2. In seeking the truth you are seeking ultimate cause; you know that every human experience is an effect; if you ascertain the cause, and if you find that this is one which you can consciously control, the effect or the experience will be within your control also.
3. Human experience will then no longer be the football of fate; a individual will not be the child of fortune, but destiny, fate and fortune will be controlled as readily as a captain controls their vessel at sea.
4. All things are finally resolvable into the same element and as they are thus translatable, one into the other, they must ever be in relation and may never be in opposition to one another.
5. In the physical world there are innumerable contrasts, and these may for convience sake be designated by distinctive names. There are sizes, colors, shades or ends to all things. There is a north pole and a south pole, an inside and an outside, a seen and an unseen, but these expressions merely serve to place extremes in contrast.
6. They are names given to two different parts of one quantity. The two extremes are relative; they are not separate entities, but are two parts or aspects of the whole.
7. In the mental world you find the same law; you speak of knowledge and ignorance, but ignorance is only a lack of knowledge and is therefore found to be simply a word to express the absence of knowledge; it has no principle in itself.
8. In the moral world you again find the same law; you speak of good and evil, but good is a reality, something tangible, while evil is found to be simply a negative condition, the absence of good. Evil is sometimes thought to be a very real condition, but it has no principle, no vitality to life; you know this because it can always be destroyed by good; just as truth destroys error and light destroys darkness; so evil vanishes when good appears; there is therefore but one principle in the moral world.
9. You find exactly the same law obtaining in the spiritual world; you speak of mind and matter as two separate entities, but clearer insight makes it evident that there is but one operative principle, and that is mind.
10. Mind is the real and the eternal. Matter is for ever changing; you know that in the eons of time a thousand years is but as a day. If you stand in any large city and let the eye rest on the innumerable large and magnificient buildings, the roadways, the telephones, the electric lights and all the other conveniences of modern civilization, you may remember that not one of them was there one hundred years ago. And if you could stand on the same spot in a hundred years from now, in all probability you should find that but few of them remain.
11. In the animal kingdom you find the same law of change. The millions and millions of animals come and go, a few years constituiting their span of life. In the plant world the change is still more rapid. Many plants and nearly all grassses come and go in a single year; but as you gaze on the apparently solid continent, you are told that it arose from the ocean; you see the giant mountain and are told that the place where it now stands was once a lake; and as you stand in awe before the great cliffs in the yosemite valley, you can easily trace the path of the glaciers which carried all before them.
12. You are in the presence of continual change, and you know that this change is but the evolution of the universal mind, the grand process whereby all things are continually being created anew, and you come to know that matter is but a form which mind takes and is therefore simply a condition. Matter has no principle; mind is the only principle.
13. You have then come to know that mind is the only principle which is operative in the physical, mental, moral and spiritual world.
14. You also know that this mind is static, or mind at rest; and you know that the ability of the individual to think is your ability to act upon the universal mind and convert it into dynamic mind, or mind in motion.
15. In order to do this fuel must be applied in the form of food, for you cannot think without eating, and so you find that even a spiritual activity such as thinking cannot be converted into sources of pleasure and profit except by making use of material means.
16. It requires energy of some kind to collect electricity and convert it into dynamic power; it requires the rays of the sun to give the necessary energy to sustain plant life; it also requires energy in the form of food to enable the individual to think and thereby act upon the universal mind.
17. You may know that thought constantly, eternally, is taking form, is for ever seeking expression, but the fact remains that if your thought is powerful, constructive and positive, this will be plainly evident in the state of your health, your business and your environment. If your thought is weak, critical, destructive and negative generally, it will manifest in your body as fear, worry and nervousness, in your finance as lack and limitation, and in discordant conditions in your environment.
18. All wealth is the offspring of power; possessions are of value only as they confer power. Events are significant only as they affect power; all things represent certain forms and degrees of power.
19. A knowledge of cause and effect as shown by the laws governing steam, electricity, chemical affinity and gravitation enables mankind to plan courageously and to execute fearlessly. These laws are called natural laws, because they govern the physical world, but all power is not physical power; there is also mental power, and there is moral and spiritual power.
20. Schools, Colleges and Universities, are but mental power-houses, places where mental power is being collected all over the world and developing and evidently controlling every other power. In its static form it is mind, in its dynamic form it is thought.
21. This power is superior because it exists on a higher plane, because it has enabled mankind to discover the law by which the wonderful unity of nature could be harnessed and made to do the work of hundreds and thousands of people. It has enable mankind to discover laws whereby time and space have been annihilated.
22. Thought is the vital force or energy which is being developed and which has produced such startling results in the last century as to bring about a world which would be absolutely inconceivable to a person existing only one hundred years ago. If such results have beem secured by organizing these mental power-houses, what is expected in another one hundred years from now?
23.The substance from which all things are created is infinite in quantity; you know that light travels at a rate of 186,000 miles per second, and you know that there are stars so remote that it takes light 2000 years to reach you and you know that such stars exist in all parts of the heaven; that this light come in waves, so that if the either on which these waves travel was not continuous the light would fail to reach you; you can then only come to the conclusion that this substance, or ether, or raw material is universally present.
24. How then does it manifest in form? In electrical science a battery is formed by connecting the opposite poles of zinc and copper, which causes a current to flow from one to the other so provides energy. This same process is repeated in respect to every polarity, and as all form simply depends upon the rate of vibration and consequent relations of atoms to each other, if you wish to change the form of manifestation you must change the polarity. This is the principle of causation.
