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the essence of being and this reflects or reacts deleteriously upon us.

Thought is mind action. Thoughts start vibrations in the universal essence, vibrations that are distinct from the ordinary, general undulations of the undisturbed sea of atomic substance.

These vibrations go quickly out, spread and enter into and affect, more or less, every individual soul. If they are in accord with the universal life activity, they do good, help to drive away inharmonies and fears. If they are not in accord, their effect is the opposite.

That thoughts do start such vibrations, is just as well established as is the fact that the wireless telegraphic instrument put into action starts vibrations in the invisible ether that reach and affect every other instrument on Earth that is set to receive. The facts of telepathy are no longer in doubt. And as now inventors are perfecting an appliance by which the vibrations can be directed to a particular instrument for recording a message in wireless telegraphy so metaphysicians have learned to direct their thought vibrations to particular persons who are in a receptive and responsive attitude.

It is well, then, for the one giving the treatment and the one receiving to have an understanding as to the times when treatments are given so they can consciously co-operate. While the demonstrator may reach and affect the patient while asleep or inattentive, it is better for them to co-operate in time and thought. The patient should be instructed as to the thoughts to hold for co-operation.

How do these distinctive vibrations heal or strengthen the persons to whom they are directed?

The sick person is not in accord in his personal vibratory with the Universal life activity. By somemeans he has gotten out of harmony with the law of being. If he were in harmony, he would be well and

free from fear.

The one giving the treatment perceives the nature of that discordant activity in his patient and starts a vibrating movement that will quiet discords, smooth away inharmonies and tune up the chords of the instrument. In this way the mentality is brought to a state of peace and power that will soon arouse a consciousness of life and health and strength to which the plastic, obedient body readily responds.

Understanding this law of vibration, we should be sure our thoughts are healing, cheering, uplifting thoughts always. The influence goes out and affects all things.

Through this understanding we may also become immune from sickness, want and death. For accord, constant harmony, with the universal vibrations under the Life that is eternal, will sustain individual being forever with health and all supply. Jesus perfectly understood this law and could by that understanding procure supplies out of the invisible with a thought.

Herbert Spencer was near this truth when he said, "If we could always perfectly adjust ourselves to environment, we could retain these bodies indefinitely." He meant that if all discord, strife and resistance could be eliminated from our lives, the body would not grow old and die.

Our method is not to adjust ourselves to environment, but to adjust our personal vibrations to the Universal vibrations and thus control both our conditions and environment. So we may live forever.

The artist may well study form and color, but his Genius is informed already. The poet may con the rules of prosody. but his Muse understands. The orator may seek to learn eloquence, but the power of oratory is established in his nature. Man is God made man. -Holiday Extra.

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In reproducing George Washington as frontispiece in this his birthday issue of THE LIFE, our staff artist gives also a pen-sketch reproduction of one of Abraham Lincoln's rather unfamiliar portraits.

If you would be master where you have been subject, you must learn the power of words and how to utilize it. -URSULA N. GESTEFELD.

Meditations

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By Kaxton

HE competitive system comes down to us from the most ancient times. History does not tell us when it began, but the history of life upon the earth, if recorded in detail, would doubtless be a record of active competition between living creatures, including man, for those things which have been demanded by the real or apparent needs of life. The rule of Mother Nature is lavish abundance, but notwithstanding the free and even lavish hand with which she has always dealt out her riches to her children, there has ever been a struggle, cruel and relentless in its methods and more or less fatal to the individual in its results. This struggle has not been caused by the scantiness of nature's stores, but it has been brought about by the stern fact that one life has demanded another life in order to subsist. The lion and the tiger cannot subsist upon herbs. They demend the lives of other animals, and nature has furnished them with the prowess to make good their demands. When the great cats are fed, and the graceful antelope is no more, has the world gained or lost? Who can say that earth-life has not suffered a loss, and that these cats are not a veritable clog to the wheels of progress?

But here we are confronted by the inscrutable. Our hearts cry against the cats and bleed for the antelopes. The wisdom of it is inscrutable-it is beyond us. But there are greater cats than those who roam the forests. They live in palaces and wear the semblance of man. Now, when it comes to these human cats we can speak with more assurance. When they

demand the life of the ox or the hog to sustain their bodies, we may well wink at the demand. But sometimes the demand in its finality takes a human life, and this fact leads us to raise the finger of righteous condemnation. When we have pointed our finger at the deed, we have done much for the cause of truth and righteousness. The finger of wicked scorn has wrought much against true living, but the finger of the righteous critic is a power for good.

Our competitive system developed in the search for wealth is no respecter of persons. The human fox, the human cat, the human antelope, the human coyote, and the human Jack rabbit, all enter the contest on an apparently equal footing. The rules of business allow no favors to any one except to such as are able to pay a price for them. The great diversity of powers possessed by the competitors might be equalized by a like diversity in the fields of activity, and this condition would be natural and inevitable, if there was no dirturbing factor to throw nature out of joint. Under existing conditions our competitive system has produced unnatural accumulations of wealth, and sorely grinding conditions of poverty. This congestion of wealth is the root of most of our vexations, national and otherwise. Wealth is naturally and rightfully beneficent, and the reason it is sometimes a curse lies in the fact that it has gathered and exercises far too much power. The poor are so pinched by want that they are led to pander and bow down to those who have abundance, and this attitude on the part of the poor brings home to the rich man a vivid realization of his power, and he becomes more and more eager to add to his power, lest an unexpected reversion of fortune may reduced him to the servile condition he so despises in others.

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