FOR YOUNG SOULS

BY

ELEANOR 0. CtJRTISS

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FOR YOUNG SOULS

By
ELEANoR 0. CURTISS

For Beginners, Young or Older, Who Wish to Learn

Through Simple Language the Way to Mastery.

TEE Cuwriss PHU..osopHzo BOOK COMPANY

5130 Connecticut Avenue

Washington, D. C., U. S. A.
1941

Copyright, 1941, by
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FOR YOUNG SOULS

Preface
Reason for this Book.

Since there are very many inquiring

minds and hearts today who cannot grasp

the elaborate philosophical details of the
great essentials of Truth as written for advanced students, this little volume has been
put forth in simple style for young Souls,
whether young in years or not, who are as
yet unacquainted with some of the deeper
philosophical explanations and great principles and conditions of life here and here-

afterand how to apply them.

It is the sincere hope of the author that
through the study and through the appli-

cation of the simplified information herein contained, many will find real happiness
as they progress upward on the Path of Attainment.

A FEW OF

"THE CURTISS BOOKS"

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TILE KEY TO THE UNIVERSE

TIlE KEY OF DESTINY

LETTERS FROM THE TEACHER, Vots. i, ii
TILE TRUTH ABOUT EVOLUTION AND THE

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Tiw. TEMPI.E OF SILENCE

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TIlE LOVE OF RABIACCA
PRAYERS OF THE ORDER oi CHRISTIAN
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FouR-FoLD HEALTH
VITAMINS

\VIIY ARE WE HERE?

CONTENTS

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Preface
Chapter

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I Your Origin

II The House in which

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you live
III Tolerance

IV Criticism
V Two Selves
VI Personal Survival
VII Forgiveness
VIII Reincarnation
IX Why We Suffer
X Giving
XI Love
XII Thanksgiving

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CHAPTER I.
Our Origin

Haven't you asked yourself or someone

else, "Where did I come from? What am I
here for? How can I make the most of life?"
Well, it has been my privilege to find the

answers to these questions and to many

more which have come to my own mind, and

I want to pass the answers on to you in as

simple a form as possible.
God:

You know, of course, that you were cre-

ated by God. (Some peoples call Him Allah,

some Jehovah, some Ra, and still others

Krishna or Buddhabut He is the one and
only Creator of us all.)
Heaven:

One day God allowed you to leave your

real home which we shall call Heaven to
come to earth to be tested to see if you could

live a perfect life among the material conditions and temptations of earth. Not having done so, weaknesses of character resuited. This made it necessary for you to
come to earth time after time in order that
you might learn to overcome all of these
weaknesses and become as perfect on the
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earth as you were in your home in Heaven.

Free-Will:
God gave you a present of free-will to use
for right or for wrong. When you live less
than perfectly, you use it for wrong. For in-

stance, when you are facing a choice be-

tween telling a lie or receiving punishment,

if you tell the lie, you are using your freewill for wrong. If you choose to stand up
like a soldier and tell the truth, even though
you must be punished for what you did, then
you use your free-will rightly, and are not
guilty of a weakness of character. If you
make a promise, and then think, "Oh, why

bother keeping it?" you are weak if you

give in to such a thought. If you see that

you have made a mistake in giving a promise, then a$k to be released from it.
Someone is asking why he cannot learn
his lessons or learn to overcome his weaknesses in Heaven instead of having to come
to earth over and over. I will tell you why.

There are certain temptations that can be

overcome only in a physical body, such as
overeating, .eating wrong combinations of
foods, not controlling and rightly using
your creative forces of mind and body, (sex,
etc.)

Visits to Earth:
Everybody must learn to overcome all of

his weaknesses sooner or later, on one or

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another of his visits to earth. Therefore,

the longer he an stay on earth each time
he comes, the more nearly perfect he may
become, the happier he will be, and the
sooner he will be .ready - strong, clean,

honorable, unselfish, and poised enough

to live in the most glorious part of Heaven

where there are no more troubles, and

where everything is so beautiful and joyous

that nobody on earth can even imagine it!
Now, then, so that you may learn some of
your lessons, or overcome your teml?tations
and weaknesses of character as quickly as
possible, I am going to help you by giving
you some suggestions gleaned from my own
experiences and from those of other persons I have known.

CHAPTER II.
The House in Which You Live

Since God gave you your body to live in

on the earth, you would no more want to
allow it to be in a dirty condition than you
would want your home to be dirty. You
would no more want to abuse this bodyhouse of yours than you would want to
abuse, disfigure, or burn your family home.

It would be senseless to make your home

uncomfortable and ugly, wouldn't it? Well
then, how much more senseless it would be
to allow your body to become dirty inside

or outside and thus make you uncomfortable and other people too. All right, we are

agreed. Now let us see what we can do

about it.
Accidents:
Sometimes when we do not use the best
sense or the inner guidance that God gave
usfor we all have a still, small Voice that
tells us what to dowe may have what are
called accidents. It may take some time to
repair the injured body if it can be repaired
at all. It may be that we must move out of
our body through what is called death. We
are always warned inside (by the still small
Voice of the Christ) of the possibility of an
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culatin. Those who react to cold water feel

wonderfully invigorated after their splash

and brisk rub. In certain Sanitaria, the

nurses give their bed-patients a good rub
with a rough mitten dipped in ice water,

before breakfast. This acts as a good tonic.

Inside Cleansing:
Rule 2. Keep your body clean inside.
How can you do this? I will tell you. One
way, but not a good way, is to force your
bowels to empty their loads of waste matter
through the regular use of strong laxatives.
Soon your poor bowels become tired of being

driven so hard, and when you keep giving

them more and more of such laxatives it
is like "whipping a tired horse." Now here
is a better way: Once in a while, say once
a month, it is a good idea to rid your body
of its accumulated fluid poisons, as well as
its solid waste matter, by taking on arising
three Seidlitz Powders twenty minutes

apart. You see, the Seidlitz Powders attract the fluid poisons from all over your
body and carry them off, and you will be
surprised how much fluid is thrown off
through your bowels. Then live on oranges
and grapefruit for a couple of days.
Enema:
The better way to keep the body cleansed

inside is to wash it, and then eat mainly

fruits and vegetables which will naturally
cleanse the body, and thus not leave an
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overdose of acid and other harmful debris.

Drink vegetable juices as well as fruit juices
both freshly made. This is how you wash
your body inside: Put a quart of hot water
in your enema bag or can. Insert the enema
tube. Kneel down, putting your shoulder

(preferably your left) to the floor while

you allow the water to flow into your bowels.

If you have a cramp, shut off the flow of

water, and let the water out into the toilet.
Then begin again as above, and if another
cramp comes, then just pinch the tube to

shut off the water until the discomfort

passes, and then allow the rest of the water

to flow in. After you have held all the water
you can, then massage your bowels upward

toward your waistline. This helps to keep

your bowels from sagging as so many

bowels do on account of the heavy weight

they are made to carry, and also on account
of wrongly fitting clothing. After your
massage, let the water out into the toilet.

It may come out in installments with its

load of waste because there are kinks and

folds in your bowels, and sometimes it is not

easy to push the waste matter along rapidly

on that account. The whole proceedure

should not take over twenty minutes. Walk

around between the times you need to empty
to relieve the strain on the bowels.
Take such an enema once a da1 until you
have two easy movements in addition. to the
enema. Then take one at least once a week
so as to keep in fit condition. If you can
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comfortably rinse your bowels with a cup

or two of cold water after the warm enema,
it will help to stimulate your bowels.
Do not allow anyone to persuade you that

enemas are habit-forming, because we know

from such experience that enemas cure

constipation instead of causing it, especially

when you help by eating raw fruits and

vegetables.

Correct Eating:

Rule 3. Now that you are clean inside

and out, let us learn how to build perfect
bodies through proper eating (not starvation or dieting at all).

(a) Chew your food so that it will be-

come creamy and you can almost drink it.

Did you know that the best taste from food

comes when it is in liquid form after

thoroughly chewing it? Try it and see.
And here is a great discovery made by a
very wise Physician: "Hunger and thirst
are satisfied in the mouth, not in the stom-

ach."'

Mastication:

All right, since you are the boss, you

aren't going to allow your tongue, your

teeth, and your jaws to be lazy while your

stomach has to work overtime trying to

make up for their laziness, or rather, your

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now has available an excellent tonic-laxative and a bowel
antiseptic also.

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allowing them not to do the work they

otherwise should do. Then too, there is

certain work that the stomach just cannot

do, no matter how hard it tries, and that is
the work the teeth, tongue, and saliva must
do, if you are to feel right. Let me show
you more clearly what I mean: Breads,
porridge, and other foods containing concentrated starches must be mixed with saliva in the mouth before they can be digested.

Hence much chewing (masticating) must

be done before such foods are fit to be swallowed and turned over to the stomach, if you

want to avoid trouble. It is as unwise to

swallow starchy food that is not thoroughly
masticated as it is to put water or gravel
in your automobile instead of gasoline. It
just will not work smoothly.
Starting the Day:
(b) Start the morning by thanking God
for the night's rest and asking Him to guide
you through the day. Then, as soon as you
get out of bed, wash your mouth with salty

water and then immediately drink a full

glass of orange juice or grape-fruit juice
or the juice of half a lemon in a glass of
water (either hot or cold). This will help
to alkalize your body and cleanse the canal
that leads from your mouth through your
stomach and through your bowels, and thus
prepare the way for your breakfast. (Some
people do not want anything else for breakfast.) Well, after you drink, take your bath
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and one kind of food will just have to be

knocked out and die, lying there fermenting

and giving out a bad odor just as dead things

do. (This makes a bad breath.) Now you

want to know which foods are friendly to
one another and which ones are enemies.
All right, I will tell you, and if you learn

this, you will learn one of the greatest

secrets of health and strength. You will

recall that I told you to drink your juice an

hour before breakfast when cereals and

toasts might come along? That was be-

cause the acid of the fruit dislikes the starch

of the cereal or bread. The fruit also dis-

likes sugar (excepting honey or maple

sugar, which are iatural sweets.) The

starch in the bread or cereal likes sugar of

all kinds but it is far better to use natural
sweets, for they are neutral and do not decay your teeth as the refined sugars do.
I said I would tell you why you should not
take milk with a starchy food such as bread
or cereal; and this is why: Milk is a protein
and proteins dislike starches. Now, don't

you see why? When the starches in your

stomach are calling forth their own digestive juice, they will fight when a protein
enters the stomach and calls out an acid
juice which prevents the digestion of the
starches.
Summary:
Now, let me sum up the food-combination
question, using baseball language: On one
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side are the concentrated starches (Bread,

Cake, Pie, Cookies, Macaroni, Spaghetti,
Rice, Potatoes, Beans, Cereals, Dried Peas,
Peanuts, Popcorn, Pumpkin, Sago, Squash,
Tapioca, Bannanas and Artichokes.) On
the same side are the sweets (Candy, Ice
Cream, Jellies, Jam, Preserves, Sugar and
Molasses.) On the other side are the pro-

teins (Cheese, Eggwhites, Fish, Fowl, Meat,

Milk, Nuts (excepting Almonds and Cashews which are friendly to all). On the same
side as proteins are also the fruits (Apples,
Oranges, Grapefruit, Cherries, Lemons, etc.

but we cut out Cranberries and Rhubarb

altogether because they are too acid for

anybody, and nobody would eat them without sugar, and they fight sugar to death.)

You ask me, "What about all the vegetables and fats?" Well, I am glad to say
these two classes (all the vegetables excepting dried beans and dried peas and potatoes

and the others mentioned under starches)

as well as butter, cream, oil, and other fats,

are friendly with all other foods, and among

themselves. Since we want to make this
so easy for you that you can decide at once

whether or not a meal or a combination is

correct, at the end of this chapter is a chart
of foods all listed in a form that you can get
into your mind quickly. Study this carefully because I am going to test you pretty
soon to see how quickly you can answer me
correctly. See if I can catch you. Then
when yoz know, try catching your parents
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or friends who are interested in becomin

healthy, strong and youthful. Before I as
you these questions, let me suggest that you
learn the Classes of foods, puttmg one class
on each of the fingers of one hand, like this:

Let the thumb represent the starches because it is stout and starches make people

stout. The pointer or first finger is the

sugars. The middle finger is the vegetables

and the fats. The ring-finger is the protein.
The little finger is the fruit or acid finger.
Now notice that your two finger "S's" are
together because they are friendly. Then
notice that your tall finger is named fats and

vegetables (Fat-Vegetable) and stands in

the middle because he is friendly to all (a
"go-between"). Then Proteins and Acids
are together because they are friendly to-

ward one another. We are keeping the

Starches and the Sugars away from the
Acids and the Proteins because they are

enemies. We placed the big Fat-Vegetable

as a Policeman between them so as to keep
them apart.
Questions:
Now see if I can catch-you! Is a meat
sandwich all right for health? If not, why
not? Is apple pie all right? If not why not?

After eating meat at a meal, should you

eat ice cream and cake for dessert? If not,

why not? Is it all right to have fruit and
bread at the same meal? If not, why not?
Are steak and French-fried potatoes com20

Do spaghetti and tomatoes go

together all right? If not, why not? Are
preserved fruits all right to eat? If not,
why not? What kind of sandwiches are
correct? Make an ideal menu for breakfast, luncheon and for dinner. Will you
patible?

write me your answers? I will take time

to correct and mark them.
Food Proportions:
Always see that your foods for the
day are chosen this way:. 80% from the
fruits and vegetables, and 20% from the
other lists. You see most sickness comes

from eating too many starches, sweets,

fats, and proteins, for these cause acidity.

Then too, as we said before, it is the fruits

and vegetables that tend to keep your

bowels open and free from constipation.
Excitement or Anger:

Never eat when you are excited or

nervous or angry, because at such times

your saliva glands and your stomach

glands are inactive, and as a result, your

food just lies in your stomach and ferments.

Your blood, not knowing any better, fkes

up the products of fermented matter and
distributes them all around your body. No
wonder you have headaches, and feel sick
at your stomach. If you feel you must have
something, then just take a glass of fruit
juice, adding, if you wish, a glass of milk.
Remember that fruit (especially orange
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juice) should be taken with milk so as to

counteract the tendency of the milk to

form mucous in your body. An adult does

not need milk as his bones are formed.
Body-Temples:

You have been receiving in these rules

some exact ways of keeping yourself fit,
and for making your body a clean "temple"
for God to dwell in. You know the Bible
says, "Know ye not that ye are the temple
of the living God?" Knowing this, you

would no more want to have your bodytemple unclean than you would want company to visit your home when it was unclean
and in a disorderly condition
Habit:
I heard one person say, "Oh, it is too much
trouble to live that way." What would you

answer? My answer is that it is easier to

live the right way than the wrong way. It
is cheaper too because you save on doctor
bills when you live right. When you form
the habit of living clean and rig/it, you will
never want to live any other way, because

you vill be so full of life and joy that you

would shudder at the thought of being

dirty inside as you used to be.
Doubters:

You may say, "I can eat anything. I

wouldn't know I had a stomach. I feel wonderful." That may well be. However, if
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you htd heard the cries of regret we have

heard from people who used to talk that
way, you would be very glad when we tell
you that every time you eat wrongly, you
are accumulating more and more wastematter in the cells of your body until some
day when Nature cannot stand any more,
you will suddenly collapse and either pass
on, or perhaps have some incurable disease.
You who are wise have taken warning.

Now that you have been taught how to

deal with your body, if through practice,

you have a keen mind and happy thoughts,

you are ready to proceed to the next Chapter. If any of you have not practiced what

has been given you in this Chapter, your

brains may be so laden with waste matter
that you could not clearly understand just
what we are going to give you. Therefore,
do not try the next work until you have
mastered your body lessons.

NOTE :All the above instructions are given you with

the approval of Dr. F. Homer Curtiss. Those who are
under our direct care receive full and accurate diagnosis
and also personal diet2tic, radionic, medical, and psychoanalytical treatment.

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Here is the promised chart:

1

Starches
Artichokes
Bananas

Fats
Animal Fats

Breads
Cereals
Corn
Flour Products
(cake, pie, etc.)

Butter

Beans (dried)

Pastries
Peanuts
Peas (dried)

Popcorn
Potatoes
Pumpkin
Rice (polished)

Avocadoes
Bacon

Proteins

Cheese

Eggs (whites)
Game

Gelatine
Meats
Cod Liver Oil Milk
Nuts (excepting
Cream
Cocoanut

Egg Yolks
chestnuts anc
peanuts)
Lard
Oily Nuts
All Sea Food
Vegetable Oils
Alkaline-forming Foods
2.

Vegetables
Roots
Corn-onsago
Cob
Squash (winter) Beets
Caots Cress
Tapioca
Cucumbers
Celery
Sweets
Dandelion
Root
Candy, Cake, etc. Kohlrabi Dulce
Dates
Egg Plant
MangelFigs
wurtzel Endive
Honey
Mushrooms Greens
Ice Cream
Peppers
Onions
Maple Sugar
Parsnips Green
Molasses
Peas
Radishes
Preserves
Kale
Salsify
Raisins
Lettuce
Turnips
Sugar (white
Okra
Green
& brown)
Asparagus Olives
Syrups
Parsley
Beans

(string) Pimento
Beet Tops Pumpkin
Brussels

Spinach

Sprouts Swisschard
Broccoli
Squash
Cabbage Sauerkraut

Fruits'

Apples
Apricots
Berries
Bananas
Cherries

Currants
Dates
Figs
Grapes

Grapefruit
Lemons
Melons

Oranges
Peaches
Pears
Persiminons
Pineapple
Prunes
Raisins
Tangerines

Cauliflower Tomatoes
Celery
(Uncooked)
Chicory
N. B.Cooked spinach and cooked tomatoe, contain oxalic acid so
should be eaten not over twice a week.
Crisp bacon may be combined with toast.
Note that egg 7.1k. are a fat, so may be taken with bread or
toast.

Melon, should be taken alone and not at meal..

Santa Clara prune. are not so acld.formlng as other prune..

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All foods in column 1 are not to be taken

at the same meal with those in column 3.
(1 and 3 are enemies).
Foods in column 1, (Starches and Sweets)

may be taken with one another.

Foods in column 3, (Proteins and Fruits)
may be taken with one another.
Foods in column 3 (Fats and Vegetables)
may be taken with any foods in the chart.
Honey and Maple Sugar are the exceptional sweets, being natural, and so may be
taken with the foods in column 3 as well as
all other foods.
We omit rhubarb and cranberries entirely
because of their harmful acid effect and be-

cause you always require sugar to make

them palatable.
Almonds and cashews may be combined
with any other foods because they are alkaline-forming.
Baked potatoes, especially the skin, are
alkaline in reaction.
Carbohydrates include starches a n d
sweets.

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CHAPTER III.
Tolerance

Change Noted
Having seen a large number of persons
who changed from cross, irritable, unhealthy looking individuals into cheerful,
peaceful, healthy, and good looking, I am
hoping that all of you who have studied and

learned the lessons in Chapter 1 of this

book, have showed your good sense by applying them to your own lives, deciding to
live the healthy way always. Taking it for
granted that you have, I am ready now to
give you some even harder lessons, know-

ing you are now eager and alert because

your bodies and brains are clean and

healthy. By the way, sometimes it takes

from two to five years to purify completely

some bodies because they have been clogged
so long with waste matter.
Tolerance:
The first lesson you faithful and wise ones

are given is that of TOLERANCE. What

is tolerance? Just this: Giving others the
same right to their ideas and opinions as
you claim for yourself, and being pleasant
about it. You know that all people cannot
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think alike. In fact, no two think exactly

alike even if they are brought up exactly

alike, because no two have had exactly the

same experiences in past lives, to say nothing of this life. If we think somebody else is
weaker than we, let us not condemn him.
We must be careful lest we become too cock-

sure of ourselves, and the one we condemn

gets ahead of us on the road of progress.

No part of the road is easy, but nothing is
worth gaining that is not worth striving
for.
Backsilders:
As long as we are thinking unkind things
about other people, we are not climbing, but

sUding backward. The very persons about

whom we are thinking intolerant thoughts,
and about whom perhaps we are saying unkind things may be farther along the Path
of Attainment (Progress) than we arc. We
must remember that there may be just as
many things to criticize about us as there
are about the other person. There is some
good in. everybody, so let us look for that
rather than for mistakes. Who doesn't
make mistakes?
Would you like to hear about the "KUH"
Club? I will let you in on the secret of this
Club, for I know you will want to join it.
Whenever any one of the members says or
begins to say anything unkind about any-

body, or acts selfishly or wants to do some-

thing or say something dishonest, one or

more of the members of the Club will call
out, "KUH !" What do you suppose they
mean? Here it is: K stands for kind. U
stands for unselfish, and H stands for
honest. So when they ask, "KUH" they

mean,IsitKIND? UNSELFISH?

HONEST? You see this is a splendid way

to stop lots of gossip and hurts, as well as
lots of Karma.
Karma:

What do I mean by Karma? Just what

St. Paul meant when he said, "Whatsoever

a man soweth, that shall he also reap." In
other words, what we send out in thought,
word or deed, will come back to us in kmd.
Karma is the Law of Cause and Effect. Now
you may form a club of your own, and see

what fun you will have catching one an-

other, and at the same time how much good

you can do in helping one another to grow
kind, unselfish, honest, and so, Christ-like.
Foreigners:
Are you tolerant with foreigners? After
all what are foreigners? Just people who
live or lived where we do not live. Is that
wrong? Suppose I said I was born in Colorado, and you were not, so you were not as
good as I. Would that make sense? We
have so much to be ashamed of in ourselves

that we have no right to criticize others.

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Let us imagine a group of babies, one British, one Japanese, one German, one French,
one Swedish, one Mexican, one African, one
Spaniard, etc. Supposing they were all

brought up alike in feeding, worshiping

God, and in every other way. If the outside world were kept from them, do you
suppose they would know anything about

rivalries, antagonism, race hatred, and

wars? Their individualities would come

out, for even people of one family show

their individual characters, but they should

live together in peace and friendship and

not expect others to believe exactly what
they do. Get to work on yourself now. You

will have much to do before proceeding

further.

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CHAPTER IV
Criticism

How are you enjoying being tolerant? I

am sure you have said many a "KUH" and
have had it shouted at you too, and you are
all the better for it.
Face Within:
Here is another lesson that seems to me
to be even harder than the one on Tolerance.
When somebody says something unkind
about YOU, what do you do about it? Do
you go off and sulk? Do you become angry

and want to fight back with ugly words?

If you do, you are not only wasting time and

energy but you are losing the battle. What

then should you do? First of all, look within yourself to see if there is not something
that attracts to yoi this show of seeming
unkindness. You know "like attracts like,"
and so perhaps you merited this unkind remark in some way. In many cases, you will
find the cause of the trouble within yourself,
and when you do, then face yourself squarely and say, "All right, here is my chance to

improve. I am thankful for the remark that

brought this fault of mine to my attention."
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God. Here is a splendid thing to do, and one

that will work too, if you are in earnest:
What to Do:

Every morning and every time you feel

naughty thoughts coming in, pray either
silently or aloud, "0, Christ, please think
through me; feel through me; speak
through me; and act through me. Thank
you. Amen." When your mind is filled with

this prayer then none of the evil thoughts

can find lodgment in your mind or heart.
Thoughts:
You see even your thoughts can. be felt
by others, so you will need to keep them as

clean and kind as your tongue.

Yes,

thoughts rush out of your mind to the place

you send them, and they bring back to you

the same kind of force that you sent out,

so watch out!
Your Face:
Did you know that your face shows the

kind of thoughts you think? Yes, just

look in the mirror and see if it is reflecting

kind and loving thoughts. Do this each day
and watch the improvement. Ask God or
the Christ (who is God's Ray in you, some-

times called your Higher Self) to keep

your thoughts clean. That is what is meant

in the beautiful prayer: "Create in me a

clean heart, 0 Lord, and renew a right
spirit within me." Ask God to wash your
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heart and mind clean and to help you to

overcome all the sins of past incarnations

which have left their mark on your face and

o;i your body too. Even if a face is not
beautiful in features it may become radiant-

ly lovely and strong through right thinking and prayer.

Our Teacher often says: "It is not persons

or things or circumstances that hurt us, but
our rcactio, to them." In other words, it i
our reactions and our thoughts about things
and circumstances as well as our feelings
about them that do us good or harm. I like
to put it this way:
'Tisn't things that make you happy
Nor lack of things that makes you blue;
It's thoughts that bring you joy or sorrow,
So it's strictly up to you.
The Blues:
One of our students wrote: "Recently I
awakened with a great sense of depression
or blues. If I had given in to them and gone
downstairs among the family and among
other people, I should have made them all
feel my gloom. I remembered what you had
taught me, so I went right to the bathroom
and took an enema to get rid of my body
poisons that I knew had something to do
with my blues. Then I prayer to God to
flood me with His love and cheer, and fin-

ished by asking that He would think and

feel and act through me. In a half hour I
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went downstairs cheerful and happy over

the victory I had won with God's help, and
I noticed that others smiled because of my
smiles." One of life's greatest thrills is the
feeling of victory over one's own temper
or blues or other weakness. Try it and see
for yourself, and keep trying until you win.

CHAPTER V
Two Selves
By this time, if you have been faithfully

practicing what you have learned in the

previous chapters, you should be feeling
pretty fine. No doubt you have had some
pretty hard tussles with yourself because
you have two personalities; that is to say,
you have a lower or animal self and also a

Higher or Spiritual Self. The lower self

is selfish, hot-tempered, and everything that

is not admirable. The Higher Self is kind,

loving, tolerant, poised, obedient, and altogether like the Christ. Now your job is to
get that lower or smaller self to give in to
the fine Higher Self. Let us pretend that
your lower self is your dog. If you have a
dog, do you allow him to run all over the
house, tearing things to pieces and having
his own way generally? I don't think you
do. What do you say to him when you want
him to obey you? "Go lie down 1" Don't
you? Well, then when this naughty, animal self tries to run you and your house

and wants to be ugly and cross and say mean

things, just try telling him to "Go lie down !"

It is not easy to do, but this method may

help some of you more sometimes than the

prayer way. Then when this has become

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easy, try the prayer way, asking your

Christ, or Higher Self, to express through

you.

Discontent:

Well, you are wondering if I am going

to give you something more to conquer in
this chapter. Yes, I believe you are now
strong enough to take something else. So
many persons have come to us with their
spirit of discontent lately that I am going to

tell you what causes it and how to overcome

it.
Sometimes discontent (being dissatisfied)
comes as a result of feeling sorry for yourself, or what we call self-pity. There is noth-

ing so depressing and nothing that will

make other people want to stay away from

you more than self-pity. It shows that you
have a selfish disposition and a weakness,

for if you were strong you would tell that

feeling of self-pity to "Go lie down !" After
you have said this and meant it, you must

have something to take the place of the

selfish thoughts, so immediately turn to the

Christ within your heart and pray: "Dear

Christ, please tell me what to think and say

and do, now, so that no other bad thoughts
can come into my mind."
You will sooner or later be shown some
loving things to do. Perhaps it may be to
sweep the sidewalk in front of the house, or
clean the basement, or straighten your room
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or your clothes, or weed the lawn, or dry the

dishes, or take some flowers to a sick person,
or read something helpful to a sick or blind

person, or write a kind, helpful letter to

somebody who would be made happy by it.

Or you might tell somebody about this little
book and how you have been helped by it,

or you can ask your mother or your father

or somebody else if there is not something

you may do to help him or her. A way

will always be open for you if you really

want to be helpful. If you don't want to be

helpful, then you will know that it is your

smaller, animal self that is ruling you, and
you know what to do then, so that you may
be happy and be growing in character.
Happiest Moments:
Isn't it fun to play the game of life and
win it? The happiest moments of your life
are those when you (your Higher Self) have
been the winner over the lower self, and
when you are making other people happy.
Try it and see. Have you practiced and
mastered all the foregoing Lessons?

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CHAPTER VI

Personal Survival
My friend, for by this time we are friends,
having gone through many experiences of
the same kind, and having conquered our
lower, animal personalities to a marked degree in many mstances. To be sure, we all
fail at times, but only a worm does not get
up, so let us straighten our shoulders, smile
and try again.
While you are practicing the several lesSons already given you, we shall give you
some interesting information about the life
after what we call death. Let me tell you

first of all, that there is no death for the

spirit, for we never die but just leave this
physical body, to live in another, finer body
that only a few people are able to see. Those

who can see our finer bodies have their

inner or psychic eyes is developed naturally,

from birth as a ruleso they can see

many things that are going on in the next

realm above this one which we call earth.
Astral:
Let us imagine this earth as made up of
layers and many more layers outside the

earth that we cannot see. We will call

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these layers realms. The first realm, Which

is made up of seven regions, is called the
astral realm. This astral realm is the first
one we go to when we leave our physical
bodies. Our Teacher puts it this way: "We
go one flight up with our overcoats off."

Then he points out that when a person takes

his overcoat off, he is still the same person.
Just so when he takes off his physical body'
lie is still the same perso; having the same
disposition, the same faults, and even looks
the same only a little better. If he has been
cross and mean on this earth, he is the same

in the astral realm; and if a person likes

to be kind and make others happy here on

earth, he will want to do the same in the

astral realm, helping those either on the

earth or in the astral realm. Oftentimes

people do not realize for a while that they

have left their physical bodies or "died" as
some people call it, and they do not understand why their families and their friends
do not speak to them. Then after this goes
on for a time, they begin to wonder if they
have left their earth bodies, and they see
that they have a finer body. So you see our
bodies are just our houses which should
become "the temples of the living God,"

whether we live on the earth or in some

other realm.
Fortune Telling:
Now here is something for you to remem-

ber in case someone wants to give you a

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"reading" or tell your fortune. (We call

those who can see and hear our loved ones

and others in the astral realm mediums or
psychics.) Since you know now that those

who pass on into the astral realm, after

leaving their bodies, are just the same persons they were while in their bodies, you
should not believe that everything they are
reported by the medium as saying is any
more right and wise than you would believe
it to be if they were living in their bodies
on earth. It is interesting and kind sometimes to allow our loved ones to give us a
message through some medium who is reliable, but we must be very careful not to
follow their advice UnleSs we feel that it is

according to wisdom of our own Hirher

Self or the Christ within us. (Or own conscience.) With rare exceptions, mediums
reach people only on the astral plane, al-

though there are far higher realms.

Higher Realms:
The next realm to the several astral regions is called the mental realm, and this is
where those with brilliant minds and good
hearts dwell. Great inventions are developed there, and sometimes the great inventors there succeed in getting their wonderful ideas through to inventors on the earth
by impressing these ideas on their minds.
Beyond the mental realms are the glorious
spiritual realms commonly called Heaven,
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but these are glorious beyond even our

power of imagination. However, when you

leave your physical body, you will go where
you deserve to go, according to the life you
have lived oi the earth.
This is all of this subject for this time,' for
I would not wish to confuse you. I just feel

that you should know something of the

other side of life so that you will have n'o

fear of going there when your visit on earth
is over. You see, ignorance is no excuse for
condemning or for making mistakes. Therefore, you should want to know all sides of

life so as not to make mistakes unnecessarily.

'For details see Realms of the Living Dead, Curtiss.

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CHAPTER VII
Forgiveness

By this time, some of you wish to ask

some questions, so I have decided to invite

you to write to me so that I may help you
with your problems. You may send me
what offerings you wish, to help cover the
postage and paper and time. Jesus said:
"Bear ye one another's burdens and so fulfill the Law of Christ." All right, let us help
bear one another's burdens. My address is
in the front of this book.
Today I will tell you about someone with
whom I was talking this .week. She told me
how dreadfully someone had hurt her feelings, and how she resented it and grieved
about it for months. Then she added: "Now

I am all over it and I don't feel hurt any

moreBUT I could no more go to her house

than anything!" What is wrong? You

see she had overcome the feeling of resent-

ment and hurt, and for that we give her

credit, but she had not forgotten the hurt,

and so really way down deep she was still
holding a bit of the old resentment, which
was keeping her from full forgiveness and
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had been accused of deceit, and that now she

would never have anything to do with her

again! Do you think Mrs. B. did the right
thing? I feel sure that you would act quite
differently. Let me guess what you would
do. 1st, you would consider that newspapers very often misinterpret the truth
since they seek sensationalism (which will
sell their papers) no matter whom it may
hurt. 2nd, if Mrs. X had done wrong, you
would try to help her by praying for her,
or if you knew her, you would try to help
her see the wrong and love her into wanting

to do right. Always reach down to help

somebody up by showing her the way. But

that does not mean to get down and do

what she does in order to show her that .you

understand. Always give the other person

the benefit of the doubt. Forgive and forget
always. Confess your own sins and set

about making amends as quickly as possible.

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CHAPTER VIII
Reincarnation

In Chapter III reference was made to

"past incarnations." Therefore, I believe

it is right that I should give you a little

more information on that subject also. Let
me do it this way: You have noticed that in

the fall of the year, leaves fall from the

trees, leaving bare branches looking as
though they were dead. However, they are

not really dead, but during the fall and

winter seasons the trees are busy preparing

for another bursting forth or rebirth into a
new garb or incarnation the next spring.
Rebirth:
Next Spring the tree is the same old tree,

but it has a new "dress." Just so with us,

for when we put off our body "overcoats" to

which we referred in Chapter V we are still
the same persons, and like the trees, we pre-

pare to come forth in the new outer gar-

ment or body when the right season comes.

You know too that the trees have the same
general appearance as they had in their last
incarnation, and so have we. Yes, actual
photographs show such distinct similarity in
appearance between persons in their former
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bodies and in their present bodies that one

can recognize the personality immediately.
The only value in knowing who we were before is in our learning not to continue the
same faults that we had before. However,
we know our own weaknesses usually and
our business is to conquer them, and so accomplish that for which we came to earth
this time.
Jesus' Belief:
The great Master Jesus believed in reincarnation, for He said in Matthew xi, 14,
speaking of John the Baptist: "This is Eli-

as, etc." How could John the Baptist be

Elias unless Elias had reincarnated as John

the Baptist? He also asked: "Whom do men

say that I, the Son of Man am?" and His

disciples answered, "Some say that thou
art John the Baptist; some say Elias; and
others Jeremias, or one of the prophets."
Then again in Matthew we see, "For this is

he (John) that was spoken of by the prophet Elias saying, 'The voice of one crying

in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of

the Lord! . . . And the same John had his

raiment of camel's hair and a leathern

girdle about his loins; and his meat (food)

was locusts and wild honey." In 2 Kings

1:7-8 we see that Elijah (Elias) was a

"hairy man and girt with a girdle of leather

about his loins" just like John. There are

other passages in the Scriptures bringing
out this fact of reincarnation, but you of
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reasonable minds do not need any more

quotations.
Inequalities

Therefore, let us go on to explain that

the only way we can reconcile the many
inequalities (great differences in stations
in life) with the fact of a loving God of
wisdom and justice, is through reincarnation as follows: A poor man or woman or
child who is struggling to find enough to
eat and wear, really chose to come into this

life in such conditions so as to learn certain lessons which could not be learned in
any other way. He or she may have been
wealthy in a former life, but perhaps selfish

also, and with no sympathy for the poor

people, so hard conditions in this life will
teach him or her to be kind and humble.
Then what about those who are wealthy
in this incarnation? They also have probably chosen this path of wealth that they
may learn certain lessons which may be
harder to learn than those of the poor. You

recall that the Bible says that it is more

difficult for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven than it is for a camel (or
rope) to go through the eye of a needle.
Why is this? He is so busy spending and

taking care of his wealth that he forget

to pray oftentimes, and forgets to use his
wealth to give many others a chance to
make good. For instance, if some wealthy
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solved in a physical body; envy of beautiful

clothes or of a car or of a beautiful home,

or other possessions, must be overcome in
a physical body, where such things are used.

There are beautiful homes in the astral

which may be earned, but we will not go into

that just now.

Recognition:
Sometimes you feel you know someone

as soon as you meet him or her. Why?

Because you have known each other in a

former incarnation. You will be attracted
to those whom you have hated as well as
to those whom you have loved. Remember
that law.

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CHAPTER IX

Why We Suffer

You probably ask, as many others do,

why innocent people have to suffer, such as

the innocent in warring countries. I will

answer in as simple a way as possible. Each

of us chooses to be born in the country in

which we appear. Therefore, we must be
good sports and take the fate or karma of
that country and do all we can to help. We
do not know the personal lives of all those
whom we call innocents, neither do we know

how much of such suffering they need to

teach them the lessons they did not learn
through their comparatively easy lives before the war. However, in any case, they
must share in the life of their chosen country; and they do not complain when they
understand the above reason.
You and I suffer because we have broken
some Law of God, either in this incarnation

or in a past incarnation. God never pun-

ishes us, but we punish ourselves by working against the Law. You see, when we do.
not obey the Law the easy way, and reap
the joys of living in harmony with it as we

should, then we must suffer in order to

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learn our lessons. In other words, we reap

what we have sown, no matter how small
the wrong may seem at the time. Therefore, when things seem to go wrong, try to
look back into your life to find out why.
You will probably remember some unkindness, no matter how small, you did to someone. If the suffering is physical, you know

from a former lesson, that you have not

obeyed the Laws of Health.

So, dear one, let us be fair and so blame
ourselves before we blame anyone else, and

then set about making things right, first,

within our own thoughts and then toward
the others whom we may have injured.

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CHAPTER X
Giving

Sometimes you wonder whether it is right

to give to the poor or to those who beg.

Perhaps I can help you. First of all, let

me tell you a great Law: "Give and it shall

be given unto you," and as ye give so shall
you receive. This Law is often turned
around in the minds of those who ask for
something without wishing to give in return. This means, in order to be able really
to receive and property use what is given
to you, you must give something for it. This
may be money or service, but preferably
by some sacrifice. It has been my experience that the individuals to whom I gave
the most without receiving anything in return, turned out to be my enemies. Why?
My giving created in them a sense of obligation which made them feel uncomfortable.

The natural reaction was to turn

against the one who caused their discomfort. Do you see the psychology of it?
Why is giving necessary to receiving?
Because to give, you must open your hand
and your heart. Then when they are open,

they are ready to receive. A closed fist

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cannot receive anything, neither can a

closed heart and mind. All right then, let

us, when we want to give, try to help others
to help themselves, or help them to carry
on. a. good work for others. When someone
comes to the door to ask for something to
eat or for money, give him a job no matter
how small, so he can keep his self-respect,
and obey the Law of Giving.
Do not forget this point either, that even
when you teach someone how to care for
his health, if you do not require him to give
something or some service for that teaching, he will feel that it is cheap and so will
not do as you say, and will go on suffering.
The higher the price, the greater the respect
and appreciation, and so the greater wish
to profit by it.

If the above sounds mercenary, please

consider that you are doing the receiver a
favor by requiring a return. Let me repeat
why: 1st, you help him to keep his selfrespect. 2nd, you make it possible for him
to profit by what you do for him or give
him. People follow their money or their
sacrifices. Try it on yourself and see the
truth of this.

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CHAPTER XI
Love

No book of spiritual advice would be com-

plete without a few words about the greatest power in the world, love. Nobody can
define love excepting to say, "God is Love."
Nobody can define God, for a finite (lim-

ited) mind cannot grasp an infinite God.

We can, however, give some of the characteristics of love. Suppose we consult our

friend Paul of the New Testament. There

he says, "Love suffereth long and is kind;
love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself,
is not puffed up; doth not behave itself unseemly; seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil; rejoiceth
not in unrighteousness but rejoiceth with
the truth; beareth all things, believeth all
things, hopeth all things, endureth all
things. Love never faileth," etc. One is

tempted to think that there is not much

love in the world if these beautiful characteristics are necessary to love. However, I
am sure that you can think of someone who
manifests such characteristics, one who is
patient and kind; one who has no envy or

boastfulness; does not try to get things

for himself or herself; does not make scenes

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if someone else has her way; someone who

does not "fly off the handle" (become angry
easily); someone who does not gossip, and

does not look for evil in others; someone

who loves truth and right, endures trouble

patiently, believes the best of others; is

always cheerful and hopeful; someone who

is faithful and can always be relied upon.
There are a few such people, and we want

to swell that number, don t we? Suppose

we stop right here and test ourselves

against all of the above characteristics of
love and see where we fall short. Then let
us go to work in earnest to cultivate those
characteristics in which we are lacking.
As we do, we shall be happier and make
more rapid progress on the Path. Remember that if Christ thinks, feels, speaks and
acts through us, then we shall have alt the
characteristics of Love.

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CHAPTER XII
Thanksgiving

Are you grateful for anything? If not,

your poor heart and mind are dried and
closed. In another Chapter we showed how
giving makes our hearts, minds and hands
open so they can receive. So it is with giv-

ing thanks that are sincere. You ask how

you can be thankful if you just aren't

because you want so many things you do
not seem to be able to get. Well, I would

suggest this: 1st, make a list of all the things

you can think of that you have not made or
earned yourself. 2nd, add all the kindnesses

other people have done for you. 3rd, think

of the sunshine, the rain, the air you

breathe, the water you drink, the food you

get, the clothes you wear, your ability to
think, to see, to read, to taste, to smell, etc.,

Send me the list of the number of

things you have found for which to be
etc.

grateful, and we shall see who can think of

the most.
While you are really thankful you can-

not be in need. Your attitude is cheerful,

and cheerfulness attracts. Your heart is
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giving, and that means getting. You recall

our Law, As ye give so shall ye receive.
Now, in closing, let me remind you of just

a few important things: 1st, although we

may be healed through prayer, we will be

sick again if we do not obey God's Laws of

Health (See Chapter II) because we will be
setting up the very causes which made us
sick the other time.
2nd, remember that before you can hope

to master other people and conditions in

life, you will have to learn to master yourselfyour animal self, which causes all the
trouble.
3rd, the cause of all suffering is the breaking of some Law of God, whether it be phy-

sical, mental or spiritual. Look within for

the reason.
4th, when things seem dark, remember
that the Light is ready to break through as
soon as you find within yourself what is
wrong with your thinking.
5th, remember that you cannot overcome
as long as your animal self rules you, so
turn always to the Christ and ask Him for
help to be strong, honest, clean, just, kind,
thoughtful and radiantly loving.
6th, it is not what you know, but what
you practice that helps you to make progress.
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Now let us together say this sincerely:

We do thank Thee, dear God, for the privi-

lege of learning through these pages the

true way to happiness and the true way to
progress on the Path of Attainment. Help

us, please, to be faithful to each part of this

teaching, for Thy name's sake, Amen.

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