gives us the latent Powers for our expression of free will and choice. As we vitalized the nerve-wires in our computer through using them, we also learned how to control our life and conquer our future life on earth.

The Mind of God endowed us with a direct line to contact this pool of Light, Power and Substance at the Source. Mind so arranged it that through breathing we could condense Light into Energy and then into mass to meet the needs for every level of our expression on earth.

This makes us Creators in our own right, and it also makes us responsible for every one of our own creations. This Creative Impulse is the Mind of God in action. It is the servant of Mind, and has no power or ability to act without Mind. The Creative Impulse cannot act, except to be or to become.

The Creative Impulse

Great Creative Mind thought the Creative Impulse into the form of man, created in God’s "image and likeness." Mind can "think" the Creative Impulse into every form we need for our expression in living. This is the Mind we contact whenever we ask for help.

When Mind acts and gives the answer, then Mind also sends the Creative Impulse that "does the work." When we receive a new idea, it brings all the Power and Substance needed for its fulfillment.

The Creative Impulse, which is behind all creation, is the Life of Man. This is our glory, our creative power, our foundation. It can also be our downfall and is when we deliberately repudiate its existence on any of the four levels of our expression.

This great Creative Impulse is the fire of enthusiasm behind everything that we decide to do. The Creative Impulse causes us to aspire and move toward what we desire. Mind, acting upon the great Creative Impulse through our breathing, transforms Light direct from the Source into both the energy to act, and the substance to fill our molds of desire.

God sets no limit on our ability to call upon this Power and Substance for our creations. The Creative Impulse exists always. The Creative Impulse is!

Intelligence: Unconscious and Conscious

Universal Mind operates throughout all creation, inanimate or animate, in all things unconscious and as all things conscious. From the lowest creature on earth to the highest intelligence produced, only one Creative Impulse rules life.

The lowest stage of the creature kingdom uses an unconscious instinctive intelligence and desire. From the formation of its first brain cells, gathering experience is the most important thing in the creature’s life. Without experience we have no possibility of growth.

We apply our experience to what we do in life. This is how we awaken our mental faculties and develop them by constantly choosing to use them. Evolution, from the creature’s instinctive intelligence and desire to the use of fully conscious intelligence and desire, is a long, slow process in growth.

Conscious intelligence only begins when the creature, who is to be endowed with a human brain, first emerges into outer expression through evolutionary processes. We are the highest manifestation of God’s creation.

Our power of conscious choice operates upon each of our fourfold levels of consciousness. All our difficulties arise from the choices we make on our climb from the lowest creature state to attain the full stature of a superman, a Creator.

Imagination, Thinking & Desire

The first three faculties we awaken are the most important: Imagination, Thinking, and Desire. As we grow conscious of our Source, these three faculties become the great Creative Tools of our life. Our choice in how we use them determines what kind of life we live.

We may allow ourselves to sink back to the creature stage, to the level some call "human nature." Or we may allow Creative Mind to help us in our use of mental faculties. Either way, the results will show in our outer sheath, the physical body.

We must pattern our obedience to definite Laws of Life on four levels of consciousness, spiritual, mental, emotional and physical. Without obedience to these Laws, we cannot have Eternal Youth. We must earn our Immortality.

Old Age: The Reward of "Human Nature"

Some individuals are proud of living by "human nature," which is just one step removed from the first creature stage. Some boast about it and use human nature as an excuse for self-indulgence. These individuals are allowing instinctive creature intelligence and desire to run their lives. This is a definite misuse of the Creative Impulse and carries with it its own reward, an aging body.

We must keep our Creative Tools unweighted by self and allow Mind to direct our life. Then all old limitations fall away and we are free. Imagination must be cleared of all past patterns to do this. Grandma’s patterns are too old-fashioned and not good enough for today’s living.

Our use of Imagination cannot build a goal too great to achieve. Our controlled Thinking can accomplish anything Mind gives us, provided we accept it and believe it. Our controlled Desire can call to us any amount of Power we need for our whole structure of living.

Only we can stop ourselves from achieving. Our own Thinking can build insurmountable obstacles for us. Our unbridled Desires can destroy all we have built of good in our lives for months. Someone has said that it takes a week to undo one negative thought and months to overcome one whole day’s indulgence in self-pity.

We must fill twenty-four hours a day with new picture-patterns in Imagination. Our new Thinking must be so strong that it can ignore any old idea that seeks to creep back into our mind. We must close the portals to the old ways, and cultivate a Desire to conquer until it takes over in such strength that nothing from the outer can interpose itself to block us from our goal.

How to Focus on the Goal

Breathing the Creative Impulse brings forth all great ideas from the Universal Mind, which is then at once appropriated to the needs and desires of the individual. Each of us is a Creator in our own right.

However, once we decide to accomplish a certain thing, we must remain steadfast and constant to that new idea. Imagination, Thinking, and Desire must cooperate to achieve the goal we choose. They must follow our determined course as One, with no wavering.

Creative Mind must be in control, and we must ignore all outside enticements. We have no time to explore bypaths of self-indulgence, no time out to chase rainbows or butterflies, no leaving the path to pick flowers. Dalliance does not turn back the clock of life.

Time does not wait for anyone. Experience teaches that wasting time is foolish, for someday we will suffer a rude awakening. Then we find that retracing steps so carelessly taken is hard.

We are usually our own delay. We allow ourselves to grow lukewarm just when we need to turn on the heat of Desire to reach our goal.

Since the universe has only one Creative Impulse, it must operate upon each level of our fourfold life. It permeates the whole being: Soul with its three parts, and the body. The Creative Impulse gives identity and assurance through the spiritual life. Through the mental life, the Creative Impulse contacts new ideas and executes the many activities of the mental world. The Creative Impulse takes care of every desire and every outer relationship through the emotional life.

The Creative Impulse is the power behind all activity on each level. The outer, the physical-love level, is as important as any other because it is the great Universal Creative Impulse expressing itself as all three expressions. However used, it is the only Creative Impulse. Usually it operates upon only one level at a time, although it is forever moving through the four levels, seeking to keep them in balance, one with the other.

The "More and More" Life Plan

The Creative Impulse has no high or low; it manifests according to what we think about. What we make of it is our life. It is good on every level.

Only the "more and more" life plan can bring Eternal Youth of mind, heart, body and affairs. Imagination must build new pictures of "more and more" life for youth, and our deep breathing will bring more life.

We must allow no interference by the old subconscious or past "less and less" life ideas. If old patterns break in, or if something from the outer disturbs us, causing us to falter in any way from our new plan of life, watch out. Something on the outside is riding us with a whip and spurs, something delighting in calling itself our master.

With every high, deep breath, new life flows through, renewing us in a never-ending cycle of living. The Creative Impulse is free, and it follows everyone to give them life. We cannot run far enough to escape it, and we have no place to hide. It is like sunshine, sharing itself with all, belonging to everyone alike.

Each is free to choose either the sunshine or the shadows. The sun shines on above all the clouds. It is a matter of choice. We can settle for the shadows or we can insist upon looking through the clouds to stand mentally in the sunshine. No one can stop us, no one can cloud our mental sky or cut off our high sunshine by talking or pushing.

How we live and what we want as our guiding star is our choice. Each is free to breathe the Creative Impulse from the Universal Source and live with it gloriously. Each is free to repudiate the Creative Impulse and live ingloriously in the shadows cast by earth. This leads to old age and the decline into uselessness. Choose and live!

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Desire: The Flame & Glory

"Get wisdom and get understanding."
Proverbs 4:5

Since all new ideas come through Mind, Creation is still unfolding. The advances in science prove this more than in humanity itself. Civilization is having a hard time keeping up with what science is unfolding from an inner world of invisible substance.

In 1915, a metaphysician had to explain what the term "vibration" meant. Now the world is full of all kinds of vibrations and no one questions them. We know that if a vibration can penetrate a concrete wall, it certainly can penetrate the physical body for healing purposes.

Everyone knows that the power in the world today is greater than it was two thousand years ago. From the camel and horse to jet aircraft is great progress. Science is already doing the "greater works." It is no wonder that we, as individuals, are not yet accustomed to so much power. We do not thoroughly apply new atomic energy to our bodies to make them youthful.

God created us with the wonderful ability to draw our energy from the Source. Yet, we are still seeking a mechanical way to draw energy direct from the sun. Our life equipment allows us to take a deep breath and draw pure Light as a vibration direct from the great Source Universal. We can transform Light into energy without cost or great effort.

Desire Fuels the Creative Impulse

God had to have a Desire to create before a universe could be created. We must have Desire in us before we can create, before any action can take place. The Creative Impulse is powered by Desire, both above and below.

We must accept our creative heritage as a fact: The Source endowed us with Desire in the very beginning of creation. Then we know that the Source has empowered us to step out and achieve anything we can envision for ourselves.

With acceptance, Desire becomes the motive power behind all our actions. Without the use of Desire, we have no life in us and no will to do anything. Of course, Desire does not do the work, we have to get up and do it.

Desire, once fanned into a flame, becomes the deathless faculty that sends us on to do the most impossible things and win. A burning Desire grips us and holds us so we cannot stop or let go until we find a way to win.

Wisdom & Love: Desire & Will

The Creative Impulse functions under many great Principles. All scientific principles and formulas function under the great Principle of Wisdom. All the humanities function under the Principle of Love. The Principle of Wisdom is considered the aggressive masculine Principle, while Love is the gentler compassionate feminine Principle.

Wisdom and Love are always recognizable, although they divide themselves into multiple lesser Principles and Laws. We can trace everything back to one or the other of these two. Love functions as Desire. Wisdom functions as Will, and when they move together as one, everything works together for good in our lives.

Finding anything on the periphery of God’s Creation that does not originate at the Source of the universe is impossible. Personality is the outer expression of the inner aspects of God as both Feminine and Masculine, as Love and Wisdom. This is carried out in all nature with positive and negative vibrations.

Love Is a Choice

Because God has endowed us with the power of choice (free will), we do not always function as the Principle of Love on the positive side. When we use Love on the lesser negative side, we misuse and allow Desire to die down to a mere flicker. Thus we let negative, not positive virtues, take over our lives. When we let the subconscious mind rule, we run into snags, depressions or illnesses.

The opposite of Love is hate. As Love descends into even mild modifications of hate (indifference, for instance), the "little self" takes over. Then we live by demands, expecting life and other people to do all the giving, all the adjusting, all the agreeing. The attitude is "I want other people to be good so I can be happy."

Hurt and disappointment follow when we make demands that others cannot meet. The result of this demanding, expecting attitude is always self-pity, which in turn makes the physical body a miserable hovel of aches and pains.

When we allow doubts and fears, opinions, prejudices, pride and arrogance, resentment and intolerance to possess us, even in a very small way, we are bound to be unhappy. Traces of mental, emotional or physical disturbance appear as blocked nerves and other limitations. This is why we must dig out and erase all old inherited patterns from our consciousness, and let go of the ones we have made for ourselves.

Negative emotions are why wrinkles come and we have other minor illnesses. Practicing the following formula can erase them: "I shall make myself good and leave all others to be happy in their own way."

The Fate Line or Path of Destiny

God sends us to earth with a "fate line" to be used in case we forget who we are and from where we came. This is God’s wise precaution to keep us from destroying ourselves completely.

God needs everyone to make up the whole of Creation. God does not want to lose any of His Creations. He wants every son and daughter to come home when earth school is over. If an individual repudiates God, the fate line sends him out of his body before he has used all his soul substance.

We have free choice. Life experiences always expose us to Truth and to the Laws that automatically set us above the fate line onto our Path of Destiny. Here we can draw upon all the Mind, Power and Substance we can ever need.

A burning Desire for something better literally shoves us into a new place. Life may shove us out of our old place without our choice or consent. This is how our soul’s choices move us from the old fate line onto the creative Path of Destiny.

The Creative Impulse presents us with every opportunity to use all of our creative abilities — provided we accept and do our best in the new place without whining or complaints. "Something" inside always silently tells us we should accept and praise God for what we have, and others on the outside always declare that "things will get better."

To refuse new opportunities is a decision to stay with the fate line, the way of least resistance and very alluring at first. Fate usually presents things in a way that appeals to "poor me," the little self. Fate makes the subconscious self feel wanted and better than anyone has ever noticed on the outer.

When left to follow the fate line, the subconscious always has a whole dictionary of excuses, waiting and ready to present to the conscious mind, excuses for tears, for a semiconscious state of indifference and self-indulgence. Living by the fate line creates a state of praise-seeking. The little self wants "pats on the shoulder" for simple duty-doing, virtuously accepted even when given only to escape whining bids for sympathy.

On this negative vibration, the self-pole of the fate line, we expect others to overlook all our shortcomings. So our fate is to be loved "in spite of" instead of because we are agreeable, wonderful, understanding companions.

The further danger is of not being loved at all, spending our final years just being "tolerated" for what we might have been. Or because we are relatives and cannot be sent back or exchanged for a newer model!

Destiny Is Hard Work

We are bound to discover that the Path of Destiny seldom is alluring. It is always the way of harder work and time-consuming hours. Usually the family wants the increased salary and benefits from a change. Yet the very ones for whom we make the sacrifice are the first to find fault and criticize us for lack of attention.

Any new position presents challenges, obstacles to overcome, and barriers to burn away through hard work. The Path of Destiny tests the soul for courage and endurance. It is very narrow and offers no place where we can turn around and go back.

Once we step out upon the Path of Destiny, we sign a contract with the Source of our Power, and something beyond explanation takes place. No matter what misunderstandings we encounter, no matter how much it hurts, a deathless Desire takes over and we cannot quit. "To do and to endure" becomes the motto we follow.

If we feel that fate is to blame for what has happened in our life, if we feel that no one understands us, now is the time to stop and take stock. It is time to make a change. It is time to investigate the idea of a Path of Destiny and find out exactly what it can do for us. This is the only way to set aside the "old age" pattern for the new plan of Eternal Youth.

Fate only wears us out while we wait for "something" to happen. Destiny moves forth under the Creative Impulse of Desire and makes something happen. The price? We must cast off the old patterns seeking to ensnare us and dig out the young dreams we’ve buried under the ice of disappointments. When we heat those dreams up and start seeking new ways to make them come true, every old wish or want or hope adds itself to our new flame of Desire. We even receive dividends on our past delays.

Taking the line of least resistance allows our Desire to die down until we bury it in the cold grey ashes of self-pity. If we dig long enough and hard enough, we will break through the layers of life and find that tiny spark of youthful Desire for achieving. It is always there. Desire is a gift of the Eternal Source and we cannot kill it, though we may let it die down to the smallest possible spark.

It Takes Burning Desire

Burning Desire is part of the universal Creative Impulse and the Source of All Flame. It must serve us no matter how we have neglected it in the past.

When found, we must fan the spark of Desire until it becomes a tiny flame. We must nurture and watch the flame of Desire tenderly, ignoring weariness and delays. One day our Desire will burn so high that no obstacles of earth can stop it from reaching whatever goal we have set.

What a joy it is to shed doubts and fears forever. We may walk the ways of life without whining or passing out alibis that are no longer popular or in good taste. It takes no "brains" or intellect to whine or complain at life or fly into a rage over delays, any two-celled creature can do as much. It does take a fully awakened Desire to overcome before we can accomplish something worthwhile.

Desire causes us to move up and out of the old grooves we created by seeking to hide from life, to escape from all responsibility for our actions. To "hide" isn’t to be safe! To be "safe" isn’t living! To exist in a small mud puddle made of our tears, while we dance up and down in the same spot for years, will earn no rewards.

Breathing Insulates Our Line of Light

When we have no belief in a Source of Power that can be contacted, we give less and less importance to the act of breathing. Our live-wire of breathing thins like an old frayed light cord ready to short-circuit. We cut the supply of life too low to satisfy or to keep us youthful.

We begin to decline when we run on an insufficient basis of Light transformed into energy from the Source. First, our mental life lags (memory slips), then our emotions take over the physical until we deplete it, sometimes beyond repair.

To sit beside fate and take things easy may be peaceful, even satisfying most of the time, but it is a sure way to allow the atomic body cells to collapse. They can only be kept fully inflated and energized by the deep breath contact with the Source of All Life.

Everyone must obey the Law of certain hours of rest for physical recuperation. Yet when rest goes beyond need and becomes a sedative taken to avoid living and to escape responsibility, it is fatal. The fires burn lower and lower.

The general attitude toward the idea of having more and more life is usually pessimistic. If the life we have already hurts so much, why seek any more?

When your arm or foot "goes to sleep" it hurts until life flows back into it. The process of "going to sleep" occurs when we deflate the atomic cells. They inflate themselves again through movement.

Reach for the Stars

When you deplete atoms from too many hours of service or from necessary work, you fill them again with energy from just one deep high breath. Stretch with your arms high above your head. (This is the "reaching for the stars" exercise).

Atoms collapse from malnutrition, a failure to breathe deeply, and misuse of our emotions. Depletion can continue until the atoms we so collapsed are completely crystallized and we have no feeling in them at all. We call this a state of paralysis. Any type of paralysis, mental, emotional, physical or in our affairs, means that our atoms have collapsed and our Desire has faded to a tiny glow in the subconscious mind.

Falling back onto the fate line from indifference or lukewarmness causes old age symptoms to begin to manifest, until we return to walk our Path of Destiny boldly with eagerness. We must fan the flame of Desire constantly until it becomes a burning, flaming, and consuming fire in our lives. Only then can we fully enjoy that active, youthful state of mind and consciousness we must hold always through all the tests and trials of the world.

Eternal Youth is first a state of Mind that will manifest more rapidly when we hold the attitude of youth. It will hasten the transformation from partial old age to youthful beauty. To aid Desire we must assume a joyous attitude twenty-four hours a day, and then be sure to hang up our faces at night! Usually, we hang up our clothes and then leave our faces on the floor at bedtime.

Beauty Is Earned

Beauty has to be earned. We must hold it as a sacred birthright. Beauty is Desire flaming until it shows on the outside. When Desire flames high enough it consumes everything less than itself. Any form of illness gets discouraged when ignored, and it moves out!

Eternal Youth in expression is acceptance of our identity with the Universal Source of All Life, of our breathing the great Creative Impulse. This maintains our contact with all Life while allowing it to permeate every part of our being until its Eternal Flame lifts our own gift of Desire ever higher. We then reach the place of Oneness with the Source where there is no chance that we can ever falter or waver again in our allegiance to the Light.

We have joined the "deathless, ageless and abiding" ones. Our physical vehicle becomes the tool of the soul. The soul is as immortal now as it can ever be. The soul only needs our full cooperation to let it show through the outer sheath as health, strength, and Eternal Beauty.

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Thinking: The Invincible Master-Planner

Thinking establishes us on our chosen Path of Destiny, which is whatever we have already decided we want to do. The only change from the fate line is that we have a firmer hold upon the goal and a more intense desire to achieve it. We are ready to become creators of life, our own lives. After accepting our identity and higher destiny, we must take control of our thinking because our life will go as our thinking dictates.

We must have a new plan to follow, one that includes new Laws for all four levels of expression. Without a plan of life to guide us, we are as some rudderless ship floating with the currents and tides of life, at the mercy of every wind that blows. We wake up and find ourselves the victims of situations thrust upon us because we lack direction and control of our life. Only by following a definite fourfold plan can we hope to have perfect creations and a perfect, youthful body.

Universal Mind uses the upper portion of the brain, where the faculties reign. The lower portion of the brain is the seat of propensities, where self and emotions hold sway. This upper portion, used by Universal Mind, is the Higher Creative Center, through which the Creative Impulse is constantly flowing. Universal Mind uses our faculties of Logic and Reason.

God created us for the power of Universal Mind to use. When we think He created us to use Mind power for ourselves, we conflict and malformations. The only Mind we can call our own is that portion we can tap. We may appropriate all we can use, but we can never own or possess all of Universal Mind.

Once we tap an idea, we can never lose it. The first time that an idea is lightly touched it may not hold. Rest assured that upon another cyclic round it will register the whole of whatever we need to go with our Plan.

Invincible Thinking

When Thinking is the instrument of Universal Mind, it becomes strong enough to stand invincible before the world, holding both Imagination and Desire to its plan. We must sharpen Thinking until it is the wonderful precision instrument God provided for us and intended it to be when He created us. We do this under our use of the faculties of Logic and Reason.

Without the use of Logic and Reason, we just think that we think. This usually happens when we allow Thinking to become involved with sentiment instead of Compassion.

Sentimental emotional involvement ruins the chance of balanced Thinking and inner conflicts blind the Reason. When we hold Thinking true and balanced, Compassion can move in for any situation and yet stand objectively, without sympathetic conflicts to cloud the issue. Love and Wisdom can lift and hold our Thinking steadfast through Logic and Reason. With just one deep breath, we instantly contact the Source of All Power, which can then overcome any adverse condition.

To hold Thinking to continuity of thought, to persist with its training by Logic and Reason, leads Imagination and dominating emotions (Desire) to constructive creating. Thinking stands between the emotions and the high faculty of Imagination. Thinking must be the balance wheel that keeps them both poised and moving in the same direction.

When Thinking wavers or runs wild, it can lead us into treacherous ways of life, betraying us into weaknesses of all kind. It can take us downhill into everything that we really do not want in our lives. Or thinking can and will, under control, lift the aims of Desire to follow our highest set goals.

The Power of Enthusiasm

Soul easily entices Imagination into building constructive pictures instead of the old blueprints of wavering depression and despair. With Thinking held firmly to the new ideal-goal, with Imagination and Desire working together as teammates, the power of enthusiasm is born.

Enthusiasm moves forth on waves of Creative Mind into the world and our affairs. We may contact our Guards (Guardians Angels). The power of enthusiasm opens doors before us, sends us into the right place at the right time. The fire of Desire becomes a magnet of attraction, calling and drawing to us our own.

Controlled Thinking is the first necessity toward establishing Eternal Youth either in our bodies or in our affairs. Eternal Youth is but one name for vigorous action and vitality. It is guaranteed to bring back youth if we pay the right price. It depends upon the choice we make.

What do we want? Do we want to be too tired at the end of a day to enjoy the evening hours? Do we plan to spend the weekend in bed to rest up? Do we end the day planning to feel worse tomorrow, to be half-alive all day, wherever we go or whatever we do? Many plan such things. Are you such a planner? If you are up later than usual and disturb your sleep routine, do you go to bed saying, "I’ll be dead all day tomorrow"?

A Life Plan

We must have a life plan. We either think all day long how wonderful the evening is going to be, or think and plan how weary, how tired we are going to feel. We either wonder how we can ever manage to hold out until five o’clock, or are so happy we are alive, well and able to work that we forget to watch the clock.

Which attitude do we have in the morning? Do we stand up straight, reaching for the stars while thinking what a glorious day is before us? Or do we leave our bed reluctantly and regretfully, thinking how long and boring the day is going to be, and how many hours it will be before we can climb back into bed again? Do we put ourselves to bed every afternoon, getting weaker and weaker until time to leave the office?

The instant we begin to think of resting and "bed," the atomic body cells let go and slow down. We allow our breathing to get shallower, yawning our way through the last two hours of business. Unless we begin to plan for more life as the day lengthens, unless we plan to "rest up" all the way home, we are going the way of "decline."

One thought plan builds up the body, while the other tears it down. It takes about the same amount of energy for either choice. One breeds greater energy, while the other depletes the body of the little energy we have left to use.

We can limp through life half-awake, half-alive, unhappy and pitying ourselves, or change our Thinking. We can revolutionize our whole life by thinking, and by declaring exactly what our new plan demands. We can draw upon the Power to be, or to do anything that we Desire with enough flame under it to hold us to the plan. There is no set formula for conquering. Just start, and conquer.

We can easily change our Thinking once the Desire is born. First we decide, then choose the action to follow. It takes a bit more time to change old habits of illness, lacks, doubts and fears. They are tied to old habit patterns that we must lift, to allow Desire to follow the new plan of Thinking.

How to Do It

Declare and decree for strength, health and wealth. Declare for a body that will answer any demand you desire to make upon it. Plan to be more and more active, to do more in one evening than you can accomplish during a day.

Breathe deeply and declare that you are drawing vitality and life from above. Banish all "rest" ideas from your mind. Know that when you do rest, new energy is filling you to overflowing. Most people in the world are resting themselves to death, when the only thing they need is more life!

When our thoughts wander, we bring them back. We take a deep, high breath, declaring that we are now transforming universal Light into atomic energy for our every need. Light now restores every atom in our body to full power and revitalizes us. We allow no thought of weakness or weariness to decrease our intake of atomic Power.

Once we make the choice for a strong body, we must hold to it constantly. We train ourselves to take time to breathe, every hour on the hour, and our choice must be an hourly commitment. Unless we do this, we slip back unconsciously into old habits. This does consume time, but we pay no attention to the falling back. We dig ourselves out and start again.

Step by step, a glorious victory comes. Our body responds almost at once with a sense of lightness and a youthful feeling. Eternal Youth is nothing but the Universal Bank of Creation’s answer to our call for enough power and life for courageous living.

Right thinking is our magic wand. As we wave it over our life, it absorbs every limitation.

We always make one of these call-demands when we need extra strength or when something unexpected happens. Although we may start drained of energy, enough strength surges to answer the call for help. Sometimes we feel more vitalized after we have used our strength than before we started.

Making the call-demands before we get to such a depleted state is easy. Making our conscious breath reach the Source as we call upon the Universal Power is simple. It is our choice. How do I want to live my life? Half-dead or all-alive?

To be constant and effective, we must base our Thinking on Principle, under the great Creative Impulse. Principle is unchangeable and forever the same. To make Principle usable, we must modify it into Laws to suit individual intelligence. We do not change Principles, we only dilute them so we can obey them.

To have the lasting quality of stability, our plan must operate within the framework of Faith. Thinking, with Faith as its foundation, will have Power behind it and miracles will be the outer result.

Only the great Principles of Faith and Love can fulfill our plan. To abandon Faith cuts off the high vibration just as definitely as if we reached out the window and cut the telephone wire.

We move from faith in God, an old idea, into living by the Faith of God, a new idea. Love for God changes to the Love of God. If we love enough, Light will fill our molds. If we have Faith enough, we shall not waver.

Aging Is a State of Mind

Age exists only in our Thinking. From the cradle to the grave, we live in an atmosphere of growing old. Someone is always nearby who feels that old age is inevitable. Eternal Youth has no age limit, and we can put Thinking into reverse anytime we choose.

God has so equipped us that we can remake, recreate our lives by allowing the highest invisible part of us to penetrate and permeate the mental, emotional and physical parts. The change to a new plan will show and "bear witness" through the visible physical body.

The world can know and judge us only through the organs of hearing, speech and the gestures we make. The world judges the whole "you" by the smallest visible part. When Imagination, Thinking and Desire, the emotions, work together in perfect harmony, the world can make a true judgment.

God gave us superconscious, conscious and subconscious phases of mind for our Thinking expression. When they work in perfect agreement, we can stand upright with eyes looking straight into the vision of our soul. Then our Desire grows to become something special, to do something special with our lives. It is enough to know that the Source is and to know that we are.

This soul experience can come to anyone any time, from birth to the last breath on earth. While Thinking is in the driver’s seat, guiding the reins of our life, our declarations hold steady and we reap the rewards of a youthful appearance.

Being born with a clear idea of what our goal of life must be is glorious. Anyone can establish a goal any time, at any age. The trick is to accept it as possible to achieve once it is found.

When the soul names the desired goal, the thinking will hold steady. When the soul reaches up and makes a call upon the Universal Creative Power from the Eternal Source, it receives the pattern for a youthful body. Although we may sometimes falter, breathing of the Universal Mind will bring us back from the ends of the earth to the original goal-idea. The infinite ability still slumbers, waiting to be called forth again to fulfill itself.

Creation itself demands that this flame of Desire burst forth. The bursting may come at the most inconvenient times, in the most unexpected places. It interrupts indifference and lukewarmness with a shattering force that sends us out to accomplish something toward the goal.

Eyes on the Future

We grow older and older by looking into the "past." To do nothing but think longingly of past activities, without hope or planning for more life today, invites old age and weakness to move in and keep house with us. All the cells of the body will crystallize from the effort of walking forward while we strain the eyes from looking into some past forever gone.

We can’t live time over; it dims the eyes to look backward. Let go of that hold on the world that is slowly turning into a "pillar of salt." Here comes the future, fresh and new, ready to be lived! Live now!

Think Youth. Feel Youth. Though we might be unable to do any physical dancing, no Law exists against imagining dancing on a cloud. Dancing is a part of youth. To imagine dancing helps erase the old age pattern of stiffness. We fill our hearts with youthful things. We take our old dreams out of the mothballs and air them.

It takes dauntless courage to discard the old ways of thinking, but youthful thinking is essential because it registers upon the physical body at once. When walk with a spring in our mental step, our knees will respond. We take our mind out on a leash while thinking about the golden years just ahead of us. Exercise it. Control it. Conquer every old pattern to attain Immortal and Eternal Youth now.

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Imagination: The Kingly Faculty of Man

"In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
And the light shines in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it."
John 1:4-5

All ancient philosophers have named Imagination the kingly faculty of man. We could also call it the most important of all the faculties, if any single faculty can be more important than another. If it were not for Imagination, there would be no fantasies, fairy tales, fables or allegories — and surely no lies or fabrications in our lives or in the world.

Even the earliest "thinking" of a creature moving up from unconscious instinctive intelligence into conscious intelligence, is but a series of images mistakenly called Thinking. Impressions, imposed upon the unborn soul during gestation through to mature adulthood, form the submerged portion of man called the subconscious.

Subconscious mind has a screen so fine that nothing passes through without being recorded upon the memory cells. It has taken thousands of pictures, lasting negatives of all experiences, and can produce a full-blown composite of any one of them at a second’s notice.

For instance, take the psychological example of a physical blow to the little finger. The blow’s impulse runs at light speed along the nerves from the hand to the brain. The message triggers the memory cells that hold the photographic negatives of all past blows. The subconscious sorts them all, makes a composite picture and registers it on the brain cells used by the conscious mind. Simultaneously, it sends to the little finger a return impulse of the recorded answer, either pleasure or pain. This occurs in seconds if the person’s reactions are speedy.

During this short period, Imagination scans every picture in memory, mind analyzes, makes deductions and produces an answer. This is why, in all healing through Mind, we know that there is only one small "window of opportunity."

How Imagination Works

We have only the shortest period in which to set aside all past ideas or pain patterns, make new declarations and impose new pictures of perfection upon the memory cells. We declare that "Spirit" (Light) cannot be cut, bruised or burned, but forever remains the same under all conditions. It works.

This declaration bypasses all old patterns and installs a new pattern for the subconscious to follow in the future. It works as a Miracle when we hold a conscious conviction of its truth to back up the declaration. It cannot set bones or perform operations, but it can set up a vibration for healing. Doctors call this "nature" doing the work. What does the name matter if the work of healing is being done?

As we continue to declare perfection, we finally erase every old picture pattern from the subconscious mind and memory cells. With the cleansing goes all fear about this one thing. Fear always set up a conflict with right Thinking. The declaration, "This is Good," replaces old fear habits of the subconscious mind, and instant healing is the result.

Everyone has heard of or read about a person who reviewed his whole life in the striking of a clock, when his life was endangered or he was under great stress. If no picture negatives were in the memory cells or records in the subconscious, there could be no review under any conditions.

These old negatives form all the "blocks" from the past, which psychiatrists find when analyzing an individual. They also form all limitations, which hold us in thrall and keep us from becoming as great as our potential and vision.

We tangle with past pictures whenever we seek to conquer habits, from the lowest of the outer physical habits to the highest and most spiritual expressions. Every time we indulge a habit, we superimpose another picture upon the hundreds already there.

Old habits are hard to break because of the "multiple exposures" piled on through the years. The same old emotion, indulged in literally thousands of times, causes Imagination to build pictures. We build them, one on top of another, until we so deeply engrave the composite that the outer result is illness, mental, emotional or physical.

We can liken mental blocks to a darkroom where they store negatives. All emotional upsets written on the pages of our lives, from infancy, have their corresponding negatives stored in our darkrooms. Seeing how they can pile up, until we need an expert to handle them for us, is easy. Unlike a real darkroom, we cannot reach in and destroy the old negatives or patterns. We cannot erase records from the brain cells as we can with a tape recorder by erasing the old as we tape the new.

We often think we have an old habit record erased completely only to have it break out, burst into expression when we least expect it, when it will hinder us most. This is why it takes so long to conquer.

Unless we are persistent and steadfast in holding to our new patterns for life, we delay our healing and success. It is so much easier to slip into old patterns, excusing ourselves with the sophistry, "it won’t matter, just this once," but it does.

The world is seemingly full of good reasons why we should "take it easy," start it "tomorrow" or "put it off." The subconscious mind loves to hear these words, which are a plausible, "put it off" companion. We must select the right setting for our dial of life if we are ever to live fully in Eternal Youth. We set our dial for the Stars!

If we have allowed Imagination to build pictures of living on a "less and less plan," if we believe in old age and decline as inevitable, then it takes longer to erase the old habit patterns from our darkroom. To move from a "less and less plan" is to move from the old fate line onto the Path of Destiny, which is always the "more and more plan." The problem is not moving up, but staying up after the move.

If the physical body has begun to show the strain of past wrong Thinking about life, the struggle is bound to take longer and require more strength and determination. We find no easy way to conquer old habits.

The "less and less plan" takes from life. We waste time seeking more life on the outside. The "more and more plan" is giving of ourselves instead of feeling that we can’t give as much because we are growing old.

First we give up the idea of wanting someone to love us. Then we go on, giving lavishly of our inner love and compassion to the whole world, giving thoughts of love and joy just to see if they work. We find that it opens the door to new friends and companions while it starts the vibration of return: "Give and you shall receive."

There is no Law of "get and ye shall be given." The return for all "getting first" is to find ourselves kicked or pushed out!

Even if the physical body has reached the stage of "decline," we can bring it back. Of course, we must pay a price: We must Desire change with all our mind and heart. We pay that price by breathing Light from the Source.

Light first becomes physical energy. Then under Thinking and Desire, Light further condenses into "mass" or the physical cells of the body. This energy also melts, dissolves and absorbs any crystallization in the outer cells, it replaces the old with newly created cells.

Imagination sets the actual patterns for subconscious processes of the physical body. Subconscious mind can carry out anything we give it as a pattern. Changing patterns begins when we open our old darkroom to make it into a room of Light. We can bring the body back to youth. It can be done. Try it!

If Law is to work for us, we must follow breathing from the Source with Imagination, building right pictures in full constancy and consciousness. Power from above enters, and strength begins to operate through us. Why? Because we have established a new habit of depending upon breathing, which allows Universal Mind to work as the coordinator in our lives.

Without Imagination to build the blueprint of our Desire, we cannot create a mold for Light to be condensed into outer form. First we must decide to create something we value in our lives, especially in our physical well-being and affairs. Then Imagination takes over, makes the blueprint, and gives invisible form to what we want.

Holding fast to this original blueprint keeps the mold steady and unwavering while our breathing furnishes substance condensed to fill the mold. Wavering in our faithfulness causes lopsided molds, which means that when our miracle appears it may not be as complete as we really wanted.

The Law of Nonresistance

As Imagination takes over in our creating, we automatically move into obedience to the greatest of all Laws ever given to the world, the Law of Nonresistance. For centuries we have misunderstood this most powerful, most commanding Law in the universe.

Nothing about Nonresistance is weak or negative. It is nonaggressive as earth knows aggression. It is a Law of perfect peace, the only real peace, yet it is all-powerful. Our use of the Law of Nonresistance makes us kings and queens in our own right, not weak worms of the dust! Not doormats! Nor are we like tumbleweeds, being tossed about by every dust-laden wind that blows from the world deserts.

When we move under sanctuary of this Law, we stand straight and tall before the world, arms crossed, silently waiting upon the Law to take care of us. Acceptance of the Law of Nonresistance is possible only when one has gained an identity with the Source of Creation.

Identity with our Source is the place of conscious knowing that anything is possible under the great Creative Impulse of Mind which does the work. This is the place where the things men try to do are impossible, where the "possibles" of God take over.

The Law of Nonresistance is not earth-aggressive. It is just immovable. It stands against all powers of darkness and very quietly "lets" true Power do the work.

"Letting" is not being passive or pushed around. It starts with deep breathing, which creates Poise in fourfold man, a Poise that nothing on the outer can disturb. Poise moves up on a breath to mate with Power, and the offspring of this mating are the twins, Peace and Patience.

To spend time just working for Peace and Patience is quite futile. The harder we work for them, the more things enter our lives to call for Peace and Patience. It becomes a regular merry-go-round to see which will win, Patience or impatience. Holding Peace and Patience as our goal only invites life to send more situations upon which to exercise Peace and Patience.

An attitude that works for "perfect peace" deters one from exercising Nonresistance as a way of life. Nonresistance stands and knows. Nonresistance is a creative attitude that becomes its own protection from the snares of the world. It even opens the door to a "second sight," which is also a protection from darkness.

Why should we try to conquer? Because we are Creators in our own right, if we accept our Creator role. Of course, the world is full of obstacles and snares for the unwary, but it is also full of beauty and glory, and our inheritance is to be eternally youthful. Our Source eternally renews us.

When our cry in the morning becomes, "Lord, don’t let me miss a trick today," we shall see all our dreams come true. Once we get the "feel" of living in the Light, we miss it, we know instantly when we slip into an old darkroom "spot" still waiting to be cleansed. Once we touch this realm of Golden Silence, our old Imagination turns upward to become high Vision.

Soon we can see farther into the future. We begin to see around corners and know exactly what we must do.

Imagination teams up with Intuition. Together they know what is coming and we are prepared for it, always ready to conquer.

The old subconscious, once so full of darkroom negatives, is now our body builder only. It tells us to turn out the lights, go back and get our keys, to take our purse or umbrella. The subconscious is now free to mind its own business, to do that for which God intended it in the first place. It was not meant to be our ruler, but to be our "red light" of warning and watchfulness.

Eternal Youth is nothing but enough life to rebuild the body every day, and always keep it in the original likeness of the Beginning. We must plan our new picture gallery now. We must make our old darkroom over into a room of Light. This is our "pearl of great price," our Fountain of Youth! How many of our old negatives are we willing to sell to make room for our new gallery?

Imagination becomes our servant when we pay a high enough salary to keep it working day and night. The salary is moving into the Golden Silence, the higher Creative Center, so we can "dwell in the house of the Lord forever." Life just continues at eighty!

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It Is Never Too Late

"Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
Hebrews 11:1

It is never too late, it is just too soon if our dreams have not yet taken form. Think of the riches of the years, all the experience they have brought. Each experience is an added bit of wealth. Think of all the planting we have done, now waiting to be harvested. Stop living on a starvation diet just because we can count years. It is now time to start harvesting those fields with their waiting dream-substance.

If we have not collected yet, remember that every prayer, every declaration we have ever made has released the substance of Faith, of which all things are made. Faith is waiting to come home to us, to fill all our molds to overflowing.

Every declaration carries its own promissory note for fulfillment. Each must be honored at the Bank Universal, but we must know that it will be made good when we present it.

Now is the time to collect all the efforts of a lifetime. Since experience begins with birth, it has no time limit for "young" or "old" in collecting all we have earned.

All experience comes to "steel" the soul to meet life as a conqueror. We can hope to gain the necessary endurance to prepare and enable us to meet life’s demands only by accepting the experience the years bring for this soul-strengthening. Only experience empowers the soul to express those qualities, which stand the tests of time.

Experience builds Desire into that burning, flaming courageous quality, which holds fast to obedience when there seems no reason for the tests and trials by fire. Often, without this stressing of soul qualities, hard earned goals have been forfeited through foolishness and failure to apply the wisdom gained through accepted experiences.

We find many ways to delay reaping our rich harvest. Sometimes stubbornness causes us to repudiate an experience that comes to us. We then proceed to find someone or something to blame instead of accepting it as our own, an incident bringing us a needed lesson.

Prompt acceptance of whatever comes to us, whether we feel it deserved or not, will pay the largest of all dividends. Acceptance saves the necessity of having to meet the same situation often, until we learn the lesson.

Sometimes experiences seem repetitious, and we ask, "Why does this thing always happen to me?" Rest assured that it is because we have refused to seek the hidden lesson sent for the good of our soul and its strengthening. Life will present any repudiated lesson again, until we accept it as having some kind of message for us.

Conflict Causes Aging

Every time we repudiate an earth lesson, it builds new conflicts in the submerged portion of memory. All these conflicts cause the indications of old age, which show themselves in our body, especially our face.

It isn’t our work that makes us show age, but what we think about our work that adds itself to inner conflicts, and causes the physical body to wear out. Such inner conflicts as arguing with ourselves and hating the world, use more energy than one day’s supply of breathing and food can furnish.

These futile inner escapes and repudiation of responsibility for our own lives cause more illness than all the germs and viruses. They destroy our immunity to disease. The white blood corpuscles cannot reproduce themselves under such mental confusion and conflicts between the spiritual, mental and emotional submerged parts of us.

We must consciously direct and control our lives under obedience to Law. Only through conscious obedience to natural Laws of Conduct on each of the four levels of consciousness — spiritual, mental, emotional and physical — can we conquer and gain freedom of Spirit.

Life is a school with many grades, each with new lessons to be learned, new understanding of Laws to be obeyed on each new level of consciousness. It is high time we faced this fact and passed the examinations for the same old grade we have been flunking year after year.

We must move along to the next higher grade without dragging along old books, chairs or teachers. We take nothing of the past but the precious pearls of wisdom gained there. We give up old patterns, mistakes and misunderstandings that kept us in a state of bondage, inner confusion and conflict. This is how we make room in the brain to store new knowledge. This is the only way faith and love can ever move forth to their own place in our creations.

Love, with Faith and Praise, becomes the magnet drawing to us what we need for our life. Praise enough will cover us with a patina of Glory that nothing else on earth can give. It is an added gift given to us for our devotion to the Source.

We cannot buy glory. We cannot solicit it in any way, but must earn soul glory by expressing Honor, Loyalty and Integrity.

Live by the motto: "Honor above all things." Loyalty to Principle is next in line. Integrity of Soul is our guiding Star forever. Only our high, deep breathing holds our contact with these beauties of life inviolate.

The body is a tool of the soul, a "Temple of the Living God." When we know this, we realize that we must bring it to perfection by following Laws as we learn of them, day by day.

We know that we must allow the great creative faculties — Imagination, Thinking and Desire — to do their perfect work without any interference from each other or from our own selfishness. Royal Imagination, creative Thinking and the magic of Desire can fan the spark of life into a vivid, glorious flame.

Let Love Collect Your Dividends

We can fulfill our long earth pilgrimage and receive payment for all the sacrifices we have made to life and others in only one way. We must let love go forth to collect our dividends. Love, the universal Magnet of Attraction, is the only quality of the soul that when undiluted is potent enough to find and touch with its magic power every tiny lifespark we have ever released and bring them home to us.

Love, released and sent forth, is like a purifying river sent through a polluted stream. As it flows, the stream is cleansed and made pure. So love cleanses every old picture, thought, or emotional conflict from the submerged "little me"— all the taints so treacherous to the soul.

We must send out lifting love into the world to absorb evil wherever it may be, to free everyone we have ever contacted of "me." When we free others of the pressure of our past thoughts about them, we reclaim our own misused soul substance. It is returned to us cleansed, and we grow into a sense of completeness.

Love released, upon its return, fills in all the old places where wrinkles have been. Every critical, blaming thought engraves a line somewhere — first in the soul, then on the face and body.

Face lifting can be free. Just add enough love to your deep, high breathing instead of lukewarmness. ("I have to do this breathing exercise, but it is such a bore and takes so much time.") With enough love, the results will soon be apparent to the whole world.

It is good to reach the sum of whatever our calendar tells us our age is with everything intact. Our body should be a joy to dwell in. Our brain should respond easily, quickly, with an eagerness to know.

We can love, with compassion for everyone, no matter what grade they occupy. When we do not expect understanding beyond the present grade of an individual, that person is happy. We do not have to pay any debts for demanding what they do not have to give. Stop wasting time and drawing blanks from life.

This is the right use of the Faith of God. When we can "loose" the other fellow and "let him go" to find his own way back to God, it means that we are at last possessed with the Love of God forever. This is the way to Immortality and Eternal Youth here and now. Life continues with each added year. It is. Life does not have to begin again. We just live on!

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The More & More Plan for Eternal Youth

How to Develop a New Life Plan

The following material contains vital and necessary Laws that we must apply and obey for fourfold health. These Laws form a regular daily program for Eternal Youth. Nothing about the use of these Laws is optional; no possible choice is involved. They are essential if we are ever to become a Creator.

We must obey five sets of Laws on the outer physical level of expression, and three sets of Laws govern the submerged inner life. Five outer Laws deal with the mundane phase of life, our physical body. Three sets of inner Laws are a Trinity of Life dealing with the soul’s expression.

Five outer Laws cover:
Breathing
Water
Diet
Rest

Exercise

Three inner Laws cover:
Imagination
Thinking

Desire

 

All eight sets of Laws are important, though the inner Laws are critical, since they maintain our contact with our Source of All Life. Through them Life descends to be used when we obey the five outer Laws of expression. This is the Three, falling into the fourfold man.

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Breathing: The First Basic Law for Living

No one can deny that breathing is the first Law of Life. There is no life in the physical body without breath. All ancient schools and most modern ones teach correct breathing as the foundation for a youthful body. Many Orientals who appear to be around thirty-five tell that they are nearer 100, and declare that their youth comes through breathing alone.

Breathing is essential for health. Breath is the body’s main poison remover. One deep breath that completely fills the lungs will remove the toxins found in a heartbeat’s worth of blood sent through the lungs for purification.

Ancient wisdom teaches that we must synchronize heartbeat and breath for health. We do this only when we fill the lungs to capacity with each inhalation. The lungs are behind the heart and stomach, and reach almost to the waistline in the back.

How to Monitor & Increase Your Capacity

To find out if you are filling your lungs, sit in a straight chair (one that fits the knees without any strain on the legs) with your feet flat on the floor. Fold your arms, bend all the way forward, and rest your folded arms squarely on your knees while exhaling every bit of air.

This exercise will expand the rib cage: Breathe in very slowly and feel the air moving down to the very tips of the lungs in the back. Never mind the upper lungs, concentrate on feeling air all the way to the bottom of the lungs in the back. Exhale very slowly.

Repeat this exercise at least five times every day, and three times at night just before going to bed. Use this exercise to check any time during the day whether you are filling your lungs to capacity.

Most people have collapsed atoms in their lungs caused by lack of deep breathing. Collapsed atoms are the primary cause of all lung diseases. Breathing is the only way to restore natural body rhythm, and depth of breathing regulates this rhythm.

Shallow breathing allows atoms to deflate, and you must bring them back slowly. Lung cells are quite delicate, and any kind of violence in breathing can ruptured them. So go slowly and easily with your breathing.

Breathing Exercises

The Tamping and the Cleansing Breaths are among the most important of the types of breathing taught today.

The tamping breath, also called the "sipping breath," helps to deepen your breathing and restore its natural rhythm. To exercise this breath, take one sip of air at a time until you completely fill your lungs. Inhale every sip slowly. Exhalation is also very slow. Two or three of these breaths are enough any time.

The cleansing breath is more violent than the tamping breath, and should be used no more than once a day. Begin by sipping to inhale. The cleansing breath expels all the breath at once. Bend from the hips with some force and blow out the breath as fast as possible.

Once a day is sufficient for the cleansing breath, unless you are exposed to heavy dust. Then, three cleansing breaths, taken at five minute intervals, will not be harmful because nature responds to breath and the need for it.

Alternate nostril breathing is interesting and not harmful. It may be used for both breathing exercise and for mental control, so it serves two purposes: To fill your lungs and train your concentration.

Alternate nostril breathing fills one lung at a time. Use your right hand for the right side and your left hand for the left. To fill the left lung, place your right index finger against your left nostril. Make sure you allow no air to penetrate, then fill the left lung from your right nostril. Place your left index finger on your right nostril to fill your right lung from the left nostril.

Do this until you can feel the air penetrating the lung opposite to the nostril you close with your finger. Go slowly, and one day, after much practice, you’ll discover you can fill one lung at a time without holding your opposite nostril closed.

The rhythmic breath is the most important of all breathing exercises. It is called rhythmic because you always do it on an even count for its four different actions: Exhale, wait, inhale, hold. The beginner should start on a count of four.

This sounds very simple, but is not, for the lungs are delicate and precious and must be treated with respect. Whenever you feel the slightest sign of strain in breathing, stop instantly. The strain is your red light. Your breathing must be steady, even and smooth, with no jerks or strain. To practice the rhythmic breath, you:

Exhale on a count of four,

Wait on a count of four,

Inhale on a count of four, and

Hold on a count of four.

Hold four slow counts for each step. At first, take two rhythmic breaths and then two ordinary lung-filling breaths. When you feel no strain from this, increase it to three rhythmic breaths, then to five. When you can hold on a count of four for five minutes, without the least strain, you can move to a rhythmic count of five.

Five minutes at a time, three times a day is enough for rhythmic breathing at first. Rhythmic breathing strengthens your capacity. Later, you will be able to breathe rhythmically for as many five minute intervals a day as you like. Increase the count by four until you reach twelve. When you can breathe five minutes on a count of twelve three times a day, you are ready for the spiritual breath.

The spiritual breath is called the uneven breath. Hold the count indefinitely at twelve for both the wait and the hold. For inhalation and exhalation, increase the count slowly from twelve to as high as you want and can go. Wait for twelve, inhale on thirteen, hold on twelve, exhale on thirteen. Gradually increase the odd count.

Breathing is the Source of All Life. Breath is Life itself. It is our Power for living. It begins to pay us dividends only when we do it consciously. Every breath should be deep and high, but to hold the breath, you also need formal counting.

The spiritual, uneven breath done alone, without any preparation, can lead to mental disorders, even in an emotionally balanced individual. If you follow the rules, you need fear no danger from breathing.

Deep breathing, between formal counted breathing, will strengthen the lungs more speedily. Use caution in building up the rhythmic breathing from the count of four, and no harm can result. A glorious sense of well being and energy will be yours for the effort it takes.

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Water: Life-giving for Constant Health

The body is mostly water, which fills the interstices of the organs just as liquid fills the spaces in a jar of peas. All organs float in it, are cushioned by it, and the cells are filled with water.

The lymph substance that flows through the lymph glands is primarily water. Water also serves as the body’s heating and cooling system. When the face becomes moist, it’s the cooling system at work producing a film of moisture between the body and outer heat.

A fluid state of body means that it is malleable. Everything about the physical reactions becomes more alert.

The brain uses the subconscious mind to distribute the water intake, but it must have enough water to distribute. It knows where to distribute water and the proper proportions, but it must have sufficient water to send. When saliva grows thick and syrup-like, it is the red light of danger.

When we provide the body insufficient water, it impairs the operation of the venous, arterial and capillary systems. These body cleansing systems cannot work on a deficiency basis and successfully carry off toxins filtered out by other body systems.

When the tear ducts dry up, it is a sign that the lymph system is deficient in its water intake. Tear ducts react to the lack first, being the outermost lymph function. When the lymph system is operating with a natural fluid thickness, cells never gather in any of the glands to form lumps.

The liquid system of the body forms an auxiliary system for expelling toxins, poisons formed by fatigue, food, and emotional upsets, etc. If we have not expelled these toxins through the natural systems of elimination, they settle somewhere in the body to cause trouble later. An overly thick (like glue) lymph system is a natural breeding ground for any kind of disease.

The Body’s Need for Water

In the past we needed two quarts of water daily just to maintain body functions. Eight glasses of water per day horrified most persons, who decided that other liquids could make up the two quarts.

Now, with atomic radiation in the atmosphere, we need four quarts per day to do the same work required of two quarts in the past. This quantity of water inside, with baths on the outside, means perfect health and long life for anyone.

Extra liquids taken are sufficient for digestive tract elimination, but the lymph system needs pure water to function properly. The body must filter through the liver and convert other liquids into needed water. Surely one day science will discover that sufficient water will eliminate disease when we obey all other physical laws.

Breathing deeply will eliminate the poisons created today. Yet only enough pure water can break down the crystallization found in almost every part of the physical body, and fulfill today’s needs also. Look around, and you see that half the world is shrinking from nothing but drought. Dry skin, rough skin textures, dry mucous membranes in the sinuses, dry throats . . . all with plenty of water available.

We need water for digesting the food intake. That lump-like feeling in the stomach after a meal means just that — a solid lump of food is in the stomach, since all the liquid has been drawn out by the stomach and inducted into the bloodstream.

After half an hour, sip half a glass of water, and in another thirty minutes sip another half glass. At least we need two full glasses of water to digest a full meal, to liquify the food so that we can absorb it.

Many complain about getting up in the night when they drink water after six o’clock. One should be grateful when awakened to eliminate body poisons, instead of having them settle in different organs to cause difficulties later.

If one does not supply the daily water requirement, then that amount must be drawn from fluid available within the body, creating a deficiency. Why allow a dislike of drinking water to dry the body out until old age shrinkage takes place? Drink! Drink! Drink water!

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The Theory of Diet

Diet begins with the eyes: Many meals are chosen because they appeal to the eye. Therefore, the first law of diet to observe is control of Imagination over food, for Desire follows Imagination every time, even while the conscious mind is Thinking rightly.

Some people think, "I shouldn’t eat this or I’ll suffer for it tomorrow," or similar thoughts, while forcing food into the stomach with as little regard for what happens in the stomach as if he were pouring it into a garbage can. This repudiates responsibility for toxins formed from poor foods. Every day you hear remarks about eating something appealing: "I must need it, my body seems to be calling for it."

All self indulgence calls for the same thing: Intoxicants, sedatives and other harmful, habit-forming substances. After a certain point the body does call for the wrong thing because any habit finally creates an intolerance for anything except itself. It takes will power, channeled as determination to the brain centers in charge, to hold to a selected goal of perfect functioning for the physical body.

Diet is always an individual matter. Not one diet is good for everyone. What satisfies one disturbs another. Each individual must find the right combinations of food for their particular metabolism, then work out the right quantities and proportions for health.

Choice & Combinations of Foods

How will you know when you have found the right diet? The answer is simple. The body will be functioning happily.

Until you reach that point, you need more selective choice in foods, the many combinations and the proper timing. Some thrive on one food in the morning, but others have better results with the same food in the evening.

The next step in diet is accepting the fact that your body is a precision instrument of great delicacy and that it must function with almost perfect harmony. You must refuel it daily and the fuel must be proper to keep the body functioning perfectly.

Remember, the nerve synapses relay what is happening in the stomach to the brain, what it dislikes or cannot handle with gusto. The brain has great powers of rejection and makes its dislikes known. We must supply it with all the essential chemical elements the body needs for sufficient nourishment. (They discover more combinations of essential chemical elements all the time.) For instance, one food substance used to help produce a cure for a physical ailment is fine, if other necessary foodstuffs have balanced it.

The whole body needs nourishment in its every part each day. This is why long fasts are harmful, body functions must continue, and the body consumes many cells through just plain living day by day. With insufficient food, the subconscious mind tells the brain where to tear down body cells for functioning and added energy.

Unlike a manufactured machine, the body can handle a great number and variety of complicated foods, but we must combine them in the right proportions. Proper food combinations enable the natural secretions of the body, enzymes, etc., to act upon them readily for distribution throughout the body.

Not only does the food we eat contribute to illness or health, but the combinations and proportions, too. Nothing may be wrong with the food itself, but each person’s metabolism is different, requiring these different proportions or combinations. With any diet, you must experiment with the combinations and quantities until you satisfy your particular metabolism.

Digestion

When one considers the brain’s magnificent ability to instruct the subconscious mind in the activities of body functioning, then to order the right distribution of our food intake, it becomes breathtaking. The individual is required only to select the right foods in the proper combinations and amounts, then leave the rest to the brain’s direction and control. All you need to do is to apply your own Creative Tools to the problem and then to faithful to your selected diet.

The physical process of digestion begins with the teeth, mastication. In the 1900s, a man named Fletcher, taught a process he called "Fletcherizing," which was to masticate food thirty-two times before swallowing. What a sight that was! Everyone silently chewing each mouthful the full number of times. The fad lasted about two weeks, but it left a lasting impression upon the brain cells.

The last chemical held in the mouth from the last meal triggers the secretion of the salivary glands, three on each side of the jaw. Full and perfect digestion demands that each new mouthful of food be sprayed with the secretion.

Little ducts feed a tiny sample of the food being masticated into the glands, mixing it with the original secretion and then spraying a new secretion on the mouthful of food as we are swallowing it. This is the first phase of digestion and only these glands are suitable to this work. Lake of sufficient water slows their functioning.

The brain telegraphs to the stomach what food is on its way, and orders the right amount and type of stomach secretions to meet and digest the new food. So wonderfully are we created, why should we be less than perfect physically? Why should we neglect to do our share in caring for this wonderful body?

The bile and pancreatic secretions are only auxiliaries to the real digestion, which starts with the teeth in the mouth. As digestion continues, the liver selects what it needs for its factory from the body toxins, transforming these very poisons into the various secretions that take care of all the glandular work in the body. The liver collects all excess body poisons and sends them to the gall bladder to become bile. The poor gall bladder is always willing to help, even when its own supply is brimming. So it overflows, often into the stomach, causing much distress.

All these difficulties arise because the digestive process didn’t have time to begin properly in the mouth, and because the breathing was too shallow to remove sufficient toxins. Insufficient mastication can potentially upset every organic function of the body.

The teeth set the pattern for what will happens in the colon. We can trace any problem in the colon’s end of the digestive tract back to the mouth. The colon is an effect, not a cause.

Choosing a Diet

Literally thousands of diets are available, all of them good, some better than others, but still the choice must be left to the individual. We do not need to be rigid, blind followers of any diet. We are supposed to work out our own salvation, and not be gullible. Be choosy! Be difficult to persuade, and try everything out for yourself. Above all things, never make a wholesale change.

If you choose a change in diet, let go of the old one a tablespoon at a time, taking on the new one in the same proportion. You cannot change your body metabolism all at once. The result would be a blowout somewhere before the end. The stomach is bound to react.

Walk softly and go slowly to make a full diet change.

We have no excuse for ignorance in this age. Enough books, health programs and lectures are available so that anyone can learn common sense facts about diet.

Remember, whether you have worked out your diet, or your doctor has given you one, it is no good unless you follow it faithfully 365 days a year. No diet does any good unless we apply it with all the other Laws of living. No diet will work unless your mind accepts it, unless your Thinking goes along with it, without your declaration that "This is good!"

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Rest: The Great Restorer of Life

Rest:

Sleep

Diversion
Re-creation


The realm of sleep is the one place where we must exercise perfect control and conquering by the creative faculties. Without this control, our use of our fourfold powers works against us in no uncertain way. Otherwise, we allow the highest spiritual breathing from the Source of All Life to be diverted, to be taken over by our mental, emotional and even physical body. The physical body becomes a dictator, telling us — through weakness, tense nerves, weary muscles — that our life-expression is to be in bed!

The world places all emphasis on sleep, but it is only a third right. Sleep is essential if the metabolism is to be perfect. Sleep is the time of recuperation, storing energy, filling the body’s reservoir by inflating every atom in the atomic body.

We must direct and control Thinking and Imagination, or the result is senile old age. When does senility start? When Thinking is concerned with being too tired, too weary, too overworked — "I’m dying on my feet!" When Imagination builds pictures of beaches, overstuffed chairs, front porches and patios all day, all waiting to receive the body when it goes down.

We mistakenly call lazy Thinking and Imagination running wild "letting go," but this is only a "letting down" so far that we go to bed for a "little death" of eight hours. When all this sounds satisfying, it’s time to arise and begin a new physical vibration of Life.

"Letting down" is a detrimental use of all our Creative Tools. It is the right idea turned upside down, applied in the wrong way. It leads to less and less energy and less Desire to do.

Relax to Rest

Full, restful sleep does not arrive when nerves are strung tight. Sleep cannot come with every cell in the body protesting against being overworked and pushed beyond its ability to serve. Just to aim for resting the body, without first preparing the mind for relaxation, doesn’t release the nerves, but just acts as a sedative and dulls them for a time. To have every nerve going into action in the same way, and at the same place it left off the night before, does nothing to solve the problem.

Getting ready for real sleep begins when we turn from the day’s heavy activities, leaving the office or preparing the evening meal. The whole mental attitude must change. Do not begin by thinking "it can’t be done" — it can.

We must invoke the Creative Tool of Desire. Begin to build up the body’s atomic energy by thinking of interesting, beautiful things, different and far from the day’s activities.

Soar Like an Eagle

Take a few moments for stretching out and making yourself into an eagle with spread wings, ready to soar high above all the problems of earth. This is the first step toward your night’s sleep. Stretching out on the floor is really the best way. Your body will respond at once, every part of it.

This soaring eagle exercise involves the three great creative faculties of Imagination, Thinking and Desire in the problem, taking control of the mental, emotional and physical body trouble areas.

If you have time to sit and relax, hold onto the soaring eagle image. Don’t sink down into zombie consciousness or semi-oblivion to get away from living. Don’t press the chair into the floor! You rest by sitting lightly, as if strings upheld your shoulders.

This attitude and these postures, controlled by you, the real you, allow your breathing to refill and recharge your body atoms with new energy. Instead of going to your dinner with a half-dead or dying stomach, it will be alive, active and ready for its needed food-fuel. This is real rest; not to have less life, but to let real life take over and lift you UP!

If you read, or in another way relax before going to bed, remember not to "sink" from your soaring eagle image. Whatever your diversion and recreation, don’t let down. Keep growing in an exalted feeling and mood. This will ensure your sleep to be refreshing and rebuilding, and enable you to see the sun shining above any clouds earth can produce.

Like a Rag Doll

Before bed, stand with your arms straight out from your shoulders, as if they were spread wings. Tense your muscles tightly, slowly relaxing them. Allow your body to swing forward from the hips with the head and neck letting go, arms and neck limp until the head and arms swing like a pendulum. They must swing completely uncontrolled and free.

Keep at this until your head might even roll off across the floor. If you’ve ever lifted a rag doll by the middle, you’ll know what "limp" means, not placed by any muscle control. Do this exercise two or three times and you are ready for sleep.

In the morning, take a deep breath as you first stand on your feet by the bed, and reach for the stars. Using your own name, speak to yourself, telling yourself, "Move back into your body, right down to the toes, and take charge of it. Move in now." Breathe in as you speak.

You have slept and been away from your body, giving it a rest from you and your thoughts and any negativity. Move into your body anew and start your day with the soaring eagle image uppermost in your mind. Now you are free to do!

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Exercise

Walking, as an exercise, fulfills only half the body’s exercise needs. It starts a life vibration in the nerves of the whole body, for the sciatic nerves in the legs connect with all the nerves of the spine. Walking starts a vibration in the spinal cord, almost as if we were shaking it. However, a vibration is not enough to free the muscles and ligaments from the nerves. Walking is the easiest exercise, something everyone must do.

In exercise, as in diet, one must choose from the hundreds of methods available, and settle upon those which give the best results for you. Some prefer yoga methods, but even these are inadequate unless accompanied by strictest obedience to the Mental Laws (mind over matter). When you use yoga methods in all their beauty and with full concentration, they render the body youthful and graceful.

Right Mental Attitude

For youth and long life, you must follow every Law, neglecting none. Some would rather lose their earth bodies than obey Laws for health, a few go as far as to pay for advice they never follow!

It pays to make a chart to each of the five Laws pertaining to the physical body. Work out a definite plan to include each of them during a twenty-four-hour day. Otherwise, left to chance, or a poor memory for details, we comply with some of them in an indefinite, haphazard way.

Exercise should never be violent, but it should be deliberate and strongly done. The more poise you use during exercise, the better the results. Nothing results from exercises accompanied by an agitated, confused mind or nerves and muscles held tight and stiff. You cannot perform exercises ritualistically in the morning with the mind already running for the train or bus.

Thought must be tranquil and the emotions held poised. Missing a day’s exercises is better than to do them with tense nerves, a complete waste of time. Tension in nerves and muscles during forced exercise sets up a conflict, and obstinate muscles work in the opposite direction, resisting the exercise. Exercise, done as a duty, gives a poor result when compared with body response under a spirit of joy.

Exercises for the Spine

Whatever exercise program you work out, it should contain exercises similar to the following six for the spine and the eyes.

Old age has set in when the knees sag while walking. People mentally slump before their knees respond with a slight bend while walking or standing. You can conquer this mental "letting go" of life by watching yourself. Watch yourself as you walk, large store windows give one a perfect view. It’s a surprise to see how queer one looks with bent knees and sagging back, and it makes one feel a thousand years old.

The subconscious automatically responds mentally to straight shoulders, straight back and straight knees. Beginning your exercise program with a straight-thinking mind is the first step. Straight thinking reroutes your mind from the past. It also aids in conquering a wandering or straying mind.

Look beyond your present body in the mirror and see the perfect ageless and beautiful body you really desire. This is the first exercise to keep the body from sagging at the seams. Exercising before a mirror is good because it keeps attention focused and makes the exercise process mean something more to the subconscious mind.

Select a comfortable stance with the feet positioned for balance. Place your hands, with fingertips touching, at the base of the head. This is the correct posture for all spinal exercises.

Next, remove all ideal of bending from the mind. The goal of these spinal exercises is to stretch the cartilage between the vertebrae (bones of the spine), and to stretch the vertebrae themselves as far apart as possible. Stand with your feet spread slightly apart; do not move the legs, knees or feet, hold them steady.

The Twist

We call the first spinal exercise the Twist. Rotate the entire torso first to the right, then to the left. Begin at the hips. The idea is to feel as though each spinal bone is turning alone, taking its turn.

Twist each, all the way to the base of the skull, as far as it will comfortably go. Do not strain. When you reach the last bone, let the spine rest a few seconds before you begin again at the base of the spine, and stretch it to the other side.

Your ultimate goal is ten twists, but begin with two only. Protesting muscles are harmful, so take care to begin with two of each exercise, no more.

When all soreness and stiffness are gone, add another and do three each. Keep adding until you reach ten. Do not arouse muscles until they repudiate and fight back. Go easily and they will respond by making your body over in a new pattern.

Side to Side

The next exercise is also a stretching one, but from side to side. Assume the same stance as for the twist, with hands at the base of the skull.

Begin at the base of the spine and lean slowly to the right, stretching each bone. Stretch in the same way to the left. Eventually, you will be able to lean sideways and touch the elbow to the leg just above the knee on both sides. Go slowly, beginning with two and adding until you achieve ten side-to-sides.

Forward & Backward

The third spinal exercise stretches the spine forward and backward. The stance is the same as for the first two exercises. We also call this the "snail" exercise.

Begin at the base of the skull and move down to the hips. Imagine you are curling your spine into a snail’s spiral. Curl forward, then raise up for the backward movement from the hips to the neck.

You may not actually look like a snail, but the mental image, thinking "snail," does something extra for the exercise that the physical act alone cannot accomplish. This is where we combine yoga with what we are doing, mind over matter.

When you are finally limber enough, you will be able to tuck your head between the ankles. By bending the knees slightly as you go backward, you can curve the spine a bit more. Disregard the stiffness if you have never done such exercises before. Just keep at it, two at a time, until all soreness is gone.

Exercises for the Eyes

Dr. Bates’ exercises for the eyes have been available for many years. We can easily combine them with the spinal exercises, thus saving time for the busy individual.

For the Twist, let the eyes follow the body around all the way to the right. Then encourage them to move farther, as far as they can go. You will be able to see almost directly behind you once you release the eyeballs from their static position of bondage in the eye sockets. Do not force, not ever.

Unless you are already doing the Bates exercises, begin with only two, working up to ten. The more gently you proceed, the sooner and the better will be the results.

For the second set of eye exercises, the Side to Side, let the eyes roll upward as you lean to the right, and then upward as you lean to the left.

For the Forward and Backward exercise, roll the eyes straight upward as you lean forward, and roll them downward as you lean backward.

Remember, the wrinkles are in your thinking before they show up on your face. The most visible wrinkles come from thinking in terms of old age or self-pity. Self-pity always produces tears that form a mist about the individual indulging in this negative emotion. The mist grows thicker with time and one can spend years wandering in a valley of tears without finding the way out.

So, open a new account in the Bank Universal, and begin to draw upon it now. All you need for an initial deposit is to start singing Praises for what you have right now. With each new breath, you reach higher, and your Faith rides out.

Faith contacts Power, and the resulting explosion fills us with a flaming ability to Know that "nothing is impossible to those who believe." We mentally reach out with our arms of Light to find strength and Power. This is our call upon the great Creative Impulse to move through us for our Creations of Eternal Youth, knowing that "He holds the worlds in the hollow of His hands."

"Let there be Light."


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