BF 636 L749s 1916 00650240R NLM Q5DDm,bb 2 NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE JFB 2 8 iay< SURGEON GENERAL'S OFFICE LIBRARY. Section No. 113, W.D.S. G.O. No. J? 1 J~JJ_ 0 3—513 NLM050046662 BY / A. A. LINDSAY, /A. D. AUTHOR OP New Psychology Complete and Aind the Builder " New Psychology Handbook " " The New Psychology Pearls " "New Psychology Question Book" ' Living the Life and the Valley of the Ideal " The Wayside and the Goal " " The Tyranny of Love" "Thought Chimes" " Daily Life Psychology " " Scientific Prayer" EDITOR AND PUBLISHER tAind the Builder Magazine A. A. LINDSAY PUBLISHING COMPANY 677 /Michigan Avenue, - Detroit, /Michigan - '//&7 /0M G£.7£jX LIBRARY L '(43s, Copyright 1916 By A. A. LINDSAY, V\. 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Drifting and haphazard prove an absence of as- piration for aspiration puts an end to doubt; un certainty cannot exist where the laws of a thing are complied with and a resourceful mind can take any realization and follow It back to its source and dis- close the law by which it came into existence—he would find the principle of aspiration was the be- ginning. One may take aspiration and analyze its laws and he discloses the source in which all desir- able things and things feared have their anchorage. Mankind has been so busy in an effort to con- struct a theology out of every large conception that it has immediately put an end tc the disclosure of a working basis of attainment; we will show there are laws and formulas governing all things and that if one would have a certain result he must apply the laws and formulas; he must put the cause in line with the effect desired. The presence of knowledge is no guarantee that that knowledge will be expressed; in the human being this is true also that in the presence of a su- perior knowledge the individual may use an inferior quality of intelligence. The presence of power is not presumptive evidence that the power will be exercised and in the human the high degree of it may be defeated and expression be manifested in 10 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING low degree. These facts would indicate that there must be some law or principle by which the knowl- edge and power would be brought into application; fortunately the same principle will bring forth eith- er knowledge or power or both and the formulas by which one may avail himself of the superior ex- pression in the form of power or knowledge are the same. Our study is so very simple if one will per- mit it to become so. That which is vitally important to a human be- ing is called a need; we sometimes speak of needs and possibilities—with my interpretation of the human being I am sure a possibility of expression is as much a need as is anything usually classed as a need. If one has a possibility in a direction of self expression which he does not attain I am sure there is a vital result defeated and he is not as help- ful nor as great as he should have become. The presence of that which is recognized as a need is an assurance of a possibility. At this point a casual observer will disagree with our treatment of the subject for he thinks he has exhausted all possibilities in his effort. He will inform us that he has concentrated his attention upon the subject; that he has exercised intense will power; that he has had a great sense of regret at the absence of the result; that he has lived a life of sacrifice and also of prayer; that he has worked industriously and omitted no opportunity to bring about the ful- fillment. I do mean to say that one may desire and work and pray and concentrate and use the driving force of will and yet in the presence of a possibility not attain that which is his possibility. The wealth of a material sort and command over men to serve, the masterful knowledge of the sciences that would seem to be involved in a result none nor all would THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 11 be productive of the desired and possible result. One may master the technic of music through in- dustry and have the aid of the best possible instruct- or, beyoud all this have the musical gift and not express music. One may become addicted to a habit that grows out of an effort to gratify an appetite; discovering its ruinous effects he may determine to abstain and make all essential effort to avoid indulgence for a great length of time continuing to spontaneously desire to do the thing he formerly practiced. With all the use of will power he may not become freed although he has a potency of healing. Many times there are those who have habits and tendencies that all the friends know to be injurious and that the practices prevent the success of the individual; they may all know of a power that could correct the trouble and would gladly force upon him a cure, all to no avail. - : ~ One may have an illness of any degree; he may expend fortune after fortune and follow dieting and all things prescribed at any sacrifice and yet in the immediate presence of the healing power may not improve in health. One may not have a disorder but, receiving an unfavorable diagnosis or when associated with oth- ers who have a disorder or becoming convinced that on account of heredity he may have disease, becom- ing filled with fear, develop disease which he fears. I will add here that he may develop his inharmony through the application of the power which is de- clared above to be present in all the instances of failure to realize the results of which he had the potency and knowledge. And I can add again that in the history of the individual usually it is dis- closed that he lays hold upon the knowledge and power, the Supreme Potency, in a destructive way, 12 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING misapplying the force more often than he applies it constructively. If one should analyze the results of fear he would disclose the power and knowledge and where they are to which one should aspire for attainment of the desirable. In some of my illustrations I have shown that one may exhibit aspiration and yet not fulfill the fruits of aspiration of the right sort; this is because he does not aspire in the right direction. Aspiration is looking askingly; to reach a desir- able result one must look askingly toward that which can fulfill. For man there is but one immediate source from which the knowledge and power essential to his guidance, instruction and growth can be manifest- ed. Although that Supreme Potency is stored with- in each one it does not compel its office but answers to the principle of aspiration. This indicates that fear is an emoton that looks expectantly to a power that can fulfill the thing feared and sets the one Power to working, the creative Power in himself. To become filled with fear is to pray in the most effectual manner for the thing that is feared to come into fact. It is a scientific truth that if one becomes as emo- tional in an asking way, looking to his Innate Self to bring him the desirable in the form of healing, art expression, success, or attainment in any other form, as character elements, physical skill and men- tal perception, he reaches all of these. Aspiration should not be weak in any one; per- haps would not be if everyone understood that the heights are attainable when one aspires with his conscious mind, looking toward his soul for guid- ance, and then actively executes according to the promptings. Aspiration means looking askingly, commanding- THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE U ly, expectantly and persistently; it involves faith and hope, also confidence. The source to which one should look aspiringly gives the vision to the outer consciousness which is as an architectural plan, a star by night and a cloud by day that guides; the Innate Self does not do the work, it guides it and if its prompting guidance is followed it orders the cells of the body to function in a manner to supply energy, endurance and skill to execute the plan; it sometimes prompts the volition where to find and choose technic to serve as the best code through which to objectify the ideal which the Innate has supplied in the plan it has given the consciousness. Aspiration (asking the Innate Self) should be lived all of the time for all purposes, even to be guided in the ways of "making a living"; it is as much a necessity to have the best inspiration con- cerning how to obtain one's daily bread as it is to have the Innate guide one in expressing the art. One needs the fruits of aspiration (the gift and guidance of the Innate Self, which Jesus called the Holy Spirit) incessantly in his contacts with the fellow man, for his correct interpretation—how much and in what form to trust him; how he can best serve him; in ordering his own deportment, his habits, his attitudes and all things that touch his objective life. Jesus showed an understanding of this in greatest detail when he said for one to enter into the closet (the Silence) and close the world out and then ask the Ruler over the Kingdom of Heaven within one to make all things in one's earth, objective or physical life become, in its har- monies, like the harmonies that exist in the King- dom itself. The prayer he taught was for the ob- jective consciousness to use upon the principle of aspiration (looking askingly in the direction of the Innate Self) in order to train all of the phases as 14 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING intellect, character and the body into oneness of har- monies with the Father in Heaven—the Father and the Heaven within the aspiring one. Limitless growth is provided for in sincere de- sire leading to aspiring for that which is desired; asking for whatsoever you will of this Supreme In- telligence within you is the formula for attain- ment ; not thinking for a moment that the thing it self will be delivered into your hands already cre- ated but that the Source will guide your decisions and your efforts in the essential manner to attain- ment and obtainment. O be psychically sensitive is the most beatific constitution, therein is the high- est spiritual endowment, therefore, the largest usefulness and sublimest happi- ness is in prophecy with one so blessed. Whether this is fulfilled or not is contingent upon the indi- vidual's understanding his quality of being psychi- cal and how to preserve himself from destruction through suggestions. To be psychically constituted means an especial susceptibility to suggestions in all the forms; they may come to one in spoken de- scriptions, signs, imagery held by those in rapport whether described in words or communicated tele- pathically, pains, aches, diseases in all sorts of symptoms, habits, appetites and all peculiar ideas that dominate others; there is nothing that another mind or character or body may contain or manifest that one psychically sensitive may not fulfill (car- ried over through imagery) and he or she does so thinking that it is his own original condition. The disaster is increased when these symptoms are tak- en on purely under the law of suggestion, by the THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 15 fact that the development of the actual conditions of mind, body and character that are pictured by the psychically sensitive one is likely to take place unless the suggestion is counteracted before the de- velopment has taken form—this does not occur very often. All musicians, artists in painting, sculpture, act- ing, literature and every other person who gives expression to the superior self, including inventors, "geniuses," ideal farmers and business men, are psychically sensitive. The percentage of those who have the greatest potency, artistically speaking, who ever express their art is very small; for the most part those spiritually gifted, that is, possessed of highest de- gree of art possibilities, are carried off in dissipa- tion and intense emotions and appetites and their sorrows and disappointments send them into de- gradation. The conditions will not change until practical psychology is understood in that department of its teachings which exhibits the power of suggestion and explains how suggestions reach individuals; ex- plains that a psychically sensitive person is so sub- jective that the prevailing suggestions will rule him or her; and particularly teach the fact that up to the present time, from every source and in every form, destructive suggestions are numerically stronger and given in a more forceful manner than constructive ones. Xot knowing the law of sug- gestion and one's own suggestibility, one goes with the current. Invitation to go contrary to the laws of one's being is pouring in all the time and a sen- sitive readily accepts them. Constructive thought or impulse to lead one in accord with the laws of the being is not very strong, observing life as it usu- ally exists. 16 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING One who understands his own heritage of psychi- cal sensitiveness and also that he can by taking proper standards, scientific standards, become proof against the destructive picturing of others so as not to obey them nor take on their conditions; libera- tion can come only through knowledge and until this knowledge is applied the greater percentage of those best endowed for usfulness through self ex- pression will be carried off through sense tempta- tions or being overwhelmed, through their sympa- thies, by the illnesses, sorrows and myriad other afflictions of people with whom they are in rapport. Almost one year ago a young man of the high class of inherent spiritual trend, multiple form of arts, was brought into my life whose saving would compensate for my whole 20 years of effort in mas- tering my subject of practical psychology and get- ting the pioneer work of its planting completed. The prospect was not an encouraging one and all who knew him had lost hope, except one person. I wonder if the mother ever loses hope? I won- der how many millions of men and women have been saved from permanent ruin because she has continued to hope? No, his mother had not given up hope. She had always said: "Some one will come who can help my son." It was the mother who heard of the writer and secured the interview in which she said so often while describing his actions: "That is not like him, naturally, he's just the opposite." Because he was not acting himself truly there was thought to send him away and his mother had succeeded in delay- ing the plan. After the interview with her the son came. He was possessed of splendid physique and good fea- tures ; although every mark of the sensitive was in evidence he was not weak; innate refinement and THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 17 artistic tastes would be apparent to any one. He gave me his interpretation of his situation, which was that he had committed a most awful crime, every detail of which he could describe and which he was confident the detectives had unraveled and would call for him on his birthday only a short time ahead. He was certain he would hear the tele- phone ring and when he did go to answer he could hear them talking over his case; he could hear peo- ple in the street talking about him and he became convinced also that the people in the office in which he worked were in the plot to get him. When I asked him if he really committed the crime he re- plied that he was made to do so when he was intoxi- cated. This remark gave me a clue to the situation, for I had not the slightest belief that he was insane and I was just as sure he had not committed the crime. I did not argue with him—everyone had done this with the effect to convince him more positively that he was a criminal. I saw the wonderful possi- bilities of a life like his when properly ordered and I proceeded at once to give him treatments—sug- gestions while he was passive and quiet. By the fourth treatment he was beginning to doubt that he had done the deed and indicated this by asking me to put him in a very deep passivity and let him see from the record of his own subcon- sciousness what he had actually done. He saw nothing and so I asked him to let me read for him at the next treatment. I then disclosed to his con- sciousness and my own that he had, while intoxicat- ed, received the description of the act as if each item of it were being carried out by him; that this wicked associate with him in the low den told him (sug- gested to him) that he committed the thing and my patient had carried over from his delirium into his 18 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING sober state the pictures with the impression that he had enacted it all. In the subjective state of intoxication he received in his sub-conscious a picture and because it was in his sub-conscious it could not be argued out of his conscious. Physicians and all the world may as well take this lesson—it cannot be controverted: It is utterly useless to try to remove from one's outer consciousness that which is fixed in the sub-con- scious. If it were only in the conscious depart- ment of the mind, then reasoning would effect it, but when it is deeper the removal must be through suggestions that will act upon the sub-conscious. From that day forward we made rapid progress in reinstating his equilibrium and removing his wor- ry and fear. He joined the class and obtained the liberation that knowledge affords; he could not have worked this out by himself; he needed some one to give him suggestions while he was passive. He asked me to use his case in illustration if I saw it was best. My greatest purpose is not in showing that one can receive suggestions when intoxicated that be- come laws over him afterward, although that is vitally important to know. Liquor drinking was not from his own love or appetite for liquor; he entered into fellowship with one who did have the desire and through sympathy this young man took on the similar impulse; he was cultured and refined and despised the unclean but he got into rapport with the vile people, and fellowshipping them, he, upon that law that flocking together, birds become of the same feather, presently had their tastes. Be- ing psychically sensitive he was open to the domi- nant suggestions of those with whom he had en- tered into sympathy. Since understanding that he is psychically sensitive, he enters into rapport THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 19 only with sources of thoughts that are true and good and beautiful. Would I advise the destruction of his sensitive- ness? Not for the world would I—I would direct his soul powers for art expression; therein is the great blessing he can give to the world. The majority of those whom we call criminals and whom we punish as such, have the greatest possibilities because they are sensitive, but our methods toward them only fill them more com- pletely with the destructive suggestions which they carry out when they are situated to do so. The opposite of the psychically sensitive one is the coarse, objective individual who goes on in- tellect, calculation and the senses; who esteems nothing except for its weight, noise, color, taste or scent; inspiration attends not upon his life—he would disown it if it came. It is better never to have lived at all than to be an objective individual, the opposite of the psychically sensitive, but one would far better be an objective individual in all of his constitution than to be psychical and not understand himself nor how to preserve himself. S=pgfjHE predominating spontaneous atti- ■Jw tudes, usually called disposition, taken X&| by the individual, measure the happiness Jre*ifl as well as the good that he or she experi- ences in the life. The dominant disposition classi- fied as happy or unhappy, sweet or sour, kind or malevolent, unselfish or selfish, courageous or weak, benign or revengeful, honest or dishonest, true or false, frank or deceitful, is the result of one's disposal of the items of life as they confront him. Each phase of character is made up of little 20 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING integral members or elements in about the same sense that the human body is comprised of myriads of cells. When the cells become a unit we ecase to think of the cells but only of that which they con- stitute, but in order to understand that result, the analysis leading back to the constituent parts be- comes necessary. To change one's disposition would necessitate a change of his interpretation of the items of experi- ence as he has occasion to deal with them or dis- pose of them. One cannot interpret each contact that he has in the daily life bitterly, resentfully, regrettingly or hatingly and then assume or manifest a beautiful disposition; one cannot be irritable with all the members of his own family and then spontaneously manifest a pleasurable disposition toward his friends—he would have to watch himself and put that on objectively, therefore, that is not his dis- position. Again, I must say that disposition must be a spontaneous manifestation, not an assumed ap- pearance; we must see that the trend of our in- clination as we manifest our disposition is some- thing of the acquired something we have created by our previous attitudes which were taken under the direction or with the consent of the volition. One has occasion to take a mental attitude toward every picture that comes in touch with the life; an attitude toward time, the rising hour or the retir- ing hour, the working hour and the noon hour; he may regret there are sixty minutes in an hour and sixty seconds in a minute and regret that he has to pass away all the time. He may dislike the vehi- cles and the people he sees in them in the early morning hours when he has to go to his regretted work. He may hate the noise or the quiet of his place of business or the tones of the wall paper or THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 21 the kind of pictures on the wall; he may hate the furnishings and draperies and when he looks through disgusting windows he may interpret the weather with horror. Do you not see he is dispos- ing of all these items with a certain mental atti- tude and do you not see just as plainly that in this spirit with which he is disposing of the experiences he is making impressions upon the plastic self which will presently compel him to interpret in this same manner all things and treat all things in a manner perfectly consistent with the spirit in which he has disposed of the items of his contact? I have referred to the above at this stage of my analysis so my reader would at once recognize the fact that one has already fixed the trend of his in- terpretations before he has become old enough to be connected with business; it is well to note here that when one has become of the age to be among people in a business or responsible relationship, if he wishes to correct his "disposition" it would be fortunate for him to know that he would have to direct his aspiration and effort toward the acquired department of the soul to place there the desir- able and eradicate the undesirable. It is reason- ably asked, when does one begin to form his dispo- sition ? The moment one is born or at least the mo- ment he begins to receive suggestions. In the hour a child is born he is plastic to impressions that may determine him for happy interpretations or the un- happy kind. A nurse who is a good psychologist would not let a baby continue making the effort to get its toe into its mouth when it was about to become angry or fretted in its attempt; she would attract its atten- tion to something else and ultimately the little one would get its toe in its mouth while happy and con- tinue happy in the victory. It is a ruinous prin- 22 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING ciple to stamp upon one the impression that he gets happiness only after he has been very unhappy, that his joy is the consequence of his sorrow; that he can only have peace after he has had great tur- moil. It is true that it is bright sunshine that comes into the child's face when he has been angry and crying and fighting to get his toe into his mouth and after persistence he has reached the result, but he is also impressing his acquired self that to reach the victory, he must become angry and cry. You will find this same child later begging its mother for something which it knows it will not receive until it becomes angry and cries. It is something of rare occurrence if it ever is true that one has not been stamped with the impression of some sort of destructive paroxysm which must occur before the blessing can be realized and when that is the dis- position one is compelled to interpret each experi- ence of life as possessing a great mass of tears (de struction) with a little sunshine mixed in. A prin ciple of this nature is contained in the idea that if there is an abundance of hell now there will be a greater abundance of heaven hereafter. If in deal ing with the child, his guardian will see to it that its entire experience, in which it is aspiring to make ends meet, shall be heavenly he will have ac- complished more toward creating happy, courage- ous, all constructive qualities in the individual's disposition than could be established in years of cultivation at another period. More dispositions have been put upon a de- structive trend through the practice during the early home life of giving the child things it cried for and seldom giving it anything that it did not cry for than through any other standard, perhaps. A girl growing up according to any such principle THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 23 will not create a peaceful home, but after she is married she will fix her terms of receiving things at first having had a paroxysm of some sort. A man may see evidences of her standard being to win out through having fits of some terrific sort but he thinks such love as he has to give her will, when she has attained so great a thing as real love of a true man, be so happy and peaceful, so gracious in her disposition and so sunshiny that she will have no more excuse therefore no more inclination to be depressed, morose, bitter, jealous or any other of the thousand things that she has been aggravated to experience before she married him. I am presenting a principle in the above, there- fore it is as applicable to the woman making this prognostication as it is to the man; the woman carries it so far as to think that a man who had a disposition toward excesses in liquor and other things that are very unseemly, will when he has her great love and attention lose all of that trend. Enough men and women have deceived them- selves upon this matter to comprise the largest city in America. Perhaps some will take a psycholo- gist's word for it: Marriage, even with love, holds nothing to change one's disposition radically. There may be additional relationships through which the excesses may be manifested for a time or a situa- tion taking the thought and energies for a while so a paroxysm of some terrific sort misses a date, but marriage and love hold not a remedy for an established disposition, to correct its undesirable qualities. The woman may have her vision so occupied for a time that she sees only the beautiful in the one she loves—during that time he receives only praise but her disposition has always been to criticise and before long he will become her chief victim. He 24 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING could be faultless—it is her disposition which must have its outlet; he need not supply any excuse yet in the absence of fault he will blame himself pres- ently, then he becomes self-conscious and in trying to satisfy her by his perfections, makes real mis- takes which he and others see as plainly as does his wife. She supplies the image and impulse and presently he has a disposition of self condemantion which will ruin any man for usefulness. Love and marriage do not of themselves correct nor destroy dispositions—an iamge and impulse go before any change and when correction is the change in pros- pect, only aspiration accompanying an acknowl- edgment of a need of correction can work that change, for disposition is a phase of the character, an impression upon the acquired self; to modify the acquired self requires new image and impulse, a new suggestion. A man may be dishonest, surly, domineering, immodest or irritable and when he is first married have his attention so called away from his usual program that he will not manifest these things; when he takes up the routine of life he will soon disclose the fact that in love and marriage there is nothing to change the disposition, nothing of themselves. That which any man or woman has built in the wayside will still be present at the goal. Any goal will not of itself make any great change in the in- dividual's self which he has builded, and yet any goal, any stage attained, especially the great events of life, afford particularly favorable cocasions to take new and constructive standards in the place of the former destructive ones. Aspirations of the wife concerning the husband will affect him only to the extent they also become his; any inspiration of the husband will affect the wife only to the ex- THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 25 tent they become hers. Aspiration for correctoin seldom comes to an egotistical person for he or she wTill not acknowledge the fault, the need; the recognition of that is fundamental to aspiration. However, when all of this which I have stated is realized to be scientifically true—that disposition, which is, itself, a spontaneous manifestation of a mental attitude or trend, is made up of the multi- tude of voluntary disposals of the items of ex- perience in life's contacts, may not be deisrable, not be a harmony, where is one to find a desirable copy? I take the privilege here of reminding you of the innate self, the department of perfect pictures in the individual, where perfect disposition has its nativity; I remind you that not only the phase of character, disposition, but for all phases of the acquired self, there is a perfect copy innately pres- ent. No one has given expression to the destructive forms of disposition who did not in the same mo- ment receive an impression that he was expressing an inharmony when a harmony could be attained if he would but listen to the innate guidance. If one will seek the kingdom of heaven upon this point, out of the highest within him, he will receive a vision and assurance that he can use that pic- ture as a working plan and build the perfect dis- position which will cause Lim to interest spontane- ously every subject constructively. All that is in man is subject to his own regeneration through aspiration. I do not need to tell any one that the disposition to love, the disposition to joyousness, optimism, faith, trust, generosity, beauty and kind- ness is the ideal disposition as compared wth the opposites of these. If the ideal were in an outside source (which it is not), then one should ask the 26 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING form the disposition; the Perfect for each individ- ual is within himself, therefore, I must lead one to pray to that source for his copy and then volun- tarily follow the copy a little while when the ac- quired self will have been made of the elements of the ideal, the human made of the Divine disposi- tion. There is that to correct in every disposition; if healing of his disease is to occur—you cannot con- struct health in the presence of the destructive ele- ment in dispositon. One's disposition is his worst enemy or his best friend—his saviour when it is an insertion of the Innate disposition in the acquired department. Observations Taken at Minneapolis Branch of the Ford Motor Co [jHE business man who really is attaining the result after which he seeks is apply- ing scientific principles of construction, which if applied for the purpose, would result in man building; some realization of that result occurs without the direct intention and effort, for a man who plans and executes in a happy, sympathetic and optimistic state of mind puts himself into his creation and the principles of growth he employs compel his individual unfold- ment; this is fundamental. To build a man there are three phases of him to consider: CHARAC- TER, INTELLECT and BODY. If the leader of a constructive wrork is, him- self, builded, then all who co-operate with him to an end, a creation, are also being built if they act in the same spirit with their leader. THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 27 I have known for a long time that the above is true and I have wished to see a business example to which I could refer in demonstration of the fact that every member of a system becomes a personi- fication of the principles used in the system; finally I have come face to face with the fulfillment and can say, pointing to the Minneapolis Branch of the Ford Motor Company: There is a perfect REAL that has come out of the IDEAL as a result of the application of our Constructive Psychology. First we will consider the building and equip- ment, the instrument through which the institu- tion manifests; this is parallel with the body of the man, a most literal instrument of the intelli- gence which, while present in the instrument, can in no other way manifest except through using the body and it matters not how supreme the intelli- gence may be, it cannot manifest beyond the range of the instrument it uses. The Ford people in their first step prepare an instrument of the high- est perfection and in the Minneapolis Branch I found perfections that I would not have believed existed had I not seen them. There are myriad things that enthused me which, if I attempted to justly praise, I would find language, as it is under- stood, insufficient. THE BUILDING. I found the building to be ten stories of clean- liness; ten stories of perfect light; ten stories of even temperature and ventilation, perfect; ten stories of safety; ten stories of convenience; ten stories of economy; ten stories of order; ten stories filled with stocks and equipment so artistically arranged as to constitute a harmony absent of all confusion; ten stories—a hundred per cent manu- facturing establishment. The qualities in this building would afford a good tvpe for an ideal residence, hotel, office or 28 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING store; fit attributes of a town or city, a county, state or nation (ideal constructive principles may be successfully applied in everything that human life touches). One's body, the instrument of human intelli- gence, should be formed and maintained with regard to the high attributes possessed by the ideal building I am describing. CLEANLINESS. Surely the human body has been divinely formed with reference to possible cleanliness. In this wonderful institution there was nowhere to be found even little particles of coal dust on a window sill nor finger marks of grease or smut on a post in any department of manufacturing or in the warehouse, nor were there any mars of any sort as if some one had piled materials against the build- ing at any point. Every corner next to the floor was painted pure white with a black line around it; no visitor, it is said, has ever had the courage to throw therein a quid of tobacco or even to be responsible for a piece of chewing gum falling into one of these corners. The places, usually most neglected, where all sorts of marks of degeneracy often are hidden, are kept clean here. I am sure for the same reasons that this plant would provide for perfect cleanliness in its ten stories, a human being should arrange for his instrument, his body, to be equally as well kept. When we recall the old dark factories of former times, in many places still existing, we must be exultant here in ten stories of light as good as nature gives on earth; the building is detached and all sides are glass. EVEN TEMPERATURE and circulating fresh air are enjoyed at all times. I received my first surprise when the manager advised us to leave all wraps in his office before beginning our trip over THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 29 the building; it was near zero weather outside, but there was no chill nor overheat in the structure. SAFETY from every conceivable standpoint is most amply secured throughout. These people are not afraid to seek out all possible sources from which harmful, injurious or destructive things could come and anticipate them in preparedness; the science of prevention is carried to its ultimate in ten stories of safety. CONVENIENCE is an evident inspiration— the building, itself, would seem to be an intelli- gence so complete is its automatic co-operation wherein each part plays to other parts, all looking to the ultimate loading of Ford machines into the freight cars. ECONOMY, that science of expenditure wheth- er of money or energy, is practiced with greatest exactness; they want no man to waste the most valuable form of energy, human energy; machin- ery does all of the lifting and man passively co-operates with the machinery. Man in the use of his instrument, his body, can take a lesson here in scientific expenditure. Economy is practiced in that everything runs free from friction—it is a destructive waste to work in the presence of inhar- mony; dirt would be counted an obstacle and no dirt of any sort is there for the men to overcome— CONSTRUCTION is the law of life in this plant; it is ten stories of constructive thought. THE MEN. I had been giving six weeks of Practical Psych- ology lectures under the title of "CONSTRUCT- IVE THOUGHT" at Hotel Radisson when I ac- cepted an invitation to spend all the time I could be absent from my patients at the Minneapolis Branch of the Ford Motor Co. The Manager came for us in his beautiful Sedan Ford car; ideally a five pasenger car which is un- 30 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING surpassed by makes costing three times as much —this with regard to its comfort and beauty. With reference to its durability, lightness and simplicity of driving it is unequaled at any price. We were not gone long but I got lessons on Scientific Man Building that I shall be unfolding all the rest of my teaching life; I received a stimulus to my in- spiration and I said to myself "I will have to write another book.'' Do you suppose that I was stirred to the depths of my being by a lot of masonry and architecture; by walls and floors and posts and windows; by a heating plant and water tank holding thousands of gallons of water; the machinery with its ryth- mical activities a possibility? I would not have you mistaken on this point; great warm, vibrating hu- man soul, alive, ambitious, industrious and aspir- ing set all of my being aglow; a desire to express more strongly than I had ever expressed; to ex- pand and portray harmonies to inspire and to give uplift to all striving humanity urged me more forcefully than I had known outside of Minneap- olis. Again, I say, it was not the wonderful building and equipment nor all materials in it that led me with strong impulse to utter praise and encouragement—it was what CONSTRUCTIVE THOUGHT with love as its basis was and is doing with this great instrument I have meagerly de- scribed that caused my very soul to yearn for a mode of telling every man and every woman that achievement belongs to everyone and that for all who take courage and copy after the science of building as exemplified by Manager and men in this Ford Branch there is self-expression, a tri- umphant life and SUCCESS which is the synonym for CONTENTMENT. Capital could have bought and built all that is here and it become a monument of dead wealth; THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 31 that is all it would be today only for the quality of Mind (man) that has taken the instrument which he is using to make Life. Of what avail is the finest tempered and formed surgeon's knife if there is no qualified surgeon to direct it? Is there any virtue in a knife to serve human life; does it not all depend upon who serves the life using the instrument? Mr. C. C. Hildebrand is the great surgeon and never was an instrument used more scientifically, more completely, servicably nor more for Man Building than is he using this building and equipment. I have never known, personally, anyone who showed so much determination for the hundred percent in all execution—not only the result but the manner of getting it must be perfect—as is ex- hibited in the conduct of this plant. Sometimes in conversation with him I would become careful in observing to know which he was talking about, the Ford Car he was turning out or a man who wras em- ployed in the work and it really did not make much difference for he is as much interested in any one of his men as he is in the product and he wants both to be an unfoldment of the best. The attitude of the hundreds of men toward the manager was uniformly that of respect; it was evident that he has come in personal touch with all of the employees, whatever may be the office of superintendents. With all the friendly inter- changes there was no suggestion of commonness of familiarity but no one would doubt that he has the sympathy of all his men and they look at him as their leader and not a tyrant with power to take away their bread and butter. Our practical psychology teaches that no man is qualified to have subjects if he has a disposition to drive them; that he must be his fellow man's interpreter and lead him into the best expression; I never saw in prac- 32 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING tical life a truer fulfillment than that situation which our manager holds with regard to his men. In passing through the plant there were sev- eral occasions upon which he approached those who were working but it was nearly always to ex- change some words of sympathy or good will. One man said: "***** I appreciate so much what you did." The Manager replied: "That is alright, I was glad to help you." He then explained to us that the man had within the week lost his wife by death. It was this kindly interchange all along the way as we passed among the hundreds of men that showed me the high standards of living which they all maintained, a basis of cordiality and respect that practically removes all occasion of the old forms of discipline by intimidation. High- est discipline is in evidence but it is from this stand- point of filling every man with a desire to live up to the high standards. Everything is kept so clean that no one would have the disposition nor the thoughtlessness to be slovenly in his work. There is such personal responsibility upon each one to keep up the high order of harmony that he is lead to think of each item of orderliness. There was a time when a squad of men was re- quired to be picking up refuse and cleaning all the time and to take care of the cuspidors which had been kept to accommodate hundreds of men who chewed tobacco. An order was put through which required every man who used a cuspidor to obtain it and then clean it; result was that the men realized what a filthy thing it is to chew and put such work on a fellow man and there are very few men who continue the practice. I am sure too that when all the working hours of the week are spent in the beautiful, clean and sanitary place like this that it so establishes one's tastes that he is only happy to the extent that he can carry out THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 33 the same principles in his home; with home and business life amid such cleanliness he cannot tol- erate places of amusement or social connections of a low order. The sociological department of the Branches of the Ford Motor Co. periodically visits every man in his home to show him how to put in and maintain the higher standards of culture with re- gard to cleanliness, safety, growth, economy and constructive thought. It is not regarded as an in- terferance with one's personal liberty when the manager of this department interviews each man upon how he is investing his money and what cir- cumstances govern in his life; the investigation is carried on primarily from the standpoint of help- fulness to the men investigated; besides is he not in a sense a partner? I]very established worker in the institution shares in the profits—the institu- tion has a right to know whether or not every mem- ber is doing his utmost to maintain the high ideals for which the institution stands. The moral status of the men improves under the system which is followed and the health of workmen and their families is constantly improving and the interest of all in educational things is being awakened and cultivated. The rise and fall and then the subsequent rise may be the record of a great many men who became connected with the Ford institutions but the ul- timate upward trend becoming established in the average1 life commends the undertaking altogether and this I say in the face of the scoffer who hears of some man in his fall. There is nothing maudlin about the Manager and no one will play with him an instant; he acts in all positiveness and this would be a terrific aggressiveness only for the fact that above all he has the greatest sympathy for one who makes the mistake of doing wrong; every- 34 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING thing he does is tempered with mercy and he un- derstands why a man is his own worst enemy and so tries to lead every man away from the enemy he has within him to the great possibilities of good which he also has within him. The Manager's at- titude is a constant testimonial that he believes in the good in every man and that there is more good in the worst than there is bad and he uses his best inspiration to appeal to the good in all. I was convinced that every man in conection with the Minneapolis Branch of the Ford Motor Co. realizes that his best interests reside in gain- ing and keeping the approval- of the manager and that a man would know that if he gave displeasure he had done a very wrong thing which he would wish to explain and apologize for so the sun would shine in his life again. Men have had a narrow conception of their best interests and have mis- represented affairs in order to become employed; afterward they have themselves acknowledged do- ing that sort of a wrong, asking to be dealt with accordingly; they did this so as to have a place of beginning on a reconstructive basis. To make a hobby of Man Building would, per- haps never build a man but to Live the Life of self expression in following a true building system, creating in each moment something useful for the fellow man has, as sure as effect follows cause, the certain consequence Man Building that is scien- tific; a Ford car is turned out complete every three and a half minutes at the Minneapolis Branch in mid-winter, supplying the basis of a constructive thought life for hundreds of happy people. THE VINE AND THE BRANCHES. When I see in one's life the fruitage, noble deeds, benefactions and happiness I am assured instantly that since these are gathered from the THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 35 various branches of his life, the many forms of self-expression, that there is a vine of principles which is the source for there can be no virtue in branches nor their fruits that do not abide in the parent stem. Every man's life is producing fruit and the fruit is bearing witness to his thought life; by their fruits we know them and in no instance do we find it more perfectly exhibited that ligs are not gathered from thistles than in the faithfulness of the product of one's life in bearing witness to the quality of thought which alone can be the primary source, the cause of the product. If from any limb of life there is taken the harvest of the true and good and beautiful the vine to which the limb is attached and in which it has its being must be true and good and beau- tiful. All I could possibly say in praise of a branch of the Ford Motor Company would necessarily be a greater appreciation of the Home Office. It is the Ford System which I am holding up to my readers and students as the greatest principle of which I have exemplification after which I would persuade every life to become ordered and every home to become organized and I would exhort busi- ness men to drop all envy and every grouch and put into practice the constructive principles of the Ford demonstration. To my own sons I would say these things with all possible persuasion. The strongest thing about the Ford way is that it uses no violence. A workman is informed that he will receive his share in the profits whether or not he does certain things or does not do certain other things; he is absolutely guaranteed that he will receive the highest wages and share in the profits whether he is a good man or not but high attain- ment is made so fascinating and it is made so plain that one who would not keep step in the progress 36 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING would become so lonely that any man soon catches the spirit of gaining in efficiency and thus Mr. Ford, the leader of leaders imparts the spirit to twenty-five thousand men directly employed and casts an influence of the same constructive sort over the entire globe. I was situated to learn of the vine through one of its branches which I could observe justly and I am grateful for the branch and I shall rejoice for- ever that through it I am lead right up to the vine. A fruit vine with decaying roots and worm eaten body or ''hidebound" or without sap could never supply the vital qualities to a branch so that it could produce luscious and abundant fruit and again, with all the arterial connection for sending the vital elements, veritable blood, into the branch; if the branch were not alive in its every atom to breathe through its bark and leaf lungs to aerate the vital fluid, the vine would be fruitless and soon become devitalized were the branch not cut off. The Vine therefore cannot manifest greater than its branches permit and no branch exists except as it abides in harmony with its source. While all I have said is appropriate concern- ing the Ford System it is equally true of every life; an individual's principles constitute the vine, his various forms of self-expression, the branches and life's experiences, the fruits and if the results or fruits are constructive we may be sure his foundation principles are of that kind. SVugljts %t Ifimb atth ©{pu^ts %t •Bnfo J|HERE is only one THOUGHT FORCE but it, like any other force, may be used constructively or destructively; as truly as thought used constructively builds the thinker and all things related to the thought so does that force when used destructively impair the THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 37 health, destroy life's harmonies and tend toward ruin all along its course—nowhere in its contact does it become converted into good. Teaching upon this subject would be useless only for the fact that each one has the privilege of determining how thought force shall be applied in his life; whether it shall destroy himself and all directions of his effect or shall lead him into con- st ruction and increase beauty and harmony all the way. We And frequent inquiry from those who would like to know how to distinguish the sorts of thought; they declare that although there are only two kinds they have not been able usually to decide for a certainty in which class the thought belonged. There are certain marks that will always distin- guish the sorts of thought. If the picture one is holding in his mind would not, if turned into form and fact instantly, be something welcomed and approved by his Innate Self—would not from that test be desirable, one may be very sure it is a destructive thought; in this situation it makes no real difference whether the picture calls for a form and fact in the life of the thinker or the life of another; since it is destructive it is a destroyer of harmonies wherever it touches. There is another infallible test; any thought which drives or overwhelms or tends to force the individual to think the thought or to do the act called for by the thought is a destructive thought. Constructive thought leads, invites and impels, but never compels the individual. There have been in history two kinds of rulers—the good ruler and the bad, the tyrant who drove his subjects and the leader who interpreted the best interests of those who looked to him and did all he could to aid in their self-expression. Thoughts are the same; 38 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING they are driving and tyranical or persuasive and leading. If one feels irresistibly driven to do something he may be sure it is not the right thing to do for there is always that quality of bad that tries to dominate or the quality of good that inspires and prompts to deeds but it is modest and leaves one's outer will free to decide to act or reject. When the writer was a youth he went two thou- sand miles to horsewhip an editor who had falsified in his publication; he wrestled with the idea for several days before surrendering to it, but the idea drove forcefully and with the recollection that he had the honor of Kentucky to preserve all opposing thoughts were shelved and the editor in response to a telegram came down to the train and received several keen cuts with a blacksnake whip. There are many instances and many forms in which the writer was the victim of tyranical ideas which he did not know how to throw off; he had to obey them and how they did increase! Nothing is more prolific than a destructive idea; the offspring out- number and crowd out all other kinds and soon the whole life is working upon a wrong principle; destructive thought cannot be satiated, however strong may be one's resolution, "just this once I will do all I feel and then never again let such ideas rule." It is like catering to the nerves when there is pain and one takes a deadening drug so that he cannot feel; when pain comes again the nerves cry out in keenest suffering until their standard is met as before. Also, just as no one who knows the serious consequences of catering to his nerves in pain would consent to narcotizing if he knew how to remove the cause of pain no one would consent to the driving of a dominating idea if he knew the serious consequences and how to become liberated from the destructive force, THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 39 One who harbors and cultivates a destructive idea really appoints human beings, literally prays for them, to come and execute in his life upon him- self the principles represented in the quality of his thought; persons may be the agents to do to him the thing he pictures with regard to things and people and always he commands the cells of his body to perform in his body in perfect accord with the quality of his thought. Destructive thought can and will carry only ruin and disaster in its entire ramification and one being ignorant of the laws of Thought in no way lessens its force. It is not even saving to have some good thought im- pulses sandwiched in—one must cease to choose or permit the destructive pictures; they must be erased from the sub-conscious. EXAMPLES OF DRIVING THOUGHTS. Many forms of enslavements to ideas have been treated by the writer and repeatedly in some of the forms here mentioned; they are mentioned to contrast with the constructive forms of thought which will be given as examples in this study. All of the following are such manias as tyrani- cal thoughts always become and have been treated successfully by suggestion. Biting the nails; pull- ing out the eye lashes; gritting the teeth when asleep and awake; pulling out the hair in bunches; picking the lips and keeping them bleeding and sore; sucking the thumb; clearing the throat; stammering and stuttering; psychic cough; psychic spasm of diaphragm ; shrugging the shoulders when walking; scratching the calf of the leg when talk- ing; speakers rising to tip toe, moving up and down all the time while performing; dangling the watch chain or fumbling a buttonhole while speak- ing. None of the above are desirable things to do and only the destructive form of thought could be in evidence under the circumstances, 40 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING There are destructive forms of thought entirely of a different order—they have also received treat- ment psychologically; overwhelming tendency to commit suicide; filled with bitterness and hatred; driven to morbidness and depression; all phobias or fears and kleptomania; overwhelming impulse to touch every object with the hand; incessant counting; looking for number thirteen in all public places; snatches of sentences running through the mind all the time; self-consciousness driving one to believe he is the object of remarks, even of strangers; believing one has committed the unpardonable sin; believing one has committed a crime; overwhelm- ing impulse to avenge a wrong; pessimistic inter- pretation of all subjects; self-condemnation or depreciation; suspicion, envy, jealousy, anger, and malice—all have driven with incessant destruction all who have become victims to such ideas; and then we have the desires, appetites and addictions to liquor and drugs; all undesirable habits are violent, forcing thoughts that are destructive and compel fulfillment—the habit of falsifying is of this class. Surely out of the scores of illustrations one is convinced that destructive thought is tyranical thought, holding the whip hand binding the victim of worry and fear and hate and grief and depres- sion as in the tightest vise. Let us see by a few illustrations how different is constructive thought which we have declared is, regardless of its import- ance, only leading, inviting, impelling and never overriding the volition. One, while situated to act. voluntarily with regard to his body may pull out a hair and when it is his pleasure may (dear his throat and may say words or parts of words over repeatedly and if he has occasion to sneeze his diaphragm may take part in its spasm; a man when speaking could lift THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 41 his watch from his pocket, drawing it forth by the chain, and he might button or unbutton his coat and he could also rise on tip toe for proper pur- poses, but in view of the fact that he does none of these things involuntarily and could omit them altogether he is acting constructively and is not a victim to ideas. All the ideas or manias next enumerated act in the tyrannical manner and their opposite principle is manifested when one beholds a possibility of helpfulness to a fellow-man. When sympathy is awakened he feels joyous in anticipation of pleas- ure to another and joy in the consciousness that he has been a benefactor; the opportunity impels him but does not compel him to act. There is lovely music or a beautiful landscape or the majesty of the sea that stirs his soul to the depths and he feels stimulated to larger activity; he is invited out of his more narrow view to a large vision and he responds in love, writing more per- fectly or painting more exquisitely or he builds a more convenient home or prepares better quarters for his workmen; he may see how he can beautify his town or city while under the influence of na- ture's grandeur or music or other art. He is lead out by love to all of these things, no one could say he is forced even in the presence of the strongest emotion that needs to have an outlet through some service to his fellow man. One hears of illness of loved one or friend; he is lead to recall that the soul of the one who is ill has deific power to heal and since he is in rapport with that soul, he, himself, may give a strengthen- ing, encouraging impulse leading to the healing— no one should feel driven to take a pessimistic attitude toward all concerning whom an unfavor- able report is issued; concerning one's own inhar- monies, he is invited to take an optimistic view— 42 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING hope is always constructive and it is innate in the human soul to invite one to act constructively under all circumstances. Constructive interpretation can become the standard of the life then spontaneously the bright side comes uppermost and that building power will create conditions corresponding with the hopeful interpretation. Love invites with its beauty and all of its harmonies, but however strong its appeal because it is attractive through its qualities it does not, like a mania, compel; love is constructive in all of its forms of manifestation and liberates, never is enslaving. All acts of violence done in the name of love are erroneously classified. All that is really true and good and beautiful appeals to the respondent and out of his love for those qualities he wills to sympathetically follow their impulse. The scientific explanation of how the destruc- tive principle gets control as is manifested in all manias is as follows: The individual thinks in the same manner or thinks the same thing a number of times; he may or may not do an act corresponding with the thought but because of repetition of enter- tainment of the image voluntarily reviewed he presently experiences the involuntary picturing coming up to his consciousness, or if an act is also involved he presently performs that involuntarily. That which one does involuntarily has become a habit; habit is something that no longer waits upon the outer will to direct, but occurs spontaneously and when it is a destructive thing, is fulfilled in spite of the effort of the will to the contrary. The individual has, therefore, trained his sub-conscious to perform, overwhelming the individual's mind and body to carry out the requirements of the sub- conscious. The correction of any impression made upon THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 43 the sub-conscious can only take place when some formula is used that will get action upon the sub- conscious which is the seat of control over the act; this is best done by suggestions received while in the passive state, although one may use auto-sug- gestion in many instances with success. One need not remain a victim to destructive thought; of this we may all be sure and confidently turn our attention to retraining the sub-conscious. ^xxcanxn^tmtnt b&~ ^iztimtxQtmmt ^^SAM SURE a psychologist physician has v% Wy occasi°n to deal with situations that are i^| J$tk no^ °ffered to those in any other special jft^^Sg|| ty. When known as purely a medical man I seldom had cases presented to me except in the phase of their physical disorder. Of course many times my research as to cause disclosed do- mestic inharmonies but I was only supposed to deal with those that took form in actual physical blows that bruised or cut the flesh. In my pres- ent specialty I am required to look at the finer and supposedly more civilized phase or stage of the question where contentions may be suspended with- out physical conflict whereas in former times I might be called to reduce a fracture or reinsert an eye or take a few stitches in the bodies of the com- batants. If I were sure I could do my full quota of good in the former situation I would return to it; I would so much rather view an occasional case of man and woman who resorted to butcher-knife or rolling pin and made quick work of readjust- ment which might stay put for many a month than to contemplate innumerable cases of incessant nag, accusation, intimidation and incompatibility that come to me through letters and consultations that beseech my solution. 44 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING There are those who make statistics concerning the disasters chargable to liquor drinking their study, who become fanatics and go about the coun- try ranting upon the subject and teaching that with prohibition enacted there will be no more insanity, trouble nor crime. One would think from their testimony that alcohol is at the root of all evil. I am convinced that as bad as it may be, the psy- chology of what people call home, especially that phase of it, disagreement, holds back people through discouragement and brings ruin through destructive suggestions interchanged among the members of the family much more completely than does the use of liquor. A noted physician testified in court recently that he believed there is no such thing as a normal wo- man ; a business man declared that he would steal outright or cheat one who had shown himself to be a friend before he would fail to keep his wife as well housed and dressed as her family standard required. Some women in a recent discussion declared that there are no men who are true to themselves —no true men; others declared they believed there are a few and some granted there may be many. Som men discussing honesty declared every man has his price so their opinion of their kind was no better than women held of men. All the above are negative conclusions and in scientific man building through thought force the very acme of discouragement, because it is destruc- tive thought. If women have not faith in their kind nor the male kind and men have not faith in their kind nor the feminine sort, they cannot pos- sibly reap construction, not even if they should de- cide they had found the only one who would be the exception. Later comes the decision that they had THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 45 found no exception. This need not be a true dis- closure but simply the reinstatement of the former conclusion. One sees things out of one's conclu- sions, for conclusions have eyes to see what they call for and one must be truth to find the truth. I have come to realize that the most perfect disclo- sure one makes about himself is when he declares himself with reference to life, people and the world. I find I am taking it as testimony about himself, in which he is revealing himself to me. It is so diffi- cult for one to see anything except in the light of his own character and it is startling at times, the degree in which he reads himself into the world he is describing. An unhappy, old woman, who said she was running a school of telegraphy in which she and her pupils were telegraphing to God, se- cured an interview with me and gave me a com- mand, with a threat attached, to never appear to her again; that I had on two occasions appeared to her in the form of the Devil and that, becoming aroused from her deep sleep through being startled, she had found me standing by her bedside in the Devil's own form; that she had run into the hall screaming and brought armed men to their doors to catch a burglar and she had had to explain to them that I had projected my body into her pres- ence. This woman, past eighty at the time, had studied the attributes ascribed to the Devil and also had mixed in other insane ideas of people leaving their bodies and traveling in other than their own forms, and having accepted the impres- sion that in some way I was opposing her theology, she could see me in no other light. This occurred at a period of my life when I was receiving from a great many sources (all except the one mentioned) strong assurances of beneficent influences carried into the lives of men, women and children. I was 46 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING convinced that healing and growth, the true and the good, and the beautiful were the fruits in evi- dence in the lives of all with whom I was in real rapport. Some serious crime had been committed in a town, and the officers were searching for the of- fender; later the sheriff was walking along the street with a stranger at whom every one gazed. They all agreed that a man like that should not have been running at large; that his wicked face proclaimed him a criminal that should have been kept behind the bars. It was the preconceived idea that the sheriff had his man whereas he was only walking leisurely with the new minister recently engaged by the leading church. The pessimist has his preconceived idea that all is wrong and always will be; he knows failure is the end before the first step is taken and his life proves, that as for himself and his results, his prophecy is dependable never suspecting, unless he happens to bump into practical psychology, that his thought is the creative force in his own life that acts in the line of his prophecy to bring him the experience he pictures. Surely these things that cannot be refuted must be influencing any student in his conclusions— leading us all to seek a basis of knowledge upon which we can build constructive attitudes of mind. I am asked: "Can a man who sincerely believes, that the economic conditions in America are so wrong that no honest man can make a living or rise to any important heights in this country, while under that conviction, make any progress?" The questioner goes on to describe the intense feeling of depression and discouragement the man exhibits and that he publicly speaks to gatherings of men upon socialistic problems and always with this in- THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 47 terpretation that under present conditions no one can amount to anything. With those convictions a man would, if he started out with great wealth of money and friends as his possession, become beggared in a short time; surely a man who has not those things who would carry a picture of either, "thou shalt not" which he is holding over his fellow man or over himself, or "you can't" or "I can't" will not be able to be- gin to rise; out of destruction, construction can- not be created and anything that one uses as an excuse for a positive conclusion that he cannot at- tain a result serves to the end, defeat, even if the conclusion has no true basis, as for instance that no man can be true to himself and rise in America. One who will be true to himself has in that very situation a creative power with which nothing can cope; no man is true to himself who is a tearer down; true man is a BUILDER. Either Love is erroneously used as a word some- times or it possesses many contradictions. One of the strongest appeals to my sympathy I have ex- perienced during my professional career came to me in one of the western cities in which I had planted my work. An Englishman of very high culture and usually wearing "evening dress" (which I discovered was according to his wife's orders) secured a half hour for interview, at treatment rates, for the purpose of placing before me the facts of his domestic life, hoping to obtain advice which would give him at least the right to live, which he seemed to ques- tion. He, like all the men I have ever had come to me for such purposes, began by explaining away all blame that one might attach to the wife; he wished to learn how he could adapt himself to her 48 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING requirements so that he could keep her happy. His apology for her was that after marrying her his investments had not brought splendid returns, al- though they pertained to very promising mines, and he had not, while maintaining her on a passable American basis, supported her equal to her former English habit. I never saw "tantrums" defined, neither did I ever see any one who did not seem to know what they mean. I will not define them; I am not writing for babes and sucklings, but for people who have had their eyeteeth cut. But tantrums are as individual as is the person who has them. This gentleman's wife's tantrums often exhibited hei versatility which should have taken her on the stage instead of into matrimony; one man was nei- ther a large enough audience nor sufficient specta- tor. He was liable to be assaulted on any new ac- count or some old offense at any moment; especially when he was very happy over having come to such a peaceful understanding that she was liable to approve of him for an instant. When the word- attack commenced it was with just ordinary fault- finding on general principles, of his unworthiness, his failure to make a proper appearance; gradually this would work up to a tirade of abuse, loudly call- ing him vile names and accusing him of wilful neg- ligence ; in her collapse pronouncing curses in real swear words. She sometimes stopped short of col- lapse, but it was because she had completely over- whelmed him; had made him feel the truth of all her accusations and had him broken down in grief. He said the most difficult thing for him to deal with was the fact that after all her abuse of him and she had said the worst that a vagabond of the slums could say, she would in the very same hour THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 49 approach him in the most loving manner as if they had done nothing but coo like doves in all their life. She would show him that she had forgiven him for everything. He declared that he could not bring himself to accept the terrible charges she had made and he felt that it was equal to a confession of guilt in all of them if he were even friendly with her im- mediately after hearing her say things to him he would have killed any man instantly for trying to say to him; but because he could not respond to her offers of love made right there on the battle- field where she had riddled his soul and torn his clothes and bruised his body, she would pronounce him a brute, go into terrific crying and weep for days if he did not humiliate himself to apologize and show evidence of his repentance along all the lines of his offense. After this was done, if he wore his tuxedo just as she requested, succeeded in obeying her literally in all things there might be great felicity for almost a day and a night. I never saw deeper marks of trouble on a man's face than this lover carried, for lover he was. He said with all her doings he could not live without her, and that he would give his life to bring her happiness; and I replied, he had given his life and brought her not happiness; that he could not please her, it would make no difference what he did. The third degree principle had been worked upon him until he had come to see it as she described and blamed himself for all the trouble. You, who read this, may have a personal interest in the prin- ciples involved; the greatest danger in the situa- tion is in the very fact that one is liable to first wonder if he is as bad as represented and if he could be so mistaken in his view of himself when he had thought he was kind, generous and loving, then to conclude that he is all she has, in her tan- 50 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING trums described him to be. This puts an end to all hope of correction of the situation; no woman respects a cowed man and she has won out through the worst that ever is manifested in a human be- ing; won, but lost—lost all that life could hold that is worth while. When the man comes to be- lieve himself a failure because she has said it so often he makes it impossible for her to ever realize that she is diseased in her disposition and that the whole trouble has its source in her conception that the way to get a thing she wants is through the selfish way of first humiliating the man. She bites the hand that feeds and protects her; and when he brings himself to accept her accusations there is no longer any hope of her ever aspiring to get right and without aspiration there will be no im- provement in her disposition. Acknowledgment of a need must lead to aspiration which leads to realization. I could only say to that man as I say to thou- sands of others: If the woman cannot be caused to aspire to become right, the man, if he loves, is to become heartbroken and ruined for all usefulness in self-expression; if she will not aspire to become right he would best let her go one way and he an- other and the sooner the better. If only one person sought my solution of this problem I would pass it by; it is the most dismal picture in existence—it is worse than the European war, and yet the acknowledgment of wrong and aspiration to become right would convert this worst quality of hell into the highest state—heaven. The man thought he loved the woman; he could not love such a woman—he loved an ideal and had tried to convince his soul that it was personified in her; many couples have been disillusioned by these teachings THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 51 given in lectures, may other thousands be in- spired to face the truth and act accordingly. A good man is very easily entrapped by the vixen woman as is the inexperienced young girl by the vicious man and when unevenly yoked together only ruin is spread all along the way and the yoke should be broken. With the kindly support in continuous sympa- thy and confidence upon the part of wife, any hus- band with any manhood at all can go right up the ladder of efficiency and success; if there is virtue in negative suggestion to discourage that can send one to the very depths of ruin, how much greater is encouragement in words and actions in the sup- portive attitudes referred to and I believe there will be multitudes of homes organized upon that basis through the better understanding of prac- tical psychology, especially as it treats upcn the potency of destructive and constructive thought. j^tgrnftcattce of JMmtger LL growth is dependent upon hunger: The intellect cannot grow without food and character cannot unfold without the application of food; surely the body must have food, for at all times, as much after the adult stage is reached as before, strength and vital- ity are maintained through the treatment of ele- ments taken in as food. Forced feeding (taking in from duty) is unsuc- cessful, the end, growth, never being attained to the intellectual, physical or the spiritual man through that means. True growth is spontaneous and must have its source in spontaneous partaking of food; to be hungry, therefore, is highly essen- tial. 52 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING Man, constituted of three phases, must, if he is to grow, be hungry for material food, intellectual food and spiritual food. Man must have taste. He must have taste that will discriminate between things offered as food and things that really are food; he must have taste for real intellectual food, else his mind will deteriorate as surely as will his body when he has not a discern- ing taste to form the right choice in selecting food. Man must have the high quality of taste to select the food for his soul, for character loses tone, vigor and beauty—perishes if the taste is distorted, defi- cient or depraved. Man building is altogether de- termined in its quality, degree and endurance by the state of the individual's taste that decides for what he shall be hungry as food for his body, intel- lect and character. The low grades of character and intellect in In- dia and among all races and individuals who have the idea of pennance in starving the body (in pro- longed fasts) are unfit examples in our present day's enlightenment and are repudiated by all nature. Some glances at nature's standards are waranted in view of the fact that from so many sources human beings obtain ideas leading them to withhold food. Many have taught that from a physical standpoint it is a mark of spiritual de- pravity to desire food and some are teaching that man becoming properly spiritualized will not eat. We will see if nature approves of destitution upon the subject of food and see if it is dishonored by the creatures of nature wanting food. That which we have named the primary egg, that which results from the union of the masculine and feminine elements, desires food and because it is under the impulse of hunger it applies food by absorption and develops its body so that it THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 53 presently becomes two hungry cells and they apply food and each divides into two more hungry cells. This is true of all germinal parts of fruit, flower and vegetable creations and just as true per- taining to every form of animal life from amoeba to man; the germ or egg is a mind that hungers for food of a material sort which it can apply in its body to unfold or renew from within on the prin- ciple of growth. Every cell of every blade of grass is hungry as is every cell of stem and flower of every rose and the cells of roots fiber and bark and leaf of every tree; every cell of every organ and tissue of animal and man is as hungry as is the individual himself, if he is normal. We correctly decide, that any of our domestic animals and birds that show not to have desire for food must be ill; this is also true of any cell of the body of any form wherein is life; if it has not a de- sire for food it is not in a state of health. Different forms of life have different standards of constituent elements of food; the diatoms in the sea can take from salt water elements which they can apply in the form of nutrition as can other animal and bacterial life obtain and apply from the sea weed the essential nutritive values to make their bodies normal. As varied as is the form or nature of bird and fowl so are the requirements of each winged in- dividual in food supply and their cells are peculiar in their food selections, but each thing and cell has a normal standard, a departure from which would constitute an inharmony amounting to disease. There is one point upon which all life forms agree—the normal state is to be hungry and spon- taneous enjoyment of food is also nature's own health standard. 54 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING Man, more than any other creature, departs from the normal but he creates new causes whose effects are always marks of disorder or disease for he can, at most, obtain only nature's tolerance to a degree; he cannot modify the laws of nutrition to an extent that that which, by its chemical ele- ments, is not food can become an ideal nutritive supply. However, much nature may endure, it refuses to be reversed in its standards and no one has been successful in taking into his body, as if it were food, that which is not food and not, sooner or later, have inharmonies develop as a result. Each creature below the man has innate knowl- edge which dependably guides its selections of food; each cell of the man's body has an equal innate intelligence for its purposes and the sum total of his cell intelligencies likewise has the potency of perfect knowledge so that the sub-conscious phase of the mind in man can and does prompt concern- ing the ideal choosing of food, but man does not heed his intuitions for he often prefers from the sense standpoint the sensations produced by things not consistent with the intuitive guidance. This explains why man is a misfit in the universe while all embodiments below him have natural adapta- tion ; man has the free will to choose and although he knows that his only hope of selecting the proper food, as upon all other subjects, that he must choose according to the promptings of the superior depart- ment of knowledge within himself, he usually fol- lows the custom; custom has partaken of the things that are alleged to be more intense in their effect upon the senses to gratify them more and custom has a depraved taste; following the depravity, vol- untarily, constitutes a command to the soul that controls all the body and is the form of intelligence in each cell of the body to consent to the substitu- tion and thus one becomes possessed of depraved THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 55 appetite in every cell and therefore in all of his body. This becomes the involuntary requirement, even to the drug or alcoholic standard or intensely spiced and flavored foods becoming substituted for the real foods. Life may remain in the body even for years with this throwing overboard of all that is normal yet no one ever lived his true allotment of life nor had his quota of good health who sub- stituted for food that which his intuitions refuted. WHAT IS SPIRITUAL HUNGER? There are two elements in the universe—we sometimes say, only two, but there is no mistake, there are two. One has to take suggestions repeat- edly to reach the hallucination in which he believes there is no matter; he really has to become insane to sincerely believe there is no matter. The two elements that exist are Mind and Matter. Mind uses matter as an instrument through which to manifest; matter serves mind as a vehicle through which mind's expressions may be exhibited. Matter may be constituted, in different instances, of different shapes of particles or par- ticles in different states or rates of vibration, but nothing changes matter into mind, neither can that which is mind become matter. When we use the word matter we naturally think of something of chemistry which is the science of matter, therefore, we have this axiomatic statement: That which is not a phenomenon of mind must be a phenomenon of matter, and if there is a phenomenon which could not be a result of matter then we must know that it is a fact of mind. There are many things which we know instantly could not be produced by matter, for there is no property of matter, nothing inherent in matter by which the result could be reached; there may be results purely chemical—because of that which inheres in matter. There are laws governing in 56 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING each thing. There is no property of matter by which matter, as such, could desire anything; not even the human body in its material could desire: there is no quality in matter by which it could in any form of its mass take in other matter and apply it as food and grow (unfold from within). Hunger is a fundamental desire in everything that is alive; the infant is born hungry, but not more hungry than the primary cell from which it unfolds. The chick is hatched hungry, but no more so than it was throughout the period while incubat- ing for it absorbed the substance present in the shell as a three weeks' food supply. Matter cannot be hungry, therefore, hunger is of mind or spirit, not of matter or chemistry and a desire is a thing of spirit whether the fulfillment of the desire is some- thing to be applied in the body part of the individ- ual, the mental phase or his permanent character self. Desire is a spiritual state, it is as much an act or state of mind when it is hunger for food which shall be selected by mind to construct or reconstruct the organization, the body, as it would be a state of mind to yearn for the presence of the baby or other loved one, or to long to hear the voice of one dear; or if one who is properly constituted mentally would wish for a good book realizing that the thought lead out by the literature would fulfill the standard, satisfying the mind with reference to the mind the same as if under the other form of desire he would when partaking of food be satisfy- ing his mind as it related to the body. There can be no desires of the body, but there are many forms of desires of the mind as it may have experiences through the body. The idea came down through the influence of those who commercialized man's fears (the foun- ders of some of the theologies) that all desires that THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 57 pertained to the body could be only carnal desires and contrary to the spiritual nature in man; I am coming to show that only spirit can desire and the test of the purity of a desire is not as to whether or not it is something to be experienced through the body or something to take place in the body, but in whether or not it is a normal and construc- tive desire that shall determine its worthiness. All felicity should be enjoyed in all the phases of the being regardless of which phase might be the one most emphatically acted upon or through. To store away in permanent character a sound principle through the consciousness approving of a truth should be an occasion of joyousness felt in all the body as much as one should enjoy in mind, soul and body, the taste and other satisfactions in material food which the intuitions approved and the mind chooses. There can be no happiness to the normal man except in those things which are inspired by the Innate Self and there is no lower and higher nature, act, attitude nor attainment when one is true to the God within, but all is heav- enly, all is the highest, all of him is then in the Kingdom of Heaven. These interpretations warrant a true conception of purposes and methods of healing; healing the body, mind or character. The purpose in healing and culture is the same; culture discloses what are the proper tastes, how to develop them and train them. Disease involves a departure from the nor- mal upon the subject of application of food; restora- tion to health consists in causing the cells and all of the being to desire and apply the right sort of food. Desire for the proper food must be first- nutrition, the application of food cannot be more correct than the desires, out of which food selection is made. To cause the cells to become hungry for their proper food is sure to awaken power to apply 58 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING that sort of food in the body; the route to nutrition is through cell minds demanding the food that will make good bodies and suggestion, which is the key to the action of the soul—the sum of the cell minds, properly given will cause the individual in all of his being to return to his innate ideals as to food and to cause him to desire in all of his being that which truly is food. Healing in the body consists in restoring the individual's mind to normal desires pertaining to his body. Man's intellectual standards have been effected by custom so unfavorably that he has degenerate tastes predominantly. Pure, sweet and strong thought is almost as little appreciated as are nor- mal foods for the body. Condiments for the body and condiments for the mind-intense must the liter- ature be; grewsome, scandalous, or the destruction of war; these are the principles the intoxicants, governing the selection of food for the mentality and like the one who craves intense flavors in foods and poison in drinks, who can never become sati- ated, this mind degeneracy calls for stronger and still stronger destructive mixtures in the images; feeding upon grosser fiction, never to become satiated. It is no deep problem; anyone can see that to correct this mind would consist in enabling it to have a hunger for true, constructive pictures; caus- ing it to desire right thoughts. But to what source can one look for a mental dietary? We have dis- closed the fact that physical dietary is in the main individual; that with the exception of a few general principles each one is peculiar in his own dietary; that one to select the proper individual food would need to have access to his own intuitions—his Innate Self must impel his hunger if he is to be hungry for the right items of food. Outside of a few general principles one must THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 59 know that his mental dietary should be individual and no one can tell him, except he has an inter- preter who would get in rapport with his soul and bring to his consciousness, the proper guidance. One is lead by all of our teachings to seek the Kingdom of Heaven which is within him; to go there for whatsoever thing he wants; he must go there, I am sure, to disclose what his mental dietary should be. No one is normal who does not feel a shock from within when reading intense portrayal of crime, disease or other destructive picturing and that shock is a rebuke to him for feeding to his department of imagery that which is not food for mind, soul nor body but creative of inharmony in all. There are depths in every individual which each one knows for himself are not comprehended by the conscious mind nor body. There are desires, visions and worlds that are greater than body with its skill and harmonies or conscious mind with its senses; reason cannot conceive of them; they only seem to feel their inefficiency in comparison with the psy- chical or sub-conscious realm. I wish that I could convey to every human being that positive convic- tion that truth really warrants: That in the soul of each one is an inexhaustable food supply; an infinitude of knowledge; individual working plans, designs of perfect architecture held by his Deity within, all there, to be made into character, that phase of each one which is immortal, which our practical science of psychology proves shall live eternally as an individual. Could I cause this sort of a Sun to rise in every- one's life all would know the purpose of human existence in our present form; all would hunger in their hearts for the true, the good and beautiful, the worthwhile; that which I have tried to indicate as present potencies of perfect architectural plans 60 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING within, would become worked into character, the everlasting Self. As all have known what it is to be hungry in the mind for something to be applied in the body as food and have known what it is to be hungry for mental food, something to exercise the digestive department of thought, even more vividly have we realized a want for something to satisfy our souls. We have asked for soul food and the theologies gave us stones; they led us away from our individual source and they told us falsehoods as to the basis of peace and growth—for they taught us fear. More modern concepts of that same brand refuse us flowers and take away our normal sympathies and loves. Man has been taught to look for an outside power that hated him which he must propitiate, if he were to become strong it would be through favor- itism, not through growth nor merit. We come now with our human analysis and constructive thought and say that a true Jesus taught the Gospel of Lib- eration; that man who would find and address his God would look for the King in the Kingdom of Heaven within himself; that one who did this was hungering and thirsting after righteousness, not a man who was scared to desperation through hell fire stories. True character can be builded only out of constructive thought—pictures which one would welcome as himself if they should take form as character within him. If one can know from a true source within him- self for what he should be hungry as food for his body and likewise for what he should desire for his mental department of nutrition, it would be equally true that his Innate Self alone could prompt the hunger of his soul. Man's soul is hungry for the satisfying food that can give strength and beauty to his acquired department of THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 61 character; one phase of his soul is perfect—it holds only pictures of the ideal, a department with its heritage of the perfect from Universal and the phase of the soul that can yearn, aspire and individ- ualize must obtain its plans from that department of the Supreme Self, cause these plans to become fulfilled in his practical life; this is the hungering of a normal appetite—a spiritual appetite for spir- itual food that shall build a Spirit; this is making the finite man out of Infinite food which shall unfold Infinite Man. Herein is Eternal Food that shall yield Eternal Life. ^i{\tlmqi~l^xzpwczbnt%% At this time there is much talk about PRE- PAREDNESS—much that is not true, not con- structive, although there is a constructive phase which is scientifically true. The unscientific fea- ture most apparent is the direct effort to prepare against something whereas a true principle is in preparing for something and in thus working con- structively the negative phase of the matter is dis- posed of. All the true making ready to live is prepared- ness against dying; all preparation for perfections is arming one against the imperfections while fighting imperfections would not necessarily en- throne perfections in their place—it usually means to change the form of the impediments or to estab- lish the ones existing more fixedly. To deal with the positive side of a subject is usually the best way to treat the negative; building something desirable is more intelligent than trying to keep from building something undesirable. We have been trying to increase our efficiency in many 62 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING departments of life by fighting our faults, our hindrances. Almost every life has used enough thought and energy in effort to annihilate some- thing, which of course ought not to continue, to have built that which is most desirable and in that attainment the impediment would have dis- appeared. Every life should be a Masterpiece and every life virtually uses all of the essential forces to create masterpieces, but they have been used, pri- marily, in effort to avoid or overcome, repress or suppress inharmonies. All direct effort on the destructive side of any question is really upon the principle of living to fight death instead of living with a program, purpose and devotion to living to live. These thoughts should not suggest to an intelli- gent reader the idea that one should ignore or deny the existence of inharmonies, obstacles, impedi- ments and obstructions — practical psychology teaches no such foolishness. To admit the exist- ence of the ugly leads to the first move toward placing beauty in its place. A farmer does not refuse to see the sinkhole in his field, but he is not going to make it his life work as a farmer to fight sinkholes; he is going to prepare a beautiful field and in building that he levels in such a manner that the unseemly knolls and sinkholes disappear. The farmer perceives weeds in his field but he is not going to direct his whole season's work to fighting weeds; he is going to cultivate the corn and incidental to that constructive work he may presently note the fact that the weeds have dis- appeared. One may have defects of speech; it would be a great mistake to make it the business of his life to fight that defect—he can deal with the situation constructively by cultivating normal, THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 63 even speech, the speech of poise and later in life recall the fact that inharmonies of speech formerly existed but have disappeared. Perhaps one has many expressions that are not good grammar; he may not seek out all of those for particular attack; he can do better if he takes up the study of good language, the attainment of which in speaking will put out of the life the errors. Up to about two years ago this spot upon which the Hotel Statler, in which I am writing, now stands, there was nothing attractive—it was an inharmon}", an inconsistency with the beautiful parks in front of it. I am quite sure it would have been a wrong principle to have made an attack upon the lot for its ugliness; it was interpreted to be capable of great beautification and the vacancy became occupied by a magnificent building. The opponent of evil who does his work in the spirit of fighting that which ought not to exist (and we grant that it ought not to exist) is not a true reformer, he is not a benefactor and he, himself, becomes destroyed as a result of using all of the preparedness on the negative side. In the world, in each life, yea, in each phase of every life there is that principle of Heaven and Hell. One can devote all of his energies to trying to overcome or avoid hell (destruction) and never gain heaven. Our true psychology would lead one to express heaven, then hell is not in the question. Life has not been a success in many instances simply because one made it his chief devotion to fight rough places instead of creating smooth places; many others these days are dealing with all things that are undesirable by denying their existence; they present a situation parallel with the ostrich that bores its head into the sand when 64 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING pursued by its destroyer. The individual who declares sincerely in his mind a thing does not exist which does exist makes no constructive prep- aration relative to the actual enemy by increasing his friends. Those who are beautifying our city of Detroit are consenting to a possible growth, an increase of harmonies and out of their love for the beautiful rather than out of disgust for the home- ly they are making parks, boulevards, splendid residences and grand business blocks. Preparedness for health covers the essential opposition to disease. The entire region of the Panama Canal has been made wholesome on the constructive plan—not because man hated disease, but in making it a beautiful resort consistent with the climate, which mankind may prefer, all the destroyers of health and life have been removed. Then with all of this preliminary illustration through which I hope I have indicated our true principles I believe I have brought to one who is seeking greater efficiency a light by which he can examine himself and his situation. Efficiency is not a quality belonging wholly to those in some commercial lines; some measure of efficiency is manifested by a parent or teacher or artist, friend or citizen—all things that one is or does he has some degree of efficiency or goodness of quality of his manifestation. Our psychology can cause one to attain the hundred per cent in the various phases including business, home, and social life and the creation of a Masterpiece of his life. Life as a Masterpiece must mean the large self expression— the expression of one's innate ideals. This is some- thing for himself and yet it is the purpose of his existence in the present form to unfold an individ- uality in self-expression, expression of the great- ness of which he has the potency. The world is his THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 65 field of exercise, his fellow man's needs supply the occasion of his exercise and each instance of self- expression being a service to his fellow man he has created a Masterpiece and when all of the life, or the life predominantly, is made up of items of high- est expression these constitute a harmony that makes the entirety a Master expression—something- created by the Master in the man, therefore, a Masterpiece. Living devotedly to the production of a Master- piece will result in a Masterpiece; living to keep from manifesting meanly cannot provide for the creation of the beautiful. Turner aspired to mix the colors that would give him a true art result and he received the inspiration in blending them that gave him a Masterpiece; had he made effort to avoid the untrue combinations he would have become self-conscious and never would have at- tained Ideal Self-expression. LAWS OF CONSTRUCTION. The preceding statements are all under laws of construction as is all growth, all building and expression; the fact is that if one becomes thor- oughly conversant with Practical Psychology as applied in Constructive Thought he has therein the solution of all of his problems; for he needs only to apply those laws to each subject in order to master the subject. Highest efficiency consists in using the truest psychology. Efficiency in sales- manship does not consist in palming off goods on another and getting the money for it. The secur- ing of a permanent patron because of pleasure given him in the service of the thing purchased is far more important than the sale of a bill of goods at a profit. A psychology short of love and sym- pathy for the fellow man could not possibly per- mit the highest efficiency as salesman, for the 66 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING reason that one devoid of those qualities would choose the temporary satisfaction of having sold at a profit instead of seeking the spiritual satis- factions in having rendered a good service. A man presented his case to me for advice in which he, although the business manager of the office, could not obtain the co-operation of the employees. He could scarcely get an. ordinary day's work out of them whereas there were occa- sions when he needed the largest possible execution by everyone to whom he was paying the wages. He said they did not respect his wishes and if he showed particular seriousness, they ridiculed him. He admitted that he had been undignified at times in joking with them about many things. It was easily perceived that he had become common in his contact with the men; he showed to need discipline as much as any among them. If he was disposed to talk familiarly and loosely then he should have eradicated the tendency; he should have resolved to be dignified and respectful for living that among employees does not breed contempt nor fear. As manager, his efficiency was low and could have but one mode of correction; he had tried to correct the men—the disclosures of our psychology soon proved the need of change and all hope centered in the manager himself learning to be friendly without being common, to be sincere without being harsh. He said he doubted that he could ever get on the proper basis with those who had been under his "leadership" in the past. I had an application for helpful advice from a man who had been a retail salesman for enough years to become tired of it, he said, and he passed wait on a buyer on the retail floor. He said that he would invariably yawn while trying to serve the customer; that while not at all tired or sleepy THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 67 nor inclined to yawn while in his office of attending to anything else, yet when he wTent with the patron to look at the stock, yawn after yawn would occur until he could let his jaws separate completely so he could have a deep intake of air; then a new series of "gaps" would begin. He declared that he had used will powTer and watchfulness trying to prevent the occurrence, but it was stronger than his will—this disposition to yawn while making a private sale. I wonder how many men have brought their efficiency down to 25 per cent by continuing to work at something that "made them tired"—work- ing while interpreting the thing as irksome. The yawn of indifference, the absence of enthusiasm, or the sneer of disgust must lead to an expression of the countenance and other involuntary perform- ances in the body consistent with the picture, the mental attitude. Why, it even increases in the destructive attitude until disgust turns into bitter- ness and hatred—this is what we often see in the faces of men and women; scowl, disgust, weariness, bitterness and in some, hate to a degree amounting to viciousness. Then when one who has planted the seed thoughts to grow a manner and a look, a form and disease consistent with the above he may declare he has outgrown the situation and ought to be promoted on the basis of experience. He may apply where the work he could do is really very much wanted and when he tells of the years of experi- ence he wonders why he is rejected. He may as well know that he had the privilege of unfolding a delightful and strong, constructive personality, a picture and prophecy of which is in the innate self of every human being, but he abused and misused his privilege and built grouch, disgust, scowl and 68 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING antagonism and these were so apparent that the business man could not afford to place responsibil- ity in the applicant's hands. All the world, whether it knows it or not, is looking first for character and skill afterward, for EFFICIENCY IS SOME- THING OF CHARACTER, FUNDAMENTALLY, AND MECHANICS OR OTHER EXECUTION BUILT ON THAT. Man's personality, not his testimonials as writ- ten by others, truly testifies to his merit; his testi- monials are worthless in this day of keen sagacity of employers unless they are corroborated by the testimony of countenance and manner. Almost everyone has something to modify and correct in himself in order to increase his efficiency, and that is why, after giving in the first part of this thesis some general principles of efficiency, I have followed with some individual cases. I could not be influenced to say one thing to discourage any one who wished to make the cor- rections, but all may as well know this truth- there is very little correction possible through the exercise of the will power trying to avoid a mani- festation. We may as well accept the laws of our being and get in line with them; to do that one must first recognize the fact that whatever his performance may be automatically or whatever his state, that he is what he is because he has trained his sub-conscious to manifest in that way; that to make a correction it will have to occur through retraining his sub-conscious. The man who had been a salesman, performing in disgust and dis interest that took the form of yawning, yawned because he had trained his sub-conscious phase of mind, which controls the body, to order the involun- tary diaphragm and lungs, their nerve centers that control them, to produce the manifestation. If he THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 69 had used his will, asking or commanding the sub- conscious to cease to associate the situation of retailing goods with yawning and cease to produce the phenomenon, he would have cured himself of "gapping." He did not treat himself, but came to me to have me give his sub-conscious phase of mind the suggestion to remove the habit. You will have to solve your problem through training or retrain- ing the sub-conscious. The increase of EFFICIENCY consists in increasing the desirable automatism; by this I mean that when one is not watching but spontane- ously performs, that spontaneous demonstration must be an improvement over his former standards if he has increased his efficiency. The victory awaits anyone who will follow the laws and formulas of the SILENCE to use sugges- tions scientifically to eradicate from the sub-con- scious all undesirable automatism and place therein picture and impulse of the desirable; use the will power to direct the sub-conscious instead of using it on the thing one wishes removed or inserted. ©sacljmg tire fllljtlfr ipsgritDlogrj From my entire writings one can gather an abundance of child psychology, but one does have to be a gleaner to get it all; so at the request of many parents, teachers and others I will write a purely suggestive essay. I have no stereotyped method concerning how anything shall be done; there is one destination perhaps, but many ways of attaining it—versatility never comes to the individual who cannot vary his courses. It should be remembered that everything that is alive is forming psychology all of the time and the child with his very great sensitiveness is responding 70 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING in his character and standards upon all subjects, to the influences in image or picture form all about him and the thoughts that his mind is caused to think is shaping his intellict, body and character constantly—one does not have to teach the child formally so that the child shall be sure to possess a psychology for he will have some sort of psy- chology as a consequence of his association, experi ence and emotions. To be certain that the child shall have a right psychology does require that constructive psychol- ogy shall be brought into his life. Parents need training first of all so that they will provide build- ing instead of destructive suggestions for the con- stant influence upon the child: Harrowing tales, threats, and punishments—omitted—discipline by leadership instead of repressions and limitations— guidance into the desirable rather than the "thou shalt not" pertaining to the undesirable—stimula- tion of love for the beautiful rather than the hatred for the homely or vicious: That is what we mean by providing a constructive atmosphere in the home. This is not usual except where parents are psychologically trained for it has been left out of our theologies and educational methods to show the importance of picturing the quality of results one would really desire, a practice that grows out of the conceptilon that a thought is a seed and each seed produces its kind. One who is to teach the child psychology ought to know the truth about all forms of creatures, especially about their intelligence (for wherever there is life there is intelligence or mind, therefore the live thing from amoeba to man, bacteria and germs all have their psychic life). It may not always be possible to demonstrate the microscopic form of the grain, bean or flower, THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 71 where the soul of each subject at the beginning is known to exist, but it can be described and then we have in the bee, butterfly, ant, bird, fowl and ani- mal innumerable subjects through which to interest the child in the intelligence phase of the creature. In my "New Psychology Complete" there is much of interest upon the intelligent individuals whose bodies now constitute our rocks and marble, our coral and our sponges as well as upon the intelligent cells of human bodies and the cells of trees, insects and animals. A teacher of child psychology could map out a six months' course depending entirely, for illustrations, upon subjects I have cited. However, it is not simply to tell the child an interesting story about the intelligence of the beaver, the bird and the bee—the purpose, a personal lesson must not be lost. INTELLIGENCE OF ANTS. Almost any houseplant or outdoor flower or plant may be the arbor of a very small bug, usually green or the color of the stalk or stem upon which it lives, known as the aphis, aphid or plural, aphides. This insect may become very destructive when it is situated to lay eggs and multiply with- out hindrance. In the instance of the houseplants a neighbor who smokes is sometimes invited to come in and blow his tobacco smoke among the leaves and make the aphides sick; they fall off and may be collected and scalded. They seldom have to be annihilated by the gardner outside because there is another kind of bug that likes to eat them, pro- viding they are found nice and young. The aphis sheds his old shell and dresses up in a nice new green dress and you will find his old clothes attached to the plant; while he is under- going this process of forming this old dry shell 72 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING ready to come out tender and soft later, he is per- fectly safe from his enemy, who refuses to chew up the old armor. The aphis has observed that this is a stage of immunity and he intelligently takes himself, new clothes and all into his own old shell or that which has been cast off by a brother or sister aphis. This is the observation of the Passover and the enemy seems never to disclose the ruse. The little green bug is not a fighter, but mani- fests sweetness of disposition in accord with the main product of its body; it takes elements from the plants and transmutes them into liquid sugar —sugar of milk. The milk secreted is food for another creature that is kind to it—so kind that it may provide a storehouse for its eggs and feed its young so as to perpetuate its kind from season to season; the aphis itself may not put its eggs away to preserve them during a severe winter. The ants will take care of the eggs in the winter and feed the young when hatched and "take it in milk" later. Nature believes in compensation and the aphis receiving vital attention from the ant repays the service and protection in supplying the delicious food for his benefactor. There are wrinkles or cor- rugations, rings around the abdomen of the aphis and a hungry ant kindly strokes the aphis much as one might pet his cow by running his hand along her back; the drop of milk oozes from the ring and the ant has a splendid feast and it knows its friend will always supply the nourishment when asked. Men have watched just how the ant caresses the aphis to obtain the milk and has tried many objects with which to imitate the stroke of the ant; the aphis has never been deceived into giving milk for man. The ants burrow into the ground down to the THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 73 sprout that is coming from a grain of corn, carry- ing the young aphides and placing them inside of the unfolding shoot. This is devastating to the corn, but it is a wonderful manifestation of intelli- gent co-operation between the dairykeeper ant and its milk-giving herd. The aphis which is under the care of the ant has no need to fear the bug enemy that destroys those possessed of no such protectors. A formicary is an ant's home or nest; the begin- ning of a home immediately follows the settling down when the bride returns from her honeymoon. She gets married up in the air and comes down to earth to live, but she knows she will no longer need wings and they are in her wray when she wishes to go down under the ground so she cuts them off, then she bores into earth or wood without hindrance. She lays eggs that will hatch into workers— there will be plenty of work to do in making and keeping a formicary, of which she is to be queen; there will be a nursery to attend and food to gather and there will be sentinels needed and warriors, but all of the members of the community have an infan- tile stage. The infant ant is as well cared for in receiving its bathings and combings as any human baby ever could be; it is disposed to do these things for itself very soon. Baby ants have frolics—mer- riment in many forms; they play hide and seek, tag and leap frog and they wrestle and punch and push like natural children wish to do. Ants are always very clean and they cease play or work to "wash up." They have combs with regu- lar teeth in the fore legs and a perfect brush in the tongue—they use these vigorously on themselves and each other. The community of ants is a social institution of the highest order—general welfare, looking out for all, is the basis of all looking out 74 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING for each and preserving the harmony in the unit made up of the numbers. It requires wonderful minds to do the things that ants and aphides perform and we all wish to discover how they know so much and possibly some reader will ask here what has all of this to do with teaching psychology to the child. I hope to be able to reply with satisfaction. First I would say that this mode of illustration leads a child to an interest in all life and he arrives at a development where he loves life in all of nature's forms. As to how flowers and insects and animals and cells know so much—the child and the rest of us become well satisfied with the reply: "They all know simply because it is natural (inherent) in them to know and it being naturally a present knowledge they do not have to learn it from the outside; they manifest outwardly what they know inwardly. The ant never studied aphisology to find out that the aphis needed to have an ant carry its eggs down into the ground in the winter and then in the spring carry the young aphis up and place it on a sprout to get tender food and presently present its bill for attendance and be paid in sugar. Some- thing inside of the ant felt an impulse to treat the aphis thus and something in the aphis felt impulse or guidance to exchange courtesies with the ant; each insect did as it was impressed within to do. Something told the bride ant that she would not fly again and that her wings would be in the way; but it was not anything from outside that taught her that; she felt that she ought to rub off her wings. The aphis did not learn from an out- side source that it could crawl into its old shell and be safe from an enemy that would think it THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 75 simply an old empty shell which would be hard to consume. Intelligence within knew all of these things and it obeyed the perfect knowledge and was taken care of. Each cell of a child's body knows as much as an ant or an aphis but it may not know the things the insect knows while it does know all things that it needs to know for itself. The knowledge is natur- ally present in each live thing. IN THE SAME SENSE THAT EACH OF THE TINY THINGS WE ARE STUDYING HAS ALL THE KNOWLEDGE FOR ITS PURPOSES INSIDE OF IT, ALL THE KNOWLEDGE IT CAN USE, SO HAS THE CHILD AND GROWN PERSON PRESENT WITHIN COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE FOR HIS PURPOSES. The great lesson is to show the child in the parallelisms the proofs that he, like the other crea- tures, can learn to trust the Innate Perfect Self and out of that source be lead to all that is true and great; that knowledge is within as truth is within and the manifestation of knowledge would be, therefore, unfoldment from within. This is God within with which mankind needs to form an acquaintance; to learn the lesson best we have to go to the ant or something that never assumed that it had knowledge plastered on or poured in but trusts and discloses a waiting guidance for all emergencies and regular conditions. Intuition, inspiration, guidance and instruction from within or the functioning of Innate Intelli- gence belongs to man as much as it could possibly be a fitting thing for the less complex forms of life and when man with his proportionately great possibilities with his complex and comprehensive organization shall become toward his Inner Self fully trustful as is any example I have described 76 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING he will not only possess the potency of a Deity, but he will manifest Deifically. m\t | as a law of trend of each thing to grow Sy=|||||||or unfold into the highest of its kind; na- ture seems to possess a picture of the perfect and places an impulse in the depths of his being and also the impulse to express himself in the perfect; he has been taught so many things that are con- trary to this innate impulse and has set his outside self at such variance with his inner self that his highest possibilities in self-expression are defeated and he is, consequently, in a state of unrest. All the world is seekipg self-expression yet does not know for what it is seeking nor why it never finds poise. Liberation is the basis of poise—the liberty of being one's self. That healing and culture should be under a standard of the law of the perfect seems most rea- sonable; if they are, then attainment is through growth—the ideal will be reached through EVOLU- TION. There has been a tendency throughout almost all of the history of man, upon the subject of heal- ing, to connect restoration from illness with some religious, and mostly a theological conception. Aesculapius was the god of medicine in the Greek and Roman Mythology; he was supposed to have had two sons who were directly engaged in healing so we have here the bridging over between 164 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING the mortal and immortal—it connects doctoring and heaven. Aesculapius trespassed the medical au- thority in raising the dead and Jupiter slew him. However, in dying for his cause he advertised the power he was alleged to have manifested so he re- mained the god of medicine and when disease was present the god was to be invoked and many times placated. The same principle of superstition, the same MYTH has existed in all periods and instances in which an outside power (outside of the patient) was interpreted as a god of healing or where heal- ing has been made a part in a theological concept and to depend upon a theological formula. It was very consistent for the Hebrew healing to be placed in the hands of the priests as the same general scheme in all matters was followed and con- tinues to be followed, relative to "religions," the same principles and basis of practice that were the rules of the ancients who had a god for each thing. The rabbi was the teacher and had charge of all matters of health; he stood between the individual who was sick and the Deity that healed and it was a part of the house of worship to look after the hygienic matters. The idolators applied the same principles and theological healing of the present day, while upon a modified plan, is after the pat- tern of the ancients. Jesus came and endeavored to wrest the prac- tice of healing from the priesthood and from theol- ogy and at the same time tried to rescue religion from the church. He taught that healing occurred through the application of the power present in the Kingdom of Heaven—it was an expression of the King ruling over the Kingdom of Heaven which is within the individual; he taught that man should worship—give praise without reference to an as- semblage of people or location; to worship in spirit THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 165 and in truth. His idea defeated the ancients and the rabbinical church standards and he was cruci- fied because he taught that which would liberate the people upon the subject of religion and healing. To follow, even casually, the evolution of heal- ing modes we are required to note that Jesus, throughout all of his practice made no connection between the individual's theology and his cure; he asked only if the patient had faith to believe that Jesus could cure him; he sought only the "Soul Ex- pectancy" of the patient. There is no history of his telling anyone after he was healed (and certain- ly not before) that he must go and become inform- ed upon a theological subject. He did advise in instances, the individual to go and keep the laws of health. The modern theological modes of healing go back to the ancients for their copy of principles —they are not in any manner after the formulas Jesus used for Jesus used the formula that would cause the patient to expect to become healed. It is true that very soon after Jesus was cruci- fied because he antagonized church and government there arose a ruler who made a compound of the an- cient religions, the Hebrew and Greek religions, some of the teachings and practices of Jesus (the latter, for the most part, distorted) and to this mix- ture added his own spirit of tyranny and organized religion and healing in the hands of the priesthood; with healing conducted in such a manner as to im- press the ordinary mind with it as a miracle there- by seeming to prove that the divinity was with the priest. Healing has been the phenomenon upon which religions and medical standards have been based and yet healing has occurred in response to the application of every sort of a charm and would just as strongly prove the merit of the charm undei' those circumstances as were the theologies and med- ical bases proved by cures. They all have proved 166 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING that there is a possible evolution that will establish the true mode of healing. It seems reasonable for us to look somewhat to a power that could cause disease. There may be mechanical causes but aside from those there is the force which is seldom, if ever, properly taken into account. There is one supreme force, supreme in its constructive power but when misapplied is as complete in its power to destroy harmonies. Why the world got to consider this two forces instead of two forms of application of the one force is a great study which would lead us back to those whom we count ignorant and uncivilized although we have perpetuated the main elements of their supersti- tions. The Eskimos believe that spirits control every- thing ; that the spirit of the sea, the sky, the winds, the clouds, each in its apropriate manner controls all things in nature. All the malignant types of spirits are to be propitiated by acceptable offerings when the individual would enter their respective regions. The Koreans go beyond the Eskimos, numbering their demons by thousands of millions, filling the earth, the rooms, the shelves and the jars; and when they would perform any act they must first placate the spirits and failing to do so they would attribute the disease or disaster to displeased spirits. This would require extraordinary sacrifices in order to recover. The Baylonians believed that all annoyances of life, a sudden fall, a headache, a quarrel, all the strong emotions—love, hate, jealousy, all of these things were regulated by demons; they believed in special fiends for different regions of the body. These people went through performances which were supposed to placate the angered spirits and healing resulted. We would feel foolish if we went THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 167 into detailed explanation to show that both cause and cure were through soul expectancy—that the same force was at the bottom of all changes. Dependable agents of healing in the past seem somewhat ridiculous to us; about as many of our present ones will seem to those who will come after us, for in the main, healing of the present is upon as superstitious basis as it was in the past. The skin of a rabbits stomach tied around a baby's neck to give it painless cutting of the teeth; put a live toad in the mouth to cure whooping cough; dangle frog legs back of the ears to cure any form of excessive bleeding; fasten your clothes with pins that have been stuck into a frog to cure rheu- matism ; carry a potato in the pocket to cure rheu- matism ; a wife who has a cold should sneeze in her husband's shoe; one with a colic should hold a live duck to the parts—the colic will cease and the duck will die. The foregoing are all undignified in our pres- ent estimation, yet they had as large a percentage of cures to their credit, and those who believed spirits caused disease and did the things to placate the demons have successful cures, in as large a de- gree as medical and theological methods of the present day. I have been greatly lauded for my generous assurance that every charm, every the- ology, every drug, every element or any other form of conception that claimed to be healing has cures to its credit; that in the absence of the alleged remedy healing might not have occurred. It is not tolerable for a moment that all of these things had merit of healing—of themselves, they could not have therapeutic value. These things have not and are not the healing power. You are sure to disclose the healing power and the key to its action if you give fair examination to the data; you will decide that each thing has led to the heal- 168 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING ing power. A few words now upon the evolution of healing practice that will cause the healing mode of the future to become scientific. The regular school of medicine, the eclectic and old Thompsonian all used heavy dosage in all forms of diseases; the first step in the evolution came with the homeopathic mode which gave only a semblance of medicine and the high potency kind of homeo- pathic virtually dropped the semblance and sugar of milk had cures to its credit as had the other schools. Theological forms, excluding all preten- sions of drugs came in and well have served their part in the evolution toward the perfect conception and their followers are becoming broad enough to permit an explanation of their hundreds of thou- sands of cures even if the explanation shows that there is no virtue in their theologies for healing purposes; they are related to healing in the same sense that charms, drugs, spirits, and sacrifices have been. They should retain their church beliefs if they help people to live a better thought life. But the fabrication that the theological prescription has merit in it differing in any way from the virtue in a drug prescription or that one of Moses when he advised the erection of the pole with the brazen ser- pent toward which the people looked and were saved from death by snake bite, that mistake, pres- ent day enlightenment is correcting. THERE IS ONE POWER THAT HAS HEAL- ED IN ALL INSTANCES IN ALL TIMES WHERE HEALING HAS TAKEN PLACE- ONE POWER ONLY, AND THAT POWER A PRESENCE AS A SUPREME INTELLIGENCE WITHIN THE PATIENT—THIS POWER IS THE SOUL OF THE PATIENT AND WHAT- SOEVER IT EXPECTS IT CREATES (IT CRE- ATES DISEASE WHEN IT IS SUPPLIED WITH A PICTURE AND EXPECTANCY)—IT THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 169 CURES WHEN IT IS MADE EXPECTANT. THERE IS A PERFECT WAY OF CREATING SOUL EXPECTANCY AND THAT IS THE METHOD RESULTING FROM THE EVOLU- TION INDICATED. THIS PERFECT SYSTEM OF CREATING SOUL EXPECTANCY WILL BECOME THE SOLE METHOD OF HEALING EXCEPT IN MECHANICAL CONDITIONS WHICH CALL FOR MECHANICAL MEANS. ACUTE DISEASES NEED ONLY PROPER NURSE CARE AND HYGIENE. <3faaa:c atto Jacob OCTOR, may we put the windows down in the waiting room while I speak to you about Ike? I am afraid Jacob will climb out on the window sill if we leave him alone during our conversation." This explains a great many things besides the mutillation of my books, which took place while we were absent from the reception room in the Hotel Seward, Portland, Ore., while I listened to a mother's account of 13-year-old Ike. Jacob did not raise the windows and climb out, but he tore my portrait out of all the books on my library table. Jacob was only 9 years old; too young, in his moth- er's estimation, to be expected to know and do bet- ter. It was assumed that he must be cared for each moment, to see that it was made impossible for him to do the things which it was not well for 170 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING him to do. However, we are too busy now with Ike to discuss the home principles by which Jacob was becoming prepared as a criminal who would need to be confined in a prison for the protection of his fellow man. Ike, my prospective patient, was a very frail child from the first, but was such a sweet baby that he received a ruling in the household that he must not be denied anything nor crossed in any matter; what he called for he must have, and if he cried, things must be offered to him until he saw some- thing that would please him. As weeks passed and Ike became harder to please, it still did not occur to them that they were developing a tyrant: I do not know that it ever did appear that way to them with the additional evidence of years when there were neither people nor things that satisfied him a moment. Childhood diseases, that were to be had, all came to him, and each one almost took his life and, if it were possible, caused the parents to become more exacting of everyone to live wholly in compli- ance with Ike's pleasure. Parental duty impelled them to think of the boy's education. They grieved more over having to put the child to the inconven- ience and perhaps work, involved in study than they ever did over the cruel nature he manifested toward those who served him incessantly. They excused him for any malicious act on the grounds of his ungovernable temper; they considered this all offset by his superior attractiveness when he was having things his own way—he was so sweet when he had forgiven those whose eyes he had almost burned out, or had entrapped in some way to their damage. They decided he would enjoy the company of other children more if he were sent to the public THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 171 school. He was there indulged at first because of the representation of the parents that he would need leniency until he could understand the ways for, having been so delicate, he was not accus- tomed to hardships such as complying with rules followed by others. When tolerance became exhausted, there came into the boy's experience an entirely new discovery —he had never suspected this world was running for any purpose except to serve him. He was in- formed that he would have to obey the rules of the school. His astonishment was complete; he scorned rules. His intention was to pay no atten- tion to them; he did not think they were worth breaking. When he discovered they were in his way, he set up defiance and wanted to know what the teacher was going to do about it. He had never heard of anyone using physical force except him- self—that wThich he could not gain otherwise he always had found he could break furniture, china and mirrors and secure, or with weapons obtain. The educational institution was soon divorced from the boy and, as strange as it seems, the par- ents concurred in the boy's decision that the man- agement of the school was all wrong, and they remained unfriendly to all public schools because their boy was mistreated in this one. The child won out on this subject, but when he got tired of playing with his usual associates, tired because he ruled them all so easily, he decided he wanted to go to school, where there were more children. The parents, proud of their noble son's ambition, se- lected a private school. Unfortunately, they chose one that had some regulations which were supposed to be for the best welfare of all, and through these requirements the boy again disclosed the general badness of all such 172 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING places, for they exhibited, when necessary, that they had a superior force of violence, superior to his own, and that they would use it to support their regulations. He was pitied by his mother and father and carried home to be rewarded with anything he could ask for, if he would forgive them for subjecting him to this hard institution. Of course, Ike must be taught. The public and private schools all proving to be so harsh that no gentle nature could endure them, the only remain- ing hope must reside in a private teacher. IKE'S RELATIVES PAY DAMAGES. Between the ages, 8—when Ike had not learned to read—and 11, his history contained the fre- quent repetition of a woman teacher, and then a man teacher passing into and promptly out of the life of this developing child. The parents said that they could find no one who seemed to under- stand their Ike. Ike always understood that if one form of torment would not drive away a dis- obedient teacher, another would. Sometimes he resorted to dangerous explosives, with which to ter- rify the individual who was employed to give him lessons. Not only were the lives of teachers often brought into jeopardy, but the neighbors suffered actual injury at his hands. Ike's father and uncle were wealthy men, and paid the damages grumb- ingly, for they thought that law and neighbors were cruel to misjudge the boy—the boy that had always been so delicate. And while I listened to the mother, as she gave me the history of the boy up to the age of 11, I thought of many people I had known. I have known so many people with pet bodies. I felt sure I could take up the subject of this boy at this point and tell the mother what had been the experience during their succeeding two years; I recalled she THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 173 had stated she had come to see what I could do for her son, now about 13. We will return to Ikey (they called him Ikey, saying that his name was Isaac, but it had always seemed too hard a name to call their child) in a little while, for I was chosen as his physician if I would take him. Being a physician, I must tell you that there is a law of cause and effect that pertains to all things that grow—and everything that is alive grows. Everything that is alive is intelligent and through its intelligence must be led in accord with con- structive laws or destructive results will follow; that all things possessed of life must be led in ac- cordance with their true nature, or an artificial inclination will rule; that there is a divine law that calls for discipline. I hesitate to introduce the word because it has been used interchangably with punishment until its true meaning, leadership, is hardly conceived of. It is usually a situation in which a child or any other object of intelligence is involved, in which tyranny or compulsion drives, or the thing is left to follow its inclinations. Discipline, really signifies guid- ance or leadership—not punishment, not force of violence. THE SUB-CONSCIOUS A CHILD. Not everyone is required to rear a child as one who manages offspring, but everyone has a sub- conscious or involuntary phase of mind to cultivate and it is wholly parallel in its relationship to one's objective will, with the relationship of parents and child. The body, of itself, has no power to feel nor desire, but sensations and desires in the sub-con- scious may pertain to the body—be experienced through the body. One has relationships to his 174 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING fellow man that may be manifested through the performance of his body, but there are relationships and experiences that exist within one's self—these are often called bodily desires, sufferings or physi- cal something. I may permit the usual phrase- ology to apply in this lesson and speak as if the body could actually desire, enjoy or suffer—I hope I will be understood to mean, literally that which the soul experiences particularly pertaining to the body. Perhaps one has pain—pain may be experienced in any region of the body because the cells of nerves, the message bearers are intelligent and can notify the brain or nerve center that there is pres- sure, or anyway, that pain is present. Pain is friendly; it would give one notice that he should will to choose some step to remove the cause of pain. Instead of using the means disclosing cause, the usual practice has become to use some over- powering thing—a narcotic of some sort, to make it impossible for pain to be felt. This is like let- ting the child have the lamp to play with when it cries for it, or upon any allowance giving the child the thing it is not benefited in having, making the the excuse—the child must not be thwarted, that it is too young or too delicate to be taught. When pain occurs in any part, the precedent has been supplied to the sub-conscious by the pre- vious act of the will in choosing the deadener to sensation, thereby becoming unconscious of pain instead of using a means that would remove the cause of the pain. The sub-conscious has taken the precedent as a suggestion, and it is the law over it, the sub-conscious that it must continue under a previous suggestion until it receives another in its place, therefore, pain continues and will become a terriffic disturbance unless the poison of opium THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 175 or some other deadening obstruction is placed over the nerves through which the mind receives com- munication of pain. If pain comes every time the deadening drug loses its effect and more of the drug is taken, it is said the patient has a drug habit. I say to you— that if pain comes once a month or once a year and the individual has set the precedent and repeats the use of the drug, he is enslaved to the standard —he has not used discipline and he has a wayward uncontrollable child in his sub-conscious, refusing to allow the pain to depart until the administra- tion of the drug is experienced. A woman may have pain on occasion, pain that would soon disappear through nature's readjust- ments, especially through a little rest. Instead of removing the cause, she takes one of the coal tar derivatives and following that she has relief. When a situation periodically returns there will be pain again. The first time there may have been pain that was well warranted by congestion of cold or something of the sort being present. The next period comes and there is no cold, but because pain was catered to before, it occurs again, and it will persist until the depressant is used which was used before. I trust my student will realize that in his sub-conscious he has a very literal child to raise; that to grant its inclinations means to create a situation where he will have to satisfy its every wish wrhich. Discipline in the first instance would have saved the repetition of the inharmonies. HOW THE CHILD IS TRAINED. An individual has occasion to be sociable in partaking of a meal of highly seasoned food. He is glad to be friendly like this, for he feels that he is ingratiating himself into one's approval. He may not, unless I tell him, think about the child 176 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING he is raising, that the sub-conscious which he is training may become impressed and desire the pal- ate to be played upon in the same manner again very soon; that it may refuse to be satisfied with real food and keep up its cry until the stomach is supplied with the same kind of victuals that were partaken of in the social meal. Discipline, or leading, at this point would be very simple, but like the parent, who sees it is so much easier to quiet the child that is crying for green apples by giving them to him, than it is to divert the child's mind and cause it to forget the apples, so does the will consent to have another unwholesome, but good tasting meal, and by the indulgence give a destructive idea of tyrannical control. Ar mistaken individual, without desire for the thing, smokes cigarettes a few times. Of course, like all who become enslaved to anything, he (or she) has no intention of letting it become a habit, but with the introduction of the practice, there comes an impulse from within to repeat. The child (the sub-conscious) soon makes demands, and will not be quieted except through the indulgence— being gratified once, it promptly requires repeti- tion, and in a remarkably short time requires con- stant smoking. A person who, perhaps, has no particular in- clination to drink liquor, deliberately takes the poison of alcohol in small quantity in wines, beers, cocktails and whiskies. This often proves to be much like the result when an undisciplined boy has had a half of a day with an older and more experienced youth than himself; one who knows about all the ways of being really bad. He has new forms and greater capacity to want and demand after this half a day, and having had no leadership with regard to proper wants, it matters not how THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 177 terrible his new conception is, his wishes having been the laws over all those with whom he has been in contact, they are compelled to gratify his exactions. So, this individual who has commenced giving his child liquor—that is, who has awakened a de- mand in his soul, must bestir himself to satisfy it. He may, like the cigarette fiend, discover that the more he takes the more insatiable becomes the ap- petite, but having exercised at no time the principle of discipline, he, like the parents of Ike, who must follow him about to try to gratify him, resorts to stronger poisons, as absinthe, and ultimately en- deavors to satisfy or deaden with morphine. To the undisciplined sub-conscious, there are the demands in classes. This must seem reasonable for on the other side of the question, one who loves beauty, loves beauty in all things where there is beauty; he responds to the admirable, the lovable. The individual who has not led his soul to desire right things usually will be found wanting many forms of things of the bad class. Behold, for a moment the semblance of a man—you may wonder if there is even the sem- blance remaining at this stage, but I am not going to devote my life to the results, undisciplined chil- dren and undisciplined sub-consciousness, it is too awful, so I will make this forcible. Go with me over the history of one beginning with casual drinking and casual smoking—both mere incidents in his young life. He met with dis- appointment and he tried to forget it in drunken- ness. When consciousness would return he hated himself for drinking and he suffered from the for- mer disappointment and hastened to become intox- icated again. Liquor ceased to drown his conscious- ness, or, in his delirium, he lived over the things 178 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING he wished so much to forget and then he began to take morphine. Morphine was used in increas- ing quantity until his sub-conscious had an insat- iable desire which liquors and morphine would not quiet, so cocaine was commenced. Years went by and still life remained in the body, although it could make little use of such a body. Finally, mastery over both liquor and co- caine was gained but morphine remained, a testi- monial to absence of discipline. When the man would reduce the morphine he would smoke inces- santly, as if he hoped to have his appetite for the abnormal satisfied through the poison of nicotine. He, or shez who tries to become strong through gratification of that which sense may call for is precisely upon the same basis, in his objective self as the parent who hopes to make his child good or strong through efforts to supply to the child every- thing that its unguided mind may call for. He, or she, who tries to become strong through gratification which sense may call for is precisely upon the same basis in his acquired self, his charac- ter, as the child that has had every wish gratified and with every gratified wish becomes more selfish and more unreasonable in its demands. The child is artificial and never can be satisfied, never happy. The soul of the man, cultivated upon the same principle, being filled with artificial standards, never can be satisfied, never can be happy, for it cannot see truth—never can know unselfishness. The attempts to satisfy the senses, as such, brings his soul (involuntary self) to the disaster parallel with that in which we find Ike at the time I was brought in contact with him. And while one reaches the ruinous result through following the inclinations from the sense impulses—all the while there has been present within him a will, a disposi- THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 179 tion or inclination, which if followed would have made of him a veritable God; the Innate Self has an inherent trend toward all that is temperate, true and good and beautiful, but it is not violent in its demands and sense can easily put it aside. This is just what discipline really is; it is to let the will of the objective self and the will of the acquired self be led by the will of the Innate Self, the God within. NOT QUALIFIED PARENTS. The parents of Ike were not qualified to be par- ents because they could not interpret the child's Innate Self and be guided thereby, but they tried to fulfill the will of the child's outer self, which the parents themselves shaped through their train- ing, ever awakening more and more artificial re- quirements. The parent should be to the child the same as the Innate Self is to one who has passed out of his childhood, therefore, parental guidance, discipline, possesses the hope of the child if he has any hope. The wayward man has indulged that which he has created and he created the artificial. Ike's parents created artificial desires in the child and then devoted their lives to efforts to gratify those desires, and now for the effects. In the previous pages, we had brought the his- tory of Ike up to 11 years of age, when he had found no congenial private teacher and he had not learned to read. Since he could not be taught for want of a competent teacher, he must be enter- tained. The father had not time to attend the boy all the time and the mother had become ill and could not watch him from a distance. There were no relatives who would undertake such a charge for any sum of money and surely not for love. The problem reached a point where it must be solved promptly, else Ike would put an end to Jacob's 180 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING existence, Jacob being so much less bright than Ike. They employed a man to go with Ike to the country and into the woods and stay as long as he could keep him contented; when he could keep him no longer in one place he must move to another; this entertainer soon resigned. Through advertis- ing, they obtained a man who would take his charge to California, hoping to find variety to oc- cupy the boy. When this man restored Ike to his household, after displeasing the boy, and from him getting his discharge, a counsel was held on ac- count of his nervousness and irritability. It was decided that his care-taker had developed some sort of bad habits in Ike. Ike's pent-up feelings, chargeable to the situa- tion in which the city of Portland was so slow and his home life so dull, could find no outlet. There were no new victories for him, for he had beaten and battered people and things until there was nothing new for him to attack. He seemed to want to be petted and yet nothing made him more violently angry than for some one to try to get pleasure through making love advances to him. His irritability grew and because he was so nervous they thought a mind specialist should be consulted. The medical man was generous and wished to take the boy to his private institution, where he could observe him, and while there the boy learned to wear a straight jacket, the nurses not having much tolerance for his obstreperous ways. The specialist decided that an operation should be performed, but could not tell just what he ought to cut. I do not believe anyone would need to have medical training to account for this boy's condition; any reasoning at all would show that THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 181 the boy in his outcome is a natural effect from the home causes, dating back to his infancy and con- tinuing throughout all the period of lack of dis- cipline. After the mother had told me of the boy's es- cape from the institution in which he had been studied with reference to his possible insanity, I told her I believed I knew enough about the case, and I asked her where the boy was then being kept. He had become so dangerous that he could not be kept at home; he had particular aversion to the mother—under the circumstances I think it a very consistent attitude, for, while she had sacrificed all for him, sacrifice being a wrong principle, would create as its result some such attitude in the boy's mind. Entirely away from the city, she said, I would find the boy being taken care of by a woman whom they had employed, who had confidence in her ver- satility being equal to the occasion of entertaining him and perhaps getting his confidence so he would let her teach him. GOING TO SEE IKE. Taking a conveyance, I called upon the lady and Ikey. The woman's face was covered with wounds in various states of healing; her eyes were surrounded with bruises and cuts; her limbs were bandaged. I took this as evidence that I had found Ike's residence and presently I heard Ike saying his prayers, or something, with reference to what he was going to do when he got loose again. She had had a fight during which she lost important features, but had finally got the boy tied, hands and feet. I could not help feeling a sympathy for him. Here was a child that had present within him all the potencies of a great and useful man, but all of 182 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING those potencies repressed through the failure of parents to use discipline upon him, beginning from the hour of his birth. My sympathy had no ten- dency to lead me to have him turned loose, even if I did make the allowance that his condition was not his fault. What could be done to save him from himself was the only question. I reported to the mother that we would need the housekeeper, but that a man would be neces- sary to take proper charge of the boy, and that I would need a man who would do everything I re- quired; that I could not see him more than once a week and, therefore, the man must copy my treat- ments exactly. We found a man who promised to do everything, even to giving my treatments, al- though he would have to do so without understand- ing any of the principles involved. I gave the boy treatments while he sat or stood, sullenly in my presence. Not ideal conditions I must say. The man would be situated to give him the suggestions while he was asleep, the suggestions which I wrote out. I doubt that one can imagine how this man felt when he was talking to an individual who was in a deep sleep and could hear nothing he said. I told the nurse to think over the same suggestions, not speaking them; to give his attention for at least a half an hour at a time, twice during the night, repeating the suggestions at intervals during the half hour of each treatment. SUGGESTIONS GIVEN IN IKE'S SLEEP. The suggestions were given concerning the lit- eral changes that we needed, primarily relating to his becoming obedient and co-operative and free from irritability. There were no suggestions es- sential with reference to insanity, nor correction of spinal cord, which the doctor would have oper- ated to correct, When the boy became co-operative THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 183 there would be no insanity and when his irrita- bility had become replaced with calmness and cheerfulness there would be no nerve center dis- order. We teach that living the life is as important as the suggestions, and I went over the instructions with the nurse very carefully. The boy had always obtained what he wanted when he declared he had anything the matter with him, and this had re- sulted in his incessant declaration that he had great pain and this he described to be in his stom- ach one moment and in his head the next. When he announced he had pain it was necessary for the people around him to exert themselves in his behalf. This had been the custom while he grew up, and so he found it a good ruse to continue. Up to this time, his mother still pitied him when he declared he had the pains and she had required different specialists to give him courses of medicine for the various kinds of pain. We saw it was a trick and I instructed nurse and housekeeper to ignore him completely when he spoke of himself in any such way; to reply to him only when he said something appropriate. He had not dressed himself for months—fussing until some one would put his clothes on him. I in- structed the nurse to give him no breakfast until he put on his clothes without assistance. It took him two hours to put on his garments the first morn- ing, less than a minute after that. He had been accustomed to calling for things to eat which were not prepared, and when he received the thing would refuse to eat it and demand something else. The first morning he called for five different kinds of breakfast food and ate none. Something changed him so that he ate just what was given him by the second morning. 184 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING They had only two fights with him the second day—having assured him that if he became co- operative he would not be strapped down any more. SENDING MOTHER A FLOWER. In the second week, he asked the nurse to send his mother a flower he had picked for her, also a kind message. These were the first indications of a single moment in all of his life in which he had a thought of anyone except himself. And when I went to see him the second week he was helping the family pick cherries, placing his collection in a bucket that it might be a part with theirs. The nurse assured me that he was keeping up the treatments by suggestion and that he frequent- ly gave the boy the suggestions while going to sleep, and that they were not resented. I do not know that the nurse ever did understand the prin- ciples involved in the treatment, as I had given it but I know he became greatly elated over his suc- cess. He said that he knew that all of the force and even patience in persuasion, talking to Ike in the ordinary state never would have brought him to co-operativeness. I saw the patient three times, but I kept in touch with the man in charge who remained with him two months. He said he did not think he should have been treated in such a manner; he said he had been discharged and a school teacher was giving the boy regular lessons; he considered though that the boy got his real brightness from him and the teacher was on\y reaping the consequences. So, we found our boy had become a good citizen and had undergone the marvelous change mainly through the effect of suggestions that were given to him while asleep; given by a man who simply followed instruction without even knowing the principles involved. A thousand men and women, arguing with one THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 185 person to cause him to change, to which may be added the force of laws, courts, jails, thumbscrews and starvation, all may fail, while a few sentences introduced by mental suggestion into the sub-con- scious, or carried there when the individual is go- ing to sleep, may reverse all of the trend of one thus treated. I have written in all my strength endeavoring to cause the people who read our books to use sug- gestions upon children or others who have needs— speaking the words and thinking the thoughts im- mediately into the soul which controls the body and all involuntary states of the recipient. Ideal leadership into all that is good—the es- tablishment of right desires and habits and dis- position can be conducted through the scientific use of suggestion, and when one would use the best discipline upon himself he will do well in using auto-suggestion. Discipline saves the necessity of punishment and restraint—discipline is on the side of construction and expression—punishment is on the side of destruction and repression. It will never be said that as a practical psychol- ogist I do not pay full tribute to discipline. I, who have seen the chief disaster in human life occur from lack of discipline, should speak with au- thority. Peeping ©tte'g JHeah VERY friend and everything that is friendly endeavors to assist one to gain or maintain one's equilibrium; every sort of enemy or antagonist, or even a competi- tor, conspires to destroy poise. In the world's greatest war, that of this day, the strongest hope of victory held by the contestants is not in the 186 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING numerical superiority of the men on either side, but in the belief of each that the other will lose its balance and in the confusion make a misstep and be overcome. The strategy of war is the strength and hope that each seeks to be inspired upon. In war, if either side can find the other unpre- pared for battle, or can defeat the confidence through some sort of a surprise the battle is quick- ly lost by the side thereby confused. My observa- tion and experience, my reason and my intuition all confirm this conclusion: All of life has become to be interpreted a warfare in which all destruc- tive or opposing elements, obstacles to one's growth, happiness and, therefore, best usefulness, attack, or would attack, from the one point—the intent to rob one of his poise. If this principle can be dealt with, the problem of construction is solved. If one knows that every- thing that would have a tendency to limit or im- pair him, in some way must approach through a trial of his poise, he will become secure through making poise his stronghold. "Losing one's head" does not pertain to the subject of anatomy, not even to the extent of im- pairment of the brain convolutions. With all re- spect to those who have said that every image of the mind makes especial lines or dents in the brain pulp, I am required to state the truth so well known to a practical psychologist—that the brain is purely the organ or instrument of mind; that the impression of imagery may cause the mind to use the instrument in a manner entirely consistent with the picture; that the brain does not use the mind nor make it, but is itself acted upon and is the instrument through which mind's states or the pictures, thoughts, are manifested. This would be the furtherest possible from a teaching that there THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 187 is no matter, no brain, but rather a teaching of the inseparableness of mind, the power and matter, the instrument, through which it is manifested. So, all the people and things that would tend to cause one to lose his head, really are endeavoring to place images, thoughts, in his mind, pictures or working designs that would cause the recipient to do acts to his own destruction. Again I must show one that POISE is his preserver. Without knowing, scientifically, the power of suggestion, successful antagonists and competitors have used the force of it when they have thrown pictures of defeat into the mind of one whom they would destroy or outdo. America has been called unfair when it has indicated its opinion as to the result of the war, although in stating the opinion it did not indicate that it wished for the result it predicted; pronounced unkind for the reason it dis- couraged one side and of course encouraged the other. One side saw itself in failure and was weaker than it would have been in the absence of the picture; the other side was better established in its poise, gathered new strength from the image of its own victory. If the elements, the men in combat lose all heart, the opponent has the victory already, for hatred and desire to destroy will com- prise no basis of power to take the place of hope which has been lost. VALUE OF POISE. One cannot pay too high a price for poise—it is the asset worth more than all others; in the absence of its possession nothing else counts for its full value. It is essential for the mind to be in poise on account of its effect upon the instrument, the body. The body becomes a plastic, wieldy in- strument when there is a confident state but in- capable of manifesting skill that is more perfect 188 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING than that called for in the mind and all harmony of the picture department calls for inharmony of the form which must fulfill the ideas. In our writings upon self-consciousness we have shown that when one recalls the picture of his failure when he was making an endeavor similar to the one in which he is engaged, through this visualization of defeat, again fails; this is due to the upset of his poise—he loses his head. Knowing this truth so well, the writer has striven to impress upon parents, teachers and all other suggestors how important it is to pour in continually the thoughts that call for success; has incessantly taught that fact that through criticism in the form of reminding the subject of his errors, sins and weaknesses the leader is undermining the personal confidence and supplying the architectural pattern after which the imperfect must be created. No one obtains a better view of the perfect through enter- taining pictures of the distortions of the thing he would make perfect. VISUALIZING FAILURE. Animals and low grades of human beings in- tuitively utilize the benefit to themselves in dis- couraging the contestant—they make up for their own deficiency by lowering the efficiency of the other by causing depreciation of the other in his own estimation; actually destroying his poise. A man who held the championship as a prize-fighter took the course of belittling his antagonist, saying he disliked to batter him up as he was going to do; that it was so easy to handle him and whip him that he felt ashamed to take such an advantage. He won through his psychology rather than through superior physical powers. The other lost his head and in his confusion chose the wrong positions and was kept fully occupied on the defensive. The THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 189 loss of poise will cause the paralysis of all superior powers. All conditions of disease, poverty and almost all other inharmonies bring their destruction most- ly through undermining the poise, causing one to lose his head. The plague of cholera killed its hundreds but fear destroyed the lives of thousands. An equilibrium being maintained is the best pro- tection against all foes and I am confident that when we fully realize that direct aspiration and definite steps can be taken that would result in that evenness, that calm—poise that will create peace that passeth understanding, we will gladly comply with the essentials to that great mastery. Surely this is not a question of food dietary pri- marily; surely not dependent upon what one be- lieves concerning theology, politics nor as to wheth- er the earth is flat or round—the attainment and preservation of poise must come wholly under psy- chological laws. Then, one can establish one's life and being in poise through the knowledge and application of our practical psychology? Yes. Rudyard Kipling, in his lines, under the title of "IF" has stated the whole matter in the things which he said, if one should do and become, the earth and all that is in it would be his and, what is more, "You will be a Man, my son." If one masters our practical psychology he can omit the "IF" and make it all declarative; there is no other teaching by which one can reach that ideal poise that will make him a Man. Mr. Kipling begins the naming of the conditions with: "If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you" Under the laws of mob psychology there is a terrific force which would affect one to blend with 190 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING those about him or in rapport with him; it is the law of sympathy to which one inclines to respond. There is an instance with many parallels, in which a woman in an altercation with her husband at the gate of the factory yard became overwhelmed in emotion and fell rigid or cataleptic. Sixty other women of the number that came out to look at her body also fell in convulsions. The first woman had provocation and lost her head, the others followed through the mob psychology and sympathy. To keep one's poise when others are losing theirs and puting all blame on one is a greater achievement still. To put the blame off of one's self and on some one else is the strongest impulse in many, but to keep one's head in the presence of it all is well on the way to mastering the world and becoming a Man. Many public men lost their heads over the situation that developed in the U. S. with regard to Mexico, dating back to the time when Huerta was refused recognition by our coun- try although he seemed to think he had won the right to recognition when he declared that he had almost completed his task of overthrowing the government of Mexico. From the date mentioned, including many times when attacks were made upon Americans in Mexico and their property destroyed and assaults made by Mexicans upon the border towns, the public and many leaders completely lost their heads over inter- vention and not the least thing occurred in Mexico for which President Wilson was not blamed. He never lost his poise—if he had, America would have been at war, slaying those so deficient in civiliza- tion as to be really not responsible. "If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too:" The power of telepathy, even if men showed not THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 191 objective evidence of doubting one would over- whelm an average individual and cause him to lose his poise and doubt himself but when they speak their suggestions of doubt, perhaps no one who is not armed in his equilibrium through a knowledge of suggestion and its power when transmitted tele- pathically and spoken, could remain confident. A school teacher misplaced a fifty cent piece and not being able to find it accused a ten-year-old girl of having stolen it; the girl received such strong suggestions of being a thief that she became convinced she had stolen the money. After the child had lost her poise and became insane the teacher discovered the money where she had placed it. If one be compelled to listen to expressions of doubt concerning himself, unless he is a master, he will fail under the trial. "If you can wait and not be tired by waiting Or being lied about, don't deal in lies," When one has made all the preparation for a result and there seems to be nothing that should intervene to prevent the fulfillment, that the har- vest, as he thinks, should be gathered and still he has to wait, his patience becomes strained and he will need the saving power of good anchorage in constructive thought else he will lose his head. It appears often as if circumstances had evil dis- positions and would maliciously attack one to overthrow his balance; then with all of this waiting for the harvest that he feels is overdue he is lied about—if he does not tell worse things that are untrue about his neighbor than his neighbor has said of him, he will be a most remarkable psycholo- gist. Nothing else has saved one from "giving as good as he received" when it came to abusive falsi- fying, therefore great appreciation of the science of the soul should be attained if it should save one 192 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING to become a Man, under this supreme test. It is better to tell one "it is none of your business" than to match him in lies, but we have to get well along in years to learn this from experience. I wish I might teach it to the younger people and give them courage—help them keep their superb equilibrium and not give lie for lie. This is on the road to mastery and to Man. "Or being hated don't give way to hating And yet don't look too good nor talk too wise;" I stated in the opening that all destructive ele- ments make their attack, would enter through the one gate. If one is not invulnerable in POISE invasion will be made, for all evils make their attempts to cause him to lose his head. No one will, while possessed of poise, give way to hating. When there is any temptation to hate it is a situa- tion where disturbing pictures are given a place. If they are entertained one may lose his head and hate. It is one of the greatest advances in character and perhaps, the most tedious in growth to become free from a desire to see vengance and to be the agent of revenge when a great wrong has been done one; or if one succeeds in avoiding an outward act, not to carry bitterness and hate, not to entertain the pictures of the offenses and offender with a wish that disaster would come to him, is a more heavenly state than many people ever hoped for. No one is created to live with nor harmonize with everybody and neither does one have to hate those with whom he could never blend. One can adopt an attitude of letting alone. I know it to be pos- sible for one to cease to recall the persons or inci- dents related to most unjust treatments, can let them alone in thought, completely. When I was a small boy I saw some beautiful kittens playing around a stump. They were so THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 193 beautiful that I wished to pet them and approached their residing place. I was not given a hospitable reception by any means; I have not wasted any of my thought in hating the creatures; I have had no trouble in letting a skunk alone all of my life. I do see how I could have lost my poise and damaged myself many times by taking an attitude of hate. But with mastery over this, I still must not look too good nor talk too wise; that and all other vic- tories should not make me vain—if I would master the world and become a Man. "If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim," To reach that high state where all things be- come added, one needs the Vision—that which comes to one as a picture of that which he could and should execute and become. One should have the destination given him, given his consciousness as prophecy that would encourage and guide. The only source from w7hich this can come to the in- dividual is from the Innate Self, the god within. The writer, the musician, the inventor or anyone who would give real self-expression in any direc- tion, should have the Vision. Being the Vision it is only in image form and is like a dream and the Vision may come in a dream; it may best come while one is in the Silence or in his daily work. The soul holds the pictures and may push them up into the consciousness at any time. The psychic experience of the Vision is very pleasurable and one might have a tendency to seek the subjective state so much that he would fail to put forth the physical energies and prepare a technic through which to express the Vision—it becomes a strong inclination to make dreams one's master, to let the dream be the end. With the 194 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING dream becoming the thing sought after, one is likely to become a builder of "air castles" and not get the Vision at all. The individual who dotes so much on his intel- lect is disposed in many instances to become almost vain over his standard, analysis, the basis of all conclusions—to accept nothing except through the evidence of the senses; to know nothing save through objective reason. He makes thought his aim whereas thought, when it is true, when it is forceful, is spontaneous and is involuntary pictur- ing; it comes without the objective self trying to think. The best thinking comes when one is not making thought his aim. "If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two impostors just the same;" Here are twro forms in which deceiving pictures come and dethrone one's poise and prevent his attainment, Man, unless a sublime conception of true values is possessed. There is no balanc- ing power that can save one from ruin in the pres- ence of triumph or disaster except the equipoise that abides in true estimates. There was a prominent man in America, who brought multiplied blessings to the nation. He overcame obstacles, he did much good building but his successes caused him to lose his head; he became a bigot, a tyrant; he reached a point where he cared for nothing except to dominate it, including people and then he no longer had respect for those whom he dominated. He became self-conscious and did those things which would make the world visualize him and cause him to see himself first over every- thing. Churches, political parties and all societies responded to the force which he exercised over them to compel them to pay him homage. He brought the pressure upon the crowns in Europe that ob- tained their tribute. He worked for what Kipling THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 19S correctly denominates, triumph the impostor and with triumph came the upset of his equilibrium. He used the principle of violence in attaining his ends. Not through leadership but driving and when it came to giving another the recognition that was merited, he failed because he would not share glory nor power with others. True to the laws of psychology, while using certain principles upon people and things, he was preparing something that must deal with him upon those same principles. This came in the form of a political party that forcibly denied him and shelved him; he became shorn of his power. Disaster angered him and he collected all of his spirit of force and violence and formed a new party to compete with the very one whose platform he had created, therefore, which must have stood for his beliefs. Both impositors had come to him and tried him and each caused him to lose his poise and set him back, far back on the road to Man. Triumph and disaster are both impostors, they offer or promise that which they do not deliver and one is very fortunate if he is grounded in the truth that only by his own invitation or consent can anything reach his soul to harm or help him; that to open his soul to let anything touch his life is the only way it can affect him. There is no war- rant in excessive elation because any or many praise him and surely there is no occasion of dis- pair in the world's discount of him. One may build for twenty years and gain a good reputation then lose it in an hour through people hearing a report against him and what is more the report may not be true and still his reputation be lost. One would be foolish to do anything particularly for reputation's sake when he cannot bank on it any more than is indicated. Any sort of a mouth jpd SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING piece, even a phonograph can publish words descrip- tive of acts that were never committed and all of reputation be lost. Marcus Aurelius very appropriately describes the value of fame; many of the so-called triumphs are in the nature of fame. He says: "As for fame, consider the intellect of the people that are to commend, how insignificant they are and how little in their pursuits or aversions. Consider also that as one heap of sand thrown upon another covers the first, so it happens in life, a new glory soon eclipses an old one." And still I would not have one cease to value the genuine appreciation and gratitude of those to whom he has rendered a ser- vice ; one can do that without becoming intoxicated over the privilege of helping his fellow man—even to making an effort to serve and proving of real service. Who has not over-estimated that which he has interpreted as disaster? What seems to be disappointment is far more often possessed of the potency of blessing than loss and if correctly interpreted the experience could usually be converted into an asset. The imagery of disaster would suggest complete ruin and in this it is deceiving for it regulates the extent of the destruction that might attend upon any experience. A man whom I once knew was un- justly thrown into prison and held there two years. He said that after a few days he had the inspira- tion which appealed to his consciousness in the terms: "This situation can hurt me only to the extent I permit it to take hold of me to pain or harm me; I am not guilty and it shall be known some day and I will be released." He said he saw no more occasion for regret, as for himself. I would say he did not lose his head through that which had the countenance of ruin and defeat, the THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 197 impostor, disaster. Again I must call your atten- tion to our fundamental statement that all things that would harm attack the poise and if that be invulnerable the individual is secure under all cir- cumstances; that keeping one's head is the whole problem and practical psychology will make it pos- sible to take the "IF" out of Kipling's wonderful lines. "If you can hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools." I suspect this is the supremest test of all as to how firmly one's head is on. When one, out of love of helpfulness, a sincere desire to help his fellow man, has consecrated himself to work out an instru- ment that can truly uplift the world that he loves, sees his truth turned right about and by the evilly disposed person made to serve as a harmful instead of a helpful agent, he is tried to the utmost. Jesus taught saving principles, yet the world, in the main, never has seen them—the world that has gloried in his death. When Jesus was talking to the woman at the well, it was said of him that he kept company with bad people. When he gath- ered the grain and ate with his disciples on the Sabbath day they pronounced him a Sabbath breaker. When he spoke of the heavenly kingdom they immediately distorted his sayings into an attack upon the immediate ruler's dominion; that he was going to set up another government, was the twist they made of his conception of the highest that exists in an individual. Since that day leaders have come with false teaching claiming that Jesus taught concerning heaven as a place and they, the false teachers, offer for a consideration, to pass the victims of their infamous teaching into heaven after death. Jesus taught that prayer and worship 198 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING are attitudes of mind that can find an outlet any place; that God is everywhere and is to be wor- shiped in spirit and in truth because God is spirit. All the paraphernalia of so-called religious forms is so opposed to the spirit and teachings of Jesus that it is a slander upon him to attach his name to that which does not supply an outlet of expression for the noblest in the human being. And, while Jesus presented teachings of high principles, he could not endure the misrepresenta- tion that was made of them nor could he endure the commercial basis of religion; he lost his head and heart in grief. He wept and he agonized, his sor- row was greater than he could endure and he de- liberately continued to teach that which he knew would not be understood in its beautiful symbolism but would be treated literally and interpreted to be an assault upon the government then existing and he knew that he would be crucified because he was thus interpreted. Notwithstanding any history and all history in which human beings have lost their heads and taken destructive courses on account thereof it re- mains true that one can bear to let his noblest ideals and grandest work be twisted by those at enmity with all that is true and good and beautiful—he can see all that was conceived of by him to be construc- tive turned into the channel of destruction and still not lose his poise. One may be sure that none of these things can affect him more deeply than he opens his soul to them and makes the destruction become a part in him. It has been demonstrated many times that one can experience the complete annihilation of all the things he has built and not lose his head but at once reconstruct after improved patterns. The San Francisco fire swept destruction before it but San THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 199 Francisco lost not its poise—the city was not destroyed because it did not lose its equilibrium. The city, a spiritual thing was not burned but with the destruction of the buildings which old pictures or architectural plans called for, the way was cleared for the expression of improved ideas of beauty in the new buildings. A single human being could have a similar experience relative to all the forms he had fulfilled in his life and not lose his head and defeat his destination, Man. "If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings, And never breathe a word about your loss." I believe the author of the words is attempting here to tell us the degree of fixedness in our poise that is essential if we will master the world and be a Man. If it is a situation where the central work the result of concentration, where one has devoted all that he controls in attaining an end which by a seeming mere trifle is completely de- stroyed, yet one can keep his balance and with calmness and confidence go forward, never dwelling on his loss. How many people there are wTho publish their calamities, talk of nothing but their losses, their mistreatments, their disasters. This is a declara- tion of having lost their poise and they never can regain it while reviewing such pictures. Never breathe a word about your loss, is the best psy- chology one can apply. Cease to think about it is important. "If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you, Except the will which says to them : Hold on!" If one should know the power of suggestion he can cause his sub-conscious, his builder to utilize 200 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING the office of nutrition and grow the vital elements that have become so lowered that one doubts the presence of nerve and sinew. One can choose to fill his soul with constructive suggestions, using the formula of scientific prayer, so that when he would become so discouraged in his outer mind that he would make a complete surrender, that WILL of the sub-conscious has been established so strong that it will not let go and so holds on. It is a saving thing in an emergency to have had the soul filled with constructive impulses and made proof against the destructive pictures that one may gather with his conscious mind in its narrow vision. "If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue; Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch" The cumulative force of masses of people under a single image or suggestion is seldom correctly estimated. The masses are never right because they respond to noise to the things that come with great pretensions, to sensations. A crowd is swayed by the suggestion of a loud leader who gives it suggestions. It has been observed that individuals when taken singly and presented with a matter will intuitively take to the side of truth— this independent of whether they are possessed of intellectual cultivation or not. But when they are brought together in companies and some one sup- plies them with conclusions, suggestions, they in- voluntarily accept the pictures as given. This is the power of mob psychology—the members of the company act and react upon each other to more and more excitement which often requires some sort of violence as an outlet before adjustments can be realized and peace attained. Not only Holy Rollers but many other religious companies resort to some sort of violent performance due to this need of an outlet of feelings that come when one is swayed by the crowd. THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 201 To be able to associate with crowds and keep your individual standards is a most desirable and rare attainment but Kipling correctly shows it to be one of the conditions that leads to mastery and, speaking scientifically I must say that if one is to mingle with the crowd and not take on its prevail- ing states it will be through knowing how to cut himself out of telepathic rapport with others. To walk with kings and not become foolish and presume to look down upon others nor to be flat- tered and lose one's head is well on the way to a Man. A man whom I recently treated to help him become free from his desire for liquor said that his worst debauches occurred through his association with men in high places, higher walks of life occu- pied them, such as political offices. He said that state officials invited him to take a trip with them and of course they also aksed him to join them in the dissipations. Through his experience he realized the state officer did not share the disaster of suffering and humiliation that came to him and his family; he discovered one suffers alone although another may request his company in going into that which leads to sorrow. "If neither foes nor friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much" If one does not lose his head in fear of what his enemies might do to his injury, he has pretty safe equilibrium but a greater test is given one when his friends misjudge him, criticise him and prophecy unfortunate outcome for him. Friends have the excuse of "great personal interest and love" which brings them so close to one that they assume that they are in duty bound to watch and warn. Again, they take another disastrous course in giving a false encouragement and flattery is more dangerous than criticism. Flattery of friends creates egotism where just praise buoys one up in 202 SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING real strength and self-confidence. Criticism makes one self-conscious, fills his mind with destructive pictures and his efforts are made in mistaken direc- tions. It is a psychological truth that friends are situated to hurt one more than his foes can and it requires good anchorage in a true psychology to prevent one from becoming destroyed by his friends; it requires keen intelligence to be a helpful friend for where we have a deep interest we tend to become anxious—anxiety destroys poise and when we lose our poise we can be of little service as interpreters of truth. Where we become men pleasers, with pleasing men the aim we are very sure to become blind to the means of self-expression and the larger help- fulness. When we become too regardful of what others may think of us we work for an unprofitable purpose. The good opinion of others should be purely incidental to our normal course of action. Statesmen, it has been said, have to consider from the time they are elected, how they must act to please their constituencies so as to be re-elected. With this in view the real aspirations after help- fulness to those whom they represent is lost to the perceptions. Fortunate is the individual—and as rare as he is fortunate, who has not lost his poise over some- one. He tries to make one count for more or for a place that nature has not created as a possibility. I have known this extreme of having someone to count too much that life was lost, the individual actually perishing because the outcome of another was not what was desired. I have known a mother to die because she had put her whole life into her child—fixed her standard of continuing her own life only upon the condition that the child, to which she was devoting all, should live. And the child moving out of its body, she could keep her THROUGH THOUGHT FORCE 203 soul in her body no longer. Through losing one's poise one may fix suggestions that become the laws of his existence to the extent that life will go out according to those suggestions. The all power of the soul to answer to suggestions and the over- whelming power of suggestions are things best known to the psychologist and Kipling has seen it true that one can merge one's life into another— caring too much. "If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run:" When one loses his head over anything, becomes a fanatic upon any subject, goes off into imprac- tical mysticism he cannot possibly fill the minute with full value—it will not show sixty seconds' worth of distance run. The warning is to those who work but work in no practical way. WTe begin to wonder if it is possible for any to keep their poise when there are the myriad ways in which it can be lost. All destructive things have one com- mon point of attack—first it would upset the equi- librium. Mr. Kipling has put it, referring to all of these things: "IF YOU----" and finally says the consequence, If you— etc. "Yours is the earth and everything that's in it And—which is more—you'll be a man, my son!" As a psychologist, I wish to confirm all that Rudyard Kipling has stated in these wonderful lines and I wish to add that one who masters prac- tical psychology and orders his life according to its teaching is one who can take out the "IF" and to him I can truthfully say— You can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; You can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too: You can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, you'll not deal in lies SCIENTIFIC MAN BUILDING Or being hated, you'll not give way to hating And yet not look too good nor talk too wise; You can dream—and not make dreams your master, You can think—and not make thoughts your aim, You can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same: You can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make traps for fools Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools; You can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss: You can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the will which says to them: "Hold on!" 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