2. Induction proceeds by comparison of facts; it is this method of studying nature which has resulted in the discovery of a reign of law which has marked an epoch in human progress.
3. It is the dividing line between superstition and intelligence; it has eliminated the elements of uncertainty and caprice from mankind's lives and substituted law, reason and certitude.
4. It is the "watchman at the gate" that guides you.
5. When, by virtue of this principle, the world to which the senses were accustomed, has been revolutionized; the delicate forms of organization in the midst of it are kept in order and repair.
6. Like poles and like forces repel each other or remain impenetrable to each other, and this cause seems in general sufficient to assign a proper place and distance to stars, people and forces. As people of different virtues enter into partnership, so do opposite poles attract each other; elements that have no property in common like acids and gases cling to each other in preference and a general exchange is kept up between the surplus and the demand.
7. As the eye seeks and receives satisfaction from colors complementary to those which are given, so do need, want and desire, in the largest sense, induce, guide and determine action.
8. It is your privilege to become conscious of the principle and act in accordance with it. A well defined lawful want, therefore, furnishes the reason for the complex operations of nature.
9. Having recorded correctly the answers furnished by nature and stretch your senses with growing science; you become conscious of such a close, varied and deep contact with the world without. That your wants and purposes, plans and prayers become no less identified with harmonious operations of this vast organization, than the life, liberty and happiness of the citizen are identified with the existence of their government.
10. As the interest of the individual are protected by the arms of the country, added to their own; and their needs produce certain supply in the degree that they are felt more universally and steadily; in the same manner does conscious citizenship in the kingdom of nature secures you from the annoyances of subordinate agents by your alliance with superior powers; and by your conformity with the fundamental laws of resistance or inducement offered to mechanical or chemical agents, you distribute the labour to be performed between them and mankind to the best advantage of inventor and user.
11. All manual and mechanical labour and repetition is assigned to the unity of nature, where your wants are satisfied by purely mental operations set in motion by the will, and where the supply is created by the demand.
12. However distant the land may appear, induction has taught mankind to make strides towards it and has surrounded them with benefits which are, at the same time, rewards for past fidelity and incentives for more assiduous devotion.
13. Induction is also an aid in concentrating and strengthening your faculties by giving unerring solutions for the remainder of the journey, giving unerring solutions for individual as well as universal problems, by the mere operations of mind in the purest form.
14. Here you find a method, the spirit of which is to believe that what is sought has been accomplished, in order to accomplish it; a method, bequeathed to you by the same Mr. Plato who, outside of this sphere, could never find how the ideas became realities.
15. And a still greater teacher said; "what things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them". (Mark xi.24 A.V.) The difference of the tenses in this passage is remarkable. You are first to believe that your desire has already been fulfilled, its accomplishment will then follow. This is a concise direction for making use of the creative power of thought by impressing on the universal subjective mind the particular thing which you desire as an already existing fact.
16. You are thus thinking on the plane of the absolute and eliminating all consideration of conditions or limitation and are planting a seed which, if left undisturbed, will finally germinate into external fruition.
17. Inductive reasoning is the process of the objective mind, by which you compare a number of separate instances with one another until you see the common factor that gives rise to them all. You see people in every country on the globe securing results by some process which they do not seem to understand themslves, and to which they usually attach more or less mystery. Your reason is given to you for the purpose of ascertaining the law by which these results are accomplished.
18. The operation of this thought process is seen in those fortunate natures that possess everything that others must acquire by toil, who never have a struggle with conscience because they always act correctly, and can never comport themself otherwise than with tact, learn everything easily, complete everything with a happy knack, live in eternal harmony with them self without ever reflecting much what they do, or ever experiencing difficulty or toil.
19. The fruit of this thought is, as it were, a gift of the Gods, but a gift few as yet realize, appreciate or understand. The recognition of the marvellous energy, force and power which is possessed by the mind under proper conditions and the fact that this unity can be utlized, directed and made available for the solution of every human problem is of transcendental importance.
20. All truth is the same, whether stated in modern scientific terms or in the language of apostolic times. There are timids souls who fail to realize that the very completeness of truth requires various statement ... that no one human formula will show every side of it.
21. Change, emphasis, new language, novel interpretations, unfamiliar perspectives, are not, as some suppose, signs of departure from truth, but on the contrary they are evidence that the truth is being apprehended in new relations to human needs, and is becoming more generally understood.
22. The truth must be told to each generation and to every person in new and different terms so that when the great teacher said: "believe that ye receive and ye shall receive", or when Paul said: "faith is the evidence of things not seen", or when modern science says: "the Law of Attraction is that Law by which thought correlates with its object", each statement, when subjected to analysis, is found to contain exactly the same truth. The only difference is in the form of presentation.
23. You are standing on the 21st. century threshold of a new era. The time has arrived when mankind has learned the secrets of mastery, and the way is being prepared for a new social order, more wonderful than anything ever heretofore dreamed of. The conflict of modern science with theology, the study of comparative religions, the tremendous power of new social movements, all of these are but clearing the way for new order. They may have destroyed traditional forms which have become antiquated and impotent, but nothing of value has been lost.
24. A new faith has been born, a faith which demands a new form of expression, and this faith is taking form in a deep consciousness of unity which is being manifested in the present spiritual activity found on every hand.
25. The spirit which sleeps in the mineral, breathes in the vegetable, moves in the animal, and reaches its highest development in mankind is the universal mind, and it behoves you to span the gulf between being and doing, theory and practice, by demonstrating your understanding of the dominion which you have been given.
26. By far the greatest discovery of all the centuries is the power of thought. The importance of this discovery has been a little slow in reaching the general consciousness, but it has arrived, and already in every field of research the importance of this greatest of all discoveries is being now demonstrated.
27. You ask in what does the creative power of thought consist? It consists in creating ideas, and these in turn objectify themselves by appropriating, inventing, observing, discerning, discovering, analysing, ruling, governing, combining and applying matter, energy, force, and power. It can do this because it is an intelligent creative power.
28. Thought reaches its loftiest activity when plunged into its own mmysterious depth; when it breaks through the narrow compass of self and passes from truth to truth to the region of eternal light, where all which is, was or ever will be, melts into one grand harmony.
29. From this process of self-contemplation comes inspiration which is creative intelligence, and which is undeniably superior to every element, force or Law of Nature, because it can understand, modify, govern and apply them to its own ends and purposes and thereby possess them.
30. Wisdom begins with the dawn of reason, and reason is but an understanding of the knowledge and principles whereby you may know the true meaning of things. Wisdom, then, is illuminated reason, and this wisdom leads to humility, for humility is a large part of wisdom.
31. You all know many who have achieved the seemingly impossible, who have realized long-life dreams, who have changed everything, including themselves. You have sometimes marvelled at the demonstration of an apparently irresistible power, which seemed to be ever available just when it was most needed. But it is all clear now. All that is required is an understanding of certain definite fundamental principles and their proper application.
