PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS 
IN 
HEALTH CULTURE 
FOR 
PERFECTING THE BODY, 
WITH EXERCISES 
FOR 
HEALTH, STRENGTH AND POWER. 
BY 
Annie Lewis Johnson. 
SECOND EDITION, 
JSIXTVISR <fe DANGERFIELD, 
THE PRINTERS, 
PROVO, - TJTA.H, INTRODUCTION. 
“Practical instructions or health culture” is addressed to those who 
are reaching- after something- better than we see manifested in the 
averag-e daily life, our teachings and exercises are to bring the body in- 
to more perfect harmony with nature’s laws. We carry within the 
power to satisfy ourselves if we seek only to manifest health, which is 
the law divine truth. These instructions, if carried into every-day 
life, will bring freedom, contentment, and true happiness to the 
weary struggling soul. 
“Now, we see as in a glass,, darkly,” but when we rise into a clear 
knowledge of ourselves, our possibilities, and our part in the eternal 
plan, God’s wisdom of human unfoldment, “we shall see face to face.” 
Jesus said, “Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you 
free.” Do we understand that truth which is to give us freedom? 
When we do, we shall not go around with drooping head, sadness and sor- 
row filling our heart. When the truth lives in us we shall know that the 
loving Father has sent us here, as the earth parent sends its child to 
School, to learn. As we advance and come to years of accountability, 
we learn a grander lesson, gain a more perfect understanding. We 
know that we are to prepare ourselves to live forever. We are here to 
gain an understanding that will carry the soul from shore to shore. 
We are here for experience, and through our experience and obedience 
to truth, we clothe the soul with a body that is immortal, a body that 
can stand in the presence of its maker and hear His words of love. 
Jesus said, “As I hear so I speak.” We all know that the gracious 
words He spoke and He had so prepared, so perfected the body that when 
He left the earth, He took it with him. As He ascended, His disciples 
watched with amazement. Another glorified body stood by and spoke to 
them, said,“This same Jesus that ye see ascending, in like manner shall 
ye see descend.” When Jesus was praying to the Father, he said, “For 
their sakes I sanctify myself.” When He was upon earth, He prepared 
Himself for the ascension. On one occasion He said to His disciples, 
“You that have been with me in my temptation.” Temptation is to 
overcome—by these words we see that our work here is to overcome the 
ills that the body is subjected to. We are to bring it under subjection 
to the law of truth, that we may understand his words, “Be ye perfect.” 
As we ponder over the words, the heart stretches forth in the desire to 
perfect the body, to give it its freedom that we may become like Him— 
that we may become perfect as He was perfect. When He ascended to 
the Father, He tells us that “Whatsoever ye ask believing, ye shall re- 4 
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ceive.” When faith takes deep root in our hearts, then shall we work 
and not faint; work brings our faith into manifestation. The soul within 
tells us that the power is ours. God is no respecter of persons, “Who- 
soever will may come.” And I testify to all who read these words if 
they will work laithfully the reward is sure to come. They will bring 
the body into a more healthful, beautiful and harmonious condition. 
As weeks, months and years go by, health blooms on the cheek, bright- 
ness in the eye, the step becomes more elastic, the voice clear and sweet, 
and we can say, “the truth has set us free. This condition cannot be 
gained in a week, month, or a year. But faithful working brings us 
knowledge, knowledge gives us power, and by that power we gain our 
freedom. LESSON I. 
HEALTH CULTURE, OR THE LAWS BY WHICH WE 
ARE GOVERNED. 
the house: we uive in. 
The house we live in is the subject for conversation. The frame 
work of this house (or body) is called a skeleton . Two hundred bones 
are the timber of this structure. Every one of these timbers, or bones, 
whether large or small, have a place to occupy and a use to serve. 
They are the natural supports of the physical body; their offices are 
numerous and important. As a whole they give the body its general 
shape, and keep in position 'the softer and more sensitive parts con- 
fined within them. The muscles are about 500 in number. The length 
of the alimentary canal is about 32 feet, the heart is six inches in length, 
and four inches in diameter. The bones close around and snugly guard 
the most delicate organs, which without their protection would not long 
survive the shocks of exposure or accident. The brain is encased in a 
hollow box of bones, and the eyes are arched over by the bones of the 
forehead. The lungs and heart are snugly packed away in a wall 
chest, most ingeniously constructed; the shape and size of the bones are 
exactly adapted to their position or purpose. 
We have been educated to think that we must expect a great change 
with middle life. The ease and elasticity of youth are supposed to de- 
part with the vigor and strength of maturity. We are expected to 
assume a staid and quiet demeanor; thus the natural encroachments of 
time are not arrested, and what we call old age creeps upon us, until 
our accumulated infirmities steal away the elasticity and strength of 
the body. When by a proper and preserving development of the mus- 
cular system, we could resist, to a great degree, even the approach of 
age and preserve, to a considerable extent, the elastic condition and 
strength of youth. 
When we keep this house in perfect order, we can overcome disease, 
is has been demonstrated by many. The early approach of what is 
known as old age arises chiefly from either non-use or an ignorant use 
of the physical body. 
Excessive use of one set of muscles while others are neglected 
brings about a worn or strained condition of those used; but when the 6 
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exercise is varied so as to bring all into play in turn, the most bene- 
ficial results will follow. 
When certain joints are not used a brittleness of the bones is the 
result, and soon stiffness of the joints, rendering them unfit for use, 
and liable to p et broken; and when broken they are also more difficult 
to heal. Non-use of any part of the body causes the bone, building- 
cells and blood vessels to shrivel, shrink, become feeble and inactive 
from a lack of that lubricating liquid which is secreted between the 
joints; deprived of this they become stiff and feeble from lack of nour- 
ishment; then we see rheumatism, stiff joints, swelling of the joints 
and many other diseases too numerous to name. Where most of Ihis, 
if not all, could be prevented by intelligent culture of the muscular 
system. But where disease has taken its seat, it is our privilege, nay, 
it is our duty to eradicate and drive out of the system just as we cleanse 
and renovate our material dwellings. 
The Apostle Paul asked'a very important question: “Know ye not 
that your bodies were created to be the temples of the living God?” If 
so, we see that something more than desire for the material was de- 
signed to occupy this beautiful physical dwelling house; fashioned as it 
is to be the habitation of a divine guest. Then should it not be our 
first duty to put this habitation in order to receive that divine guest? 
See that every timber is sound, every department properly adjusted. 
See that the pillars are firm and strong; that whenever duty calls we 
are ready to obey the summons. 
The rafters or bones in this wonderful building are covered with a 
tough, a close-fitting jacket, for their protection. If this natural gar- 
ment becomes shriveled and drawn, disease follows. Then should it 
not be our first work to know how to put it into proper order again; and 
when we understand that every part of our physical house is furnished, 
and replenished by the blood, then we should make every effort to keep 
it pure. But when the avenue becomes stopped, stagnation is the re- 
sult. 
We then need a proper understanding to start the circulation, 
cleanse every avenue that the life fluid may again flow freely through 
the body, giving life and health to every part. Nature performs her 
mysterious works wisely and well; which is an important evidence of 
the wisdom of the great creative power, that is working within and 
around us. 
The joints being the points of union between the bones, should re- 
ceive special attention. They should be kept in proper order, that 
the movements of the body may be made with ease and comfort. The 
lubricating liquid is furnished to the joints. As long as they are kept 
in a healthy condition, the supply is regulated by the demand of those 
parts created by exercise. This fluid will come no faster than needed. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS IN THE HUMAN BODY. 
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It enables the joints to play with a hinge like freedom, giving grace 
and easy m)vetnentto all parts of the body. 
The brain box is often called the library or office of the house in 
which we live, because the brain is the organ which receives impres- 
sions and telegraphs them to other parts of the house (or body), where- 
ever there is any disorder or disturbance. But if no material is found 
to repair the waste parts, the orders of the brain cannot be carried out; 
the workmen of the system stand idly by helplessly looking on, unable 
to stay the ravage of disease, or supply what that robber of nature wrests 
from the unprotected system. 
Every rafter or bone in the house has its particular use. For in- 
stance— we all know, (or should know) that there is but one movable 
bone in the head, which is the lower jaw. But though only one bone is 
movable,yet there are numerous muscles,at our command which move the 
different parts of the house, according to our desire. One set of muscles 
moves the eyes, raising the eye-brows. Another set puckers the mouth; 
wrinkles the forehead. The muscles are united to the bones by strong 
cords. By moving these cords we frown or smile at will. In our exer- 
cises special attention is drawn to the muscular system; the exercise of 
the muscles of the neck on which the head rests is a very important ex- 
ercise. Their movements are designed to strengthen the cords and 
muscles, to clear away all obstructions in the blood vessels, that the 
brain can work with more clearness and vigor—when the messages are 
sent to different parts of the house. 
A story is told of a little school-girl, who was requested to give a 
composition on the human body. She said, “Well, it consists of the 
head, the chest, and the ab-do-man. The head contains the brains, if 
they have any. The chest, the lungs, and the ab-do-man the bowels, of 
which there are five—a—e—i—o—u.” 
Are there not thousands upon the earth today, who have but little 
better conception of the human body than had the little school-girl? 
Thus it should be our study to know how our physical dwelling 
house is constructed; that we may dwell as masters in it, not as slaves. 
We should know just where every timber or bone of the body is lodged, 
and how it is connected with every other timber. It should be the most 
important acquirement of our knowledge to know the proper uses and 
relations of all its parts; that we may understand their highest uses; that 
we abuse not any part of this house in which we live. 
Between the joints of the vertebra lie cushions of cartilage, which 
being elastic, provide for the exercise of forward movements of the 
body, also side-wise and twisting movements. The movements of the 
body would be impossible if the spinal column were a straight bone, 
the cushions serve as supports. When the body is erect they are in their 
natural and proper position. But when the body is bent too much in 
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ions are compressed in front and extended behind. The cushions thus 
loose their elasticity and become unable to maintain the spine in its 
natural erect position, proper exercises are then needed that the cush- 
ions shall lose not their elasticity. 
We should keep the shoulders in a firm and proper position, so that 
those strong- muscles may be well developed—which move between the 
shoulders, neck, arms and chest. The bones of the shoulders, arms and 
wrists are suitably constructed for special movements of these parts. 
And we, with proper training of the joints, may be brought into a 
more supple and active condition, and may be made to move again with 
almost the ease and freedom of youth. 
Did we ever stop to think what a wonderful instrument the hand is? 
Nearly every thought is given forth by a move of the hand. By a ges- 
ture of the hand, how eloquently the thought is expressed. A writer 
upon the subject says: “How .constantly the hand aids us in explain- 
ing or enforcing a thought.’’ We affirm a fact by placing the hand as 
if we would rest it firmly on a body; we deny by a gesture, putting the 
false or erroneous proposition away from us; we express a doubt by 
holding the hand suspended as if hesitating whether to take or reject. 
When we part with dear friends, or greet them after a long absence,the 
hand is extended toward them as if to retain or bring them back to us 
In a friendly adieu we wave our good wishes through space to him who 
is the object of them. But, as eloquent as is the language of the hands, 
it is absolutely necessary to have its muscles under control. A fact 
which often escapes our notice until we see it set before us. 
Nature has provided in the wisest manner for the elasticity and 
comfort of the body, if we will avail ourselves of our privileges. We 
see the foot, that tireless servant of the will, how wisely it has been 
formed to bear the weight of the body. The bones are not flat as some 
suppose, resting flat upon the ground; but are arched to enable us to rise 
and fall at every step, so that the motion caused by walking is rendered 
harmless to the most delicate parts of the body. The body is so con- 
structed as to move with a spring-like motion. When the joints and 
hinges are in perfect working order,then we can move around without 
weariness or fatigue and know that the body is in a healthy condition. 
To gain perfect control of the house in which we live, it is essential 
to walk as much as possible on the ball of the foot; that each joint may 
move in its socket giving grace, comfort and ease in our movements. 
But before this can be accomplished we must also have control of the 
ball and socket joints of the hips. One of our authors defines health as 
the faculty of performing all actions of the human body in a most per- 
fect and graceful manner. He also says—“Health is to feel the body a 
luxury.” As does the child. As the bird, when it shoots swiftly 
through the air, for the pleasure of flying. As does the dog, 
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muddy blissfulness of the stream. But neither bird, dog- nor child, en- 
joys his cup of physical happiness as does educated, conscious, man- 
hood. To feel life circulating- in every limb is the secret of true happi- 
ness. And it is absurd to say that we cannot feel this after arriving at 
maturity. Is not the flower better than the bud? So shall the fruit be 
better than the blossom. 
If we would give our bodies some care, life would become what it 
was intended to be, by that all-wise Creator, when he sent man forth 
and gave him dominion over all things. If we would give our bodies a 
little attention, we would be able to perform our allotted tasks in the 
great drama of life, wisely and well. 
Deformity is a derangement of any physical part; an undevelop- 
ment of any of its organs, often brought about by neglect. 
Disease is a derangement of any physical part, a non-circulation 
of the blood; a disturbance of any of the organs of the house or body in 
which we live. Pain is nature’s note of alarm; a sensation of discom- 
fort by which we are warned that we are transgressing nature’s laws. 
Many-of our deformities are brought on by neglect. As for instance, 
round shoulders, stooping shoulders and other deformities, are often 
brought about by allowing oneself to bend or stoop too long in 
one position, then neglect the body, instead of taking muscular exer- 
cises to bring the parts again into their normal condition. But the 
great difference between the material house, and our physical dwelling 
house, is, that the former is not moveable, while the latter is, and also 
placed entirely under control. We as tenants have supreme power to 
preserve it, or to neglect and abuse our tenement. But there is a limit 
to our power, too much abuse brings its punishment; many are deprived 
of their bodies through neglect. Thus we see the necessity of using 
our power wisely and well. It should be the first part in our education, 
to develop the muscular system. But when it has been neglected, we 
should use every available means to bring the joints and muscles under 
our control. The regular exercises are so arranged, as to gain elasticity 
and freedom to the joints and muscles. Every perfect movement helps 
to show forth perfection of the body. Muscular action is produced by 
contraction and relaxation of the muscle fibre. If those fibres are un- 
naturally drawn up or swollen, muscular action becomes awkward, and 
the movements clumsy. Muscular contraction is therefore what we 
should avoid as much as possible; and yet a knowledge of it is one of the 
great points to be gained in our exercises, and is most essential to health 
and happiness. 
Too vigorous exercise is as injurious and perhaps more so than no 
exercise at all. Especially in exercising those delicate cords and 
muscles which produce the tones of the human voice. 
To understand this, one has but for a moment to imagine the con- 
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wart muscles used in swinging the arm that wields the sledge-hammer. 
We thus see the importance of knowledge, however slight, of the 
muscular system. There is a language of the muscles which is more 
eloquent than words. The feelings are expressed by gestures with 
great force and significance; it is often made more eloquent and effective 
than voice or pen. Some call it the language of love. We call it by 
what name we please. It has a power that surpasses words. How 
effective are the gestures of the orator, who can thrill an audience by 
the mere movement of a muscle, without which his delivery would be 
tame and uninteresting. 
Can you imagine a poem being given by a master of the art without 
the head being thrown back, the eyes raised, the muscles of the hand 
and arm full of energy of motion? Take for example these four lines: 
“When freedom from her mountain height 
Unfurled the standard to the air, 
She tore the azure robe of night, 
And set the stars of glory there.” 
The appropriate gestures add force to the utterance; give character and 
effect to the sentiment. 
Few, in comparison, consider the extent to which we employ the 
language of the muscles. The hearty laugh, the convulsive sob, the 
indignant stamp of the foot, which give vent to the feelings. Again, 
our feelings are not less fully expressed by the facial muscles. By 
moving one set of muscles we produce the frown, so that those around 
us read our displeasure. Another set of muscles raise the corners of the 
mouth, and a smile illumines the countenance, fagain our friends read 
our emotions on our face. 
In the play of Blue Beard, his highness has a servant whom he has 
named Mufti, who is to represent his master’s humor and emotions at 
command. It is, “Mufti, frown,” and Mufti reflects his master’s dis- 
pleasure. It is, “Mufti, smile,” and lo! his master’s joy radiates all 
over Mufti’s solemn visage. Again, it is Mufti weep, and lo! the 
corners of the mouth droop down and sadness sits and broods until 
another change was demanded. 
Animal’s faces have very little expression, but the muscles of other 
parts of their bodies have a language that we cannot fail to understand. 
When the dog wags its tail we know he is friendly. When the cat raises 
her back we know that she is ready for war. When the horse lays back 
his ears, we read its significant language. The marvelous execudon of 
the performer on the piano is well known. Many, when the muscles 
are thoroughly cultivated, can produce over six hundred tones per 
minute. This affords us a good illustration of what can be accomplished 
when the muscles are under our control. All must see the great benefit 
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The well developed muscle is health and in accordance with nature’s 
laws. “Exercise for health,” said a celebrated Greek scholar. One of 
our eminent New York physicians wwites, ‘‘If our young people would 
form themselves into classes, and develop the muscular system, instead 
of wasting their vitality in late hours at balls and parties, where the 
noxious vapors of closely heated rooms are inhaled into their systems; 
which are not easily eradicated by medicine, there would not be so many 
sad faces.” From experience I know muscular development would 
bring the rose-bloom of health back to the pale cheek of many of our 
ladies who are now obliged to resort to artificial means to make them- 
selves, as they think, attractive. 
The most learned students of the muscular system realizes the great 
importance of proper exercise for muscular development, and the neces- 
sity of bringing the organism of the body under more perfect control. 
From neglect of any part of the physical body, the muscles become 
weakened, often wasting away, then paralysis follows and many other 
diseases are caused by neglect of the joints or hinges of our body. 
This fault should be brought to the minds of every one, especially 
fleshy persons. Fleshy persons as a rule are weaker in proportion to 
the excess in this respect. 
Excessive corpulence generally arises from disease; change of mus- 
cular substance which at times renders the muscles almost useless. 
Only a well maintained control and exercise of the muscular system 
can disperse this fatty substance, and clear the body of its weight. 
Every movement of the body is performed by the muscles. With- 
out muscular action we could not move our bodily organism, or give a 
sign or token of our residence within. Even the life in the body can- 
not manifest itself except through muscular action. The muscles are 
our servants, furnished by that great, wise Creator to all His creation. 
The brain is but an instrument used to receive thought. It re- 
ceives the thought message and telegraphs it to all parts of the house 
(or body); the will forwards it to the muscles, through which it is mani- 
fested to the other world. 
Health requires that the will should rule prudently and well as to 
keep the house in perfect order. When the, officers become slothful, 
sluggish or rash, the house falls into disorder, then into ruin; and the 
life which is the mover within, often departs from the physical body, 
and we see that change we call death. This shows us the necessity of 
looking more closely to the various departments of the wonderful house 
in which we live. Then the brain which is well instructed will always 
telegraph to the different departments, and they in turn will give orders 
to the will which sees that the work is carried out in whatever direction 
the order is sent. Contraction and relaxation being thus regulated to 
produce a perfect equlibrium, a corresponding harmony will result. 
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and the life of the physical body. Many who are now advanced in 
years, frequently object to a new idea, or something which has not 
been practiced by their mother or grandmother before him. Many 
say, “Oh! I am too old for that sort of thing.” Thought of this char- 
acter prevent us from helping ourselves and hasten the approach of age, 
and bring upon us the decay of the physical long before the period of 
usefulness is at an end. 
Life cannot grow old, but the builder of the body uses such material 
for building as we supply. If we furnish thoughts of sickness, weak- 
ness, old age and the like, that is the material which is telegraphed 
through all parts of the building; the material which is used by the 
workmen (bone-building cells, blood vessels, etc.) for the replenishing 
and building up of the body. 
If this material is furnished, we see a weak and sickly body, that 
is a prey to doubts and fears, never satisfied, never can be satisfied, 
never can find rest. But if on the other hand we are happy, hopeful, 
sending thoughts of love, each day the building will grow stronger 
and more beautiful, and as the years roll by we are more able to resist 
the many battles that must be fought, before the battle is won. 
The organs of the chest should be well developed. Breath is life; 
it stimulates every part of the house in which we live; prepares and 
enables us to take control of all that is beneath us. Our progress may 
appear slow at the start, but remember the promise, “To him that 
overcometh and endures to the end shall receive all things.” LESSON IL 
“THE USE OF THE BODY.” 
Our purpose during these exercises is to assist each one to come into 
a more perfect understanding of the laws by means of which the body 
is controlled. It should be the greatest desire to understand the proper 
use of every function of the human organism. 
And perhaps if we for a few moments watch the process of a gard- 
ner as he prepares the soil to receive the seed, we may come to a better 
understanding of our work. Get us take the body as the soil, ourselves 
as the gardner, our work as the seed; the gardner looks upon the soil 
which he desires to bring forth beautiful flowers, perhaps he sees that 
before the seed can go into the ground there is much work to be done, 
rocks, weeds, and other rubbish must be cleared away, before the soil is 
ready to receive the precious seed. Then he goes to work, never tiring 
until all the obnoxious rubbish is removed, and the ground turned over, 
softened and prepared that before the seed dies, life may spring forth 
from it, its bed may be soft that the tiny roots may stretch out in all 
directions, thus when the ground is ready and the seed planted we be- 
gin to look for the flower to come forth, but the gardener’s work is not 
done; he must tend, water and watch that nothing is there to harm the 
tiny shoot when it raises its head above the soil, as it feels the warmth 
of the sun bringing it forth. We watch this work going on with much 
interest, and know that it is all very essentia.1 before we can see the 
flower. 
Get us look upon our body as the gardner looks upon the soil; and 
let us work untiringly as he works, remove all obstructions, free joints 
and muscles, that arteries and bloodvessels may carry the life-giving 
fluid to every part of the human flower, that God has planted to bloom 
and blossom in His garden. If we take as much care of the body as the 
gardner of the flower, it will stretch forth in all its power and glory, 
fulfilling the mission for which the Father planted it on earth. In 
the beginning He gave man dominion over all that was beneath Him, 
and when we obey the divine law of our being, then shall we know that 
God did not plant or send man to earth for suffering sin and misery 
but through his disobedience man brings misery upon himself. Thus 
the Father sent Jesus to earth that man through his obedience to the 
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him again into the presence of his creator, but while we deprive the hu- 
man flower, (the body), of its proper nourishment, it cannot stand forth 
in all the beauty and glory for which it was sent to earth; can not do 
perfect work while joints are stiff, muscles hardening, blood-vessels 
stopped up, breath short and can only come in gasps—when we see 
this, we know, that the garden has been neglected, the flower cannot 
raise in all its beauty and strength. Jesus said “Take no thought of the 
body,” how can we keep this command? By putting the body into per- 
fect order, that each part shall do its own work without disturbance. 
That which does not trouble us we think little about, but while the body 
is in so much misery it takes our constant thought and deprives us 
from being about our Father’s business. The Father’s business is not 
to struggle and toil for that which is already created, depriving our- 
selves of that divine knowledge which is to take us back into His pres- 
ence; we must keep the garden (the body) in good order, not leave 
joints to get stiff, muscles to harden, flesh to accumulate, or to shrivel 
and shrink, losing control over the nervous system, and the different 
avenues to All with corruption and stop circulation. 
All through the ages we have been educated to think that decay 
must come with years; thus we have left the beautiful garden body to 
decay; and make no effort to keep the first estate, failing to understand 
the words of Jesus, “Be ye perfect, even as your Father which is in 
heaven is perfect.” Whatsoever ye desire when ye pray believe, and 
ye shall receive.” These are not idle words, and it is through our ig- 
norance and disobedience to the law of life, that we fail to understand 
the truth of these statements, but the beautiful flowers in the garden of 
God have begun to raise their heads to the light of true knowledge, and 
know that the Father did not send them forth for sin and sickness, and 
they have begun to clear away the many years of accumulation and see 
that light and truth which Jesus said was to give freedom. True knowl- 
edge breaks the fetters of doubts and fears, and the truth dawns upon 
the understanding. We read the words of Paul, “Faith without works is 
dead.” Yes, friends, as dead as the body, without the spirit of Christ to 
give it life, and when we work as well as pray, our reward is sure, 
knowledge lifts the weak members of the body out of the abyss of doubt 
and fear, into the light of true understanding, and we read the words, 
“He that believeth on Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live And 
he that liveth and believeth shall never die.” Glorious words, though 
we pass through the change; from the mortal, to the immortal, death and 
and the grave will have no power over us, and when we have given 
joints, muscles, and breath their freedom we gain a power and knowl- 
edge, that all the drugs in the world combined cannot impart, when our 
members feel the life current circulating through the different avenues 
we move with comparative ease, the breath no longer comes in gasps, 
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to do its work here upon the earth, we then know that the soil is turned 
over and the seed planted, and we watch for the flower to bloom, health 
and strength to every part of the body then we shall feel as man must 
have felt in the beginning when God sent him forth and gave him do- 
minion over all things. We are told that God'said, “I take no delight in 
the death of the sinner,” and when Jesus healed he said,“Thy sins are 
foregiven thee.” But with all this light dawning into our soul, we are 
told by some that God sends our sufferings upon us; cruel mistake, it is 
through our own neglect that we are made to suffer. God has not for- 
saken His children that have gone into forbidden paths, seeking strange 
gods, and hear not the voice of love as it calls to them “Return ye; re- 
turn, why will ye die.” Again we read, “God is the same yesterday, to- 
day and forever, He changes not.” Jesus came and broke the bands of 
death and hell and set the captive free, but there is one question: Are 
we in freedom while we are bowed to the earth with sorrow, pain and 
sickness, and know not where to turn for rest and ease? No! a thous- 
and times no! And before we can gain that freedom which will take us 
back into the presence of divine love we must shake off the chains that 
bind us to earth we must give the body freedom in every joint, artery, 
muscle, vein,blood-vessel and every part, that the life-giving breath may 
do its perfect work while we are here on earth. Blood belongs to the 
earth body, blood will not enter into the kingdom of God; but while we 
are here, here it is very essential to the body, and it is very essential 
that we keep it pure, that its circulation shall not be hindered in doing 
its work in the garden which is planted here to show forth the beauty of 
its creator. The command was given, “Thou Shalt not kill.” Is not 
the land today filled with blood, crime and misery? Mothers 
deprived of their loved ones, the spirit of destruction and desola- 
tion is all around us, and yet we fail to understand the words of 
Him who suffered to bring us that word, “The truth shall make ye 
free.” Are there not today tens of thousands who are reaching out 
after that spirit of truth which is to lead them into all truth, and why 
do they not find it? Disobedience. Before we can know truth, we 
must live truth, and make it alive in us, then will we, by that same 
spirit, understand all things and by the light ot truth, disease will 
nowhere be found. Doubts and fears, which destroy our happiness, 
will pass into that bottomless pit from whence there is no return. To 
know the truth is freedom from earth’s troubles. “Be of good cheer, 1 
have overcome the world,” “Whatsoever ye desire when ye pray, be- 
lieve.” What do ye desire? Power while on earth to do the Father’s 
will, but while we are deprived of strength in the body, how can we 
work, we are only too glad to get some one to wait upon us. 
Then is it not our duty to seek for knowledge, that we may put 
this body in order and be ready when duty calls upon us, we should 
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Him in secret, knowing that all power is His,—and that it is His delight 
to give it to them that ask in faith, and then work to bring that 
knowledge into manifestation. Today the veil is lifted and drawn 
aside. That whosoever will may prepare himself and enjoy the bless- 
ings of rest and peace to the weary struggling soul. “Awake, thou 
that sleepeth and I will give you rest.” Was Jesus in bondage to the 
flesh? No! He came to earth to give man freedom, and told us, not a 
sparrow falls without the Father knowing it, then does He not know 
our desire? Fvery effort that we make to know Him, is His life strug- 
gling within us for expression. Is it not a good work to free the body 
from suffering and misery to which we now are slaves? Is it not our 
duty to overcome evil and live in harmony and peace? Is it not our 
duty to do as much for our bodies as the gardener does for the flower, 
that only is with us for a day, we see how untiringly the gardener works 
in the earth to bring forth the flower; and if we will only work as un- 
tiringly with the human flower, do the will of God on earth as it is 
done in heaven, soon we shall manifest that perfection which Jesus 
told us was ours. He said to the Leper, “Go wash,” it was his obedi- 
ence to the commandment, and his faith in what he was told to do that 
made him whole. “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make 
you free.” If these words were not true Jesus would not have spoken 
them. “Whatsoever ye desire when ye pray, believe and ye shall re- 
ceive.” Why have we not faith in these words when we pray for 
health? 'Because our works do not go hand in hand with our faith. The 
Lord came to bring the glad tidings that we might escape the judg- 
ments that follow the disobedience. “A new commandment I give 
unto you, love one another.” Love, true love was not upon the earth 
then; is it upon the earth today? If not, let us plant it in our garden 
and it will blossom and be more beautiful than any of the earthly plants. 
Jesus left fragments that still linger in every human heart. His 
words are life to the soul, if the same law holds good today. “Be of 
good cheer, I have overcome the world.” That is to tell you that that 
power is within you if you live to manifest it, there is nothing but what 
we have the power to be master of, if we live for it. “Whatsoever ye 
desire believe, and ye shall receive;” that is a promise that should fill 
every heart with joy. The Lord gave His life to plant these truths in 
the hearts of the children of earth, that they may escape the judgment 
that follow the disobedient and deny His power. A new commandment 
I give unto you: “Love one another;” where do we see that love mani- 
fest today; love was not in the earth then, and sometimes I think it is 
not in the earth now. It was a new command then; it is a new com- 
mand now, and if we will plant it in our garden, it will bloom and be 
more beautiful than any plant that blooms upon the earth. Jesus was 
the most beautiful flower that ever bloomed on the earth and He left 
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words they are life to the soul, and if we obey them, we live and not die. 
At their sound the feeble knee becomes strong, the weak joints regain 
strength, the drooping head looks up and is glad, as the heavenly 
flower wafts its breath and fans the. pale cheek. 
The beauty of this human flower depends upon our faithfulness 
to keep the true law of life, receive the seed into good ground that 
it may take root and become strong in truth and love. As we 
work on and in this garden, that which was a mere belief soon be- 
comes knowledge, and as the seed becomes the tree, spreading its 
branches, so our knowledge grows, and we go on giving truth and 
love to all who will receive it. “Let your light so shine that others 
seeing your good works may glorify your Father which is in heaven.” 
“The Kingdom of heaven is with you.” Not in our bodies, but within 
our understanding, and it is our privilege so to live that we understand 
the true laws by which we are governed. While on earth, truth 
teaches us that our heritage is not sickness, misery and disease, but un- 
less we keep the commands of God we must suffer. God does not cause 
the sufferings, it is the violation of the law that brings it upon us; our 
work here and now is a great one. Faith and works must go hand in 
hand in whatever direction we work; the only law that can show forth 
perfection is that of work in harmony with the law of life. Thus while 
the body is bowed to earth with disease (no matter what name we give 
it) we cannot be showing forth the power that God gave to man. Do- 
minion over all things disease is not good and we cannot show forth 
health until we have liberated or set at liberty every part of the body. 
In our prayers' and supplications to God we enter into the kingdom of 
heaven in our aspirations. The breath of life which God gave to man is 
renewed as we day by day seek to know the will of the Father. 
Strength takes possession of every part, as joints and muscles feel the 
life circulating through the body and songs of joy ascend to him who 
is the giver of all good, poverty has lost its sting as the flower of health 
shows forth her beautiful blossom we are preparing the flower for a 
higher and more glorious sphere where darkness, doubt and despair 
cannot enter; the truth has given us freedom, every weed is rooted out of 
the garden, and we know that the words in scripture are true, “They 
that wait upon the Dord renew their strength,” we feel that strength 
and know that love will not forsake his own, though the tempests rage 
mountains high it cannot reach us, we have reached the gate of knowl- 
edge, the breath of life fans our brow, joy fills our soul and we give 
praises to Him who does all things, and who cares to say that he does 
not do them well. 
Read the words of Jesus, “Whatsoever ye desire when ye pray be- 
lieve and ye shall receive.” Pray for knowledge to understand these 
words, and know that the Father is love and will hold no good things 
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of faith and works we swallow drugs, and because they haye not the de- 
sired effect, we want to say that God sends these evils upon us. 
The one thing needftd is to bring the body under our control as the 
gardener has the soil under his control then health, strength and 
beauty will fill the earth, where we now see only death and destruction. LESSON III. 
HEALTH. 
In our last lesson we spoke of the proper use of the body. “Jesus 
said, “Be perfect, as your Father is perfect,” and He came with no idle 
tale. He led the way. He showed us the way by example. He mani- 
fested strength and power over all His surroundings, and if we put into 
practice His teachings, the same power is ours. He said, “He that fol- 
loweth me, and believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also, 
and greater works than these.” He meant what He said, but we must 
first come into the same harmonious condition of body and mind. We 
must learn how to do, and then do it, before the blessings can follow. 
We may witness all these exercises of joints and muscles, all that is 
to free the body and bring it into perfect working order. We may hear 
thousands of lectures and receive instructions by the year, but unless 
we put our knowledge into practice, we will not be benefitted by them. 
We must bring forth the powers that are latent, or that lie dormant 
within. Fvery human soul is endowed with this power, and to do this 
we must work, work and watch for the manifestation of our wrork as 
the gardener watches for the development of the flowers after the seed 
is put into the ground. 
Freedom from doubt and darkness is ours, a free gift from the 
Creator to His children. But it depends upon ourselves whether we 
accept these gifts or not. If you believe in the Word, read Matt. 21st 
chapter, nineteenth to twenty-third verses: “All things that ye ask, be- 
lieving, ye shall receive”—not, ye may, but ye shall. The divine germ 
is planted in every garden, and we are given power to give it the neces- 
sary care and attention that is required, but we must not neglect to do 
so, if we would see its beautiful blossoms or its nourishing fruit brought 
into manifestation. 
If we neglect our own gardens, trusting to gather fruit and flowers 
from the cultivated gardens of our neighbors, there will most likely 
come a time when our sight grows so dim we cannot see them, and their 
light will no longer guide our feet. Then we will feel ill at ease—nol 
knowing where to turn. We have failed to learn our lesson of cultiva- 
tion and weakness lays her hand heavily upon us. We are unable <o 
take up the work, and so in our lives,where flowers should bloom, weeds 
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Knowledge is freedom. How are we to gain it? Let us carry the 
thought of the garden and flowers still farther. 
Let us add to this the knowledge we have gained of the power of 
thought. Let us concentrate the mind upon the thought that no weeds 
can bloom and go to seed in our garden. Let naught but love bloom in 
the garden of our soul. Call aloud, with a strong demand, that the 
flower of love in our own soul shall bloom and spread her branches over 
all that her leaves may shelter us from the heat of the burning sun of 
doubt. 
Pure concentration kills every weed and burns it to stubble. This 
concentration comes in the hours of silent prayer, where we listen for 
the flower of love to speak. Its voice is a song of harmony. It calms 
the angry storm, the raging billows cease and in that Divine calm we 
read the will of Him whose servants we are. We read, it it is I who 
withholdeth, but love is the only worker in giving and receiving. This 
love we have within ourselves and when we rise in thought we know 
that all things whatsoever we desire if we hold fast to that desire, love 
nothing doubting, is ours here and now. Then we see that it is the 
perfect thought that can satisfy the desire, and when that is sent forth 
without hinderance, without a contrary thought, we understand the 
promise given by our Master, “whatsoever ye desire, when ye pray, be- 
lieve it is yours and ye shall receive.” Then our belief becomes a 
knowledge and we stand forth in all the power of our God. We are one 
of the beautiful flowers that make a garden as refreshing to the sight, 
so intoxicating to the outer sense and the thought goes forth, the voice 
exclaims—“How wonderously grand, how great is our God.” This is 
the work of every human being upon this earth. Every child that takes 
a form upon this physical plane of manifestation. Wonderful is the 
working of that mighty power that is invested in man. While man is 
looking and longing for the shining metal of earth, his sight is dim, 
his ears are closed to the voice of the soul. But the light of new dawn 
is shining in the east and the soul is sending forth her perfume and all 
that would may know that in their own gardens is hidden the root of 
that beautiful flower and it is only for them to cultivate and bring it 
forth into life and perfection, that others may be blessed by its fra- 
grance. “Be ye perfect, even as your Father is perfect.” Are we doing 
the necessary work to perfect the garden wherein the flower of the soul 
lives and longs to manifest? Remember this body is the garden What 
are we doing to bring it into harmony with its surroundings? What 
power and righteous strength, pure and upright acts are we giving the 
body to overcome disease and passion—to overcome all the temptations 
of the senses—to overcome evil with good? How can we overcome if 
the body and thought is not in a condition of overcoming? 
Faith and works must go hand in hand in all things that we desire 
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knowledge is indeed power. We must not only get the gardens into 
perfect order, but we must keep them so—and then when we have no 
further use for the garden itself, with the knowledge we have gained 
while tilling it be given up with it? No, verily no! that knowledge is 
what we will take with us into the higher life behind the veils when we 
move out of the garden, or lay aside this coat of skin. When we real- 
ize this, we see the necessity of bringing this body into the highest 
state of cultivation here and now, no time should be lost. Pain and dis- 
ease are weeds that may be plucked out by the roots, the seed of love 
is the beautiful flower of health and will flourish, giving joy and happi- 
ness to all. 
When He who lived so true to the law by which we are all governed, 
was to be able to exercise unusual power over the conditions of His fellow 
men, so as to heal them of their diseases, He said to them, “Thy sins 
are forgiven thee.” That was the form of affirmation He made use of 
and it had an interior meaning that has been long lost sight of. 
The truth is, we are not sent here to show forth misery, pain and 
death, but rather health, strength, beauty and power is the heritage 
of all that obey the law of truth, truth is love. Love cannot afflict or 
forsake that which it loves, but if the loved one forsakes the lover, 
(she is not deprived of her power), but for her disobedience, must take 
the consequences that are sure to follow. Love is harmony and when 
we so live that we move in harmony we shall be a conscious being in 
the harmony of the universe. 
Lach one must establish a center of harmony for himself before he 
can understand its powers. 
Perfect harmony is the at-one-ment between soul and body—be- 
tween the higher and the lower forces, which are struggling side by 
side on this plane, for expression. 
We, as individual entities, have the power to bring into manifesta- 
tion as much of each of those powers as we see fit. 
Health of the physical is harmony of those functions which rule 
the body. Perfection is harmonious expression upon the physical 
plane and between thought and act. 
We often hear people say: “The very thing that I did not want 
I have gone and done.” That shows inharmony between the thought- 
body and this physical body through which the thought must mani- 
fest. But if we keep the external body in perfect order as the gardener 
does his soil, it will respond to the thought as the flower to the 
soil in the garden. When we have the body thoroughly under control, 
every joint, muscle, sinew, nerve, working in harmony, one with the 
other, a perfect circulation through the different channels, kept clear 
and free from deletorious accumulations, that the life fluid can do her 
harmonious work, then we see no jolting, jostling, no stiff joints, 
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the eye clear and bright. This is the law of life made manifest. This 
is the heritage of every one. This power is within the reach of every 
one here and now. The work of the physical is to show forth the 
glories and wonders of the inner life, to bring the outer into harmony 
with the inner. “The kingdom of heaven is within you.” In that, 
kingdom of my F ather is all knowledge, all strength, all power. 
Jesus said, “I show unto you a better way.” “I do only those 
things that I see my Father do”—heal the sick, raise the dead, com- 
fort the sorrowing, etc., etc. Is all this to teach us to be contented with 
our misery? No! a thousand times no! “Whosoever will mav come” 
and drink of the waters of Lfife. No one can drink for you. No one 
can force this healing, comforting power upon you. They can show 
you the way, but knowledge must be gained from within, each one for 
himself and it comes without money and without price. We pay the 
servant to do our work; we pay the teacher to tell us what he or she has 
learned, but that which is our own comes only from the within. To 
gain this lasting knowledge we must go into the chamber of silence 
to God where only the voice of the silence can speak. Who gave all 
our great ones their knowledge how to build steam ships—how to 
handle electricity and thousands of other things? The silence whisp- 
ered from within, “see the power of steam lift the lid of the tea-kettle.” 
The voice was heard by the inner consciousness caught up by the outer 
thought, and thus the outer became one with the inner, and the great 
power of steam was set into motion. Think you the inner holds not 
powers for the instrument through which it must work to make it more 
beautiful, more lasting, more glorious and capable of representing its 
Divine Truths? Are the inanimate, the things, to do more perfect than 
he who leads them forth? “Oh, blind leaders of the blind.” We do 
not see ourselves, so we would persecute those who would show us the 
light. We will not walk in that light ourselves and scoff at those who 
are trying to open the door, or to turn over the soil that the flower of 
life may give out more of its beauties, more of its strength and power. 
The voice calls, “Why will ye die?” Why do you not understand 
that you have gone forth to show the glorious power which the Father 
gives to all His children? 
“Up, awake thou that sleepest and I will give thee light.” The lamp 
is there and only requires to be filled with understanding to give forth 
its light for the guidance of wandering feet. This, combined with 
the will to work, 'will cause its rays to spread far and wide. A healthy 
and normal body, a graceful and perfect step, is the heritage of every 
one, if we work to bring the body into as high a state of cultivation 
as we do the flower. When the breathing muscles are so well de- 
veloped that every breath carries to the different parts of the body, the 
life-giving fluid, then strength instead of weakness, health instead of 
disease, youth instead of age, will fill our earth and the prayer that practical Instructions In the human body. 
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was given two thousand years ago will be realized. The “will of 
God be done on earth as it is in heaven.” Is not this an inspiring 
thought, to feel that man who calls upon his God has power within 
himself, and like the seed, only requires to be developed, to manifest 
the beauties of his Creator? 
When we realize this, as we gaze into the clear blue sky, we see the 
eye of the Creator gleaming from every star—we hear the voice of love 
rustling in the tree tops, we see the smile of love on the pebbly beach, 
we hear the song of the harmony in the surrounding brooks. The All 
Wise has spread His treasures before us, to be brought into manifesta- 
tion through our works right here. Thus, the command was given, 
“Be ye perfect even as your Father in heaven is perfect.” Gove is to 
the soul what the sunshine is to the flower. As we gaze upon these 
beautiful pictures of nature and drink in her harmonies, the soul’s life 
is quickened—the heart feels vibrations of a new dawn and songs of 
love arise where doubt and darkness have long reigned supreme. 
Oh, joy, joy! Angels of this great and mighty love, spread your 
wings over the weary ones of earth, that they may feel the baptism 
of love and truth, that they may be aroused to cry out. I will arise 
and be baptised, I will shake off the fetters that have so long bound 
me. I will drink from the fount of knowledge which springs from 
within my soul. I will give freedom to the slaves of my body which 
have been held captive so long through ignorance, every joint and 
muscle of my body shall have its freedom. No unclean thing shall 
dwell in my house—no weeds shall bloom in my garden When 
we try to put this law into operation many obstacles may come in our 
way, but we will find ourselves possessed with power to overcome them 
all. When you are tempted to say, oh, I have this or that disease which 
the doctor pronounces incurable, stop and listen to the inner voice—take 
the only doctor for your teacher, and the said whosoever will may come 
to the fountain of life, drink and live. The flower does not come to 
perfection in a day. So you may not come into full realization of your 
birth-right in a day, a month, or a year, but little by little you find 
yourself growing into that perfection which belongs to you. 
So many say, I feel willing but the flesh is so weak—so soon as 
anything happens I get afraid. The law, or the words were given to 
assure us that we were to have power over every thing on the physical 
plane. But we fail to trust the true knowledge—we have faith only in 
the external—that which we see with the physical eyes. And if any 
truth presented is not in accord with our present ideas, we do not want 
it, we dare not trust it. But when we once venture to break through 
the bonds of death and hell that hold us captive, when we take one step 
on the plane of harmony, the flower within the voice of God, raises its 
head, then we clear away the rubbish and it blossoms forth in all its 
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fection, the band of ignorance slips from our eyes and we see truth in 
all its beauty and grandeur. 
We cannot build a beautiful structure on the sand of physical dis- 
ability and nervous prostration. The work of the hour is to heal and 
make these bodies spiritual temples in very truth, suitable for the mani- 
festations of the Father, through His messengers, the Holy Ghost, the 
Comforter, that comes as our guide and lead us while on this plane. 
We must have strength and power before we can express faith. 
It is our work to bring the thought under our control—the body into 
equilibrium and harmony with the divine law of truth. We must not 
rest in our work until we find the perfect center, the kingdom of heaven 
within, whence all true knowledge is derived. This center is one of 
silence and there we wait and listen as the flower lifts its face to catch 
the Sunshine or the dew-drop for its refreshment. So falls the dew of 
love into our soul and we send out our loving thoughts to the children 
of earth. Silent moments are the treasures of the soul, and only in such 
moments can we realize true harmony. LESSON IV. 
CONCENTRATION. 
The physical body is a nerve center, a highly strung instrument, 
through which we speak forth the thoughts that are cast or shadowed 
upon it. There cannot be a shadow without a real, a something that 
casts the shadow. 
We are all more or less conscious that this is not the real body, that 
the real spiritual substance lies in the invisible world, and is the God- 
power which has no way of manifestation upon this physical plane, 
except through this body form. This being true, is it not time that we, 
as responsible beings, awake from our long slumber of darkness and 
doubt, and search for true understanding, that we may know what we 
really are, who we really are, and the purpose of this life? In suffering, 
sin and death, do we glorify God? We know that God is boundless love. 
Do we show this love forth when we are grumbling and complaining of 
aches, pains and poverty ? We read, “God so loved the world that He 
gave His only Son” to show us the way to return to His presence, and 
yet we say, God is well pleased with our groans and misery, that He 
sends them upon us to punish us for our ignorance. And then we read 
on, “In God we live, move and have our being,” and yet we never seem 
to grasp the inconsistency of our application of the true meaning of 
these assertions. We seem to have no consciousness of the mover, the 
speaker, the power that forces every manifestation. Again we read that 
“In the beginning the Creator looked upon His creation and said it was 
very good," and He gave them dominion over all things”—that is, over 
all the lesser creations. 
As we look upon man today and the things by which he is sur- 
rounded, let us ask one question: Has he dominion over the earth, or 
the things upon it, or even over himself? Have we power even over our 
own bodies, to make them good and faithful servants? All thinking 
men and women will agree that we have not. Then something must be 
wrong, for God’s law is changeless, “the same yesterday, today and 
forever. 
lesus said, whosoever will keep the commandments (obey the divine 
law of truth) shall know all things whatsoever he desires. 
If we believe this statement to be true, we must have failed to obey 
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tion of what should have been ours. We have lost the understanding 
of our first estate, and are now in darkness and doubt as to the true 
divine life working in and through us. In this doubt and uncertainty 
we find men and women groping their way—reaching out, longing for, 
seeking after something better, something higher than that which fills 
the average eve-ry-day life, which seems not to be of one’s own choos- 
ing, but rather forced upon one. Why is this? is the question we are 
still seeking an answer to. 
The soul within has awakened and dimly sees that royal road that 
will lead tier on to the city of Hove, where we gain that knowledge 
which brings rest and peace. This knowledge has been denied to the 
soul through the cravings of earthly desires, and the gratification of the 
selfish flesh; but the soul, in its aspirations breaks through the bonds of 
death and hell (ignorance and doubt) and obeys those laws which bring 
deliverance from darkness and despair. She sees the “light set on a 
hill, that cannot be hid” and advances toward it, timidly at first, but 
more boldly as its rays fall upon her, and she feels joy and peace steal- 
ing into her center, giving to her that dominion over earthly troubles, 
which she has long desired but sought in vain. When this position has 
been achieved we see the great and boundless love by which we are 
surrounded; that love which lives forever in the heart of the Creator, 
for His children; that love which is to illumine the world. This im- 
measurable love wraps us as with a mantle, though while our 
eyes remain blinded, we do not see, it is not recognized by us. God and 
His creation are linked together and always inseparable. With this 
view before our mental vision, we find our thought clearing, our under- 
standing becomes conscious of that God in which we “live, move and 
have our being,” in whom is all power. There is no other power, there 
is nothing to stay our progress, when man becomes what he was in- 
tended to be—master of this earth and of all things upon it. He throws 
aside the old thought and rests in God. 
Once awakened and started upon the right road to his own enlight- 
enment and prosperity, he continues to reach upward and inward, to 
realms yet unexplored. There is no boundry which the soul may not 
pass, when it once recognizes the fact of its oneness with God. That 
brings the consciousness of a living light, which was “never shown on 
land or sea,” and yet it is the “light of the world.” He sees how it is 
that “all things are possible,” and he rehearses over and over the words 
of the Master, “whatsoever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye re- 
ceive, and ye shall receive them.” 
That which now is invisible shall be brought into manifestation. 
We are told God is Spirit. He is the life of man. Thus Jesus said, 
“the Kingdom of God is within you,” the Kingdom of the Spirit. Not 
within the animal sensual desires that takes possession of the flesh, 
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Creator Spirit. Spiritual things must be spiritually discerned—must be 
understood on the inner plane, then the word is made fleshly, and may 
be recognized and understood by external man. We may liken man to 
the diver that goes to the bottom of the sea for the treasures that are 
invisible. He brings them forth that his friends and neighbors 
may behold what he has found, only some will see a hidden beauty to 
be brought out by the cleansing processes, and a few will see the value 
and utility united with the beauty that gladdens the eye, and they will 
join with him in rejoicing that his effort has been crowned with suc- 
cess. So with the man whose spiritual understanding has been awak- 
ened. He dives beneath the surface of things, beneath that which is 
seen in the uncreated. There he finds treasures far exceeding in 
value those which are already in the world of created things. To bring 
them forth is his six day’s labor, when the unmanifest becomes 
manifest. Then can he say to the roaring lion (disease and misery) 
“thus far canst thou go, but no farther.” 
He has passed the dark forest of doubt and despair, he has found a 
refuge and can say confidently, roar on, but for me the night of terror 
is passed—the sun has arisen and darkness is swallowed up in its glori- 
ous light. The six day’s labor is ended, your reign of terror is past. I 
am free. The six days of labor may appear long and tedious, and some- 
times doubts will arise and there seems to be no light—there appears 
to be no deliverance, and we give up in despair. Then the still small 
voice makes herself heard and cries “peace, be still and look and lis- 
ten.” Intellect is for the time led by intuition, her proud head bows 
to the Divine Will. Then the outer man speaks, “Thy will, not mine 
be done.” Self is given up, death is swallowed up in victory. Love 
has spoken, the outer and inner joyfully obeys. Persistent pressing 
forward brings a clearer consciousness of our oneness with the light of 
life which dispells and keeps from us the darkness, “Nearer my God 
to Thee.” How can we be nearer when we are in Him? It is simply a 
matter of consciousness, a realization of what always has been. 
This is the spirit of truth that Jesus promised should come into the 
world and should make us free, and if “by My promise ye are made 
free, then are ye free indeed.” Many may knock at our door but we 
heed it not. They have lost their power to cast any shadow on 
our path. God’s love is the light in the soul; we know the law is the 
same yesterday, today and forever. 
It was not the will of the great Creator, nor the plan of Divine law, 
that the creation was made to suffer. No one can look upon the 
misery and agony of another and say that it is very good and yet we 
ascribe all this to the great and glorious power of Love! No, we are 
surely mistaken here. 
In all creation there are laws which must be obeyed. When we do 
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bedierice to the law of God that we bring- upon ourselves the conditions 
by which we are surrounded and the sufferings we pass through. 
Intellect is so strong in herself that she will not give up her power 
until her proud head is bowed in the dust of humiliation, sometimes 
sickness, sometimes loss of loved ones, sometimes loss of posses- 
sions, one, or all of them together may be needed to bring her to 
a knowledge of herself. Whatever is needed comes, and she bows and 
worships the Lord her God, before she can rise to that glorious liberty 
to which the soul belongs. For ages we have wandered on in darkness 
and doubt until we are deprived of the powers that were given to us. 
Christ clothed himself with a body of flesh and blood and He was 
called Jesus. The bare mention of the name sends a thrill of love to 
the heart and the soul is glad, is filled with joy. 
Yes he took a body like unto his brethern that he might lead them 
to the fountain of living water and show to them that they had within 
themselves power to drink and live. He said, “I come, that they that 
have life may have it more abundantly.” “Seek first the kingdom of 
God and its righteousness” that is right living, true thinking will show 
forth in right acting one toward another—-will develop the good powers 
within us and we will do, as did our Master, the will of the Father and 
manifest His great love upon earth, as angels manifest it in the heav- 
ens. 
All power that man has ever brought into manifestation, have been 
conceived and brought from within. 
Development is a sign, a token, a proof, a showing forth of the in- 
herent possibilities that are latent within us. 
If we stop to consider those things that have been brought from the 
unmanitested into the manifest, even in our day, it fills us with wonder, 
we cannot close our eyes to the fact and truth of the Master’s statement 
—“All things are possible to him that believes.” When Jesus spoke 
these words, he was moving upon this plane of manifestation. That 
which is manifest is known by a name and we call it by its name, or a 
thing or things. But that which is wwmanifest, is no thing. 
As we think upon these things, we feel a great importance, a great 
responsibility is resting upon us. It is a duty for us to know more of 
the divine law which is governing the universe, then we shall know 
the law that governs the body. We, as individuals are governed by its 
law and if we have a proper understanding, we may work in perfect har- 
mony with it. Then life, power, health and happiness are ours. 
The question is asked—how can this knowledge be gained? 
In order to acquire knowledge of any kind, we must have a desire 
and a reaching out after that which we desire to posses. Then we con- 
centrate all our thoughts upon it, until understanding dawns upon us. 
Desire and concentration are the two of all important factors in our ef- 
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successful in any undertaking-, in the degree in which we give our at- 
tention to it. 
Think of the artist beside his canvass. Think what music was to 
Beethoven and Wagner, the attention they gave to it. Their whole 
thought was centered upon it and absorbed by it. It was their greatest 
pleasure. By their concentrated thought and meditation, they awoke 
those musical powers that before were slumbering within their own 
beings. They caught a glimpse of those powers—those possibilities 
that belonged to them, but they must reach out and clutch the fruit be- 
fore they could make it their own, before they could bring the unmani- 
fest into manifestation. By their constant desire: meditation and 
effort, they awoke into life the voice of the sleeping musician within 
and led it forth, as a bridegroom leads forth his beloved bride, and today 
thousands rejoice in the rustle of the garments of those wonderous mas- 
ters of music who have passed from this plane of manifestation. Do they 
now enjoy the fruit of their earthly labor? Yes, yes. They have only 
passed from ode plane of manifestation into another, where they 
may enjoy the fruit of their six day’s labor. They were absorbed 
in their work. They loved their chosen art and thus centered, the 
chords of the instruments were made strong. They were enabled to 
penetrate into the mystical realms and hallowed shrines where only the 
pure in heart can enter. Their knowledge was found in the kingdom of 
heaven within, which Jesus spoke of being within us all. O, how shal- 
low we have been, how blind we have been! Why do we close our eyes 
to the only light which is to make us wise? We close our eyes to the 
divine possibilities that are enshrined within us only awaiting for our 
recognition to bring them forth. 
“The kingdom of heaven is within you’’ is no myth—no passing 
fancy, but lies within the reach of all. 
The tree of knowledge is laden with fruit, but each must reach and 
pluck for himself. All the beautiful language, all the sublime songs, 
all that has ever been brought into manifestation, man has found with- 
in his own kingdom and through his concentrated desire, it rose and 
came forth obedient to his call. God is life, boundless life and when 
we awake to our oneness with that life, we do not ask the question “Art 
thou the Christ or look we for another?” The Christ within and the 
Christ without is made manifest and we are satisfied with our Master’s 
words, “Be ye perfect.” LESSON V. 
HARMONY. 
You will find these words in John, that Jesus gave to His disciples 
when upon earth: “The Father who sent Me, He gave a commandment, 
even so I do.” “I came not to do mine own will, but the will of Him 
who sent Me.” 
“I came not to call the righteous but the sinner to repentance.” 
“All things that ye ask in faith believing ye shall receive.” “Be ye 
perfect even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. ” When He 
healed the sick, he said, “Thy sins are forgiven thee.” Again, “Be 
still and know that I am God.” As we read on in that book, we find 
hundreds of passages that would bear the same testimony, that 
tell us we are here to overcome, that God has not sent us forth for 
misery and pain. He is not well pleased with our sighs and groans. It 
is through the violation of those sacred laws that we are made to suffer. 
When we transgress the law, we bring the penalty of that law upon our- 
selves. Thus Jesus tells us that we are to “be judged according to the 
deeds done in the body.” 
When we live in accordance with the law of harmony, we are sur- 
rounded with peace and joy. But that law of harmony can not fill our 
beings while joints are stiff, muscles hardened, blood-vessels shriveling 
or shrinking, not strength to do the work in the human body. Har- 
mony is the perfect law of light and motion. When this law is working 
in and through us, no matter it we are surrounded with what the world 
calls poverty, we can smile even upon that foe, knowing that it is but 
another small mountain over which we must pass to reach that perfec- 
tion that we have set out to gain—the harmony that pervades the uni- 
verse of God. Then we go on mounting higher and higher in thought, 
and that foe has no power to destroy the world of harmony in which we 
dwell. 
A constant watch upon our thoughts and acts will bring us into at- 
one-ment with our surroundings. When harmony pervades within and 
without. This body moves under the harmonious law of that truth 
which is to make us free. Joints and muscles are doing their perfect 
work. The different avenues are carrying the life fluid to every part of 
the body, bringing it into its normal and natural condition. Then we 
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does not need our thought. There are no aches, no pains calling our 
attention every moment, no stiff joints that we are scarcely able to 
move, muscles, nerves, sinews, blood-vessels are moving in harmony, 
all working together to gain that perfection that we have been told is 
ours. There is nothing to hurt or destroy, the necessary accumulations 
are thrown off, and decay cannot enter the body. As we grow in years, 
we grow in knowledge and understanding. The perfect thought shows 
forth in the perfect act and we can truly say, “Thy kingdom come, thy 
will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 
When God sent man forth he pronounced him very good. These 
words tell us that every part of the physical body was working in and 
with the harmonious law of his being. Man has destroyed that har- 
mony, and brought destruclion upon his own body. And we see him 
bowed and bent to earth, with heavy burdens almost more than he can 
bear. The all-wise, all-loving Father is not well pleased with this con- 
dition. Thus he sent his beloved and Only Begotten Son to show man 
the way to free himself from these conditions. Thej would not hark- 
en to Him then, they would not harken to Him now. They are like 
the man in the iron mask. The man had been imprisoned for long 
years by a cruel king, with an iron mask over his face. At last the 
king died; the man was released, the mask removed. But it had been 
there so long the rust of iron had eaten into the flesh. He was hideous 
to look upon. All shrunk from him in terror. He cried, “Put back the 
mask. Let me return to my dungeon to die.” We cry today, “Let us 
alone; let us die in our ignorance.” It is too much work to free the 
body from her many years of accumulation, to break away from the 
yoke of slavery and bondage. Thus we see the land full of groans and 
sighs, misery and dispair. But if we would listen to the glorious 
sound of harmony, labor to understand that truth which is to make us 
free, the glorious song that is sung every morning as the heavens 
give forth the life and light to the children of earth. That life and 
light which is to make them free, if they would open their souls to re- 
receive it, misery and sorrow would be a thing of the past. When Jesus 
healed the blind man he said, “Believest thou that I am able to do this?” 
Then He said to His disciples, “Whatsoever ye ask in faith believing ye 
shall receive. 
When we have perfect faith in the heavenly father and believe, we 
shall receive. The desire and the belief brings it into manifestation. 
But desire, belief and will must work in harmony as one, before we shall 
receive. If we hold fast to this, that grand harmonious law of truth 
will fill our lives. Belief must be the leading thought. Desire impels 
to effect. The will works to bring them into manifestation. Take for 
illustration steam in the boiler. Without the directing force the steam 
will be of little use. When the fire is hot, the steam plentiful, the di- 
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hold firm to our belief, faith or desire and will, will bring- it into mani- 
festation. Doubts and fears destroy che living power within you. Jesus 
said, “Nothing is impossible to him that believeth.” It is our duty to 
pray and hold firm to that belief until whatsoever we desire is brought in- 
to manifestation. Doubt and unbelief are twin sisters. They go hand 
in hand along the line of destruction. When Jesus left His disciples 
He said He would send the Comforter—the spirit of truth—which would 
lead and guide them into all truth. That spirit which dwells with all 
who have faith and belief in His words. That spirit opens our eyes that 
we can understand things that are written. Dove is our guide along 
the path of truth. And that path brings us into the harmony of the 
universe. For thousands of years, the eyes have been blind, the ears 
closed to the voice of self-love,and self-will has led men into destruction. 
The will is the destroyer or the preserving power of the body according 
as it is guided by the spirit. If we are led by the spirit of truth and 
love, we live in harmony and manifest peace and joy. If we are led by 
the spirit of discontent and selfishness then the will is the destroying 
element, bringing disease and misery to the house of clay. But let the 
three forces in the body work together in harmony and peace, moving 
with the vibrations of the universe. We then feel and know that love 
is an actual living presence within us. The Christ spirit seeking for 
expression among the children of men. And this expression is the law 
of freedom bringing strength and power to the physical body. The 
deeper and stronger our love for humanity the greater our strength, and 
we have opened the door of communication with that spiritual harmony 
which is food for the soul. Truth is a vital spark which kindles life’s 
smouldering fire into a living flame. By its light we are enabled to 
overcome all things that are not in harmony with our surroundings. 
Then it is our desire to develop,, bring into perfect manifestation every 
function of the body. We desire to bring it into its highest state of 
cultivation that nothing can disturb its peace. Pain and sickness find 
no resting place in our dwelling house. Desire and belief are always 
quietly working but having no power to bring into manifestation until 
the will, with her power, enforces to effect. Every thing works in ac- 
cordance with vibrations of rhythm, calmness and a decided will. This 
is the workings of the infinite mind. Discord has no power to effect when 
we work along the lines of truth and love. That perfect harmony must 
pervade every atom of the physical body if we would show forth per- 
fect health. It should be the first duty of every one to understand the 
governing laws of the body, and what is required of these many mil- 
lions of atoms that compose our body. Then we work understandingly 
and gain that dominion which is our birth-right. Only along these 
lines can we overcome the ills and ignorance through which we have 
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cannot do their work. Knowledge gives us power, the obstruction is 
soon removed and harmony restores us again to that perfect equilib- 
rium that gives us dominion over all things. You will find the lessons 
and exercises in the book, if practiced faithfully and well, will give 
knowledge and power which would bring us into that harmony, and we 
live and move by the light of truth which daily brings us under- 
standing. Belief, desire and will are working as one, doing their per- 
fect work and we are conscious of the power that they bring to us. 
Truth has given us freedom. Knowledge gives us power. By the light 
of that understanding we know the master’s words were true. “What- 
soever ye ask in faith believing ye shall receive." Thought is the in- 
visible power. The word and the act make it visible, bring it into man- 
ifestation. Thus, when we work by the light of understanding, we 
manifest harmony and peace. We are working with the law of the 
great creative power Jesus worked by the law of harmony. The law 
of truth and whatsoever He spoke was brought into manifestation. If 
we live in the law of our being, have faith in, obedience to, and trust in 
God our heavenly Father, faith and works will go hand in hand and 
every blessing we desire, we shall receive. And we shall know that 
qothing is impossible to him that believeth, LESSON VI. 
“CONSCIOUSNESS.” 
The cry from the weary heart today is, how can I understand the 
truth which is to set me free. No one can answer this question satis- 
factorily for another. We can show them the road we have gone, but 
we cannot travel it for them. No two send out the same thought, no 
two draw the same atoms into their centre. Each one travels a road for 
himself, and if we claim freedom for ourselves, we must allow others 
the same privilege. Let us look at the body as it is today. We are told 
that it was created and sent forth to become the temple of the living 
God. Not a store-house for corruption and disease. It was to be the 
abode of peace; to live and grow in harmony with the laws of gravita- 
tion. 
When we see one with such poise, we may know that they have 
found their perfect center. The breath comes slowly and regular 
through all the avenues, bringing the entire system into rhythmical 
movement with all nature. Life, health, and vigor is shown forth 
with every pulsation of the heart, we admire such a one and say 
how calm under all circumstances that being is. It is well known by 
all scientists, and those that understand the human system that each 
part of our body is a vibrating force, to draw life to itself, but when 
action becomes too vigorous, and we move, and use one set of muscles 
more than another, the neglected organs suffer. Each atom in the body 
sends out thought-waves which leave their impress on the body, this 
shows that each atom has its own vibitrary centre. And it is by blend- 
ing these many atoms that harmony is produced in and through the 
physical body. To have perfect health, each atom must blend with its 
own rhythm—before a perfect harmony can be obtained. When the 
atoms are united under one grand vibration, they supply every part 
with that which is required to keep the body in order. 
If this great rhythmical harmony is not broken or disturbed we 
have perfect control over ourselves, and this control joins us, and makes 
us one with the rhythm of the universe, and brings contentment, peace 
and rest. This perfect harmony and control of the atoms, is the power 
that draws to us whatsoever we desire, and gives strength to the human 
organism. It lifts the thought from the lower to a higher plane. The 
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within. But when what we call trouble or inharmony enters our do- 
main. they are scattered, running- hither and thither, like frightened 
sheep, and we pant and g"asp, the heart beats and palpitates, the doctors 
tell us we are suffering from heart disease; but if we will keep and mani- 
fest perfect poise under all circumstances, and gain a full control of joints 
and muscles, then an equilibrium prevails our centre that cannot be 
shaken. And this power is within the reach of all; it is the great govern- 
ing law of the universe, and by this power every atom of the body finds 
its relation to every other atom which, brings rest to the outer and inner 
alike, and when we reach this point, and we can reach it, we know that 
one commandment has been obeyed. The outer has become one with 
the inner; the loss of this power or equilibrium is a disconnection of the 
physical organs, and if not regained, what we call death soon follows. 
The body has been neglected; the atoms are scattered, and it is impossi- 
ble for them to unite again. The life centre or solar plexus, which 
draws its strength and vitality from the life principle, which is the 
source of all power, when that is broken, earth takes back her own, but 
the life goes on. This consciousness is only gained from the true con- 
sciousness of a pure life. As we reach out in thought to a higher plane 
of thought, we live in that life which knows no death. Then we are 
lifted from earthly things to that haven of rest which we read so much 
about, and understand so little. Health culture works on in silence, 
bringing the atoms of the body together, gathering them one by one, 
as the hen gathers her chickens. 
Love, obeys the great law of attraction, and as we reach further and 
further into that law of understanding, the gate is open, then we 
go on into a more perfect understanding, and that takes us into the 
city where love is the only law. We have thrown off the shackles of 
doubts and fears that have bound us so long, and thought flies on the 
wings of mercy, administering to all she can reach, and she returns 
laden, reaping the harvest that has been sown. The body feels the 
vibration of soul-thought, and the eyes brighten, the step is more elastic 
and buoyant, in the friendly shake of the hand, harmony fills the soul; 
every atom is doing its perfect work; nothing can disturb the equilibrium 
of such a centre. Perfect love sits upon the throne as a queen doing the 
work that comes to hand. Rest has been found and all go in and out 
and find peace. 
Many ask if this is our heritage, why do we see so much misery a- 
round us? We are sent here to minister, one to another, and only as vre 
acquire the knowledge and power to interpret our mission, can we un- 
derstand the great law of our being. But when we do understand, then 
the darkness, disease and doubt pass from our minds and we shake off 
the melancholy clothes of fear and doubt and take up our work. 
Our work is to make the body a fit temple for the Christ spirit, 
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things be made clear to our understanding. As long as we are con- 
tented to live by another light, our own will not shine; and while we 
give all our attention to perishable things, and lay not up those treas- 
ures which fade not nor grow dim with time, the riches that are not seen, 
can not be ours. Perhaps it is through our ignorance we neglect our- 
selves and lose the life that is so precious, we study not to bring forth 
that which is latent within us and only bring forth thorns to prick and 
tear our body into pieces. Whatsoever we sow that must we reap. Thus 
we must make proper conditions for that which we would see made 
manifest. When we work, we find our instrument will respond with joy 
and peace as it now responds to misery and sickness. And when we 
have brought that joy and peace into our surroundings the body moves 
in that grand rhythmical harmony which connects us with the plane of 
peace. But we alone must comply with this law that connect the atoms 
of our body in love, one to the other. 
Health culture is one of the helps to bring men and women into 
that peaceful harmony that they may fulfill the law and overcome evil 
with good. Self culture gives power, that one may bring forth and 
manifest a more perfect life. Know you not that the body was created 
to be a temple of the living God? Not a dead God, or something that is 
inanimate; that cannot understand, that cannot see, God is the God of 
the living, not the God of the dead, therefore we are working to bring 
the power of the living God into manifestation. We are working for 
the renewing of our bodies, and we must work while it is day. Men and 
women are longing for knowledge, searching for a more perfect life. 
Some seek it in one way and some in another. So far we have not found 
satisfaction, because the soul in man, can only be fed by divine love, 
and she is seeking her center. That perfect equilibrium where all the 
hopes may rest. Thus we go on, hoping, longing and desiring, and 
still fainting by the way side, neglecting and forgetting the great com- 
mandment, “Be ye perfect,” losing sight of the work which our master 
did, healing the sick, and doing all mighty works amongst the poor. 
Only this work can bring us the knowledge, that in God we live, move 
and have our being. All the outer pleasure will pass away and the more 
we seek for rest and happiness in that which is external to us, the 
further and further we go from the center of truth where that living 
water is springing up into everlasting life, Lesson vii. 
“DESIRE.” 
This brings us to the plane of desire, and it is natural to send out de- 
sire, but we should understand that desires sent out bring-s experience, 
and our experience is the result of our desires, but through those 
experiences we gain knowledge. If our desires have been sent forth in 
the right directions our knowledge brings no regrets. Truth leads us 
onward, onward. We say, grow in understanding. Our growth is 
progressive along whatever lines the desire is sent forth. Desire is an 
element which attracts to itself the quality of substance to which it 
attaches itself. Thus, our desire must result in our experience. 
Through desire we gain knowledge and grow in understanding. So 
far our experience has brought what most of us call suffering. To 
some disappointment, poverty, and all the ills that appear to force 
themselves upon us. But through our experience and experiment we 
have gained a mighty knowledge. A grand and glorious truth. And 
that truth is, God is love, and has not created and sent to earth child- 
ren to destroy them with cruelty, that even the heathens blush to think 
of. God created in that great and mighty love, and through that love 
He gave His creation free will. But in our ignorance we have used our 
freedom to our own destruction, and now wish to lay all blame for our 
many ills upon a just and all wise Creator. But the experience, though 
bitter, has brought the realization of that knowledge which Jesus came 
to teach us. “As ye sow so must ye reap.” God is love. His love is just 
and true,sharper than a two-edged sword,cutting everything asunder that 
is not sent forth in righteousness. “Whatsoever ye desire when ye 
pray, believe.” Thus when the desire goes forth in righteousness the 
experience brings man the knowledge, that whatsoever he desire is his, 
if he only keeps the commandments, and not allow the desire to go 
after strange gods. Truth brings him the knowledge that all power 
is within waiting to be brought forth in love and gentlen'ess to all. 
He then finds the power of thought and desire is the creative force upon 
the visible plane as it is upon the invisible plane. 
When the Creator sent forth his creation he gave them power to 
bring into manifestation that which was unmanifest upon this earth. 
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through obedience, we find that he has even greater powers than the 
earth power, for did not the Son of Man call life again into the lifeless 
clay? And He told His diciples, “greater works than these shall ye do 
if ye only keep the commandments;” if you obey the law of' love, truth 
and justice, sublime words speak to the dead man that he may hear and 
live. 
The proclamation has gone forth, “Why will ye die.” It is 
sounded far and wide, awake and show forth that mighty life, that 
mighty p nver which God has given so freely to all who will receive it. 
Awake from this long sensual desire, that the sons of God may walk 
the earth, and spread the glories before the children of men. Our be- 
loved master lived the life, claimed the blessings and showed forth the 
mighty power. All that the Father hath is mine, by His works He 
showed the power of truth, but to show forth these blessing, to do the 
mighty works, there is only one way. We must live the life as He 
lived it. “Man has not seen God at any time;” it is not the human in 
man that reaches after God, or can see Him. It is the divine in man 
that sees and knows the divine in which he moves, lives and has 
being. 
“I do always those things that please my Father.” David said: 
“I see the face of the Ford always before me.” The divine in David 
saw the divine in all the universe. The mighty rock, the giant tree, the 
lofty oak, all tell man to raise his head to see the divine image that is 
all around him. To hear the words, “I and My Father are one.” 
When man lets go of the perishable treasures of earth, when he feels 
this mighty power, this divine influence of the spirit of love and 
knows that he is baptized with the spirit of the Holy Ghost, then will 
he say, “Once I was blind, but now I see.” He will no longer go as 
the animal with bowed head and body bent, but in the mighty strength of 
love he will stand erect and overcome all that is beneath him. And 
then he will know the words of Jesus: “The Kingdom of Heaven is 
within you.” Through his righteous desire his experience has brought 
him this divine knowledge, and the gate of truth swings wide open at 
his command and he goes in and out and finds rest. Then he sees that 
a mighty revelation is waiting to spread her treasures before the re- 
generated child of earth, he will feel like shouting it forth on the 
house-tops. “Whosoever will, may come.” These treasures do not grow 
dim with age, but brighter and brighter with each new dawn. Fach 
fresh experience shows him the book is open, the stone is rolled away 
from the door of the sepulchre. The God of truth has set his heel upon 
darkness, doubt, misery, and despair. The children of earth are filled 
with joy. The angels are singing the glad song of the morning. 
The new wine Of the spirit of love fills their hearts. The king 
of death and his reign is over. Freedom from fear is shouted 
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ant of this great loving power so long? The six days and its exper- 
ience has brought knowledge to the image and likeness that was 
sent forth in innocence. Long years of desire through experience has 
brought it to the gate of purity, and if it can stand forth in that purity 
it may enter and find rest. Innocence is the state of the child before 
it has sent forth its desire and had its experience. Through experience 
we become pure or impure. Through our experience we gain that 
knowledge that will perish with the earth body, or if like Jesus, we do 
those things of love and justice, our experience takes us beyond the ex- 
ternal world unto that plane where dwells the Father and Son. This is 
in accordance with our knowledge of earth, and we read on: “Be ye per- 
fect as the Father in heaven is perfect ” This is no idle tale. Man can 
here and now be transformed into the likeness of his Creator. If he 
will live in the divine law it will bring him into a consciousness with 
his Lord and Master. But while the desire and experience are all sent 
forth forgetting this earth’s treasures and those things which belong 
to earth, he goes no further. And when he lays the physical body off 
the experiences gained are with it. Because he has not put on the in- 
corrupted garment of purity. 
Thousands of years we have been taught to pray, “Thy kingdom 
come, thy will be done on earth.” Let us ask ourself the simple ques- 
tion, are we living the life that God’s will may be done on earth as it 
is in heaven? When the will of God is done we shall see no more 
misery, no more sickness and poverty, for God is life and light. In 
him there is no darkness, and when man lives the righteous life he will 
be one with his Creator, then will he have the same power that Jesus 
had. Then can he demonstrate the truth of his words; then he will say 
to intellect, “Thou art my servant.” You can no longer clamor and 
clatter at my door, divine knowledge has set me free. I can no longer 
worship at your shrine. 
History has opened its pages to our view. Experience with desire, 
has led men on to fields of battle, to bloodshed, to famine, destruction 
and death. But along the lines of truth and love, our experience brings 
happiness and peace. The kingdom of God is the kingdom of rest and 
peace. So far we have but dimly understood the words of the Master. 
“The kingdom of Heaven is within you.” Not within a few, but in all 
who love truth and walk in the light of understanding. Love is the life 
of the soul, as the sun is the life of the flower. That divine love, that 
divine light, is free to all. When the master was upon the earth, he 
demonstrated the powers that would follow by obedience to divine law. 
Thus, when faith and belief goes with desire, “whatsoever ye will is 
yours. Love will bring the kingdom of heaven to earth. But that same 
love is true to the opposite law. As ye sow, so must you reap. If 
ye sow thoughts of sickness, poverty, misery, unhappiness, you will reap 
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all, you will soon reap a goodly harvest. Health and joy will fill your 
bosom. Moses led your ancestors out of the land of bondage inco free- 
dom, and it is your place now to enjoy that freedom. Hive, that health 
and power may be yours. 
Why will you turn back to your task masters, and hug your slavery, 
your bondage to the flesh, doubts, fears, sickness and all other ills. The 
light was called into existence for you, but through your doubts and 
fears, you bring nought but darkness into your soul. Awake, for that 
light that lighteth every man that cometh in to the world is still here 
only waiting your recognition, that glorious light, is the light of under- 
standing, and through your desire and experience, it will give you 
knowledge. Jesus says, “I do nothing but what I see my Father do. 
As I hear so I speak.” 
When shall we live, that we shall hear the Father’s voice at all times 
telling us what to do. When shall we live in that divine law, that we 
know we are doing his bidding at all times. Nothing is impossible to 
them that believes, and if belief and desire goes in one direction along 
the lines of truth, with love as its guide, all things whatsoever we can 
desire is ours. When the Pharisees sent to John, he had the same testi- 
mony to bear, ‘‘he that sent me to baptize, the same said unto me.” 
Through righteous desire and experience, John came to the same knowl- 
edge, and the great loved voice in his soul spoke as it does to all who 
keep the commandments. John even though clothed in the garb of 
flesh, was one with his Ford, doing his will, testifying to the great truth 
and love that fills this world. We have all had experiences in this world 
of effect, along some lines which has brought us knowledge, and through 
our faith, works and desire we have gained understanding. But so far 
few have not gained the understanding and knowledge that we have 
come here to learn. That through our faithful desire, we are to become 
one with our Creator. This is the plane where life and light is to be 
made manifest. We are here to get understanding that we may be one 
with the Master. Jesus lived that He recognized the true life and light. 
Thus, He understood the perfect life of love. The voice of love is called 
today, and many hearts are singing with joy. The perfect thought 
leads to the perfect act. The perfect act leads us to a perfect under- 
standing of the divine law of our being. When Jesus said, be perfect 
as your Father who is in heaven is perfect, he knew that only perfect 
practice of justice, do to others as you would have them do to you, 
could bring us into a knowledge of the light that shineth in darkness. 
If we watch our thoughts, we shall discover that much is sent out from 
our center, that is not representing that divine law of love and it returns to 
us in many and various ways. It is not justice to another to look at their 
faults and think that most of their ways are evil. If we look at them 
with the eyes of love, and see beyond the garb of flesh, see the soul in 
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through the clouds of darkness, doubt and despair. The soul sees that 
endless light and through her experiences she gains understanding. 
Jesus said, “he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall 
have the light of life within him ” Thus when we understand a thing 
we are no longer in the dark about it. Our knowledge has brought us 
the light. And as it appeared the great creative power was making 
visible that which was invisible. But that light he called forth was 
without beginning and therefore cannot end. And we can only see the 
ray of that great center of light. As the earth revolves, that light is re- 
flected upon it, and we receive its reflection as we receive the rays of 
the sun. That light which is called into manifestation always did exist, 
always will exist. It is an endless day, there is no right there. It may 
take eons of time to bring that Light of understanding to the creation 
on this earth, but it will come. “Heaven and earth may pass away, but 
my words cannot fail.” Glorious light, illuminating truth, spread your 
wings no matter what falls. Let their great power be felt and seen all 
over the land. Let that light shine in earth as it does in heaven. That 
light that changes not. God is omniscient, that light is omnipresent and 
becomes manifest. It is vast and deep, but its treasures are laid bare to 
the children on earth. “Be ye perfect,” should be our pass word. A 
picture hung ever before us. And as the artist studies the painting 
that he is about to copy, so should we study it. It should never leave 
our sight When he dips his brush into the paint before he gives the 
touch, he looks at his study. Thus he becomes perfect in his art, and 
before we speak or act, if we would look at our study, the ideal that is pic- 
tured on our brain, the one we wish to represent, the one altogether 
lovely in our understanding, we shall make no mistakes. And the light 
will illumine all our ways. Truth is the law of understanding that 
will take away the sins of the world. Listen, and you will hear the 
voice of the truth singing, “Let there be light,” and yet so many of us 
love'darkness rather than light, because when we come into the lighted 
room our soiled garments must be cast aside. And though they are 
dirty rags we have loved them, they have been our companions, morn- 
ing, noon and night. They are our pets, our pastimes, to see the faults 
of others, to nurse our sickness, to talk of our poverty, etc., and it will 
be very hard to come into the light and let them fall into nothing- 
ness, to cast them into the bottomless pit where they will be lost, for 
bottomless means nothingness. And am I to believe that this light of 
understanding drives from us our doubts and fears, takes away our sick- 
ness and our troubles, makes a neighbor a brother and a friend. If we 
have nothing to find fault with, if we cannot discourse our wrong, what 
shall we find to do? Love. Think upon love. Find out how vast, how 
great, how grand this power of love is. She will harmonize all things, 
and if we will make her our guest, she will lead us to that divine center 
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find plenty to occupy our thoughts, because we shall be one with those 
who live on the true thought plane, where time has no place, and where 
sorrow and disappointment cannot enter, every place is occupied by 
that love that has taken away the sins of the world. There the heaven- 
ly breezes only fan your cheeks, there love is the reigning king, and 
as Edward Arnold says, “The landbreezes of heaven are beginning to 
play, and life meets eternitie’s day, and the tumult is hushed in the 
past.” 
The poets and sages tell us of this beautiful love, but as we listen 
it is only like watching the puff of smoke in comparison to the shin- 
ing of the sun. When we live and feel in our every-day life, this 
great love, when love is our guest, the attic room is a palace, the poor- 
est meal better than the sumptuous dinner, in splendor without her 
presence the answer comes: Do not speak to me of love unless you can 
tell me where is her abiding place. Where she is to be found. We are 
tired of the shadow that has floated about so long without life. These 
are the themes that are set forth on every side. The heart cries for 
truth, and refuses to be comforted. When the Master left His disciples, 
He said, “A new commandment I give unto you, love.” Love guides 
us to the door of understanding and shows us the link in the chain that 
connects us to the spiritual centre. When we arrive here, there is no 
longer a reaching out, a looking after something we know not what, 
love brings with her the divine understanding. Those that through 
righteous desire and experience have gained knowledge, they know that 
God is love, and that God has never left His creation. And as we give 
out love, we have given out the influence of God. 
What a revelation! We want to hide ourselves from these mighty 
loving- arms, and with Peter we say, “Depart from me Lord, for I am a 
sinful man.” But the still small voice whispers, “The kingdom of 
heaven is within you; go in; there you will find the King, the Father.” 
Nay, more than father, more than lover, for He changes not. Even in 
thy wilfulness He does not chide, your disobedience brought you into 
bondage. But when the storm raged and you feared for your life, love 
still called to you, “Why will you die? Turn ye, turn ye and live.” 
Shall we turn our thoughts to this mighty love, or shall we go on battl- 
ing with the furious storm? Shall we rest in the loving arms, or shall 
we battle with sickness, poverty and despair? It is a mighty effort, 
but by thought and controling thought, we £ain knowledge. 
True knowledge is that which takes us to the plane of spiritual 
manifestation. By constantly keeping this picture before us as the 
artist keeps his study, we draw the consciousness of love into our being, 
and we grow daily and hourly, more like our picture. We soon under- 
stand what is meant by image and likeness. We breathe in love, we 
breathe out love. Thus we free ourselves from the bondage of earth’s 
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struggle. They have been going so long in one direction and do not 
desire to have their powers crumble into dust. But the divine love 
beckons us on, it grows brighter and brighter, and though we fall we 
rise again and heed not the roaring storm, (cruel and unkind words) 
that are thrust upon us, our picture is still before us. "We read His 
words with breathless haste, “They that are whole need no physician. 
I came not to call the righteous, but the sinner to repentance.” To the 
woman He said, “Daughter, thy faith has made thee whole.” In the 
ruler’s house, “The maid is not dead.” He took her by the hand and 
she arose. To the blind man, “Believest thou that I am able to do 
this?” The man filled with the light of understanding said, “Yes, 
Lord.” And the woman for her daughter when she came to Him, He 
said, “O, woman, great is thy faith. Be it even as thou wilt.” This 
mighty love of understanding spoke forth with all His power and 
strength. By this power of love, all sickness is healed. All chains are 
snapped assunder. By the power of this great love, all mighty works 
are done. All things are made possible; but to doubt is to destroy that 
power; doubt paralyzes the brain as the blight paralyzes the bud before 
the rose had time to put forth her beauty. LESSON VIII. 
“LIGHT AND TRUTH." 
We read in the law of Moses, “Though full of years he escaped the 
infirmities of the flesh.” That we as a people, though professing to 
obey the same laws, consider natural and inevitable with what we call 
old age. Some ask, why is this? The scriptures tell us that Moses 
lived in obedience to the law of God, in obedience‘to natural laws, which 
gave him dominion over all that was inferior to himself. When we seek 
to know the secret of this wonderful vigor, we shall find that it was by 
being in harmony with the eternal law of God that must bring perfec- 
tion to the outer and inner alike. Moses, we are told, lived an hundred 
and twenty years, and yet showed forth none of the infirmities of the 
flesh, that we see afflicting the race today as they advance in years. 
It is now7 clearly proven by late development in science that the 
human structure was intended to resist decay, that the mental powers 
might ripen and reach their full usefulness. Jesus showed that w>hen 
He was upon earth that the body was intended to be constantly illumin- 
ated with the divine light of truth, it was intended to be an abiding 
place for the most holy virtues, that it could resist all evil. 
Thus v7e are told, “In God we live, move and have being.” In God 
there is no darkness, He is supreme knowledge and cannot dwell in 
doubt and darkness. 
We who would entertain this divine guest, must cleanse the 
temple of the fogs and miasmas of doubts and fears, which only bring 
destruction upon us, and make us to believe that this life is very hard, 
and with a sigh we say, If I only had a little more of this world’s 
goods, a little more leisure to entertain, to go into company, I could do 
better and be happier. 
Get us ask ourselves the question: Are those possessing great 
wealth happy? Are their children showing forth more beauty of char- 
acter, more perfection than others? Do they escape disease, accidents, 
or live longer than others? Are their homes fortified against sorrow7, 
disgrace or death more than others? Does wealth bring God into their 
lives, or divine light into the costly mansion more than into the hum- 
blest dwelling? Wealth enables one to appear in costly dressings and 
gay society, perhaps with a smiling face, but if we enter into their 
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poverty is a stranger. The power of gold too often crushes the Spirit 
of God out of the heart, and His divine presence out of their lives. 
It has been a part of our education to believe disease inherited or 
acquired is part of our life while on earth. We have grown to expect it, 
we watch the symptoms grow and develop. We are often disappointed 
if mumps and kindred ailments do not develop in certain seasons as our 
neighbor’s do, we discuss them daily when we exchange calls, it is the 
most engrossing topic of the day. We select our physician, take drugs 
with heroic perseverance. Sometimes we try a new doctor that promises 
great things, and all the tim£ we say it is our duty to be resigned to our 
afflictions, it is the will of God, and when our loved ones are taken from 
us, they say it is a dispensation of providence. Cruel mistake. God, in 
His great love does not afflict His children, but we, (may be) through 
ignorance, have violated the law which governs the body and the pen- 
alty must be paid. 
God, in His infinite love and wisdom, designed parental love to 
protect their helpless ones. Man was sent forth to reach a grand old 
age, and only a violation of natural laws can deprive him of his body. 
But when these laws are violated, as sure as night follows day, so surely 
must the penalty be paid, there is no escape. Though we cry with an 
exceeding bitter cry our prayers cannot reach the throne of grace—we 
have desecrated the temple, there is no communication, no one to hear 
the call. This earthly temple was to be the abiding place of love, which 
is God’s breath given to His children, but when they are not living to 
receive it, darkness, doubt and despair takes its place in their heart. t 
“They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.” We 
see that it was possible for decay to enter the body, but that great love 
builder made it so plain that to all who would keep in the straight 
path He would renew their strength. Those thal lack any good thing 
are told to ask God and He will give, but where there is no communica- 
tion, we receive no answer. “The soul that sinneth must die.” The 
one that lives and obeys God’s law and feels the vibration of spiritual 
harmony, that soul is filled with songs of love. Sadness finds no 
place in such a heart, and the desire is to have the body a fitting temple 
for God’s will “to be done upon earth as it is in heaven,” we shake off 
the fetters of doubt and fear, knowing that He that does all things 
does them well. God our loving Father knows all things. He knows 
our desires; he knows every pulsation of the heart, whether it be sent 
forth in love, or anger. 
“Whatsoever ye desire when ye pray believe, and ye shall receive,” 
but when misery weighs the heart into the dust we cannot pray or bglieve; 
we have opened the door of the soul, admitted doubt and fear which takes 
away our understanding of His words, thus it is our duty to drive from 
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us, His children, and it is our duty as far as possible to have the temple 
of God (our body) in order that we may know His will while we are here. 
Jesus said: “As I hear, so I speak.” It is man’s duty to show forth 
God’s love, strength, beauty and power. “They that wait upon theDord 
renew their strength.” Fvery effort in man’s life will be crowned with 
success if he only desires to do the Father’s will as did Jesus. 
Our simple exercises and instructions when practiced faithfully will 
help every one to free the body from its many years of accumulation 
of foreign matter, and gain that power which will give them dominion 
over that which is beneath them. When joints and muscles are free 
and the breath comes with strength and power, sending her life current 
through every part, there is a power that those who nurse their ills know 
nothing of. “Whatsoever ye desire, ask and God will give it you,” if 
you only have faith and works, but they must go hand in hand along 
the lines of progress. 
These simple rules when followed will put the temple into order, just 
as the good housewife has rules to keep the material dwelling in order. 
There is no disease that cannot be helped and eradicated from the 
physical temple by a proper understanding of health culture and its 
methods. If we work faithfully our reward is sure; daily we are creat- 
ing a new earth around us, new thoughts occupy our brain, and should 
old conditions try to force themselves upon us, we then use our know- 
ledge which shows us that we have dominion over the lower things that 
affect the earth body, and by our perseverence health soon blossoms 
forth in every part of the body, as the rose springs Irom every 
branch and shows to us its beauty. Fternal vigilance is the price 
of health. As they tell us it is the price of liberty, through our faithful 
work we are to gain everlasting life, through our faithfulness we are 
able to fight bravely the many battles of life that must be fought and 
won, before we reach the end of the journey. Knowledge is the key 
that unlocks the door that leads us into the Kingdom where is hid the 
“Pearl of Great Price,” whose brightness exceeds the sun. It sparkles 
with the gem of truth, P raises us from the shadow of despair into the 
promised land of love. There is a story of a fishing boat. Four men 
were fishing in a small boat. They had ventured too far from land. 
A storm was raising, carrying them farther from land; they 
tried with all their might to turn their little boat round. 
The waves seemed to only laugh at them as they tossed 
the frail boat upon each rising wave, looking upon each other with 
frightened gaze they gasped “what is that?” Bearing down upon them 
was a large bark, the rising waves sent her forward, the boat with the 
four men was so small no one would see them, although her decks were 
crowded with people. The storm increased and on came the proud bark. 
The four men were battling for their lives -struggling with the angry 
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their doom. No hope—great was their anguish as they struggled. The 
bark must run them down—there was no escape. The wind was so 
strong their yoices could not be heard. The bark struck the little boat; 
the four men were now at the mercy of the waves, battling for life. 
Their voices were feeble now, yet they raised one last cry, “Help! help!” 
Hark, what was that? The feeble voices had reached the quick ear of 
the captain, but too late to turn the ship from her onward course, but the 
command went forth above the roar of the storm: “Man overboard, 
lower the life boats.” Quick as the thoughts could fly the boats were 
lowered, the four men were rescued. Soon they found themselves upon 
the deck of the noble bark. They were safe. Think you that any argu- 
ment could have made those men believe that they were still clinging 
to the pieces of their little boat battling with the waves for their lives? 
No, 1here is no power on earth could take their knowledge of safety from 
them. Knowledge is power and when we have the knowledge and use 
it we gain that freedom from sickness which Jesus brought to earth and 
we know that we have reached the bark of safety from our many ills, 
and if we only use our knowledge wisely we shall gain a freedom from 
earth’s fetters, and know the words of Jesus “The kingdom of heaven 
is within you.” Today we are like the drowning men, we battle with our 
ills, take all kinds of medicine, but do not make the effort to raise our- 
selves to the deck of the bark of safety. It requires time, and an effort 
to cleanse the body of her many years of accumulation, to free joints and 
muscles, to open the various avenues through which the breath may have 
its free circulation giving life to the entire structure that each part shall 
be able to do its allotted work as the Creator designed when He sent man 
forth and gave him dominion over all things. Then we leave the 
troubled waters far behind ns, and long to rescue others that are still 
battling with the angry waves, but we go on singing the glad song of 
the morning “Great is the Lord, ’tis good to praise His high and holy 
name.” 
Our prayers have been heard, we are leaving the land of bondage 
far behind. We have taken the steps for our own deliverance, health is 
upon our cheek, brightness is shining from the eye, we are in harmony 
with the law of our surroundings. Joints, muscles, arteries, blood- 
vessles, all are doing the work of the body wisely and well. Perfection 
begins to raise her head, and shows us the mighty power by which we 
are surrounded, a power that is not all of this earth. Miles that must 
be traveled, but a journey for which a ticket cannot be purchased. A 
distance that is not measured by time. Many have named it the fourth 
dimension of space, which is thought. Thought is the measurement, 
thought is the distance, thought is the road to be traveled to gain that 
which we have lost. The thought precedes the act. Thought cannot 
be seen by those around us until the word or act shows it forth. 
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conceal a thought, when a thought is sent forth, it is 
heard, it is felt. Jesus said: “When the thought is conceived 
in the heart the deed is already done, but before it is manifest 
on this external plane the act must show it forth. If we for one 
moment think upon what a precepice we stand with the ungovernable 
thought, there is no wonder that the body totters and shrinks as the 
harsh words go forth, for that same body was sent forth to be illu- 
mined at all times by the spirit of Christ, when we recognize this great 
importance, there will be no labor too great, no effort too wearisome 
that is to bring every part of the body into its normal and natural con- 
dition. Only by our own works can we be safely carried over the roar- 
ing waves of fear and misery, sickness and despair. The voice that 
called to earth’s weary ones hundreds of years ago, is calling today 
“why will ye die, why will ye master your strength for that which is 
naught, that which cannot bring health to the wasting body, nor life to 
the soul?” 
The door that will lead us into the chamber of knowledge is open 
to all. But while the body is weighted down with sickness and an ac- 
cumulation of deleterious corruption we lose the power of controlling 
the thought. The brain becomes inactive, and we give up in despair, 
or we lose all power to think, and say that we are resigned to our fate; 
health, happiness, and the spirit which is to guide and comfort the 
children of earth find no resting place with us, and we wait for earth 
to take back the body. Has a loving Father consigned us to this doom? 
No! for generations the laws of life have been violated, and we are 
made to suffer. Hove is the life of the soul as the blood is the life of 
the body, and to keep the body in health and strength it is necessary to 
keep the blood circulating freely through every part. It is the life- 
giving element of the body. Nothing else can keep it in working order. 
Man-made laws are daily bringing the body under greater bondage, in- 
flicting heavier tasks upon it, depriving it of many of its essential and 
necessary members and say that they are not necessary. When God 
created man, he looked upon His work, and saw that it was very good. 
By these words we know that there is something very wrong, and 
it is our duty to do all in our power to right the great wrong, to 
raise up that which is cast down. The command was given “Thou 
shalt worship the Ford thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve.” We 
have lost sight of those divine words, taken unto ourselves strange 
Gods, and yet we wonder why there is so much misery in the land to- 
day. The God we worship cannot hear our call, and there is no one to 
save in time of need. Omnipotent, omnipresent, is ever near His cre- 
ation, and when we listen for the omnipresent voice, it will guide us 
into the the paths of health, strength and love. Jesus said “As I hear 
so I speak,” he heard the Father’s voice. John said “He that sent me 
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live in obedience, as they lived, doing only those things that connect us 
with the Father, we shall hear His voice, and be clensed of all our infirm- 
ities. LESSON IX. 
“LIFE.” 
Ezekiel, 37 Chap. 34, 30th v., we find the words, “Son of Man can 
these bones live?” O Cord God Thou knowest, Prophesy, Son of Man 
unto these bones and say, “O, ye dry bones, hear the word of the Gord.” 
“Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you and ye shall live, and ye 
shall know that I am the Gord thy God.” 
When Jesus was upon the earth, He said, “I come, that those that 
have life may have it more abundantly.” As.we look around upon the 
children of earth today, there is one question we wish to ask, “Where is 
that abundance of life?” Do we see it? Have we received it? Do we 
make it manifest? Is that abundance of life manifest in the bowed 
head, the bent body, the decrepit limbs that we see going up and down 
the earth? Is this a manifestation of that abundance of life which 
Jesus brought? Does that life circulate in the paralyzed limb hanging 
so helplessly by the side? No, a thousand times no! We have violated 
the divine law of justice, and the penalty must be paid. We have lost 
sight of the divine laws of truth and love that the Master so urgently 
pressed upon His followers; we have been the blind leading the blind for 
thousands and thousands of years Therefore, that abundance of life 
that to earth we have turned into darkness, doubt and des- 
pair, and we are groping our way like sheep gone astray with no 
shepard to lead them. And the divine within man dies for that knowl- 
edge which is health, strength and power; we wither and decay for lack 
of that life-giving fluid which gives strength to joints, muscle and 
marrow to the bone, which causes the body to move with ease, strength 
and elasticity. Jesus said, “Take no thought for the body.” Are we 
keeping that commandment? How are we obeying that law when our 
every thought is for the body? Where can we find a good doctor? 
Where can we get a new remedy? Where can we get a medicine that 
will ease us of the misery, and will give strength to this decaying 
form? It is the topic at the table, in the drawing-room, in the office, 
on the street, in the cars, in fact everywhere. We discuss our ills, our 
aches, our pains, and all the time searching for someone that can help 
us get rid of them. Pitiable story, we have lost sight of that divine 
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of life which is our inheritance, for man was not sent forth to be 
racked with pain, bowed with sorrow, and creep in the dust with 
the animals. His place is to stand erect upon the earth and have 
dominion over all that is beneath him. 
Two thousand years ago, the voice cried, “Why can you not hear 
my words.” Again today the proclamation has gone forth, “I will 
cause breath to enter into the wasted form, and ye shall live, and know 
that I am the Lord thy God.” With the renewed life, knowledge 
comes—knowledge that we, the children of earth, have power over these 
things that affect the earthly body. Knowledge that we can call upon 
our Creator for life to enter again to the helpless paralyzed limb, then 
we see the law of life fulfilled. To those that keep the commandments, 
Jesus said, “Greater works than I do, ye shall do.” To be a sluggard, 
to doubt this mighty power of God is to die. Die to the knowledge of 
divine truth and love that is planted in every child of earth, and who- 
soever will, can find the truth of this statement. We are told that the 
Creator spoke to his creation and said, “I take no delight in the death 
of the sinner.” When Jesus healed, he said: “Thy sins are forgiven 
thee.” The word for action has gone forth. The proclamation is 
sounded. Called to the four winds that they may breathe upon these 
dead bodies, that life again may enter, that every joint, muscle 
artery and vein, may feel this life-giving fluid circulating freely in 
every part. All who will may call for that abundance of life and live, 
if they will live for it. Life, health and the power of earth belongs to 
the children of earth to use while upon the earth. And only by neg- 
lect of themselves can they be deprived of this power. We have the 
power to bring every function of the body into a normal and natural 
condition. The supply of this lubricating fluid is generated in the 
body, and when the body is in perfect order, this fluid is distributed to 
all the different parts, and we find it in a perfectly healthy condition. 
No deleterious substance is allowed to accumulate, and nature can do 
her part wisely and well. Let us call upon the four winds to breathe 
the breath of life into the weak and helpless body, and we shall find it 
an easy task when we keep the commandments. Then we shall find 
that the body does not need our constant thought; it is ever on duty, 
ready to obey our slightest command. We then feel strong and mighty; 
we have lifted our members out ot the grave, our thoughts out of un- 
belief, and we go forth into the land of promise. There we gain a per- 
fect understanding, a true knowledge that the kingdom of heaven is 
within our reach. And that mighty spring of life is ready to supply, 
then the breath goes forth in songs of gladness. Then we do not hear, 
“O I am so weak I cannot do anything for myself, and if I could I really 
Would not have time; the cruel deception. When that grim monster 
presses its finger to our brain we give up in despair. One of our 
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intellectual laziness.” It seems a hard word, but when we come into a 
more perfect understanding concerning' these bodies we shall know that 
it is true,perhaps through ignorance we bring most of our ailments upon 
ourselves. But when we begin our work of regenerating the body, we 
shall see that strength and power lie within our reach. When Jesus 
was upon the earth 2,000 years ago, His work was to heal the body, to 
make glad, to bind up the broken heart. Not a word about death, and 
He tells us that He came to do His Father’s will. If we listen to these 
words, we know it is not God’s will we should be sick. I hen we must 
have violated the law of our being and brought this destruction upon 
ourselves for lack of knowledge. When we begin this work of regene- 
ration, we know that God is love and all his ways are pleasant. Thus 
he sent the beloved one to bring us that abundance of life, that we could 
return to him. But we must keep the commandments before we can 
receive it. The way of sin is death to every member of our body; the 
way of life, in Christ is life and peace. The angel of Hove has de- 
scended and rolled away the stone of unbelief. And if we will make 
this house of clay a fit habitation for pure thought we shall receive that 
substance of life as it is sent from our creator, and we shall not have to 
wait for the Holy influx to enter. We shall listen in silence, we shall 
sit in the tent door in the quiet, and as the sun’s last rays sit behind the 
hill tops,calm and peace descends into our souls, and we shall know that 
we are in the presence of love. There is nothing accomplished without 
work. When we desire to show a perfect piece of work, we use every 
effort in our power to make it so. Then what we desire is brought 
into manifestation. Paul said “Show me your faith without your 
works, and I will show you my faith with my works?” What is the 
great need today? Freedom, freedom from what? ‘Sickness, poverty, 
doubts and fears which hang over us like a black mantle, destroying the 
sun when ic tries to enter our lives. Fear deprives us of life, tear 
brings misery upon our loved ones. Fear often causes us to lay the body 
aside before its day of usefulness is complete. Most of us today are 
slaves, bound with chains about us. But the glorious light of a new 
dawn has spread its wings, and we may rise above our task masters, 
and snap the chains asunder, and the soul goes forth in freedom con- 
quering and to conquer. When we awake to our freedom and know that 
God is love, and that all this sickness and misery has been brought 
about through our ignorance, then shall we hail with joy the glorious 
light of understanding, and every vein, every leader, every muscle, 
every fibre of our body will vibrate at the music of the great harmony 
which will fill the world. As our sicky chains of bondage fall 
away from us, and we see the abundance of light which is all around, 
then shall we prophesy, “Oh ye four winds, hear the words of tWe 
Ford, blow upon the slain that all may hear and live. We then are in 
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tion. It is only by our faith, belief and work, that this light can shine 
in the darkness and enter the recesses of our heart when we awake to 
the truth. Then shall we step forth and do mighty works, in his name. 
For in his name is power, in his name is love, in his name we fulfill all 
the commandments that have been sent to earth, to bring its back to the 
father. Then shall we know and understand the great secrets ol life by 
which we are surrounded. Then do we step forth into the moon light, 
into the new dawn, and our thoughts are too busy with the treasures 
that are spread before us, that we find no time to think of what we have 
left behind. We as individuals carry life or death in our own thoughts, 
we carry misery or pain, happiness or unhappiness. Our strong power, 
is in the thought sent from us. We think before we act Thus our 
thought takes the lead, and is the material given for building the 
structure. If that thought is sent out in fear, when the angel of 
light descends, the angel of darkness stands at the portal, and 
the still small voice of love is lost in the angry storm. But hark! I 
hear the call very faint, why will ye die? Fling open the portals of the 
soul! listen in the silence, let the lamp of love be lighted, it will disperse 
the darkness, and through the gloom the angel will enter. Strange 
thought. But we are told that we draw into our being that which we 
sent out from it, and that the body stands as the laboratory where the 
thought is shaped and put into form, and we sent it out again in what- 
ever shape we have molded it. Again the voice is sounded, “why will 
ye die? Call to the four winds, receive the breath and live.” Cry from 
the house tops, hear it all of you, “be ye perfect, even as your Father 
which is in heaven is perfect.” That today is the pass word. What are 
we doing to bring this perfection into manifestation? Each one must 
answer that question for him or herself. LESSON X. 
“THE BREATH OF FIFE.” 
Genesis Second chapter reads: “The Gord God breathed into his 
nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living- soul.” 
God is life, and when his breath entered the clay, it lived, moved 
and had being- in God. The life, or breath entered the body which the 
Gord God had prepared to receive it When the breath entered the 
image, it received God, and became a living, moving man, a created 
being. Thus God and His creation were united, that which had come 
down from heaven, entered that which was of earth, and made it to live 
and move upon earth, and have being in the earth. The life was not of 
earth. It came down from heaven, and made man one with that which 
was above. And as long as man recognizes God as the giver of all, so 
long will he be united, with power and strength but when the life and 
light which God gave to his image becomes dark, how great will be that 
darkness; but when the image and likeness (man) lives in accordance 
with that light and life it guards him through the darkness which has no 
terror for him, but when the thought seeks only worldly passions, the 
darkness surrounds him and becomes more intense as he moves up and 
down in the earth, he recognizes not that light which was called into 
manifestation for his guidance. He sees not that he must gain the 
experience that will bring knowledge to the image, that is to make him 
one with his Father, and it is only his obedience to the law of truth that 
can take him back into the presence of God. 
There is a spiritual power in man, and he can fan the breath again 
into a living flame, and it will illumine his path, it will show him 
his duty while here on earth, but when he loses sight of this great and 
only love, he becomes blind, the breath which God breathed into the 
clay has departed having no resting place. The blind man tries to lead 
others but they both fall into the ditch, having not the light of under- 
standing to lead them. 
Jesus taught his desciples to pray, “Thy kingdom come, thy will be 
done, as in heaven so in earth.” If we were living up to that command- 
ment would the land be filled with strife, misery, sorrow and sickness? 
over which we have no control? Think you that any of these conditions 
are manifested in the kingdom of God? We would say No, and yet 
these conditions are seen all around us. Jesus said “Gove thy neigh- 
bor as thyself,” which is the fulfilling of the law. Why do we not 
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We live only for self. We live that we may accumulate unto ourselves 
regardless of the consequences. We have lost that divine breath which 
God breathed into the clav when he pronounced him a living soul and 
looked upon his work and saw that it was very good. 
When God sent man forth, he did not constrain him, but made his 
will free—made him a responsible being who will be judged according 
to the deeds done in the body. By his own acts he stands or falls when 
he gives back to earth that which it has given him. Only by living a 
true and honest life while upon this earth can he gain knowledge and 
power which would take him back into the presence of his Father. “As 
ye would that others do unto you, do you also unto them.” Only by 
living this life can we be justified before God. He sent his beloved son 
to earth? to show us that by proper living we can return and receive the 
blessings which he has in store for us. Jesus said “Overcome evil with 
good.” If sickness, sorrow and misery are not evil, why are we so 
anxious to get rid it? And why did Jesus spend most of his time while 
on earth in cleansing the body of its many years of accumulation? Cast- 
ing out devils, healing the sick, cleansing the leper? Giving the par- 
ents back the dead ones that joy might fill their hearts. And thus we 
see the air was filled with songs of praise. He tells us he came to do 
the will of Him that sent him. We cannot find one word in the New 
Testament where Jesus taught us to be resigned to our sickness, sorrow 
and misery. 
Once He was a little weary with His journey and sat down to rest. 
His rest was to commune with the Father. Blessed rest. When can 
we gain that communion, and see the beauties of heaven and earth by 
which we are surrounded? When shall we live that we can drop the 
desire of getting and listen for that great love voice that only speaks 
in the heart? Thai voice speaks to man to guide him through the dark- 
ness that the yoke may be easier, the burden light. Why does the soul 
sicken and die within us when we lose our earthly possessions? Be- 
cause we have turned our back upon the light of understanding, that 
lighteth every man that cometh into the world. 
It is easy to observe things in the external world because we per- 
ceive them with the physical eye. But if we would return to the 
Father we must be guided by the spirit of truth and love which only 
speaks to us of heavenly things. Jesus says, “My kingdom is not of 
this earth,” and cannot be understood while we seek onlj the things 
of earth. Tens of thousands of instruments have been invented and 
discovered to find out things in nature and this external world. But 
who can invent an instrument to find out the secrets that are hid in the 
internal world? God is spirit and it is only with the eye of spirit that 
man can understand the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven. At the 
door of that kingdom truth stands guard, and no power on earth can 
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When true knowledge lives in the heart then are you free indeed. Ex- 
ternal things trouble us no more; vain desires no longer rack, the brain. 
Only one desire fills the soul, that we may share equally with all. 
Tttere is only one way—one method by which we receive knowledge. 
Live the truth because it is true and it will be a living light in you. 
It does not grow dim with time, but becomes brighter and brighter 
with every new experience and fresh understanding, and we know 
there is no limit to God’s love—no bounds to his understanding. He 
sent forth his image and likeness to become one with him. This is a 
glorious thought—an inspiring hope, an aspiration for man. When he 
sees this, the external world holds no charms for him and he under- 
stands the words of Jesus, “the Kingdom of Heaven is within you.” 
Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven. The spirit of truth has lit 
the lamp of love in his soul God’s breath is in the clay. It is life and 
light, and he begins to understand the words of Jesus, “Be ye perfect 
as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” 
With these glorious truths written in letters of gold before our 
eyes, why do we not love them? Why do we let perishable 
things occupy our thoughts? Because God’s breath has left the image 
and likeness. We neglect the clay, every avenue has become clogged, 
stopped with an accumulation of foreign matter. When the dove of 
truth is sent out, there is no resting place nor tree from which to gather 
the olive branch and the body of flesh returns to earth weary with the 
burdens of earth, life and the work that was assigned it, is unac- 
complished. 
When God sent forth His children He gave them dominion over all 
things. Man has violated the law, lost sight of that dominion, and 
seeks not to regain that power which he has lost and is losing. Jesus 
says, “What will it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his 
own soul?” If man for one moment would realize the power that God 
gave when He sent him to earth, which Jesus brought back to earth 
f r man.Jesus said, “lam the light of the world. Any man following Me 
shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the life of light within him.” 
This power is man’s while upon the earth if he lives for it. If man 
would open his eyes to truth, he would shake off physical weaknesses 
and regain his birth-right. He would think no labors too wearisome to 
gain the understanding of the body and all its functions. 
When a man has gained control over the breath and the movements 
of the body, cleansed it from its many years of accumulation, we would 
find no rheumatism, no catarrh, no paralyzed limbs hanging helpless 
at the side, no head bowed with coughs, tearing the lungs to pieces so 
that the breath conies in gasps. Paul tells us the body was created to 
become the temple of the living God. When we realize this we shall 
cleanse the temple that it may be a glorious abiding place or fitting 
abode for the angels of God. Then shall w-e cry, “Give us room that 
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“The law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free 
from the law of sin and death.”—Romans viii. 
Sin is death to life; and while we live in sin we deprive ourselves 
to a greater or less degree of life immortal. 
The true aim and object of this life should be to gain freedom from 
sin and its penalties, and find happiness. To attain to this we must 
obey the divine law of life. This law man himself has and does con- 
tinually transgress by what is called love; but which is in truth the 
sensual appetites, unceasingly craviug the gratification of the senses. 
This sensual passion carries in it the elements of self-destruction, and 
as long as the condition exists there can be no true happiness. Divine 
love is the only bond that can unite soul to soul here on this earth and 
beyond. 
Thus we see today thousands reaching after new laws—something 
that will bring freedom, something that will bring genuine happiness, 
something that will give lasting satisfaction to the aching heart that 
cannot be satisfied. 
We hear upon all sides lectures and discussions upon woman suf- 
frage. Woman complains that she has not equal rights with man and 
thinks that if she could only obtain them she would find freedom and 
rest. Alas! it is but the blind leading the blind. Woman is and always 
has been man’s equal. She holds within her nature the key to an un- 
dreamed of freedom. But before she can rise to gain that function she 
must shake from her skirts the clinging mud of centuries. She feels 
its weight, and ascribes it to the lack of equal rights. Man holds do- 
minion by the stronger forces of his nature. Woman must strike the 
fetters of the sensual from her nature before she can be truly free and 
ready to help man upward to moral levels, that he will never reach 
alone. 
In the beginning God created the two one, but before they can es- 
tablish true happiness, harmony and peace upon earth, they must live a 
true life. 
We must come into possession of still higher grades of knowledge 
if we live with that end steadily in view. 
Health and happiness is divine the life in motion. All nature is 
motion, a song of harmony. If we bring into subjection the stubborn 
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shall hear the song- of the angels as it was heard by the'shepherds 
as they kept watch over their flocks. We shall hear the voice that 
speaks when there is no sound. Then shall we gain that peace within 
which is more to be desired than the treasures of earth. 
Health of the body is the normal condition in which man was 
created to live; but by violation of divine law we have closed the spring 
from which true knowledge is derived. Excitement is dangerous nour- 
ishment for the physical desires, stimulating and spurring the lower 
elements into activity, those elements that are useful only when 
sternly controlled. It is only too evident that the lower controls the 
higher, and that the true, divine man is buried beneath the earthly an- 
imal desires. 
When we live in harmony with nature’s laws, rest and tranquility 
descend like a dove that knows its abiding place. But let a disturbing 
element enter the unbarred doors of this house of peace, be it anger or 
envy, or even the lower pleasures, and harmony is gone. Discord is 
telegraphed to every apartment; all the wires are in use and the whole 
building quivers under the strain. 
The lower the disturbing element the greater the strain, the danger 
and the suffering. We thus see that absolute control of the physical 
body is of supreme importance. 
Jacob Boehme says, “We should overcome all sensation. He to 
whom sorrow is the same as joy, and joy the same as sorrow, has over- 
come the world.” 
The body is our storehouse in which all qualities of nature are to be 
found, but we must be masters of this physical domain. We must de- 
cide upon the quality and the nature of that taken for our own uses, 
not allowing the house itself to force upon us that which will destroy 
our peace. 
We are endowed with the liberty of freewill, and nothing truer has 
been said than that we are the creatures of our own destiny. We are 
further made responsible for our own acts, and will be judged by the 
deeds done in the body. We cannot shift our responsibilities upon 
another. Day aside the deceptive dream that another can suffer for you 
and can bear your sins in your stead. We must build for ourselves a 
perfect habitation; then those who are perfect will come in and dwell 
with us and be our guests. 
We must make of this body a fitting temple for the indwelling of 
purity, that naught which is impure can enter in. If the light of truth 
be set within, its rays will penetrate through the very walls, and indi- 
cate to the outside world that a divine guest tarries with you whose 
coming has brought peace. You will thus make of your body some- 
thing more than a mere machine, set in motion for the service and 
gratification of the senses, always clamoring for more, and forever un- 
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Kindle upon the alters of your hearts that divine fire of love which 
warms and lights your natures even to the dimmest recesses of feeling. 
It is that sacred fire of love to humanity at large which will ultimately 
make you one with the divine Torch-bearer which is the light of the 
world. Live so that you may follow that divine light. Work while 
you have the opportunity, for when you pass hence you cannot return 
to finish that which you leave undone. “As the tree falls so it will 
lie.” If imperfect, imperfect it must remain. Jesus brought the key 
to all true knowledge, “ Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things so 
that thy youth is renewed like the eagle.”—Psalms. 
The life principle of everything is in the seed, not in the flesh. 
Feeding upon animal flesh is sustaining our bodies with a substance 
which helps to create disease and death in the body, and make us one 
with the animal which is below us. 
We are indeed created to become one with our Creator, the animals 
were given that we may have dominion over them, thus controlling all 
below us. But when we live on a level with the animal,are we preparing 
ourselves to become the co-workers with the sons of God who are to 
walk the earth? Know ye not that your bodies were created to be 
temples of the living God?—Paul—not storehouses for dead flesh. 
Arise, ye that sleep, and put your temple in order, that love, joy, and 
peace may enter in and reign, where discontent, sickness, and death 
now have dominion. By gratifying the senses we are depriving our- 
selves of life,—cutting off our legitimate communication with the true 
sources of life, and filling the earth with misery, disease, and death. 
And yet we wonder and fret over the grevious fact, but how can it 
be otherwise when the average human life is marked by excesses that 
far surpass those of the lower animals now upon our plane? 
God is a God of life, not of death, and by keeping His laws we live 
unto life. If we disobey, we die. “God takes no delight in the death 
of the wicked.” The life element is created in every creature He has 
made; but into our own hands is given the power to preserve or to des- 
troy. This germ from which new life springs impowers man to furnish 
life to the physicial body. Avarice, anger, or the sensual appetites de- 
stroy that germ, and we feel the life-power gone from us, but know not 
why. 
Always hold the body erect, encourage thought to truth in whatever 
you are doing. Do not court sin and sickness, but deny their power over 
you; and you can if you are living above their conditions. Then can 
you say with the Apostle Paul, “The law of the spirit of life in Christ 
Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.” 
The exercises are for the purpose of relaxing the muscles of the 
body, and bringing them into play so as to give that freedom which is 
power. Power thus gained deprives sin of its evil—that which shows 
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If we control our thoughts we can control our acts. Thoughts are 
unexpressed words; and the body shows the expression of the un- 
spoken word. We may fancy that we have concealed our thought; but 
it is visibly reflected in the body, and we have given life to something 
that we must meet face to face sooner or later. Thus follows the neces- 
sity of exercising control over our thoughts. When we have accom- 
plished this we have taken ■ the most essential step on the ladder to a 
more perfect life. 
By practising these exercises with a view to gaining control, we 
shall bring ourselves into harmony with all, and find it easy to obey the 
divine command, “Do unto all men as you would that men should do 
unto you.” 
All the exercises and instructions have been thoroughly demonstra- 
ted, and their power for good known and felt. We do not, therefore, 
hesitate to present them to you, knowing so well their value in restor- 
ing strength and activity to the nervous system, and giving freedom to 
every part of the physical body. 
In case of nervous prostration, uneasiness, conscious loss of power, 
insomnia, as well as various other kindred affections, practice Exercise 
No. 2, Besson 4, five or ten minutes at a time. It will cut through and 
scatter the irritating aura which has gathered thickly about you,—a sure 
destroyer of your peace. This may appear a very simple thing to prac- 
tice; but we judge by results, and should not reject or condemn a method 
until it has been well tested. 
One month’s practice, or it may be several, may not effect a cure, 
nor make one perfect; but it will help you from the first. By faithful 
practice, living meanwhile in accordance with the laws of life, disease 
will be eradicated from the system. 
To cite a case in point, showing its benefits, I was once sleeping in 
a room with a lady affected with extreme nervousness and insomnia. 
We had retired early. Between eleven and twelve o’clock she awoke 
me. She was in such a state of nervous excitement that I began to feel 
apprehensive tor her. It is needless to say that she excited my liveliest 
sympathies. She was sitting up in the bed rocking herself back and 
forth, her eyes wide and staring wildly. Addressing me she almost 
screamed out in her agitation: “Oh, I am so distressed! what shall I 
do? I cannot sleep and you were sleeping so soundly-” I rose imme- 
diately and said I would help her to calm herself so that she could sleep. 
She had never taken any of the exercises and therefore knew noth- 
ing about them. She rose to her feet, and I went through the move- 
ments in Exercise No. 2, Besson 4, before her, directing her to fol- 
low me, which she did. A few minutes later we returned to bed, and 
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was still sleeping-. A short time after she arose, refreshed, called me in 
and said smiling-: “I have slept every moment since we returned to 
bed at midnight.” 
When we assume control of our bodies, and by such means set the 
blood into brisk circulation, we bring ourselves into harmony with our 
surroundings, and bring peace to the nerves, thus inducing perfect 
rest. 
In all the movements avoid haste, as it scatters the forces and 
weakens the body. Be deliberate in thought and act. Avoid excite- 
ment, as that indicates weakness. Endeavor to preserve perfect poise 
of the body and thought under all circumstances. 
Always hold the head erect, the shoulders thrown back, the step 
firm, positive and regular. Avoid walking hurriedly, swaying the body 
or swinging the arms at the sides. Use only sufficient force to give easy 
and graceful movements in walking. 
By steady practice you cannot fail to perceive in yourself a reserve 
of power which, if developed, will enable you to overcome in yourself 
those passions that have hitherto held sway and dominated. 
By practice, the movements will become eas3r and natural, and you 
will wonder how you have done without the knowledge which now seems 
indispensable. 
Every thought has a form. That form revealed, is the thought ex- 
pressed. Keep this idea before you, and know that such forms sent forth, 
if not clothed in the white robes of purity are draped in the black gar- 
ments of moral darkness, and will obscure your sight. Even your 
physical eyes will be blinded by them to the glorious sunlight that gives 
life and cheer to all that behold it. 
In going through the exercises it is necessary to be clothed in loose 
garments throughout, thus removing all those restraints which prevent 
entire freedom of movement. Heavy garments hamper the limbs and 
bind the muscles so that they cannot have free play. The object to be 
attained being ease and grace of movement of the entire body, dress 
may assist us much by removing all obstacles in that respect. 
It is not imperative that corsets be discarded entirely. Stout ladies, 
for instance, need some support for the bust, but they can be loose and 
comfortable and free from the confining stiffness which now distin- 
guish them. By constant practice of the exercises laid down, ladies 
would, in a comparatively short space of time, be able to dispense with 
even that. The muscles of the waist, long weakened by artificial sup- 
port and pressure, will regain their lost strength and elasticity. A 
stout lady, who was once a member of my class, had worn corsets all 
her life; but after a few lessons she laid them aside; Her figure lost 
its st’outness and she became natural in form and graceful in movement, 
enjoying an ease and comfort previously unknown. 
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blood—the life of the physical body. The exercises are of incalculable 
value in promoting a free circulation. 
During most of the exercises it is necessary to keep a standing 
position. Be cautious about overstraining the muscles and ligaments 
in use while relaxing. The exercises may at first be found a little 
fatiguing to some pupils because unused to the exertion. Below will be 
found a list of the exercises in detail. 
We may remark in advance, however, that the pupil wrnuld be great- 
ly aided by a few instructions. .It is difficult to describe clearly some 
of the exercises to a pupil who has no previous knowledge of them. 
With a few lessons they may practice from these with a more intelligent 
conception of their real meaning. 
LESSON FIRST. 
Exercise 1.—Opposites. 
Be seated, holding the body perfectly poised, drawing right foot 
back. Place right hand on right knee. Advance left foot, placing 
left hand on left side. Advance right foot, drawing left foot back. 
Advance left hand to knee, right hand to side. Repeat these movements 
from ten to twenty times. 
Exercise 2.—Relaxing hands, wrists, elbows and shoulders. 
Stand perfectly poised, shaking the hands, fingers, wrists and 
elbows, until the muscles are relaxed and free. 
Exercise 3.—Toe and foot exercise. 
Stand with toes on a parallel line, about five inches apart, equal 
weight resting upon each foot. Raise as higii as possible upon the toes, 
counting twelve as you rise, same number as you descend. 
Exercise 4.—Same position, but in descending, rock back upon the 
heels, holding perfect balance. In practicing any exercise, keep your 
thoughts centered upon it. 
LESSON SECOND. 
Exercise /.—Hip exercise. Advance right foot, left foot back. 
Throw out right hip, all the weight resting upon right foot. Gradually 
sway the body, throwing weight upon left foot, left hip thrown out. 
Repeat this movement from ten to fifteen times. 
Exercise 2.—Same position, same movement of hips. While the 
weight is resting upon right foot, advance left foot swaying weight upon 
it. Thus move back and forth from right to left until you can obtain 
perfect balance. 
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joints. Sway forward and back from the ankles, not bending any 
other joints of the body. Sway from right to left, also diagonally. 
Exercise 4. Stand with toes on parallel line, five inches apart, 
equal weight on each foot, body held firm. Sway the body from ankle 
joints, turning on side of fobt in moving from side to side. Repeat 
this as long as you can without straining ankles. 
LESSON THIRD. 
Exercise /.—Same position as in Exercise 4, Lesson Second. Relax 
knees and hips in same manner as ankles have been relaxed. 
Exercise: 2.—Rest all the weight upon balls of feet. Bend the 
body from the waist downward, until it is at right angles with the 
limbs. Extend the a-rms as far forward from the sides as possible, and 
swing the body from the waist, from left to right and from right to left, 
alternately, eight or ten times. 
Exercise 3.—Hip exercise for relaxing the waist. Rising, stand 
poised, turning the body from the hips from left to right and back 
again, as far as can be easily done. 
Exercise 4.—Relaxing the neck muscles. Same position as above, 
turning the neck as far over right shoulder as possible, then back over 
the left, repeating often to stretch the neck muscles. 
LESSON FOURTH. 
Exercise /.—Let the head drop slowly forward to the chest, and 
slowly bend it backward, as far as the muscles will allow. Next, roll 
the head in a rotary motion several times to relax cords and muscles. 
Exercise 2.—Health movement. Stand poised and centred. Place 
the hands, palms inward, opposite the breast. Raise the arms slowly, 
keeping- elbows rigid, and swing them in a rotary motion, and a cutting 
movement downward as each circle is described. Second, turn the 
palms outward and move them in the opposite direction, keeping up the 
circular movement as before. 
Exercise 3.—Extend the arms outward from the shoulders, in a 
straight line, wrist leading. Bear down, bring to the sides. Bend at 
the elbow, pressing down, wrist leading. Bring hand up to shoulder. 
Repeat this several times. 
LESSON FIFTH. 
Exercise /.—Pendulum movement. Take poised position, with 
arms at the sides. Raise the right arm, and bring- it slowly forward 
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ward, as far as muscles will allow, holding elbows rigid. Second, 
practice with both hands in concert, but in opposite directions. 
Exercise 2.—Relaxing. Poised position, making a circular move- 
ment with both arms to relax shoulder muscles. 
Exercise 3.—Pendulum movement for leg Stand on right foot, 
raised from floor about four inches. Swing left leg from hip with 
knee rigid, back and forth as far as can be easily done. Change and 
swing right leg in same manner. 
LESSON SIXTH. 
Exercise /.—Stand erect, knees and elbows rigid. Raise the arms 
slowly above the head. Bend forward at the hips and bring the arms 
down, until the finger tips touch the floor, or as near as you can. Much 
practice is required to do this well, and the muscles are thus stretched 
to their utmost tension. Rise to an erect position, and slowly bend 
backward (arms extended upward) as far as possible. Repeat this seve- 
ral times in succession. 
Exercise 2.—Circular movement from knee. Poise upon ball of 
right foot, making circular movement from hip with left foot Poise 
upon left foot, making same movement with right. 
Exercise 3.—Stand with right foot advanced, left hip thrown out. 
Step with left foot, throwing out right hip. Repeat this twenty or 
thirty times, to give ease and grace and a rhythmical motion in walk- 
ing. 
LESSON SEVENTH. 
Exercise /.—Expanding the chest. Stand with chest well projected. 
Press the elbows tightly to the sides. Raise the forearm, wrists lead- 
ing (keeping the muscles rigid), until the backs of the hands rest 
against the shoulders. Slowly, and with tense muscles, lower the hands, 
thumbs across the palms, wrists leading. 
Exercise 2.—Sit erect upon a chair, right foot advanced. Let the 
head fall slowly forward upon the breast. Bend the body from the 
waist until the finger-tips touch the floor. Rise slowly an erect posi- 
tion. 
Exercise 3.—Relaxing knees. Bend the knees, rocking back onto 
the heels to insure flexibility to the lower limbs, alternately raising and 
lowering the body several times. 
Exercise 4.—Entering a room. In entering a room walk upon the 
balls of the feet, moving the body from the hips. Gauge your steps so 
that either the left limb will touch the chair before you sit 
down to prevent possible accidents. After touching the chair bend 
from the knee, and slowly sink into the seat, with one foot advanced, 
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Besson eighth is a review of all the exercises taken during the first 
course. There are from twenty-eight to thirty figures or exercises in 
each course of seven lessons. The pupil should endeavor to have each 
exercise well defined in thought and practically understood before enter- 
ing upon the second course. 
Bach given is for the purpose of relaxing the joints and muscles 
of the body and giving them their freedom, which is grace in motion. 
The next course, being recomposing exercises, is for the purpose 
of giving the pupil control over all the parts and functions of the body. 
When a thought is sent to any part of the system, it should be as a 
command from a general to be instantly obeyed. When all the bodily 
functions are in order and under perfect control, to any one of them 
we can say with authority, “be still,” we are giving abundant proof 
that we are in harmony with nature’s laws. Before we can do this 
every part must be moving in its appointed order and performing its 
work as it was designed to do by a Wise Creator. The body will then 
have a reserve force from which to draw in case of emergency. If one 
set of muscles grows tired, another may be brought into play and the 
change will actually rest the system. 
This might be well illustrated by showing the changes that could 
be made by those working in shops or stores where there is much work 
done in either a sitting or standing position exclusively. By gaining a 
perfect knowledge of the exercises, and in faithful practice, the physi- 
cal would become more perfect, and those now showing forth disease 
would manifest perfect health. SECOND COURSE OF LESSONS, 
LESSON FIRST. 
Exercise /.—Lfift the arms from the sides, and slowly raise them 
above the head, lettiug the wrists lead with hands hanging lightly un- 
til the wrists are fully extended. Turning the hands palm to palm, 
place the tips of the fingers together crossing the thumbs over palms. 
Bring the hands slowly downward, keeping the body erect and chest 
predominant. Separate and carry the hands to the sides, repeating 
several times in succession. 
Exercise 2.—Bring the palms of the hands together in front. Bring 
them together over the head and carry them to the back, repeating the 
same. Repeat this three-fold action several times. 
Exercise 3.—Raise the hands from the sides outward until they are 
parallel with the shoulders, keeping the chest well projected. Turn the 
palms outward, letting the wrists lead. Slowly drop hands to sides, 
elbows rigid, and repeat often to give control of shoulders, muscles and 
wrists. 
LESSON SECOND. 
Exercise /.—For the finger joints. Fay the hand, back down- 
ward, upon the knee. Beginning at the finger tips roll up towards the 
wrist, until the latter is bent as much as may be. Unroll with consid- 
erable pressure from the other hand, and alternate. Take this exer- 
cise frequently to make the hands supple. 
Exercise 2—Raise the arms until parallel with the shoulders, keep- 
ing the elbow joints perfectly rigid. Withdraw the will-forces from 
the arms, allowing them to fall a dead weight at the sides. This to 
illustrate the action of the will-forces upon the muscular system. Prac- 
tice this oflen and observe the effect. 
Exercise 3.—Raise the right arm, wrist leading, pressing well up 
with the right wrist, down with the left, all the weight on the right 
foot. Repeat. Changing from right to left. 
LESSON THIRD. 
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them slowly together, wrists leading. Swing arms slowly back, as far 
as possible, and bring them together again. 
Exercise 2.—Change position, throwing the whole weight on the 
right leg. Raising the hands above the head, bring wrists together. 
Throw arms back as far as you can with ease, and bring them together 
at the chest. Back in like manner. Back in like manner, bring them 
together again at the waist, making the rhythmic movement. Raise 
the arms as high as you can over the head, and carry them as low as 
you can in front. Practice four or five minutes. 
Exercise 3.—Advance the right foot drawing back the left. Bend 
right knee, the tips of toes of left foot touching the floor, knee bent, 
head thrown back, palms thrown upward. Bring the hands together 
and raise the whole body. Repeat this movement several times. 
LESSON FOURTH. 
Exercise i.—Throw the weight of the body upon the right foot ad- 
vanced. Extend left foot back with heel raised, toes only touching the 
floor. Turn head a little to the left, raise-iaghi-hand slowly, pressing 
well back with the left foot, and forcing the palm of the right hand up- 
ward, raise it slowly to position. Repeat the movement with left hand 
and right foot, practicing several times without pause. 
Exercise /.—Advance right foot, left drawn back. Bend right 
knee, chest projecting, head slightly forward. Draw back right foot 
without moving the left. Bent on left knee without changing posi- 
tion keep body firm throughout. 
LESSON FIFTH. 
Exercise /. Advance right foot and slowly raise both hands in 
front as high as can be gracefully done. Bend the wrists, palms lead- 
ing, and bring the hands to position. Advance left foot and continue 
the same movement. 
Exercise 2.—Take position as in Eesson 5, Exercise 1. Raise the 
hands and bring them slowly down with the wrist movement, making 
four or five movements before the hands come into position. 
Exercise 3 Advance right foot, and raise the hands from the sides 
parallel with the shoulders, back wrists leading, turn palms coming 
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LESSON SIXTH. 
Exercise 1.—Voice and throat culture. Take position with right 
foot advanced, left drawn back, chest predominant. Exhale slowly, 
letting the breath pass through the lips as if coming from a gas jet. 
Take a full breath, closing the lips and inhaling through the nostrils. 
During the exercises do not exhale too long or inhale too deeply. It is 
of great importance that the pupil practice abdominal breathing ex- 
clusively. 
Exercise 2.—After practicing the above exercises until some control 
is gained over the respiratory organs the pupil can take longer breaths. 
Exercises—Place the hands, fingers almost meeting, at the back 
of the waist right or left foot being advanced, head erect, chest prom- 
inent. To exhale, draw the lips as in sounding the vowl 0, to form a 
pipe-like passage for the breath and breathe so that the abdomen rises 
and falls with each breath, without causing any huskiness in the 
throat. In exhaling make the sound of a prolonged 00, not continuing 
until exhausted as might be at first done. No tight garment can be 
worn during this exercise, as that actually prevents the establishment 
of abdominal breathing and the free expansion of the chest 
LESSON SEVENTH. 
Exercise /.—The pupil may be seated in a perfectly poised position 
with one hand upon the abdomen, to be sure that the latter rises and 
falls with each breath. Close the lips and make the sound mah-zah. 
At zah, let the tongue touch the teeth. Repeat the exercise four or five 
minutes. 
Exercise 2.—Advance right foot, chest prominent, head raised. 
Inhale and opening the mouth utter the word oum with prolonged 
sound. When the breath is half exhausted close the lips, and let the 
breath, still prolonged, issue from the nostrils. During this exercise 
let the thought be centered upon all that is perfect and good. This 
will bring strength and crearness to the voice. 
There are many more exercises which could be given, but enough 
has been given in this book to bring health, grace and beauty to the 
physical form if faithfully practiced. The exercises should also be 
practiced with a view to making more of the good, beautiful and pure 
manifest here upon earth. We shall thus feel vibrations of life and 
power undreamed of by most; and the solar plexus will become a centre 
of light You will, as never before, recognize yourself as an important 
factor in that great creation forever going on. 
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sufficient exercise the muscles and tendons of the body become weak 
and flabby, and the thousands of miles of tiny tubing- which penetrate 
every part of the body become sluggish and inactive. The waste of 
the body goes on, but there is not sufficient activity to carry it off and 
replace it with the new nutrition and evacate it from the system. 
If we would strike the responsive chords of perfect health, we must 
tune every string of nature and draw our bow over all of them. 
When we contract a muscle, the blood it contains is expelled, carry- 
ing with it the waste, worn-out material. When the contraction is re- 
laxed the fresh blood from the arteries rushes in, bringing with it new 
material to rebuild that waste. This takes place every time a muscle 
is used. Nature has so arranged it that, all other things being equal, 
the supply of new material is greater than the waste, so that the con- 
tinued activity of a muscle, wears out more material and thus increases 
the waste, at the same time calls to the tissues a greater supply of 
fresh material in the form of nutrition supplied by the food, than the 
waste amounts to, and thus the active parts are build up and strength- 
ened. A notable example of this law may be seen in the blacksmith’s 
arm. 
If this activitity is continually directed to one set of muscles, as is 
the case in many of the trades, and the other muscles are not suf- 
ficiently exercised, an abnormal development, manifested in certain 
deformities, such as stoop shoulders, awkward motions, and gait, etc., so 
noticeable among men habituated to physical toil, is the result. The 
muscles not exercised become weakened and stiff, the nutrition which 
should go to them being drawn off to supply the active muscles. 
A good theory or principle of health culture, therefore, is to follow 
a system of movements which shall exercise and develop equally every 
muscle in the body. 
To carry this out to perfection of course is impracticable for a 
workingman, like the blacksmith and others, the nature of whose busi- 
ness compels them to exercise certain muscles continually, but the 
stoop shoulders and awkward stiffness so noticeable can be avoided by 
devoting a short time to cultivating the other muscles of their 
bodies not brought into play by their business. 
It will be readily seen what effect muscular activity has on the 
appetite, digestion, assimilation, and nutrition. 
Every time we move a muscle or think a thought, we use some 
muscular or brain tissue. 
This must be supplied through the mouth, from food. The activity 
stimulates all the functions of the body. The internal chemical fires 
burn brighter to prepare the food for assimilation, the blood is more 
active to carry the prepared nutrition to where it is needed to re-supply 
the waste, and more oxygen is needed to supply the fuel for the 
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As we before stated, nature is generous and supplies more nutri- 
tion than is needed to re-supply the waste, and when physical exercise 
is carefully distributed, the whole body is built up and strengthened. 
The body becomes lithe, supple, erect, alert and active. The eye 
is bright, the head is clear, the circulation is active and regular. It is 
a joy to live. Our limbs are free and active, and we take as much 
pleasure in using them as a colt in a pasture. 
Abdominal breathing. This is a very important end to be attained 
by health culture. Consumption is our most formidable foe. Its ag- 
gression can be completely checked and this fell destroyer completely 
routed out of the earth, by systematic abdominal breathing. Consump- 
tion bacilli never yet got a foothold in a well-developed chest. It is 
the weak-lunged, narrow-chested people only who die of consumption. 
If you belong to the latter, the sooner you change your condition 
the better. 
It is another noticable fact that weak lungs and poor digestion and 
assimilation are twin brothers, while strong lungs and good digestion 
go hand in hand. The reason of this is obvious. Every particle of food 
we eat has to pass through a state of combustion before it can be as 
similated. 
Eungs of limited capacity do not furnish enough, while the well- 
developed lungs furnish abundance of this vital fluid. Unlike food we 
cannot take too much. Therefore, the greater the lung capacity, the 
better the digestion and health. 
THE IMPROVED HYGENIC METHOD OF TREATING 
THE BODY FOR THE PREVENTION AND 
REMOVAL OF DISEASE. 
It has been long supposed that the only effectual method of cleans- 
ing the body from disease was by means of drugs. This has, we know, 
proved to be a failure. It is of comparatively recent discovery that 
the seat of disease is, in nearly all cases, in the alimentary canal or 
colon. This admitted, next in order comes the study of how to remove 
the disease germs effectually from the system and keep nature’s physi- 
cal highway clear of all obstructions. 
It has been experimented on with baths, exercise, and diet without 
fully solving the problem. 
It has been demonstrated in numberless cases that the best and, in- 
deed, only effective method of accomplishing this is to flush the colon 
at stated periods, graduated according to the condition and needs of 
the patient. It is so simple and natural a method that many in posses- ERRATA. 
[Line 22, page 71, shoud read as follows:] 
“Rub the rectum and the nozzle well with castor oil. In- 
sert the nozzle in the rectum and open the valve.” PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS IN THE HUMAN BODY. 
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sion of this valuable information neglect it because its simplicity and 
the slight inconvenience it causes them. The latter, when compared 
with the benefits received, scarcely deserves mention. 
If this treatment is fully carried out disease cannot remain in the 
system or obtain a foothold where it does not now exist It does more 
than that, it corrects constipation and dislodges accumulations; it 
cleanses the body of impurities which, if retained, render the blood 
impure, the perspiration, fetid, the breath foul and the complexion 
muddy and pimpled even where it does not produce actual disease. 
The grand benefits received in correcting these evils existing in a 
comparatively well body is priceless. A clean, elastic, wholesome, 
and vigorous body; a clean skin, bright eyes, and the rich glow of 
health on the cheek constitute beauty and grace, however plain the 
the features. 
I give below my own experience endorsed by numerous acquaint- 
ances and pupils. 
Procure a fountain syringe, that being the most convenient, and 
begin with a pint of water as hot as the hand can comfortably bear. 
Dissolve in it a little medicated castile soap. When the water has run 
into the tube open the valve and let the water escape until it runs warm. 
Hang the fountain on the wall, five or six feet from the floor. Close the 
valve. Rub the rectum and place the nozzle in the rectum and open the 
valve, laying comfortably upon the back or side. When the fountain is 
half emply turn on the right side and rise on the knees, face downward, 
without removing nozzle. Fxert the will to retain the water from five 
to fifteen minutes. Let the water pass out freely and naturally, without 
effort, which might be injurious in the relaxed condition. When the 
first has passed, somewhat relieving the bowels, it is well to take an- 
other flushing with clear water, to cleanse the walls of the colon. Re- 
peat every second night for four weeks, with perfect regularity, then 
twice a week for seven weeks. Afterwards, once a week will be suf- 
ficient. This treatment given to children weekly in connection with 
the flannel bath will keep their systems in excellent order, and prevent 
disease so common among them. Mothers will find it displaces the 
family physican, and spare them nights of watching and the little ones 
many painful attacks. 
I have found that with this treatment nature will soon restore the 
normal action, when the bowels have reached a healthy condition. Un- 
til that time treatment is as necessary as food. 
In connection with the foregoing the cold morning flannel bath is 
invaluable. It stimulates and refreshes the whole system, and keeps 
the natural channels of the skin free. For those too feeble to bear even 
the cold bath, the flannel is excellent. Take a yard square of flannel 
and wring it out in cold salt water. Rub the entire body well. Carry 
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over the back several times. Rubbing- with a towel completes the bath. 
This, in connection with health movements and others described in 
health culture will bring the system into good order and keep it so. 
The water can be taken at any hour in the day, providing the 
patient rests an hour afterward; but it is best for some reasons to take 
it at night, perfect rest for the system being an auxiliary benefit. 
Hygiene is the science that treats of the prevention of disease, and 
the preservation of health. It is the most important subject which can 
engage the human mind. Without health there can be but little 
pleasure in life, and happiness is impossible. Though men or women 
may live in a palace, and roll in millions, unless they are blessed with 
health they are poorer than the humblest family who live from hand to 
mouth on the plainest food in a western dug-out, but who are possessed 
of the priceless wealth of sound, healthy bodies. 
Too much cannot be said in behalf of our knowledge of hygiene. It 
will expell disease, and a proper use will keep the body from contamin- 
ating accumulations that will gather and collect in the different parts 
of the body from food taken into the system. Where the treatment is 
kept up as directed no drugs are required to cleanse the body and keep 
it in order. Many weary days and nights of watching will be spared and 
no expense incurred. Today where hundreds rejoice in the knowledge, 
ere long tens of thousands will raise their voices in its praise. Knowl- 
edge is power, and when we have gained the knowledge no one can take 
it from us. But this perfection is only promised to those who will faith- 
fully keep up the work. A DIALOGUE. 
Written at the request of two of my pupils, illustrating the philosophy of Health Culture 
DIALOGUE BETWEEN CHARLES AND KATE. 
Scene: Parlor. Chairs, tables, lounge, etc. 
Both enter. Curtain rises. Kate speaking as she enters. 
Kate.—Yes, Charles, I have heard somewhat of this new idea of 
yours, this system of health culture to bring our body into harmony. I 
have tried one or two of the exercises. 
Charles.—And what do you think of them? 
Kate (sighing).—They are very good; but you know I do not like to 
be bothered (looks at him). Now, tell me. Surely the study of spirit- 
ual philosophy is in no way related to a practice of physical exercises. 
I am at a loss to understand your meaning. 
Charles.—Perhaps, then, a short conversation upon this subject 
might be the means of enlightening you. In the beginning I would 
say that it will be wise for us to remember this: Whatever we do not 
understand we cannot pass intelligent judgment upon; consequently we 
will do well to refrain from criticism until our knowledge places us in a 
position to judge with understanding. 
Kate (laughs).—When will you cease philosophizing upon whatever 
I may chance to speak? You know I do not like speculation. To me it 
means very little. I would much prefer that you would confine your 
remarks to the practical side of the question. That I desire to have ex- 
plained. 
Charles (smiles).—Go on, Kate, go on. 
Kate.—It was of health culture that we were speaking, therefore, 
my dear Charles, do not sweep into the clouds where poets and vision- 
aries only are allowed to dwell, and is no sphere of existence for those 
who would be of more practical benefit to the material affairs of man. 
Charles.—You will no doubt find, dear Kate, that we do not disagree 
when you think this matter over clearly. I know well that you are in- 
clined to be skeptical about what you are pleased to term speculation 
and theory. Although you may profess disbelief in the letter of reli- 
gion, you love the spirit of truth that underlies it, even though you see 
it not. 
Kate.—I tell you, Charles, that it is practice I believe in and not 
theory. I do not see the benefit of trying to live in that imaginary 
world of yours, while we have flesh and blood bodies which must be 
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you must get some other companion. I prefer an occupation which is a 
little more substantial (laughs). 
Charles (smiles).—You shall have it, Kate, and if you will take a 
seat I will explain it to your satisfaction. (Kate sits on chair, Charles 
stands at her side, hand on back of the chair). She looks up.—I am 
quite comfortable, proceed. 
Charles.—While you, dear Kate, may feel that you have some ground 
for the ridicule and criticism of those theories you do not see fulfilled in 
practice, I think upon more serious consideration you will acknowledge 
this—the best practice of whatever nature it may be is always based 
upon a sound theory. The time has been and still is among those of 
some classes where the actions of a man were considered all important. 
The action was judged to be the reality, as it was all that could be seen 
and analyzed on the physical plane. It is needless to say that this con- 
dition of affairs exist only when the thoughts of man are so much on 
the material plane that he is oblivious to all else. 
By and by, however, in the course of his progression, there is born 
a perception of something more interior than the things he sees. Some- 
thing, except by means of which no action is performed, no word 
spoken. Thus it is that from the all importance of words and actions he 
swings to the opposite extreme of the all importance of thought. Now, 
while we recognize the important nature and function of thought as the 
agent, used to modify all those forms and conditions which are subject 
to change, be it man, planet, or universe. What I would like to call 
your particular attention to is the great importance of action as the ac- 
companiment of thought. For example, we may have the very kindest 
thoughts toward one who is hungry or in want, but our kind thought 
will avail but little if we do not do all that lies in our power to help the 
suffering by providing the necessities so much needed. It is not enough 
to think charitably. Thought is the seed. Action is the flower of 
thought; and thus the kind act is a morally fragrant blossoming of 
kindly feeling. 
Kate.—There is much truth, I believe, in what you say. 
Charles.—So, you see, if thought only were of importance we might 
sit idly down and think good wishes to all humanity year in and year 
out. But for what purpose have we received these physical bodies if 
not to be used as instruments by means of which we may carry out and 
practice those thoughts that will beautify the body and help onward the 
great wheels of the universe in the unfoldment of the divine plan. 
The highest ideal of man is to not only manifest perfect love and 
wisdom, but to give these high attributes a perfect form is necessary. 
While I would not say that we cannot attain perfection without health 
culture, I do say that it is an importanc help. The most important factor 
in the work of building up a perfect form is love—love of God and 
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the body may be brought into a more pliant condition, and thus become 
a more fitting instrument for the Master’s work. 
Kate (jumps up).—Why, Charles, these are quite new ideas, and in- 
terest me very much. But you know we are told by some of the most 
advanced thinkers of the day that there is no God? 
Charles.—I am aware that many so-called wise men presume to say 
as much; but need I tell you that their theory is not based on truth? 
What would you think of a life without a God—without love? God is a 
God of love whose glorious form and presence is only unknown to us 
because of the blindness of our own hearts. My dear Kate, would not 
life be a dreary wilderness, if we knew nothing of love? 
Kate.—I would not like to think of such a life—not for one moment. 
Charles.—All our hopes and fears, all our reaching out after some- 
thing higher, is but God’s love within us, which is a spiritual force 
within the soul struggling for freedom of expression. 
Kate (appears puzzled).—I do not wish to appear ignorant, but for 
the life of me I do not see what you mean by spiritual force. And what 
is it that you mean by releasing the soul—giving her her freedom? 
Charles.—I will try to make it clearer to you. The soul is that form 
bound by desire to earth, and which does not die when the physical 
form is laid in that change called death. 
Kate.—What positive proof have we of the existence of the soul? 
Charles.—We must not look outside of ourselves for the proof of the 
soul’s existence. If there be no God, no soul, from whence shall we say 
that unseen power proceeds by means of which the life-blood beats in 
the heart, and flows so rapidly through the human body. What is the 
source of life if, as it is said, there is no God? 
Kate.—Life—why, life is man, evolution, or something of that sort. 
But, really, those deep questions make my brain reel. 
Charles (smiles).—The brain, dear Kate, is but an instrument, 
which is after all but the servant of the will. When we understand this 
more clearly then will we use it tirelessly. But there is too much stress 
laid upon what is called brain. We think what a wonderful and power- 
full instrument it is—and yet,—a slight tap, the prick of a pin—and it 
lies a helpless mass in the cranium, of no more use to its owner than a 
lump of clay. 
Kate.—And do you really think the brain is powerless to act with- 
out the co-operation of the soul? 
Charles.—If the hand on the telegraph dial will not respond to the 
electric battery the telegram cannot be deciphered. In like manner 
when through physical incapacity, or a diseased brain, the body can no 
longer receive the impressions or messages of the soul it is useless, but 
the soul lives on. She receives her life from the Creator. This life is 
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wrong directions he has only himself to blame for the results that 
follow. 
Kate.—But if God is so merciful, and man so willful, why has God 
left him his will so unfettered? 
Charles.—That man may serve him by choice, not by compulsion. 
Angels have fallen from God’s grace as well as man, but He casts none 
of His children from Him. The cross of our Master is radiant in the 
heavens, and all who will may walk by its light. Christ, who was 
manifest 2000 years ago lives today in all His glory and power—lives 
within thyself, dear Kate. Those who would know the truth as He 
knows it must live the true life as He lived it. Then will it be found 
that our life is His life, and our power His power. 
Kate.—Tell me, Charles, how long have you been a student of this 
new faith, or doctrine, or whatever it is called? What makes you so 
interested? Are you afraid of death? 
Charles (smiles).—Far from it, dear Kate. It is not the fear of 
death but the love of truth by which our spiritual perceptions are awak- 
ened, in the light of truth that dawns within the soul, the conditions 
you speak of as life and death are seen to be but passing changes by 
which the real man is unaffected. 
Kate (thoughtfully).—And yet, death is not so awful after all; I 
think it is better to die than to live long enough for life to lose its 
charms. 
Charles. My dear Kate, there is a life that never dies. If you will 
but study and understand its laws, then will you know of a life that is 
not counted by days. 
Kate.—To die—ah! then we may discover the hidden secret, the clue 
that would unravel the mystery of eternity. Or is it that we are to 
think thoughts, and dream dreams which will never be realized. 
Charles.—All power comes from within. All our hopes will be 
realized when we know and live the truth. 
Kate.—Oh, Charles! Must our dreams perish, even while we are 
dreaming them? 
Charles.—No, Kate; no. 
Kate.—If there is a God, why do we not get answers to our prayers? 
Charles, can it be possible that we are the dupes of time? 
Charles.—No, a thousand times no! There is an endless life, so 
vast, so grand, so great, whereby the soul will soar to endless bliss. 
Those who live for truth will fully realize their high ideals. Hvery 
wish of pure devotion will be fulfilled when the soul’s experience is il- 
lumined by the light of understanding. 
Kate.—I do not see a ray of that light, not even a shadow for your 
happy faith. I have reflected upon those things until I have wearied 
myself with musing. 
Charles.—Dear Kate, those things can only come from the within. Practical instructions in the human body. 
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Happy are they who listen for the voice of their God in meekness, and 
lowliness of heart, for they will then know of that secret peace which 
passeth mortal understanding. 
Kate.—What is peace? Does not the same end come to all? The 
wise and the foolish alike go down into the grave together, so let us 
enjoy ourselves while we can. 
Charles.—That depends upon what you call enjoyment. (Takes her 
hand.) Oh, Kate, do try to find happiness in the true way, not in the 
many by-ways of nonsense which are offered by the world to the unwise. 
Kate.—We like to cling to what we can see. I often wonder if 
those aspiring ones are searching in vain. And will the grave seal 
their lips forever? 
Charles. —There is no grave that can rob us of life, no door that can 
shut in the life of the soul, if we live for life and not for death. 
Kate.—Why, the best part of our thoughts remain hidden within 
the brain like buds of flowers which never come to bloom. Still they 
live and we are not able to syllable them into speech. Why do such 
ideas suggest themselves to us? 
Charles.—I cannot say, unless— 
Kate.—Unless what? 
Charles.—Unless they are foreshadowings of a future which will 
soon be realized. But tell me, Kate, would it not make you happy to 
have the assurance that you would still live on? 
Kate.—I would rather never die. 
Charles.—But if you had the assurance that death was but a sleep 
from which you would wake to a happier sphere of existence. With 
this knowledge what would you do? 
Kate.—What would I do? 
Charles.—Yes, what would you do? 
Kate.—I would begin life all over again, so that when the veil was 
drawn aside, when I stepped out of this body, as it were—I should not 
be haunted by memories of a past, of a missspent life. Do you not 
think that there are some things in every life which we should like to 
forget. 
Charles.—The lights and shadows in our past existence may indeed 
seem strong by contrast; and we seem freighted by a weight of sin, 
well nigh insupportable at times. Then is revealed to us the meaning 
of freedom, and salvation, the difference between mortality and im- 
mortality. Our Savior is indeed the way by the light of whose love, 
and by the power of whose understanding we may rise into the glory of 
a new life. 
Kate.—Can all find that new life? Can all enter who feel the great 
need? 
Charles.—Most assuredly they can, Kate, if they live for it. And 
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unselfish life that goes on progressing into spiritual knowledge, as the 
fruits of living what we profess. We are taught that knowledge is 
power, and I can testify to the truth of the statement. 
Kate.—And you really believe that the practice of health culture 
will give us higher knowledge and power. 
Charles.—When, as sometimes happens, the body is distorted with 
pain so that the limbs can scarce be moved, or we go limping about 
with a cane, or an arm hangs helpless at the side, we are then aware 
of the absence of power—God’s power. But if in a comparatively short 
time we learn to walk erect, to use the arms with freedom, and banish 
pain, we demonstrate .to the world that knowledge, wisely and persev- 
eringly used, is power indeed. 
Rate.—Yes, that would be knowledge worth possessing. 
Charles.—I have seen many persons suffering with what is called 
rheumatism. Having been crippled for years. But by an understand- 
ing and practice of health culture, the step has grown firm and steady, 
the body erect, and the arms, freed from pain, freely restored to their 
customary usefulness. What can we say, too much in praise of such 
results? 
Kate.—I thought, Charles, that those instructions were only to give 
grace of movement and muscular development to the body. 
Charles.—Health culture is to harmonize, first, every part of the 
physical body, and second, the lesson’s purpose to teach harmony be- 
tween body and soul. Health is harmony between all the bodily func- 
tions, and leads to the atonement between the lower and the higher. 
Observe with attention the passers-bye, singly or in crowds, and decide 
as to whether or not harmony is needed to bring the masses up to a 
higher level, a truer development of God’s knowledge. 
Kate (surprised).—Why, Charles, what could health culture do for 
them? 
Charles.—Perfect poise of bearing, for instance, keeps the body in 
harmony with the laws of gravitation. We do not see the student of 
health culture dragging the body about with lagging steps. He is 
carried along by magic force whose secret is perfect adjustment of the 
physical according to known laws This is the true freedom that we 
try to gain; the value of which is beyond all price. We are told that 
spiritual beings have the power of flight. Next to that is a graceful 
and natural walk. The man who has by practice acquired perfect con- 
trol of the muscular system walks without apparent effort. He attracts 
attention either at home or on the street, because perfect physical de- 
velopmeut is lamentably rare even in this age of progress. If we had 
these classes all over the state many young men whose evenings are 
passed in questionable amusements would see the improvement in their 
fellows and drop into the class room one by one to discover the secret. 
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Kate.—That is a system of phillosophy that would do more for 
humanity than all the temperence lectures in the world. 
Charles.—Temperance lectures are all very well in their place, but 
if men understood themselves as God intended, we should need no 
temperance lectures. Our work should teach the masses to know 
themselves, not as mechanical performers of so much daily drudgery, 
and nursing their grievances until all the God power is sacrificed, 
health, self-culture, will endow them with power to rise above the wants 
and exactions of the physical and enable them to raise the physical to 
the plane of the divine. 
Kate.—You have awakened a new joy, a new interest in life. 
Charles (takes her hand).—That is my noble Kate. In his work 
we will go hand in hand with all those who will try for the higher. 
“SCHOOL OF SELF-CULTURE ” 
Press Notice. 
“The object of the course of instruction given in this school is to 
bring men and women into harmony with the eternal laws that govern 
our being. The system taught is based upon the fundamental fact that 
health is the natural and disease the unnatural condition of the human 
body. In order to remove wrong conditions when existing in the body, 
and thereby remove the resulting disease, to restore proper conditions 
and thereby re-establish health, it is essential to possess adequate 
knowledge. This knowledge is here imparted. To bring every por- 
tion of the body into harmony it is necessary to have perfect control 
over all the joints and muscles. 
Suitable exercises supply the only means by which the various 
parts of the human body may thus be placed in harmony with one an- 
other, and a true equilibrium established'among them. When this has 
been accomplished health is assured, and the elacticity of youth is re- 
tained or restored. 
By means of the system of abdominal breathing, rythmic move- 
ments and hygienic treatment taught in the School of Self-Culture dis- 
ease is overcome and strength and vitality attained and retained. 
All ailments, both chronic and acute, are cured more surely and 
safely by it than by the use of drugs- Rheumatism, asthma, consump- 
tion, catarrh, skin diseases, as well as the marks of old age disappear 
under this simple and wonderful method of treatment. Obesity and 
other disfigurements quickly yield to its curative power. 
Mrs. A. L. Johnson is the widow of an eminent New York physican. 
While assisting her husband she acquired a knowledge of anatomy and PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS IN THE HUMAN BODY. 
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of the nature and symptoms of disease to which the human body is sub- 
ject. 
In London she studied under competent instructors the method of 
abdominal breathing for the cure of throat and lung complaints, and in 
Paris the method of preserving the elacticity of the body by means of 
rhythmical mov ements. By independent thought and observation 
and by adopting the best ideas of modern science, she evolved her 
present system of curing through the proper application of natural 
laws. 
Mrs. Johnson receives patients and pupils for treatment and in- 
struction in her parlors in the Templeton building, where she also 
gives training in elocution and dramatic art. She publishes a book 
containing full information regarding her system of rules of hygienic 
treatment. She is herself an excellent proof of the efficacy of her 
method, because by it she restored herself to health after she had been 
for many years an invalid, and now, although advanced in years, by its 
aid preserves remarkable activitity and youthfulness of appearance. 
Since Mrs. Johnson established the School of Self-Culture in this 
city it has received the approval and patronage of a number of the best 
people in the community, and many of her patients, after a life of suf- 
fering, have been restored to health, strength and the full enjoymet of 
life. She extends a cordial invitation to all who desire to avail them- 
selves of her knowledge, and obtain the benefit of free consultation.”