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the lives of honest, healthy
and sane human beings, that rival the psychic manifestations of Indian Yogism or
Hebrew records.
Still men go on doubting this true and loving subjective intelligence that is constantly
wooing for entrance into the soul and is ever vigilant in warning the material life of
approaching evils. They prefer the Witch of Endor, and the Black Magicians of ancient
Egypt to the higher, or Christ self, that has been seen and heard by the sages and saints of
all ages, assuming appropriate symbols, as in the case of the vision of ``F,'' where the
angel of death was assumed.
To Paul it appeared as a great personal truth whom he was relentlessly persecuting. To
many a wayward son or daughter of the present time, it appears as a dead relative or
friend, in order to approach the material mind and make its warning more effective.
To those who were interested in the teachings of Christ, but who after his death were
inclined to doubt him, this higher self materialized in the form of the Great Master in
order to impress on their material minds the spiritual import of his teachings. So, to this
day, when doubt and temptation mar the moral instinct, God, through the spiritual self, as
Job says, approaches man while in deep sleep upon the bed to impress his instructions
that he may change man from his purpose.
The spiritual world always fixes its orbit upon a straight line, while the material world is
fonder of curves. We find man struggling through dreadful marshes and deserts of
charlatanism in order to get a glimpse into his future, instead of solicitously following the
straight line of inner consciousness that connects with the infinite mind, from which,
aided by his Church and the healthy action of his own judgment, he may receive those
helpful spiritual impressions and messages necessary to solace the longings of the
searching soul.
The philosophy of the True Master is the straight line. Pythagoras, Plato and Christ
created angles by running vertical lines through the ecclesiastical and hypocritical
conventionalities of their day. The new angles and curves thus produced by the bold
philosophy of the humble Nazarene have confronted with impregnable firmness during
the intervening ages the sophistry of the Pharisees.
``In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings
upon the bed; then he openeth the ears of men and sealeth their instruction. That he may
withdraw man from his purpose and hide pride from man.''--JOB 33:15.
``Man cannot contradict the laws of Nature. But, are all the laws of Nature yet
understood?''
``Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.''--LYTTON.
Those who live active lives exclude spiritual thought and fill their minds with the

fascinations of worldly affairs, pleasure and business, dream with less frequency than
those who regard objective matters with lighter concern. The former depend alone upon
the voluptuous warmth of the world for contentment; they look to money, the presence of
some one, or to other external sources for happiness, and are often disappointed; while
the latter, with a just appreciation of temporal wants, depend alone upon the inner
consciousness for that peace which passeth all carnal understanding.
They are strengthened, as were Buddha and Christ, by suppressing the sensual fires for
forty days and nights in the wilderness of trial and temptation. They number a few, and
are never disappointed, while the former number millions.
Nature is three-fold, so is man; male and female, son or soul. The union of one and two
produce the triad or the trinity which underlies the philosophy of the ancients.
Man has a physical or visible body, an atom of the physical or visible earth. He has a soul
the exact counterpart of his body, but invisible and subjective; incomplete and imperfect
as the external man, or vice versa.
The soul is not only the son or creation of man, but it is the real man. It is the inner
imperishable double or imprint of what has outwardly and inwardly transpired. All
thoughts, desires and actions enter the soul through the objective mind.
The automaton of the body responds as quickly to the bat of the eye as it does to the
movement of the whole body. By it the foot-steps of man and the very hairs of his head
are numbered. Thus it becomes his invisible counterpart. It is therefore the book of life or
death, and by it he judges himself or is already judged. When it is complete nothing can
be added or taken from its personnel. It is sometimes partly opened to him in his dreams,
but in death is clearly revealed.
Man has also a spiritual body, subjective to, and more ethereal than the soul.