{"1": {"fulltext": "Discopenj\\nJBRARY OF CONGRESS\\nof a\\nt Grail\\nB.NEWCOMB", "height": "3914", "width": "2616", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "CANNOT LEAVE THE LIBRARY.\\nChap\\nftXisai.\\nShelf\\nMs\\nK\\nA.\\nCOPYRIGHT DEPOSIT.\\nIgg LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, ggjl", "height": "3693", "width": "2546", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3693", "width": "2546", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3693", "width": "2546", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3693", "width": "2546", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "BOOKS BY\\nCHARLES B. NEWCOMB\\nALL S RIGHT WITH THE WORLD\\n261 pages Cloth $1.50\\nDISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL\\n282 pages Cloth $i-5\u00c2\u00b0\\nBY KATHARINE H* NEWCOMB\\nHELPS TO RIGHT LIVING\\n52 chapters Cloth Gilt top $1.25", "height": "3693", "width": "2546", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL\\nBY\\nCHARLES B. NEWCOMB\\nAuthor of\\nAll s Right with the World\\nHo, ye who suffer/ k?iow ye suffer from yourselves.\\nNone else compels no other holds you that ye live or die.\\nSlDDARTHA\\nIt is o?ily as a 7nan ptits off from himself all external\\nsupport and stands alone that I see him to be strong and\\nto prevail!\\nEmerson\\nBOSTON\\nLEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS\\n1900", "height": "3693", "width": "2546", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "TWO COPIES RECEIVED\\nLibrary of Cor^ro** e\\nOffice uf the\\nAPR 2 1 1900\\nKrister of Copyright*\\nCopyright, 1900, by Charles B. Newcomb.\\nAll rig Jits reserved.\\nDiscovery of a Lost Trail.\\njiotktotll una CburttiiU $3m s\\nBOSTON, U.S.A.\\no\\\\-m\\\\\\nFIRST OOPY,", "height": "3693", "width": "2546", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "To my Daughters\\nIDfvatnia anb /Ifcarian\\nin whose dear companionship life seems ahvays\\ngladsome and joyous, I dedicate this volume,\\nC. B. N.", "height": "3693", "width": "2546", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time, I\\nwill have thousands of globes and all time.\\nWalt Whitman.\\nLet us go up at once and possess the land, for we are\\nwell able to overcome it.\\nCaleb, Prince of Judalu", "height": "3693", "width": "2546", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nThere is nothing new in this book. It is a simple study of\\nthat strange and beautiful thing which we call life. It con-\\ntains only a few familiar signboards that have helped some\\nbewildered travellers to find their way in paths that seemed\\nmountainous and difficult.\\nPlain suggestions of confidence, patience, -gladness, and\\ndecision often bring us back to the trail we have lost through\\nthe uncertainty of our own power and freedom.\\nWhen we really are assured of the right road we can truly\\nbelieve that life is a song and not a cry.\\nWhen we can feel confident that all wanderers will at last\\ncome through the stress of storm and fog in which they have\\nseemed to miss their way we are cheered and comforted.\\nThe lights of the hospice gleam in the darkness, and we\\nknow that within are abundant food and warmth for every\\nbelated traveller.\\nWe are sometimes gladdened by a fresh touch upon the\\nstrings of the harp of Life.\\nThe sounding of a few old chords may soothe and comfort\\nus like the cradle-songs of infancy.\\nThe writer has not aimed at metaphysical fugues or\\noratorios.\\nIf the reader is looking for novelties in philosophy, or sub-\\nlime strains in the harmonies of thought, let him close this\\nvolume with the preface, for critics will find it without rhyme\\nor reason.\\nThere are, doubtless, many worldly-wise ones who will\\nprotest impatiently that these teachings are not practical.", "height": "3693", "width": "2546", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "6 PREFACE.\\nThis objection will come from some to whom the life of\\nthe soul has been but a theory for intellectual analysis.\\nIt will not come from any who have passed the threshold\\nof spiritual experience.\\nIt will come oftenest from those whose practical\\nmethods have never gained for them the success or happiness\\nthey sought.\\nIf these pages should aid any troubled soul to discover\\nthe inner light that shines upon the path of life if they\\nshould open the spiritual vision to discern the mighty hosts\\nencamped about us to deliver us the lost trail will indeed\\nbe found, and as fellow-pilgrims we will go on our way\\nrejoicing.\\nCHARLES B. NEWCOMB.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS\\nI. The Lost Trail 9\\nII. Confidence 31\\nIII. Toiling in Rowing 53\\nIV. Patience 75\\nV. Master Mariners 99\\nVI. Will 117\\nVII. The Evolution of Power 139\\nVIII. Decision 161\\nIX. Thought Tonics 183\\nX. Expression 203\\nXI. The Power of Gladness 225\\nXII. A Plea for Matter 245\\nXIII. The Song of Life 265\\n(7)", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "THE LOST TRAIL.\\nSo must you press forward to open your soul to the\\nEternal. But it must be the Eternal that draws forth your\\nstrength and beauty, not desire of growth.\\nFor in the one case you develop in the luxuriance of\\npurity, in the other you harden by the forcible passion for\\npersonal stature. Light on the Path.\\nIt is related that in the ancient days there were\\nrich mines of gold in Central Africa. These\\nmines yielded millions to the Egyptian govern-\\nment under the early Pharaohs.\\nIn the succeeding wars for existence mining was\\nneglected, and all knowledge of these valuable\\ndeposits was lost for several centuries. Later the\\nRomans discovered and reopened the gold fields.\\nThey constructed a stone road up the Nile Valley.\\nThis road stretched out across the desert to the\\nancient mines. But it was afterwards neglected\\nand buried in sand by the hot winds. Portions of\\nit have been found at different times by various\\nexplorers, but the place of the hidden treasures is\\nno longer known, and the broken trail ends in a\\ntrackless desert.\\nThis page from a chapter of history has its\\ncorrespondence in the thought life of the race and\\n(9)", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "10 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nin many an individual experience. Man s undiscov-\\nered country is the largest part of his domains.\\nHis undeveloped resources are his richest treasures\\nhis latent powers are his mightiest forces. In the\\nstruggle for existence, his spiritual nature has\\nbeen often buried by the hot sands of his selfish-\\nness and mercenary ambitions. Greed of gold\\nand worldly power has chilled and blighted his\\nhigher purposes. The race has often fallen into\\nperiods which we call Dark Ages. The mines\\nof truth have been neglected and forgotten. The\\nroads which lead to them have been covered up.\\nFrom time to time some poet or philosopher has\\nfound stretches of the lost trail, some bits of the\\npaths of wisdom but these discoverers have been\\nas voices crying in the wilderness. Such were\\nthe Egyptian sages, the Hebrew prophets, the\\nGreek philosophers. Such were Hermes, Isaiah,\\nSocrates, Plato, and Zeno. Such were also Bud-\\ndha, Zoroaster, Jesus. Sometimes these voices\\nhave been heard in the later centuries breaking\\nin upon the tumult of material life and proclaim-\\ning, even in the senate chamber and the market\\nplace, that there were other and surer roads to\\nhappiness than those that most men followed\\nthat there was fabulous wealth in every soul and\\nmagical powers in every life, awaiting the unfold-\\nment of the master mind.\\nWhen we are tired of the aimless wandering in", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "THE LOST TRAIL. I I\\ntrackless deserts, dissatisfied with the broken\\ncisterns and mirage of purely material pleasures,\\nwe can recover the lost trail and find in the higher\\nnature a wealth beyond the dreams of avarice, and\\nliving fountains which are inexhaustible. In this\\ndiscovery alone do we find rest and peace.\\nWhen our activities are in rhythmic accord with\\nthe law of our being, disappointment and failure\\nare impossible. Fear throws us out of step and\\nmakes us stumble. Back of fear is always\\nselfishness.\\nOne may safely walk over a high trestle in the\\ndark when he cannot see the depths below him or\\nhear the noise of the rushing river. He easily\\nmeasures the regular interval between the timbers,\\nand adjusts his step to cross it without faltering.\\nBut let the flash of a lantern reveal the distance to\\nthe eye, or the tumbling of the waters alarm the\\near, and immediately the senses are thrown info\\nconfusion, and the movement becomes a matter of\\ndifficulty to the timid traveller.\\nWhen we look off from a great height upon\\nillimitable space we sometimes feel bewildered and\\ndazed.\\nAn undeveloped nature would perhaps be frozen\\nwith horror if it could see into the far depths of\\nits past and hear the rushing of the river of its\\nlife as it had swept down the channel of the ages\\nin the long history of evolution. It would be par-", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "12 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nalyzed with terror if it could look into the illimitable\\nfuture along the infinite line of vanishing perspec-\\ntive that its life will follow. It would be like\\nthe dove sent forth by Noah into the great wilder-\\nness of waters that could find no resting-place for\\nthe sole of her foot.\\nLight sometimes bewilders as well as darkness.\\nThe electric lantern is too dazzling for use in the\\nlighthouses of the coast. There is danger of blind-\\ning the navigator, and making it difficult for him\\nto judge of distances. A strong light misplaced\\nwill so deepen the shadows of a road as to exag-\\ngerate its difficulties. We stumble at fancied\\nobstructions that are only shadows in a. smooth\\npath.\\nWe lose the rhythm of our steps, and when\\nwe come to a real impediment we think that, too,\\nis an illusion. Intoxication is as possible on the\\nhigher planes as on those of intellect and sense.\\nThere is such a thing as metaphysical inebriety.\\nIts sufferers are often those who have done good\\nwork. They find themselves crippled and inca-\\npacitated, to the surprise of themselves and their\\npupils. This fact calls for a new diagnosis in\\nmental pathology.\\nThere are two classes of mind in the community\\none class believes in matter, and scoffs at spirit\\nthe other believes in spirit, and scoffs at matter.\\nEach accuses the other of mistaking- shadows for", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "THE LOST TRAIL. 1 3\\nsubstance, and each gives a different definition to\\nreality. If we found that either class could walk\\nwithout stumbling, we might safely choose our\\nguides. But when they stumble alike, we must\\nconclude that they are making similar mistakes.\\nCannot we sin against matter as well as against\\nspirit? Who can be trusted to discriminate at all\\ntimes between the shadow and the substance May\\nit not be true that both are substance, and both\\nshadows, at different times, and in different rela-\\ntions?\\nIn the subjective realms the objective seems a\\ndream an unreality. It is a mistake to think\\nthat dreams and unrealities attach only to the\\nmortal sense.\\nIn the objective life that which relates to the\\nsubjective plane seems the unreal and undefined.\\nIn the night the experiences of the day appear\\nfar off and vague. When we awaken in the morn-\\ning we remember the night as a dream of bliss\\nor horror.\\nSo do we live in two worlds or states of con-\\nsciousness. We cannot easily make either real\\nwhile experiencing the other.\\nWe have every reason to know that this is as\\ntrue after death as before, and continues till we\\nhave gained an intelligent consciousness of our\\npower to master life in both conditions, realizing\\nthat both are actual and true. Until we have", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "14 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nreached this point of understanding we are only\\ndreamers at the best, and just as wrong when we\\ndeny the reality of matter as when we deny that of\\nspirit.\\nMatter can avenge itself as well as spirit. For\\nevery atom is an individual intelligence.\\nThe great question of life is one of poise of\\nequilibrium.\\nThis is not gained with fanciful theories.\\nThe inebriate is disturbed in his brain the\\nglutton in his stomach.\\nThe temperate man compels both meat and\\ndrink to serve his wants, and maintains his balance\\nthrough preserving normal circulation.\\nIf the materialistic stomach is often out of order,\\nso is the metaphysical head. It is unsafe for the\\nstomach to scorn the head or the head the stomach.\\nNeither can safely call the other a dream and an\\nillusion, for the mucous membrane and nerve cells\\nare very similar in both. If our philosophies are\\nto be practical and useful we must not forget that\\ntruth is relative as well as absolute.\\nEthical propositions must be shown in their\\nright relations to the life of the individual of the\\npresent day. Truth is not complex and occult.\\nWe stumble oftenest at its simplicity. We do not\\nproperly distinguish light and shadow and so we\\nare misled by both. Life is a constant attempt\\nto realize ideals.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "THE LOST TRAIL. I 5\\nThe mind of man is a crucible in which the ideal\\nis transmuted into the real. This process of trans-\\nmutation is the spiritual chemistry we are here\\nto learn.\\nThere is no poverty of material in the labora-\\ntory. Every individual in every hour has the\\nopportunity of all the happiness of which he is\\ncapable through understanding of himself.\\nSome so-called metaphysicians begin their teach-\\nings with good basic propositions, but soon cut\\ntheir ground cables and carry their pupils to the\\nclouds, leaving them to get down again to terra\\nfirma as best they may and find their own way\\nback to reason.\\nIt would be well for us to begin to think of\\nclimbing up to the animal plane instead of talking\\nso much of living above it.\\nThe popular illusion concerning the real mean-\\ning of spirituality is becoming daily more apparent\\nin metaphysical circles.\\nThe immediate requirements of this planet\\nearth are in the line of a higher and more perfect\\ntype of animal life in the human race. It can\\nnever be realized through a supercilious contempt\\nfor our animal functions and denial of them as\\nillusory.\\nSpiritual progress implies a better understand-\\ning and appreciation of life in all its forms, a\\nmore complete adjustment of our relations to the", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "1 6 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nmaterial world, a mastery of its forces through\\nintelligent recognition in place of blind antagonism.\\nThe inevitable result of this is perfection of species\\nalong the lines upon which nature has always\\nworked, and not the substitution of new methods.\\nIn this way only can we show that man is not the\\nbond-slave of heredity.\\nNo matter what ancestral trait has been repro-\\nduced, no matter what taint in the blood has\\nshown itself anew, it can be wholly overcome in\\nany individual life. It can be eradicated from the\\nsystem when the soul has been aroused to its\\nwork.\\nMan is his own creator, and can dominate what\\nhis mind has expressed. He can change at will\\nthe colors or the texture of the thought with which\\nhe builds.\\nIt was once customary in Jerusalem for pilgrims\\nduring the holy week to crowd about the sepul-\\nchre and wait for the appearance of the sacred\\nfire. Every one held a taper in his hand and\\nwatched through long hours of darkness for the\\nglimmer from the tomb. At length when it ap-\\npeared those nearest to the cave would light their\\ntapers, others kindled theirs from those of their\\nfriends, and so the flame would spread till the\\nentire church was brilliantly illuminated.\\nMany had journeyed from distant lands upon\\nthe accumulated savings of a lifetime that they", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "THE LOST TRAIL. 1 7\\nmight take part in this ceremony and afterward\\nbe baptized in the Jordan.\\nTo-day there are many in America who look to\\nthe East for the sacred fire and baptism, many\\nwho believe that only in India can the highest\\ntruth be acquired. Their most cherished desire\\nis to find the Mahatmas and sit at their feet as\\ndisciples.\\nAs we once suffered from the disease of An-\\nglomania, so are we in danger now from Hin-\\ndumania. It is doubtful if any of our Hindu\\nfriends have brought us a thought that was not\\nalready known to careful students of philosophy\\nin our western world. We are slow to recognize\\nthe fact that truth is universal and not geograph-\\nical.\\nIt is everywhere present like the ether. It per-\\nvades all life, and its right interpretation is acces-\\nsible to every earnest soul. We do not find it\\nmore abundant or easily obtainable upon one day\\nof the week than on another. Truth recognizes\\nno special holiness in time or place, regards no\\nera of history as sacred or profane, holds no\\npeculiar reverence for any prophet or apostle.\\nEvery life is in itself a voice of truth. We\\nneed not travel to India, Japan, or Palestine in our\\nsearch for wisdom. There are no sacred flames\\nor fountains except in our own souls. These are\\nnever uncovered till we are done with all our wor-", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "I 8 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nship of the external. The inner voice speaks\\nonly in the silence when all other sounds are\\nhushed.\\nWhen we have recognized the ground whereon\\nwe stand as holy ground, we are ready to hear the\\nvoice of the spirit, ready to drink of the living\\nwaters and to eat the bread that cometh down from\\nHeaven. Every man and woman is a revelation.\\nEvery book is inspired. God is in all things and\\nin all places. Why should we imagine such\\nnarrow limitations to Divinity? Is not this itself, as\\nKingsley claimed, the only atheism to fancy that\\nthere is but one Holy Land in all the planet,\\none inspired volume, and one Divine Man in all\\nthe ages of humanity\\nThere are two lines of influence constantly\\noperating upon every life, of which we are very\\napt to remain in ignorance. One comes from\\nthe unseen intelligences drawn to us by con-\\ngenial thought. These find satisfaction in our\\natmosphere through similarity of tastes. Most\\nof them are unknown to us as individuals. We\\nreceive the influence of their companionship,\\nwhether it be spiritual or sensual, and at the\\nsame time we exercise a certain power over\\nthem.\\nThe other influence is that of our own thought\\nimpulses. These we have set in operation at some\\nperiod far back, perhaps in former lives, and have", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "THE LOST TRAIL. 1 9\\nnot yet outgrown them. No mental weakness is\\nsloughed off, or strength developed, without in-\\ntelligent recognition of our powers and fixed\\npurpose of accomplishment. The errors of the\\nobjective life must be corrected on the objective\\nplane, just as the note that was drawn yesterday\\nand made due at a fixed date and place must be\\nredeemed, not in our sleep, but in our waking\\nhours.\\nIf we have indulged in avarice, dishonesty,\\nlicentiousness, we must doubtless continue through\\nsuccessive lives to manifest these taints until they\\nhave filled us with disappointment and sorrow, and\\nbeen finally conquered by the ascendency of larger\\nthought and more wholesome desire. This work\\ncannot be done in the subjective life. We take up\\nour unfinished tasks with each new day. When\\nwe awaken we find them awaiting us, whether we\\nhave slept well or ill ten hours or one. We\\ndo not escape them by changing our garments.\\nWhenever one returns to earth s vibrations he\\nmoves on the lines of least resistance, and responds\\nmost readily to the chords with which he was most\\nfamiliar when he left. The time since his depart-\\nure has made no change in his uncompleted task.\\nHe comes to his own atmosphere. He opens his\\nbooks at the unfinished lesson. These old prob-\\nlems doubtless entail much suffering upon us when\\nwe again resume them. There is, perhaps, better", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "20 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nreason than we have supposed for the almost\\nuniversal restlessness of infancy and the diseases\\nof early childhood.\\nOf what are these the expression and the con-\\nsequence if not of causes dating back to former\\nincarnations If the future is to be the result of\\nthe present, as all mankind believes, why is not\\nthe present the result of the past?\\nBefore the returning soul has got firm hold upon\\nits tool, the body, and gained a clear understand-\\ning of its tasks, may it not find itself uneasy and\\ndisturbed?\\nWhen we recall the distressful conditions under\\nwhich many die, and the dissatisfied states of mind\\nin which most pass out of the objective life, may it\\nnot give us a clue to many of the difficulties of\\nour earliest years? The strong desire to solve\\nour personal problems, which is the governing\\npurpose of every life, brings us back to the material\\nworld sooner or later, according to the strength\\nof the impulse within us.\\nThe same law manifests itself in what we call\\nspirit communication. We find that most intelli-\\ngences in their first attempts to control sensi-\\ntives or psychics throw upon them the mental\\nand physical conditions under which they passed\\naway.\\nThis also is true without regard to the time\\nthat has elapsed since death. The returning spirit", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "THE LOST TRAIL. 21\\nis compelled to strike first his old keynote in\\nmatter, as a music-box starts at the point at\\nwhich the tune was broken off, when it is wound\\nup to play again.\\nUntil we get accustomed to any particular situ-\\nation we do not find much pleasure in it. This is\\nthe case in passing from the astral to the material\\nstate at birth, and equally so in passing into spirit\\nlife Death to one condition is always birth into\\nanother.\\nThere appears to be frequently a sense of dissat-\\nisfaction and bewilderment attending the change,\\nwhether through mortal birth or death.\\nOur earliest experiences upon either side are\\noften disappointing, distasteful, and unreal, unless\\nwe have learned the science of spiritual adjust-\\nment which must be applied alike upon all planes.\\nMetaphysics without spiritualism is like Chris-\\ntianity without its gospels. Its principles cannot\\nbe clearly stated or intelligently employed. The\\nscience of metaphysics is based upon the discovery\\nof man s spiritual powers. For this we are chiefly\\nindebted to the reopening of communication be-\\ntween the seen and the unseen worlds. In these\\nlatter years it has been mainly due to the sturdy\\nand persistent efforts of the spiritualists. It has\\nbeen truly the discovery of a lost trail. The inves-\\ntigations of phenomena have been made with great\\ncare and thoroughness. Many of their phases have", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "2 2 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nbeen most indisputably established upon strictly-\\nscientific grounds and by men of recognized\\nauthority in scientific circles.\\nSpirit vibrations are beyond the perception of\\nthe human eye, until their rate has been reduced\\nto that of matter. As we increase the psychic\\nforce we raise vibrations to a higher speed, making\\nimpossible the manifestation to the senses.\\nMuch of our machinery, like the electric fan, is\\ninvisible in rapid motion. As we reduce the\\npower, and slow down, it comes within the very\\nnarrow range of human vision.\\nCommunication between mortal and that which\\nwe call spirit requires often the use of a medium,\\nwho serves a purpose somewhat similar to that of the\\nelectric battery in the communications of teleg-\\nraphy.\\nBefore the circuit can be established, the brain\\nof the psychic must be quickened, and that of the\\nspirit intelligence lowered to a point of harmony.\\nThis is equally true upon our usual planes of\\nlife. We cannot really understand each other\\nwithout some points of mental contact through\\ncurrents of sympathetic vibration.\\nA great hindrance to the highest spiritual work\\nto-day is the prejudice and fear which many enter-\\ntain of spiritualism.\\nThere are metaphysical teachers and healers who\\nstubbornly refuse to recognize this source of power.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "THE LOST TRAIL. 2$\\nThus, they fail of true accord with the operator at\\nthe other end of the line. Their work, in conse-\\nquence, is cramped and limited. The ultimate\\nresults of such blind egotism are always disastrous.\\nMany who were once successful to a marked de-\\ngree have been obliged to abandon their field of use-\\nfulness because of their persistent folly in denying\\ntruth that was distasteful to them. It is necessary\\nthat we should be hospitable to the whole gospel\\nof good. There is nothing in the universe to fear\\nand nothing of evil that can do us injury except as\\nwe make conditions possible. There is infinitely\\nmore awaiting our discovery in the mines of\\nspritual treasure than we have yet conceived. We\\nmust dig deep for that which is most precious.\\nThe miner often handles tons of rock in order to\\nsecure a few ounces of gold.\\nObjection is sometimes made to the claims of\\nspirit communication, on the ground that it is\\ncommonplace.\\nWhile this is often true, it is one of the best evi-\\ndences of the reality of the phenomena. In the\\nordinary interchange of thought in conversation\\nand correspondence, do we find much that is sub-\\nlime? If we were to break away from all our\\nfriends save those who made genuine contributions\\nof real value to our intellectual life, what isolation\\nwe should suffer Is not humanity mostly defined\\nby commonplace", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "24 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nWe cannot claim a very high development as yet\\nin our own phase of existence. We have no reason\\nto suppose that any very different conditions are\\nreached immediately by the majority of those who\\npass through the change of death. It does not\\naffect one s character to leave off the clothes that\\nhe wore yesterday.\\nWe have no reason to attribute special knowl-\\nedge or power to one who has dropped his robe\\nof flesh nor have we any reason in that fact to\\ndecline to recognize another whose spiritual ad-\\nvancement makes it possible for him to render\\nvaluable assistance from the astral plane. In\\neither case we may be seriously at fault\\nIf we depend upon the psychic rather than the\\nspiritual faculties with which every human being is\\nequipped, if we lean habitually upon mediums\\nand astrologers as guides instead of using our\\nown perceptions, we are like schoolboys in the\\nlower forms who think they cannot recite their\\nlessons without cribs.\\nThe scholar dispenses with these helps. He\\nrespects his own intelligence and makes his own\\nresearches while welcoming gladly all assistance\\nthat may be rendered by those who have the right\\nto be called masters through superior develop-\\nment.\\nLove is the principle of power. It teaches us\\nour intimate relations to our fellows. It identifies", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "THE LOST TRAIL. 2$\\nus with the supreme life and wisdom, upon all\\nplanes of existence.\\nLove kills out the sense of separateness from\\nthat which is above us and below us in the scale\\nof being. This weakness, upon which so many\\npride themselves, is always the mark of a narrow\\nintellect and an unloving nature. It shows a want\\nof the culture it affects. If we were not akin to\\nthe meanest of our fellow-men we would not find\\nourselves associated with them in the same school of\\nlife. It is possible we may have advanced in certain\\nstudies to a higher class than some, but as long\\nas the experiences of humanity are necessary to\\nus all we have no reason for exclusiveness. The\\npride we foster shuts us off from much that would\\nbe helpful to us. It impairs our spiritual circula-\\ntion. We neither give nor receive in fulness. It\\nis a sacrifice of power. It brings a sense of lone-\\nliness which is its penalty. We are not separated\\nfrom any life in either the seen or unseen realms\\nto which we are related by a bond of spiritual\\nsympathy. A true recognition of the meaning of\\nlife opens to every one the gladness and freedom\\nthat belong by the right of eminent domain to\\nevery human soul.\\nThere is no such thing as a rational melancholy.\\nIt is a purely selfish impulse. Service is its sov-\\nereign remedy.\\nThe opportunities of life leave us without excuse", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "26 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nfor indolence or sadness. Healthy lungs find\\nalways inspiration and expression possible in an\\ninvigorating atmosphere.\\nWe know that our supply of air is inexhaustible,\\nand earth s latitudes are broad enough to give us\\nchoice of any climate we prefer.\\nEach of us makes his own thought climate,\\nand, if it is not satisfactory and healthful, we must\\nlook for the cause within ourselves. It is not a\\nmatter of locality. External conditions are always\\nthe expression of the inner cause. We will not\\nfind in the beyond the balm we seek, for all\\nthe joys of heaven cannot help a discontented mind.\\nTrue life is unutterable sweetness, in which all\\nthe shadows of our yesterdays are woven into the\\nsoft tints of the morning sunshine.\\nUpon the side of Mt. Blanc there is a little\\npatch of verdure called Le jardin. It lies in the\\nmidst of eternal snows, but in summer and winter\\nit is always green.\\nIn the wilds of Arabia are garden spots among\\nthe sands. The desert lies about them upon every\\nside a great wilderness of desolation. The little\\noases are always fresh and beautiful, with grace-\\nful palms and bubbling fountains. Sparkling\\nrivulets trickle off among the tree roots, and on\\ntheir borders are bright and delicate flowers.\\nAmid the waves of the Atlantic, hundreds of\\nleagues from any shore, are islands of tropical", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "THE LOST TRAIL. 2*]\\nbeauty. Among their orange groves and vine-\\nyards one forgets that all about him spreads an\\nocean that is often swept with furious gales, and\\nbreaks with savage violence on rocky shores.\\nIn every life there is a garden spot, however cold\\nand deep may be the snows that lie about it. In\\nthe midst of every desert there is some oasis filled\\nwith refreshing fountains.\\nIn every sea of trouble there is some enchanted\\nisle.\\nWe may surround ourselves in our thought life\\nwith fruits and flowers of rare loveliness. We may\\nfind the springs of gladness bubbling up within the\\nsoul.\\nWhen we have recovered the lost trail of a spir-\\nitual purpose it leads us out of the shadows of the\\npassing day and into the shine of the eternal\\nyears.\\nWe no longer wander in uncertain ways op-\\npressed with troubled thoughts, for we have found\\nthe path that leadeth unto life.\\nIn all the time of suffering we have never been\\nfar from the right road. At any moment that\\nwe choose to yield to higher impulses we are\\nguided quickly to the ways of peace and pleasant-\\nness. The lines of least resistance for the soul are\\nalways those of truth and righteousness.\\nThe supreme law is supreme love.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "28 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nLife is a palace not a hovel. It has no doors\\nthat shut out happiness.\\nLife is a banquet not a funeral.\\nWe find this true when we turn up the lights.\\nTrouble is a dream of sense. When we awaken\\nto real life the shadows flee away and all is well.\\nDeath holds no terror for those who have\\nlearned the lesson of life.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "THE LOST TRAIL. 29\\nWhen we have really discovered life s resources\\nwe know there is no better land than this in\\nwhich we are unfolding realization.\\nWe do not have to die to escape suffering.\\nWe do not escape suffering by dying.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "30 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nSpiritual science is the study of God in man\\nspirit expressed in matter.\\nAs the sun to the material world, so is Sol or\\nSoul to the spiritual.\\nGod is man s inspiration. Man is God s expres-\\nsion.\\nGod is subjective man. Man is objective God.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "CONFIDENCE. 3 1\\nII.\\nCONFIDENCE.\\nAll forces have been steadily employed to complete and\\ndelight me.\\nNow on this spot I stand with my robust soul. Walt\\nWhitman\\nThe shadow land of failure lies always close to\\nthe sun land of success. Their provinces are curi-\\nously related. They interpenetrate each other.\\nWe cross the borderland unconsciously and do\\nnot discern the lines of separation. We are not\\nchallenged by any sentinels. We are only drawn\\ninsensibly to our own point of attraction for the\\npassing hour by the magnetic currents into which\\nwe have allowed ourselves to drift. There is noth-\\ning more dangerous than depression and discour-\\nagement. Their tides and currents float us always\\nto disaster. When we permit the winds to blow\\nfrom a new quarter we find the clouds are quickly\\nscattered. We easily sail away from the dark\\nshores of foreboding and fear to lands of beauty\\nand luxuriance.\\nThe difference is as great as if we had exchanged\\nthe Arctic seas of the North for the aromatic forests\\nof the South.\\nThere is as much reality in our thought lati-\\ntudes as in geographical limits.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "32 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nWhen we have perceived this truth we do\\nnot sit down shivering by the wayside to wait\\nfor the clouds to scatter. We waste no time in\\nsorrowing over shattered ideals, but we boldly\\nenter a new thought land. What we have failed\\nto discover in one country of our wanderings we\\ndiligently seek in another, until we find our largest\\nhopes and longings satisfied. It is our spiritual\\ngeography that has been at fault. What we have\\ndesired does exist. We shall discover it when we\\nput aside the pettiness of personal caprice and\\nsearch with the devotion of King Arthur s knights\\nin their quest of the Holy Grail.\\nWe can best correct the imperfections in our-\\nselves and others by constantly emphasizing ideals\\ninstead of punishing faults. We must hold stead-\\nfastly to our confidence in better things rather than\\nweaken ourselves with thoughts of failure.\\nEvery life is typified in the history of the race.\\nThe individual passes through his barbaric and\\nfeudal ages and comes through renaissance to\\nhigher conditions, until the golden age is reached\\nat last in his soul s development.\\nIt has been said that mortal life is like a term\\nat school yet in comparison with the greater life\\nof which it is a part, it can be only as a single hour\\nin the class-room. It is but an incident in the\\nexistence of the immortal ego and can hardly reach\\nthe dignity of an event. Do we not greatly exag-", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "CONFIDENCE. 33\\ngerate its value and significance? Do we not\\nneedlessly exercise ourselves upon the sensations\\nof the hour? Are they really of any greater con-\\nsequence than the nursery games of children, of\\nwhich in later life they have no recollection Why\\nshould we persist in breaking our hearts over experi-\\nences which are so rapidly fading out of our horizon\\neven while we grieve? Nothing in mortal life can\\npossibly arrive at the importance of real tragedy.\\nThe deepest of our sufferings are only tracings\\nin the sands of the seashore, to be erased by the\\nnext wave of time.\\nIn this larger view of life we find all anguish\\nmelt away. The tense conditions of our mind\\nwhich have arisen from our ignorant and childish\\nconceptions pass. We find peace in the Everlast-\\ning Arms which are enfolding us, and from which\\nwe can never fall away.\\nThe birds are always singing in our heavens,\\nthe light is always shining, help is always near,\\nand our mountains are always full of invisible hosts\\nsent for our deliverance yet how often we are deaf\\nto the melodies and blind to the brightness and\\npower because our fears have closed the avenues\\nof spiritual perception We sit sad and comfort-\\nless, walled in by our grief, while to every word\\nof consolation we but shake our heads and cry,\\nNever was sorrow like my sorrow.\\nIt is as important to relax our minds as it is to", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "34 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nconcentrate them. Relaxation and concentration\\nare opposite poles of the same mental currents.\\nIt is desirable that we understand and alternate\\nthese conditions wisely, else we shall be always\\neither tense or scattered. Concentration is true\\nquietness rather than intensity.\\nOn the stage of human action we are often\\nobliged to wait our call between the parts assigned\\nto us. Let us learn to wait patiently and not rush\\nupon the boards before our time, else we will unfit\\nourselves through our impatience for the playing\\nof our proper part in the drama. We cannot miss\\nour cue if we desire only to fulfil our opportunities.\\nWe should not act until the hour of action compels.\\nWe should not speak until the utterance is neces-\\nsary. In the time of action we will find the open\\nway, and in the hour of speech there will be no\\nlack of words.\\nIf we will learn to live without haste we will\\nlearn to live without our present urgent need of rest.\\nOur weariness comes from ignorance of our\\npowers. We fear their exhaustion from mental\\nand perhaps unconscious protest against the\\ndemands of our occupations. We hold the ex-\\npectation of reaction and fatigue. Thus our\\nweariness results from mental friction of some\\nsort rather than excessive activity. All haste im-\\nplies anxiety and fear. Hurry is only worry under\\nanother name. It is often indulged habitually by", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "CONFIDENCE.\\n35\\nthose who would not acknowledge themselves to\\nbe anxious.\\nThe minutes saved by hurry are as useless as\\nthe pennies saved by parsimony.\\nEconomies of time and money do not feed a\\nfull-grown soul.\\nFreedom expresses always and everywhere a\\nsense of ever-present power to command all\\nthings. Success results from confident demand\\nupon ourselves. We fail because our purposes\\nare easily broken off.\\nWhen purpose and action are in harmony, they\\nare like the united movement of the wind and tide.\\nA truly concentrated life promptly rejects every\\nthought of past or future that would disturb its\\nconfidence in the present hour.\\nIt accepts nothing that will not feed its power.\\nWhen we have planted a wheat-field or an\\norchard, and a blight destroys the ripening grain\\nor a frost kills the fruit, our confidence in nature\\nis not weakened, though our labor has ended\\nfruitlessly. We plant again and again in confident\\nexpectation of the harvest. But when we fail in\\nour earliest efforts to demonstrate the power of\\nthought, and disease still clings to us, or the\\nopulence we have sought is still delayed, we are\\nvery apt to heed our doubts and yield to our\\ndespair. Yet the fruit of thought is as well assured\\nas that of the fields.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "36 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nHealth and prosperity result from our awaken-\\ning to consciousness of spiritual power. Courage\\nis developed by necessity of action. When life is\\ncomfortable we easily lose momentum. Arrested\\nmotion transmutes energy into heat.\\nInflammation, fever, and congestion are the\\nnatural results of interrupted circulation in thought\\nlife.\\nAs we become aroused to the higher vibrations\\nof spirit we become indifferent to the lower vibra-\\ntions of matter, knowing we can control them.\\nEvery man is the Supreme Being of his own\\nlife. No good or evil can come to him except as\\nhe makes it possible.\\nDistrust of himself is only another form of van-\\nity a fear lest he should not fulfil his personal\\nexpectation. It forgets the infinite power upon\\nwhich he can draw at will. It is as much a fault\\nto fear a seeming weakness in ourselves as actually\\nto manifest it outwardly.\\nIt sometimes happens that the only debt we can\\npay on demand is what is called the debt of\\nnature, and so the weak man dies through an\\nexaggerated consciousness of weakness. He fails\\nto perceive the strength that he embodies, which\\nwould be sufficient if properly directed to extri-\\ncate him from all his troubles.\\nOur fears are always premature and lead us to\\nconfusion.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "CONFIDENCE. 37\\nResurrection is the awakening of force. It is\\nnot through dropping our material bodies, but by\\nobtaining true possession and control of them that\\nwe can ever realize its meaning.\\nWhen we have attained to spiritual realization\\nour bank bills will be to us of no more value or\\nsignificance than bits of paper. Deeds and stock\\ncertificates will be as worthless as old rags.\\nOpulence within will certainly express itself in\\nopulence without. Spiritual power is creative and\\ndominates all things. It is not dependent upon\\nstrongboxes filled with fanciful securities. When\\nonce it has been recognized and put in motion it\\nis always the master and never the slave of its\\nmaterial possessions.\\nThe inexhaustible energies of nature are at\\nour service when we have learned to make a\\nconfident demand upon them. We do not need\\nso much to study the conservation of our forces\\nand resources as the power we possess of prompt\\nrenewal. Every so-called law in science\\nis manifested under prescribed conditions. If\\nthe conditions are changed there is a different\\nresult in action, and one law is transcended by\\nanother.\\nHe who governs the conditions is the lawmaker.\\nThus every man becomes a law unto himself.\\nThe science of metaphysics is a study of adjust-\\nment. It is an application of common sense to", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "38 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\npractical affairs, with confidence that we can regu-\\nlate our mental attitude toward persons and events.\\nThere is in it no element of mystery. It does not\\nrequire anything but the simplest intellectual effort\\nupon natural lines.\\nPessimism is like a derelict wreck at sea. It\\ndrifts without a helmsman, at the mercy of every\\nwind and tide. Submerged below the water line,\\nit is a menace to every brave mariner who spreads\\nhis sails to the breeze, and hangs his signal lights\\naloft. It is an obstruction to navigation and a\\ndanger to every craft that floats in the same sea.\\nIt rolls in the trough of the ocean a water-logged\\nand lifeless thing against which all seamen must\\nbe warned.\\nWe are often so bewildered by false theories on\\none hand and false practices on the other that our\\nlives are complicated and ensnared. But if we\\nare polarized in purpose we will be balanced for\\naction.\\nThe magnetic needle does not struggle to reach\\nthe north.\\nIt is so well adjusted that the electric currents\\nof the earth and air in their steady flow will swing\\nit always toward the pole. When it vacillates\\nthrough any temporary distraction they will bring\\nit surely and speedily into line again with their per-\\nsistent forces. There is no danger that it will mis-\\ntake the points of the compass. Upon the stability", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "CONFIDENCE. 39\\nof this magnetic law we venture fearlessly with our\\nfleets and navies into unknown waters. May we\\nnot have the same confidence in the soul s per-\\nceptions?\\nWhy is our guiding principle so often deflected\\nin life s voyage? Every wrong thought tends\\nto depolarize it. Every hour of indulgence in\\nfalse purpose or emotion turns it from its lode-\\nstar. Impatience and selfishness of every kind\\nobstruct the equable flow of spiritual currents\\nthrough the individual life.\\nEvery doubt and fear operates to scatter them.\\nAbsolute confidence in the eternal wisdom,\\nlove, and power of life is necessary to clear seeing\\nand right doing.\\nWe are impatient at every difficulty and turn\\nthe highest stimulus of life into an occasion for\\nself-pity and discouragement. We treat adver-\\nsity as an enemy when it is our truest friend. It\\nis a demonstration of the accurate operation\\nof the laws of cause and consequence. If we\\nanalyze intelligently we will always find a rare\\ngem of truth imbedded in our stoniest ex-\\nperiences.\\nIf we do not quickly agree with our adversity\\nit casts us into the prison of doubt, from which\\nwe never emerge till we have paid the uttermost\\nfarthing. Nor could the soul wish us to go free\\ntill we had learned to rightly interpret the law", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "40 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nfrom which we suffered. Pain is persistent energy.\\nIt is the manifestation of life.\\nAll our suffering comes from battles with our-\\nselves. After we have been sufficiently bruised\\nand beaten by the conditions we have attracted,\\nwe begin to understand the needlessness of strife.\\nWhen we are willing to feed upon the husks of\\nour emotions and sensations we must not complain\\nof the pangs of starvation.\\nTrue life deals with causes rather than effects.\\nIt does not concern itself with shadows. It is not\\ninterested in appearances, nor does it question how\\nit looks to the outsider. It desires only right\\nresults. It recognizes that the shadow is illusive\\nand misleading, and employs itself in the mould-\\ning of the substance that throws the shadow. It\\ndoes not dwell on negative conditions, but on posi-\\ntive forces. In our reaction from the old insist-\\nence upon doing we emphasize the value of the\\nsilence in which we study being. But there are\\nperils in the calm as well as in the storm. We\\nmust be careful that we do not lose our steerage\\nway. No philosophy can be really good which\\nleads to helplessness and inactivity.\\nThe largest life expresses itself in largest action.\\nSpiritual wisdom improves its purpose and method\\nwithout reducing its activities. Real growth never\\nresults in indolence.\\nLet us roll the drum and sound the bugle note", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "CONFIDENCE. 4 1\\nas loud and clear as possible. But the cheer of\\nthe living hero daring all things in the charge\\nis more inspiring than any sound of drum or\\nbugle. Is it not better to march shoulder to\\nshoulder in the column and keep step to the\\ngrand music of life that leads us forward than to\\nbe stragglers and grumblers in the rear? Is it not\\nbetter to embody the faith that we profess and\\nmanifest it in our daily living than to show our\\ningenuity in criticism and our eloquence in com-\\nplaints.\\nWe think, perhaps, that we love music, and find\\nmathematics distasteful. We respond readily to\\nsentimental appeals, but are reluctant to meet the\\nhomely duties that demand our daily care. In\\nreality music and mathematics are but different\\nexpressions of the same law.\\nWere it not for the accurate variation in the\\nvibrations of notes and fixed counts in the rests\\nmusical chords would be impossible. Mathematics\\nis a spiritual science music is its rhythmic\\nexpression appealing to the emotional nature as\\nEuclid s propositions appeal to the reason. Each\\nis reducible to the terms of the other as sound\\nand color, differentiated only by the number of\\ntheir vibrations through which they reach the\\ndifferent senses in their different development.\\nIt is difficult to say which is the greater marvel\\nto the human mind, the diversity, or unity of life.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "42 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nThe science of thought is the music of life s\\nmathematical problems. It is the fresh grouping\\nof the notes and rests, enabling us to strike new\\nchords.\\nThe question of harmony or discord in any event\\nconcerning us is governed wholly by our point\\nof view. Art and science are dependent upon\\ncareful measurements as well as on the inspiration\\nof genius.\\nThe simplest task, the smallest duty which falls\\nto us, are equally important as the heroic deed.\\nThe plainest speech and action are sometimes the\\nmost essentially heroic. In life s drama the play\\nthat goes on behind the scenes is often more beau-\\ntiful than that performed before the footlights to\\nthe music of the orchestra and the applause of an\\nadmiring public.\\nIf we cannot immediately provide for those we\\nlove all that we would wish in material advantages\\nwe can at least fulfil their higher good by holding\\nthem in the kingdom of mind in. which we rule in\\nthe thought of opulence and health and right-\\neousness. Such thoughts bring their fruit as well\\nas the labor of the hands. We need not drag\\nour dear ones down with us into dungeons of\\nfear. Fear results from unaccustomed situa-\\ntions, and the failure to apply our principles with\\nconfidence that they are sufficient to solve all\\nproblems.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "CONFIDENCE. 43\\nWe can no longer indulge our apprehensions\\nwhen we have come to understanding.\\nWe are always under the protection of the uni-\\nversal law.\\nIt transmutes every experience into good, and\\nour most painful hours may be turned to beauti-\\nful results. We cannot gauge life rightly by our\\nsensations of comfort and discomfort, except to\\nunderstand that all discomfort reveals our needs.\\nIf the hand or foot were to concentrate its sensi-\\nbilities upon itself with fear that it were too remote\\nfrom the heart or head to share in their energies\\nand watchful care the circulation of the arterial\\nsystem would be immediately disturbed.\\nWe know that any pain in hand or foot is in-\\nstantly telegraphed to the brain, and the great\\ncentral organ of the heart responds without delay\\nto every unusual demand.\\nCan we not have equal confidence in the great\\nheart and head of Being the principle that we\\ncall God?\\nIt is more difficult to fall than to stand, for all the\\nlaws of gravitation and mechanics combine to hold\\nus on our feet. There is an intelligent power be-\\nhind every one that is more interested in his pres-\\nervation than he is himself, because it has a better\\nunderstanding of his value and a purpose in ex-\\npressing its own life through his.\\nLife continually seeks expression, and places a\\nhigh value upon every opportunity.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "44 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nIf we could once realize the wisdom of the spirit\\nthat guides us and the force which protects us we\\ncould never again harbor a fear. All our anxie-\\nties are trivial in view of the infinite provision for\\nour needs.\\nIt is at the point at which we seem to stand\\nalone in our trouble, and darkness shuts down\\nabout us, that the real test comes. We are face to\\nface with the question, Does law govern in my\\nlife or am I left to chance Is the power I have\\nthought supreme indifferent or helpless in this hour\\nof pressing need Shall I listen to the voice of\\nthe senses and curse God and die?\\nYet how quickly could all our difficulties be\\nrelieved from the inexhaustible resources of an\\ninfinite mind How promptly could our vitality\\nbe quickened by the creative power we call life\\nHow very small are our pecuniary wants in\\ncomparison with the boundless wealth about us\\nHow easily could our heart hunger be satisfied\\nwith some small fragments from the feast of\\nLove\\nBut the misgivings linger fears of disease, of\\npoverty, of loneliness. The soul refuses to feed\\nupon crusts and will not be satisfied with anything\\npartial and incomplete. So it is shut out from\\neverything but the springs within itself, and at\\nlength in our extremity we dig for these hidden\\nwaters.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "CONFIDENCE. 45\\nIt is in our night of agony in the garden that our\\nangels appear. They have never been absent from\\nour side, but sorrow rends the veil from our eyes\\nand discloses the presence of our celestial helpers.\\nWe find our dangers have been exaggerated\\nbecause we were unconscious of our unseen allies.\\nAll our fears have vanished with the night. Joy\\nand confidence have come with the dawn.\\nThere is no doubt that, sooner or later, every one\\ncan accomplish his desires if he will hold to them\\nwith an unvarying and persistent confidence. But\\nas we move forward we discover better things than\\nthose we sought. We are like mountain travellers\\ndiscerning always higher peaks beyond the eleva-\\ntions they have reached, and which could not be\\nseen from the lower levels.\\nWe come but slowly to the recognition of our\\nopportunities.\\nThe largest attainments are not possible while\\nwe paralyze ourselves with doubt of our abilities.\\nI can do all things is the voice of the higher\\nconsciousness.\\nIncredulity is not the sign of a superior intelli-\\ngence. Faith is scientific and not superstitious.\\nIt is the result of large experience and knowledge.\\nIts scope rightly measures the intelligence of its\\npossessor.\\nA pessimistic and sceptical tone is the expres-\\nsion of a narrow mind and limited experience.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "46 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nAtheism is a disease a superstition. The\\natheist is a bigot of the crudest type. He is usu-\\nally a fanatic of the violent order. Fanaticism\\ngrows always upon thin soil.\\nIt is the ignorant mind that is suspicious. The\\npossibilities of life are far beyond the present range\\nof our discoveries, and every step of progress opens\\na grander horizon.\\nWhen the young bird first leaves its nest it can\\nonly cling to the bough on which the nest is built.\\nIt begins to stretch its wings, but has not learned\\nits power to master the force of gravitation. A little\\nlater and the nest and bough are left behind. The\\nbird has flown beyond the clouds. It has acquired\\nthe science of motion and command of its wings.\\nIt has gained freedom through its fearlessness.\\nWhen we have learned that we can do a thing,\\nnot because it is simple and easy in itself, but\\nbecause we are strong enough to do it, the action\\nis a delight and not an effort.\\nWhen we are confident of victory the home\\nstretch is a pleasant one, and the winning post an\\neasy goal.\\nWe sometimes fancy we would like to get done\\nwith life.\\nSuch moments of weariness and weakness come\\nat times to most of us. Yet for every human life\\nthat passes out of the objective phase, there are\\nthousands seeking eagerly to enter, knowing as", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "CONFIDENCE. 47\\nthey do that the mortal has a rare and privileged\\nopportunity of gaining that which is not otherwise\\nattainable.\\nIf we could only see our daily trials as they will\\nappear to us a little farther on the road, we would\\ngreet them with a buoyant and boisterous welcome\\ninstead of cowering and groaning with alarm.\\nDoes trouble challenge us to walk with it a\\nmile? Fearlessly let us go with it twain.\\nDoes it rudely snatch away our cloak? Let us\\noffer it our coat also. We will never meet in life\\na trial that can halt us on the highway like a\\nrobber and compel us to throw up our hands\\nunless we choose to ignore our power and yield to\\na force that, in the nature of things, must always\\nbe inferior to ourselves.\\nWe are not dying of starvation but of over-\\nfeeding. Life is an embarrassment of riches.\\nOur illnesses show that we have not been denied,\\nbut allowed too much indulgence of our follies.\\nWe have not selected our food wisely. We do\\nnot need to suffer from impoverishment in any\\ndirection if we are ready to choose that which\\nministers to. our growth.\\nLife is not so cruel as to give us mouths we\\ncannot feed or passions we cannot control. Nor\\ndoes it develop aspirations that we cannot satisfy.\\nIncreasing strength of appetite develops corre-\\nsponding power of government.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "48 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nHunger quickens our perceptions and leads us\\nto nature s storehouses. Aspiration furnishes us\\npinions upon which we wing our way to paradise.\\nEvery ideal can be made practical as soon it\\nis distinctly defined, for the power to image and\\nto execute are one and the same thing.\\nThere is no such thing as a false hope related\\nto the individual himself. Our hope may be im-\\nperfect, but when we have developed it into an\\nintelligent purpose it has already entered upon ful-\\nfilment. We can sometimes judge of the character\\nand value of the work awaiting us by the severity\\nof the experiences we have passed in preparation\\nfor it. Are we suffering to-day? It is that we may\\nhave the wisdom needful for some suffering one\\nwhom we may help to-morrow.\\nAfter the baptism of sorrow comes the baptism\\nof consolation. We must learn to let go of the\\ngood things in order to arrive at better things, as\\nthe tree lets go its buds that they may ripen into\\nblossoms, and lets go the blossoms that the fruit\\nmay come.\\nInstead of indulging the thought this is very\\ntrying, we should remind ourselves this is my\\ntest and I am glad to prove my strength or dis-\\ncover my weakness. We need to detach our-\\nselves from any difficult situation to look at it\\napart from personal considerations to stand out-\\nside ourselves and view the question quite dis-", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "CONFIDENCE. 49\\npassionately, as though it concerned another and\\nwere a matter of indifference to us, to put aside\\nthe present suffering with the assurance that there\\nis balm in Gilead and the pain will quickly pass.\\nOur best work is often struck out in the white\\nheat of suffering, and there comes a time when\\nthe soul understands that its choicest fruit is\\nripened on the tree of knowledge which grows in\\nthe garden of sorrow.\\nExperience deals us just the blows we need to\\nteach us equilibrium.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "50 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nThe life of every day would be a pleasure if we\\nwould permit ourselves to thoroughly enjoy the\\nwork in hand.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "CONFIDENCE. 5 1\\nDisease and misfortune result from habits of\\nmind.\\nWe cannot have a sickly body or environment\\nwithout a sickly thought behind it.\\nOur mental attitude to-day determines our\\nsuccess to-morrow.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "52 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nSpecific gravity governs in our affairs as truly as\\nin material science.\\nIt carries us promptly to the plane to which our\\nconfident or anxious thoughts relate us.\\nThe force we waste upon our fears is all that\\nwould be necessary for the achievement of our\\npurpose.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "TOILING IN ROWING. 53\\nIII.\\nTOILING IN ROWING.\\nAnd he saw them toiling in rowing, for the wind was con-\\ntrary unto them. Mark 6, 48.\\nWHAT hard work we make of living How we\\nlabor at the oar in our efforts to be practical and\\nto avoid the charges of idealism and credulity\\nIn the twilight of Galilee the fishermen were\\ntoiling when Jesus came to them walking upon the\\nwaters. No toiling in rowing for him for even\\nthe winds and waves obeyed him this superb\\nidealist. Why should not such a man sleep in\\nthe midst of the storm, knowing he could walk\\nupon the waters Yet the only difference between\\nthe disciple and the Master was in the larger rec-\\nognition of the force which was possessed by both.\\nIt was latent in the one and active in the other.\\nIt is easy for us to imagine that we must furnish\\nthe motive power of life.\\nWe are slow to realize that while it is for us to\\ndecide in what direction we shall move, it is the\\nuniversal energy that drives us forward.\\nThe winds and waters never fail to serve us when\\nwe recognize ourselves as rulers. There is no gale\\nthat can blow hard enough to drive us off our\\ncourse.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "54 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nThere are no billows high enough to wreck or\\ndrown us.\\nAll seas are buoyant to the undaunted soul.\\nTo destroy the sense of fear, we need to culti-\\nvate the sense of mastery. Self-control is our first\\nlesson, and in learning this we acquire the power\\nto put all things under our feet. Absolute domin-\\nion is the destiny of man.\\nThe path is found in the humblest walks the\\nmost common occupations of our human life.\\nNothing can keep us from it when the soul has\\nmade its. choice. Our daily trials are our prepara-\\ntion, and these are often as severe as the beds of\\nburning coals the Eastern aspirant is compelled to\\ntread before he is accepted as a novitiate in mystic\\norders.\\nThe idealist is not usually a man of affairs. He\\nis apt to be a very faulty mathematician. Never-\\ntheless the real purpose of life is to measure\\nbusiness by the golden rule to manifest in all\\nour dealings with each other a love that is not\\nfoolish, and an enlightened selfishness not unlov-\\ning to find a way in which the devil shall not\\ntake the hindmost, nor each man stand for him-\\nself alone.\\nLife is a constructive force it does not wish\\nto feed upon us. There is no malignant fate pur-\\nsuing us there is no power in the universe which\\ndooms us to disaster and compels defeat.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "TOILING IN ROWING. 55\\nEvery energy of life is pledged to the ultimate\\nsuccess of every individual, to the accomplishment\\nof his purposes, wise or foolish, if he has learned\\nthe value of decision, of persistence, and of con-\\ncentrated will. The heat of the blow-pipe will\\nquickly melt the hardest substance upon which it\\nis steadily focussed. The lenses of the telescope\\nserve only for the concentration of the rays of\\nlight and bring into our field of vision stars from\\nwhich we are separated by inconceivable distances.\\nWhen we chain the wheels of our chariots they\\ndrag heavily.\\nWith doubts and fears we dissipate our energies\\nand clip the wings of Spirit.\\nIf we listen with a mournful mind life seems to\\nus a wail of sorrow. We do not hear the swell-\\ning undertone of love. When we are done with\\nour complaints all voices become melodious.\\nTruth does not require emphasis. We state a\\nmathematical proposition quietly.\\nWe do not find gesture necessary in teaching\\nhistory or reciting facts of which we have no doubt.\\nWe are indifferent to all scepticism regarding\\nour financial credit when we know it to be sound.\\nWhy should we ever be disturbed because our\\nfriends do not agree with our philosophies?\\nHe who knows does not talk;\\nHe who talks does not know.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "56 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nIf in the human chorus any voice sings out of\\ntune it is all the more necessary that we should\\nkeep to the score.\\nWhen we are distressed at the discords of those\\nwho are dear to us let us know that in the silence\\nwe can reach the higher self even while the per-\\nsonal is resentful and estranged.\\nThe castle may be unapproachable, with moated\\nwalls and drawbridge raised, but a little bird can\\nenter at its highest turret window, flying across the\\nmoat and above the closed portcullis. So can a\\nloving thought wing itself where no word would be\\nadmitted, and where the lower nature has been\\nbarricaded by selfishness and prejudice.\\nAll work of spiritual enlightenment is done\\nupon the higher planes of the superconscious self.\\nThere is no stronghold tenable against the silent\\ninfluence of thought. Spirit is never limited by\\ntime or circumstance.\\nWhen we are tried by those we love we can\\nlearn the ministry of angels and be to them like\\nan arisen spirit which in its larger vision should\\nsuffer no disturbance of grief or doubt.\\nIt sees beyond the mortal day and turns\\nfrom that which is temporary to that which is\\neternal.\\nIt pierces the shadows of the night with spiritual\\nvision and sees the dawning light. It has more\\nthan hope it has the certainty of knowledge.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "TOILING IV ROWING. 57\\nIt waits without impatience for the hour when\\nthe mortal shall recognize its higher self and be-\\ncome obedient to its voice. The soul may be\\nbewildered in the sensual life, but it can never\\nbe really enslaved. It may be mired in the low-\\nlands, but it is only travelling its spiral of experi-\\nence and will some day come to higher grounds.\\nIts wings will not be always folded.\\nThough ye have lain among the pots, yet shall\\nye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver\\nand her feathers with yellow gold.\\nAll life is gospel. The air is full of messages of\\ngood.\\nHumanity needs only to be instructed to re-\\nceive and give.\\nThe secrets of existence are not to be found by-\\nlaborious seeking, but by willingness to learn and\\nreadiness to apply them.\\nLife opens unto all at every moment the high-\\nest good we can appropriate.\\nThe soul always knows the road to truth when\\nit is ready to set out upon its journey, but we\\nmust first clear up our heavy atmospheres laden\\nwith resentment and depression.\\nIf in places the path seems steep we know it is\\nleading more directly to the summit.\\nWhen our self-contention ceases we find our-\\nselves at peace with all the world. It is only then\\nthat we can trust our judgment in the affairs of", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "58 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nlife. When thought is purified it draws to itseh\\nall things and persons necessary to the solution of\\nits problems.\\nPeace is not a stagnant pool it is a deep-flow-\\ning river.\\nLife always vindicates its equities without our\\nanxious care. Our interference is often an imper-\\ntinence. Events are not hastened to satisfy our\\nimpatience. Justice is a universal element. It\\nalways includes mercy, even when we see only\\nthe action of what appears to be inexorable fate.\\nThe vexatious questions of to-day can be better\\nunderstood if we will take them out of their pres-\\nent setting of time and circumstance and view\\nthem from an impersonal standpoint. They will\\nlook very different against a background of fifty\\nyears. Time will dwarf them to their true propor-\\ntions. A change of venue will assist us to more\\njust and impartial conclusions and divest them of\\nthe false lights thrown upon them by vexation and\\nannoyance.\\nWe cannot handle malarial fever to advantage\\nin the swamps in which it was contracted. If we\\nremove the patient to higher ground where he can\\nhave pure air and water the crisis is safely met,\\nand convalescence is assured. If we raise our\\npersonal and political contentions out of the\\nswamps of feeling in which they have been devel-\\noped, we will often be surprised to find the ease", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "TOILING IN ROWING. 59\\nwith which the difficulties solve themselves. Our\\nrelations are needlessly complicated by selfish-\\nness and obstinacy. If we will divest ourselves\\nof petty pride we will perceive more clearly the\\nresponsibilities involved and find a quick adjust-\\nment practical.\\nWhen one s head is under water he cannot hear\\nwhat is spoken in the air. These two elements of\\ndifferent density have different vibrations. Spirit-\\nual utterances cannot reach the ears of those who\\nlive wholly in the sensual life. They cannot per-\\nceive vibrations of the spiritual ether. Revelation\\nis an opening of our inner vision rather than an\\naddition to our knowledge from without. It is only\\nwhen the plant has unfolded in the air and sunlight\\nthat its beautiful mysteries of form and color stand\\nrevealed. One knows but little of the true life of\\nthe body until he has begun to learn the secrets\\nof the soul.\\nWhen an athlete desires to lift a heavy weight\\nhe finds that he needs something more than muscle\\nand confidence in its power. He must learn to\\napply the muscle with intelligence, to get the right\\ngrip upon the object he wishes to raise. The\\nwrestler cannot throw his opponent until he has\\ngrappled him in the right place he sometimes gets\\nthis hold by yielding and letting go.\\nIn the difficulties which present themselves to\\nevery one it is of the greatest value that we should", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "60 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nlearn the lesson of adjustment. When we have\\ngot the right grip we can readily lift any weight\\nthat is ours to lift. We can throw any difficulty\\nwith which we have to wrestle. It is, however,\\nimportant that we should not mistake our antago-\\nnist and waste our strength upon questions that do\\nnot belong to us to settle, or weights we need not\\nraise to-day. All our work should be approached\\nwith the glad confidence of the sturdy athlete.\\nWe will have no occasion to complain of use-\\nlessness and weakness if we do not scatter in trivial\\nthings the powers that are abundantly sufficient for\\nany legitimate demands. The most powerful elec-\\ntric current if not carefully insulated will be dis-\\npersed by the induction of neighboring wires and\\nfail of the work for which it was intended.\\nThe clouds which gather in our heavens are\\noften created by our own ingenious imagination,\\nthickened and obscured by a doubtful mind. We\\nthink it is trouble that weakens and exhausts us,\\nand makes us grow gray and old. If this be\\ntrue, it is because we have not understood trouble\\nand used it wisely. What we call trouble is really\\na stimulant and rejuvenator. It is the apparatus\\nin life s gymnasium which serves to develop skill\\nand muscle, and burns up tissues which may\\nbe perpetually renewed. It is a fundamental\\nrule of physical culture that exercise should be\\ncontinued till the muscles ache and cry for rest.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "TOILING IN ROWING. 6 1\\nThe work should be increased as rapidly as new\\nstrength will permit. We are too easily cowed by\\nsuffering, and quick to whine at all discomforts.\\nBut the measure of our difficulties is the gauge of\\nour necessities, and we should never turn away\\nfrom discipline with rueful faces.\\nIt is not by any means the people who have had\\nthe greatest trouble that grow old the fastest.\\nIf trouble serves to arouse the higher powers of\\nthe soul it results in a sense of independence\\nand mastery which brings strength and youth.\\nWe should find every problem welcome and\\nevery fresh experience proportioned to the power\\ngained by former difficulties. The divine energy\\nthat we embody will not let us rest in inactivity\\nand stagnation. We must climb to every throne\\nthat we would occupy as we grow continually to\\nlarger recognition of our right to govern. We\\ndig in many a field for the pearl of great price.\\nThe digging should bring us pleasure and profit\\nquite as much as that we get from contemplation\\nof the pearl itself. Life will not set us any task\\nbeyond our strength, nor will it ever demand of\\nus bricks without straw.\\nWe find no reason for unhappiness when we dis-\\nmiss our apprehensions. We are too often over-\\nconfident in expectation of disaster. We are too\\nsanguine of defeat. We overestimate our incapac-\\nity. We are too sure of failure.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "62 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nWhen we hear suggestions of some pleasing\\npossibility we think it too good to be true.\\nWhen disappointment comes to us it is just what\\nwe might have expected.\\nTroubles are friendly tramps. We need not\\ndeal angrily with them and set the dogs on them,\\nfor if we treat them kindly they will show us many\\nthings we need to know, and cheerfully go on their\\nway leaving blessings and not curses behind them.\\nSooner or later life will give us all we want, and\\nwe will find severer lessons in satiety than in\\npoverty.\\nEvery truth that we encounter adds to our un-\\nhappiness until it has been accepted and embodied\\nin our life.\\nA fruitful cause of dissatisfaction and unrest is\\nan abnormal desire to please others. This often\\nsprings from personal and selfish motives unsus-\\npected by the sufferer. He strives in vain to gain\\nthe satisfaction of recognized service and is met\\nby coldness and indifference. If such an one would\\ngive up his subserviency, abandon his unwelcome\\nefforts, and train himself to the indifference from\\nwhich he suffers he would soon get satisfactory\\nresults.\\nWe need to guard ourselves even in loving min-\\nistry against the sacrifice of individuality. It is\\nindispensable to a true life to think from its own\\ncentres. It is not always wise to force ourselves", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "TOILING IN ROWING. 63\\nto look at matters from the standpoint of another.\\nWe sometimes sacrifice our judgment to affection.\\nThis can bring no good to ourselves or others. As\\none develops individuality he is very sure to be\\nmisunderstood by his domestic circle.\\nStrong individuality is like a statue carved in\\nstone which shows fine outlines and proportions on\\nits pedestal, but looks extremely coarse when\\nplaced upon the ground. We need the softening\\neffects of time and distance to enable us to judge\\ncorrectly of a rugged human character. Its lines\\ndo not seem delicate when closely viewed, but a\\ngreater refinement would probably weaken it for\\nits peculiar work.\\nThe pedestal of some special occasion raises it\\nbeyond our criticism and brings out, in grand re-\\nlief, strong points that were, perhaps, offensive to\\nus within narrower limits.\\nTrue individuality is never selfish. When we\\nunderstand our real relations to the universe of\\nwhich we are a part, we open ourselves fearlessly\\nupon all sides. Our desire is to yield in matters\\nof mere preference. We know that giving is as\\nnecessary as getting in maintaining perfect circu-\\nlation. Selfishness is congestive. It contracts\\nand shrivels all the nature but much yielding\\nand giving is, in reality, more selfish than with-\\nholding and denying, and demands less force of\\ncharacter.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "64 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nEagerness in getting health or pleasure some-\\ntimes shuts out the good that is crowding con-\\nstantly upon us. We are often as selfish in the\\nindulgence of another s eagerness as in our own.\\nNature is a wonderfully careful mother, and makes\\nthe way of the transgressor hard. It is no kindness\\nto try to make it easy. If one wastes his fortune\\nrecklessly he gains in exchange the wisdom of ex-\\nperience, which is perhaps worth more than what\\nhas been flung away.\\nNature relieves the fevered senses of the profli-\\ngate with a dash of the cold water of adversity, and\\narouses him from his intoxication and bewilderment.\\nThen comes the headache of remorse the\\nmoan of disappointment, the idle question Is life\\nworth living? \u00e2\u0080\u0094which springs only from unhap-\\npiness. Life means far more than the successful\\nconduct of our petty personal affairs or maintenance\\nof a conventional respectability.\\nOur higher self has other aims for us than find-\\ning an ageeeable climate and an indolent existence.\\nIt arouses us with the sharp strokes of the alarm\\nclock of some sudden discomfort. It compels us\\nto go out into the cold and darkness of misfor-\\ntune or disease and so move on to new activi-\\nties. Our days are filled with the sense of failure,\\nand in the night vexation and regret surge in upon\\nus like chilling winter tides. We feel the darkness\\noverpowering. A bottomless pit yawns beneath", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "TOILING IN ROWING. 6$\\nus. All remembrance of past joys is swallowed up\\nin a midnight horror, and we hear only the echo of\\nthe words in our minds corridors He descended\\ninto hell. Heaven seems forever inaccessible.\\nTruly the shadows of the valley of humiliation\\nare deeper and blacker than those of the valley of\\ndeath. But the experience of these dark places\\nseems necessary to us all.\\nMuch of our dissatisfaction in life is due to the\\nfact that we are not good judges of the fruit that\\ngrows on the tree in the midst of the garden the\\ntree of the knowledge of good and evil. We do\\nnot recognize the times of ripeness. We are mis-\\nled by appearances and easily mistake the day of\\ngrowing for the day of gathering.\\nWe are premature in our expectations and feel\\nvexed and mortified to find only leaves where we\\nhave looked for fruit not knowing that the\\ntime of fruit is not yet. It is idle to fret at\\nimmaturity either in ourselves or others. Ages\\nare required to perfect the animal man, and ages\\nmore to make him master of the universe. We\\ndo not realize how usefully we are related to the\\nenvironment in which we find ourselves. If it be\\ndistasteful we can see in it no good. We do not\\nunderstand how much we need the things that\\ncome to us, and which often are reluctantly re-\\nceived. We sigh for solitude while getting our\\nbest stimulus from those about us.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "66 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nEvery human being radiates magnetic and elec-\\ntric currents, and receives from others similar\\nradiations of nervous energy. Society provides\\nus with something more than opportunities of\\npleasant conversation. It relieves us of surplus\\nforce which might react uncomfortably upon our-\\nselves. It restores to us the subtle elements we\\nmost require. We are instinctively drawn to the\\nsurroundings we need, and which enable nature to\\nmaintain in us her equilibrium.\\nPlants feed on the carbonic oxide thrown off by\\nhuman lungs. They purify the atmosphere for\\nthe further use of man, while at the same time\\nemitting fragrance which is soothing and delightful.\\nEach thus ministers to the other. This principle\\npervades all life, and manifests itself in marvellous\\nways to students of natural science.\\nWhen we come to a closer analysis of what we call\\nvibration we shall find that everything has a more\\nextended scale than we now realize.\\nNature has different vibratory rates which will\\nappeal to all the senses when our soul perceptions\\nare more fully awakened.\\nWe now see color and hear sound. Other things\\nwe taste, smell, or touch without hearing and often\\nwithout seeing them.\\nIf our senses were perfected they would all be\\ncognizant of everything in the objective life.\\nWe would then perceive not only with one or", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "TOILING IN ROWING. 6j\\ntwo or three of the five senses while the others\\nwere inactive. We would discover in everything\\nsome quality that touched a responsive chord in\\neach. We would easily distinguish the movements\\nof colors and sound-waves, taste their flavors and\\nsense their touch. We would hear the harmonies\\nof the flower-beds, the chantings of the ferns and\\nforests. We would see the exquisite tints of musi-\\ncal chords, and at the same time enjoy their deli-\\ncate odors. We would understand the variations\\nof individual character from the symphonies of\\ncolor radiated by the thought life. Laboratory\\nexperiments sometimes disclose rare dyes and\\nfragrance w T here we had not supposed them to\\nexist. A change of temperature in the crucible\\nwill develop strange forms and properties. The\\nmore advanced unfoldment of humanity must\\ndoubtless open new avenues of sensation. The\\nspirit of man is all-seeing, all-hearing, all-per-\\nceiving; its intelligence is far beyond the present\\ncapacity of the senses to express.\\nThese are imperfect avenues or points of contact\\nbetween the material and astral realms, in both of\\nwhich man functions.\\nComplete consciousness of both these planes,\\nand intelligent direction of the will in all of his\\nactivities, is man s great problem on this planet.\\nStand with me on an October day upon some\\nhigh peak of the Rocky Mountain range. We", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "68 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nare in the midst of one of Nature s grandest\\namphitheatres. Encircling us are mountain-tops\\nthat are crowned with eternal snows.\\nBelow us lies the timber line marked with dark\\nforests of pine, spruce, and cypress. Farther down\\nthe mountain-side are groves of beech and aspen\\nbrilliant with the glory of the burning bush, while\\nat a lower level are green meadows with the silvery\\nthreads of mountain streams woven in and out\\nbetween the lines of hills.\\nAbove this panorama hangs a canopy of deep\\nblue sky mottled here and there with the cumulus\\nclouds and fleecy drifts of an autumn afternoon.\\nA little later we may see this spectacle, illumi-\\nnated by a harvest moon throwing its mysterious\\nlight over the snow crystals, forests, and meadows.\\nWe call to mind the strains of the old prophets\\nThen shall the trees of the wood sing out.\\nThe valleys shout; they also sing.\\nWhen the morning stars sang together and all\\nthe sons of God shouted for joy.\\nIf our ears were truly open now what glorious\\nanthems we might hear What a marvellous\\ndiapason ranging from the snow-top of the moun-\\ntain to the herbage of the valley Then would life\\nappear indeed to us a song of power and gladness.\\nIf we wish to train our voices to sing true we\\nmust not listen so much to discords.\\nWe must drop our habits of criticism. We", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "TOILING IN ROWING. 6$\\nmust look for the sweet things in life and not the\\nsour. We must gather flowers instead of nettles.\\nWhen one lives a grand, strong life we are not\\ngreatly disturbed that he is uninformed in any\\nspecial field of knowledge, or even wholly illiterate\\nand ignorant. His character in itself is a bene-\\ndiction which soothes, instructs, and stimulates us\\nthrough the power of love.\\nAnd when another is endowed with all that\\nmakes a teacher great, except the personal demon-\\nstration of the truth he teaches, shall we not forget\\nhis personality and value that of which he is the\\nvoice? We learn from one the proposition of a\\nprinciple, and in another we see the demonstration.\\nWe cannot well dispense with either, though per-\\nhaps we often find them separated. The fact that\\none proclaims a truth shows some appreciation of\\nhigh standards, even though the teacher himself,\\nlimps painfully in his effort to follow them.\\nTruth is impersonal, and we can well afford to\\nbe indifferent to the channels through which it\\ncomes. If the postal service is efficient we do not\\nquarrel with its employees, whatever may be their\\nreputation.\\nWe are not troubled because the pearl is found\\nin a diseased oyster. It is a precious gem. We\\ndo not remember that ambergris is a morbid secre-\\ntion derived from the bile of the whale. It is a\\nrare fragrance.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "JO DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nWhen we are less fastidious in our demands, wc\\nwill become more rapid learners. In mining for\\nprecious metals it does not disturb us to find the\\nmarks of the soil upon our working clothes and on\\nthose of our fellow-laborers. If we really seek the\\npearl of price we will be indifferent as to where we\\nfind it. Let us outgrow at the same time our hero-\\nworship and censoriousness. They are alike un-\\nworthy of us. Each of us has enough to do in\\nsolving his own problems without looking over the\\nshoulders of his neighbors to see how they are\\nhandling theirs.\\nAgain, if we are to forgive our erring brother\\nseventy times seven, shall we not extend the same\\nconsideration to ourselves, who possibly need it\\noftener?\\nOur greatest grief and discouragement in life\\nis in the consciousness that we have not lived\\nup to our ideals. Constant self-chiding is in-\\ntolerable. It depresses one to the point of help-\\nlessness.\\nLet us give to ourselves the cheerful and tireless\\nencouragement in the face of failure which we\\nwould give another in whose purpose and success\\nwe had entire confidence.\\nWhen we listen to the skilled players in an\\norchestra and our souls seem lifted up on waves\\nof harmony it is hard to realize that every one of\\nthose musicians has struggled through many weary", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "TOILING IN ROWING. yi\\nhours and months of discord in the development\\nof his artistic talent.\\nWhen we suffer from interior discord we need\\nto hold with unflinching confidence to the belief in\\nthe power of the soul to bring us ultimately the\\nknowledge and peace of the Divine harmonies.\\nIt is not sufficient to tune a single string of the\\nviolin or one key of the piano. The entire instru-\\nment must be brought to concert pitch before the\\nfull power and beauty of its tone can be expressed.\\nBut let us enjoy and not quarrel with the tuning\\nprocess in thought of the grand chords which we\\nare making possible.\\nDiscord destroys an instrument that will not\\nyield itself to harmony. Nature will not tolerate\\nan instrument it cannot tune. The whole phil-\\nosophy of mental healing lies in the recovery of\\na lost chord. The operation of this principle is\\nshown in the domestic circle and community.\\nDiscord disintegrates. It is a centrifugal force.\\nHarmony is centripetal and blends. The home or\\nnation that does not develop harmony within\\nitself cannot be long maintained. Life hews to\\nthe line, regardless of where the chips may fall.\\nIts standard is perfection. It will recognize no\\nother law in any of its kingdoms than the survival\\nof the fittest. Extinction is the penalty of dis-\\nobedience.\\nSome of us live in prisons of fear. These are", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "]2 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nthe true torture chambers of the Inquisition. Fear\\nis the grand inquisitor who applies to us continu-\\nally the rack, the thumbscrew, and the firebrand.\\nSome of us abide in cemeteries amid the tombs\\nof memory, and are continually bringing garlands\\nto the graves of our dead past. Some of us are\\ncave-dwellers living on the lowest planes of animal\\nexistence and in the jungles of a merely sensual life.\\nBut to all of us come the voices of the spirit\\nbidding us come out of our mental prisons, out\\nof our chambers of horror, out of our caves and\\ndungeons, into the glad freedom of true life, to\\nleave the fever districts of the plains and climb the\\nmountain-side, to leave the shadows of the valley\\nand seek the sunlight of the hills, to leave the\\nstagnant waters and come to living fountains.\\nThus shall we indeed go out with joy and be\\nled forth in peace while the mountains and the\\nhills break forth before us into singing and all the\\ntrees of the field shall clap their hands.\\nAn intuitional nature that violates its spiritual\\nimpulses renders itself peculiarly liable to disease\\nand suffering.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "TOILING IN ROWING.\\nAt the point of discouragement we are often\\nnearest accomplishment.\\nIf we weather this cape we find the storm is\\nover and the port in sight.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "74 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nIt is a scattering and waste of force to lament\\nand criticize what we cannot help.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "PATIENCE. 75\\nIV.\\nPATIENCE.\\nEverything must be taken genially, and we must be at the\\ntop of our condition to understand anything rightly.\\nEmerson.\\nThe most unhappy man in the world is he that is not\\npatient in adversity, for men are not killed with the adversity\\nthey have to bear, but with the impatience which they suffer.\\nChas. Bailly, 1571.\\nMORE than three hundred years ago these words\\nthat we have quoted of Charles Bailly s were cut by\\nhim into the walls of his cell, in London Tower,\\nwhere he was confined as a political offender,\\nawaiting death. Here is mental science, pure and\\nsimple, in a grander memorial inscription than is\\ncarved upon the walls of any church or temple of\\nour day. How little the prisoner thought, as he\\npatiently scratched these lines upon the stones\\nof his dungeon, that three centuries afterward a\\nnew world would awaken to their truth and make\\nit the cornerstone of metaphysics\\nWe have been so long accustomed to thinking\\nof ourselves as the helpless victims of heredity\\nand circumstance that when we begin to realize\\nwe are only the victims of our own impatient and", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "J 6 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nignorant will, we enter indeed upon a new psy-\\nchology.\\nHow different a landscape looks when ap-\\nproached from a new point of view So changed\\nthat in returning over a road which we passed for\\nthe first time but an hour before, we scarcely\\nrecognize it as one we have travelled. Every field\\nand tree, every curve and angle, presents itself\\nin an entirely new relation to the whole.\\nSo in our view of any truth when we have\\nchanged its setting we get a different perspec-\\ntive.\\nIn the attainment of spiritual freedom we are\\nloosed at the same time from fear and desire. It\\nis either the fear or the desire of change that pro-\\nduces our discomfort. It is this that compels the\\npassage of the soul from the objective to the sub-\\njective life through death, and brings it again from\\nthe subjective to the objective existence at birth.\\nBefore we can control and overcome all fixity\\nof condition, and be able to enter and abide with\\nequal ease and pleasure upon any plane, we must\\nnot only complete the education of the will, but\\nmust acquire perfect satisfaction through a larger\\nknowledge of life s meaning, and a larger confi-\\ndence in its purposes.\\nThe new term of polarization and the old term\\nof atonement mean one and the same thing;\\nthe harmonizing of man s personal and mortal", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "PATIENCE. 77\\nnature with his impersonal and spiritual self; the\\nbringing of every thought into ready subjection\\nto the higher impulse. This is self-government by\\nthe immortal ego the finding of the Christ\\nwithin.\\nIf we understand that Supreme love never fail-\\neth, we know that its unwavering desire is for our\\nhighest good. This remains true whether we\\ndefine our ideal as a personal God, as absolute\\nlaw, or as the potent and individual ego related to\\nthe infinite whole.\\nIts constant action is for the establishment of\\nequilibrium.\\nIt is as plainly seen in the life of man as in\\nthe earthquake and the tornado. All phenomena\\nare the expressions of this law of equilibrium. All\\nthe strangeness of human fate is equally a mani-\\nfestation of the same power in human life. Pride\\nmust have its fall as surely as a tree that has\\ngrown top-heavy. Every virtue becomes a vice in\\nits extremity and reacts with the ultimate result of\\ngreater symmetry of character.\\nIt is very evident in all the work of modern\\nhealing that the vital principle effects a change of\\nthe impatient and discouraged thought.\\nA conviction is aroused that health is possible\\nand probable.\\nIt may come to the mind through faith in the\\nVirgin Mary or some of the saints of the church,", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "yS DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nthrough faith in prayer, in a hypnotic operator, or\\nin the assurances of Christian Science and meta-\\nphysics.\\nHealers of diverse theories and hostile camps are\\nequally successful in their application of thought\\nprinciples, and the faith of either the healer or the\\nhealed is the principle always present.\\nIf one school can fairly claim that its theories\\nare justified by works, so can they all, though they\\nbe aliens and heretics to one another, and their\\ndefinitions and methods radically differ. In all of\\nthem we find the common factor faith pro-\\nducing expectation of health, and changing mental\\nconditions from negative to positive. It seems to\\nmake no difference in the results whether the faith\\nis focused on an amulet, a shrine, a person, or a\\nbook.\\nThe healing principle is a positive thought, and\\nanything that can arouse this to vigorous action\\nwill obtain results. The spirit which is behind\\nevery life and seeking continually larger expe-\\nrience in its human form is positive in character\\nand pure in purpose, however imperfect may be\\nits manifestation.\\nSooner or later the human soul will recognize\\nthe truth of its divine origin and guidance. Noth-\\ning is gained by forcing its development. It must\\nbe educated to choose righteousness for itself.\\nWith growth of knowledge comes right choice", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "PA TIENCE. 79\\nfor no one will deliberately invest his energies in\\nlines that lead to bankruptcy.\\nWith choice comes power of accomplishment.\\nAll life tends to progress, and every power in the\\nuniverse is aiming to secure the best results for all.\\nIn the perfected truth we find the seed. Within\\nthe seed we find the essence and the promise of\\nthe fruit. Seed and fruit are inseparably united.\\nTogether they complete the circle of being, though\\nthe arc lines of development are often immeasur-\\nable to human observation.\\nIt is doubtful, after all, if the metaphysical or\\nreligious healer is often anything more than the\\ndoctor s boy who carries around the medicine-case\\nand delivers the prescription prepared by wiser\\nintelligences in the unseen.\\nMay it not be true that such greater ones some-\\ntimes discern the needs of our humanity better\\nthan we, provide the healing power, and bring to-\\ngether the healer and the sufferer indifferent to\\nthe label of the cure It flatters our petty vanities\\nto believe that we are the people, and wisdom\\nshall die with us. But how shall we explain the\\ngood work that is done by those who have no sym-\\npathy in our peculiar views? Does it not appear\\nthat there is sometimes but small relation between\\ntheory and practice, and there may be other ele-\\nments in life than those that we have catalogued\\nin our intellectual laboratories. Perhaps many are", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "80 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nfitting themselves to be the real healers of the\\nfuture, while now only playing doctor, and dis-\\ntributing the remedies prepared by others.\\nBut there is abundant reason for confidence in\\nthose others, and we need never distrust their wis-\\ndom and skill in any case to which they summon\\nus as helpers, if we are really working on the\\nhighest lines.\\nIt is not necessary that healer or .patient should\\nbe sensible of the effect of any particular treat-\\nment. The finer forces of nature do not appeal to\\nthe senses. They work below the surface of life\\nand develop plant growth in darkened cells beneath\\nthe ground, All our forces are spiritual. The\\nsenses are only organs or tools through which we\\ncome in touch with matter. They are like the\\nduplex wires of telegraphy over which we send\\nand receive soul messages on the objective plane.\\nWe should never lose sight of the fact that it is the\\nsoul that stands at the transmitter and receiver,\\nand at all times is the operator. It is the soul\\nthat sees, hears, feels, tastes, and smells. If any\\ndefect appear in the instrument or any obstruc-\\ntion in the circuit we must call upon the soul\\nto repair the damage and to remove the difficulty.\\nIts resources of intelligence and power are always\\nequal to the task. It can summon all necessary\\naid. It is its business to maintain an equilibrium\\nof forces, that inspiration and expression may\\ncompensate each other always.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "PATIENCE. 8 1\\nThe fountain of life is perennial. It is im-\\npossible to choke the spring. Through all the\\noverlying rubbish that our passions and sen-\\nsuality have heaped upon it it still bubbles up\\nand makes for itself an open channel, whether in\\nthe rock or marsh-lands. Ever will its waters find\\nthe sea, refreshing every pasture through which\\nthey flow.\\nAs the spiritual principle gains ascendency the\\nobjective life is permeated more and more by the\\nsubjective. Life shows more of inspiration and\\nless of trance conditions. We require less sleep\\nand a lessened degree of torpor in the night hours,\\nwhile our different mental states approach each\\nother. Our minds are more active in repose and\\nmore tranquil in activity.\\nHighly developed spiritual natures scarcely re-\\nquire the refreshment of unconscious sleep. The\\nrange of spiritual activity is widened and less inter-\\nrupted as the two conditions blend. We will ulti-\\nmately find the positive force of spiritual will\\nasserting itself over all negative states.\\nWhen one is wakeful at night he is impatient in\\nhis restlessness and struggles for sleep.\\nIf he would only accept the insomnia with cheer-\\nfulness it would bring no bad results, and would\\nthe sooner pass away.\\nInsomnia often opens the doors of a spiritual\\nnight school, in which we may obtain many a val-", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "82 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nuable revelation if we will only listen patiently.\\nIn our activities of the day our spiritual faculties\\nare often dulled. In the quiet hours of the night\\nthe subjective side of nature is presented to us\\nwith many lessons that are well worth the hours\\nof wakefulness they cost, for they bring spiritual\\ntonics with them more refreshing than the ordi-\\nnary slumbers.\\nIf we are not responsible for the thoughts that\\npass our doors we are at least responsible for those\\nthat we admit and entertain.\\nEvery hour of true thought holds the entire\\nnature to its keynote and silently works its good\\neven in unconsciousness. Every hour of wrong\\nthinking brings disintegration and confusion.\\nThese healing or hurtful processes are in continu-\\nous operation. Sooner or later they will manifest\\nresults in the external, in both body and sur-\\nroundings.\\nNo one is shut out from the tuneful melodies of\\nlife except by his own choice. Wherever his lot is\\ncast he is within the province of harmonious law.\\nMany suffer from excessive culture and refine-\\nment. They lack sinew and fibre and have forgot-\\nten the meaning of the words robust and\\nstalwart. They are sickly, sensational, and sen-\\ntimental. It is a secret gratification to believe\\ntheir symptoms are so delicate and subtle as to\\nbaffle the physicians and be classed as peculiar", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "PATIENCE. 83\\nand unusual. Their real difficulty is selfishness,\\nthough such a diagnosis would sound coarse and\\noffensive to their sensitive ears. They need the\\nbitter tonics of honest truth, but prefer the sweets\\nthat have already cloyed their stomachs and ob-\\nstructed their digestion. A good, sound mental\\nshock would bring them to a rallying-point and\\nbe of greater benefit than an electric current or a\\nchange of climate. Adversity would often prove\\ntheir very best friend.\\nNervous prostration is not a common disease\\namong the poorer classes. It is a luxury beyond\\ntheir purse, like grand opera or foreign travel. It\\nbelongs peculiarly to those whom Emerson de-\\nscribes as having gone to sleep upon the cushion\\nof advantages, and has lately been named ner-\\nvous prosperity.\\nThe arousing of the soul is an infallible remedy.\\nWe often complain severely of others, to con-\\nceal our dissatisfaction with ourselves.\\nIt is usually ourselves that we are secretly up-\\nbraiding while condemning others, and if our\\npeace of mind could be restored we would find\\nbut little difficulty in approving or excusing those\\nin whom we have found the greatest fault.\\nWe may cheerfully note it as a sign of progress\\nwhen we have got beyond the point of wishing to\\ndefend ourselves.\\nWhen we have admitted our own responsibility", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "84 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nfor a fault we have taken the first step toward its\\ncorrection and brushed aside many difficulties\\nfrom our path.\\nThe faults we criticise are usually our own,\\nthough we may imagine ourselves particularly\\nexempt from them. The breach in our own in-\\ntrenchments is generally at the point at which we\\nmost quickly perceive the weakness of others.\\nThe old French proverb is universally true\\nWhosoever excuses himself accuses himself.\\nWe are not easily sensitive to accusations we know\\nto be false.\\nLet us be willing to be misunderstood, to be\\neven silenced in an argument, rather than insist to\\nthe point of irritation and prolong dispute.\\nWhy should we care to maintain our position so\\ntenaciously and explain our personal views?\\nTruth does not need us for her champion. She\\nis no weakling and is indifferent to our espousal of\\nher cause.\\nOur only real concern should be to stand right\\nin the opinion and judgment of our own soul.\\nLet no word be spoken in the home that we\\nwould wish recalled when we look into the grave\\nof any of our loved ones. The bitterness of such\\na recollection in that hour adds unutterable anguish\\nto bereavement.\\nWe may be very sure that we can paint no\\ndaub upon the canvas of our life which our own", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "PATIENCE. 85\\neyes will not have to contemplate some day from\\nthe standpoint of a higher knowledge of the har-\\nmony of color and the art of living. We must\\nsuffer keenly from this post-mortem study and\\ntoil painfully till we have painted out the sad dis-\\ncoloring and worked our highest standards into\\nthe living canvas.\\nThere will come a time to all of us when every\\nunkind word and every cruel thought will be a\\nsounding echo in the corridors of memory, when\\nevery selfish soul shall walk alone and desolate,\\nunable to shut out the voices of its past, which\\nbring to it a more exquisite torture than was ever\\npictured in the hells of Dante s Purgatorio.\\nPatience and indifference are of the greatest\\nvalue in the correction of disturbed conditions.\\nWe know that mental exaltation will render one\\ninsensible to pain, and many seek and apply it as\\nthey would an opiate. But while it may be tem-\\nporarily useful it has secondary effects that leave\\nconditions of unrest. It is equally true in meta-\\nphysics as in physics that action and reaction\\nare equal and in opposite directions.\\nThe almost inevitable consequence of times of\\nuplifting is a most serious downfalling. The\\nmental pendulum swings back to its completion\\nof the arc upon the opposite side. When Moses\\ncomes down from Sinai he breaks the tablets of\\nthe law in his impatience at the unexpected idol-", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "86 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\natry of his people. At the foot of the mountain\\nof Transfiguration Jesus is roused to a severe\\nrebuke of the disciples who have been trying to\\ndo good work in his absence, but have failed in\\ntheir attempt. Musicians are often quarrelsome\\nin spite of the fact that their constant employment\\nis the production of harmony.\\nSpiritualists are often deeply sorrowful at the\\ndeath of friends, notwithstanding their confidence\\nin continued communion.\\nMetaphysicians are often filled with anxious\\nthought in the midst of their warfare against\\nworry. The most reasonable solution of these\\nmysteries lies in the analysis of the emotions.\\nThrough the dangerous indulgence of elation\\nwe involve ourselves in discords of depression.\\nThe old hymn aptly expressed the feeling common\\nto all when on the unaccustomed mountain-top\\nOh, could my soul but stay\\nIn such a frame as this,\\nAnd sit and sing itself away\\nTo everlasting bliss.\\nBut we feel we cannot remain in the higher alti-\\ntudes. At the same time we resent the necessity of\\nthe ordinary duties and associations of life which\\nseem to demand of us a certain condescension.\\nThis is a mistaken view the fault is in our estimate\\nof the value of the ecstasy. Emotional states are", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "PATIENCE. 87\\nnecessarily transient and dangerous. Truly spir-\\nitual conditions are abiding and imperishable.\\nThere are breezy uplands where the atmospheres\\nare always clear, and the sunlight perpetually ra-\\ndiant.\\nWe attain to these states only when we climb\\nby paths of principle, and not through the ex-\\nperience of the emotions. They are reached as\\nwell through the busiest and most commonplace\\nactivities of life as in the seclusion of the scholar\\nand recluse. They are superior to all environ-\\nment and suffer no reactions. They are indiffer-\\nent to sensation because confident of results.\\nThis power is found in the complete recogni-\\ntion of the greater self. It regards the personal or\\nlesser self as a student and pupil. When it suffers\\nit comforts this alter ego with the reassurance\\nof its ability to overcome all pain through knowl-\\nedge rather than through rapture.\\nIt teaches the lesser self to say, I desire this\\nexperience to continue till I have learned its\\nlesson. I cheerfully consent to any price that life\\ndemands for wisdom.\\nOur best lessons are often learned when suffer-\\ning reveals us to ourselves. Should we not then\\nmake friends with our troubles, instead of angrily\\ndespising them?\\nLet us bid them do their will upon us not\\ndefiantly, but with honest purpose of learning the", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "88 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\npower of spirit to destroy pain. Give the thumb-\\nscrews another turn, Life, and I will find within\\nmyself a stronger force than anguish. I will not\\nbe a slave to suffering. I will not evade by flight,\\nbut I will say of truth, Though it slay me yet will\\nI trust in it, and from the anguish will be born a\\npeace that is abiding and makes suffering hence-\\nforth impossible.\\nWhen we indulge impatience we produce dis-\\nturbed conditions of the soul. Our higher self\\nknows the repose of infinite peace, while the mortal\\nfeels only the difficulty of its attainment.\\nThe higher self is as the ocean rolling its great\\ntides outward, while the personal self is as the\\nwind blowing shoreward and so the surface of the\\nlife is agitated and we suffer from the conflict of\\nwind and tide.\\nWhen we bring these forces into consonant action\\nthey will manifest a boundless power.\\nMere theories will not heal life s troubles. It is\\nonly by doing the will of the greater self that we\\ncan knowthe true doctrine of peace and power. We\\ncan never learn to swim by clinging with one hand\\nto the shore. We can never be rid of our difficulties\\nas long as we insist on tightly clutching and con-\\nstantly reviewing them. It is as if we should open\\nan old sore to see if it were healing. We must let\\ngo of the intense and selfish thought. In the\\nmiracles of healing, which are so often reported by", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "PA TIENCE. 89\\nthe Roman Catholic Church, it is noticeable that\\nthe mind of the devotee has been first prepared by\\nturning the thought away from his own sufferings\\nto those of another. In a partial transcript of an\\noffer of indulgence copied from the walls of a\\ncathedral we find the following:\\nA partial indulgence may be gained by reciting\\nbefore this cross with sorrowful heart seven times\\nthe Hail Mary in honor of the sorrows of the\\nBlessed Virgin and again the same, in honor\\nof the sacred wounds of our Lord. The soul of\\nthe suppliant is thus first confirmed in patience,\\nand then exercised in adoration and led to expect\\nwith confidence the healing which so often follows\\nits devotions.\\nThe emotional and sensual natures are closely\\nallied.\\nSpiritual life manifests a higher purpose and\\npower than are shown in self-indulgence.\\nThe real value of any position of responsibility\\nis in its opportunities of service rather than of gain.\\nUntil we have learned this truth we are not\\nfitted for large work in positions of trust and influ-\\nence. Selfishness narrows the horizon, paralyzes\\naction, and neutralizes energy. Service is the\\nword of power and healing, and it is always certain\\nthat He that loseth his life shall find it.\\nWe cannot help or hinder another except with\\nhis consent.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "go DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nThis may be given perhaps unconsciously and\\nthrough a state of mind which has become recep-\\ntive, not as the result of deliberate choice so much\\nas from an habitual tendency, as a heroic mind is\\nopen always to heroic impulses even when uncon-\\nsciously conveyed. Marconi s electric currents are\\nprojected as waves or radiations and their positive\\nmotion registered upon a sensitive receiver.\\nIf the receiver were not adapted to the current\\nit would be unaffected by it and remain inert.\\nThe mind that is not sensitized to evil cannot be\\ninfluenced by evil thought.\\nThe mind that is not accustomed to good can-\\nnot receive good thought.\\nTo him that hath is given simply for the\\nreason that such are most receptive.\\nPower and sensibility are always joined. We\\nhave commonly imagined them divorced. Sensi-\\ntiveness is no right plea for weakness.\\nThe strongest forces are the most subtle and\\ninsidious.\\nThe rankest poisons are often the most inodor-\\nous. The most rapid agencies are silent ones.\\nInsulation is an important factor in laboratory\\nwork.\\nThis is equally true in the work of a mental\\nhealer. A certain mental insulation of the patient\\nis always necessary.\\nWhen a single current would work good results", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "PA TIENCE. 9 1\\ndiverse currents of different rates through different\\nhealers are apt to bring confusion and injury to the\\npatient. It is a molecular bombardment of mixed\\nforces. Patience is a most important factor in the\\naccomplishment of mental cures. The truly scien-\\ntific mind is never impatient. It moves with bold-\\nness, deliberation, and confidence.\\nMany an invalid who has suffered from physicians\\nfor months and years, until driven to try as a last\\nalternative a course of mental treatment, impatiently\\nprotests against the least delay if positive results\\nare not immediately obtained.\\nHe forgets that often a new growth must be\\nestablished and developed in the diseased organs,\\nand that nature sometimes does this work in the\\nunseen a long time before a change is manifested\\nat the surface. Doubtless much real good in\\nmental work is sacrificed by the impatience of\\nthe sufferer. Actual results are often silently\\naccomplished, but have not yet appeared when\\nthe invalid decides to try another healer or to\\nabandon altogether what to him is only an ex-\\nperiment,\\nIf we realized more intelligently the nature of\\nthought we would feel positive assurance of its\\nwork as we do of the seed when we have buried\\nit and watered it without a doubt of its finding its\\nway above the ground. We are content to wait\\nfor it to grow. Every thought will surely find its", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "92 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nproper soil, will root itself, and bear its fruit\\nwhether of good or evil.\\nThought flies always straight to its mark. It\\nis more intelligent than bird or bee, and finds its\\ndestination with greater ease. We need not fear\\nit will miscarry. It may remain a long time in\\nthe aura of an individual, and gain entrance only\\nwhen his armor is loosened.\\nWhen we are open to good influences they\\nalways find their way to us.\\nWhen we choose the lower impulses they fasten\\nthemselves upon us and feed on our vitality like\\nparasites.\\nWe are not teachable as long as we are vexed\\nby criticism.\\nPatience is an element of both power and freedom.\\nDoubts produce impatience and are non-con-\\nductors of spiritual currents. Knowledge comes\\nthrough patient listening to the voice of the\\nGreater Self. Concentration is confidence.\\nThat for which we anxiously strive with too\\nearnest endeavor often brings the least result, and\\nif at last attained, the usual consequence is dis-\\nappointment.\\nNature embodies in a drop of dew the same\\nforce it expresses in a cloud-burst or tornado.\\nYet the one nourishes and the others destroy.\\nWhen we are in harmony with life through a\\nright purpose, its vigorous energies find expression", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "PA TIENCE. 93\\nthrough us without effort. What we gain through\\nstrife seldom proves of value, and often we find\\nthat the obstacle we have crushed was a safe-\\nguard against suffering. If we have broken it\\ndown by our impatience we have opened an avenue\\nof pain.\\nBut even in such experience we prove our need\\nof the trouble we precipitated by our rashness.\\nLike children, we have cried and struggled for the\\ncandy that has made us ill, but through the illness\\nwe may learn a lesson and develop greater strength.\\nIf the sweets had contained a poison that was\\nfatal we would have found them unattainable. The\\nbarriers would not have given way and we would\\nhave been defeated in our purpose.\\nLife is kinder to us than we know. She would be\\nfar gentler still if we ourselves permitted it. We\\ncompel her often to use force to hold us back from\\nself-destruction. Of force she has unlimited com-\\nmand. Her mighty powers we have never gauged.\\nThe very snowflake which falls so gently and\\nlooks so white and peaceful holds greater energies\\nthan any we have yet developed in our most\\npowerful explosives.\\nNature confers her favors only on her friends.\\nWhile we distrust life at any point we cannot fully\\nlearn its secrets or its joys. Faith must needs be\\nrecognized as the normal action of the human\\nmind not faith in ecclesiastical dogma or scien-", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "94 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\ntific theory, but faith in the goodness of life itself,\\nin its high possibilities and powers. These are\\nrevealed only to those who listen trustfully to the\\nvoice of the soul.\\nIn dealing with the question of intellect we are\\nsometimes in danger of false distinctions and arbi-\\ntrary definitions.\\nSpirit can be nothing less than intellectual, and\\nintellect rightly instructed can be nothing less\\nthan spiritual. The very meaning of the word is\\nunderstanding.\\nA truly educated intellect can never be a stum-\\nbling-block to spiritual advancement. It is, on the\\ncontrary, essential to spiritual perceptions.\\nIntuition is only instantaneous reason, and\\nsooner or later it can always give of itself a rational\\njustification.\\nThere can be no such thing as pride of intel-\\nlect, because an enlightened intelligence must\\nhave outgrown pride. All pride is ignorance and\\nmarks the absence of illumination. It is not a\\ntaint of intellectual development, but shows the\\nlack of it. One who is truly intellectual never\\nshows impatience at the want of education in\\nanother, nor does he insist upon the absolute cor-\\nrectness of his own opinions, knowing well that\\nin the journey he has travelled his point of view\\nhas often changed, and that it will doubtless\\nchange again.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "PATIENCE. 95\\nWe set out upon the road with the reckless\\ngladness of childhood. We never doubt that the\\nworld was made for us. It is truly our oyster and\\nwe are to open it. We proceed merrily with our\\ntask, and at first all things give way to us.\\nLater on we burden ourselves with accumula-\\ntions. We involve ourselves, through our ambi-\\ntions, in endless complications and perplexities.\\nWe even believe this necessary to the increasing\\nresponsibilities of life, and sigh hopelessly some-\\ntimes for the simplicity of the earlier years. What\\nis the nature of the load under which our shoulders\\nstoop and the hair turns gray? Will we dare ex-\\namine the pack we carry? Is it not weighted with\\nunnecessary things, such as regrets and griefs at\\nour disillusions?\\nAre we calling ourselves failures and sorrowing\\nfor neglected opportunities? Are we sore at the\\nrecollection of injustice we have suffered and blam-\\ning others for our troubles? Are we burdened\\nwith despondency which turns our eyes backward\\nand dims our vision to the beauties of the road\\nthat we are travelling? Or are we, in a fever of\\nanticipation, straining our sight to look forward\\nand hurrying our steps in impatience and rest-\\nlessness to reach an uncertain goal?\\nAre we embarrassed with anxieties for others,\\nforgetting that each life is secure in its own orbit\\neven though we may not understand its course?", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "g6 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nIf our suffering has come through any of these\\ncauses it will quickly pass when we have recognized\\nour own and others true relation to the universe.\\nThere is a Chinese padlock which opens only to\\nthe spelling of a name to which its wards are fitted.\\nEvery difficulty we encounter has some key\\nwhich will unlock it when we have discovered the\\nright word and learned to fit it to its place. It\\nmay be Trust, Persistence, Confidence, or\\nGladness.\\nThe joy bells are always ringing. If our hear-\\ning has been dulled by the tensity of selfishness\\ntheir sweet chimes will not reach us till we have\\nunstopped our ears and let go of our sorrows.\\nPatience has not had her perfect work until we\\nhave become indifferent to trouble and vexation.\\nFrom this point we go forward fearlessly, assured\\nof a complete and early conquest.\\nWe can cheerfully submit to anything we think\\nwill bring us good.\\nIf we are thoroughly assured that life is governed\\nin every detail by beneficent law we quickly find\\nthat all its processes are painless and enjoyable.\\nIts gravest trial then becomes the light afflic-\\ntion which is but for a moment.\\nAll impatience disturbs the circulation, scatters\\nforce, and makes concentration difficult if not im-\\npossible.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "PA TIENCE. 97\\nWe may be sure there is deliverance from every\\nunfavorable condition of our lives when we have\\nfitted ourselves to accept it.\\nIt is useless to try to get rid of suffering before\\nwe have learned its lesson. Life moves with\\naccurate precision upon the lines that we make\\nnecessary.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "98 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nAll the doors of life are inscribed Pull. They\\nopen inward toward the individual himself; and\\nyet we often read amiss, and think they are marked\\nPush.\\nWe do not estimate at its true value the mag-\\nnetic power of thought, which draws to us what we\\nconfidently seek, if we only fix the centre of attrac-\\ntion and hold it steadily to its work.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "MASTER MARINERS. 99\\nV.\\nMASTER MARINERS.\\nCOAST NOTES.\\nBlow the wind East or blow it West,\\nWhichever wind blows is the best.\\nI count it kinglier far to wait,\\nAye, wait and wait a thousand years,\\nThan once to doubt or challenge fate. 1\\nJoaquin Miller.\\nThe evolution of the spiritual man is simply the\\neducation of a navigator.\\nThe boy who takes his toy ship to the pond will\\nset its little rudder to counteract the wind that is\\nblowing, and launch it without a pilot on its mimic\\nvoyage.\\nIf the wind doesn t change, his venture moves\\ndirectly toward the other bank, but otherwise it is\\nthe sport of breeze and current blown hither and\\nthither until it drifts ashore.\\nIf a living pilot were aboard he could shape its\\ncourse intelligently, and make a prosperous voyage\\nin the face of any and all winds.\\nAn undeveloped man who has not learned to\\ngrasp the helm of his being, and direct its course", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "IOO DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nwith distinct purpose and skill, is drifting on the sea\\nof life.\\nWhen he awakens to this discovery his first im-\\npulse is to place himself in tow of some stronger\\nand wiser intelligence than his own. This is well\\nif his aim be self-development and independent\\nnavigation. But matiy who are enrolled as dis-\\nciples of metaphysics are content to sail so long\\nas the water is smooth and the breezes suit them.\\nAs soon as the sea roughens or the wind veers,\\ntheir seamanship is all at fault, and they signal\\nfor a pilot.\\nWhat would be thought of the navigator who\\ncould never loosen his canvas in open water, but\\nwas dependent on the tug master to tow him\\nacross the seas; or who would steer for port in\\nevery change of weather?\\nWe need to learn that there are no adverse\\nwinds to the able seaman. He makes every gust\\nto serve him. He does not expect to make his\\nvoyage with the breeze dead aft. He is even\\ncontent to meet it sometimes dead ahead, and\\nshorten sail or lie head on to the great seas\\nand let it blow, knowing that in a few hours it will\\nshift to a more favorable quarter. He may gain\\nbut a single mile upon his course in a whole day s\\nsailing. Yet that mile is as truly a part of his voy-\\nage as the two or three hundred that he clears an-\\nother day. All these exigencies were taken into", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "MASTER MARINERS. IOI\\nconsideration and provided for before he left the\\nshelter of the bay. He knew he would meet\\nstormy winds and tempestuous seas, but also knew\\nhis seamanship was competent to bring him safely\\nthrough them, and that every voyage would de-\\nvelop larger knowledge through experience.\\nThere is no trouble that can come to us but car-\\nries with it food for spiritual life.\\nThere is no cloud, however black, that hangs\\nabove us but is charged with light that can illumi-\\nnate the darkest passes of our journey.\\nWe must transmute the suffering and draw the\\nlightning.\\nWe can turn the baser metals into gold, and\\ncharge electric batteries with the force of thunder-\\nbolts.\\nWe are divine alchemists. Our laboratory is\\nperfectly equipped with heat and light and power.\\nLet us forget our anxieties and employ our-\\nselves with the study and direction of the tre-\\nmendous forces which course through us.\\nLet us leave the little personal man outside and\\nnot allow ourselves to be bothered with his com-\\nplaints. He can come in when he gets ready,\\nshare our experiments, and enjoy our satisfaction.\\nThere is a door always open, and he can find it\\nwhen he will. Why should we weary ourselves\\nwith his lamentations?\\nWhat cares the scientist for the direction of the", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "102 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nweather-vane when he is busy with his retorts and\\ncrucibles absorbed with the study and develop-\\nment of nature s energies which he controls at\\nwill\\nWhen a beam of the eternal day has flashed\\nacross one s path his most grievous trouble be-\\ncomes trifling, and shrinks into such insignificance\\nthat he ceases to question his soul regarding suffer-\\ning. No thought of self-pity or injustice can per-\\nplex him in that noonday light. His head is above\\nthe clouds above the swirl of waters that seemed\\nso threatening before. The winds are no longer\\nboisterous.\\nWhen this light has really dawned upon the\\nconsciousness, the present and future are ab-\\nsorbed in it. It is the one great reality of\\nexistence. It blends all experiences in complete\\nharmony. One no longer seeks sleep or death\\nas a refuge from sorrows, for pain has passed\\nlike a mist that has rolled away before the\\nsun of the morning. Humanity has recognized\\nits destiny, and looks enraptured like a toil-worn\\ntraveller who gazes from a lofty summit upon the\\nglory of a landscape that transcends his most con-\\nfident expectations and surpasses his most daring\\nimagination.\\nKnow that death is not the only gateway\\nthrough which we reach this realization. It may\\ncome through pain or pleasure in the hour of", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "MASTER MARINERS. 103\\nstruggle or of stillness. But in that moment one\\nis born again. He steps beyond all thought or\\ncare of suffering forever. Pain and pleasure are\\nalike swallowed up in the superb sense of being.\\nThe King has come to his own.\\nIt is always ours to choose upon what seas we\\nwill embark, and to what winds we will trim our\\nsails.\\nHaving made the choice, we find our only effort\\nis to hold ourselves in accord with the tides and\\ncurrents that bear us onward. We have become\\na part of their life, and our relation to them is\\ngoverned by ourselves.\\nWe do not realize the uses of ebb tides in the\\naffairs of men. In the diurnal movements of the\\nsea the flood comes in and carries the rubbish high\\nupon the shore, where it is disinfected by the sun.\\nThe ebb tide sweeps the sands clean, carrying out\\nthe waste to be buried in the ocean depths. The\\npetty disorders of the beach are quickly washed\\naway. So man is cleansed and healed by both\\nthe flood tides and the ebb, in his varying ex-\\nperiences of prosperity and adversity.\\nLet him not be impatient at low tide. The waves\\nwill bring back what they floated away. They\\nwill cast it again at his feet cleansed and freshened\\nby the deep waters.\\nThe best ships look uncouth and useless when\\nstranded upon dry sands, but when the sea comes", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "104 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\ntumbling in again they are soon afloat and pull-\\ning at their hawsers as if impatient for another\\nvoyage. The tides have brought to them new life\\nand opportunity. The waiting is ended, for the\\nebb is passed.\\nWhen the tides serve we may launch our ven-\\ntures, but waiting is often the part of wisdom, and\\nwe should wait with patience.\\nLife has its light-towers upon all headlands.\\nEvery reef is marked by its lightships and bell-\\nbuoys.\\nIt has its signal circuits so established that we\\ncannot break their currents without the sounding\\nof alarm bells.\\nThis is proved on every plane of human activity.\\nIf we swerve to the least degree from our proper\\nchannel that very instant do we put in motion\\ncause of suffering. The longer we hold upon the\\nmistaken course the more the pain is deepened.\\nPersistence in error brings us to the shoals on\\nwhich our life craft will be wrecked. A new ship\\nwill be necessary before we can resume our voy-\\nage. It is well to heed our earliest warnings if we\\nwish smooth passages.\\nAn engineer watches his steam and water gauges\\nand maintains them at the proper level for the\\nhighest power. He can easily know when the\\nsteam in his boilers is getting low and the water\\ntoo high.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "MASTER MARINERS. 1 05\\nThe remedy is in the fuel pile, and, opening the\\nfurnace doors, he feeds the fires afresh while the\\nmachinery moves with a new vigor.\\nThe officer of the weather bureau, from his\\ntower, studies his instruments that show the ac-\\ntion of wind and weather, and from his signal\\nstaff he flies the warning of cold waves and hur-\\nricanes.\\nIt is very necessary for us to note storm signals\\nin ourselves and one another, and govern our days\\naccordingly.\\nWe must study carefully the soul forces within\\nus in order to control and direct their energies,\\nmust feed our fires and keep our gauges clean.\\nThere is never lack of energy. Our work is to\\ndirect its application wisely to our own require-\\nments. We are often impatient for the immediate\\nsolution of the entire problem. If we will quietly\\ncontent ourselves with the occupation of the day,\\napplying thoroughly the few principles of life s\\narithmetic we have acquired to the arrangement\\nof the factors in our hands, we will oftener be\\npleasantly surprised than disappointed with results.\\nOur sailing will bring us more frequently into\\nsmooth waters than rough ones. The simple tables\\nof spiritual logarithms provide us with all that\\nwe require for our mortal navigation.\\nWe have scarcely embarked as yet upon the\\ngreat sea of Truth. We are only dropping down", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "I06 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nthe bay. It will be some time before we feel the\\nground-swell of the ocean under us, and begin to\\nrealize that we are off soundings.\\nThe most serious work that we have yet at-\\ntempted is only coasting in sight of shore. Before\\nwe can safely navigate the open sea we must learn\\nto command and obey.\\nThe troubles of to-day are not those that most\\ndisturb us, but the troubles of to-morrow.\\nWe feel equal to the struggle of the present\\nmoment, but are distressed at the thought of that\\nwhich looms upon the horizon of the future\\nthat which is just swinging across the range of our\\nperspective and stands between us and the sun,\\nmaking twilight of the noonday and chilling our\\nblood with fear. It is the gathering storm that\\nmost affrights us.\\nTo forestall the duty of any hour is as undesir-\\nable as to neglect it when it comes.\\nPrematurity is as dangerous a disease as pro-\\ncrastination, and often far more costly in time and\\ntreasure. Every responsibility arrives with its at-\\ntendant factors and environment. These cannot\\nbe properly combined in any other hour than that\\nto which they belong. Let us revise the old proverb\\nand know\\nThere is never a slip\\nTwixt the cup and the lip\\nFor which fate intends it.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "MASTER MARINERS. 1 07\\nIt is not always possible to trace the connection\\nbetween cause and consequence in any particular\\nexperience, but we may be always sure the cause\\nlies hidden in ourselves. As we work upon this\\nprinciple we find our understanding and discern-\\nment grow more accurate with every day.\\nSometimes cause and consequence lie so close\\ntogether that we have no difficulty in perceiving\\nthe straight line connecting them.\\nSometimes the cause lies hidden in a remote\\nevent or impulse which was indulged long ago\\nand has been long forgotten.\\nSometimes it dates back to weaknesses we\\nthought we had outgrown and which have made\\nno sign for many years. Some unusual event has\\nwaked up slumbering sensations and put them\\nagain in evidence, to our most serious discomfort\\nand chagrin. Perhaps we say, I have been really\\ntranquil, yet this trouble comes.\\nNo crop is ever grown except from seed, but\\nseed may lie long buried in the ground and mani-\\nfest its dormant power of fruitfulness in some\\nquite unexpected conditions of heat or moisture.\\nA man in middle age who has acquired unusual\\nself-possession may suffer from head troubles that\\nare the result of early tempers. In a time when\\nnegative conditions prevail over the positive the\\nseed of this old weakness will germinate and show\\nitself in symptoms that may baffle the physicians.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "108 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nSome poisons work more speedily than others.\\nSome may remain latent and unsuspected in the\\nsystem through long periods of time.\\nThe suffering and sorrow of to-day may be the\\nripened fruit of yesterday s sowing, or many har-\\nvests may have been gathered since the seed of this\\nparticular experience was planted.\\nAnd yet we need not fear a lurking evil after\\nwe have diligently sought its root and used the\\nknife of mental surgery with an unfaltering pur-\\npose. If suffering continues we may know that\\nwe have spared some nerve or tendon that should\\nhave been cut away or left some grain of poison\\nin the system that needs to be expelled. Spiritual\\ncleansing must be thorough and heroic if we wish\\nit to be effectual.\\nThe crimson and scarlet must be made as white\\nas snow. This is always within our power if it is\\nwithin our purpose.\\nThere is no virtue but may become exaggerated\\nand distorted. When it becomes so pronounced\\nas to cause self-complacency in the mind of its\\npossessor it has passed the line of equilibrium and\\nreached this stage.\\nThe faintest trace of pride in any virtuous char-\\nacteristic marks decay, and shows a vicious ten-\\ndency, for pride and self-complacency find lodg-\\nment only in an unsound mind.\\nWhat we are governs what we believe. Be-", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "MASTER MARINERS. 109\\nlief does not govern life. It is the expression\\nof being. It comes from within, and is the indica-\\ntion of the point of development that has been\\nreached.\\nCharacter is the growth of that which we call\\ntrouble, as the trunk of the forest tree is fed by\\nthe mould of its dead leaves lying about its roots.\\nIt seems to part reluctantly with the summer foli-\\nage, which has been its glory, and which the\\nautumn winds tear from its branches till they are\\nstripped and bare yet through this very process\\nthe way is prepared for a new and larger growth\\nwhen the next spring comes round. So even\\nthe old treasures have a part in the new glory\\nwhich has been made possible by their death.\\nWe must needs let go of the old life to make a\\nlarger and better experience possible.\\nWhen we make our happiness dependent upon\\npersons, things, and places, the conditions are\\nbeyond our control, and we are subject to many\\nalternations of hope and sorrow.\\nWhen we assume the entire responsibility, and\\nlook for all causes in ourselves, there is no mo-\\nment in which we do not govern. In one case we\\nare crossing a river upon broken ice, springing\\nfrom one cake to another, as they are driven by\\nthe currents, never secure of our footing, and in\\ncontinual danger.\\nIn the other we are as navigators, with a sound", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "ITO DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\ncraft under us, in which we calmly set both sail and\\nrudder, and direct our course without anxiety to\\nthe port we wish to reach. It is the first lesson\\nof power to learn that all possibilities centre in the\\nindividual will.\\nThere is no such thing as intermittent law.\\nUnless action is constant and unvarying it does\\nnot manifest a law. A law does not operate at one\\ntime and suspend its action in another. If this\\nwere true we could never depend upon results. If\\nlaw is supreme it can never lapse. Then we have\\nno alternative, if we insist on accidents, than\\nthat of a chaotic universe.\\nIt does not follow that the strict relation between\\ncause and consequence is interrupted because we\\ncannot, in any particular case, trace the unbroken\\nconnection.\\nIf a man s life at any point could become un-\\nwillingly subordinated to another so as to make\\nof him a victim, and relieve him of the respon-\\nsibility of consequences, he would not be a free\\nagent, and our teaching of freedom and respon-\\nsibility would be false. If man suffers from acci-\\ndent he is not living under the dominion of law.\\nIf, however, the cause of the accident lies in\\nthe man s own Karma, the law is vindicated and\\nestablished, and we may rest secure in its benefi-\\ncent operation in every life. The mills of the gods\\ngrind so slowly that the grist of to-day may have", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "MASTER MARINERS.\\nbeen put into the hopper in some incarnation far\\nremote, but doubtless by the man s own hands,\\nfor it is only our own grist that comes to us\\nthrough the mill of life.\\nWe are like eagles chained to a barnyard perch.\\nWe flutter our wings uselessly and turn a restless\\neye to the mountain-peak where lies our home,\\nbut every time we seek to rise we feel the hurt\\nof the tether which holds us down.\\nWe do not realize that we are ensnared in our\\nown mistaken thoughts and purposes self-hyp-\\nnotized and paralyzed with fear.\\nWe learn to look upon ourselves as captives\\nuntil there comes a day when a new light shines\\ninto our soul, our chains fall from us, and we stand\\nerect and free.\\nSome truths are suddenly revealed to one in\\nmiddle life which he has never before perceived.\\nThey flash upon his consciousness like the light\\nof distant stars of his own planetary system\\ntravelling toward him for ages and just arrived at\\nthe outermost bounds of his spiritual horizon.\\nWhen a shipwrecked mariner has been cast upon\\na desert island his first thought is to raise a mast\\nand fly a signal of distress. Day after day he goes\\nto the hill-top and scans the sky line anxiously,\\nlooking off to every point of the compass in the\\nhope of sighting a passing vessel. After long\\nwaiting he may open his eyes some morning to", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "112 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\ndiscover that while he slept a ship had anchored\\nwithin hail. He is again in touch with his fellow-\\nmen, and a way is suddenly opened to return to\\nall that he holds most dear.\\nHow many an anxious one has watched for a\\npassing sail to rescue him from some shipwreck\\nupon the shoals of human life the shoals of\\nbroken health or fortune, or a shattered home\\nHow, day after day, he has gone, perhaps, to his\\nlittle lookout, and returned from his search disap-\\npointed and hopeless, to awaken at last to the\\nrealization that in all his months of weary watch-\\ning help had been upon the way In the hours of\\nthe long night relief had come from some quite\\nunexpected quarter, and his waiting and exile are\\nended.\\nThere is never a moment in life when any of us\\ncan really justify discouragement.\\nIt is easy to say the unexpected happens, but\\nwhy should not the unexpected always be our\\nexpected good\\nWhy should our horizon be ever darkened by\\nthe mists of dejection or the thunder clouds of\\ndespair?\\nWe cannot look out clearly through the windows\\nof the soul when they are wet with the cold rains\\nof sorrow.\\nThe spiritual eye is telescopic* and never fails to\\nserve the tranquil confidence of spiritual wisdom.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "MASTER MARINERS. I I 3\\nThe same winds blow for us all, but they serve\\nus upon different tacks according as we set our\\nsails.\\nSome men need a tornado to drive them into\\ntheir true course, and some need to be cast on\\ndesert islands before they realize their faulty\\nnavigation.\\nAs mariners are guided by the headlands on the\\ncoast, and mountain travellers by certain peaks so\\nhigh they never can lose sight of them, and as\\ndesert pilgrims watch the sun and stars in journey-\\ning across the trackless wastes, so should we in\\nhours of bewilderment look for the spiritual peaks\\nand headlands we call principles.\\nThese are to us as fixed stars in the heavens,\\nguiding us through every wilderness that has\\nseemed impenetrable and bringing us surely to the\\nplaces of rest and gladness.\\nUntil we can see and understand both sides of\\nlife we cannot rightly judge success or fail-\\nure.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "114 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nThought principles are like electric currents in\\nlive wires.\\nIf misunderstood and improperly handled they\\nare dangerous, and sometimes kill instead of serv-\\ning us.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "MASTER MARINERS. I I 5\\nInstead of shrinking from our tests and trials let\\nus regard them as opportunities of advancement.\\nLike the school examinations, they open the way\\nto higher classes and always precede promotion.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "Il6 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nNo conquest is complete that leaves behind it\\neither aversion or desire.\\nWhen we neither flinch from an experience nor\\ncovet it, when we can enjoy or do without it with\\nequal satisfaction, we have arrived at spiritual\\nindifference, which is true evidence of spiritual\\nmastery.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "WILL. I I 7\\nVI.\\nWILL.\\nStronger than woe is will. Edwin Arnold.\\nBe it unto thee even as thou wilt. yesus.\\nAll power is most effectually applied through\\nconcentration.\\nIn mechanics we bring the tempered steel to a\\nfine point to pierce the solid substance or to an\\nedge for cutting.\\nThought can both pierce and cut, but it must\\nhave point and edge and be applied by the energy\\nof will. The difficulty is not in our tools, but in\\nthe want of skill with which we handle them.\\nThey are too often turned upon ourselves or used\\non others so maliciously that they react with\\npainful consequences. Railroad tracks and prison\\nbars are both made of steel. Upon the one we\\nspeed across a continent the other holds a man a\\ncaptive.\\nSome men make fetters for themselves out of\\nthe same conditions that are used by others in\\ngaining greater freedom.\\nObstinacy is the mark of a weak will. It asserts\\nitself in an emphatic and abnormal way, because\\ndistrustful of its power.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "Il8 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nContinual self-assertion shows a sense of weak-\\nness and a lack of balance. The true spiritual\\nwill is always confident of its power and is never\\nmade impatient by delay or hindrances. A fine\\npoint pierces easily. A sharp edge cuts with very\\nlittle pressure.\\nThe potencies of will cannot be stated in dy-\\nnamic terms. They are incalculable. Intelligent\\nwill is allied with all the occult forces of the uni-\\nverse and draws from the universal energies.\\nAll spiritual dominion is based upon the recog-\\nnition of its powers. We do not need continually\\nto affirm, I will breathe; I will walk; I\\nwill see. Such assertions would surely indicate\\nessential weakness. We easily recognize our free-\\ndom and ability to do these things at pleasure.\\nWhen we have no doubt of our capabilities all\\neffort is forgotten in their natural expression and\\nactivity brings satisfaction. We then adjust our-\\nselves easily to all conditions and find greater\\ndelight in employing our strength for the help of\\nothers than in a careful consideration of our own re-\\nquirements. When resentment, grief, or disappoint-\\nment make their demands upon us we choose\\nbetween a selfish indulgence and a wise acceptance\\nof the new conditions they involve. In one case\\nwe find our energies benumbed and paralyzed,\\nin the other they are strengthened and developed\\nthrough right action of will.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "WILL. 1 1 9\\nWe build the sepulchres of our day-dreams.\\nWe entomb our shattered ideals and weep above\\ntheir graves, or else we gain a clearer understand-\\ning of a life of progress, and with purified purpose\\nand larger knowledge build more stately mansions\\nfor the soul. We enter upon more vigorous life.\\nWe embark on a fresh voyage of discovery and\\nlay our course on a new tack. We find in every\\ntrouble a friendly fog-bell anchored above some\\nreef of which it gives us kindly warning. Its\\ntones no longer sound in our ears as moans of our\\nwrecked hopes.\\nExecutive ability, when it becomes a matter\\nof pride, is often the expression of a diseased\\nwill.\\nA normal purpose governs its own life and does\\nnot needlessly employ itself in directing the activi-\\nties of others. Activity in externals is not infre-\\nquently the result and the excuse of spiritual\\nindolence. A true life insists upon freedom for all\\nand endeavors to protect another from feeling an\\nundue influence of its own, in order to make the\\nbest conditions for development of character. It\\ndoes not wish to dominate, but to free. A desire\\nto govern others is invariably the mark of weak-\\nness in self-government.\\nOur modern homes are centres of all good things\\nin the material life.\\nThe telephone rings we respond to the call", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "120 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nand listen to the voice of our friend who may be\\na thousand miles away or under the same roof.\\nWhen night comes on we turn the key or press\\nthe button of an incandescent light, and our apart-\\nments are illuminated as if by magic.\\nThe day grows cold. We open radiator valves,\\nand soon have any degree of heat that we require.\\nWe are thirsty, and the cool clear water flows\\nthrough our pipes from the far-off spring in the\\nhills.\\nIn all these matters it is our own intelligence\\nthat discerns our wants and the action of our will\\nthat opens the sources of supply.\\nOur friend would call in vain if we refused to\\nlisten at the telephone. We could sit all the night\\nlong in darkness if we did not choose to turn on\\nthe lights. We might perish of cold or die of\\nthirst if we declined to avail ourselves of the chan-\\nnels through which heat and water come to us. It\\nwould make no difference that we were on the cir-\\ncuit of the electric current, or that we had steam\\nradiators, or that our dwelling was included in the\\nwater system which supplied our neighbors. The\\nvoice of our friend would be dumb to us, the lamp\\nbe dark, the radiator cold, the water-pipes dry, if\\nwe should elect to have them so.\\nThese things have their correspondences. We\\ncan miss of nothing we desire in life, of light, heat,\\npower, or song, except as we shut ourselves out", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "WILL. 1 2 1\\nfrom it through inactivity of will, as the result of\\nindolence or fear.\\nOur spiritual abodes lack nothing that we need.\\nBut it is our will that attracts or drives away the\\npleasant and sweet things of life.\\nWhen we move smoothly through the country\\nin a railway journey we do not realize the force\\nof the engine that draws us on our way. It is\\nonly when we are thrown off the track and the\\npower is shown in its destructive energy ploughing\\nup the ground and tearing its own road-bed that\\nwe begin to know the possibilities of its momen-\\ntum.\\nA dynamo carried on the engine could transmit\\na force that would retard the train until the cur-\\nrent were turned off. Such is the mental en-\\nergy that guides and urges our life forward.\\nWhen it is misapplied it works incalcuable damage\\nthrough thought currents turned upon itself, arrest-\\ning progress and producing pain.\\nWe stumble to-day among the ant hills of our\\ntroubles, and they seem to us like mountains.\\nWhen we have more fully perceived the meaning\\nand purpose of existence we will easily stride over\\nthe mountains of difficulty and they will appear to\\nus as ant hills.\\nOur higher consciousness is as yet but very im-\\nperfectly developed. Even our sense life is in its\\ninfancy. We are not capable of experiencing", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "122 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\npleasure or pain but to a very limited extent be-\\ncause of our shallow consciousness. The higher\\nthe scale of organization the wider is the range\\nof its perceptions.\\nThe sensations of a jelly-fish are doubtless very\\nlimited. As man grows in refinement he becomes\\nconstantly capable of deeper suffering or higher\\njoy, and with larger capacity of pain and pleasure\\ncomes a larger power of endurance and control.\\nThere is no point at which the vibrations of dis-\\ntress cannot be changed to satisfaction and glad-\\nness. There is no situation of discomfort possible\\nto mortal life that is absolutely beyond remedy.\\nOur dominions can be more easily extended\\nthan we are ready to believe. While we continue\\nas dwellers in the kingdom of fear we are fettered.\\nBut we have manacled ourselves. We can break\\nthe shackles, cross the borders, and possess our\\nown.\\nThe sovereignty of man is never realized till\\nhe has become obedient to the spiritual nature\\nand vowed allegiance to his higher self, whose\\nvoice is always calling to him, Friend, go up\\nhigher. It is only in such obedience that man\\ngains knowledge of the secret of the Most\\nHigh.\\nThe feeble flicker of purpose which most men\\ndesignate their will is an impulse that is soon\\nexpended and accomplishes nothing beyond merely", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "J FILL. 123\\npersonal ends. Selfishness dissipates power. It\\nscatters energy that, rightly concentrated and\\napplied, would bring magnificent results. Egotism\\nasserts itself as much in fear as vanity as much\\nin indolence as activity. Any anxious thought\\nrelated to the personal self shows lack of true\\npolarity of mind.\\nA sluggish mind refuses to accept a new idea\\nthat emphasizes personal responsibility, and calls\\nfor change of habit. Self-indulgence is the greatest\\nobstacle to progress. Men do not wish to be\\nawakened. They demand a deeper slumber and\\nfind their opiates in sensuality, until some hour\\nof severer suffering arouses them to better things\\nin order to escape from pain.\\nThe law which has produced the pain demands\\ntheir confidence and their complete surrender to\\nits remedial action. It insists upon entire willing-\\nness to do or not to do whatever may be neces-\\nsary to bring the sufferer into accord with his\\nbest impulses. He must cease to exert his in-\\ngenuity and will in building intrenchments of\\nexcuses behind which to defend himself. There\\nis no trouble of body or environment no anxiety\\nor grief that walls one in without some door of\\nescape into the realms of perfect peace.\\nEvery fresh revelation of science is new demon-\\nstration of the marvellous and absolute precision\\nof Nature s methods, tending always to perfection", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "124 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nof its forms and purposes. We are turning the\\npages of Nature s primers now more rapidly than\\never before, and find in every line the evidence of\\nsilent energies of an infinite power.\\nThe master mind which built the great dome\\nof St. Peter s showed itself also in the careful\\ndetail of form and color on the walls. Every deli-\\ncate touch of brush or pencil was as necessary to\\nthe finished picture as that of the chisel to the\\ncolumns and foundation stones. Muscle alone\\ncould never have raised this superb masonry. It\\nis a monument to mind and will. The mind not\\nonly designed its architecture, paintings, and sculp-\\nture, but also the machinery which supplemented\\nmuscle, and made the whole achievement possible\\nby raising each stone to its place under the direc-\\ntion of the will.\\nImagine a pilgrim throwing his arms about one\\nof the columns in the vain delusion that he was\\nhelping to support the roof! Such egotism we\\nwould call insanity. It is akin to that which\\nprides itself upon its value to mankind in some\\nprivate or public station of temporary responsi-\\nbility, and dreams itself a pillar of society or\\nchurch or government.\\nAgain imagine our pilgrim sleeping in his rags\\namid the beauties of the temple, insensible to all\\nthe grandeur Yet in such lethargy do many\\nlive so far as thought-life is concerned, and even", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "WILL. 125\\nthink themselves intelligent. The very drowsiness\\nof our ragged pilgrim is increased by the incense\\nand the organ and the chanting of the choirs, and\\nall those things which stir to very ecstasy a nobler\\nand more developed mind.\\nIt would be a very easy matter for Nature with\\nher varied energies to put us all in full possession\\nof the highest degree of health and opulence.\\nThe very gentlest application of her forces would\\nquickly remove any obstruction in our circulation\\nor surroundings.\\nAnd, indeed, she urges all this upon us in every\\npossible way, and stands ever waiting patiently for\\nour acceptance of her benefits.\\nThe only power that is sufficient to divert or\\nmisdirect this energy is man s own mistaken\\nthought. It is our privilege to hold ourselves in\\nany uncomfortable attitude toward life our regal\\nwill may choose. We cannot break Nature s\\nlaws, but we may regulate our private relation to\\nthem.\\nWe are like passengers in a railway train or on\\nan ocean steamer. The carriage moves smoothly\\nupon its rails. The ship sails steadily upon its\\ncourse. The traveller may enjoy the scenes\\nthrough which he passes the beauty of the land-\\nscape or the glory of the waters. He may open\\nwide his window and watch all the changing pan-\\norama as he speeds along, or he may draw his", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "126 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nblinds and close his eyes, complaining bitterly of\\nhis surroundings, and inducing the greatest possi-\\nble discomfort, so that the hours pass without\\npleasure or profit. Meanwhile the great engines\\ncarry him forward and the incidents of the journey\\nare of consequence mainly to the traveller himself.\\nHis mental attitude has not hindered to the least\\ndegree the regular action of the powerful ma-\\nchinery. It has only made his own day miserable\\nthrough infirmity of will.\\nWhen a man is wrecked upon an unknown\\nisland he goes to work to cultivate the soil and\\nmake the best of his resources as if the place\\nwere to be his residence for life.\\nOur disappointments and misfortunes often\\nstrand us where we find no opportunity to sail\\naway. Our boats are all destroyed and nothing is\\nleft but to explore our undiscovered selves. Until\\nwe are cut off from the distractions of our usual oc-\\ncupations and sense lives, it is easy to neglect the\\nrichest opportunities which lie the closest to our\\nhand. We mistake, perhaps, for desert soil that\\nwhich contains the possibilities of largest fruit-\\nfulness.\\nIf we are passing through what seems to be a\\nwilderness let us go to work to fertilize a garden\\nin the sand.\\nIt will open to us a new field of spiritual botany\\nand give us the satisfaction of discoverers.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "WILL. 127\\nIt is better always to lose sight of our troubles\\nas quickly as possible and let them die through\\nneglect than to prolong their lives by careful nurs-\\ning. We can easily find plenty of others if we\\nwish at any time to fill their places, for the woods\\nare full of them.\\nSome people would be actually lonesome with-\\nout the difficulties they have nursed so long and\\ncarefully. In many cases they are seriously dis-\\nturbed if any attempt is made to show them that\\nit is not necessary to extend a lengthened hospi-\\ntality to trouble. Trouble will leave us when we\\ndecline to contribute to its support. If it has\\nfailed to arouse our highest will and only taught\\nus lessons of endurance, it has not yet accom-\\nplished its full mission. Endurance should not\\nbe the aim of life. There is a higher gospel.\\nWe often fancy ourselves spiritual when we are\\nonly weakly sentimental. Our emotions have\\nperhaps been stirred and made us restless in our\\ndream life. We have not been awakened to posi-\\ntive action, or the perception of real principle.\\nThere are many castles in Spain which are\\npatterned after metaphysical architecture. There\\nare many who call themselves seekers after truth\\nwho are only following new lines of amusement\\nwithout serious purpose.\\nThe day will come to all of us when our work\\nwill be tried by fire and flood, and even Calvinistic", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "128 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nhells may then seem mildly picturesque compared\\nwith the experiences through which we pass.\\nWhen, after the storm, the day star has arisen\\nabove our horizon we may know that the night is\\nreally gone and the shadows can never again be\\nquite as heavy as those that lie behind us. What-\\never difficulties may henceforth await us, we will\\nat least have daylight on our path.\\nThe morning always brings strength and confi-\\ndence, and we have seen the dawn.\\nEvery athlete knows that it is the position that\\nis oftenest taken that comes at last to be the easiest.\\nIn the higher training of the will we prove the\\nsame thing to be true. The constant holding of\\nthe best ideals results at last in their complete\\nexpression.\\nEvery climb we make brings us to a point of\\ngreater elevation where we command a larger view\\nwith increased power to control conditions. If there\\nis an uphill upon one part of the road we know that\\nthere is surely a down grade on the other side.\\nThis is the compensating law of difficulty. Turn\\ndown this page, discouraged one, and close the\\nbook. Dwell awhile upon this truth, for much\\ndepends upon our recognition of it. It is a suffi-\\ncient lesson for a day and night.\\nTo-morrow will bring a keener appetite and\\nlarger vision if this simple proposition has been\\ntruly learned. We can cheerfully climb the hill", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "WILL. 1 29\\nto-day with the full assurance that to-morrow we\\nshall find the level. To-day we need this training\\nof the will in the ascent of the hill of difficulty.\\nWe will patiently cut our footsteps in the icy pass,\\nif need be, like the Alpine traveller, and with a brave\\nsmile on our faces we will go sturdily forward and\\nnot frighten ourselves by looking into the dizzy\\ndepths below. In the gloom it seems as if there\\nwere lions in our path, and by the uncertain light\\nwe do not see that they are chained.\\nIf we are called to wrestle with them we will\\nfind that man in his divinity is far superior to\\nmere brute force. We are here to learn to over-\\ncome, and this is our opportunity. To the victor\\nwill belong the strength of the slain. We will not\\nflinch in the face of seeming danger, and often we\\nwill discover that it was only our fears that were\\nconfronting us.\\nA gamester does not spend his time regretting\\nthe hand that he held yesterday. He makes the\\nbest play he can with the cards that he holds\\nto-day, and so in every game learns greater skill.\\nHow idle is it for us to weaken the will with\\nsorrow for our yesterdays The game of life\\ndemands our best attention for to-day and the\\nfull exercise of all our powers. To-morrow\\ndoubtless will bring opportunities of its own for\\nwhich we must now develop skill that we may\\nbe prepared to meet them. Let us give all our", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "130 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nthought to the game in hand, though it be only a\\nwaiting game.\\nWe need not for one instant entertain the\\nthought that we have been forgotten among the\\nplayers. We have our special score to play.\\nNone other can do it for us. Why not study well\\nthe cards we hold and lay them down with confi-\\ndence and equanimity? There is sure sometime\\nto be another deal. In the next cut we will get\\na better hand if we have proved ourselves entitled\\nto it. Meanwhile the greatest skill may be shown\\nby him who does not hold the highest cards.\\nIt is the man of trained and fearless will that\\nwins the honors in the game of life, although\\nhis real success may not be known to men.\\nStrength of will is shown as much in renunciation\\nas in conquest. The greatest victory is often in\\nthe yielding.\\nThought-life is of higher importance than con-\\nduct. When we have gained control of thought\\nright action is a consequence. We often dwell\\ntoo much upon the matter of conduct and too little\\nupon the mental cause behind it. When the will\\nhas been purified and strengthened the impulses\\nwill be symmetrical and true.\\nA wise man never quarrels with his troubles.\\nSuch indulgence will intensify and prolong the\\ndifficulty. All impatience proves the need of\\nsuffering.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "WILL. I 3 I\\nNature readily responds to every mood with\\nwhich we greet her.\\nThe heavens seem as brass to us when we look\\nup to them with despair, or as the gates of Para-\\ndise when our feeling is one of gladness.\\nDynamite and giant powder may be handled\\nwithout suspicion of the fact that they are power-\\nful explosives. There is nothing in their appear-\\nance to suggest their force or use. Under certain\\nconditions they are wholly ineffective and may\\nremain for years without indication of their latent\\npower.\\nNo chemical compound can compare with the\\nenergy of the will that brought its elements to-\\ngether. There is no conceivable ideal of power\\nwhich the human mind cannot express. There is\\nno such thing as physical weakness or muscular\\nforce, as an eminent Harvard physicist has lately\\nsaid. All power is expressed first through mind.\\nAll life is robust. Every man is stalwart. This\\nis realized to just the degree in which we take\\nour personal conceits out of the paths of the\\ndivine circuits.\\nWe demand continually that our senses shall\\nbe gratified with demonstration, and all the\\ntime the soul is showing its power in the tran-\\nquil waiting to which we have compelled it, for it\\nknows that in reality a thousand years are as a\\nsingle day.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "132 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nGod is always at our service. The divine cir-\\ncuits flow perpetually. The path of life is always\\nopen and hides no obstacles nor hindrances. It is\\ndue to our distorted vision that we see giants\\nin Canaan, and in their sight we think we are as\\ngrasshoppers.\\nDisease is the result of hypnotism the hypno-\\ntism of an idea imposed by one s own thought\\nauto-suggestion or transmitted to it through\\nthe mind of another. This is true of any condition\\nthat holds us in bondage. Absolute freedom is our\\nbirthright. No one can deprive us of it without\\nour consent, although we may have given it un-\\nconsciously.\\nWe can throw off any undesirable condition\\nwhen we have recognized the truth that we possess\\nintelligence and power sufficient for all our needs.\\nWhen we set the will in motion it will find effect-\\nual relief. But often we make it necessary that\\nwe should be stripped of all other possessions be-\\nfore we enter into self-possession.\\nIt is a curious fact of hypnotism that the subject\\nis generally deaf to all sounds but the voice of the\\noperator who controls him.\\nA cannon fired close to the ear would not be\\nnoticed in the hypnotic trance if the operator chose\\nto close the sense of hearing. Nevertheless, from\\nout the silence at the same command the subject\\nfancies that he hears sweet music, and he obeys", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "WILL. 133\\nreadily the slightest whisper of the one who holds\\nhis senses captive. Bat even in hypnotism the will\\nmust first consent before it can be fettered, for if\\nit once asserts its power none other can control it.\\nAll impatience is an expression of fear. It is\\nthe mark of a defective will that has not gained\\nself-control. I am afraid is a false note that\\nwe use daily on the most trivial occasions.\\nIt is easy to exaggerate our troubles. An\\nunwelcome demand is made upon our time. It\\nmay be a very modest and reluctant appeal, but\\nto our inflamed mental vision it appears as a robber\\nstanding in our path demanding money or life.\\nThe few minutes or hours which would easily\\nsuffice for the required service seem a most un-\\npleasant interruption to our usual and more de-\\nsired occupations.\\nA call is made upon our purse. We know at\\nheart that we should view it as a privilege to make\\na prompt and glad response.\\nOur sense of duty will not permit us, perhaps, to\\npass it by, and we bestow a petty contribution\\ngrudgingly. Through failure of the will to obey\\nits highest impulse the action has flowered without\\nfragrance. We have robbed ourselves of spiritual\\nenjoyment and missed an opportunity of growth.\\nHow long shall we continue to indulge our\\nlower nature and foster the delusions of loss and\\ntrouble for which we ourselves are responsible", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "134 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nThe flagellants of eastern countries, who torture\\nthemselves with the lash in their fanaticism, are no\\nmore cruel to their tender flesh than we in our\\nimpatience to the suffering soul. We worship\\nour own selfishness with every hour of self pity.\\nNote the action of the law of retributive justice.\\nWhen we have been crippled by illness, we remem-\\nber in our helplessness that in our robust health\\nwe were parsimonious of time. When we have be-\\ncome bankrupt in purse, we recall many a timid\\nappeal to which we wish we had given a more\\nready ear.\\nThus we expiate our selfishness, compelled to\\nlisten to petitions we are powerless to answer, or\\nto make appeals ourselves, in our own agony of\\nneed, from which others turn away.\\nIt is necessary that each should get his lessons\\nin the way that he himself shall choose. It often\\nseems to us that some beloved one is choosing\\npainful ways, but true love shows itself in a wise\\nsilence quite as often as in interference. It does\\nnot seek to control the attitude of others toward\\nitself. It concerns itself only with its mental atti-\\ntude toward others.\\nWe should detach ourselves from the engross-\\ning thought of self. It is of no less importance\\nthat we detach ourselves from the engrossing\\nthought of others. We are bound alike by our\\naffections and aversions. Too great intensity of", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "WILL. 1 3 5\\nthought will cramp and hinder us. Our affec-\\ntions should be widened and enlarged. As they\\nbecome ennobled they grow less personal and eager.\\nThey bring more satisfaction and less suffering.\\nAversions should be altogether rooted out, for\\nonly our baser nature feeds on them, and they\\nbring nothing but perplexity and sorrow. They\\nhave chain us to the things we most dislike, till we\\nlearned our lesson of indifference and patience.\\nThe disciple who seeks peace and power must\\nclimb above the plane of personality, beyond the\\nsurf of sensational life that breaks like turbulent\\nbillows on the shore laden with wreckage and\\ndebris.\\nIf we recognize love as the real force of will\\nwe will apply it oftener in our social and do-\\nmestic difficulties. It will save us from much\\nuseless kicking against the pricks which we\\ncompel ourselves to suffer through our wilfulness.\\nLove is never a goad. It is a vigorous tonic\\nwhich corrects the circulation without leaving\\nregret or lethargy behind. We need to remind\\nourselves sometimes that love is not easily pro-\\nvoked, and that our friend who has erred is in\\ngreater need of true affection than before.\\nHis error may alter our external relation to him,\\nbut if our love is really faithful it will guide us\\nwisely, and enable us to give the silent help which\\nonly a loving will can render. Instead of striving", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "136 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nto correct the outward manner of another, if we\\nbut hold a steady confidence in his spiritual nature\\nwe will find that, though the wonderful harp of a\\nthousand strings be dumb to every other touch,\\nit will awaken to the touch of love.\\nA truly forceful will is always gentle, though it\\ncarries a strong hand. Goodness and weakness\\ndo not belong together. Real righteousness is\\nvigorous. It is not necessary to drop our own\\neyelids because our neighbor squints, or to go\\nlame ourselves because he is a cripple.\\nWise charity is never blind. It never lowers its\\nstandards, to adjust them to the weakness of another.\\nThe higher will is vitalized through love. Love\\nmakes no compromise with weakness, but demands\\nthat we shall rise to our full height. Love is not\\nblind nor feeble. A loving will is truly masterful,\\nbut seeketh not its own.\\nThere is no habit strong enough to dominate a\\nman against his will.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "WILL. 137\\nAll forces make us suffer till we conquer them.\\nThen they become our willing and obedient\\nservants. When we work with certitude instead\\nof hope we always arrive at positive results.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "138 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nWe attract to ourselves whatever influences we\\nchoose.\\nThus we fasten clogs upon our feet, or grow the\\nfeathers for our wings.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "THE E VOL UTION OF PO IVER. 1 3 9\\nVII.\\nTHE EVOLUTION OF POWER.\\nThat power which the disciple shall covet is that which\\nshall make him appear as nothing in the eyes of men.\\nLight on the Path:\\nBehold I give unto you power to tread on serpents and\\nscorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing\\nshall by any means hurt you. Jesus.\\nPOWER is the natural desire and instinct of\\nhumanity and the chief attribute of all its Deities,\\nIt is evolved only through the awakening of\\nthe soul. This attainment seems to be the pur-\\npose of existence on the earth plane. All our\\noccupations aim at increase of personal power.\\nMen do not really care for the baubles of wealth,\\nfame, and position except as they find in them\\nexpression of their interior forces or aids in their\\ndevelopment.\\nIt is power that they seek to acquire and\\nmanifest.\\nThe consciousness of power is the greatest de-\\nlight of man. Its evolution is his greatest joy.\\nWhether he work in the laboratory or the ma-\\nchine shop, at the crucible or the bench, his\\nefforts are always for the mastery of the prin-\\nciples of nature, that he may use them in the\\nexecution of this purpose.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "140 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nLittle by little the race is gaining knowledge of\\nthe invisible forces that surround it, and learning to\\nharness them to its will. We construct more pow-\\nerful engines we generate stronger currents of\\nelectricity. We are learning to overcome the\\nwaste of power in boilers and batteries and to direct\\ntheir energies with greater precision. As we\\nadvance in these fields our horizon broadens and\\nwe discover continually finer elements of subtler\\nforce. We find we are but in the alphabet of\\ndynamics. Every fresh discovery emphasizes the\\nsignificance and value of the will. Its training is\\nthe most important work of life.\\nEverything that works in the least degree to\\nneutralize or weaken it we should put ruthlessly\\naway from us. All unworthy self-indulgence is\\nsuicidal; all mental indolence tends to devitalize\\nthe will all fear paralyzes it.\\nFear is the greatest enemy of power. When\\nwe cling to our fears they submerge our lives.\\nWe have only to let them go to prove the buoy-\\nancy of nature which carries us immediately to\\nlight and air again and shows us the right course\\nof action. When we know that we embody and\\nexpress the power of the infinite to the extent\\nof our realization we no longer waste our time\\nin supplication, but we seek development. The\\nignorant savage implores his deity to save him\\nfrom the fury of an electric storm. The intelli-", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "THE EVOLUTION OF POWER. 141\\ngent man protects himself by putting a lightning-\\nrod upon his house. As we enlarge the province\\nof the will through knowledge we narrow the\\ndomain of prayer. When we learn our power to\\ncontrol the forces amid which we live we are no\\nlonger suppliants and worshippers. The more a\\nman commands the less he prays. The more he\\nindulges his indolence of will the more prayerful\\nhe becomes. Jesus did not pray in the storm on\\nGalilee. He awoke and commanded the winds\\nand waves. It was only when he had become\\nnegative through suffering that he implored that\\nthe cup of sorrow might pass from him. Yet even\\nin that hour he radiated force that threw to the\\nground the soldiers sent to arrest him and proved\\nthat he had power to lay down the life which no\\nman could take from him without his consent.\\nWe often shirk the responsibility of deciding\\nour own lives and lay too much stress upon appar-\\nent leadings.\\nIt is our privilege to determine what we want\\nto do with life, and every real decision opens a\\nway to action. There is a large domain in which\\nwe should seize and hold with a firm grasp the\\nreins of government.\\nIn this realm the prayer of supplication is\\nimpertinence. We need to rule and not to beg.\\nThe forces that we govern are best developed\\nthrough obedience to our will.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "142 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nThere is another field in which we ourselves\\nshould learn obedience. In this we gain develop-\\nment through service of our higher self and more\\nadvanced intelligences than our own.\\nThus upon one side of life we need to be\\npositive and govern. Upon the other side we\\nshould be negative and obey. We are not suffi-\\nciently clear in our discernment. We often obey\\nwhere we ought to command, and we sometimes\\ncommand where we ought to obey.\\nWe must know our power and apply it.\\nI had an opportunity many years ago of observ-\\ning at close range the practical operation of these\\nprinciples. The Asiatic cholera broke out in a\\nship in which I was crossing the Atlantic. Many\\nof the passengers were terror-stricken. They began\\nto pray and died. The captain was profane and\\nforceful. He fumigated the ship and lived. His\\nonly time of danger was when, for a few days,\\nunder the pressure of fear, he too became prayer-\\nful. But his strong trained will asserted itself and\\nhis pious mood soon proved to be intermittent.\\nIt was a passing phase of weakness.\\nHis profanity was but the customary expression\\nof his impulsive nature, open to objection on the\\ngrounds of taste, but still an evidence of innate\\nenergy in which lay his salvation from the danger\\nof the hour. Realization of divine energy does not\\nmake of us weak petitioners.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "THE EVOLUTION OF POWER. 1 43\\nIn the evolution of power we must dismiss all\\nanxious thought of how we appear to others.\\nLoyalty to our own convictions demands of us\\nthat we should not entertain an artificial desire to\\nplease or live according to other standards than\\nour own.\\nWe must choose, in every relation, whether we\\nshall rule or serve. Where we choose rightly we\\ngain power. Wherein we err we suffer loss.\\nSensitiveness to criticism is evidence of infirmity\\nof purpose. It springs from selfishness and shows\\na lack of self-reliance. It is often disguised as\\nconscientiousness, but is always a mark of egotism\\nand vanity.\\nAll self-consciousness is selfishness. It is pecu-\\nliarly characteristic of what is called a critical mind.\\nThe problem of the individual life is not pri-\\nmarily how to do the most good to others it\\nis how to unfold and rule itself. In this proc-\\ness one evolves the power which proves help-\\nful. Service is the best school of development.\\nHelpfulness to others is an instinct of human-\\nity.\\nIf one falls in the street, how many hands are\\nimpulsively extended to lift him to his feet\\nIf a horse finds his load beyond his strength,\\nhow quickly passers-by will put their willing\\nshoulders to the wheel\\nIf property is mislaid or lost it becomes at once", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "144 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nthe self-imposed mission of others to recover and\\nrestore it to its rightful owners.\\nIf one gains for himself new knowledge, how\\nnaturally he seeks those to whom he can communi-\\ncate it\\nAll service is privileged opportunity, which\\ngives us exercise for our growing faculties.\\nEvery man possesses a universe of his own.\\nThe human being conforms marvellously in its\\nessential construction and movements to the planet\\nand the planetary system. It has its vital centres,\\neach with its own radius. It combines the ele-\\nments of earth, air, fire, and water, which permeate\\nall its life. It has its miniature oceans, continents,\\nand rivers, its fruitful and waste places. The\\nbase of existence is the atom, molecule, and single\\ncell. Every atom doubtless has its own intelli-\\ngence and purpose. It is combined with conscious\\nlife, unrecognized, perhaps, by the central mind,\\nand classified as the subconscious self, which only\\nmeans the unexplored.\\nTo bring into harmony and obedience to our\\nown supreme will all this atomic life is to win the\\nkingdom we were born to rule. To carry our\\nhighest spiritual consciousness into these subordi-\\nnate realms is a task worthy our attention through\\nmany successive periods of embodiment. Millions\\nof entities unrecognized by material science await\\nunfoldment through the human relations which", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "THE EVOLUTION OF POWER. 145\\nmake us their masters. They are the squires of\\nour knighthood. It is their delight to serve us.\\nWe are but larger atoms of a higher organiza-\\ntion, as our planet is but one globe of a system\\nthat itself revolves around the central sun of a\\nlarger universe.\\nWe are as blood corpuscles of a grand universal\\nman. The organization of life is perfect. Every\\natom is rightly placed.\\nBefore our work in the flesh can be complete,\\nwe must control all processes of nature and master\\ndeath itself.\\nWe have not yet mapped out our heavens we\\nhave not explored our continents we have not\\nfathomed our oceans. We do not understand our\\nresources. Science has found an energy of five\\nhundred horse power in a cubic inch of space. We\\ncannot imagine limits of the power contained in\\nhuman brain and body.\\nWe find ourselves flushed or chilled by sudden\\nthought. Why not govern our temperature at will,\\nand learn the secret of adapting ourselves to all\\natmospheres without depending upon fuel to pro-\\nduce the heat or ice the coolness we require?\\nThrough spiritual intelligence alone comes the\\ndevelopment of perceptions which pierce the fogs\\nof materialism and reveal the broad range of\\nhuman possibilities. Spiritual wisdom makes us\\nseers and puts us in command of Nature s forces,", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "146 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nmaking possible the best results upon all planes of\\naction.\\nIt is one of the theories of evolutionists that the\\ndiscovery of a need by the animal has been in-\\nvariably followed by the development of the\\norgan required to supply it; that the organic and\\nsense life has been a matter of slow growth through\\nrecognition of the necessities in its environment.\\nThus we see that organized life has come through\\nmind.\\nIs it then so difficult to believe that the force\\nthat has constructed should control and maintain\\nthe organs it has provided, and even replace them\\nat need? We find that some of the lower animals\\npossess this power of rehabilitation. In mental sci-\\nence it is apparent every day that organic disease\\nis as readily relieved as nervous disturbance, and\\nchronic troubles yield as easily as acute disorders\\nwithout regard to the length of time they have\\nprevailed, or to the advanced age of the sufferer.\\nIf life or anything related to it is a gift, what be-\\ncomes of the theory of evolution? Is it not a rea-\\nsonable belief that what is true of the plant is true\\nof man, and life is growth from seed to fruit in oft-\\nrepeated and every varying incarnations Where\\nis the gift to vegetable life but the soil and sun-\\nlight in which they grow and even these they\\nhave appropriated for themselves through the law\\nof vibratory affinity.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "THE EVOLUTION OE POWER. 1 47\\nThe rose and the chrysanthemum have required\\nmany reembodiments to bring them to their pres-\\nent size and great variety of tint, and each has pre-\\npared the way for that which followed.\\nAll evolution is an awakening to higher reali-\\nzation. The new perception demands expression\\nand creates new forms for its use.\\nDiscovery, desire, and development are the suc-\\ncessive steps of progress.\\nIt is recognition and not time that is the essen-\\ntial element of growth. This is the healing prin-\\nciple which brings improved conditions in the body\\nand control of the surroundings.\\nThere is no suffering from want or weakness but\\nthat which comes from lack of understanding.\\nWhat more could we ask for our happiness\\nthan the knowledge that we are creators and sov-\\nereigns?\\nWe have only to take possession, and all the\\nuniverse proclaims, Long live the king!\\nIt is ours to choose whether we will be subjected\\nto the action of the law of material gravitation\\nwhich draws downward or to that of spiritual\\nlevitation which draws upward. Not only do we\\nelect but we operate these laws in our own being.\\nTrouble cannot be kept away when we persistently\\nattract it; nor can prosperity, nor health, nor\\nhappiness.\\nNo sense of disappointment is ever possible to", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "148 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nhim who has attuned himself to the true keynote\\nof existence.\\n.Selfishness is the heart failure of our spiritual life.\\nThoughts which spring from personality and re-\\nlate to that alone inevitably obstruct the spiritual\\nvision.\\nUntil we have purged ourselves from every form\\nof personal selfishness we cannot become channels\\nfor the free and unimpeded flow of universal good\\nand wisdom.\\nThe freedom which we gain from truth is free-\\ndom from all care of self the loosing of our\\nbonds of egotism. Purification of character comes\\nthrough the experiences which seem to scorch and\\nblister in their intensity of suffering. They are\\ndeeply grievous in the present hour. All smelt-\\ning and refining of ores and all chemical distilla-\\ntion require concentration of heat. The furnace\\nand the crucible must be raised to the highest\\ndegree of power.\\nGethsemane and the Via Dolorosa precede\\nCalvary. Afterward comes the resurrection, and\\nafter resurrection ascension. Let us remember\\nin our trial the Nevertheless, afterward, when\\nthe peaceable fruit of righteousness is ripened.\\nOur angels are always with us in the wilderness,\\nand though we may be isolated for the moment\\nand endure the dreary sense of loneliness and deso-\\nlation we will be comforted abundantly.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "THE EVOLUTION OF POWER. 1 49\\nBefore we are fully crucified our sorrows have\\npierced hands and feet, head and heart. We can\\nno longer go whither we would. We cannot reach\\nfor what we want. We wear the crown of thorns\\nand from our wounded side flow the life currents.\\nThus bruised and sore we learn the lesson of love,\\nlearn to receive and learn to give. We no longer\\nselfishly desire to accumulate and to hold. We are\\nwilling to let go without reserve, trusting to the\\ninflux of the superabundant life into which we\\nenter through the spiritual birth.\\nThe personal man exists no longer, but from his\\nsepulchre the stone is rolled away and the higher\\nself steps forth as master of all conditions of exist-\\nence, which can never bring him hurt or hindrance.\\nIn the darkest hour of the crucifixion we hear\\nthe old-time challenge He saved others, him-\\nself he cannot save. Let him now come down\\nfrom the cross and we will believe in him.\\nStretched upon our cruel cross of poverty or\\nillness from which we have not yet found deliver-\\nance, is it necessary that this last thorn should\\nbe pressed upon the brow, this last nail driven\\nthrough the helpless limbs, this last drop drained\\nfrom the cup of suffering? And yet the challenge\\nis a just one.\\nIt will be fully met and answered. But Calvary\\nmust needs be first. It lies in every path to a\\ntrue throne.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "150 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nOne does not come down from a cross. He\\nmounts upon it as a stepping-stone to higher\\nthings, careless whether others believe on him or\\nnot, so long as he finds the way of light.\\nIt is only through the baptism of pain that we\\nbecome the helpers of troubled ones only\\nthrough drinking of this cup that we share in the\\nredemption of the world.\\nWe shall be entering soon upon a new century.\\nIt opens an era of new thought.\\nWe are drawing scattered forces to a focus.\\nWe are killing out the sense of separateness in\\nhuman life and studying with more profound\\ninterest the problem of unity. The development\\nof individuality goes hand in hand with deeper\\nconsciousness of universal sympathies. In all the\\narts and sciences, in mechanics and in literature, we\\nseek simplicity and fundamental principles, indiffer-\\nent to the destruction of time-honored theories and\\nignorant beliefs.\\nThe religious teachers of the past have drawn\\nsharp lines of distinction between God and man,\\ntime and eternity. They have talked of the\\nsaved and the lost, the Christian and the\\nheathen, the here and the hereafter.\\nThey have localized heaven and hell, separated\\nsoul from body, spirit from matter, the universal\\nfrom the particular. Life was considered as some-\\nthing quite apart from death. Minerals, vege-", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "THE EVOLUTION OF POWER. 151\\ntables, and dumb beasts had no share in the\\nintelligence and soul-life of the human being.\\nLet us glance at some of the changes wrought\\nin spiritual chemistry through the propositions of\\nnew thought\\nHumanity is itself divine.\\nAll men are the sons of God.\\nTime and eternity are one.\\nHeaven and hell are ever present with us as\\nmental experiences.\\nAll life is sacred. All days and occupations are\\nholy when governed by loving purpose.\\nDeath does not differ at all from life, as was\\ntaught by Thales six centuries before the Christian\\nera.\\nOne life pervades all kingdoms, varying only in\\ndegree of unfoldment, and continually progressing\\nin all toward higher types.\\nIn one of the art galleries of the city are two\\npaintings called The Old Navy and the New.\\nOne is a picture of the frigate Constitution,\\nthe other of the battleship Massachusetts\\nshowing something of the changes made in naval\\nvessels since the early part of the century. The\\npoints of contrast offer an illustration of the changed\\nthought of the present day.\\nThe name of the new ship is individualized.\\nThe bulk is reduced from the old model. The\\ngreat spread of canvas has disappeared.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "152 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nThe dimensions are altered, and every line is\\none of grace and beauty.\\nThe hull is steel, the driving power steam and\\nelectricity. Speed has been greatly increased.\\nThe port holes are much smaller, and the guns\\nof finer calibre, while more effective in their range\\nand power, and far beyond the boldest expecta-\\ntions in the gunnery of a hundred years ago.\\nIn the interior furnishings the incandescent\\nlamp has taken the place of sperm oil. All the\\nnautical appliances show the great advance of\\nscience.\\nThe food and clothes of sailors and marines are\\nof a quality unknown to those who manned the\\nConstitution. The standard requirements of the\\nofficers are much higher than those of former\\ndays.\\nWith all these changes we find the same ensign\\nat the peak, and pennant at the fore, but the starry\\nfield shows a larger and grander union of States\\nthan was included in the plans of the early pa-\\ntriots.\\nThere is not much in common between the hut\\nof the Congo African and the palace of a merchant\\nprince of the Western world. They both have\\nroof and walls, with the simple object of a shelter.\\nIn very similar relations stand the old and new\\nthoughts of God.\\nThe materials and the architecture are unlike,", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "THE EVOLUTION OE POWER. I 53\\nbut both are based on the idea of a protecting\\npower.\\nIn the material existence we get only a glimpse\\nof the eternal verities, and often fail to understand\\nthe connection with the present day between what\\nhas gone before and that which follows.\\nIt is impossible to make an extreme statement\\nof any truth, for the reason that our highest con-\\nception must fall far short of the reality.\\nWe cannot overestimate the power or benevo-\\nlence of the forces amid which we are developing\\nour spiritual nature.\\nIn our fear of being thought visionary we are\\nin danger of digging our ground anchors so deep\\ninto the earth that we will be held captive to\\nthe material life. Is it any wonder that when our\\ncables have been cut or broken through some\\nsobering experience we sometimes drift away into\\nthe clouds forgetful of the attractions that once\\nabsorbed us? Is it strange that in our unfamiliarity\\nwith the regions of higher thought we sometimes\\nbecome bewildered and seem to hang betwixt\\ntwo worlds, unwilling to return to the old levels,\\nyet ignorant of the way to pierce the clouds and\\nrise into the clearer atmosphere beyond? Perhaps\\nthere are few disciples of new thought that have\\nnot at some point of their progress found them-\\nselves in such perplexity.\\nThe only escape from the dilemma is to go", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "154 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nstill higher to where a brighter outlook will be\\nfound.\\nPleasure or power is the choice presented to\\nus. Our greatest obstacles are indolence and fear.\\nWe allow ourselves to be deluded with the\\nthought that our necessities on the material or in-\\ntellectual plane make spiritual activity impossible\\nand excuse us from all responsibility for poverty\\nin better things. How easy to throw the blame on\\ncircumstances\\nPower comes only through entire obedience to\\nthe highest law with which we are familiar. While\\nwe fulfil the law of love in all our thoughts and\\nactions we cannot fail to grow. Nothing but an\\nunloving life can hinder us.\\nWe are not suffering from inability or lack of\\nknowledge, but from failure of purpose. The\\nweakest individual has more knowledge and power\\nthan he ever applies to use. As we enlarge ex-\\npression we open new vistas of truth. The highest\\nforce is not unattainable because of our being\\nhuman, but because our selfishness would make it\\ndangerous to ourselves and others. We are sus-\\npicious of what we do not understand. This is\\nwhy the possession of spiritual power makes one\\nappear as nothing in the eyes of men. The true\\ndisciple does not turn bread into stone and multiply\\nloaves and fishes for his material gratification or\\nto satisfy the curiosity of the multitude, hence he", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "THE EVOLUTION OF POWER. I 55\\nis regarded with dislike. He lives a life apart from\\nthe contentions of the market and the forum, but\\ndeals with forces that would easily govern both.\\nPower over power is what Jesus promised to his\\nfollowers. Such comes only to the man who has\\ncompletely mastered himself, and its possessor\\nis invincible.\\nWhen we understand love as a force and not a\\nweakness, we find in it the very key to everlasting\\npower. Nothing can successfully oppose us when\\nwe have identified ourselves with the Supreme\\nLove. Self-lOve is an inverted force, and becomes\\ndestructive. It is the impulse in all suicide and\\ncrime. Infinite goodness cannot play the tyrant,\\neven to save us from ourselves.\\nMental causes seem remote and insufficient to\\nproduce results from which we suffer. But when\\nwe have acquainted ourselves with the laws of\\nthought, we are often able to trace their action\\nmore clearly than that of drugs in chemistry.\\nEvery evil feeds upon antagonism. Men are\\nconstantly inciting one another to resistance and\\nattack. These are the most expensive methods\\nwe could possibly devise for the attainment of our\\nends. We cannot exterminate an evil or solve\\na social difficulty by a set of resolutions spread\\nupon the records of a reform society. We cannot\\novercome a habit by mere resolve.\\nWhen we have really recognized truth it sets us", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "156 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nfree. When we have begun to radiate love,\\nthose things which seemed impregnable disintegrate\\nlike the hard rock of refractory ores placed in the\\nchemical vats of the reduction works. When we\\nbegin to live the life we find that our candle\\ngives light to all that are in the house, and will\\nnot be hid in a secret place. Our power asserts\\nitself in all our relations to others. It vitalizes\\neverything we touch, but produces no elation or\\nvain-glory. We accept all results as evidence of\\nthe accuracy of the principles with which we are\\nlearning to work. The cancer of self-love is\\nhealed. With all our heart, and strength, and\\nsoul, and mind, we love the higher good. Fresh\\nlife flows through our veins, and we begin to\\nrealize that for which we have vainly sought so\\nlong.\\nLove easily loosens all our bonds. There is no\\ndiscomfort that will not yield to its sovereign power.\\nThe sun compels the traveller to lay aside the\\ncloak that wind and storm have failed to take from\\nhis grasp.\\nWhen experience flings its javelins at us in life s\\nturmoil, we often strike the sweetest chords upon\\nour harps. When we sit in the seat of satisfied\\ndesire, ease and comfort bring us lethargy.\\nIf pain is rightly understood it teaches us the\\ndeeper, stronger possibilities of humanity, but if\\nwe were not so blind to the advantages we possess", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "THE EVOLUTION OF POWER. I 57\\nwe would not need the friendly offices of pain to\\narouse us to sight and action.\\nA stagnant pool does not clearly reflect the\\nstars and neither does troubled water. Power\\ndoes not dwell in anxious minds.\\nWhen we have put away all eagerness and\\nlearned the lesson of true confidence, we are in\\ntraining for high achievement. It is no reason for\\ndiscouragement if old habits of mind return at\\ntimes like the retreating tides.\\nAs we watch the ebbing waters an occasional\\nwave will roll back so far as to make us feel un-\\ncertain of its outward movement, while the flood\\ntide often seems to the watcher to be receding.\\nSo do our thought impulses appear to move us\\nin directions we have not sought, and hold us from\\nthe lines on which we most desire to advance.\\nOutside the caverns of mystery, in which we\\nsearch for truth, lies sunlight that would blind\\nour mortal eyes while within, the occasional\\nflash of our torches on a crystal, or the phospho-\\nrescence of a drop of water, seems to us a blaze\\nof glory, and the pebbles in our path appear as\\ntreasures beyond price.\\nThe day will come when we will dare to claim the\\nfull power that belongs to us, and realize that we\\nare limitless indeed, and, as Walt Whitman says, are\\nnot contained between our hats and our boot-soles.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "158 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nPoverty and disease are not the expressions of\\nrighteousness.\\nThey do not reflect the true image and likeness\\nof God.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "THE EVOLUTION OF POWER. 159\\nGreat spiritual potencies are born from great\\nemergencies.\\nNature does not waste her highest impulses\\non trivial occasions.\\nWe get the greatest force from our severest\\ntrials.\\nIt does not come from mere endurance, but from\\na bold and steadfast attitude which has no thought\\nof yielding.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "l6o DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nThe way of peace is the way of power.\\nIt brings us to repose without lethargy, activity\\nwithout effort, love without anxiety, and joy with-\\nout reaction.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "DECISION i6l\\nVIII.\\nDECISION.\\nThe first step in occultism brings the student to the tree\\nof knowledge.\\nHe must pluck and eat. He must choose.\\nNo longer is he capable of the indecision of ignorance.\\nIn a history of the development of the Cripple\\nCreek gold mines it is related that experts of wide\\nreputation in the mining world and with large\\nexperience upon five continents pronounced the\\ndeposits superficial. It is significantly added, It\\nwas this uncertainty that delayed development.\\nIt was finally the men of brawn and muscle who\\nproved to the world that underneath the grass-\\nroots lay fabulous riches.\\nAt greater depth the district was shown to be all\\nthat the most sanguine had anticipated.\\nDeep mining then became the factor. The\\nveins were absolutely without number and of every\\nconceivable course and dip. Often the miner who\\ngoes to search for the extension of a rich vein\\nfinds an entirely new vein instead.\\nIt was the patient toilers who had worked with\\nconfidence and decision, unaffected by the doubts\\nof those about them and undismayed by their own", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "1 62 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\ndifficulties, that finally brought to light the richest\\ngold mines of the century.\\nIn the development of man s higher nature we\\nfind it also true that only he who works with the\\npatient confidence of a fully decided purpose ever\\nattains to power and in the end he too discovers\\nfabulous riches with deep mining in the spiritual\\nnature.\\nThese things are not disclosed to fearful, timid\\nsouls, nor to the indolent and self-indulgent.\\nWhen we begin to change our thought and\\ninterests from material to spiritual things, it is\\nimportant that we should commit ourselves fully\\nand promptly to the new direction of our lives.\\nHalf-hearted measures always result in confusion\\nand failure and delay development.\\nUpon the material plane we may achieve mate-\\nrial success. Upon the spiritual plane we can\\naccomplish a spiritual success, but when we are\\ndistracted by diverse impulses and torn by con-\\ntrary incentives we find ourselves suspended mid-\\nway between mind and matter, and in a sense\\ndivorced from both. There is no middle ground\\nthat we can safely occupy.\\nWe must drink deep or taste not the Pierian\\nspring. One of the greatest dangers to success\\nand happiness upon all lines of human activity is\\nthat of indecision. This is the reef upon which\\nso many of our ventures go to pieces. The princi-", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "DECISION. 163\\npal dangers of the navigator are encountered on\\nthe coast. The perils of the open sea are small\\ncompared with those of the rocky shore and sandy\\nbeach. It is there that we need to build our light-\\nhouses and anchor our light-ships. The life-boats\\nare oftenest overturned in pushing through the surf.\\nIt is just here that we encounter our most serious\\ndifficulties in the study of thought principles.\\nWe are reluctant to leave our material shores and\\ntrust ourselves to the operation of the universal\\nlaws. We are not quite ready to apply the truth\\nto our particular life. We are not accustomed to\\nthe larger horizon and deep-water navigation. We\\nhave never seen the spiritual principle fully demon-\\nstrated, perhaps, and the scepticism of our practi-\\ncal minds makes us reluctant for the venture.\\nYesterday I stood upon the curb and watched\\nthe fire-engines as they dashed up-street in re-\\nsponse to an alarm.\\nThe glad activity of men and horses was superb.\\nThere was no trace of indecision. At the first tap\\nof the bell every one had sprung confidently to his\\npost. The fires were kindled without delay. The\\nsteam was speedily ready for its work. The ani-\\nmals and their drivers knew exactly what was\\nwanted of them. Each understood his part and\\nbrought immediately into play his largest energies\\nwithout an instant s hesitation. In this spirit we\\nshould commit ourselves to our daily living, re-", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "1 64 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nsponding not only promptly but gladly to every\\nresponsibility that summons us. We should be as\\nready to move in one direction as another, to accept\\nwithout hesitation every opportunity that presents\\nitself, and to do this without dissatisfaction when\\nthe circumstances are not what we would choose.\\nNothing that we do in life is complete and per-\\nmanent. Everything is preliminary to something\\nbetter, a preparation for something more endur-\\ning. We go from strength to strength, advanc-\\ning evermore toward our ideal perfection. And\\nas we move, our ideal grows, providing us with an\\never fresh impulse.\\nEvery day we are developing new conditions of\\nultimate success. Not only that, but every day\\nis in itself successful even though no progress is\\napparent. Our simple effort has at least developed\\nwind and muscle, making us stronger than yester-\\nday, and better equipped for the work at which we\\naim. If we indulge ourselves in tragic moods and\\nmoments of despondency and doubt, we only in-\\ncrease and complicate our tasks. We dull the axe\\nwith which we hew, and thus compel ourselves to\\nput forth more strength. It is absolutely necessary\\nto the highest success that we rid ourselves of the\\nfever of impatience and throw off the disease of\\nindecision and uncertainty. All the world suffers\\nfrom a mental grippe for want of real belief in\\nthe absolute good.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "DECISION. 165\\nPersistent confidence is the first requisite in any-\\nundertaking if we wish to arrive at positive results\\nconfidence that is in no way weakened by a\\nseeming failure or by days or months or years of\\ndisappointment. Such confidence makes delays\\nand disappointments quite unnecessary if it is\\nprepared to stand these tests.\\nIt accepts as a finality, established beyond the\\nneed of further proof, the axiom that All things\\nwork together for good. This is the meaning of\\ntrue fearlessness. It believes that the universe\\nis for nothing else than to succeed in. It does\\nnot measure success by the day s record. It has\\nhigher standards than the mere accomplishment\\nof its own trivial purposes. It knows that all\\nmerely personal ends are petty, even though they\\nbe the building of cities or the civilization of con-\\ntinents. Nothing is worthy the powers and stature\\nof a man but the fulfilment of his divinest being,\\nthe unfoldment of his largest spiritual manhood.\\nPower always destroys itself and us when we\\nuse it with no other than a selfish aim. It can be\\ndeveloped and extended to the highest degree\\nonly when our purpose is in accord with that of\\nthe universal life. This is not gained by the be-\\nlittling of our daily occupations or the neglect of\\nsimple duties and homely opportunities. Nor is it\\nreached by the exaggeration of them.\\nIt is only in the recognition and adjustment of", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "1 66 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nour real relation to every person, place, and cir-\\ncumstance with which we are brought in con-\\ntact.\\nIt is in confidence and decision that we develop\\npower.\\nFanaticism is more forceful than agnosticism,\\nbecause it has a distinct and decided purpose\\nwithout a doubt of its accomplishment.\\nThe history of bigots is a wonderful testimony\\nto the power of confident belief and unselfish\\naims.\\nIndecision is a fatal disease wherever it appears.\\nIt seems less hurtful to progress to be decided in\\na wrong course than to remain undecided in a\\nright one. The practical consequences of error\\nmay be relied upon to correct themselves through\\nthe suffering they entail.\\nIndecision is prolific of disease and kills through\\ninactivity and stagnation.\\nNo battle was ever won under the banner of\\nI can t.\\nIt is only when we recognize and boldly assert\\nour power that we find it possible to change con-\\nditions. As long as we plead ignorance and in-\\ncapacity we excuse ourselves from effort and\\nindulge our indolence.\\nWe are victims and bond-slaves just as long as\\nwe consent to be considered so and not a moment\\nlonger. We begin to manifest superiority to any", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "DECISION. 167\\nand all conditions when we have really made up\\nour minds to full dominion.\\nNo one truly individualized will ever say, God\\nwilling, but instead of this, I will, recognizing\\nhimself as the legitimate expression of God s will.\\nThe voice of the Spirit is always to be heard by\\nhim who listens. Behold, I have set the land\\nbefore you. Go in and possess the land.\\nOur grotesque ideas of God have resulted in\\ngrotesque expressions of ourselves. As man grows\\nhe no longer caricatures Deity in the figure of a\\nChinese Joss, but fashions an Apollo Belvidere,\\nand knows that his highest art is but a faint ex-\\npression of a divine idea. He no longer fears the\\npowers of darkness and the prince of the power\\nof the air, because he recognizes in himself the\\npower of light and knows that he is a prince of the\\nuniversal realm.\\nWe suffer disease and poverty as long as we\\nthink we are compelled to do so, and are undecided\\nin our purpose and authority.\\nA common trouble with us all is our ambition\\nto be masters before we have learned the meaning\\nof service. We are apt to despise the small things\\nand the short steps. We want to assert power\\nrather than develop it through the discipline of\\nexperience. We want to stride with seven-league\\nboots before we have learned to creep. We are\\nimpatient to read before we know the alphabet", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "1 63 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nand to receive the certificate of skilled navigators\\nbefore we have learned to stand our watch at the\\nwheel. Confidence is the first lesson in the spirit-\\nual primer and full realization is the last.\\nBefore we can arrive at a firm decision regarding\\na new course we must abandon all regrets concern-\\ning the old. We must permit no hesitancy of fear.\\nWe must not be disturbed by contrary winds.\\nPerhaps the greatest surprise awaiting the de-\\ncarnate soul will be the discovery of the wonder-\\nful wealth of latent power of which it had remained\\nin ignorance in its earth life. With an abundant\\nand marvellous provision for our material journey\\nwe limp and struggle through a brief incarnation,\\nsuffering tortures of hunger, thirst, and loneliness,\\nwhile living in a land of plenty, watered by in-\\nexhaustible springs and peopled by loving pres-\\nences. The soul lives in an earthly paradise and\\nfeeds on husks. It toils as a slave, because it\\nlives so close to the ground it does not know that\\nit is free.\\nMany never understand themselves or one an-\\nother till long after they have dropped the mortal\\nbody.\\nWe need not live in an illusion because we\\nare embodied in matter, and are dwellers on the\\nplanet Earth. If we have deceived ourselves, it\\nis because we chose to dream and to postpone\\nawakening.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "DECISION. 169\\nWe preferred to consider trivial things of real\\nimportance rather than view life from a higher\\nstandpoint. Truth would have dwarfed our petty\\noccupations. It would not have flattered our\\npersonal vanity or confirmed our childish theories\\nof existence.\\nLife contains a full provision for us all. There\\nis no lack to any human creature who is ready to\\nobey the laws of harmony.\\nMany will protest impatiently at such a claim,\\nand cite in disproof the wretchedness and squalor\\nthat abound among those who are considered help-\\nless.\\nSuch objectors look only at the surface of\\nthings, without appreciation of the laws of cause\\nand effect.\\nIt is the fashion of men to be impatient with\\nwhat they do not understand. It is usual for us to\\nresent the implication that we are strictly respon-\\nsible for our own faults and failures. The fact\\nthat all the world imagines vastly improved condi-\\ntions for what we have chosen to call the next\\nlife only shows the possibility of bettering the con-\\nditions of this.\\nWe expect sometime to be free from anxiety\\nand grief.\\nWhen we are willing to assume our rightful\\nattitude toward one another we will find this\\nfreedom can be achieved to-day. There is no", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "170 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nmore reason for our present suffering than will\\nexist a hundred or a thousand years from now.\\nA spirit truly poised is not dependent for its\\nhappiness on anything outside itself.\\nIt is tranquil through the recognition that all\\nlife is evolution of character, and that each is\\nresponsible only for his own development. Char-\\nacter is an individual possession. We cannot ac-\\nquire it for another.\\nGrief for another s faults will often feed the\\nmorbid nature of a weakling and prolong the\\nindulgence of the errors for which we grieve.\\nA wise and loving indifference will invariably\\nprove a tonic that compels the offender finally to\\nrealize that he alone is vitally concerned in the\\nquestion of his welfare, and that no one else can\\nshoulder his responsibility or share it with him.\\nAll immorality is a condition of hysteria. It\\nthrives on sentimental sympathy, as ulcers often\\nfeed upon the salves that are applied for their relief.\\nOur power to assist another is crippled by the\\ndepression which comes through pity. Pity is\\nalways a sacrifice of power. Pity and power never\\ncan be yoked together. True principle is always\\nrobust. It is spiritual knowledge, and has in it no\\nelement of indecision or distrust. It stands un-\\nmoved by temporary appearances, and has unwav-\\nering confidence in everlasting good for every life.\\nIt admits no doubt or failure possible, but holds to", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "DECISION. 171\\nthe assurance that the higher self of every one will\\neventually claim its right to govern. The facts of\\ntime are not distressing to one who lives in the\\nlarger fact of the eternal. It is not persuasion or\\nenvironment that reforms a life, but the awaken-\\ning of its own innate energies. These alone have\\npower to renew the purpose, vitalize the will, and\\nguide the destinies that we are helpless to control\\nfor one another.\\nHuman temptation is a puny thing to an enfran-\\nchised spirit.\\nThere are no fetters of habit except what we\\nhave forged for ourselves. The same strength which\\nhas fastened them upon us can remove them in-\\nstantly by simply reversing the action of the will,\\nwhich has already proved its power in the structure\\nit has raised, as the heavy stones of the great\\npyramid testify to the strength and skill and pon-\\nderous machinery employed in its erection.\\nWe often neglect to reckon intelligently with the\\nforces we set in motion to make or mar our lives.\\nThey are not to be treated as playthings or despised\\nas the creation of idealists.\\nIt is folly to fall upon our swords on the field of\\na lost conflict like the old commanders of the\\nRoman legions. The tides of battle often turn\\nwhen least expected. Until we can see every\\ncorner of the field and understand the movements\\nof the unseen hosts about us to which we are", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "172 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nrelated we have no right or reason to lower our\\nstandards or admit defeat.\\nThe strategic movements of an army often take\\non temporarily the appearance of disaster and\\nretreat when they are only the preparation for an\\noverwhelming advance to final victory.\\nWe govern kingdoms that have never been\\npolled. Their census is unknown to us, their\\npower unsuspected. If we waver in our purposes\\nour house is divided against itself. The different\\nfactions endeavor to fulfil their understanding of our\\nwishes, but when we weakly yield to fickleness there\\nis confusion in the camp and we are torn with the\\ncontending elements. Our greatest crime is a\\nsurrender of our right to rule ourselves. Our\\ngreatest weakness is a state of indecision.\\nWhen we recognize the power of the soul within\\nus and the value of its work we know it is in-\\ncapable of defeat. Not only is our life invulner-\\nable to evil, but it is invincible in every decided\\npurpose.\\nLet us stand upright on our feet. Our ankle\\nbones will find the strength they need. Let us\\nstretch forth the arm that we think withered.\\nWe will speedily find that it is whole. Let us\\ngo boldly forward with a song upon our lips,\\nindifferent to any suffering or death which leads\\nto the awakening of slumbering powers. Should\\nwe not gladly serve if thus we learn to govern?", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "DECISION. 173\\nRight living is true service. It yields an ever-\\nincreasing satisfaction. We have no reason to wish\\nfor better opportunities through larger possession\\nof money or influence. The only real power is\\nthat which radiates from character. All our fancied\\nlimitations lie in the artificial conditions we create.\\nThey do not belong to the real man or his envi-\\nronment. We are slow to accept the truth of our\\ninfinity. Sooner or later we arrive at its recog-\\nnition.\\nTruth awaits our pleasure. Its acceptance is a\\nmatter of choice to every individual. We can\\nnever exaggerate the intelligence or power of the\\nspirit. Every demonstration comes to us at the\\nmoment we are prepared to welcome it. We must\\nneeds break down the walls of doubt and indecision\\nwe have built about us before we can obtain the\\nevidence we seek, as we must open our eyes before\\nwe can see the sun and study its phenomena.\\nOur titles and estates are ready when we claim\\nthem. The freedom day of the soul is not defined\\nand limited by any statutes.\\nSuccess is quite impossible to him who throws\\nhis energies into the forging of thought fetters,\\nand hears only the voice of his lesser self.\\nTo an illuminated will the perplexities of life\\nare but the dust stirred by its chariot wheels in its\\ntriumphant progress.\\nIt takes joyfully the spoiling of its goods because", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "174 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nit knows that every experience is friendly and help-\\nful, and will feed its power.\\nWe spurn the thought of escape when we have\\nlearned to transmute disagreeable conditions into\\nspiritual nutriment. When we know that, we can\\nchange our relation to suffering through mastery\\nof ourselves.\\nThe dwellers in malarial climates sometimes\\nplant the eucalyptus in their gardens.\\nThis wonderful tree absorbs from the atmosphere\\nthe poisonous elements, and makes them con-\\ntribute to its sturdy growth. When we understand\\nthe secrets of spiritual chemistry we thrive upon\\nconditions we have always regarded as malarial.\\nVexations, disappointments, mortifications, and\\nannoyances of every kind will furnish us with ele-\\nments of nourishment. Not only do they cease\\nto poison our happiness and becloud our days, but\\nwe can easily welcome them as helpful tests of\\nour development.\\nAfter the dreary days of temptation in the wil-\\nderness we emerge with larger control of disease\\nand devils. In such hours of trial we make our\\nfinal decision upon many a question which will\\nnever again possess the power to disturb our\\npeace, because we know the force that we em-\\nbody.\\nThe value of experience is greater than we can\\nunderstand while under the stress that it involves.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "DECISION. 175\\nIts cost is always an indication of our need. We\\nget it at the lowest price, and at our own bid.\\nNo one but ourselves determines the emergency\\nor names the compensation we must pay. The\\nslings and arrows of outrageous fortune are the\\nuncertainties and fears with which we torture and\\nwound ourselves in every hour of sojourning in the\\nland of indecision. When we once have passed the\\nbarriers our doubts have raised we find an open\\nway to power.\\nThe time to realize and assert power is when\\nwe are most sensible of weakness. The time to\\ndeclare health is when we are suffering from ill-\\nness. The time to avow opulence is when we are\\nmost painfully conscious of our poverty. It is\\nin the valley of decision that we find relief from\\nall these things. But it is necessary that we\\nshould stand alone before we can walk erect and\\nfree, and this is first a mental process.\\nWhen the early adventurers went to South\\nAfrica for diamonds, they built their huts of mud\\nand laid out roads for hauling their supplies.\\nAfter they had thoroughly examined the coun-\\ntry their experts pronounced it a barren and worth-\\nless land.\\nOthers followed who were more enlightened and\\nless prejudiced. These soon discovered that the\\nvery huts in which they lived were thickly en-\\ncrusted with the precious gems.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "I76 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL,\\nThe clay road itself was a rich bed of diamonds.\\nIs it not so with life? We think this world of\\nmatter very poor. We live in huts and search for\\nwealth outside. At last, after great tribulation and\\ncontinual disappointment, we awaken to the truth\\nthat we ourselves contain the gems of greatest\\nvalue and of rarest promise. As long as we\\nthink ourselves dependent for happiness upon\\nany material thing, we are the slaves and not\\nthe lords of matter. When we truly understand,\\nwe are thankful for life as it is in every hour,\\nknowing that it holds the highest possible con-\\nditions necessary to our good. We may feel\\nsure that this is true, not only for ourselves, but\\nfor every other life as well. We are always in\\nthe banqueting house of love. Every hour is\\nfilled with pleasant chimes. All our dice are\\ndouble-sixes, and everything comes our way. Do\\nwe resent this as idealism? Then it is idealism\\nof which we stand in greatest need. Do we\\nclamor for a more practical philosophy? Our\\nvery demand reveals the fact that we are far from\\nbeing practical ourselves.\\nBefore we enter into a useless struggle with the\\nmaterial conditions that surround us, let us get a\\nfirm mental grasp upon ourselves and we will find\\nthat all else yields easily to the change within.\\nOur conceptions of life are all too small. The\\nkingdom of mind and the kingdom of matter are", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "DECISION. 177\\nfar beyond, in extent and richness, any horizon lines\\nwe yet have sighted.\\nWe are their lawful sovereigns, spirits clothed\\nin matter, gods manifest in the flesh. If we real-\\nized our destiny we would greet ourselves every\\nmorning, when we returned from our excursions\\nupon astral planes, to take up again our robe and\\ncrown of matter, with the beautiful salutation of\\nthe East, O King, live forever\\nAlexander wept because he had no more worlds\\nto conquer. We have no such cause for tears.\\nWe haven t a bodily organ that has found the\\nlimits of its powers. Sandow, the strong man,\\nreports that he is enlarging his muscles and ex-\\npanding his lungs and strengthening his heart con-\\ntinually, that he can every year lift heavier weights.\\nWe do not yet use all the air-cells of our lungs.\\nWe have not begun to explore the cellular tissue\\nof the brain. We have many muscles that we sel-\\ndom call into action. There are such undiscov-\\nered lands in body and brain that it will require\\nmany an incarnation to explore and master them.\\nWorry comes from a Dutch word, worgen,\\nmeaning to throttle.\\nWe strangle ourselves with worry. This is the\\ngreatest enemy of life. We think we have reached\\nthe limit of endurance before our backbone has\\nreally straightened itself to the weight. Many\\nmen and women are like jelly-fish and scarcely", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "178 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nbelong to the order of vertebrates. They lack\\nfibre and have not yet lived long enough to develop\\na real spinal column.\\nWe never suffer so much that we could not\\nsuffer far more and live. We do not wear out\\nfrom overwork, but from improper use of our\\nfaculties and worry. We get discouraged and lie\\ndown and die before our real capacity for doing\\nand enduring has been tested. Our wills are im-\\npulsive and erratic, weak and fickle for the lack of\\nspiritual decision. Our purpose is not clearly\\nformed to express divinity in daily life. We really\\nintend to do it sometime, but secretly prefer to\\nindulge our selfishness a little longer.\\nIf we are honest we will not bewail our weakness,\\nbut we will correct it. We will not mourn our\\nuselessness, but will simply go to work and make\\nourselves useful. We will not lament our hard-\\nships, but will change them into stimulants. When\\nwe are thoroughly decided and ready to do God s\\nwork we always find God ready to work through\\nus. At that point of decision we can never fail in\\neither equipment or opportunity. God s resources\\nare never limited to the range of our perceptions.\\nMuch that we do not see exists and has existed\\nalways, though our eyes were not strong enough\\nto perceive it. To the unaided vision the skies\\nseem often starless. With a powerful telescope\\nwe see one hundred million stars where only six", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "DECISION. 1 79\\nor seven thousand are visible without the glass.\\nWhat is only theory to one is often fact to another\\nwho has pushed his investigations further.\\nIf we have not studied sidereal time and planet-\\nary distances, how can we expect to map the\\nheavens\\nIf we have examined life only upon material\\nlines, how can we understand spiritual philosophies\\nwhich make life to others a beautiful and syste-\\nmatic working of intelligent law where we see only\\nsuffering and confusion?\\nThere is no doubt but that we shall all look\\nback from the problems which confront us in the\\nimmaterial life of the astral plane and feel that in\\ncomparison the lessons of earth were simple and\\neasy. If life is eternal progress, as every sane\\nmind believes, the first condition of happiness is\\nconfidence, and its greatest danger is the indecision\\nwhich comes through fear.\\nWhen we have settled once for all that the\\nto-morrow of death will never arrive, no matter\\nwhether we live in fear or longing for it, we are\\nprepared to eat and drink to-day in security and\\ngladness and feel equal to the conquest of any\\nand all material conditions through the use of\\nspiritual powers.\\nGod grant that we may suffer till all dread of\\nsuffering is past, that we may feel the furnace of\\naffliction heated to such stress that from the", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "l8o DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nmighty impulse of our pain the higher self may be\\ntruly born. In the hour of our anguish this serene\\none walks beside us and in his presence we find\\nall sorrow stilled forevermore.\\nWith every day leave yesterday behind\\nand turn not back.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "DECISION. l8l\\nDiscontent and indecision close all doors of\\nsuccess and happiness.\\nDisappointment should be always taken as a\\nstimulant and never viewed as a discouragement.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "1 82 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nSpiritual progress is never hindered by our\\nduties or want of time.\\nThere can be no conflict between our aspira-\\ntions and our responsibilities.\\nOur most precious opportunities are often those\\ndisguised in tatters. They pass us by unrecog-\\nnized, because we judge life by appearances in-\\nstead of principles.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "THOUGHT TONICS. 1 83\\nIX.\\nTHOUGHT TONICS.\\nI cried aloud, and wrung my hands in woe\\nWhen Grief came to my door in mourning guise\\nI strove to shut the door, and closed my eyes,\\nBut she stood, patient, there, and would not go.\\nThen Pain came down the pathway, sad and slow;\\nAnd Sacrifice with face raised to the skies\\nAnd Poverty, with brooding, anxious sighs\\nAnd all Grief s sisters, talking soft and low.\\nLong, long I stood rebellious, with the door\\nClosed on the grim ranks waiting there outside\\nMy heart beat fiercely, and I paced the floor\\nWith sobs and moans. But when the daylight died,\\nWith trembling hands I flung the portals wide\\nAnd lo but Peace came in, to go no more. 11\\nFanny Driscott.\\nThe power that we call God and u Law is\\nwise and strong enough to provide for man the\\nmost favorable conditions he permits.\\nGod is Love, and Love could be satisfied\\nwith nothing less, for Love is Infinite Intelligence\\nand Power. Where, then, is the limitation, and\\nwhy do we suffer?\\nThe answer is always to be found within the\\nindividual soul, which has the sovereign power of", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "1 84 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL,\\ncontrol. Man can open wide all doors of recep-\\ntiveness can throw down all walls and live in the\\nopen or he can shut himself up in the deepest\\ndungeons of his personal life and bar out every\\nray of sunlight.\\nThe sun is powerful indeed, but the delicate\\nmembrane of the human eyelid can exclude it\\nwhen the man so wills. Nothing is so blinding as\\nthe persistent thought of weakness.\\nThe first step in healing or altering the condi-\\ntions of existence is recognition of the sovereignty\\nof Self.\\nThe next is recognition of the sovereignty of\\nGood.\\nThe work is complete when these two principles\\nhave been identified. The windows of heaven are\\nalways open. It is our windows that are often\\nclosed.\\nThe Egyptian peasant fertilizes his little tract\\nbordering on the desert by laboriously hauling up\\nthe water from the river with his bucket or wheel.\\nHe turns it into his small trenches. But there\\ncomes a day when the great river rises above its\\nbanks, and in a majestic overflow wipes away all\\nits petty barriers and inundates the very desert it-\\nself, carrying opulence of fertility noiselessly and\\neasily to all the surrounding country. If we stand\\nupon the shore and watch its rising tides we see\\nthat the waters find their way to every nook and", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "THOUGHT TONICS. 185\\ncranny, and the dry sands are drenched in its floods\\nand cleansed with its billows. These flood tides\\nare irresistible. They are glorious in their power\\nand beauty.\\nAll this is but a faint suggestion of the ever-\\npresent opportunities of the soul. Life is always\\nat its flood, though our realization may ebb and\\nflow. It is only we who imagine the ebb as we\\nwade in the murky waters of a shallow experi-\\nence, indulging our self-pity and bemoaning our\\nsufferings.\\nIf we cease our vain struggles and lamentations\\nlong enough to look away from the personal self\\nwith its petty cares, and to recognize the spiritual\\nself with its calm confidence of inexhaustible ener-\\ngies, we realize that life is going very well with us\\nindeed, and we are daily gaining the experience we\\nneed.\\nWe exhaust our strength in our impatience at\\nour work and the conditions that surround us.\\nThere is nothing that comes to us which we could\\nnot do easily with true adjustment, but we waste\\nour forces in our worries. It is our leverage that\\nis at fault. When that is changed we will find the\\nheaviest weights are easily raised.\\nThe mechanism of our existence is simpler than\\nwe think. None of its cog-wheels are misplaced.\\nIf we will only permit them to work into each\\nother where they belong we will discover that there", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "1 86 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nis no superfluous friction, and the adjustment of\\nexperience to need is truly marvellous.\\nThe propositions of Euclid would remain true\\nif there were no mathematical professors in the\\nuniversities able to demonstrate them. The earth\\nhas been always round, even through the centuries\\nwhen its scientific men declared that it was flat.\\nIt does not follow that a proposition in spiritual\\nscience is untrue because we have never learned\\nits demonstration.\\nTruth is never dependent to the least degree\\nupon the personality of teachers. We must not\\nimagine Truth will stand or fall with any person-\\nality. Telegraphy remains an accurate mani-\\nfestation of electric science even though all the\\noperators in the land be proven incompetent and\\nunreliable.\\nIt is always true when we suffer that, like Peter\\nin prison, we are sleeping between two soldiers,\\nbound with two chains. One fetter is the thought\\nof our own weak personality the other is the doubt\\nof the power of Good.\\nWhen the light has shone into our prison and\\nwe hear the voice of the Angel of Truth Arise\\nquickly, gird thyself, follow me our chains fall\\noff, we pass safely through the first and second\\nwards, and even the iron gate that leadeth into\\nthe city opens to us of its own accord, and we go\\nout again among men, freed from pain and disease,", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "THOUGHT TONICS. 187\\nand strong in the might of the Spirit which has\\nawakened in us the consciousness that all power is\\ngiven unto us in heaven and in earth.\\nWhen our suffering seems almost beyond endur-\\nance we may always gain relief by making a bold\\nchange of front. This is considered the most\\ndifficult problem in military tactics when made in\\nthe face of an enemy, and it is often the most brill-\\niantly effective move of martial science.\\nInstead of declaring, as we so often do in our\\nmental anguish, I can t stand it any longer, let\\nus assert with Paul, li glory in tribulation; I\\ntake pleasure in infirmities; I can endure all\\nthings Let us agree with our adversary\\nquickly while we are in the way with him, and\\nmake friends of our adversities. Nothing else will\\nso quickly disarm their power and neutralize their\\nsting.\\nIt makes a great difference in a landscape\\nwhether we see it through a convex or a concave\\nlens whether we look through the large end of a\\ntelescope and thus remove the objects to a dis-\\ntance, or through the small end and bring them\\nwithin close range. We get a very different im-\\npression of a country when we view it from the\\nmountain-tops from what we receive in passing\\nthrough its valleys.\\nHow vastly different a troubled question looks\\nto us at noonday and at midnight We flinch in", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "I 88 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nthe hours of darkness from a problem we can\\nmeet bravely when we are on our feet and under\\nthe momentum of the noonday vigor.\\nThis is all the difference between negative and\\npositive conditions.\\nThe engine which moves the train so easily\\nalong its rails when the power is applied to turn-\\ning the great drive wheels forward can be quickly\\nreversed by a very slight movement of the lever,\\nand all its force thrown into a backward motion.\\nBy boldly and persistently changing our thought\\nfrom the negative conditions of discouragement\\nand suffering to the positive conditions of strength\\nand life, the very worst case of nervous prostra-\\ntion can be quickly overcome. Nature abounds\\nin remedial power, and it is always within our\\nreach. Indeed, it is the same force that is tearing\\nthe engine to pieces, and needs only to be reversed\\nto drive it forward.\\nWe ourselves have built the road-bed of our own\\nexperiences, and laid the rails on which we are\\npushing our engines ahead to a larger realization,\\nor backward into suffering. Let us know that the\\nhighest lesson of life is not to live in either the\\npresent or future, but in the eternal. He to\\nwhom time is as eternity and eternity as time is\\nfree, said the old mystic Boehm an aphorism\\nwe should all engrave upon our watch-cases.\\nWhen we look at pain or trouble through the", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "THOUGHT TONICS. 1 89\\nsmall end of our telescopes they are brought easily\\nwithin close range and show in large proportions.\\nWhen we reverse the telescope the same things\\nseem infinitely removed.\\nNow let us look at the personal man and all\\nhis paltry affairs through the lenses which put\\nthem far away and bring the eternal man into the\\nfield of our clearest vision. When we thus gain\\neven a passing glimpse of our higher selves the\\nlandscape of trouble seems misty and remote.\\nWe do not have to climb very far up the moun-\\ntain-side to get above the clouds and find a differ-\\nent world. How many an Alpine traveller has\\npassed from the drenching storm of the lower alti-\\ntudes to see the glorious silvered clouds below\\nhim, and the sun shining in all its radiant splen-\\ndor on the snow-capped peaks of Jungfrau and\\nMt. Blanc! It was only a turn of the road and\\na few rods upward climb that wrought the magic\\nchange. But such an experience can never be\\nforgotten, for it brings a dream of paradise.\\nHow shall we climb out of nervous prostration?\\nLet us begin by ceasing to oppose ceasing to\\nfight our troubles, declaring their nonentity, while\\nwe give ear to the thought of the eternal man\\nour own true self whose voice we have learned to\\nknow and whom we have invited in to sup with us.\\nWe have thus accomplished a positive molecular\\nchange. We have turned off the current of anxious", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "190 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nthought. We have altered our polarity. We have\\naccomplished with our troubles the same results\\nthat would follow to the iron filings grouped about\\nthe magnet if it should be suddenly demagnet-\\nized. The bits of iron fall away. They have\\nnothing to which to cling. The force that held\\nthem is transferred to a new field. Our troubles\\nare like spoiled children that seek to gain atten-\\ntion by their kicks and screams. They make\\nfaces at us like street urchins as long as we come\\nto the window. When we no longer scold, and\\ncalmly pass along in true indifference, they do not\\nfind the satisfaction they demand. They feed\\nupon sensation and are starved to death by our\\nrefusal to acknowledge them.\\nThe small boy who fell in the woods and hurt\\nhimself told his young friends who asked him if he\\ncried, Of course not, there was nobody to hear.\\nOur troubles often show a seeming intelligence,\\nand leave us when we no longer notice them and\\nthey find they have lost the power to annoy.\\nThis comes when we cease to coddle or fear the\\npersonal man and begin to cultivate the Spiritual\\nand live in the Eternal when we learn the mean-\\ning of the words, I, the imperfect, adore my own\\nperfect.\\nDisease and trouble never enter our dominions\\nunless they are invited. They never stay unless\\nthey are entertained.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "THOUGHT TONICS. 191\\nScience declares that death comes always\\nthrough disease and for disease we are responsible.\\nOld age itself is never fatal. The fountain of life is\\nperennial. Ignorance and fear are at the root of\\nall disturbance. In overcoming these we vanquish\\nthe last enemy. All suffering comes from igno-\\nrance of God.\\nIn the beautiful allegory of Job we find that\\nafter all material things had been taken from him\\nand he had learned that there was nothing to trust\\nbut God the test was successfully passed and his\\npossessions were doubled from that hour.\\nIn the ancient folk-lore we are told of a flood in\\nwhich all land passed out of sight and Noah had\\nnothing but his ark and the promise of a clean earth.\\nBut the flood ended the ark rested upon solid\\nground and the new life was richer than the old.\\nWe read that Abraham was ready to sacrifice\\nhis only son, and when he had faced that point\\nof self-surrender the emergency of his life was\\nsafely over. To Job was returned his wealth, to\\nNoah his earth, and to Abraham his son.\\nWhen we are confident of our possessions we\\nare not tenacious of them. Fear is always a mark\\nof poverty.\\nThrough willingness to surrender we often gain\\na truer hold.\\nIf we would loosen our life we would always\\nsave it.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "192 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nIntensity of desire is an obstacle to accomplish-\\nment.\\nIt is idle to talk of dying grace and faith in\\nanother life when we haven t enough faith in the\\npassing day to carry us through a single hour\\nwithout worriment.\\nOur faith too often ends with the limit of our\\neyesight, just as our appreciation of God s good-\\nness is gauged by the size of our bank account.\\nEvery hour of emergency will bring its own de-\\nliverance to him who waits with confidence.\\nThe fears and sufferings which we encounter in\\none place are left behind as we move on.\\nHigher levels are always accessible. We need\\nnot struggle with any difficulty upon the plane\\nwhere it appears. If our cellars are submerged\\nwe do not have to occupy them. If the fog has\\ndropped down upon us in the valley we must\\ngird up our loins and climb the hillside. In other\\naltitudes we will find the sunshine, and leave\\nbehind the restlessness and fever which have\\nwearied us. Life s vexations and annoyances\\nfall away from us in a clearer atmosphere. They\\nare as yesterday s flesh stains which were washed\\noff in our morning bath, or yesterday s bruises\\nwhich were healed while we slept, The morning\\nfinds us fresh and vigorous and ready for the work\\nof a new day. Our trouble was only a dream.\\nLove is the real power which rules our universe", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "THOUGHT TONICS. 1 93\\nand weaves the warp and woof of life, throwing\\nits shuttle with a wisdom and precision which\\nseem marvellous to our half-opened eyes.\\nWhy do we so often stop upon the threshold\\nof Divinity when we might enter its very courts?\\nWhy do we so often prefer to believe in the\\nnecessity of suffering and weakness rather than in\\nthe possibility of strength and gladness?\\nWhy do we argue so persistently for endurance\\nand resignation rather than accept the larger view\\nof life which vests all power in ourselves and makes\\nus the arbiters of our own destinies?\\nWhy should we cling with such surprising tenac-\\nity to our musty theories and dogmas, as if they\\nwere treasures from which we could not bear to\\npart, though they have brought us nothing but\\nsorrow and disgust with human life?\\nHow closely we hug our dark delusions, while\\nwe thank God we are not credulous as other men\\nHow carefully we nurse our griefs and troubles,\\npriding ourselves that we are practical in our\\nbondage\\nPoverty and illness we call decrees of God.\\nFate and luck are our taskmasters.\\nSpiritual freedom is an idle superstition, death is\\na wall and not a door. Imagination and mind-\\nreading explain all phenomena, and what we do\\nnot know is not worth knowing. Happy im-\\nbeciles", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "194 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nIs there no other way for us to climb to knowl-\\nedge than through pain?\\nMust we drain the dregs of the cup of sorrow\\nonly to find at last that it was our own hand that\\npressed it to our lips?\\nWe have been often told that we should not\\ngrieve the spirit. Is it not equally wrong to grieve\\nthe body, the expression of spirit?\\nThe highest good is possible only when we have\\nestablished full accord between these two.\\nThe body is grieved by our distrust of any of\\nits organs. It is grieved by asceticism and foolish\\nstarvation as well as by unreasonable indulgence\\nof the sensual life.\\nThe reaction from one form of selfishness fre-\\nquently carries us into another extreme that is\\njust as far removed from a true balance as the first.\\nWe often swing like the pendulum across the arc\\nof the circle many times before we rest in the spir-\\nitual centre that is equally removed from both\\nextremities. Truth involves expression that is\\nrounded and complete. It has become uncon-\\nscious symmetry that is not emphasized as either\\nvice or virtue. It identifies the human and divine,\\nand does not strangle one in order to express the\\nother.\\nWe do not throttle the child to hasten his prog-\\nress through the elementary stages of his education.\\nWe guide him patiently and kindly, with full as-", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "THOUGHT TONICS. 1 95\\nsurance that as he becomes developed he will put\\naway childish things. Meanwhile his childish\\nthings are doing him no injury, and if he occasion-\\nally indulges himself in too many sweets his\\nown stomach will revolt and eject the poison.\\nNature rules her university better than we govern\\nour particular schoolrooms, and has carefully pro-\\nvided that man s self-destructive follies shall very\\nsoon correct themselves.\\nHealth is the possession of every one who has\\nlearned to draw his check upon the Bank of Uni-\\nversal Life which honors all right demands, and\\nnever asks to compromise with creditors.\\nIt is a sacrifice of power to divert our thoughts\\nneedlessly to the concerns of the personal life.\\nAn unworthy self-indulgence is self-denial in the\\nend, for the reason that it keeps from itself the best\\nthings, while much that is called self-denial is\\nsimply an indulgence in the high privilege of ser-\\nvice and a denial only of the lower self.\\nWhen we cultivate thoughts of strength for others\\nwe ourselves grow strong. Habitual thoughts of\\npeace bring us tranquillity.\\nThe thoughts of opulence will naturally result\\nin wealth if rightly held. True thought will lead\\nto action, but the power is in the thought more\\nthan in the action.\\nIf all of Wisdom s ways are ways of pleasantness,\\nand all her paths are peace, there is nothing more", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "196 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nunrighteous than disease and poverty. Any and\\nall attempts to find excuse for them in ourselves\\nor others is perversion of truth.\\nLife is not the mystery we suppose when we\\nare willing to look it boldly in the face with hon-\\nest eyes. But we must study it apart from the\\nartificial conditions of a pseudo civilization.\\nHealth and prosperity are found in the soul s\\nown heaven of simplicity.\\nWe have only to lift our eyes to the serpent\\nsymbolizing wisdom, and the glance brings de-\\nliverance and healing. We have only to dip in\\nsome thought-pool of Bethesda, when its waters\\nhave been troubled by an angel, to be made per-\\nfectly whole of any disease.\\nNaaman expected the prophet to do some great\\nthing for his recovery, but a simple act of obedi-\\nence on his own part proved sufficient for his\\ncleansing.\\nOur eyes are opened by the healing touch of\\nsome cool waters of Siloam, and we find ourselves\\nin a new world which has not needed to be reached\\nby dangerous voyages across strange seas, but\\nwhich has always lain about us, though we knew it\\nnot.\\nThere are no peculiar cases to the mental\\nhealer. The community of suffering is due to the\\ncommunity of ignorance and fear. This is human\\nand racial, and not in any sense peculiar.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "THOUGHT TONICS. 1 97\\nWhen we have recognized our common weak-\\nnesses and killed out the sense of separateness, we\\nhave learned the earliest lesson in true brother-\\nhood. The pride of family is gradually disap-\\npearing in the larger thought and knowledge of\\nfraternal life.\\nSuffering has often proved the greatest blessing\\nto humanity. It compels us to search out and\\nremove its cause, and thus we learn the beauties\\nof Eternal Law.\\nLife is more continuous than our recollection.\\nIs it incredible that we have been personally\\nfamiliar with all the historical eras of this planet?\\nIs it impossible that we have been performers in\\nmany of the dramas we study with such interest?\\nMay we not have played many parts on different\\nstages of human action, governing and serving\\nalternately in high conditions and in low? Is it\\ndifficult to conceive that we may have moved in\\nthe long past through all the range of climate and\\nof social circumstance while following westward\\nin its course the star of empire? Could we not\\nhave migrated from one continent and race to\\nanother, and from oriental quietude to the evo-\\nlution of occidental energy? It is a strange\\nfact to be observed to-day that this western\\nnationality of ours is absorbing the composite man\\nof Europe and the East, and the ready adjustment\\nto new conditions suggests that they are possibly", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "198 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nnot so new as may appear. One sees in many an\\nAmerican face strange reminders of oriental types,\\nhinting at Egyptian, Greek, or Hindoo ancestry.\\nThere is much in the social and political condi-\\ntions of the Anglo-Saxon race in this nineteenth\\ncentury to recall the Elizabethan and Roman eras,\\nwhich in their turn resembled one another so\\npeculiarly that it would hardly seem difficult to\\nrecognize the old performers in new r61es and\\ncostumes.\\nThrough all the weaving of mortal and immortal\\nlife runs the golden thread of spiritual conscious-\\nness. As we gradually awaken, we perceive that\\nlife itself is a perpetual miracle.\\nThe old legends are literally true. We sell our\\nsouls for a bauble when we deliberately choose the\\nsensual above the spiritual and give it the reins of\\ngovernment.\\nWhen the daylight comes to us, whether upon\\nthis side of death or the other, we discover that the\\nmaterial coin we have earned by the exchange is\\nas debased and useless as dead leaves.\\nIf here we abide by principle we will find there\\nthat we have built real treasure houses and filled\\nthem with precious things.\\nSome people sigh for rest and heaven and an-\\ngelic company while blind to the presence of\\nveritable angels in their own households guar-\\ndian spirits that walk lovingly beside them in the", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "THOUGHT TONICS. 199\\nhomely guise of mortals ministering patiently to\\ntheir daily needs, heedless of their ingratitude and\\nselfishness.\\nThe yearning for rest is generally the fruit of\\nself-pity and indolence. It is best cured by the\\nstripes of severer trouble with which life in its\\nkindness often arouses us to tardy recognition\\nof our blindness. The new difficulties make the\\nformer state appear as heavenly compared with\\nthat into which we have fallen through our per-\\nsistent folly. Many of those who long the most\\nfor angels to comfort and succor them would not\\nknow an angel if he should appear, nor would\\nthey find anything congenial in his company.\\nThey are not fit for such society. There is but\\nlittle in them that would be attractive to celestial\\nbeings.\\nA selfish life dulls all our senses and makes us\\nboth deaf and blind to our highest good.\\nIf we give ear to other voices we cannot hear\\nthe voice of infinite Wisdom.\\nOur Divinity will not share its throne. It\\ndemands an individual kingdom.\\nWe may go first and bury our dead, buy and\\nsell our lands and oxen, and bid farewell to those\\nthat are in our homes.\\nWe may listen to the voice of fame, the voice\\nof greed, the voice of pleasure, and in the end we\\nare sure to declare that all is but vexation of spirit.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "200 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nAs these voices die away there comes a silence,\\nand out of the silence comes a faint and gentle\\ntone that we have never heard before\\nBehold /stand at the door and knock.\\nAll things are now ready. Ye shall find\\nrest to your souls.\\nIf we heed this voice we gladly turn away from\\nall the tumult in which we have spent our days\\nand find at last that we are truly honored guests\\nin the banqueting-house of Life, and the banner\\nover us is Love.\\nNone but ourselves can ever fix the measure or\\nquality of our goodness.\\nEvery one is as good as he chooses to be, but\\nnone so good as he knows how.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "THOUGHT TONICS. 201\\nOur lives should not be governed by the opin-\\nions of others.\\nThe only matter of importance is that we should\\ndeserve to think well of ourselves.\\nWhen we are truly poised we are indifferent\\nalike to praise and blame. Praise is no longer\\nsweet to the taste, nor is blame bitter.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "202 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nNature is an all-sufficient nurse. The greatest\\nassistance we can render her is to trust her to do\\nher work.\\nHer resources are not limited by our perceptions.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "EXPRESSION. 203\\nX.\\nEXPRESSION.\\nSpeech comes only with knowledge. Attain to knowledge\\nand you will attain to speech.\\nLife itself has speech and is never silent. Light on the\\nPath.\\nThe strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung. 11\\nWalt Whitman.\\nIt has already become an axiom in metaphysics\\nthat all suffering comes from misdirected energy.\\nPain is an abnormal expression of life forces\\nthat have been diverted from their proper channels\\nor flow through them in disproportionate volume.\\nNature cannot be suppressed when once\\nawakened. Its energies cannot be long confined\\nin storage batteries of single cells. They demand\\na large and varied expression. To this truth all\\ndepartments of life continually testify. The fecun-\\ndity and diversity of nature s powers are shown in\\nall its kingdoms.\\nMan may choose the channels through which\\nthis tireless energy shall have its largest expres-\\nsion in his personal life whether in animal and\\nintellectual vigor wisely blended, or in either one\\nof them unduly emphasized. The spiritual force\\nwill employ itself in either or both expressions", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "204 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nsubject to the direction of the individual s own\\nwill.\\nAccording to his choice will he manifest power.\\nThe highest expression makes the strongest de-\\nmand upon the infinite source, and results in the\\nlargest growth. Power upon any plane is always\\nincreased by use.\\nA wholesome nature finds its pleasure in its work\\nand does not require the goad of fame or greed.\\nThe demonstration to itself of its own power to\\ncreate is the liveliest satisfaction it can experience.\\nTo widen its activities and employ them in\\nservice is its greatest gladness and presents no\\nthought of sacrifice. There are many who find\\nno pleasure outside the sensual life. Man does\\nnot belong among the grub worms, but among\\nthe birds. When we begin to comprehend our\\nfreedom we find our circulation quickened, and\\nobstructions disappear as our impatience lessens.\\nThe universal aim is happiness. We discover\\nsooner or later that full satisfaction can be found\\nonly in right living. It is a necessity that all\\nmen should eventually become good or miss the\\nfulfilment of the supreme purpose of human life.\\nOnly in goodness do we find essential power,\\nand only in power, satisfaction. Good is the\\nstrongest magnet known to us. Every pang of\\nsuffering is an impulse toward health and virtue.\\nNature will not be satisfied with any imperfect work.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "EXPRESSIOA T 205\\nSuppression is not dominion. We must root\\nout and exterminate the wrong beliefs the men-\\ntal weeds. We must plough and harrow the\\nground, and plant an entirely new crop of goodly\\nthoughts. Only in this way can we become\\nproprietors of our fields the lords of our do-\\nmains.\\nWe can better afford to give our land a thor-\\noughly new sowing than to preserve large tracts of\\nweeds for fear that in destroying them we shall\\npart with a few heads of grain. Our work must be\\ntruly radical root work. Let us not be too\\nnice in the winnowing of our seed, for fear we\\nshould be thought erratic and peculiar.\\nIt is more trouble to harmonize old thoughts\\nand new than to begin again our thinking upon\\nentirely new lines. The Nazarene discovered in\\nhis earliest work that it was absolutely useless to\\nattempt the putting of new wine into the old\\nbottles inevitably it must burst the bottles. We\\nneed not fear that any truth will be lost to a truth-\\nful soul.\\nAll error is the incomplete statement or mani-\\nfestation of something real. It is a partial\\nand imperfect inspiration, and speedily brings its\\nown correction through the suffering that it en-\\ntails.\\nThe lesson of right expression is the most im-\\nportant we have to learn. It demands of us that", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "206 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nwe should guide emotion into its proper chan-\\nnels, and control the valves of feeling so that all\\nutterance shall be normal and wholesome, and\\nleave no smart or regret behind.\\nImmorality comes often from an injudicious\\nsuppression of natural and proper appetites which\\nhave been denied and strangled, when they should\\nhave been recognized and trained.\\nStrangulation is not the highest form of self-\\ncontrol, nor does it bring desirable results. There\\nis usually as much intemperance in reformers as in\\nsensualists, whatever be the banner under which\\nthey rally.\\nWhen Lazarus had heard the voice of the Christ\\nhe came out of his tomb, but found himself bound\\nhand and foot with graveclothes.\\nIt is not enough that the command oi the spirit\\nshould reach us, Come forth\\nWe awaken -we move but we need the fur-\\nther word, Loose him and let him go.\\nOur graveclothes cling to us. They are our\\nerrors in which we have been educated, our false\\nbeliefs, our prejudices, resentments, and regrets,\\neverything which in any way seems to bind us\\nor to limit our sense of the perfect freedom which\\nbelongs to truth.\\nResurrection brings us into newness of life, out\\nof the shadows into the morning. We have\\nnothing further to do with graveclothes.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "EXPRESSION. 207\\nFreedom and disease or poverty can never\\nexist together. The one inevitably destroys the\\nother.\\nWe may choose between them, but can never\\nhold them both. It is strange with what persis-\\ntency we often cling to shrouds, and even some-\\ntimes miss the dreary shelter of the tomb that\\nwe have left.\\nOur fountains are too often choked with rubbish\\nturned back upon themselves and draining their\\nwaters into stagnant pools.\\nMind poisoning precedes blood poisoning. When\\nwe dwell in secret upon the thought of trouble, we\\nexpose ourselves to further dangers. We think,\\nperhaps, that our lives have been darkened by\\ntragedies of deepest suffering. We imagine our-\\nselves to have endured heavier sorrows than often\\nfall to the lot of men. Our days have been filled\\nwith grief; our bread has been as ashes, and our\\ntears have been our meat day and night.\\nOur most plaintive wailings are but those of\\nchildren crying in the night. In the light of a\\nlarger life the trouble of the past will disappear as\\nour horizon broadens.\\nWe are still in our infancy, and suffering like\\nchildren from sore gums and cutting teeth. As\\nwe grow, these things that seem so serious to-day\\nwill be forgotten or remembered only as our early\\nprimers.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "208 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nWhen the morning comes to us we will find no\\ncause of tears.\\nIf we have preferred the mourners seats to\\nplaces at the banquet, it has been a matter of\\ntaste, and the funeral-baked meats have doubtless\\nserved our needs.\\nThe flagons of joy have stood always at our\\nelbow while we supped on sorrows. Life is never\\nniggardly of its gladness. Heaviness of spirit is\\nnever imposed upon us without our consent.\\nWherever we find a special difficulty of environ-\\nment or weakness of character, we also find, if\\nwe look closely, a special faculty for grappling\\nwith it. We discover some strong point of op-\\nportunity or will opposed to it which is brought\\nout with especial emphasis by the occasion as we\\nfind in tropical countries vegetable antidotes for the\\nbites and stings of poisonous reptiles that abound.\\nWherever we find a marked trait of disposition,\\nor a peculiar situation, we can soon discover, in a\\nmental diagnosis, the seed-pod from which it grew\\nand the opposite manifestation which made it\\nnecessary. Nature always aims at symmetry.\\nShe balances carefully her positive and negative\\nforces. With every need there is some resource\\nwith which it can be met, for all supply in nature s\\nwonderful expression has been developed in re-\\nsponse to special demand. The soul is like a\\nfirefly or glow-worm. It radiates an inner light", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "EXPRESSION. 209\\nwhich illumines its own way. It possesses the\\nmagnetic power by which it can draw to itself the\\npeople and things it finds desirable. These in-\\nterior forces have their corresponding organs in\\nthe eye which selects and the arms and hands\\nwhich reach for the food that the mouth demands.\\nOur spiritual radiations meet and mingle with\\nthose of other lives that are related to our own.\\nDistance cannot separate us. We are guided to\\nplaces and occupations which fulfil the purpose\\nof our incarnation, and through which we give\\nand receive all needful lessons.\\nMoving on these lines of least resistance, we find\\nthe teachers and the tools that we require. The\\nmysterious forces emanating from ourselves govern\\nour environment at every moment. In our jour-\\nneyings they guide our choice of routes and plans\\nof travel. In library or bookstore these invisible\\nrays search out and bring to our attention that\\nwhich we find helpful, no matter how remotely\\nit may be hidden and shelved.\\nIn what appears to be quite accidental ways\\nparticular paragraphs and pages that we need are\\nbrought before our eye. There is no search-light\\nof man s invention which is anything more than a\\npoor suggestion of this spiritual intelligence en\\nlightening every human being. No magnet equals\\nit in its attracting power. The universe is the\\nfield of its radiant energy.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "2IO DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nIts currents are as irresistible as the law of\\ngravitation. It is the expression of the same in-\\nfinite wisdom which has provided for the sparrow\\nand the lily.\\nAs yet the race has made but small demands\\nupon the natural resources of our planet.\\nMalthus theory is weak in that it takes account\\nof only visible resources. It overlooks the fact\\nthat every fresh discovery in science shows us a\\nnew force stronger than any known before.\\nIf steam is to be supplanted by electricity, and\\nelectricity by solar energy or liquid air, why should\\nwe be anxious about the exhaustion of forests and\\ncoal-beds?\\nIf one drop of water contains an untold power,\\nor a cubic foot of atmosphere the energy of 10,000\\nfoot-tons, it would seem as if we had no lack of\\nforce at our command.\\nIf nine-tenths of our nourishment is derived from\\nthe atmosphere, as is now claimed by science, it\\nwould surely be no impossible problem to dis-\\npense with the other tenth or find for it some sub-\\nstitute for the food we now think necessary.\\nAt least we need not yet begin to tremble at\\nthe thought of a possible increase in population\\nbeyond the sustenance provided by Dame Nature.\\nIt would be just as wise to fear lest the birds and\\nfishes should exhaust their food-supply because\\nthey grew so rapidly in numbers.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "expression: 2 1 1\\nIf we would put our emphasis on circulation\\nrather than accumulation we would find that much\\nof our difficulty concerning supply would vanish.\\nIf we would recognize the value of the principle of\\ngiving in place of the constant thought of getting\\nwe would not so often find ourselves in poverty.\\nWe need to make more frequent use of the exten-\\nsor muscles, to open and reach out to one another,\\ninstead of so constantly desiring to draw into\\nourselves. We talk of being just, and fail of being\\ngenerous. The virtues upon which we pride our-\\nselves are always developed at the cost of symme-\\ntry of character, and so changed into vices in the\\nprocess.\\nLife is strong and true in its expression only when\\npurpose and action are united and allied with will.\\nNever for an instant should we give lodgment\\nto an untrue thought.\\nIt opens the door to serious results, and puts our\\ninstrument out of tune. Impatience is explosive.\\nIt is like the nitrogen in gunpowder. We can no\\nmore predict the result of setting it free than we can\\ntell the spot where lightning will strike when it has\\ntorn its way through the cloud and descended\\nearthward.\\nOur only safety is in eradicating it altogether\\nfrom our temperament.\\nEmphasis is generally both the child and father\\nof impatience.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "212 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nIt implies a doubt of our own statement. When\\nwe are confident of the strength of our position\\nour tones are steady, our speech is calm, and the\\nentire expression of voice and action is in har-\\n*mony with our highest thought.\\nNature s chromatic scale has many octaves.\\nThe universal energy finds utterance in weeds as\\nwell as flowers, fruits, and forests. The same cre-\\native forces are at work in all.\\nEven the weeds are fragrant, after the cleansing\\nof a storm, when the dust of the highway has been\\nwashed away.\\nCan we not see that the same transforming\\nenergy that is manifested among the most highly\\ndeveloped of our fellow- men is working also in the\\nslums of the great cities? The corruption that we\\nfind so repulsive and distressing will be surely\\nwashed off by the storms of experience.\\nThe divine principle which is within every\\nhuman being will sometime manifest itself, for all\\nare made in the image and likeness of supreme\\ngood. We cannot believe in God and refuse to\\nbelieve in man.\\nMuch of our distress at sin and suffering results\\nfrom want of understanding of the principles that\\ngovern life. There are many foolish ones whose\\ntearful sympathies are but the symptoms of a\\nmoral hysteria, in which they indulge themselves\\nfrom an unconscious love of sensation and desire", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "EXPRESSION. 2 I 3\\nof approbation. In a court of spiritual equity they\\nwould be convicted of obtaining admiration under\\nfalse pretences.\\nIf we could awaken to-morrow with the full\\nassurance that all our desires would be accom-\\nplished speedily, might it not be possible that we\\nwould examine them more seriously? Might we\\nnot discover that some of our supposed desires\\nwould result in serious embarrassment? Do we\\nreally wish to have back among us all the friends\\nfor whom we are in mourning? Is it not true that\\nsorrow at death is often in inverse ratio to the\\ngrief expressed, and that a deep veil or hat-band\\nmay be only a precaution to conceal the satisfac-\\ntion of its wearer? There are many who delude\\nthemselves with fictitious troubles and have no\\ngrounds whatever for their claim that they have\\nbeen defrauded of their happiness.\\nIf, on the other hand, we could know that our\\nsincerest wishes were on the eve of realization,\\nhow quickly would our lives respond to the stimulus\\nof such a confidence\\nWhat strength and gladness we would show,\\nrelieved from the depressing influences of old\\nanxieties and fears\\nWhat new vigor would assert itself as the result\\nof losing all our doubts With what a fine scorn\\nwe would look upon our tonics and doses, as quite\\nuseless in the new conditions of our minds Dys-", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "214 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\npepsia and heart trouble, rheumatism and neural-\\ngia, would vanish as if by magic, showing us that\\nall causes of disease are in the mind and can\\nbe changed through mental impulse.\\nWe may have this impulse now. It comes\\nwith the knowledge that all forces on the causal\\nor astral plane are pledged to the fulfilment\\nof man s purpose when that purpose is held un-\\nflinchingly. It is our fickleness and cowardice\\nthat oftenest defeat our aims. The man who dares\\nand perseveres is the man who wins. Daring and\\nperseverance are rare virtues, and always effectual\\nwhen given right direction.\\nIf we are not satisfied with what our lives ex-\\npress in their environment and bodily condi-\\ntions, we must alter our desires and destroy our\\nfears.\\nFreedom is to be had only on these terms.\\nBack of all unrest is desire or fear gnawing like a\\nworm at the root of happiness.\\nThe imperfect results that we show in our ac-\\ntivities are largely due to indecision and uncer-\\ntainty of purpose. We need to learn that what we\\ncall ambition is a hindrance, not a help.\\nLarge unfoldment is the only true aim of life,\\nnot great achievement or accumulation of material\\nresults.\\nThe question is often asked, How can I know\\nmy work and place", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "EXPRESSION. 2 I 5\\nHow do the planets find their orbits, and what\\nkeeps them true?\\nAs we have said before, they move on the lines\\nof least resistance, and we are subject to the same\\ngoverning principle. This line is determined by\\nour purpose.\\nWe alternate continually between a belief in\\nfate and an uncomfortable sense of personal respon-\\nsibility.\\nDestiny and will, and our particular relation to\\nthem, are the questions that most vex us. We\\nfind it difficult to adjust these powers to our con-\\ntrol and satisfaction. They are the columns upon\\nwhich life rests, but the point of juncture in the\\narch that joins them is above the clouds and be-\\nyond our mortal sight.\\nOur proposition is incomplete. We are under-\\ntaking higher mathematics before we have mastered\\nthe tables.\\nThere are other factors necessary to the solution\\nof such questions which are not yet within our\\ngrasp. At this point faith becomes a scientific\\nprinciple.\\nAll natural science is based upon the postulate\\nof an atom. This is an hypothesis that is not yet\\nsupported by any evidence of the senses. We\\nhave never seen, heard, tasted, smelled, or touched\\nan atom. Yet we make it the corner-stone of all\\nmaterial science. We predicate its shape, move-", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "2l6 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nmerits, and combinations. The most powerful micro-\\nscope has not as yet revealed its existence, but this\\nin no way disturbs our faith. We regard the atom\\nas something infinitely small. Why should we not\\naccept a law that governs it which is infinitely great\\nLet us attribute to this government infinite wis-\\ndom, power, and benevolence, expressed in an\\nunfailing accuracy. This new factor helps us to\\ncontemplate fate with a sense of personal safety.\\nIt puts in our hands a magic-lantern which throws\\na flood of light upon one part of our problem.\\nEvery revelation of science tends to strengthen\\nand confirm this theory of orderly government.\\nNature insists upon perfection, and all defective\\ntypes carry the seeds of their own destruction.\\nAll healthy life perpetuates itself with an increas-\\ning power and momentum.\\nWe believe that the law that governs the universe\\ngoverns every single planet of its system. We\\nmust carry this statement further and apply it to\\nevery detail of the mineral, vegetable, and animal\\nkingdoms, else the atoms would move in chaos and\\nall life would be erratic and indeterminate. What,\\nthen, could hold the planets in their orderly move-\\nment? If we accept this view we must include\\nthe individual life of man in the operation of the\\nlaw. We must also extend it to every moment of\\nhis existence and every incident of his experience.\\nWe must choose between absolute government", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "EXPRESSION. 2 I 7\\nand absolute chaos. There is no middle ground\\nconceivable.\\nThis does not lead us to fatalism in the usual\\nunderstanding of that word. We recognize a\\nuniversal power and with it we identify man s will.\\nWe perceive that as he unfolds he learns to con-\\ncentrate and direct all natural forces that he\\nembodies in himself all nature s kingdoms, elements,\\nand forms. We are compelled to see in him the\\nlawful ruler and ascribe to him both power and\\nresponsibility, awaiting only his recognition and\\nacceptance.\\nBut before he can be crowned he must take the\\noath of allegiance to his higher self, which is the\\nindividual expression of an infinite good. Little\\nby little man discovers that his limitations are\\naltogether those of ignorance and are, therefore,\\nwholly mental. Larger recognition brings larger\\ndemands and the power of appropriation grows\\nwith the mastery of larger expression.\\nEvery imperfect and false note that has been\\nstruck in this attempt of the race to master the\\nharmonies of life has left its vibrations in earth s\\natmospheres.\\nScience asserts that all vibrations are eternal,\\nwhether of light or sound. Thus every act of a\\nhuman being must be ineffaceably stamped in his\\nsurroundings, and every sound remain in the great\\ncosmic ocean.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0223.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "2l8 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nThere are pictured scenes of strife and sacri-\\nfice, of cruelty and heroism, of gentleness and\\nlove sights and sounds of an infinite range,\\nembracing every note to which the human eye or\\near can make response.\\nThere are mists and fogs of thought as well as\\nturbulent seas and angry billows. Our bodies\\nare subject to an estimated pressure of fifteen\\npounds to the square inch of atmosphere and two\\nhundred pounds of ether. Who shall estimate the\\npower of the thought currents which continually\\nswirl about us, bringing to every mind influences\\nof restlessness or peace?\\nOur troubled dreams are from these wandering\\nimpulses impinging on our lower consciousness\\nwhen in a negative condition. Their influence will\\nsometimes cling to us on awakening as moisture\\nto our garments on a foggy morning at the shore.\\nMuch of our depression in the early hours of the\\nday may be traced to superficial experiences on\\nthe astral plane. If we will recognize them as of\\nno more significance than the passing clouds or\\nshowers of spring we may easily shake them off\\nas we would the water from our clothes. Thought\\nclimates are as yet unrecognized by meteorol-\\nogists. Yet they are no less real than those we\\nseek for the relief of fleshly ills, and they are\\nstimulating or depressing to our mental life. They\\nare the secret impulses of those that surround us,", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0224.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "EXPRESSION. 2 1 9\\nthe subtle emanation of their inmost purpose and\\ndesire.\\nUntil one has developed his individuality he is\\nconstantly subject to these mental currents. As\\nhis own thought becomes more definite in its aims\\nand positive in character he ceases to suffer from\\nthe thoughts of others.\\nWhen we are ready to yield to others all that\\nwe can give of loving help we shall not fail of any-\\nthing we need in return. The compensation may\\ntake different form from what we would have\\nchosen, but it will be none the less real. It may\\nnot be so much in the way of gratification as of\\ndiscipline and a lesson in self-control, but what-\\never it may be it will surely add to the riches of\\nour life, for it is the expression of the perfect law\\nof equity, and with what measure we mete, it shall\\nbe measured to us again. When we have given to\\nanother all it is our privilege to give we will receive\\nwhatever it is our privilege to get from any person\\nwith whom we are brought into the relations of\\nthe home, the office, or society.\\nThrough such relations we will pass to larger\\nand better conditions, or, having fulfilled the pur-\\npose for which we were brought together, our lives\\nwill now diverge for working out the higher good\\nof both. With this conviction we can look back\\nwithout regret and forward without fear. Is it not\\nbetter to frankly recognize this truth and work", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0225.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "220 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nconsciously and intelligently with it than to indulge\\nourselves in passive resentment or personal an-\\ntagonism? In moments of clear vision we perceive\\nthat we have no enemy but ourselves, and that all\\nour varied experiences have been the manifesta-\\ntion of our unsuspected impulses.\\nIf suffering brings us to this discovery at last its\\nonly purpose is fulfilled and we can go on our way\\nrejoicing. We can at all times open our ears to\\neither harmony or discord, for there is no environ-\\nment yet discovered where either exists without\\nthe other.\\nThrough the science of adjustment we learn to\\nrelate ourselves pleasantly and helpfully to every\\nindividual and incident that comes into our lives.\\nImpatience delays results, while ready acceptance\\nhastens them.\\nSuccess is the expression of true individuality.\\nNone can bestow it on another. None can prevent\\nor hinder. It must be won by each of us, and\\nthrough the winning we accomplish our develop-\\nment. This is a simple creed and one that never\\nneeds to be revised, as every step of progress fur-\\nnishes fresh evidence of its truth.\\nWe talk of love as an emotion, when we ought\\nto recognize it as a principle that underlies the\\nuniverse. Emotional love as compared with the\\nspiritual principle is as the fleck of foam blown from\\nthe crest of the wave. It is but a faint suggestion", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0226.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "EXPRESSION. 221\\nof the tranquil depths below which no wind has ever\\nruffled and no sounding-line has ever fathomed.\\nTrue love is a spiritual atmosphere rather than a\\npersonal impulse. It seeks nothing for itself but\\nthe opportunity of expression. Jealousy is greed\\nof affection. It is the selfish clamor of unloving\\nthought. It is a parody of love and always with-\\nout excuse.\\nTo understand life intelligently through all its\\nvarious expressions it is necessary to distinguish\\nbetween cause and occasion. We often confound\\nthe two. The wind that lays low one forest tree\\nonly strengthens another in its powers of endur-\\nance. The tree fell not simply because it was in\\nthe path of the gale, but because it was unsound or\\nnot deeply rooted. The storm was the occasion\\nof its fall, but the real cause was in itself.\\nAll our difficulties are but tests of our powers.\\nNone of them are sufficient to explain our failures.\\nWith every tribulation comes some comforting\\nangel who is interested in our triumph and will\\nreinforce our strength if we will accept the service\\nthat he offers. All the good powers of the universe\\nare drawn to our side in the day of battle if we\\nraise the banner of truth. The only boon truth\\never asks is the opportunity of expression through\\nour lips and lives, that we may receive her\\nbenediction.\\nTruth has never known defeat, and in so far as", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0227.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "222 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nwe ally ourselves with truth do we become invin-\\ncible.\\nNo chains of circumstance can fetter the true\\nman. He asks no odds of fortune, and in every\\nhour of adversity he expresses power, and calmly\\nawaits the victory he knows is sure to come.\\nNothing can be beyond our strength, though\\nmuch may be beyond our present understanding\\nof how to make that strength available.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0228.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "EXPRESSION, 223\\nEagerness and indolence are both obstructive\\nand result in suffering.\\nNothing can come to us except we draw it.\\nNothing can stay when we let go.\\nNothing can go till it has fulfilled its purpose.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0229.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "224 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nNothing that we can do can bring discredit upon\\ntruth.\\nIf truth were dependent upon mortal demon-\\nstration for its credit it would long since have suf-\\nfered bankruptcy.\\nNeither can we make a sacrifice for truth. It\\nalways compensates abundantly an honest seeker.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0230.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "THE POWER OF GLADNESS. 225\\nXL\\nTHE POWER OF GLADNESS.\\nGo your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet\\nneither be ye sorry for the joy of the Lord is your strength.\\nNehemiah viii. 10.\\nWe cannot play the chords of success upon\\nan instrument relaxed by disappointment and dis-\\ncouragement, nor with the harp-strings held at\\nnervous tension by anxiety and fear. Doubt and\\nlonging are destructive of all harmonies. Only a\\nmasterful confidence in the universal Life and in\\nourselves as its expression can strike the notes of\\npower and produce the clear, full tones in which\\ntrue purpose finds complete accomplishment.\\nBe happy and you will be good is a very\\nwise injunction. We may also add, Through\\nhappiness you will be successful. It is the nature\\nof happiness to radiate and enlarge its expression\\nby finding others with whom it can share its joys.\\nGoodness and happiness are really interchange-\\nable terms. When we have succeeded in obtaining\\nhappiness for ourselves or others we may be sure\\nwe have been gaining and bestowing both good-\\nness and power.\\nThe only trouble with many people is stagna-", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0231.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "226 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\ntion through depression. Their chief lack is mo-\\nmentum. A little more forceful motion would\\ntake them altogether away from their difficulties\\nand diseases. They wear their yokes like oxen,\\nbecause they do not realize the power in them-\\nselves. Let their realization be awakened, and\\ntheir spiritual will aroused and applied with its\\ntremendous energy, and all bonds and obstructions\\nwill easily fall away from them.\\nThere is no force that can accomplish this more\\nquickly than the thrill of joy and gladness. There\\nis no stimulant that is more speedy or thorough in\\nits action. It is a natural tonic, and the entire\\nsystem responds to its exhilarating vibrations.\\nAnything that arouses confidence in life, with a\\nlarger sense of its use and beauty, increases\\nhuman energy and prepares the best conditions of\\nsuccess in all its undertakings. It is even better to\\nbuild castles in the air than to dwell in caves of\\ngloom. The imagination is more worthily em-\\nployed in picturing pleasant things than in brood-\\ning fears and entertaining dark forebodings. It is\\nbetter to whistle going through the woods than\\nto look for hobgoblins in every shadow.\\nWe are never left in life with an entirely empty\\ncupboard. There is always some little portion of fat\\nto eat and sweet to drink, if we will only go our\\nway and look about us and not allow the leanness\\nof our grief to absorb our thoughts, or our tears", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0232.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "THE POWER OF GLADNESS. 227\\nto blind our eyes and fill every cup with bitter-\\nness. Simple life is very sweet and pleasant to\\na normal nature, even when stripped of everything\\nthat most consider necessary to happiness.\\nIf one has awakened to an understanding of the\\nreal and a power of discernment of the artificial\\nif he has developed the creative instincts of the\\nsoul he is no longer swept away by tides and\\ncurrents he cannot control. In joy he finds his\\nstrength, and no change in externals can deprive\\nhim of the gladness of to-day. What have I to do\\nwith the yesterdays or the to-morrows of my life\\nMy responsibility lies strictly in the present. Why\\nshould I scatter and weaken my thought- forces by\\nregretful recollections of the imperfect yesterday\\nor anxious anticipation of the uncertain morrow?\\nI will concentrate all my energies upon the pass-\\ning hour, and thus will atonement be made for\\nthe past and grace developed for the future. To-\\nday to-day I live. The grief of yesterday is\\npast. To-day I triumph. To-morrow shall find\\nme still a victor.\\nLet us not look at the shadows that lie behind\\nus, but rather at the sunbeams that fall across our\\npaths for every shadow points to the sun. We\\ncan easily lift our feet over the pebbles that lie in\\nour road to-day, but we must let our thought dwell\\nwith the spirit that guides us, not with the feet\\nor the pebble. We are so ready to magnify every", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0233.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "228 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\ntrouble. We take life much too seriously. At a\\npoint a little farther on we will find that the most\\ntragic conditions of the present have vanished\\nlike the mists of the morning when the sun has\\nclimbed to its meridian, and we will hardly be\\nable to recollect even the cause of our hap-\\npiness so expansive is the nature of exist-\\nence.\\nTrue life is an ever-present opportunity. It is\\nnot concerned with past or future. It is in the\\nlowlands only that we suffer from the malaria of\\nmemory and fear, and our spiritual perceptions are\\nbedimmed and paralyzed. We have become like\\nthe sleepers in the enchanted palace. Then comes\\nthe Deliverer; the Messiah the joy of the\\nChristmas morning the awakening of the spirit-\\nual nature and we enter upon the road that leads\\nfrom Bethlehem to Paradise.\\nOne does not need a battlefield on which to\\nprove his heroism. The opportunity is offered\\ndaily in the home, the shop, the office, and the\\nfactory. Great souls need never be beggars of\\ncircumstance to manifest their quality. They\\nare masters of all conditions, and respond with\\nequal cheerfulness to all demands of daily living.\\nWe cannot inventory the resources of our life.\\nIts unexpected opportunities continually surprise\\nus. They are not limited to any age, condition, or\\nplace. Our boldest demands and expectations are", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0234.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "THE POWER OF GLADNESS. 220,\\nbut paltry when compared with what an awakened\\nspirit soon makes actual.\\nWe too often hasten through the passing days\\nwith but scanty enjoyment or stolid endurance,\\nlooking hazily to some distant time for the fulfil-\\nment of desire. The best conditions for future\\nhappiness lie in the largest possible appreciation\\nof the present. This is a truth we all admit; yet\\nwe spend our lives in following happiness as a\\nphantom and blinding ourselves to present good.\\nThere are wells of water in the dreariest desert;\\nyet many travellers have perished chasing a\\nmirage.\\nIf we wish to develop unlimited power we must\\nmake no conditions to right conduct. We must\\nnot insist upon the fulfilment of our personal\\nwishes before we will consent to happiness or\\nfaith. We must cheerfully accept all surroundings,\\nall circumstances of the present hour, as the\\nbest possible for our unfoldment. We must coop-\\nerate heartily with every difficulty or seeming\\nobstacle, with entire confidence in the rule of the\\nEternal Equities, believing also that\\nThat which is good\\nDoth pass to better best.\\nWe should never contend with a fear. It is a\\nwaste of time and effort, and as useless as to argue\\nwith hysteria. We need to establish firmly in our", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0235.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "230 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nminds the thought of our own sovereignty. We\\nnever fear that which we know we can control,\\nand we are here for the purpose of learning the\\nmastery of what we call Fate. Let us snap our\\nfingers at all the Devils of the ages the\\nformulated fears of humankind. Get thee behind\\nme, thou Devil of Theosophy Karma; thou\\nDevil of Astrology planetary influence thou\\nspiritualistic Devil obsession and thou Devil\\nof Christian Science malicious magnetism\\nGet thee behind me also thou great Dragon of\\nScience u heredity In comparison with these,\\none could almost welcome back again the old\\northodox Devil Satan. I will not be bullied\\nby the threat of malicious magnetism from the\\nstars, from other persons, or from my own dead\\npast of former incarnations.\\nAre we to forget that in the manger of our\\nspiritual nature lies the Prince of Peace, who is\\nto put all things under his feet? If we turn to the\\ncontemplation of the divine power we embody, all\\nour fears will pass away like the shadows of the\\nnight. Fear is a mental mirage. It is an optical\\nillusion- a refraction of certain lines and angles\\ndue to our mental atmospheric conditions and to\\nfalse lights that result in grotesque distortion of\\nthe real.\\nStrong armies have the least fighting to do to\\ngain their ends. Heavily massed forces do not", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0236.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "THE POWER OE GLADNESS. 23 I\\nfollow the guerilla methods. Their strength is so\\nevident that the weaker foe retires before their\\nadvance, with but faint demonstration of resistance.\\nIt is the feeble and broken ranks that are always\\nthe most harassed with conflict, and a retreat is\\nalmost sure to be disastrous.\\nAll this is true in our daily experience. The\\nonly direction in which we can safely move is\\nforward. Success is determined by our force of\\ncharacter and strength of resolution. When life\\nis disturbed by perpetual conflict we may know\\nthat our method of campaigning is at fault. We\\nhave failed to bring our reserves to the front and\\nto mass and direct our forces wisely. We have\\nnot understood and tested the resources upon\\nwhich we could have drawn else our advance\\nwould have been less difficult.\\nThere is no greater source of weakness than to\\ndwell upon the power of an adversary until our\\ncourage has been undermined. General Grant\\nprepared for battle by assuring himself that the\\ncommanders of the opposing forces were quite as\\nmuch afraid of him as he could possibly be of\\nthem. Many men persist courageously in the\\nconviction of their inability. It is the only\\nthing in which they fully believe, and every\\nobstacle they meet is magnified by their erratic\\nfancy and their feeble will. This is the worst\\npossible form of self-conceit. It is the rankest\\nkind of atheism.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0237.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "232 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nLet us snatch the trumpet from the lifeless\\nhands of the dead self defeated and slain on the\\nfield of battle, or sorely wounded with disappoint-\\nment and grief. Let us raise it again to our lips and\\nsound anew the brave notes of the charge. Let\\nthe bugle-tones ring out across the field, stirring\\nevery pulse to a forward movement, though we\\nourselves be faint and weary. Let the blasts be\\nclear, and strong, with no uncertain sound, and\\nmany a wavering one shall be thrilled with a new\\nlife and confidence, and aroused to seize the\\nspiritual victory that is assured to every determined\\nsoul. We will never sound the recall. Let us\\nturn away from the grave of every disappointed\\nhope, not with a dirge, but with a cheerful\\nquickstep and triumphant march, like soldiers re-\\nturning from the burial of a comrade ready with\\nbrave hearts for the fresh conflict of the morrow.\\nIn the study of vocal music the singer does\\nnot stop discouraged if he fails to touch immedi-\\nately the high note struck upon the instrument.\\nHe tries again and again until he learns to reach\\nand hold it with his voice and then he tries a\\nhigher key and enters upon fresh efforts. At first\\nwhen we sound the note of truth, the voice breaks\\nin trying to give expression to it in our lives.\\nShall we therefore chide ourselves or one another,\\nor shall we possess our souls in patience and keep\\nto the score until we have trained ourselves to com-", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0238.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "THE POWER OE GLADNESS. 233\\npass the high notes easily? We can learn to live\\nthe life. It is not beyond the power of any one.\\nWe may choose our own time and methods let us\\nallow to others the same freedom.\\nThe keenest pleasure we receive through our\\nsense life is but the faintest suggestion of the glad-\\nness of the spirit. Instead of distrusting and con-\\ndemning the sensuous nature, and strangling its\\nexpressions, we should understand its spiritual cor-\\nrespondence. Spirit is altogether sensibility and\\nknowledge.\\nInfinite peace and power are developed through\\nthe recognition of unlimited possessions. In this\\nthere is no fever of unrest\u00e2\u0080\u0094 -no eagerness of\\ndesire because there is no sense of time or space,\\nnor fear of loss.\\nMany persons have never yet been more than\\nhalf born into their material forms. They are but\\nsadly imperfect expressions of the spiritual beauty,\\npower, and freedom that belong to them. We\\nneed not be afraid of too much happiness. Our\\nmost ecstatic glimpses have been but as moon-\\nbeams of an Arctic night compared with the broad\\nnoon of an eternal day.\\nSleep and death are as the entrances of tunnels\\ninto darkness, from which we emerge to sunny\\nlandscapes of pleasant valleys, breezy table-lands,\\nand mountain-peaks. In the enjoyment of the\\nnew experience we think no more of the shadows", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0239.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "234 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nthrough which we passed to reach it. The dark\\ntunnel was but a brief incident in a long and\\ndelightful journey.\\nSo are many of the experiences from which we\\nshrink and in which we can see no necessity of the\\nsuffering that comes to ourselves and others. If\\nwe could perceive the vistas that are opened\\nthrough these tunnel-days and the landscapes that\\nlie beyond, we could find causes of gladness even\\nin the shadows and feel no hardships in the journey.\\nTo overcome disease or difficulty we must strike\\na vibration higher or lower than the one prevail-\\ning on the plane of its manifestation. It is useless\\nto attack it on its own ground. This is like playing\\ntug of war in which contending parties pull in\\nopposite directions, and alternately gain and lose\\nbecause their strength is evenly matched.\\nA nervous tension needs to be relaxed by strik-\\ning a lower keynote. A depressed condition can\\nbe stimulated by a higher.\\nThe everlasting problem is to maintain the bal-\\nance between positive and negative conditions.\\nIf the eagle s wings were unequal in length or\\npower he could not direct his flight with certainty,\\nor follow the guidance of his will and eye.\\nMind and matter are the wings upon which we\\nrise to higher conditions through the guidance of\\nthe will. These factors must be balanced and\\nadjusted to each other. They are not essentially", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0240.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "THE POWER OF GLADNESS. 2$\\nat variance. We regard them as on unfriendly\\nterms. We undertake to ignore or neutralize\\none or the other. The materialist is afraid to\\nstudy spiritual conditions. The spiritual-minded\\nperson is often fearful of his own material and sense\\nnature.\\nWe cannot poise ourselves upon one wing alone.\\nWe are compelled to recognize and respect equally\\nthe animal and spiritual natures before we can pro-\\ngress in direct lines. A bird with a broken wing,\\na boat with a broken oar, will move but in a circle.\\nFreedom involves complete command of both\\nbody and mind by the awakened spirit.\\nAs long as we hold any fear of what we call our\\nlower or our higher nature we have not been eman-\\ncipated.\\nWe are often afraid of the largeness of the liberty\\nwe profess to seek, else why should we shrink from\\ndeath, which we imagine will divest us of all influ-\\nence of matter? We have lived in so narrow a\\nhorizon and so dim a light that we find our vision\\nis but feeble when we lift our eyes to the sun.\\nWe are still cave-dwellers, though we excavate\\nour caves a little higher up the mountains where\\nformerly we dug them in the valleys.\\nThere are metaphysical as well as sensual caverns.\\nThe difference between the cliff-dweller and the\\nmound-builder is only a matter of altitude. They\\nare very much alike in the furnishings of their", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0241.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "236 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nabodes. We have not yet learned how to build\\nhouses without hands eternal in the heavens.\\nOur petty theories, whether materialistic or\\nmetaphysical, we will not find available for build-\\ning-stones in spiritual mansions. Theories will\\nchange and crumble. Only principles remain un-\\nalterable. No principle can ever fail, though man\\nmay fail to hold himself in right relation to it.\\nThere can never be such a thing as a principle\\nat stake. It is impossible to make an extreme\\nstatement of a principle. The extremes of truth\\nare too far off for us ever to get within sight of\\nthem in our present state of objective being.\\nOur capacity for enjoyment is not sufficiently\\ndeveloped to expose us to any danger of excess of\\ngladness. We very soon find that we have to\\ncatch and cook our own fish in life or go without\\nour supper. If the fish are small and the cooking\\nunderdone we cannot blame any one but ourselves.\\nThis is the severe logic of evolution.\\nSearch as diligently as we may, we will not dis-\\ncover in material things the key to satisfaction or\\nthe answer to our perplexities. Spirit alone can\\nsolve our riddles, for the reason that we are spirit-\\nual beings.\\nEighteen hundred years ago a man stood by the\\nbanks of the Jordan preaching to the multitudes.\\nI am the voice of one crying in the wilderness,\\nThe kingdom of heaven is at hand.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0242.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "THE POWER OF GLADNESS. 237\\nHe stood in the wilderness of Judea. The spot\\nwas a fit type of the dreary waste which had been\\nmade by Roman tyranny and Hebrew superstition.\\nChurch and state had combined to lay heavy bur-\\ndens on men s shoulders and take all the joy and\\ngladness out of life by their exactions. The won-\\nderful civilization of that day had resulted through\\nits selfishness, corruption, tyranny, and greed in\\nmaking life itself a wilderness.\\nInto this desert came a voice of hope, a voice of\\npraise, a voice proclaiming a kingdom mightier\\nthan that of Rome a power greater than the Jew-\\nish priesthood. The kingdom of heaven was at\\nhand, with its message of deliverance, the opening\\nof prison doors and promise of liberty to the cap-\\ntive.\\nIn this nineteenth century we hear again the\\nvoice of truth commanding that the oppressed go\\nfree. It finds humanity in a wilderness as dreary\\nas that of Judea, enmeshed in an artificial civil-\\nization as grievous and burdensome as that of\\nRome, tyrannized by false religions as empty in\\ntheir ceremonials and exactions as the creeds of\\nancient Judaism. And the voice arouses us to a\\nnew confidence in life, for it proclaims that the\\nkingdom for which we have waited so long is the\\nkingdom of man s own royal self-hood that it is\\nopen to him whenever he chooses to ascend the\\nthrone. It declares that the only bondage to which", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0243.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "238 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nhe ever really bows is the tyranny of his own mis-\\ntaken thought. Why should not the oppressed\\ngo free\\nThe world is recovering to-day from the de-\\npression of a chronic hysteria into which it has\\nbeen plunged by the religious teachings of the past\\nand to which the mental tonics of new thought are\\nbeing most successfully applied.\\nIt is indeed true that the soul can create for\\nitself a world into which pain and sorrow cannot\\nenter. Is not this the only heaven we shall ever\\nknow We may enjoy it to-day if we assent.\\nThe dogma of election is true, but it is we who\\nelect ourselves to everlasting life or make our-\\nselves liable (in the words of the Westminster\\nCatechism) to all miseries in this life to death\\nitself and to the pains of hell.\\nThe soul continually pleads, Come, ye, blessed\\nof my father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you\\nfrom the foundation of the world.\\nWe scarcely realize the hold that superstition\\nhas on us in the way in which we regard life\\nand death. Long after our intellectual assent has\\nbeen withdrawn and we have begun to protest\\nagainst the irrational views which were impressed\\nupon us in our early years by the traditions of the\\nelders, we are unconsciously dominated by those\\nfirst impressions.\\nUnder these influences we still regard with great", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0244.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "THE POWER OF GLADNESS. 239\\nsolemnity all the little incidents and trials of our\\ndaily living.\\nWe exaggerate their importance and give them\\na fictitious significance.\\nWhen we resent and resist our difficulties we\\nprovide the most favorable mental soil for their\\nrooting and growth. The germ which would have\\neasily passed over us harmlessly finds lodgment\\nand nurture in our minds and rapidly externalizes\\nitself upon our bodies. We suffer only because\\nwe fail to transmit the harmonies which crowd\\ncontinually upon us and would have their passage\\nthrough us if we would permit. We insist upon\\nholding to the bass notes when we ought to let\\nthem go.\\nWe could change the vulgar noise of our en-\\nvironment to heavenly music by opening our ears to\\nthe strains of the invisible choirs. Exaggerated\\nseriousness is worse than much frivolity.\\nSerious natures are in danger of excessive tensity.\\nThis is the first symptom of disease.\\nThe tree of close fibre is snapped by the hur-\\nricane that passes harmlessly over yielding plants\\nwhich bend easily to the wind. Nothing from\\nwithout can hurt us when we have learned the\\nindependence of true life. Nor can we suffer from\\nthe want of anything beyond our own resources.\\nWhen the soul is insulated from all outward\\nconditions it manifests interior power.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0245.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "240 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nIt does not need to practise the musical scores\\nof others or blend itself with any artificial keynote\\nof legend or tradition. Its own utterances are mu-\\nsical as the flowing of waters or the song of birds.\\nNothing outside itself is authoritative to the true\\nlife. No vows of obedience are necessary except\\nto the higher self. When we move forward with\\nthe will and the step of the conqueror we leave far\\nbehind us all the hosts of difficulty that seemed to\\ncompass us about.\\nWhen we dwell upon the severity of law we\\nforget that its inexorable action proves the infinite\\ntenderness of the love which it fulfils.\\nLife is a succession of wonderful transformation\\nscenes, producing marvellous results in their unex-\\npected combinations.\\nThought is the scene-shifter and stage carpenter.\\nNothing is beyond its skill and power in the mo-\\nments of its highest concentration.\\nWhen we allow ourselves to move on railroad\\ntracks of habit the rails get smooth, and the\\nwheels turn without friction in the habitual direc-\\ntion.\\nIf they do not carry us through a pleasant\\ncountry we must relay the track of thought, and\\nlearn to apply our brakes and switches, for the\\nthinker himself is the engineer.\\nIf we will change the hungering to receive to a\\nhungering to give we will close the avenues of", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0246.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "THE POWER OF GLADNESS. 24 1\\npain, and become receptive to a higher good,\\nwhich will find in us the expression it is always\\nseeking.\\nThere is great danger in constant dissatisfaction.\\nSooner or later it will involve the health or\\nfinances, or both, for it destroys the mental bal-\\nance, and impairs the judgment.\\nIf we indulge ourselves in sadness or impatience\\nwe may be always sure our sin will find us out.\\nImpatience opens the door to hysteria, anger,\\nand insanity, which mark regular stages in the loss\\nof self-control.\\nIf we will brush the dust of selfishness from the\\nlenses through which we look at life, we will find\\nillumination for every emergency. Our spiritual\\nvision will never be dimmed.\\nOut of the blackness of our night a star shines\\nforth. It comes as a new thought suggesting a\\nnew confidence. We follow its glimmer, only to\\ndiscover that it is the same star that the wise\\nmen of old saw in the East. Across the desert\\ntrail of our life it leads to a new Bethlehem. Its\\nlight grows stronger as it brings us to the birth-\\nplace of the Christ within ourselves. The spiritual\\nman is the Emmanuel who embodies all the poten-\\ncies of life. When we once have recognized\\nthis royal self and given it dominion over us we\\nfind and tread the way of power. In every life the\\npersonal man is crucified, that the Divine may", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0247.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "242 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nmanifest its glory in the resurrection and in the\\nday of his awakening he knows that he has\\nreceived\\nBeauty for ashes\\nThe oil of joy for mourning\\nThe garments of praise\\nFor the spirit of heaviness.\\nThe powers of will and concentration are shown\\nin vice and disease as well as in virtue and health.\\nThey manifest perversion of force and not failure.\\nIfs, Buts, and Ands are always links in our\\nthought fetters.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0248.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "THE POWER OF GLADNESS. 243\\nConcentration is poise of mind rather than forced\\naction.\\nRepose of spirit is absolutely essential to the\\nhighest expression of power.\\nWe should neither dream through the day nor\\nwake through the night in both these ways we\\nscatter force.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0249.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "244 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nThe higher self knows no fear and sees no\\nobstacles.\\nIt passes everywhere unhurt. All difficulties\\nchange into walls of defence behind it.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0250.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "A PLEA FOR MATTER. 245\\nXII.\\nA PLEA FOR MATTER.\\nThere was a man in our town,\\nAnd he was wondrous wise\\nHe jumped into a bramble bush\\nAnd scratched out both his eyes.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2And when he saw his eyes were out,\\nWith all his might and main\\nHe jumped into another bush\\nAnd scratched them in again. 11\\nMother Goose.\\nA FRIEND in the West used often to amuse him-\\nself in asking and answering this conundrum\\nWhat is matter? Never mind.\\nWhat is mind? No matter.\\nI quote him to illustrate two of the popular illu-\\nsions, for mind and matter are no longer regarded\\nby advanced thinkers as different elements of life.\\nWe are continually proving their identity. It\\nhas long been our habit to set up these two factors\\nas opposing forces.\\nWe are emerging from the dark ages of mate-\\nrialistic thought.\\nWe have felt that we were bound and limited\\nby matter, that we were held to the animal plane\\nby the dominion of material things even after we", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0251.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "246 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nhave recognized the fact that we are spiritual\\nbeings. We have felt that our highest glory in\\nthe future would be to pass far away from the\\nnecessity and use of matter. Of late the popular\\nthought has been showing a reaction.\\nMind is asserting itself as the governing power\\neven in the mortal life. Materialism has had its\\nday both in science and religion. There is danger\\nin this reaction as great as that we have escaped.\\nThat classic rhyme of Mother Goose is again\\nproving true. History repeats itself. We put\\nout our eyes in the bramble bush of materialism\\nand now seek to scratch them in again in another\\nbramble bush of most irrational idealism.\\nThe conflict between mind and matter has long\\nbeen going on in our planetary arena. The time\\nhas come at last when matter itself is getting bul-\\nlied. It no longer clears the ring as formerly, and\\nimpales everything upon its horns.\\nA recently developed school of metaphysicians\\nimpudently asserts that it has no real existence.\\nIt denies it even the respect of recognition ex-\\ncept to denounce it as a will-o -the-wisp.\\nThis should entitle it to sympathy, and it is time\\nwe came to its relief. In the past men have denied\\nthe existence of spirit and taken away our wings.\\nTo-day in denying matter they do not leave us a\\nleg to stand on. Is not one illusion as bad as the\\nother? We have suffered much in an unreasonable", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0252.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "A PLEA FOR MATTER. 247\\nemphasis upon the exclusive reality of the senses.\\nWe will continue to suffer if we seek to ignore\\nmatter or denounce it as a thing unworthy to be\\nrecognized by spirit. We have as good reason to\\ndistrust a teacher or philosophy that defines life\\nas a dream and matter as non-existent as those\\nthat assert that there is no reality outside material\\nform.\\nMatter and mind are two sides of the triangle\\nof life. Whichever we choose to study first will\\nbring us surely to a recognition of the other.\\nThe scientist comes to a point where he is com-\\npelled to erect an altar to the unknown God, while\\nthe spiritualist finds it necessary to become a\\nstudent of the science that he has perhaps de-\\nspised.\\nNowhere is superstition more prevalent than in\\nmaterialistic minds. On the other hand, there are\\nnone who show deeper concern for the welfare and\\ncomfort of their bodies than those metaphysicians\\nwho deny the reality of matter.\\nWe live alternately in two very different phases\\nof experience, and often they so blend that one\\nworld at a time becomes a real impossibility.\\nDoubtless all conditions have illusions that are\\npeculiar to themselves. One who has dropped\\nthe coarser body is not living a more real life\\nthan one who wears the earthly garments. It\\nisn t necessary for a man to deny the reality of", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0253.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "248 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nhis overcoat because he has at the same time a\\ngood suit of underwear. Neither the underwear\\nnor overcoat is in itself sufficient for all times and\\nplaces. The illusions of what we call the other\\nlife are as bewildering, no doubt, as those that\\nespecially belong to this. If this is a school-room\\nin which we study coarser matter, that is one in\\nwhich we study sublimated matter. Life has many\\nmansions, and, so far as we know, they are all\\nschool-rooms. The playgrounds do not belong\\nexclusively to either state of existence. It is as\\nmuch a privilege to the spiritual being to try its\\nlegs in the material world as to try its wings in\\nthe astral. All religions have called life a\\ndream, but when and where do the realities exist\\nif not here and now? This is a world of affairs,\\nand in it we work out by day the lessons we have\\nstudied in the world of mind at night. By and\\nby we shall remain longer in the higher grade,\\nand find there too affairs in which we shall\\napply the knowledge we have gained in matter.\\nAll power is the expression of knowledge. This\\nis attained only through experience. Hence our\\nneed of constantly changing relations toward all\\nthe factors of existence, mental and material.\\nAs soon as we have gained adjustment to one\\nsituation we encounter another, demanding the\\nexercise of unused forces. In this way our illu-\\nsions are dispelled as the sun of our consciousness", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0254.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "A PLEA FOR MATTER. 249\\nclimbs higher in the heavens. The domain of\\nmatter is not of necessity a twilight land. If we\\nare ready to open our eyes to the light we will\\nfind the high noon of spirit here as well as\\nelsewhere.\\nMortal life is not a dream, except to those who\\nprefer to sleep, and to such will come an hour of\\nrude awakening. There are many dreamers, also,\\non the astral planes. The passage of the Styx\\ndoes not serve always to dispel illusions. It some-\\ntimes deepens them.\\nMental treatment is as much a necessity after\\ndeath as before to those who prefer to believe that\\nthe actualities of life belong to future states of\\nbeing. The horizon line of the spirit is ever a\\nvanishing perspective. Forever it recedes as we\\nadvance.\\nIf we live in the belief of necessary bondage to\\neither mind or matter we must suffer the penalty\\nwe have imposed upon ourselves, till we awaken to\\nthe truth of freedom individual and universal.\\nAfter studying navigation in the schools we seek\\nthe open sea to put its principles into operation.\\nWhen we have finished the academical course of\\ncivil engineering we need the fields and forests for\\nour theodolite.\\nThe botanist and gelogist return from the moun-\\ntains and plains to the quiet of the laboratory to\\nanalyze and classify the specimens with which they", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0255.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "250 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRATL.\\nhave filled their satchels. So does the soul\\nexchange its tranquil home in the realms of spirit\\nfor the more turbulent activities of material life,\\nwhere it may demonstrate its powers, and so does\\nit return again with its garnered sheaves of earthly\\nknowledge to the contemplation of its triumphs\\nand defeats. There are always two voices sound-\\ning in our ears, the voice of fear and the voice of\\nconfidence. One is the clamor of the senses, the\\nother is the whispering of the higher self. If we\\nlisten to the first we are unnerved. If we give\\nheed to the other, we develop power and become\\ninvincible. When the young sailor climbs to the\\ntopsail yards for the first time, and looks down\\nupon the narrow deck of his little craft rocking so\\nfar below him, he sometimes grows dizzy at the\\nunaccustomed height and is in danger of falling.\\nHis shipmates, perceiving his danger, will call out\\nto look aloft. He turns his eyes to the great\\nblue above, forgets the swaying ship, and feels\\nhimself at home in the wide expanse of sky that\\nstretches out around him. It appeals to his\\nhigher sense of soul. His eye grows steady. He\\nrecovers his balance, and gains a firm hold on the\\nfoot-ropes.\\nO Lord, thy sea is so great and my little boat\\nso small, prayed the old monk; grant, I pray\\nthee, that thy great sea may not swallow up my\\nlittle boat.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0256.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "A PLEA FOR MATTER. 25 I\\nWhen we look aloft we accept both sea and\\nboat as realities and recognize the truth that the\\nsoul is the greatest reality of all and controls all\\nelse thus we place ourselves in right relations to\\nboth mind and matter.\\nWhen science has admitted that the atom is\\nintelligent and indestructible it has transmuted\\nmatter into mind, for we know of nothing else than\\nmind that can make these claims.\\nMatter and mind are twin offspring of one\\nparent, spirit.\\nEvery molecule of matter, says Professor Dol-\\nbear, sets the whole visible and invisible universe\\nin a tremor through its radiating waves. A crystal\\ncannot be turned over in the hand without affect-\\ning everything outside of it.\\nMatter is a vehicle of sensation, and through\\nsensation we learn the material lessons of this\\nschool of Earth.\\nThere is sensation in matter because there is\\nmind, and there is always matter present in sensa-\\ntion through the movement of the atmospheric or\\netheric waves.\\nMatter offers the resistance necessary for dem-\\nonstration of the superior power of mind. It\\nis the substance that we came to study and to\\ncontrol.\\nThis resistance of matter is as necessary as\\natmosphere and wings to the flight of the bird.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0257.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "252 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nIn earth we find the plastic substance in which\\nto study the art of living.\\nIf matter had no existence, how could we have\\nan objective life?\\nThrough matter we learn all that we know of\\nhistory.\\nIn the material ruins of ancient cities, temples,\\nand palaces we come in touch with the far past.\\nThrough its tablets and monuments we acquaint\\nourselves with the world s records until such time\\nas we can read the astral pages upon which all\\nhistory is inscribed.\\nIn fossils and petrifactions we learn the story of\\nevolution.\\nThrough aerolite and solar spectrum we discover\\nthe similarity and difference of other worlds in\\ntheir material conditions.\\nThere is no matter without motion. There is\\nno motion without mind. Atoms and thoughts\\nare alike magnetic, and through the selecting prin-\\nciple attract all other atoms and thoughts of the\\nsame vibration. Matter is mind at a slower rate of\\nvibration. Mind is matter at a higher rate. Spirit\\nis infinitely more rapid than either and rules both.\\nIt is as disastrous to have too little respect for\\nmatter as to have too much. If we appreciated\\nit better we would value more highly the power\\nof mind that governs it. It is as wrong to\\ndistrust our bodily organs or our fortunes as to", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0258.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "A PLEA FOR MATTER. 253\\ndistrust our minds. The body we despise will\\nshrink away from us and lose its power and beauty.\\nThe fortunes we neglect and spurn will quickly\\npass to other hands.\\nThe larger the development of mind the larger\\nwill be its expression in material brain tissue.\\nWhen we have mastered matter we will have\\nmastered death, and signed our own emancipation\\nproclamation.\\nUntil that task has been achieved we have not\\ncompleted our material studies. Between the\\nhighest vibration that reaches the ear, and the\\nlowest vibration that reaches the eye, there is an\\nimmense and unexplored domain.\\nWe have as yet no senses that can come in con-\\ntact with it and translate its phenomena.\\nWith only five senses very imperfectly devel-\\noped, slaves of matter as we are to-day in many\\nways, are there no lessons worthy our attention\\nto tempt us back for other incarnations?\\nHave we so mastered the mathematics of this\\nplanet that we are ready now to triangulate the\\nuniverse? The purpose of life should be the dis-\\ncovery of our real relations to the environment we\\nhave drawn about us.\\nTrue life in matter is simple and painless.\\nNormal living is a delight when we understand that\\nthere is more of everything we want than we can\\npossibly require.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0259.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "2 54 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nMind cannot sink in the sea of matter. There\\nis nothing that can drown or starve us but our\\nfears.\\nWhy should the philosophy of reembodiment,\\nv/hich has been always held by the larger part\\nof the world, including its most distinguished\\nminds, be so distasteful to a few who have not until\\nrecently been made familiar with its teachings?\\nBecause we have learned one or even a dozen of\\nthe three thousand tongues of human kind, are we\\nready to converse with angels, and be enrolled in\\nthe schools of the hierarchies? Is one short term\\nsufficient for us? Have we in one brief life\\nsounded the depths and scaled the heights of\\nhuman knowledge? What do we really know of\\nlife on higher or on lower scales than those to\\nwhich we were born? Can the peasant and the\\nsovereign, the scholar and the tramp, adjust them-\\nselves to one another s hardships, responsibilities,\\nand opportunities, and apply to them the principles\\nthey have found useful in their own?\\nIs the pupil who has been only through the\\nsimple tables of arithmetic prepared for the calculus\\nand conic sections? How far have we advanced\\nin the control of matter while we are mastered by\\nfamine and tornado, to say nothing of the extra\\ncup of coffee at our breakfast table, or our fear\\nof being kept awake at night because our tea is\\na trifle strong This planet offers infinitely", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0260.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "A PLEA FOR MATTER. 2$$\\ngreater opportunities of knowledge and happiness\\nthan most have discovered. We have latent within\\nus such power over matter as we have but just\\nbegun to dream.\\nIn the scheme of creation we shall ourselves\\nrank as creators, with ability to disintegrate and\\nreintegrate at will such forms as we shall choose\\nto bring into visible existence. We have hardly\\nbegun to fathom the latent energies of either\\nmatter or mind. We have but recently dis-\\ncovered new properties in the atmosphere itself,\\nand formed new theories of light. We are con-\\ntinually gaining evidence of the action of forces\\nwe have not even named. The wealth of material\\nenergy is beyond our classification, like the\\nunnamed peaks of the Rocky Mountains that\\nnever yet have been explored.\\nWe have not yet obtained possession of this\\nobjective life from which many appear so anxious\\nto get away. If we had mastered matter we\\nshould find in it a greater satisfaction. With\\nperfect strength and gladness in living, we\\nwould not nurse vain longings for a heavenly life.\\nIn these ways we acknowledge our defeat. We\\nhave fallen far short of perfect physical expression.\\nWe have not learned the earthly things and\\nare not ready for the heavenly. The law of love\\nworks in matter as well as mind, and evolution\\ntends always to perfection of species.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0261.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "256 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nAs long as matter in any form can make us\\nafraid we are but raw apprentices. We have\\nnamed the wild beasts, but we have not subdued\\nthem. We have inherited the garden of Eden, but\\nwe have not found its possibilities of cultivation,\\nonly its trials and temptations. As long as\\nwe fancy ourselves dependent upon matter in any\\nform for happiness we are only lackeys and not\\nlords.\\nOur relation to matter is that of the sculptor to\\nhis clay.\\nThe artist fashions the form in which he wishes\\nto express some thought. He models and re-\\nmodels it until his purpose has been perfected.\\nThen he begins his work in the more enduring\\nstone or bronze or marble which will admit of\\nmore complete expression. Our present work is\\nin the modelling-room. When we have gained\\nsuch mastery of matter that we can vitalize it with\\nour thought at will we shall no doubt pass\\non to higher expression. Meanwhile we get\\nthe best results through confidence in our ability\\nto choose and power to direct our lives. We are\\ntruly the architects of our own fortunes and should\\nno longer seek to shelter ourselves behind the\\nsuperstitions of heredity and fate.\\nEvery man is a self-made man. He builds\\nthe temple that his soul inhabits. Whatever its\\nbeauties or deformities, they are the manifestation", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0262.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "A PLEA FOR MATTER. 257\\nof his own thought in the past, even though that\\npast has faded from his recollection.\\nThere are unexplored areas of matter in the\\nhuman brain and body as well as in the planet we\\ninhabit. Very few of our motor centres have been\\nlocalized yet in the brain to the satisfaction of the\\nscientific mind. Science itself has given no com-\\nplete definition of matter. It has named certain\\nproperties, such as cohesion and gravitation. It\\nhas discovered that every particle attracts every\\nother particle, and that the law of specific gravity\\ngoverns the relations of one mass to another.\\nMatter is the matrix of mind. It receives the\\nimpress of the thought and expresses it in form.\\nAs Ovid says, The underworld receives the image.\\nThe spirit seeks the stars.\\nMatter and mind are necessary to one another\\nfor expression of spirit. Each provides us with\\nlenses for the study of the other.\\nWe should neither fear nor hate, despise or love\\neither matter or mind, but recognize in both the\\nservants of soul.\\nIn the Canary Islands there are but few forests\\nand little verdure.\\nWhen the Spaniards landed there some centuries\\nago they cut down the trees and the springs\\ndried up. The springs were fed by the trees and\\nin their turn they watered them. The forests\\nabsorbed the moisture of the atmosphere. That", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0263.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "258 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nof the soil was vaporized and drawn into the\\nclouds, to be returned again in showers. Such\\nis the beautiful circle of nature a type of the\\nreciprocal relations of matter, mind, and spirit,\\neach necessary to the complete expression of the\\nother.\\nIn our western world we sometimes enthrone\\nmaterial forces and, like the old Ephesians, fall\\ndown and worship our great Diana. We say,\\nCotton is king Wheat is king Corn is\\nking! Gold is king!\\nWe talk of the Almighty Dollar, and yet we\\nknow in our hearts that these things have no\\npower except that conferred upon them by the\\nhuman mind. Mere puppets, all of them, and\\npitiably weak and helpless in themselves. Like\\nthe lay figures of the artist, we invest them with a\\ntransient glory and fictitious life, that they may\\nserve us for a day.\\nThe old Greek stories taught that man should\\nlive above sensation and be indifferent to pleasure\\nand pain. Epicurus claimed, upon the other hand,\\nthat everything was good that gave man pleasure,\\nand everything that gave him pain was evil. May\\nwe not embody both these teachings in our new\\nphilosophy and recognize the use of all sensation\\nin the development of spiritual consciousness\\nThe human soul must not be wrecked on shoals\\nof matter, or blown off its course by winds of", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0264.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "A PLEA FOR MATTER. 259\\ndoctrine. Our greatest dangers are not those we\\nsee or feel.\\nWhen we understand matter it can no longer\\ncrucify us.\\nWe must needs become lords of life and death.\\nWhen we can truly say of the body, I have\\npower to lay it down and I have power to take it\\nagain, we shall have finished our course. When\\nthat point is reached we shall be invulnerable to\\nall material forces, superior to all the elements,\\nfearless of all earthly conditions.\\nBefore we can gain this power we must change\\nour attitude toward matter, and what we have\\nignorantly called its laws.\\nWe have been trampled by its hoofs till we\\nhave thought that matter was our enemy. We\\nhave denounced it as the foe of spiritual life and\\nhave resented the necessity of living in a material\\nbody in a material world. We have sought to\\npunish and starve the senses in the vain delusion\\nthat we would thus give satisfaction to the spiritual\\nnature. Such experiments have never been tried\\nsuccessfully.\\nWhen the tides of life have brought us any\\ngood it must be quickly seized and used, else the\\nebb carries it out again beyond our reach. We\\nshould be friendly in our attitude to everything we\\nmeet.\\nWe should welcome and enjoy the material life", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0265.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "26o DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nin order to accomplish the highest development of\\nthe spiritual nature. Growth comes always through\\nsatisfaction. We give the child toys in its nursery\\ndays, and do not keep it in a state of perpetual\\nunrest. Let us make the body comfortable in every\\nreasonable way, in order to secure the freedom of\\nthe mind. Thus will we avoid needless conflict,\\nand gain a larger control of both mind and body,\\nwhile we move steadily forward toward the abso-\\nlute mastery of both. This is not a plea for indo-\\nlence or self-indulgence, but for an orderly and\\nreasonable life in which mind and body shall find\\ntheir true relations to each other, and learn obe-\\ndience to the will of the soul. Soul power\\nmanifests itself in the largest degree of opulence,\\nhealth, and happiness, and not in poverty, asceti-\\ncism, and disease. When we have learned to live\\nwe will find the body an organ of wondrous power,\\nand never a clog or hindrance.\\nIt will be both palace and temple, and never a\\nprison house. We will find wings in its feet and\\nbrains in its finger-tips. Fear and helplessness\\nwill be impossible. A constant and buoyant glad-\\nness is the right expression of true life. Life on\\nthe material plane offers every possible facility of\\nspiritual development which we can ever require.\\nAs long as we are dissatisfied at any point we have\\nfailed to learn the lessons set before us, and are in\\nno state of mind to find happiness elsewhere.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0266.jp2"}, "267": {"fulltext": "A PLEA FOR MATTER, 26 1\\nOur health and fortunes suffer through our\\nfailure to recognize the opportunities of to-day.\\nRight here in the world of matter are the\\nbuilding-stones of the New Jerusalem. The\\nquarries lie all about us. All that we wish to\\nmanifest can be done here and now. All that we\\nwish to possess lies close at hand, even to jewelled\\ncrowns of power, and the sceptre of archangels.\\nShould we go on our way whimpering and calling\\nlife a dreary pilgrimage, and longing to go home\\nto God Is not this world fit for the palace\\nof any Deity of which the human mind can con-\\nceive?\\nWe cannot believe in God and refuse to believe\\nin matter.\\nWe cannot study matter and not find God.\\nNature feeds us upon all sides. We draw our\\nlife through millions of pores, and give expression\\nto it in diverse and wonderful ways.\\nWe cannot increase our power over matter by\\ndenying its existence and revising the dictionary.\\nMatter is objective mind. Mind is subjective\\nmatter.\\nIf we had vivid realization of the forces we\\nhave been accustomed to employ as spirit on the\\nsubjective planes of our existence, we would find\\nno difficulty in manifesting the same power in the\\nobjective life. It is always our doubts that para-\\nlyze our energies.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0267.jp2"}, "268": {"fulltext": "262 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nPower is the purpose of life. Law is its\\nexpression. Man must master law and become\\na law unto himself before he can manifest the full\\nfreedom of power. Nothing but himself can fix\\nhis limitations. Resentment of trouble shows that\\nthe soul instinctively knows the needlessness of\\nsuffering in any form.\\nImagination cannot outstrip the power of execu-\\ntion. Large conceptions of the soul s potencies\\nspeedily manifest themselves in material life.\\nIt is impossible to overestimate the power of\\nspirit or raise too high the standards of true\\nidealism.\\nThe present is as infinite as the past or future.\\nWe may have full assurance that man is uncon-\\nditioned being existence absolute When this\\ncentral truth is once embodied, man and God\\nbecome inseparably united.\\nThe Son of man is the Son of God.\\nIt is not conceit to realize and claim our spiritual\\npowers.\\nIt is only the egotism of the personal man that\\never doubts or denies them.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0268.jp2"}, "269": {"fulltext": "A PLEA TOR MATTER. 263\\nWe call ourselves practical when our actions\\nappeal to the sense life, and their good results are\\nfelt or heard or seen.\\nWe are never truly practical except when we\\nhave learned to govern and apply our highest\\nthought.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0269.jp2"}, "270": {"fulltext": "264 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nAll devils are friendly.\\nThey test our power and reveal our weakness.\\nMany of man s highest revelations come to him\\nthrough his hurts and bruises.\\nThe temptation of devils always precedes an\\nevolution of force.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0270.jp2"}, "271": {"fulltext": "THE SONG OF LIFE. 26$\\nXIII.\\nTHE SONG OF LIFE.\\nStrains musical, flowing through ages, now reaching\\nhither,\\nI take to your reckless and composite chords, add to\\nthem, and cheerfully pass them forward. 11\\nWalt Whitman.\\nListen to the song of Life.\\nStore in your memory the melody you hear.\\nLearn from it the lesson of harmony.\\nOnly fragments of the great song come to your ears\\nwhile yet you are but man. But if you listen to it remember\\nit faithfully, so that nothing which has reached you is lost,\\nand endeavor to learn from it the meaning of the mystery\\nwhich surrounds you. In time you will need no teacher.\\nFor as the individual has voice so has that in which the\\nindividual exists. Life itself has speech and is never silent,\\nand its utterance is not, as you that are deaf may suppose, a\\ncry. It is a song. Learn from it that you are a part of the\\nharmony. Learn from it to obey the laws of the harmony.\\nLight on the Path.\\nIn the old crusading days, when King Richard\\nwas returning to England after his battles with\\nSaladin, he was taken prisoner by an Austrian\\nbaron and confined in his castle. Richard s com-\\nrade, Blondel, the troubadour, sought his place of\\nconcealment in order to release him. He went", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0271.jp2"}, "272": {"fulltext": "266 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nwandering through Europe singing his minstrel\\nlays outside castle walls and under tower windows\\nin the hope that Richard might recognize his voice\\nand know that rescue was at hand. At last he\\ncame to the Austrian dungeon. As he sung the\\nold-time ballads there floated to his ear at last\\nthe familiar tones of his friend taking up the\\nanswering part of a song in which they had often\\njoined.\\nBlondel hastened back to England, raised the\\nransom demanded for the king, and speedily\\naccomplished his release.\\nThis story is beautifully suggestive of the history\\nof the soul.\\nComing down through the forgotten ages of\\nspirit life, man has wandered into matter. He\\nseems to be a captive to the senses. Why he\\nneeded to come at all he may not have yet dis-\\ncovered. He only knows that every experience is\\nvaluable in the history of his evolution. He feels\\nthat his first and greatest need is freedom. Assured\\nof this, all suffering would cease.\\nLiberty is the watchword of the world. All\\nmodern wars are undertaken in its name all\\ncolonization schemes developed. We recognize it\\nas the first condition of unfoldment.\\nMuch has been said of the danger of losing our\\nsouls.\\nCan we ever be more lost than we are to-day?", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0272.jp2"}, "273": {"fulltext": "THE SONG OF LIFE. 267\\nAs we awaken to real life do we not find our-\\nselves and learn that matter is not an enemy, nor\\nis the soul really fettered by the senses unless with\\nits own consent. If we prefer the lower to the\\nhigher self our powers decline and our perceptions\\nbecome dimmed, while even the sense life grows\\nclouded and dull. We seem then to be cramped\\nand shackled by material existence. The truth is\\ndawning upon the world that the soul is always\\nfree and has the power of controlling and spirit-\\nualizing matter. As we become alive to what we\\nare we hear the voice of spirit sounding in notes\\nthat are not wholly unfamiliar. New confidence\\nand gladness are awakened in us, and we take up\\nthe responsive strains.\\nThe first step toward freedom is right listening.\\nThe next step is right answering to our part in\\nthe song of life.\\nIt has been discovered that the reason some\\npeople do not easily learn a foreign language is\\nnot that they cannot pronounce well, but that they\\ndo not hear well.\\nConsequently the first work of the teacher is to\\nopen the ear of the pupil.\\nNothing in life is of greater importance than\\nthat we should learn the law of harmony.\\nIf we hear truly we shall live truly. Our higher\\nself is lifting up its voice continually in song for\\nour deliverance, but we hear only broken chords,", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0273.jp2"}, "274": {"fulltext": "268 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL,\\nwe are so deafened by the tumult of the world\\nin which we live.\\nThe ear is a wonderful avenue of sense. More\\nthan eight thousand delicate nerves lead from it to\\nthe brain. As yet they are only partially devel-\\noped. The average range of human hearing in-\\ncludes about twenty thousand vibrations to the\\nsecond. The extreme limits appear to lie between\\nsixteen and forty-two thousand.\\nMany insects hear a lower vibration and some\\nanimals a higher one than reaches our mortal\\nears.\\nScientists tell us that a sound wave goes on\\nforever.\\nThe ether becomes a reservoir of sound that\\nnever perishes. Let us think for a moment of\\nthe tones that have been poured into it through\\nthe ages nature s voices of earthquake and tor-\\nnado, the roar of waters and of forest fires, the\\nrustling of leaves, the humming of insects, and\\nthe songs of birds. There are, besides, alas the\\nnoises of battle, the shouts of victors, and the\\ngroans and cries of wounded men.\\nThen, too, there are melodious strains great\\nbursts of organ music and chorus songs of wor-\\nshippers, the prattle of children and the laughter\\nof mirth and joy.\\nAll human emotions have contributed to the\\nsong of life.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0274.jp2"}, "275": {"fulltext": "THE SONG OF LIFE. 269\\nWe may draw from this great reservoir of sound\\nat will.\\nWe may listen to the bass notes of human\\npassion and suffering or to the lighter, higher\\nstrains of gladness. All have their place and\\npurpose in the scale of being.\\nThrough currents of sympathetic vibration the\\nsounds to which we are attuned will reach our\\nears. If we hear only the lower tones of pain\\nand sorrow all life seems to us a cry. If we are\\nourselves in grief we listen to minor chords. If\\nwe are selfish we hear the notes of selfishness.\\nIf we are happy we hear those of joy. Every-\\nthing depends upon the place that we ourselves\\nhold in the chromatic scale, whether we are most\\nrelated to the wailings or rejoicings of the race.\\nIt is as true as that we choose the evening\\nconcert according to our taste in music. Our free-\\ndom of choice and action is as complete in one\\ncase as the other.\\nAll life has speech and is never silent. The\\nbitter cry of outcast London and the moans of\\nfamine-stricken hordes in India are as real as the\\nsong of the morning stars. If our ears were not\\nso dull we would hear all these notes in their true\\nrelation to the symphony of life. We would not\\nthen be pained through our imperfect listening.\\nAs we develop spiritual sensitiveness and better\\nunderstanding we will widen our range of hearing", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0275.jp2"}, "276": {"fulltext": "270 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nand learn from nature that which will bring all\\nsounds into harmony.\\nWe will listen to the higher as well as the lower\\noctaves. We will perceive the motif which\\nruns through all the song, where now we hear,\\nas well as see, imperfectly.\\nIf King Richard had been deaf to Blondel s\\nvoice it would not have brought his deliverance.\\nIf he had not sung the answering part his prison\\ndoors would never have been opened.\\nWhat makes the soul deaf to truth? What are\\nthe obstructions to right listening? Let us exam-\\nine some of the laws of the harmony. Perhaps\\noftener than in anything else we fail through dis-\\ncouragement. We do not take life genially.\\nWe moan at our own vexations, and the atmos-\\nphere in which we live seems filled with cries of\\ndisappointment and distress. Dissatisfaction with\\nourselves and our own lot dulls all sense of har-\\nmony.\\nIf we have ever crossed the ocean we know that\\nwhen we traced our course upon the chart in the\\ncabin it never showed the shortest distance between\\ntwo points. Yet we had sailed upon the most\\ndirect lines the winds made possible. When we\\nwere blown off by storms we set such canvas as\\nthe gales permitted, and our storm sails brought us\\nback to the right tack. Our compass was always\\ntrue to the north, regardless of wind and weather.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0276.jp2"}, "277": {"fulltext": "THE SONG OF LIFE. 2J\\\\\\nWe never had reason for discouragement, and\\nsafely made port at last.\\nWhy can we not take life as cheerily as the\\nsailor takes his changeful voyage? We can never\\npay too dearly for experience, for it is all we get\\nof any value here. Our suffering proves our need\\nof the lesson that causes it. If it teaches us to\\nlisten more carefully to the inner voice we have\\nmade a distinct gain in spiritual hearing.\\nDiscouragement results in pity for ourselves.\\nThis is a further cause of deafness self-pity is an\\nopiate that benumbs the nerves of a higher con-\\nsciousness.\\nIn trying to evade our own responsibilities we\\ndeepen trouble and emphasize weakness. Our\\near is at fault because we are not teachable. We\\nwill not patiently listen to the truth. We resent\\ncriticism because we are not seeking for our own\\nweak points. We are not honest pupils of our\\nhigher selves. Sensitiveness to pain shows an\\nunsound part.\\nGrief, too, makes us deaf to the song of life.\\nWe look into a grave. It seems so wide and deep\\nit shuts out all the world of life. It is as if the sun\\nhad set in inky darkness and the clouds of our\\nsorrow hang heavily about us. We do not wish\\nto be comforted. We are dismayed or angry.\\nWe see only the great horror Death. We hear\\nonly Earth to earth, dust to dust, ashes to ashes.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0277.jp2"}, "278": {"fulltext": "272 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nIf we will but listen to the higher voice we will\\neven now know that death means only change of\\nconsciousness. It means fresh opportunities that\\nbring new steps of progress to the awakening\\nsoul. If we will listen we shall hear\\nA music that entwineth with eternal threads of golden\\nsound\\nThe great poem of this strange existence,\\nAll whose wondrous meaning has been found. 1\\nLet us turn our thoughts from the body to that\\nwhich alone made the body dear to us, the loving\\nand imperishable intelligence that animated it.\\nThis we cannot lose, for there is no separation to\\nkindred spirits. If we will open our ears we will\\nhear a new strain of gladness in the song of life\\na clearer note that has been added to the Choir\\nInvisible.\\nAnother influence that dulls our hearing is\\nresentment. We are impatient at the ills and\\ninconveniences of life. We resent our pains and\\nseeming helplessness. We cultivate the sense of\\nvexation which comes from unpleasant people and\\nundesirable conditions. As long as we indulge\\nthese feelings we prolong our difficulties. We\\nmust learn friendliness to all events and people\\nthat touch upon our lives. We need not dwell\\nupon the things that most distress us, except to\\ngain from them some larger knowledge of the laws", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0278.jp2"}, "279": {"fulltext": "THE SONG OF LIFE. 2J$\\nof harmony. If this is our most earnest purpose\\nwe will quickly find that everything contributes\\nto its accomplishment.\\nIndecision is another note of inharmony. The\\nmore we listen to discordance the more the ear\\ngets out of tune. If we have not reached a final\\ndecision in our own minds that we can be well and\\nhappy and prosperous, if we are not yet quite sure\\nthat life is really good and sweet and joyous in it-\\nself, we are not likely to hear melodious tones.\\nThe work of reconstruction begins with action\\nof the will.\\nWith confidence in life restored and a true pur-\\npose assured, we will soon find our hearing is\\nenlarged. The sound waves change their charac-\\nter and pass from grave to gay. We find in the\\nsong the ripples of merriment where once all was\\nmournful and sad. We hear and see according to\\nour moods as long as we permit our feelings to\\ngovern our lives. In the mist of the emotions all\\nvibrations are refracted and unreliable.\\nBut the one great hindrance to right hearing,\\nwhich sums up and includes all others, is that\\nmost common weakness of humanity fear. Fear\\nis the great strangler. How we pride ourselves\\nupon the faithfulness of conscience in applying\\nits torture An accusing conscience is the hand-\\nmaiden of fear. It has never been baptized into\\nthe freedom of the spirit. It dwells in bottom", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0279.jp2"}, "280": {"fulltext": "274 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nlands infested with the ghosts of a dead past. It\\nremembers chiefly disappointments and disasters.\\nIt feeds upon the bread of remorse.\\nIt is deaf to the stirring strains of the song of\\nlife that should arouse every soul to the enjoyment\\nof an ever-present opportunity and power.\\nIt was just as necessary that Richard s voice\\nshould reach the ear of Blondel as that the tones\\nof the troubadour should make his own presence\\nknown.\\nSo must we sing clearly our answering part. It\\nis through our response to spiritual chords that we\\nrind the way out of our houses of bondage.\\nWe must answer in tones of confidence. We\\nmust drop the word and thought of limitations,\\nmust forget our prison days, let go the past,\\nabandon our discouragements, self-pity, grief, and\\nfear.\\nWe will claim the strength that is our birthright.\\nWe will go forward in the confidence of victory\\nwith which men follow the flag, reckless of all\\nthreatening danger.\\nOur ready response shall be in tones of gladness,\\nringing clear and true without a quavering note.\\nWe will not talk of faith only when we have the\\nluxuries and superfluities of life. We will not\\nmoan when everything seems to be going away\\nfrom us on an ebb tide. True gladness opens to\\nus visions of unclouded skies.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0280.jp2"}, "281": {"fulltext": "THE SONG OF LIFE. 275\\nThe land of the soul is never swept by storms\\nit is never shadowed by darkness and uncertain-\\nties. There is in it no fear of evil.\\nThis is our native home. We have never\\nstrayed from it except in thought. When we\\nclear up our thought atmospheres we recognize\\nagain the familiar landscape. We know that\\nall our distress has been a fantasy of the dis-\\nordered senses. We have been bullied by shad-\\nows.\\nNow we will answer the song of the soul with\\na new sense of freedom. We will not creep any\\nlonger. We will arise and walk, and will not\\nsneer if we are told that even wings are not the\\nespecial property of angels and artists. Perhaps\\nsome day we will learn to fly and be as careless of\\nthe breaking of the boughs beneath us as the birds\\nwho know their home is in the air.\\nWe will meet all the experiences of life in tones\\nof patience. We will not utter fretful complaints.\\nWe will not care if every day is not served up to\\nus with all the niceties and dainties we have coveted.\\nWe will console ourselves with the reflection that\\nour place is where we find ourselves, and our\\nproper work is that in which we are engaged, till\\nwe have fitted ourselves for something different.\\nWe will no longer live in such a fever of un-\\nrest. We will not exhaust ourselves with con-\\nstant hurry. There is surely time and opportu-", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0281.jp2"}, "282": {"fulltext": "276 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL..\\nnity for everything in life that we should do. The\\ncenturies are ours. If we do not find time to live\\nwe shall very soon be forced to find time to die.\\nLife administers severe rebukes to our impatience\\nwhen we make it necessary. Nothing is more\\nvaluable than to learn how to wait cheerfully. It\\nis good evidence that we are answering life s song\\nin notes of power. Can we imagine infinite love\\nthat would be satisfied with children that were\\npaupers? Can we believe that anything less than\\nthe largest good it could bestow would satisfy a\\nlove that is supreme? We have surely the right\\nto claim for man all that we have ever thought of\\nGod.\\nIf we are capable of conceiving love it is because\\nwe ourselves are loving. We understand wisdom\\nto the extent that we are wise. We believe in\\npower because we have its possibilities within us.\\nI am an acme of things accomplished, I am\\nan encloser of things to be, is the answer of the\\nsoul to the challenge of life.\\nil The Lord is the strength of my life. Of whom\\nshall I be afraid?\\nPower is expressed in positive conditions. We\\ncannot afford to risk the negatives. There is no\\ndanger to the fearless soul. All force seeks his\\nservice.\\nPower attracts power, as strong men enroll\\nthemselves under the banners of successful leaders.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0282.jp2"}, "283": {"fulltext": "THE SONG OF LIFE. 2^]\\nThe highest and best things are never behind us.\\nThe choicest fruit is on the topmost branches.\\nThe soul will never be satisfied with mediocrity.\\nFrom every level it perceives another height\\ntowering above it and pushes forward strong and\\nbuoyant in the spirit of conquest and with no\\nsense of weariness.\\nWe will answer life s song in a spirit of service.\\nService is the law of harmony as it is the law of\\nlove.\\nIt is in activities for others that we gain the\\nlargest freedom for ourselves.\\nIn teaching others songs of gladness we open\\nfountains of melody in our own hearts. In guiding\\nothers to the light our twilight is dispelled. In\\nfeeding others we appease our hunger. In help-\\ning others we grow strong.\\nWe are never without our opportunities of\\nservice. Every opportunity brings with it its\\nown power. Every sincere thought or act of help-\\nfulness is an impulse of spiritual development.\\nWe think sometimes that it belongs to those\\nwho possess to give.\\nPossession comes through giving, and not giving\\nthrough possession.\\nThe universal stores of God are open to every\\nhonest demand. God s work is never hindered\\nfor the want of supplies. Our theories of benevo-\\nlence are often at fault, and we are apt to think the", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0283.jp2"}, "284": {"fulltext": "2/8 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nthing we ought to give is that which we cannot\\ncommand.\\nResponsibility and opportunity never exist\\napart. If we discover one we may know that the\\nother is close at hand.\\nWhen we have learned that every human being\\nis a part of the harmony we very soon begin to\\nknow its laws. When we are ready to obey\\nthem the discords of life are ended.\\nIf the race had understood this the records\\nof history would never have been blotted with\\nblood the drama of the stage would never be\\nthe picturing of crime and pathos; the worship\\nof the temples would never be voiced in Mis-\\nereres and confessions the minor strains of\\nlife would never have found such utterances as\\nthese religion would not have been a binding\\nback worship would never have become a cry\\nof terror; creeds would not have been required\\nas the expression of man s fears and superstitions.\\nOf all the religions in the world there are none\\nbut what belittle human life and darken earth to\\nbrighten Heaven. The retina of the eye receives\\nall images reversed, but the brain restores them to\\nproper attitudes. The senses thus invert the\\ntruths of life. It is the soul alone that can inter-\\npret the vision.\\nBefore the soul has been awakened we cannot\\nunderstand the meaning of existence. All our", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0284.jp2"}, "285": {"fulltext": "THE SONG OF LIFE. 2JQ\\ndeities reveal the crudeness of our thought. Our\\nimages are blurred our negative plates are so\\nimperfect that we cannot get clear outlines in the\\npositive picture. The lights and shadows are\\nconfused.\\nMan has successively outgrown all his Deities\\nfrom Joss to Jehovah.\\nBut still we grope in a world of unreality and think\\nof happiness as something vague and far away.\\nAdown the centuries has come the voice of one\\nwhom Christians call the Master. Legend and\\nsuperstition have combined to make his accents\\nfragmentary and uncertain. Dogmatists and trans-\\nlators have done what they could to mutilate the\\nmessage. But out of all this babel of commenta-\\ntors we know to-day that the Nazarene s tones are\\nso full of melody that when the ear of man has\\nheard his whole soul listens. He hears anew the\\nsong of life and finds in it the grandest harmonies\\nof earth. Jesus taught life as a science speaking\\nwith authority. The scribes have turned his\\nteachings into weak, moral platitudes. Christian-\\nity itself has never proved a failure. It has never\\nbeen tried. It has been taught as a theory. It\\nhas been followed as a faith. But never yet\\nhas the Christian world believed it would be\\npractical until after a second advent had trans-\\nformed man and altered his conditions. How\\nstrangely deluded we have been How could the", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0285.jp2"}, "286": {"fulltext": "280 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\ntrail to the mines of truth have become so com-\\npletely hidden? How could we have lived so\\nlong with an inverted vision and listened so long\\nto the discords of theology We have not thought\\nit possible to learn the lesson of harmony outside\\nthe music schools of the Celestial City.\\nAnd now new voices from the unseen reveal to us\\nthat the earth life confers on man a privilege that\\nangels covet that here are the choicest fields in all\\nthe universe for the soul s harvesting that we are\\nas yet but pioneers blazing a path through matter,\\nclearing the ground upon which shall be built the\\nWhite City itself, with its jewelled gates and\\ngolden streets, rich symbols of such glories as the\\nundeveloped mind cannot yet outline in its gross\\nconceptions of life. Here are the highest problems\\nof the soul worked out. Here will its stately man-\\nsions be built. Even now we faintly discern new\\nnotes in the great song as it is sung by human\\nvoices such as have not been heard for many cent-\\nuries.\\nNow we really know for the first time that the\\nlaw of love is the law of life, and that the golden\\nrule is the most scientific proposition that has ever\\nbeen submitted to a sceptical world.\\nWe are even beginning to suspect that it is the\\nonly rock foundation upon which man can rear his\\ngovernments, his social orders, or his financial\\ninstitutions. All else is sand that many tides have", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0286.jp2"}, "287": {"fulltext": "THE SONG OF LIFE. 28 1\\nwashed away before our eyes. The law of har-\\nmony permits no note of selfishness. The Sermon\\non the Mount is but a transposition of the science\\nof Euclid. It is a key to all the mysteries that\\nsurround us.\\nBy and by we shall find the fulcrum of the lever\\nArchimedes coveted, with which we can move the\\nearth itself.\\nBy and by we shall call across the stellar spaces\\nand wake the echoes of the distant stars.\\nThe seven planets will be compassed by the cir-\\ncuit of our telephones. Our wireless telegraphy\\nwill send its messages to other spheres than ours.\\nOn planes yet unexplored we will apply the\\nspiritual principles we are learning here.\\nBy and by we shall hear the song of a larger\\nlife and know the beauty of the astral harmonies.\\nThe musical staff as we have it to-day has been\\nthe growth of centuries. One generation after\\nanother has added line by line as it found its\\nscope too small. Man s sense life has expanded\\nwith his spiritual consciousness one sense fol-\\nlowing another. His constantly increasing range\\nof sensibility has demanded larger expression in\\nmusic as well as literature.\\nThe lines of the staff are the number of the\\nsenses. But musical instruments are very incom-\\nplete. We are told by a recent writer in Atheism\\nand Mathematics that to get complete command", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0287.jp2"}, "288": {"fulltext": "282 DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL.\\nover all the keys used in modern music would re-\\nquire an instrument having seventy-two notes in\\nevery octave that earth s instruments are out of\\ntune, and no one can tune or play them perfectly.\\nThis same author asserts that man s vocal organs\\nare so carefully planned and constructed in accor-\\ndance with mathematical and mechanical laws\\nthat they can produce every possible grade and\\nshade of sound within a compass of a hundred to\\na thousand vibrations per second.\\nThe time will come when in a grander chorus\\nthese human voices will utter sweeter songs than\\never yet have been sung or written.\\nTo-day we are but learning single notes.\\nTo-morrow we shall blend them into chords.\\nThe hour will chime when all humanity shall\\nknow the law of harmony when every note in\\nevery chord shall find its part in the sublime\\noratorio of universal life.", "height": "3700", "width": "2469", "jp2-path": "discoveryoflostt02newc_0288.jp2"}, "289": {"fulltext": "DISCOVERY OF A LOST TRAIL\\nBy Charles B. Newcomb Author of All s Right\\nwith the World 282 pages Cloth $1.50\\nDiscovery of a Lost Trail is a simple study of that strange and beau-\\ntiful thing which we call life, but grand in its scholarly simplicity. In the\\nwords of the author, plain suggestions of confidence, patience, gladness,\\nand decision often bring us back to the trail we have lost through the un-\\ncertainty of our own power and freedom.\\nThe writer has not aimed at metaphysical fugues or oratorios. He points\\nout only familiar signboards that have helped some bewildered travellers to\\nfind their way in paths which seemed mountainous and difficult.\\nALL S RIGHT WITH THE WORLD\\nBy Charles B. Newcomb Third Edition i2mo\\nCloth $1.50\\nA volume of earnest, thoughtful essays, devoted to the interpretation of\\nthe inner life of man, the power of thought in the cause and cure of dis-\\nease, and the inculcation of the optimistic philosophy of daily life known\\nas The New Thought.\\nAll s Right with the World is a notable and substantial addition to\\nthe literature of the new mental and spiritual philosophy. Almost every\\npage is radiant with a light which is well calculated to dispel the clouds of\\npessimism, inspire right thinking and living, and hasten soul-growth.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nHenry Wood.\\nHELPS TO RIGHT LIVING\\nBy Katharine H. Newcomb 52 chapters Cloth\\n$1.25\\nThis book contains certain principles of the higher spiritual philosophy\\nadapted to the uses of life, its purpose being to strengthen character and\\ninsure health through the development of the interior consciousness.\\nMrs. Newcomb is satisfied to state the law of spiritual development as\\nshe has learned it through individual experience rather than from the testi-\\nmony of others. There is no effort to prove her affirmations of truth by the\\nlogic of the senses, or by citation of authority beyond the recognition of a\\nkindred thought uttered by philosopher and poet.\\nThe simplicity and directness with which the truths it contains are set\\nforth will aid much, I feel, in making it of great value to many readers. In\\naddition to its bringing a certain peace and tranquillity into their lives it\\nwill also aid in pointing out to them the great fact that each can determine\\nand rule the world his world from within. 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