1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:06,559 Speaker 1: The twelfth lesson subconscious Influences. In this lesson we wish 2 00:00:06,599 --> 00:00:10,080 to touch upon a certain feature of subconscious mentation that 3 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:12,960 has been much dwelt upon by certain schools of Western 4 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:16,640 writers and students during the past twenty years, but which 5 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:21,359 has also been misunderstood and alas too often misused by 6 00:00:21,359 --> 00:00:23,719 some of those who have been attracted to the subject. 7 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:27,280 We allude to what has been called the power of thought. 8 00:00:28,039 --> 00:00:30,839 While this power is very real, and like any other 9 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:33,320 of the forces of nature, may be properly used and 10 00:00:33,359 --> 00:00:36,759 applied in our every day life, still many students of 11 00:00:36,799 --> 00:00:39,560 the power of the mind have misused it and have 12 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:43,280 stooped to practices worthy only of the followers of the 13 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:46,840 schools of black magic. We hear on all sides of 14 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:49,799 the use of treatments for selfish and often base ends. 15 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:53,640 Those following these practices seeming to be an utter ignorance 16 00:00:53,679 --> 00:00:57,200 of the occult laws brought into operation, and the terrible 17 00:00:57,240 --> 00:01:01,119 reaction inevitably falling to the lot of those practicing this 18 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:06,079 negative form of mental influence. We have been amazed at 19 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:09,239 the prevailing ignorance concerning the nature and effects of this 20 00:01:09,359 --> 00:01:12,640 improper use of mental force, and at the same time 21 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:17,719 at the common custom of such selfish improper uses. This 22 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:22,079 more particularly when the true occultists knows that these things 23 00:01:22,079 --> 00:01:25,760 are not necessary even to those who seek success by 24 00:01:25,799 --> 00:01:29,200 mental forces. There is a true method of the use 25 00:01:29,239 --> 00:01:32,680 of mental forces as well as an improper use. And 26 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:35,159 we trust that in this lesson we may be able 27 00:01:35,239 --> 00:01:38,439 to bring the matter sharply and clearly before the minds 28 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:43,640 of our students. In our first course the fourteen Lessons, 29 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:49,879 in the several lessons entitled, respectively, thought dynamics, telepathy, et cetera, 30 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:54,920 and Psychic influence, we have given a general idea of 31 00:01:54,959 --> 00:01:58,439 the effect of one mind upon other minds, and many 32 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:01,239 other writers have called the attention of the Western world 33 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:05,000 to the same facts. There has been a general awakening 34 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:07,439 of interest in this phase of the subject among the 35 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:11,080 Western people of late years, and many and wonderful are 36 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:14,280 the theories that have been advanced among the conflicting schools 37 00:02:14,319 --> 00:02:19,719 regarding the matter. But notwithstanding the conflicting theories, there is 38 00:02:19,759 --> 00:02:24,000 a general agreement upon the fundamental facts. They all agree 39 00:02:24,039 --> 00:02:27,120 that the mental forces may be used to affect oneself 40 00:02:27,159 --> 00:02:30,199 and others, and many have started in to use these 41 00:02:30,199 --> 00:02:34,120 mental forces for their own selfish ends and purposes, believing 42 00:02:34,159 --> 00:02:37,400 that they were fully justified in so doing, and being 43 00:02:37,479 --> 00:02:40,479 unaware of the web of psychic causes and effects which 44 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:45,680 they were weaving around them by their practices. Now at 45 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:48,120 the beginning, let us impress upon the minds of our 46 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:51,879 students the fact, while it is undoubtedly true that people 47 00:02:51,879 --> 00:02:54,840 who are unaware of the true sources of strength within 48 00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:58,240 them may be, and often are, affected by mental force 49 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:01,879 exerted by others, it is equally true that no one 50 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:05,919 can be adversely affected in this way, providing he realizes 51 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:09,639 the eye within himself, which is the only real part 52 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:12,879 of him, and which is an impregnable tower of strength 53 00:03:13,199 --> 00:03:17,159 against the assaults of others. There is no cause for 54 00:03:17,199 --> 00:03:19,800 all of this fear that is being manifested by many 55 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:23,240 Western students of thought power, who are in constant dread 56 00:03:23,319 --> 00:03:27,520 of being treated adversely by other people. The man or 57 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:31,520 woman who realizes the eye within may, by the slightest 58 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:35,080 exercise of the will, surround himself with the mental aur 59 00:03:35,319 --> 00:03:38,759 which will repel adverse thought waves emanating from the minds 60 00:03:38,759 --> 00:03:43,240 of others. Nay more than this, the habitual recognition of 61 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:46,560 the eye, and a few moments meditation upon it each 62 00:03:46,639 --> 00:03:50,000 day will of itself erect such an aura, and will 63 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:53,039 charge this aura with a vitality that will turn back 64 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:56,280 adverse thought and cause it to return to the source 65 00:03:56,319 --> 00:03:58,879 from which it came, where it will serve the good 66 00:03:58,879 --> 00:04:02,400 purpose of bringing to the mistaken mind originating it the 67 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:06,000 conviction that such practices are hurtful and to be avoided. 68 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,639 This realization of the eye, which we brought out in 69 00:04:09,719 --> 00:04:12,599 the first few lessons of the present series, is the 70 00:04:12,639 --> 00:04:16,319 best and only real method of self protection. This may 71 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:19,759 be easily understood when we remind you that the whole 72 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:24,879 phenomena of mental influencing belongs to the illusion side of existence, 73 00:04:25,439 --> 00:04:29,439 the negative side, and that the real and positive side must, 74 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:33,959 of necessity be stronger. Nothing can affect the real in you, 75 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,360 and the nearer you get to the real in realization 76 00:04:37,519 --> 00:04:42,040 and understanding, the stronger do you become. This is the 77 00:04:42,079 --> 00:04:47,279 whole secret. Think it over. But there are comparatively few 78 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:49,639 people who are able to rest firmly in the eye 79 00:04:49,639 --> 00:04:53,199 consciousness all the time, and the others demand help while 80 00:04:53,199 --> 00:04:57,519 they are growing to such. We would say, creep as 81 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:01,319 close to the realization of the eye a possible, and 82 00:05:01,439 --> 00:05:04,360 rest your spiritual feet firmly upon the rock of the 83 00:05:04,399 --> 00:05:09,319 real self. If you feel that people, circumstances, or things 84 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:14,480 are influencing you unduly, stand up boldly and deny the influence. 85 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:19,519 Say something like this, I deny the power or influence 86 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:24,680 of persons, circumstances, or things to adversely affect me. I 87 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:31,199 assert my reality, power and dominion over these things. These 88 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:34,079 words may seem very simple, but when uttered with the 89 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:37,839 consciousness of the truth underlying them, they become as a 90 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:41,800 mighty force. You will understand, of course, that there is 91 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:45,319 no magic or virtue in the words themselves, that is, 92 00:05:45,399 --> 00:05:48,120 in the grouping of the letters forming the words, or 93 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:51,360 the sounds of the words, the virtue resting in the 94 00:05:51,399 --> 00:05:56,199 idea of which the words are the expression. You will 95 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:59,319 be surprised at the effect of this statement upon depressing 96 00:05:59,399 --> 00:06:04,279 or adverse influences surrounding you. If you, you who are 97 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:08,480 reading these words, now feel yourself subject to any adverse 98 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:13,279 or depressing influences, will then stand up erect, throwing your 99 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:18,079 shoulders back, raising your head, and looking boldly and fearlessly ahead, 100 00:06:18,519 --> 00:06:22,240 and repeat these words firmly and with faith. You will 101 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:27,120 feel the adverse influences disappearing. You will almost see the 102 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:31,759 clouds falling back from you. Try it now before reading further, 103 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:35,519 and you will become conscious of a new strength and power. 104 00:06:37,519 --> 00:06:41,879 You are perfectly justified in thus denying adverse influence. You 105 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:44,959 have a perfect right to drive back threatening or depressing 106 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,959 thought clouds. You have a perfect right to take your 107 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:51,759 stand upon the rock of truth, your real self, and 108 00:06:51,879 --> 00:06:56,160 demand your freedom. These negative thoughts of the world in general, 109 00:06:56,560 --> 00:06:59,680 and of some people in particular, belong to the dark 110 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:02,439 side of life, and you have a right to demand 111 00:07:02,519 --> 00:07:05,879 freedom from them. You do not belong to the same 112 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:10,199 idea of life, and it is your privilege, yes your duty, 113 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:13,639 to repel them and bid them disappear from your horizon. 114 00:07:14,839 --> 00:07:17,720 You are a child of light, and it is your 115 00:07:17,839 --> 00:07:21,120 right and duty to assert your freedom from the things 116 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:25,279 of darkness. You are merely asserting the truth when you 117 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:30,160 affirm your superiority and dominion over these dark forces, and 118 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:33,199 in the measure of your recognition and faith will be 119 00:07:33,279 --> 00:07:38,720 the power at your disposal. Faith and recognition renders man 120 00:07:38,759 --> 00:07:42,920 a god. If we could but fully recognize and realize 121 00:07:43,079 --> 00:07:46,199 just what we are, we could rise above this entire 122 00:07:46,279 --> 00:07:50,079 plane of negative, dark world of thought. But we have 123 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:53,199 become so blinded and stupefied with the race thought of 124 00:07:53,279 --> 00:07:56,800 fear and weakness, and so hypnotize with the suggestions of 125 00:07:56,839 --> 00:07:59,600 weakness that we hear on all sides of us, that 126 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:02,079 even the best of us find it hard to avoid 127 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:06,560 occasionally sinking back into the lower depths of despair and discouragement. 128 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:10,800 But let us remember this, brothers and sisters, that these 129 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:16,160 periods of backsliding become less frequent and lasts a shorter time. 130 00:08:16,279 --> 00:08:20,399 As we proceed by and by we shall escape them altogether. 131 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:24,480 Some may think that we are laying too much stress 132 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:27,680 upon the negative side of the question, but we feel 133 00:08:27,759 --> 00:08:30,800 that what we have said is timely and much needed 134 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:34,399 by many who read these lessons. There has been so 135 00:08:34,519 --> 00:08:38,200 much said regarding this negative adverse power of thought, that 136 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:40,960 it is well that all should be taught that it 137 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:44,360 is in their power to rise above this thing, that 138 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:47,679 the weapon for its defeat is already in their hand. 139 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:52,480 The most advanced student may occasionally forget that he is 140 00:08:52,519 --> 00:08:55,919 superior to the adverse influence of the race thought and 141 00:08:56,039 --> 00:08:58,879 other clouds of thought influence that happen to be in 142 00:08:58,919 --> 00:09:02,159 his neighborhood. When we think of how few there are 143 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:05,440 who are sending forth the positive, hopeful thought waves, and 144 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:09,799 how many are sending forth continually the thoughts of discouragement, fear, 145 00:09:09,879 --> 00:09:13,000 and despair. It is no wonder that at times there 146 00:09:13,039 --> 00:09:17,240 comes to us a feeling of discouragement, helplessness, and what's 147 00:09:17,279 --> 00:09:20,679 the use? But we must be ever alert to stand 148 00:09:20,759 --> 00:09:24,000 up and deny these things out of existence. So far 149 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:27,399 as our personal thought world is concerned, there is a 150 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:32,399 wonderful occult truth in the last sentence. We are the makers, preservers, 151 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:36,759 and destroyers of our personal thought world. We may bring 152 00:09:36,919 --> 00:09:40,320 into it that which we desire to appear. We may 153 00:09:40,399 --> 00:09:44,639 keep there what we wish, cultivating, developing, and unfolding the 154 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:48,679 thought forms that we desire. We may destroy that which 155 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:51,960 we wish to keep out. The eye is the master 156 00:09:52,039 --> 00:09:55,759 of its thought world. Think over this great truth, O Student. 157 00:09:56,360 --> 00:10:00,679 By desire we call into existence. By affirmation, we preserve 158 00:10:00,759 --> 00:10:06,080 and encourage. By denial we destroy. The Hindus, in their 159 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:10,200 popular religious conceptions, picture the One Being as a trinity 160 00:10:10,799 --> 00:10:15,799 composed of Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the preserver, and Shiva 161 00:10:16,039 --> 00:10:20,519 the destroyer, not three gods, as is commonly supposed, but 162 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:24,200 a trinity composed of three aspects of deity or being. 163 00:10:24,759 --> 00:10:28,080 The idea of the threefold being is also applicable to 164 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:32,639 the individual. As above, so below. The eye is the 165 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:37,120 being of the individual, and the thought world is its manifestation. 166 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:43,120 It creates, preserves, and destroys as it. Will. Carry this 167 00:10:43,279 --> 00:10:47,080 idea with you and realize that your individual thought world 168 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:51,039 is your own field of manifestation. In it you are 169 00:10:51,039 --> 00:10:56,879 constantly creating, constantly preserving, constantly destroying. And if you can 170 00:10:56,879 --> 00:11:00,240 destroy anything in your own thought world, you rem move 171 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:03,200 it from its field of activity, so far as you 172 00:11:03,279 --> 00:11:06,679 are concerned. And if you create anything in your own 173 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:10,039 thought world, you bring it into active being so far 174 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:13,879 as you are concerned. And if you preserve anything, you 175 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:16,759 keep it by you in effect and full operation and 176 00:11:16,879 --> 00:11:20,519 influence in your life. This truth belongs to the higher 177 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:25,159 phases of the subject, for its explanation is inextricably bound 178 00:11:25,279 --> 00:11:29,039 up in the explanation of the thing in itself, the absolute, 179 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:32,919 and its manifestations. But even what we have said above 180 00:11:33,399 --> 00:11:36,399 should give to the alert student sufficient notice to cause 181 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:39,080 him to graft the facts of the case and to 182 00:11:39,159 --> 00:11:43,720 apply the principles in his own life. If one lives 183 00:11:43,759 --> 00:11:46,559 on the plane of the race thought. He is subject 184 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:49,519 to its laws, for the law of cause and effect 185 00:11:49,639 --> 00:11:53,320 is in full operation on each plane of life. But 186 00:11:53,399 --> 00:11:56,919 when one raises himself above the race thought and on 187 00:11:56,960 --> 00:11:59,639 to the plane of the recognition of the real self, 188 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:03,559 the eye, then does he extricate himself from the lower 189 00:12:03,639 --> 00:12:06,960 laws of cause and effect and places himself on a 190 00:12:07,039 --> 00:12:10,600 higher plane of causation, in which he plays a much 191 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:15,279 higher part. And so we are constantly reminding you that 192 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:19,440 your tower of strength and refuge lies in the higher plane. 193 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:23,080 But nevertheless we must deal with the things and laws 194 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:26,000 of the lower plane, because very few who read these 195 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:29,840 lessons are able to rest entirely upon the higher plane. 196 00:12:30,399 --> 00:12:32,799 The great majority of them have done no more than 197 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:36,919 to lift themselves partially onto the higher plane, and they 198 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:40,960 are consequently living on both planes, partly in each, the 199 00:12:41,039 --> 00:12:44,320 consequence being that there is a struggle between the conflicting 200 00:12:44,399 --> 00:12:48,440 laws of the two planes. The present stage is one 201 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:51,559 of the hardest on the path of attainment, and resembles 202 00:12:51,639 --> 00:12:54,720 the birth pains of the physical body. But you are 203 00:12:54,759 --> 00:12:57,960 being borne into a higher plane, and the pain, after 204 00:12:58,039 --> 00:13:01,519 becoming the most acute, will begin to ease, and in 205 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:05,919 the end will disappear, and then will come peace and calm. 206 00:13:06,159 --> 00:13:09,399 When the pain becomes the most acute, then be cheered 207 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:11,879 with the certainty that you have reached the crisis of 208 00:13:11,919 --> 00:13:15,440 your new spiritual birth, and that you will soon gain peace. 209 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:18,039 And then you will see that the peace and bliss 210 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:21,600 will be worth all the pain and struggle. Be brave, 211 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:26,600 fellow followers of the path. Deliverance is nigh. Soon will 212 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:30,039 come the silence that follows the storm. The pain that 213 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:33,480 you are experiencing, awe well, do we know that you 214 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:37,639 are experiencing. The pain is not punishment, but is a 215 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:41,720 necessary part of your growth. All life follows this plan. 216 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:46,080 The pains of labor and birth ever precede the deliverance. 217 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:50,480 Such is life, and life is based upon truth, and 218 00:13:50,639 --> 00:13:54,039 all is well with the world. We did not intend 219 00:13:54,039 --> 00:13:56,519 to speak of these things in this lesson, but as 220 00:13:56,519 --> 00:13:58,960 we write, there comes to us a great cry for 221 00:13:59,039 --> 00:14:01,960 help and a word of encouragement and hope from the 222 00:14:02,039 --> 00:14:05,120 class which is taking this course of lessons, and we 223 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:09,120 feel bound to respond as we have done. Peace be 224 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:13,799 with you one and all. And now we will begin 225 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:17,200 our consideration of the laws governing what we have called 226 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:23,679 subconscious influence. All students of the occult are aware of 227 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:27,120 the fact that men may be and are largely influenced 228 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:30,000 by the thoughts of others. Not only is this the 229 00:14:30,039 --> 00:14:32,960 case in instances where thoughts are directed from the mind 230 00:14:33,039 --> 00:14:35,759 of one person to the mind of another, but also 231 00:14:35,919 --> 00:14:38,720 when there is no special direction or intention in the 232 00:14:38,759 --> 00:14:42,960 thought sent forth, The vibrations of thoughts linger in the 233 00:14:43,039 --> 00:14:46,720 astral atmosphere long after the effort that sent forth the 234 00:14:46,799 --> 00:14:51,080 thought has passed. The astral atmosphere is charged with the 235 00:14:51,159 --> 00:14:55,440 vibrations of thinkers of many years past, and still possesses 236 00:14:55,519 --> 00:14:59,200 sufficient vitality to affect those whose minds are ready to 237 00:14:59,279 --> 00:15:02,960 receive them as at this time. And we all attract 238 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:07,279 to us thought vibrations corresponding in nature with those which 239 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:10,200 we are in the habit of entertaining. The law of 240 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:13,639 attraction is in full operation, and one who makes the 241 00:15:13,679 --> 00:15:17,039 study of the subject may see instances of it on 242 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:23,039 all sides. We invite to ourselves these thought vibrations by 243 00:15:23,039 --> 00:15:27,960 maintaining and entertaining thoughts along certain lines. If we cultivate 244 00:15:28,039 --> 00:15:31,720 a habit of thinking along the lines of cheerfulness, brightness, 245 00:15:31,759 --> 00:15:36,440 and optimism, we attract to ourselves similar thought vibrations of others, 246 00:15:36,879 --> 00:15:39,399 and we will find that before long we will find 247 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:42,639 all sorts of cheerful thoughts pouring into our minds from 248 00:15:42,679 --> 00:15:49,240 all directions. And likewise, if we harbor thoughts of gloom, despair, pessimism, 249 00:15:49,639 --> 00:15:53,080 we lay ourselves open to the influx of similar thoughts 250 00:15:53,279 --> 00:15:57,720 which have emanated from the minds of others. Thoughts of anger, hate, 251 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:01,720 or jealousy attract similar things, thoughts which serve to feed 252 00:16:01,759 --> 00:16:05,039 the flame and keep alive the fire of these low emotions. 253 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:08,759 Thoughts of love tend to draw to ourselves the loving 254 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:11,440 thoughts of others, which tend to fill us with a 255 00:16:11,519 --> 00:16:16,000 glow of loving emotion. And not only are we affected 256 00:16:16,039 --> 00:16:18,240 in this way by the thoughts of others, but what 257 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:21,720 is known as suggestion also plays an important part in 258 00:16:21,759 --> 00:16:25,919 this matter of subconscious influence. We find that the mind 259 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:30,480 has a tendency to reproduce the emotions, moods, shades of thought, 260 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:35,159 and feelings of other persons, as evidence by their attitude, appearance, 261 00:16:35,559 --> 00:16:39,759 facial expression, or words. If we associate with persons of 262 00:16:39,759 --> 00:16:42,679 a gloomy temperament, we run the risk of catching their 263 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:46,360 mental trouble by the law of suggestion. Unless we understand 264 00:16:46,399 --> 00:16:50,039 this law and counteract it. In the same way. We 265 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:53,000 find that cheerfulness is contagious, and if we keep in 266 00:16:53,039 --> 00:16:55,879 the company of cheerful people, we are very apt to 267 00:16:55,919 --> 00:16:59,480 take on their mental quality. The same rule applies to 268 00:16:59,519 --> 00:17:03,519 frequently the company of unsuccessful or successful people, as the 269 00:17:03,559 --> 00:17:07,039 case may be. If we allow ourselves to take up 270 00:17:07,039 --> 00:17:11,000 the suggestions constantly emanating from them, we will find that 271 00:17:11,039 --> 00:17:16,680 our minds will begin to reproduce the tones, attitudes, characteristics, dispositions, 272 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:20,160 and traits of the other persons, and before long we 273 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:23,559 will be living on the same mental plane. As we 274 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:27,039 have repeatedly said, these things are true only when we 275 00:17:27,079 --> 00:17:30,720 allow ourselves to take on the impressions. But unless one 276 00:17:30,759 --> 00:17:34,200 has mastered the law of suggestion and understands its principles 277 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:37,240 and operations, he is more or less apt to be 278 00:17:37,279 --> 00:17:41,519 affected by it. All of you readily recall the effect 279 00:17:41,599 --> 00:17:45,079 of certain persons upon others with whom they come in contact. 280 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:49,240 One has a faculty of inspiring with vigor and energy 281 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:53,559 those in whose company he happens to be. Another depresses 282 00:17:53,599 --> 00:17:56,759 those around him and is avoided as a human wet blanket. 283 00:17:57,599 --> 00:18:00,759 Another will cause a feeling of uneasiness and those around 284 00:18:00,839 --> 00:18:05,279 him by reason of his prevailing attitude of distrust, suspicion, 285 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:09,759 and low cunning. Some carry an atmosphere of health around them, 286 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:12,880 while others seem to be surrounded with a sickly aura 287 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:17,039 of disease, even when their physical condition does not seem 288 00:18:17,079 --> 00:18:21,000 to indicate the lack of health. Mental states have a 289 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:24,839 subtle way of impressing themselves upon us, and the student 290 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:27,839 who will take the trouble to closely observe those with 291 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:31,519 whom he comes in contact will receive a liberal education. 292 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:35,599 Along these lines, there is, of course a great difference 293 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:39,759 in the degree of suggestibility among different persons. There are 294 00:18:39,759 --> 00:18:42,680 those who are almost immune, while at the other end 295 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:44,799 of the line are to be found others who are 296 00:18:44,839 --> 00:18:48,440 so constantly and strongly impressed by the suggestions of others, 297 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:52,480 conscious or unconscious, that they may be said to scarcely 298 00:18:52,559 --> 00:18:56,039 have any independent thought or will of their own. But 299 00:18:56,160 --> 00:19:02,000 nearly all persons are suggestible to a greater or lesser degree. 300 00:19:02,279 --> 00:19:04,759 It must not be supposed, from what we have said 301 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:10,759 that all suggestions are bad, harmful, or undesirable. Many suggestions 302 00:19:10,759 --> 00:19:13,640 are very good for us, and coming at the right time, 303 00:19:14,079 --> 00:19:18,799 have aided us much. But nevertheless, it is well to 304 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:22,799 always let your own mind pass upon these suggestions before 305 00:19:22,839 --> 00:19:27,119 allowing them to manifest in your subconscious mind. Let the 306 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:30,559 final decision be your own and not the will of another. 307 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:35,319 Although you may have considered outside suggestions in connection with 308 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:43,359 the matter Part two, remember always that you are an individual, 309 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:47,680 having a mind and will of your own. Rest firmly 310 00:19:47,839 --> 00:19:51,160 upon the base of your eye consciousness, and you will 311 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:54,880 find yourself able to manifest a wonderful strength against the 312 00:19:54,960 --> 00:20:00,119 adverse suggestions of others. Be your own suggestion, train and 313 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:04,559 influence your subconscious mind yourself, and do not allow it 314 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:09,000 to be tampered with by the suggestions of others. Grow 315 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:13,319 the sense of individuality. There has been much written of 316 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:16,359 recent years in the Western world regarding the effect of 317 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:20,400 the mental attitude upon success and attainment upon the material plane. 318 00:20:21,039 --> 00:20:23,759 While much of this is nothing but the wildest imagining, 319 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:28,160 still there remains a very firm and solid substratum of 320 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:33,359 truth underlying it all. It is undoubtedly true that one's 321 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:38,079 prevailing mental attitude is constantly manifesting and objectifying itself in 322 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:44,200 his life. Things, circumstances, people, plans all seem to fit 323 00:20:44,279 --> 00:20:47,400 into the general ideal of the strong mental attitude of 324 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:50,680 a man, and this from the operation of mental law 325 00:20:50,759 --> 00:20:55,000 along a number of lines of action. In the first place, 326 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:58,319 the mind, when directed toward a certain set of objects, 327 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:02,359 becomes very alert to discover things concerning those objects, to 328 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:07,359 seize upon things, opportunities, persons, ideas, and facts tending to 329 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:10,880 promote the objects thought of. The man who is looking 330 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:15,279 for facts to prove certain theories invariably finds them, and 331 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:18,680 is also quite likely to overlook facts tending to disprove 332 00:21:18,759 --> 00:21:23,519 his theory. The optimists and the pessimists, passing along the 333 00:21:23,559 --> 00:21:27,359 same streets, each sees thousands of examples tending to fit 334 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:31,799 in with his idea. As Kay says, when one is 335 00:21:31,839 --> 00:21:34,680 engaged in seeking for a thing, if he keep the 336 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:37,519 image of it clearly before the mind, he will be 337 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:41,640 very likely to find it, And that too, probably word 338 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:45,400 would otherwise have escaped his notice. So when one is 339 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:49,160 engaged in thinking on a subject, thoughts of things resembling 340 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:52,400 it or bearing upon it, and tending to illustrate it 341 00:21:52,759 --> 00:21:56,680 come up on every side. Truly, we may well say 342 00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:59,000 of the mind, as has been said of the eye, 343 00:21:59,799 --> 00:22:03,079 that it perceives only what it brings within the power 344 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:08,480 of perceiving. John Burroughs has well said regarding this, that 345 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:11,359 no one ever found the walking fern who did not 346 00:22:11,519 --> 00:22:14,759 have the walking fern in his mind. A person whose 347 00:22:14,799 --> 00:22:17,400 eye is full of Indian relics picks them up in 348 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:21,279 every field he walks through. They are quickly recognized because 349 00:22:21,279 --> 00:22:25,319 the eye has been commissioned to find them. When the 350 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:28,400 mind is kept firmly fixed upon some ideal or aim, 351 00:22:28,839 --> 00:22:31,960 its whole and varied powers are bent toward the realization 352 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:36,079 and manifestation of that ideal. In thousands of ways, the 353 00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:40,160 mind will operate to objectify the subjective mental attitude, a 354 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:44,400 great proportion of the mental effort being accomplished along subconscious lines. 355 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:47,440 It is of the greatest importance to one who wishes 356 00:22:47,519 --> 00:22:51,319 to succeed in any undertaking to keep before his mind's 357 00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:54,480 eye a clear mental image of that which he desires. 358 00:22:55,079 --> 00:22:58,200 He should picture the thing desired in himself as securing 359 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:02,359 it until it becomes on real. In this way, he 360 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:05,880 calls to his aid his entiremental force and power along 361 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:09,279 the subconscious lines, and, as it were, makes a clear 362 00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:13,400 path over which he may walk to accomplishment. Bain says 363 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:17,079 regarding this, by aiming at a new construction, we must 364 00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:20,680 clearly conceive what is aimed at. Where we have a 365 00:23:20,799 --> 00:23:24,279 very distinct and intelligible model before us, we are in 366 00:23:24,319 --> 00:23:27,799 a fair way to succeed. In proportion. As the ideal 367 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:33,400 is dim and wavering, we stagger or miscarry. Maudsley says, 368 00:23:34,039 --> 00:23:37,319 we cannot do an act voluntarily unless we know what 369 00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:40,119 we are going to do, and we cannot know exactly 370 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:42,319 what we are going to do until we have taught 371 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:47,559 ourselves to do it. Carpenter says the continued concentration of 372 00:23:47,599 --> 00:23:51,559 attention upon a certain idea gives it a dominant power, 373 00:23:52,079 --> 00:23:56,119 not only over the mind, but over the body. Muller 374 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:59,720 says the idea of our own strength gives strength to 375 00:23:59,759 --> 00:24:03,839 our movements. A person who is confident of affecting anything 376 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:07,359 by muscular efforts will do it more easily than one 377 00:24:07,559 --> 00:24:12,240 not so confident of his own power. Tanner says, to 378 00:24:12,319 --> 00:24:16,200 believe firmly is almost tanamont in the end to accomplishment. 379 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:20,960 Extraordinary instances are related, showing the influence of the will 380 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:27,839 over even involuntary muscles. Along the same lines, many Western 381 00:24:27,839 --> 00:24:30,799 writers have added their testimony to the Yogi principle of 382 00:24:30,839 --> 00:24:35,319 the manifestation of thought into action. K has written. A 383 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:37,920 clear and accurate idea of what we wish to do 384 00:24:38,079 --> 00:24:40,480 and how it is to be effected is of the 385 00:24:40,599 --> 00:24:44,119 utmost value and importance in all of the affairs of life. 386 00:24:45,039 --> 00:24:48,720 A man's conduct naturally shapes itself according to the ideas 387 00:24:48,759 --> 00:24:52,119 in his mind, and nothing contributes more to success in 388 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,599 life than having a high ideal and keeping it constantly 389 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:58,519 in view. Where such is the case, one can hardly 390 00:24:58,559 --> 00:25:03,200 fail in attaining it. Numerous unexpected circumstances will be found 391 00:25:03,279 --> 00:25:06,240 to conspire to bring it about, and even what seemed 392 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:09,000 at first to be hostile may be converted into means 393 00:25:09,039 --> 00:25:12,880 for its furtherance. While by having it constantly before the mind, 394 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:15,720 he will be ever ready to take advantage of any 395 00:25:15,759 --> 00:25:21,160 favoring circumstances that may present themselves. Along the same lines, 396 00:25:21,559 --> 00:25:25,480 Foster has written these remarkable words, It is wonderful how 397 00:25:25,519 --> 00:25:28,160 even the casualties of life seem to bow to a 398 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:31,359 spirit that will not bow to them and yield to 399 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:35,880 subserve a design which they may, in their first apparent tendency, 400 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:40,920 threaten to frustrate. When a firm, decisive spirit is recognized. 401 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:43,839 It is curious to see how the space clears around 402 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:48,119 a man and leaves him room and freedom. Simpson has 403 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:52,599 said a passionate desire and an unwearied will can perform 404 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:56,519 impossibilities or what seemed to be such to the cold 405 00:25:56,559 --> 00:26:01,319 and feeble, And Maudsley gives to aspiring youth a great 406 00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:05,480 truth when he says thus it is that aspirations are 407 00:26:05,519 --> 00:26:09,160 often prophesies, the harbingers of what a man shall be 408 00:26:09,319 --> 00:26:12,799 in a condition to perform. And we may conclude the 409 00:26:12,839 --> 00:26:17,799 paragraph by quoting lytton dream, O youth, dream manfully and nobly, 410 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:23,519 and thy dream shall be prophets. This principle of the 411 00:26:23,559 --> 00:26:26,599 power of the mental image is strongly impressed upon the 412 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:30,440 mind of the sheilah or student by the Yogi teachers. 413 00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:33,720 The student is taught that just as the house is 414 00:26:33,759 --> 00:26:37,039 erected in accordance with the plan of the architect, so 415 00:26:37,319 --> 00:26:40,799 is one's life built in accordance with the prevailing mental image. 416 00:26:41,519 --> 00:26:45,880 The mind subconsciously molds itself around the prevailing mental image 417 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:49,200 or attitude, and then proceeds to draw upon the outer 418 00:26:49,319 --> 00:26:52,119 world for material with which to build in accordance with 419 00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:55,960 the plan. Not only is one's character built in this way, 420 00:26:56,400 --> 00:27:00,440 but the circumstances and incidents of his life fallow the 421 00:27:00,519 --> 00:27:04,599 same rule. The Yogi student is instructed into the mysteries 422 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:07,599 of the power of the mind in this direction, not 423 00:27:07,759 --> 00:27:09,759 that he may make use of it to build up 424 00:27:09,759 --> 00:27:14,440 material success or to realize his personal desires, for he 425 00:27:14,519 --> 00:27:17,519 is taught to avoid these things. But he is fully 426 00:27:17,559 --> 00:27:21,319 instructed nevertheless, that he may understand the workings of the 427 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:25,240 law around him. And it is a fact well known 428 00:27:25,279 --> 00:27:27,920 to close students of the occult that the few who 429 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:31,880 have attained extraordinarily high degrees of development make use of 430 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:34,759 this power in order to help the race. Many a 431 00:27:34,799 --> 00:27:37,839 world movement has been directed by the mind or minds 432 00:27:37,839 --> 00:27:40,119 of some of these advanced souls, who are able to 433 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:43,200 see the ideal of evolution ahead of the race, and 434 00:27:43,279 --> 00:27:47,519 by visualizing the same and concentrating upon it in meditation, 435 00:27:48,279 --> 00:27:52,279 actually hastened the progress of the evolutionary wave and cause 436 00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:55,400 to actually manifest that which they saw and upon which 437 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:59,680 they had meditated. It is true that some occultists have 438 00:27:59,759 --> 00:28:03,720 used similar plans to further their own selfish personal ends, 439 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:07,200 often without fully realizing just what power they were employing. 440 00:28:07,759 --> 00:28:10,759 But this merely illustrates the old fact that the forces 441 00:28:10,759 --> 00:28:14,680 of nature may be used rightly and wrongly. It is 442 00:28:14,799 --> 00:28:17,480 all the more reason why those who are desirous of 443 00:28:17,519 --> 00:28:20,960 advancing the race, of assisting in the evolution of the world, 444 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,720 should make use of this mighty power in their work. 445 00:28:24,559 --> 00:28:28,640 Success is not reprehensible, notwithstanding the fact that many have 446 00:28:28,759 --> 00:28:32,400 interpreted and applied the word in such a matter as 447 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:34,359 to make it appear as if it had no other 448 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:38,400 meaning or application other than the crude, material, selfish one 449 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:43,160 generally attributed to it. By reason of its misuse, the 450 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,920 Western world is playing its part in the evolution of 451 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:49,480 the race, and its keynote is accomplishment. Those who have 452 00:28:49,519 --> 00:28:51,680 advanced so high that they are able to view the 453 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,319 world of men as one sees a valley from a 454 00:28:54,359 --> 00:28:59,000 mountain peak, recognize what this strenuous Western life means. They 455 00:28:59,039 --> 00:29:03,079 seem mighty forces in operation, mighty principles being worked out 456 00:29:03,119 --> 00:29:06,279 by those who little dream of the ultimate significance that 457 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,839 which they are doing. Mighty things are before the Western 458 00:29:09,839 --> 00:29:14,039 world today, Wonderful changes are going on. Great things are 459 00:29:14,039 --> 00:29:16,440 in the womb of time, and the hour of birth 460 00:29:16,519 --> 00:29:19,759 draws near. The men and women in the Western world 461 00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:23,359 feel within them the mighty urge to accomplish something, to 462 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:25,960 take an active part in the great drama of life. 463 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:28,880 And they are right in giving full expression to this 464 00:29:29,119 --> 00:29:32,519 urge and are doing well in using every legitimate means 465 00:29:32,519 --> 00:29:35,759 in the line of expression. And this idea of the 466 00:29:35,799 --> 00:29:38,839 mental attitude or the mental image, is one of the 467 00:29:38,839 --> 00:29:43,480 greatest factors in this striving for success. In this lesson, 468 00:29:43,559 --> 00:29:46,559 we do not purpose giving success talks for our students. 469 00:29:47,039 --> 00:29:50,920 These lessons are intended to feel another field, and there 470 00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:54,599 are many other channels of information along the lines named. 471 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,319 What we wish to do is to point out to 472 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,839 our students the meaning of all this strenu striving of 473 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:04,079 the age in the Western world, and the leading principle 474 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:08,440 employed therein The great achievements of the material world are 475 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:11,240 being accomplished by means of the power of the mind. 476 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:15,759 Men are beginning to understand that thought manifests itself in action, 477 00:30:16,279 --> 00:30:19,480 and that thought attracts to itself the things, persons, and 478 00:30:19,559 --> 00:30:24,160 circumstances in harmony with itself. The power of mind is 479 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:28,359 being manifest in hundreds of ways. The power of desire 480 00:30:28,519 --> 00:30:31,599 back by faith and will, is beginning to be recognized 481 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:35,240 as one of the greatest of known dynamic forces. The 482 00:30:35,319 --> 00:30:37,640 life of the race is entering into a new and 483 00:30:37,759 --> 00:30:41,720 strange stage of development and evolution, and in the years 484 00:30:41,759 --> 00:30:45,279 to come, mind will be seen more clearly, and still 485 00:30:45,319 --> 00:30:48,680 more clearly to be the great principle underlying the world 486 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:52,960 of material things and happenings. That all is mind is 487 00:30:53,039 --> 00:30:57,000 more than a dreamy metaphysical utterance is being recognized by 488 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:01,240 the leaders in the world's thought. As we have said, 489 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:04,599 great changes are before the world and the race, and 490 00:31:04,759 --> 00:31:07,559 every year brings us nearer to the beginning of them. 491 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:11,519 In fact, the beginning is already upon us. Let any 492 00:31:11,559 --> 00:31:14,480 thinker stop and reflect over the wonderful changes of the 493 00:31:14,559 --> 00:31:18,240 past six years since the dawning of the twentieth century, 494 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:21,759 and he will be dull, indeed, if he sees not 495 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:25,400 the trend of affairs. We are entering into a new 496 00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:28,119 great cycle of the race, and the old is being 497 00:31:28,119 --> 00:31:30,759 prepared for being dropped off like an old worn out 498 00:31:30,839 --> 00:31:39,880 husk Ol. Conventions, ideals, customs, laws, ethics, and things sociological, economical, theological, philosophical, 499 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,960 and metaphysical have been outgrown and are about to be 500 00:31:44,279 --> 00:31:47,920 shed by the race. The great cauldron of human thought 501 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:51,119 is bubbling away fiercely, and many things are rising to 502 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:54,880 its surface. Like all great changes, the good will come 503 00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:58,880 only with much pain. All birth is with pain. The 504 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,640 race feels the pain and perpetual unrest, but knows not 505 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:06,359 what is the disease nor the remedy. Many false cases 506 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:10,319 of diagnosis and prescription are even now noticeable, and will 507 00:32:10,359 --> 00:32:13,200 become still more in evidence as the years roll by. 508 00:32:14,279 --> 00:32:17,960 Many self style saviors of the race prescribers for the 509 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:21,000 pain of the soul and mind will arise and fall. 510 00:32:21,599 --> 00:32:23,960 But out of it all will come that for which 511 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,839 the race now waits. The changes that are before us 512 00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:30,160 are as great as the changes and thought in life 513 00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:34,039 described in the late novel by H. G. Wells entitled 514 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:37,559 In the Days of the Comet. In fact, mister Wells 515 00:32:37,599 --> 00:32:40,319 has indicated in that story some of the very changes 516 00:32:40,359 --> 00:32:42,799 that the advanced souls of the race have informed their 517 00:32:42,839 --> 00:32:46,240 students are before the race. The prophetic insight of the 518 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:50,240 writer named seems marvelous until one realizes that even that 519 00:32:50,319 --> 00:32:52,440 writer is being used as a part of the mental 520 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:56,799 machinery of the change itself. But the change will not 521 00:32:56,839 --> 00:32:59,440 come about by reason of the new gas caused by 522 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:02,359 the brushing of the Earth's surface by a passing comet. 523 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,400 It will come from the unfolding of the race mind. 524 00:33:06,039 --> 00:33:09,559 The process being now under weigh are not the signs 525 00:33:09,559 --> 00:33:12,920 of mental unrest and discomfort becoming more and more apparent 526 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:16,039 as the days go by. The pain is growing greater, 527 00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:18,720 and the race is beginning to fret and chafe and moan. 528 00:33:19,279 --> 00:33:21,640 It knows not what it wants, but it knows that 529 00:33:21,759 --> 00:33:24,519 it feels pain and wants something to relieve that pain. 530 00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:28,200 The old things are beginning to totter and fall, and 531 00:33:28,359 --> 00:33:31,839 ideas rendered sacred by years of observance are being brushed 532 00:33:31,839 --> 00:33:36,279 aside with a startling display of irreverence. Under the surface 533 00:33:36,319 --> 00:33:39,440 of our civilization, we may hear the straining and groaning 534 00:33:39,519 --> 00:33:42,200 of the ideas and principles that are striving to force 535 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:46,799 their way out on to the plane of manifestation. Men 536 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:50,079 are running hither and thither, crying for a leader and 537 00:33:50,119 --> 00:33:53,440 a savior. They are trying this thing and that thing, 538 00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:57,039 but they find not that which they seek. They cry 539 00:33:57,079 --> 00:34:00,839 for satisfaction, but it eludes them. And yet all this 540 00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:03,960 search and disappointment is part of the great change, and 541 00:34:04,079 --> 00:34:07,680 is preparing the race for that which must come. And 542 00:34:07,799 --> 00:34:10,719 yet the relief will not come from any thing or things. 543 00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:15,199 It will come from within. Just as when in Well's 544 00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:18,760 story things righted themselves when the vapor of the comet 545 00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:22,079 had cleared men's minds, so will things take their new 546 00:34:22,119 --> 00:34:25,119 places when the mind of the race becomes cleared by 547 00:34:25,119 --> 00:34:29,039 the new unfoldment that is even now under way. Men 548 00:34:29,119 --> 00:34:32,320 are beginning to feel each other's pains. They find themselves 549 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:36,039 unsatisfied by the old rule of every man for himself, 550 00:34:36,119 --> 00:34:39,119 and the devil take the hindmost. It used to content 551 00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:42,960 the successful, but now it doesn't seem to be so satisfying. 552 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:47,639 The man on top is becoming lonesome and dissatisfied and discontented. 553 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:52,079 His success seems to appall him in some mysterious manner, 554 00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:56,800 and the man underneath feels stirring within himself. Strange longings 555 00:34:56,800 --> 00:35:02,159 and desires, and dissatisfaction andtions are arising, and new and 556 00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:07,840 startling ideas are being suddenly advanced, supported and opposed, and 557 00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:13,119 the relations between people seem to be unsatisfactory. The old rules, laws, 558 00:35:13,159 --> 00:35:17,920 and bounds are proving irksome. New strange and wild thoughts 559 00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:20,639 are coming into the minds of people which they dare 560 00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:23,800 not utter to their friends. And yet these same friends 561 00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:28,599 are finding similar ideas within themselves. And somehow underneath it 562 00:35:28,639 --> 00:35:31,960 all is to be found a certain honesty. Yes, there 563 00:35:32,119 --> 00:35:35,119 is where the trouble seems to come. The world is 564 00:35:35,199 --> 00:35:39,480 tiring of hypocrisy and dishonesty in all human relations, and 565 00:35:39,599 --> 00:35:42,960 is crying aloud to be led back some way to 566 00:35:43,079 --> 00:35:46,880 truth and honesty in thought and action. But it does 567 00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:49,400 not see the way out, and it will not see 568 00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:52,239 the way out until the race mind unfolds still further, 569 00:35:53,079 --> 00:35:55,480 and the pain of the new enfullment is stirring the 570 00:35:55,559 --> 00:35:58,679 race to its depths, from the deep recesses of the 571 00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:02,719 race mind arising to the surface, old passions, relics from 572 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:05,800 the cave dweller days, and all sorts of ugly mental 573 00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:09,559 relics of the past. And they will continue to rise 574 00:36:09,639 --> 00:36:12,519 and show themselves until at last the bubbling pot will 575 00:36:12,559 --> 00:36:15,840 begin to quiet down, and then will come a new piece, 576 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,840 and the best will come to the surface. The essence 577 00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:23,480 of all the experiences of the race. To our students, 578 00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:26,480 we would say, during the struggle ahead of the race, 579 00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:30,400 play well your part, doing the best you can, living 580 00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:33,760 each day by itself, meeting each new phase of life 581 00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:38,280 with confidence and courage. Be not diluted by appearances, nor 582 00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:43,639 follow after strange profits. Let the evolutionary processes work themselves out, 583 00:36:44,559 --> 00:36:47,480 and do you fall in with the wave without struggling 584 00:36:47,559 --> 00:36:52,119 and without overmuch striving. The law is working itself out. Well. 585 00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:55,559 Of that be assured. Those who have entered into even 586 00:36:55,599 --> 00:36:59,400 a partial understanding and recognition of the one life underlying 587 00:37:00,039 --> 00:37:02,519 will find that they will be as the chosen people 588 00:37:02,599 --> 00:37:05,480 during the changes that are coming to the race. They 589 00:37:05,519 --> 00:37:08,039 have attained that which the race is reaching toward in 590 00:37:08,119 --> 00:37:11,679 pain and travail, and the force behind the law will 591 00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:14,480 carry them along, for they will be the leaven that 592 00:37:14,639 --> 00:37:16,840 is to lighten the great mass of the race and 593 00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:20,599 the new dispensation. Not by deed or by action, but 594 00:37:20,679 --> 00:37:24,639 by thought. Will these people leaven the mass. The thought 595 00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:27,000 is even now at work, and all who read these 596 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,199 words are playing a part in the work, although they 597 00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:34,159 may know it not. If the race could realize its 598 00:37:34,199 --> 00:37:37,679 truth of the one life underlying today, the change would 599 00:37:37,679 --> 00:37:40,239 occur in a moment. But it will not come in 600 00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:44,440 that way. When this understanding gradually dawns upon the race, 601 00:37:44,559 --> 00:37:48,440 this new consciousness then will things take their proper places, 602 00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:51,639 and the lion and the lamb lie down together in peace. 603 00:37:53,079 --> 00:37:55,239 We have thought it well to say these things in 604 00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:58,960 this the last lesson of this course. They are needed words. 605 00:37:59,199 --> 00:38:01,360 They will serve to point out the way to those 606 00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:04,599 who are able to read. Watch, and wait for the 607 00:38:04,679 --> 00:38:10,320 silence that will follow the storm. In this series of lessons, 608 00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:13,440 we have endeavored to give you a plain, practical presentation 609 00:38:13,639 --> 00:38:16,400 of some of the more important features of Raja yoga. 610 00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:20,480 But this phase of the subject, as important and interesting 611 00:38:20,519 --> 00:38:23,320 as it is, is not the highest phase of the 612 00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:27,079 great Yoga teachings. It is merely the preparation of the 613 00:38:27,119 --> 00:38:31,400 soil of the mind for what comes afterward. The phase 614 00:38:31,519 --> 00:38:35,639 called nanny yoga, the yoga of wisdom, is the highest 615 00:38:35,639 --> 00:38:39,199 of all the various phases of yoga, although each of 616 00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:43,159 the lower steps is important in itself. We find ourselves 617 00:38:43,199 --> 00:38:45,400 approaching the phase of our work for which we have 618 00:38:45,519 --> 00:38:49,480 long wished. Those who have advised and directed this work 619 00:38:49,559 --> 00:38:52,159 have counseled us to deal with the less advanced and 620 00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:55,559 simpler phases in order to prepare the minds of those 621 00:38:55,559 --> 00:38:58,599 who might be interested, so that they would be ready 622 00:38:58,599 --> 00:39:01,960 for the higher teachings. At times we have felt an 623 00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:04,599 impatience for the coming of the day when we would 624 00:39:04,599 --> 00:39:07,519 be able to teach the highest that has come to us, 625 00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:11,800 and now the time seems to have come. Following this course, 626 00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:15,239 we will begin a series of lessons in Nani Yoga, 627 00:39:15,519 --> 00:39:18,440 the yoga of wisdom, and which we will pass on 628 00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:22,960 to our students, the highest teachings regarding the reality and 629 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:27,760 its manifestations, the one and the many, The teachings that 630 00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:30,679 all is mind will be explained in such a manner 631 00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:33,360 as to be understood by all who have followed us 632 00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:36,880 so far. We will be able to impart to you 633 00:39:37,039 --> 00:39:42,840 the higher truths about spiritual evolution sometimes called reincarnation, as 634 00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:47,719 well as spiritual cause and effect, often called karma. The 635 00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:51,719 highest truths about these important subjects are often obscured by 636 00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:57,239 popular misconceptions occasioned by partial teachings. We trust that you 637 00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:00,800 are students, will wish to follow us still higher, higher 638 00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:03,639 than we have ventured so far, and we assure you 639 00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:06,039 that there is a truth to be seen and known 640 00:40:06,599 --> 00:40:09,599 that is as much higher than the other phases upon 641 00:40:09,679 --> 00:40:12,679 which we have touched, as those phases have been higher 642 00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:15,199 than the current beliefs of the masses of the race. 643 00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:19,119 We trust that the powers of knowledge may guide and 644 00:40:19,199 --> 00:40:21,360 direct us, that we may be able to convey our 645 00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:25,400 message so that it may be accepted and understood. We 646 00:40:25,559 --> 00:40:28,559 thank our students who have traveled thus far with us, 647 00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:32,199 and we assure them that their loving sympathy has ever 648 00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:36,840 been a help and an inspiration to us. Peace be 649 00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:42,599 with you. End of a series of lessons in Raja 650 00:40:42,639 --> 00:40:45,320 yoga by Yogi Ramashiraka.