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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.