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CONTENTS
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Editorials . . . ........................................................ ..... . 133
The Message of the Century . Dr. Alex. J. Mclvor-Tyndall 137
Life Processes: Mental Activities .........................................
Dr. Albert J. Atkins and Dr. Emma A . Lewis . . . . 142
A Prophecy from Helen Wilmans , . . . . . . . . 145
Biology of Intelligence . . . . . George Edwin Burnell 149
Originality......................... ..... William Morris Nichols 151
The Religions of J a p a n .................. • • Yono Simada 153
The Sleeper . . . . . . . Margaret Mclvor-Tyndall 158
Only the Wise Understand . . . . Howard Cashmere 159
The Sanctity of Our Laws . . . Dr. George W . Carey 161
The Problem of the Criminal . . . * . . Grant Wallace 163
Joy . I . . . • • • • * * • . Grace M . Brown 167
Silent Pieter. A True Ghost Story . . . Benjamin Horning 170
Books Received (conducted by Kenneth D. Lyle) . . . . 174
Mind in Nature . . .■■■ . . . Professor Edgar L Larkin 177
Zen Methods of Cultivating the W ill . . . Yanoske Isoda 179
Personal Problems . . . . . 181
The Pesticator . ..................... Russell D . Chase 183
To Make You Laugh . ............................... . . . .184
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Editorials
There are some mental maladies that require the surgeon's
kind of treatment. The discordant note has so long been struck
in the mental concept of the patient, that nothing short of an op
eration will suffice to cure. The victim must be awakened out
of the obsession of the idea, and this can only be done by the
broad-ax of Truth.
Like all surgical operations, this sort of thing isn’t pleasant
to the operator, and many there are who shirk the responsibility
and go on sending out vibrations of Love and healing Thought,
which fall upon barren ground for the reason that the soil of the
mind is already filled with the roots of a diseased thought. I
am not now referring to an inharmonious condition of the body
manifested in some specific disease. I am referring to that class
of unfortunates afflicted with chronic unhappiness, chiefly mani
fested in “depression,” “sensitiveness,” “hurt feelings,” and all
sorts of imaginary “bad luck.”
We all know them and while they try one’s patience, we
must admit that they are in need of help of some kind. The par
ticular kind of help required is, of course, help of the “self”—
they are passing through a wilderness, as it were, in which they
are lost in contemplation of what they think themselves to be,
but which, after all, represents so small and limited and per
verted a view of the real self that they must perforce be dissat
isfied with the perspective of personality. The ready, or at least
the only certain, cure for this condition is to tell the Truth to
these self-appraised “martyrs.” , And this is just the most diffi
cult thing in the world to do.
This perpetual “invisible chip” that sits impudently and
monarchically on the shoulder of the “sensitive” being, is the
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veritable “keeper of the Threshold.” It keeps the soul im;

oned wthin, and It frightens away the “tactful,” the cautious ,d
the peace-loving.
Nothing but the broad-ax of Truth can break through . ,e
walls of selfness and imaginary “grouches” such persons <„n
erect between themselves and freedom, and none save an
trepid wielder of the broad-ax can hope to accomplish the tasi*.
And so, let us thank the Spirit of the Age, that with all ii;e
Lovers and the Peace-makers and the Thinkers of Good
Thoughts, we also have a few who will bluntly, unequivocally,
healthfully, hurl the liberating battle-ax of plain Truth at the cit
adel of prejudice, and “ghost” ideas and imaginary “ sensitive
ness” of human concepts and thus liberate the souls within.
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I have taken loads of it and I know.
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every good that Life has to offer, but we have been wholly
unprepared for the avalanche of subscriptions that have poured
in from every quarter of the globe. In fact we have been almost
too astonished ourselves at the instantaneous success of the
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Swastika, to do more than "hustle” to fill tnc orders. The work

that this has entailed, because of the necessity of personal super*
vision, only those who have been closely associated with us
during the pat four months can even imagine.
We have been amused lately to read in nearly all the New

Thought magazines of the “remarkable interest in New Thought
evidenced in Denver.”
It has long been a notorious fact among New Thought teach
ers and lecturers that Denver is the invincible citadel before
which the armies of the faithful have gone down ignominiously.
‘*To 'make good' in Denver is to stamp yourself a success indeed,"
is an expression that voices the sentiment of all who have essayed
to teach New Thought here.
This is heresy, we know because if there is anything that
is unforgiveable in the sight of Denverites, it is a hint of dis
approval of anything and everything belonging thereto.
But we dare to say it, and what is m ore to print it.
Denver, with its unequalled climate, its beautiful clean
streets, its sunshine and its business prosperity, is not, emphat
ically not, a good New Thought center.
The action of the Denver Post in exploiting a page of New
Thought in its Sunday supplement, was not a venture undertaken
with full confidence in the demand for such reading matter.
That it has been so extraordinary a success has surprised
and gratified the Post proprietors, but the page was started in
the first place through the enterprise and generosity of the Post
proprietors, in their desire to aid in the work and through their
confidence in the editor of the Swastika magazine.
The demand has been created by them and not merely met.
The New Thought Center which has become an influence
here in Denver has been established at the expense of more work,
more unyielding, persistent and determined work than the out
side world will ever know, and even now, dear Denver friends,
where do you think the Swastika has got its subscriptions from?
Largely from California, with the Eastern states and Canada
a close second.
May we suggest, Dear Colorado, that you try to live up to
the reputation which has been established for you without any
effort on your part by such indefatigable workers as you have
with you, namely the Denver Post; The Balance; The Swastika;
Christian; Grace M. Brown; the Vice-President of the World's
136 THE SWASTIKA.
New Thought Federation, Miss Nona Brooks, and through many

other facts pertinent to the subject?
Is Denver a great New Thought Center?
Well, it is, but Denver doesn’t know it yet, but we think
soon will.
We want to call your attention to the offer we are making

for subscriptions in this issue. The Swastika magazine has done
what no other publication that we have ever heard of has done,
namely paid from the very first number, and we feel justified in
expecting and demanding at least one hundred thousand sub
scribers by the first of January, 1908. From the progress already
made this number is a very conservative figure, and we unhesi
tatingly predict that the number will be greatly in excess of
this.
A single copy of the Swastika costs ten cents. If on receiving
it, you do not find it what we represent, you may return the
magazine and receive your ten cents back—but, you cannot have
copies of the Swastika magazine except by paying for them, or
through the compliments of your friends.
It is our belief, that a subscription list built upon anything
less than paid up subscriptions is not worth having, and that is
what we mean to have.
If we contemplated boarding at a certain hotel or restaurant,
we would not ask for a “sample” meal free of charge—we would
expect to pay for each meal.
If we did not like the first one, we would probably not order
a second.
That is what you are advised to do with the Swastika. If
you don’t like it, that is your viewpoint, and we will not offer
an objection. We will also do better than you could do with
any other kind of purchase— -we will let you send it back and
refund the price of the copy if you don't think it what we claim
for. it.
We will do anything in reason to please prospective sub
scribers, but we will not send free samples.
If God ever revealed anything to anyone, He also revealed it

to you.
The average man knows nothing save what he has absorbed,

much as a sponge takes in all the water that is poured into it.
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The Message of the Century

It is very generally agreed that the pres
ent century means something. It has opened
up, with remarkable changes in thought.
Many of the ideas that were regarded as
.'ixed for ail time, have been demolished. In
the scientific world, we have had discoveries,
and are still having discoveries, that are
£0 sitively revolutionary in character.
The entire Universe seems to have become
anarchistic, and is demolishing the tradi
tions and the socalled facts, to which the
world has been clinging.
The discovery of the Ion, is thought by the physicist, to be
a stupendous blow to the infallibility of Science, because of its
relation to the atomic theory. From the point of view of the
psychist, thi alleged discovery of the “ ion” does not in the least
change the importance of the atomic theory. On the other hand,
it merely substantiates the affirmation of the psychist, that the
visible is only a coarser, denser, expression of the invisible.
Of course, there have been in all ages of the World’s history,
men and women— few indeed in number—who have perceived
the fact of the illusory quality of the external world. But it may
safely be said, that during past centuries, the material scientist
and the psychist, or the idealist we will say, have been at directly
opposite viewpoints.
This century marks a change. Indeed, there are many
changes. But one change that is more important than all others,
because it is the one that has made all others possible, is the
change that we see in the attitude of the materialist and the
psychist, toward each other. It is just beginning to occur to
each, that they may after all both be right, each looking at Truth
from a different point of view. And as always occurs, when both
viewpoints are considered, there is very little difference between
them.
Whether this world is wholly and completely one of what
the material scientist calls “matter,” or whether it is what the
mental scientist calls “mind,” is of small moment, considered
merely asa question for dispute.
Whether there is a personal God who sends sickness and
s u ffe rin g upon h is c re a tu r e s in o r d e r to f i t th e m f o r a b e tte r
lif e a f t e r d e a th , o r w h e th e r th is e a r t h is th e p r o d u c t o f th e im
mature creative power of the human mind, does not concern
us—or at least it would not concern us— if it were merely a
question for discussion.
But the point is this:
Those who have the power to think for themselves, no
matter what their viewpoint as regards 'the cosrnos— have come
to this conclusion, namely: Something MUST be done looking
to a less strenuous, less difficult, and less discordant life. It
does not take a psychic to perceive that man has become the
victim of the machinery he has set in motion.
Money, which is the representative of material conditions,
has become a God, to the great mass of people who struggle and
waste all the opportunities of their spiritual nature, in the quest
for what they fondly believe is the open sesame to happiness.
Differences in religious belief—differences in theories regard
ing all the questions of the supremacy of matter or the supremacy
of spirit— all these differences are swallowed up in the all-import
ant question of the “quest for happiness.”
The message of this century is one of unity— unity of pur
pose. This is merely a preparation for what is to follow. It is
only the worker who precedes the sower, digging up the ground
in order that the seed which is to bring the desired crop, may
find ready root.
And so we find in every phase of the world's work, at the
opening of this century, a breaking u|p of the ground. All the
old systems of education; of religion; of mechanics; of all the
various branches of science; are being revolutionized.
ideas that had become crystalized into axioms, are being
uprooted. But instead of all this resulting in chaos, we may if
we will, perceive through this condition— a wonderful message.
There is a universal faith, as well as a universal DESIRE, that
all is well and that we are soon to claim our birthright of free
dom from the grind of labor; from superstitious fear of a
Creator; from competition and strife and all the ignoble struggle,
between human beings.
Occasionally we see men or a body of men, who can not
realize what this changed condition of affairs portends. They
feel the tremendous undercurrent of soul-consciousness that is
carrying us onward, but they distrust it. It is these, and these
clone, who decry the tendencies of the age. ^
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We saw an example of this in the Methodist conference held

in Los Angeles two years ago. These people met, and I am
prepared to believe, they met in all sincerity to devise ways and
means for the best good of their particular flock, if not for the
rest of us.
But their methods were like those of a hen with a flock of
ducks to raise. The hen clucks and clucks out her alarm and her
warning to her brood, and probably says: “If you go near that
water you will be damned—or drowned— which is the same thing
from the hen viewpoint.
And the ducks, while they hear, and perhaps do not dare
“answer back,“ yet make for the water as fast as they can. They
are alive to the urge of the instinct within them. There has been
nothing in their experience that pleads for the advantages of
water, but the impelling force within them urges them to try It.
And so, when I see some good old clergyman of the last
half century’s Thought, arise to tell his young hearers that they
must not dance, they must not play ball, they must not attend
the theatre—and other “must nots,” I think of the good old hen
with her brood of ducks.
Of course they W ILL do all those things. They must. They
can no more help doing them than the ducks can help making a
bee-line for the water.
Why? Because there is ji;jot one thing that is stronger than
the instinct of self-preservation, which is said to be the first law
of nature.
That thing is love of freedom.
The soul’s right to be absolutely unfettered, unrestricted,
free, is something that can never be eradicated.
If, to attain this freedom, we must go through the sum of
human experience, then go we will, for freedom must be ours.
And there is only one thing that can see us safely through ex
periences— out into the broad sweep of freedom.
That thing is LOVE.
Without love, we become lost in the condition, and then we
decide that happiness, which is the thing we seek—only we don’t
always know it—we decide that happiness is a will-o'-the-wisp.
Some times we hear it said: “Oh, yoi-| New Thought people
talk of happiness, but I did so and so, and I did not find it,”
There is a subtle, but a very great difference between merely
doing a thing because you are told to do it, and doing a thing
in order that you may obtain a given result.
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In the one case you become lost in the condition. In t;

other you see THROUGH the experience or condition—and ga
the Light
But, it may be said that if one admits the nothingness 01
experience, one cannot logically find a purpose or a lesson ¡,.
experience.
I believe that it is in the very perception of this nothingness
that we may see the purpose of manifestation.
In one sense the external world is unreal, in as much as ¡t
seems to shift and change, according to our viewpoint. Tne
term ‘"reality" implies permanency.
When we are well and happy and glad, all things are glad
with us. When we are under the spell of discouragement and
sorrow, there is no pleasure, and no mirth in it.
What has produced the change?
Merely our own mental state. The lens of the mind has
changed the comedy to tragedy—for us. This, then, would seem
to prove the unreality of externals, and the absence of any
necessity for human experience.
But, it is experience that has brought us to the point of view
wherein we may perceive the difference between the two condi
tions of mind. And the difficulty lies NOT in the experience it
self, but in the tendency to become LOST in that condition-
absorbed in tlve pleasure or the pain of it, and in admitting it
as a reality.
Longfellow, like all true poets taught the perception of
POWER as the supreme force.. He said:
"Not enjoyment and not sorrow
Is our destined end and way—
But to ACT—that each tomorrow
Find us further than today."
This is but another way of saying—what all illumined minds
have perceived—that there is nothing gained by hating sin, or
loving piety. Reward and punishment are merely conditions—
they are not “our destined end and way.” Our destined end and
way lies in freedom. And the sooner we claim that freedom,
the better. If we claim it here and now, we enjoy Heaven—
which is freedom— here and now.
We have always been told that we must hate sin and love
God, and God has—erroneously— been a synonym for a condition
we have called GOODNESS. Many people, even to-day, regard
their hatred of sin, as a legal passport through the "pearly
* gates." There is no virtue in hating sin.
The murderer needs love—even more than does his victim.

I read some time ago of an incident that fitly expresses the
mistake of teaching the doctrine of hatred of sin. A party of
Mexican fanatics, inaugurated Good Friday ceremonials, and to
show their love of the “crucified savior,” they made an effigy o
Judas, and carried it aloft on a cross, and afterwards, in I
frenzy of hatred, they cut the figure to pieces, and burned it.
All this, mind you, in the name of the man who taught thal
Love is the fulfilling of the law. Of course, I do not mean that
this sort of thing would be condoned by the church in whose
name the deed was committed. But-—the deed is the logical
outcome of the teaching that we must HATE sin.
We need these extremes to teach us whither we are tending.
These poor creatures seemed to have no realization of the
MEANING of all the tragedy of Calvary. They absorbed only
the primitive instinct of revenge and hatred. We read of this,
and think: “ How barbaric,” or perhaps, “ How ridiculous.” But
we each need to take the lesson home. How different is that
from the custom of hanging men for murder—a custom that is
accepted and put into practice by even this great nation, that
stands for advancement and enlightenment? It is merely deal
ing out hate for hate.
And this in spite of the fact that we have heard from the
pulpit for eighteen hundred years the one and the only remedy
for it a ll: Love is the fulfilling of the law.
ALEXANDER J. MclVOR TYNDALL.
The following story will bear repetition, although it has been

published before: It was at a Socialist meeting, which harbored
a dissenter. The dissenter had the floor, and was trying to prove
the inexpediency of the principle of “division of possessions” ad
vocated by the previous speaker. He was addressing his conver
sation to an Irishman, and he labored thus: “Now, Pat, if you
owned two brick blocks would you give me one?” To which Pat
quickly answered that “he would, be jabbers.” “Well, if you had
two cottages, would you give me one?” And Pat replied: “ In-
dade he would.” “Well, if you had two horses would give me
one?” And still Pat unflinchingly assented. that “he would.”
“Well, then, if you had two pigs, would you give me one?” was
the final query. “Oh, go an now,” said Pat indignantly, “shure
ye know I’ve got two pigs.”
Some men are tied to one idea like a horse tied by a halter.
Life Processes: Mental Activities

(Written for The Swastika.)
By DR. ALBERT J. A TKINS and DR. EM M A A. LEWIS, Co-
Discoverers of theLife-Principle.
A complete understand
ing of the laws that govern
the motor activities which
are constantly taking place
in the physical organism,
is grand and uplifting;
yet. important as is this
knowledge to the main
tenance of health, there
is a still higher phase of
this electrical activity; —
it is the citadel of sensation. This realm surpasses all others in
its transcendant possibilities; it is here that the human mind
receives all of its conscious impressions of life.
The grounding of all electrical circuits in the body, in the
blood, causes chemical action among its physical structures,
or constituents.
This electrolytic action releases the potential energy stored
in the chemicals of the blood. This released energy is magnetic in
character compared to that which we gain from breathing air.
The interplay of electro-magnetic forces gained from these two
sources charges the nervous apparatus of the entire organism,
thus making it responsive to outside influences or stimuli.
It is well understood that the telephone and telegraph sys
tems must have proper charges of electrical energy before they
can become responsive to signals or outside waves of sound.
The photographic plate must be sensitized before it can receive
■impressions of light.
A wireless telegraph receiver becomes capable of receiving
electro-magnetic waves, only when it is charged with electrical
energy, and so made sensitive. The waves of sound impinging
upon the delicate organs of the ear, cause the sensation of hear
ing, because the nervous apparatus of the ear is charged with
electrical energy, in the manner already explained.
The photographic apparatus of the human eye responds to

the images of its environment, because it is charged with elec
trical energy. These rapidly moving images come from without
and are photographed upon the sensitized substance of the
brain.
Nerves of special sense are so arranged as to respond only
to waves attuned to their own scale of vibration; thus the optic
nerve responds only to waves of light; the auditory nerve re
sponds only to waves of sound. If we examine the construction
of the nerve we shall find minute granules within its axis cylin
der.
It is our opinion that these little granules act like the small
magnetic filings in a coherer, so that a current is forced to jump
from granule to granule, which forms resistance to the current;
thus producing different rates of vibration.
The nerve cells of the brain are composed of the finest ma
terial in the organism.
In the cerebral cortex, or mental portion of the brain, these
cells are arranged in consecutive rows, like the key-board of a
musical instrument. Every nerve cell with its connecting nerve
fiber, is a perfect, individual organ—a miniature brain.
It is a receiver and distributor of impulses suited to its in
dividual scale. Those impulses convey intelligence and act
strictly upon the electrical plan. When we think of the millions
of nerve cells in the brain, each of which is keyed to its own in
dividual scale of vibration, then we begin to comprehend the law
of mentality and see how the physical forces are played upon
by the finer forces of intelligence.
Physical and mental activities are closely related; conse
quently, by an application of the same principles of electrical
action by which we have analyzed the special senses, we may
continue their further application ir.to the finer domain of the
mind’s action. Our experiments on the living brain prove it to
be charged with electrical energy, also that energy increases
with disturbance of mentality.
These facts place in the hand of science the key to a
rational psychology and a true basis for a scientific physiology.
Everywhere energy acts according to laws of vibration; vibra
tion manifests in different scales; each scale of vibratory energy
produces a certain harmonious rythm. Within the human body
every organ vibrates to its own individual rhythmic scale; in
health all organs vibrate in harmonious rhythm to that of the in
dividual organism.
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The individual organism ENDEAVORS to vibrate in ha-

mony with the influences of its environment. Environment for
each individual means the effect of all the forces of the universe
upon that individual, conscious center of personality.
The forces of the whole physical organism are negative to
those of its environment; for this reason alone they respond to
influences from without; it is thus that environment produces so
great an effect upon the individual.
Luther Burbak says, "Heredity is the sum of all past en
vironment.” This rule applies not only to the physical struc
ture. of man, but also to his mental development. We are im
pressed by the physical conditions and mental atmosphere with
which we are surrounded.
Our universe is alive with the electrical thought waves of
all mankind, which act and react upon the individual and the
entire human race through telepathy and thought transference.
Nor is this all; the very substance of which our physical en
vironment is composed has received and stored the very essence
of all the thought of previous ages.
Thought is the vital force which weaves substance into
form; form is transitory, but thought is lasting; passing on from
age to age, expressing and re-expressing, until at last the ideal
is reached and stands before mankind in perfected glory.
Let no man boast of originality of thought, for he is simply
coming into a conscious recognition of that which Nature has
so carefully preserved for him in her book of life. This book of
life is a history of all previous thought, built into the mental and
physical structure of the race;—we call it Heredity,
v- ^The sensorium and its environment have been briefly de
scribed. Repeated impressions from the environment are con
tinually photographed on the sensitized substance of the sen
sorium; this action takes place through responsive sense organs,
in the manner explained; these mental pictures are thus pre
served, constituting memory.
By force of will, currents of thought are reversed, thus
bringing mental pictures before the mentality for reflection; this
process is called recollection. Recollection of experiences per
mits of mental comparison; comparisons form judgment.
Judgment brings many experiences into classification,
which are known as conclusions. Many classified conclusions
constitute knowledge. The harmoniously classified knowledge
pf the many minds constitute principle. Principle leads to an
understanding of unity; unity is the sum of all past experience,

the comprehension of which is wisdom.
We are living in a remarkable age of transition; we are
passing from the old to the new strata of thought; the whole
race is vibrating to a higher key. It is an age of inquiry and
progress; as we advance, old traditions and dogmas dissolve,
leaving nothing but the thought which gave them birth; this
thought becomes the stepping stone which lifts our conscious
ness one plane higher in the scale of intelligence.
As we slowly ascend the mountain of wisdom, our perspec
tive becomes broader, our consciousness more acute, and we
begin to comprehend the unity of life's forces. In an absolute
sense, life has no beginnings and no endings; it is the one
eternal NOW. Time is the transitory hypnosis of environment.
Behind all energy, all force, all time, all phenomena, there
is intelligence.
Through reflection, thought brings us our highest concep
tion of intelligence,—-but what is intelligence? What is that in
telligence which stands behind our individuality, in the dim
border-land of infinity, which analyzes our thought impressions
and guides us along the broad pathway of experience?
A Prophecy from Helen Wilmans

Those who have been readng some of the newspaper reports
regarding the alleged mental and physical breakdown of Helen
Wilmans, one of the greatest pioneers of the Mental Science
movement, will not find in the following expressions of this
truly remarkable woman corroboration of these reports.
The letter here published shows the same vigorous mentality,
sincerity of purpose, and unequivocal common sense that has
always characterized the utterances of Helen Wilmans. Here
is the letter, almost verbatim:
Dr. and Mrs. Mclvor-Tyndall, Dear Friends: I have so en
joyed your editorials and answers to queries in the Denver Post,
which I subscribed for as soon as I learned you were writing for
it, and now I have the Swastika and your little book, “ How
Thought Can Kill." So you think that thought can sometimes
kill!
But you say: “It is a chemical law that we attract that
which we send out." This is very discouraging to the would-be
146 THE SWASTIKA.
murderer. If I send out a thought to kill an enemy, I shall at

tract a similar thought that will kill me. In this case I had
better leave him alone.
It is my fixed belief that there is no power in death; that
death is simply the absence of all power. Therefore if I attempt
to use it as a power, knowing that it is not a power, it cannot
hurt my enemy, while at the same time my attempt, being
prompted by malice, may react upon me like a boomerang.
In the first year of my trial here, it happened that quite a
number of the postoffice officials, who were furious in their
efforts against me, died.
.1 think as many as five or six died, among whom was Mr.
Paine, the postmaster general. Not only this, but quite a num
ber were tried for dishonest practices, and four or five are now
serving sentences in the penitentiary.
Of course the newspapers, whose office it is to furnish as
many sensational lies for the public as possible, took this matter
up and boldly accused me of killing them.
But even if I had known how to kill my enemies I could not
afford to do so. I recognized from the first that they were doing
me a service. In spite of my hopes and desires, my aspirations
after the ideal, I had reached a place where l seemed to be
standing still.
My intense longing for the saving truth would not permit
me to remain in this position. It was essential to my going on
that I should acquire more strength. I needed more obstacles to
surmount in order to stiffen my mental muscle.
It was then that the whole force of the government came
upon me. I was indicted on sixteen accusations. In spite of the
efforts of the prosecution I was cleared of fifteen of these
charges. In doing this I proved to the world that all power is
in the mind.
I established every claim of mental science but one. This
one was the claim that I could cure one person through a third
party; as, for instance, a child through its mother while the
child was ignorant of the treatments. V
I had cured hundreds of patients in this way and had bright,
intelligent and highly cultured witnesses present to prove it.
I established the fact that I did it constantly; and I believe to
this day that I would have been fully acquitted but that the
prosecution made the case turn against me by proving that I
did not accept the belief in a personal God.
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If this view is correct, and I firmly believe it, then what I

was convicted of was heresy; and I would much rather be con
victed of being a heretic to such Christianity as rules the world
than to have it believed that I endorse it.
So even on this point I claim a victory, and I say with abso
lute confidence that in less than a decade my claim will be
admitted by all whose opinions are worth considering.
The things I learned during the five years of my trial con
cerning the selfishness, the baseness, the utter unscrupulousness
of men in office opened the gates of our present social, financial
and governmental hell to me and showed me as never before the
necessity of pushing forward the great mental movement of
which we in this age are the forerunners and prophets.
Nothing ever happened in my experience which so com
pletely contrasted the present conditions of the race with the
ideal conditions to which we of the New Thought aspire.
It is over; the postoffice authorities think they won, but they
did not; time will show.
It is not too much to say that the government In its mis
taken zeal has established the doctrine of what we have called
evolution, to the utter banishment of every theoretical dogma
which underlies our foolish religious system, and which has pro
duced the chaos and is the foundation root of our present social
hell.
It has started people to thinking; and from the starting
point of self-produced thought self-salvation is born.
it is true that except for the self-culture I am undergoing
that I am out of the field of broader activities at present. The
fraud order still stands against my name and against the names
of my husband and daughter, so that I can receive no mail. It
makes no difference, because I do not want to do professional
work.
I am undergoing a change that demands silence and aloof
ness. I do not know where the present strain of thought is
leading me, but I can see that I am making a closer approach
to my highest ideal than ever before, and this satisfies.
There are some censorious people even among our New
Thought publishers who have made the occasion of my supposed
misfortune the opportunity by which they are exposing their
»gnorance—most ignominiously.
lere is no manifestation of ignorance so hopeless as that
which takes the form of knowing it all. And this is the position
148 THE SWASTIKA.
of those whose judgment of me is surely going to prove pre

mature.
It seems strange, and almost irreconcilable with the fast
coming new ideas, that these persons do not sense the mighty
work ahead of us, and know that only the faintest intimation of
its stupendous greatness has reached us yet.
Is there any one a m o n g us who really knows the road we
are traveling?
We are out of the old road and the new way is an untried
wilderness into which our dissatisfied present thought is pros
pecting for something better than the world has ever known.
The way ahead of us is an unbroken jungle through whose
intricacies many a false path is cut by us that must be aban
doned for a broader one.
For my part— not knowing the road, and, being free from
that brainless egotism which would prompt me to believe it im
possible that I could make a mistake, I go ahead, feeling my
way, as it were, sometimes wandering from the right direction,
but because of my fidelity to the highest and noblest desire of
my soul, always getting back with the assuranbe of another
lesson well learned.
At this time I see that the race is in the throes of a great
change. I believe our whole iniquitous financial system is to be
overthrown.
As surely as man is man it cannot be otherwise than that
his splendid genius, now chained down by barriers too great for
him to overthrow, is going to be released for his own benefit
and the benefit of the world.
I don’t believe in human labor.
It is not by the exhaustion of man's muscle and brain that
1 the highest race development will come.
We are artists; we are creators; each of us has beautiful
and lofty aspirations to work ouit.
The working out of these aspirations will not be work but
pleasure, the combined result of which will be the building of
heaven on earth.
The whole tendency of growth is toward individualism.
individualism kills leadership; and with the struggle for
leadership dead, there will be absolute peace; and with the es
tablishment of peace there will come the bloom and fruitage of
individual genius; the reign of Necessity will have passed, and
the reign of Beauty will be established*
Biology of Intelligence
(W ritten for The Swastika.)
By GEORGE EDWIN BURNELL.
Healing is the identity of vitality and intelligence. That life

is mental is supposed to be a step toward that perception.
The study into which the metaphysical movement has led eo
many in the past fifty years has become very animated, under
taking to secure insight into the identity between consciousness
and life, to be conscious of living and the joy of the consciousness
of living.
It was about fifty or sixty years ago that the materialistic
condition of things was so hardened by material, ethical and ideal
resistances, that faith in anything but a material world was be
ing rapidly inhibited.
This became obvious to the leaders of the race who have
illumination.
They therefore took counsel among themselves in these
states, to provide against the tendency of a young nation like
the American nation being extinguished in its opportunities in
the way of mental vitality and consciousness of the largeness of
life, and they felt that something very striking would have to
be done in order to awaken them from their resistant condi
tions.
What is it that constitutes the material life, mentally speak
ing? The elements—elemental conditions. Mentally speaking,
just the idea of resistance.
Is there any matter? ,, No. What is this which is called
matter, then? You can as well call it matter as anything else.
There is only spirit. There is not any matter.
What do you mean by spirit, and what by matter? Are they
different from each other? They are in one sense,—what seems
to be, that is not.
Materiality is mind in a resistant state. Then matter is re
sistant mind. “But,” you say, “ I do not understand how it can
be resistant— how mind can be resistant.” It is resistant because
it does actually resist your touches and senses, in general.
You cannot walk through chairs, because they will resist
you. You cannot move up into the air, because your viewpoint
resists your doing that. Adhesion, cohesion, chemical affinity, in
material objects, resist you.
150 THE SWASTIKA.
Herbert Spencer says there is nothing to matter but resist

ance. He says that matter, motion, force, are totally unreal.
They are only symbols of states of mind.
And the name of the state of mind that is called matter is
resistance. For that reason the illumined, in undertaking to
soften the materialistic conditions, have introduced a state o;
nonresistance.
There is no matter. What we called matter is only mind
with the idea of hardness, of coldness, of resistance, in it.
For instance, if .there should be no wall going by here, and
humbn being were told, under hypnosis, that there was a storv
wall there he could not pass through it because the idea of
stone wall would resist him just as successfully as the wall it
self. In fact, those chairs do not resist you or any one excepi
because of the idea of hardness and resistance in them.
That point was made plain by the leader of American science.
Professor Simon Newcomb, when he said that trains could run
in opposite directions on the same track without striking each
other, according to the laws of biology.
I say, therefore, that the resistance in mind was brought
about by an excessive devotion to the three forms of legality I
have mentioned.
The United States started out in its mental career by a
Puritanical idea, excessively Puritanical, and its subsequent, his
tory was strewn with ideas of resistance against everything.
They fought with the elements in the North and with wild beasts
in the Southland with Indians everywhere. They fought against
everything.
Every man’s hand was against them, every object in nature
was against them, and their own minds were against them, be
cause they were Puritans seeking a free country and fighting
for it.
The idea, then, was that they accepted in toto the determina
tion to abolish a program of life. They became so that after
fifty years of freedom, they were as bound as ever, if not more
so, not by anything in their situation, but by their own mind.
They were more bound than they had ever been, experimentally.
"Then," you ask, “we are just subject to ideas, and nothing
else?” And you want to know who made these laws that are
made—the law and order of the universe and everything? Who
has established those? Can a law be made any time, and called
an idea? Or, rather, can a law be made any time with an idea?"
Simply with an idea a law can be made any time. I cah take
A MAGAZINE OF TRIUMPH. 151
a human being and stand him there and I tell him there Is a
stone wall there, and he cannot go by. though the situation re«
mains just the same, but to him there is a law there, which he
cannot go through, a law called a stone wall.
Now, there are three forms of those manufactured bondages.
Of course, all bondage has to be manufactured. It could not be
real. It has to be unreal, or else we could not get rid of it. The
truth would not deliver from real bondage, hence it is a created
bondage.
(To be continued.)

By W ILLIAM MORRIS NICHOLS.
We all are imitators!

Doubtless this statement will cause a look
of genuine surprise to sweep over a face
or two, but there’s no getting around the
point.
The most original individual is he who
à doxical expressions of itself.

That work which bears the deepest indelible stamp of orig
inality will always prove to be the production of a splendid
imitator.
Among the towering painters, Michael Angelo, Titian, Mil-
' lals, Corot, were supreme copyists.
Observation of the eminent sculptors shows us that they
Were the very cleverest of reproducers.
Glancing down the list of the makers of literature, we may
place our fingers upon the names of celebrated writers of prose
and poetry who were simply inimitable mimics.
Imitators par excellence these, but— imitators of what?
Imitators and copyists of that wonderful reality which shim-
THE SWASTIKA.
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brains. Ever they sought by brush, chisel and pen to reveal

“the glory that crowns the revealing.”
There are two types of imitators. The great and the small.
The latter may be designated as the monkey and parrot
genus.
A parrot catches on to some high sounding words, and these
he repeats over and over again, until they really come to be
associated with the bird himself.
The small imitator gets hold of a newspaper, absorbs the
hot and hasty editorial opinions, and lastly gives them out to
others as his own.
Or, he decides to become an artist. Studies some, and then
goes to Italy for finishing touches. Makes a copy of a master
piece, brings it home and places it in an art store window for
his friends to see. The local press notices him something like
this:
“Mr. J. B. Blank, well known to many admiring friends as
an artist of no mean ability, has recently returned from Europe,
where he has been pursuing his studies in painting. As a result
of his sojourn abroad he has produced an excellent copy of
Millet’s “The Angelus,” which he has kindly allowed the Art
Emporium to display in their spacious windows. Mr. Blank
shows marked skill and originality in his work.”
Refined monkey ism.
The imitator in miniature is always striving to emulate the
handiwork of the Imitator Magnificat.
But who are the great imitators?
These are they who “look upon their hearts” and, with the
clumsy tools of sense, give to the world the very best imitation
of what they find there. They strive with all their might and
skill to reproduce the Original, the Flawless Model within.
The “well done” of his fellows may often ring in the ears
of the minute copyist, and there he may find rest.
Not so the copyist of reality, he cannot stop at this period
> (and indeed, it sometimes never comes until he has glided on),
for while his comrades may say, “Thou has reached perfection.
The Flawless One within him whispers, “Thou canst, thou must
do better. Behold me! Am I not more beautiful, far greater
than that which thou hast wrought? Thou has not done me
Justice!”
And so the work of imitation goes on.
The small find joy in the work accomplished; the finished
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But to the great belongs the larger joy, the joy of forever
going on. Progression! ,
To him each achievement is but an incentive to a grander.
“Still achieving, still pursuing/’ he follows the gleam.
Less than this to him means retrogression, death, oblivionl
Originality, then, is only imitation in its purest and noblest
form.
It is imitation’s “first copy.” All first copies are called
“originals,” but second copies are never honored with this term.
Though it is impossible to originate that which already is,
and while we are unable to pass out to the public the living
models of our interior galleries, we are privileged to faithfully
reproduce these inner glories as best we can in the external;
and to the degree that our work more nearly represents a true
copy of the inner reality, will it be called original.
The Religions of Japan

By YONO SIMADA.
The religions of Japan! W hat a tremend-

ous subject to talk about intelligently within
the scope of three small pages!
Japan’s history is bound up in religion, as
is the history of all nations. Therefore to
tell of the religions of Nippon, is like writing
tomes of her annals.
Every breath of life is religious in letter
if not in spirit, to the real devotee in the
Orient. All ceremonious occasions are con
ducted according to traditions sprung from
religious observances.
Of course, the religion of Japan as a country, is Buddhist*
just as the religion of America as a country is Protestant.
But in Buddhism, there are nine distinct sects, and each
sect has its specific method—a slight variation from the original
form of ceremonial sufficient to call it another denomination,
much as I have heard in this country the terms “hard-shelled"
and “soft-shelled’’ Baptists; those who baptise by immersion and
those who don't; those of certain denominations who allow
theatre-going and others of the same sect who do not.
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Indeed, and indeed, but the religious history of all countries

is the same—quibbling and dissenting over trivial details of
ceremony, even while agreeing upon the socalled tenets of belief.
Among the nine distinct sects of Buddhism, varying only as
slightly as do the various Protestant orthodox sects in this coun
try—there are five sects which take only that part of the
Bujddha’s teaching which relates to “doing good.” That is, they
emphasize the point that it is by the efforts of the individual
self, rather than by belief in the “saving power of the Buddha,”
that they may gain Paradise.
These acts impress the importance of self-reliance, and
the willingness of Buddha to help their creed may be compared
to the phrase “The Lord helps those who help themselves.”
The point is that the devotees of the sects known as those of
“Self-Power Buddhists” feel that they must take the initiative
in all good works and that by so doing, the Lord Buddha will
lend His aid and in every way show His approval.
In all the religious sects of Japan, healing is one of the most
important points of ceremony.
One would fancy sometimes to hear the fuss that is made
in this country over “healing” as a “new” discovery, that healing
as a part of religion had its birth here in America.
Every boy of from five to sixteen years who becomes a
“student priest” in any of the Buddhist temples, is taught the
art of healing, and can discount any instance of mind healing
which has come to my notice here in America, and my opportun
ities for observation have not been limited.
Drugless healing in all its branches, and in all its variations
Is taught and practised among all the Buddhist sects.
It is only recently that I have learned what Osteopathy is.
I find that it is one of the oldest methods of healing known in
Japan. Every thoroughly competent master of Jiu-jitsu is a
trained and qualified osteopath.
And yet they say that the Japanese are “imitators.”
18 there any one of my readers who is brave enough to admit
the unparalleled egotism of the white race? No? Then we will
let it pass.
Another evidence of the “imitative” tendency of the Japan
ese is found in the religious sect of Buddhism known as the Zen.
Here we find the entire gamut of the possibilities of mind-
power, in healing, in demonstration over material'things, in all
• the phases of metaphysical thought which are now interesting all
America.
“There is nothing in the Universe but Mind” is one of the

axioms of the Zen sect. “Matter, or materiality is a creation of
man's imperfect creative power” is another.
A conviction that is so deep-seated as to have become almost
commonplace among them is the fact that “disease is an II-
lustion of the senses.”
Another one is that “there is no power in matter,” and to
this end, they will demonstrate it, by holding in the hand a red*
hot tongs for example, leaving the skin as cool and undisturbed
as though it were a flower.
Where else' could these “imitative Japs” have got these
ideas, save from Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, because did she not,
alone and unaided, “discover” the allness of Mind?
! believe that this distinguished lady advises her readers
not to “tempt the Lord with such vain things as putting their
hands in the fire” to prove the truth of the allness of mind, and
in this respect the Zen sect do not follow her, but where else,
where else, COULD they have got these “discoveries” of hers?
Dear! dear! These “adaptable,” “imitative” Japs!
But to return to the sects of Buddhism less mental than
those classed in a general sense as following the way of “Self-
Power.”
These are the prototypes of orthodox Christians who pin their
faith to the saving power of belief in Jesus as the “only begotten
son of God.”
The burden of their prayers is: “Oh, Lord, be merciful to me,
a wrecthed miserable sinner.” “I am not fit to be trod upon, but
tread upon me.”
To these sects of Buddhism, the Lord Buddha is less an
example than a savior.
Their zeal, therefore, is directed toward homage, supplica
tion, and assurance of humble, cringing, body-prostrating
homage.
“ I believe! | believe!” is the sum and substance of their
understanding of the message of the great Buddha.
And belive me, it is from such as these that the Christian
missionaries obtain their converts.
How could it be otherwise?
Does not the fear-stricken serf love to change his master,
not knowing that his serfdom lies not in the disposition of his
master but of himself?
How little we even of this boasted “century of enlighten
156
ment,” really know of the identicalness of religious tyranny in

every part of the globe and among all races.
We carelessly call each other “heathen” and close our eyes
with self-congratulation and stuff our ears with the cotton-wool
of prejudice, and where comparison and counsel might lead to a
betterment of conditions on all sides, we fail of its accomplish
ment dazed and stupefied by the awful power of an empty word—
“heathen.”
Isn't it a shame?
But again I am wandering from the theme, and sitting in
the quiet shade of the by-paths of philosophy, and my readers
want to know in less than fifteen hundred words of the “Relig
ions of Japan,” when it would take almost that number of words
to tell of one sect and all their “beliefs” and customs. What a
time they take to be sure, these “religious customs!” What
years of senseless sitting upon the floor, with arms folded across
the breast, and legs growing into the shape of the boughts of a
pli’lm tree and the muscles generation by generation, becoming
tense, wire-like, or on bended knees with hands and eyes strained
upward, while the worshipful devotee assures the good God that
he knows He is good, the which must greatly please the Omni
potent, Omniscient Creator of this vast solar system.
Don’t you think-rso?
But, I cannot close even so short an article as this, without
mentioning Shintoism.
As is well-known, Buddhism supplanted Shintoism as a na
tional religion in Japan, until to day Shintoism as a distinct sect
is much less important than is generally supposed by other
countries.
The fact that the Mikado, and the Imperial family are Shin-
toists, together with the supposed unquestioning devotion of the
Japanese people to the Mikado, has led to the belief that Shin
toism as a sect is far more important in Japan than it really is.
The effect of Shintoism is seen even in the religion of Buddh
ism, muchr as Spiritualism in this country has affected many
orthodox denominations—or at least the followers.
I have known many people in America who were members
of some orthodox Christian church, who were yet devoted to
the belief in “spirit communication.”
This condition is also found throughout Japan.
The effect of Shintoism is found in all sects of Buddhism,
In so far as it relates to the respect for, and communication with*
the dead, which is the distinguishing feature of Shintoism.
When we say that Shintoism is the religion of the Imperial

family, it is of course equivalent to saying that it is also the
religion of the army and navy—at least to all outward appear
ances.
Bu|t, this is not true of the individual members of either
army, navy or Imperial advisers.
It is easy to see why Japan embraced Buddhism, although
to the observer Shintoism offers a far more optimistic, rational,
and satisfying "way to Paradise.”
Shintoism is literally "The Way of God,” and the way of
Deity would naturally seem to offer superior advantages to the
way of a mere "son of God” but Shintoism also inculcates the
not-to-be-questioned postulate that the Mikado is God’s direct gift
to His people, to be obeyed without question, and to be adored
as Divine.
Several generations of Mikados who did not fulfill the ideal
of Deity,— an ideal to which even savages attach the quality of
mercy— left the masses ready and willing to grasp at a religion
that gave them some other personified God than the Mikado— as
a drowning man clutches at a straw.
; Shorn of the hypnotism of the Divinity of the Mikado, no
religious system that could be devised, offers a more cheerful,
optimistic, and natural method of worship than does Shintoism.
In Shintoism funerals are made the occasion of rejoicing,
due to the conviction that the future life is a happier one than
this, and that to die is to be blessed.
"He is going to be re-born" they say when a member of their
family dies, and a stranger seeing for the first time, a Shinto
funeral would think he was witnessing the wedding celebration
5 of specially happy and fortunate lovers.
To go to be "reborn;” to enter that blessed state where our
forefathers have gone, and where they are waiting for us, is
surely an occasion for rejoicing, and so they consider it.
A belief in the intercommunication between the visible and
the invisible is a part of many of the Buddhist sects as well as
of Shintoism. This interccmminication will vary with the under
standing and intelligence of the individual, just as in all religioun
systems there are those who will see beyond the letter of the
creed, into the spirit of Truth—which underlies all things, like
the gold-thread embroidery hidden under the cheap cotton of
the priest’s "outer-robe.”
Sometime I am going to write more of the Zen sect of
Buddhism and show its similarity to the metaphysical teachings
of to-day in America. .. . >
WRITTEN FOR THE SWASTIKA BY
Margaret c7HcIvor-Tyndall
LIE dreams of all things free
1 * Of an eagle on the wing;
Some grand old forest tree—
T he first wild flowers of Spring;
While the bugles call in hfc ear
And the drum's rat-a-tat, beat; beat;
Proclaim him the servant of Fear
The bondsman of W ar's fierce heat*
» & &
reams of all things free

Of deer on the green-clad hills
The breeze from the deep salt s e a -
T he songs of the brooks and rills;
While the bugles call in his ear
And the drum's rat-a-tat- beat; beat;
Proclaim him the servant of Fear
T he bondsman of W ar's fierce heat.
A* A* »
D U T soon shall the sleeper aw ake
Throw off the shackles of greed;
Stand forth, his place to take
'Mong the happy, the useful, the freed;
While the bugles call in his ear
A nd the drum's rat-a-tat-beat; beat;
The T ruth shall proclaim far and near:
Love reigns in God's judgment seat.
Only the Wise Understand

By HOWARD CASHMERE.
The soul of man, by a process not at yat

thoroughly understood, is able to reach out,
or travel across endless space and receive
from a subdivision of Infinite mind any
knowledge which that subdivision may con*
tain.
This process we call telepathy. The soul
by its psychic power over the material form
through which it is manifest, gives this
knowledge which it has gained to the ob*
jective mind, clairvoyantly, clairaudiently
or by intuition.
I submit, that the actual perception of any impression is a
psychic, not a physical, process; it does not matter whether the
impression comes from a real object, an impression upon a pho
tographic plate, or the image formed within the eye, the ulti
mate process by which we perceive the form and features of any
object is a psychic impression.
It is the same process we use in contemplating things in the
abstract or in creating mental images of forms of which we
have had no impression through physical senses.
There are some who would have us believe that this mental
process is erroneous, yet who does not trust his very existence
to this psychic principle?
We stand at the edge of some great precipice, we confident
ly take a step nearer, yet if our psychic interpretation of the
exact location of the chasm had been incorrect, we would have
fallen into the bottomless abyss.
We conclude, therefore, that our psychic interpretation is
correct.
Able theorists, by a scientific analysis and study of that
higher faculty within man which we term the subjective mind
or soul, have clearly demonstrated that this manifestation
through man has every essential attribute of Omniscience, every
power of Omnipotence, with a difference only of degree, and
that the telepathic power of the soul, when expanded to infinity,
Is Omnipresence.
What have we demonstrated?

That we are omnipresent in so far as we are conscious of
any other part.
I submit, that Omniscience would not be conscious of some
distant atom in the infinitude of space unless its consciousness
was directed toward that atom, but that it or we may be con
scious of anything toward which' our attention may be directed,
we have sufficient proof in telepathic phenomena.
Is it any wonder, that as the soul can only reveal itself
through some manifestation of the organism through which it
moves, that we are prone to think that we are that organism?
But self can never comprehend self, and as we can dissect
the confederacy of cells which we call our body, it cannot be our
real self; and still we see the action of our soul, are supercon
scious to it, then we are higher than the part.
What, then, are we?
Even Jesus, who first realized that the soul of man was
God, that there was no higher power in all infinity than that
manifesting through the soul of man, was slain because he said
that it was God.
And this profound conclusion removes the last vestige of a
doubt which we may have held about the immortality of the
soul, for as long as one star remains to send out its silent beams
of light into dark depths of space, as long as there is one form
in all the infinitude of space pulsating with life, we, you, I, am
immortal. For we, you, I, and they are God.
Let us trace the light of some distant sun as it pierces
through and becomes dispersed in the infinite depths of space.
Are we not there also?
Let us pass beyond the limits of our universe, beyond a vast
emptiness of space, through a myriad of systems and, worlds
similar to ours, through depths of space and worlds again, until
finally the limit of permutations and combinations of material
atoms have been reached, and we again behold a universe the
exact duplicate of our own even to the tiniest atom.
Repeat this process to infinity, and we find that our uni
verse is duplicated in its every manifestation an infinite number
of times. /■"
Do you now comprehend the first object of evolution?
Its object was to so perfect the evolving form that it might
at last comprehend the Creator who is the source of all mani
festations through it.
The “Sanctity” of Our Laws

By DR. GEORGE W. CAREY.
Those who make laws shall perish by the

laws.
Rogues make laws for fools to obey.
Law is frequently the last resort of a
scoundrel.
Real law is natural, eternal, uncreated.
All laws made by man are counterfeits.
Every crime, every criminal, every wrong,
injustice and oppression is intrenched be
hind the socalled laws of man.
A noted criminal lawyer said: .“ Nine-
tenths of ail crimes are caused by our laws. War, the greatest
of all crimes, is the creature of law.”
“Our constitution,” says Congress, “shall have the RIGHT
to declare war.”
Law never says: .It shall be the duty of Congress to PRE
VE N T war by dealing kindly and justly by all peoples and
nations.
Men are put in prison and forever disgraced because they
violated the letter of a certain statute.
Later the law that condemned the individual to imprison
ment has been REPEALED by the courts or legislature as un
constitutional; but no redress is thus given the innocent victim
of the law.
The pulpit, the press and the judiciary unite in declaring
that our laws are sacred and call upon all good citizens to rally
to the support of law and order, but the moment these laws in
any manner interfere with the interest of the interests they go
to work and get these sacred laws repealed.
The citizen, the voter, is constantly appealing to the law
makers to make laws to prevent future law makers from making
more bad laws.
Governor Gillett of California is reported by the daily press
as saying that more than half the bills before the legislature of
1907 were utterly vicious and unjust.
Y et the governor was compelled to sign many of these bills
because of the manner in which they were drafted, some having
appropriation bills for state expenses included—thus the admit

tedly BAD bills became “sacred” laws.
Apropos of this phase of our boasted system of law and
order I clip the following from the Los Angeles Express:
“Governor Gillett, in an Interview given to the Associated
Press, deplores the reckless waste and extravagance of the pres
ent legislature—the enormous bills which it has piled upon the
taxpayers for useless and unnecessary attaches, its 'code’ scan
dal, and general disregard for the people’s interests.
“Governor Gillett expresses himself as desirous of doing all
in his power to put a stop to these abuses, and suggests as the
only practical remedy the introduction of a constitutional amend
ment limiting the expenses of each session to a certain specified
amount. The suggestion is a worthy one, but it is doubtful, even
with all the influence the governor can bring to bear, if he can
induce a legislature that has shown such wanton disregard of
the rights of taxpayers to approve the amendment.
“The evil ways into which the state legislature has fallen
must be corrected. Force must be met with force. A chief ex
ecutive who will stand with Spartan firmness against the waste,
extravagance, recklessness, incompetency and insolence of an
unworthy legislature, and set the official seal of his disapproval
upon each and every act that is inimical to the public interest or
welfare, not only can create a glorious name for himself, but can
prove of real service to the state.”
And yet when those “worthless bills” have passed both
branches of the legislature and received the signature of the
governor they become “sacred” and one who violates them is an
anarchist and an “enemy to society.”
The conditions on the Pacific coast are identical with con
ditions in every state of the American Union and in every coun
try on the globe governed by statutory law.
Lawson publicly charged the Massachusetts legislators with
selling out to the highest bidders and the citizens of Philadelphia
ge to city council meetings and legislative halls with ropes and
threaten to hang the makers of “sacred” laws unless they cease
to legally rob the people.
The rich, the grafter, the capitalist, the great corporations
are the AUTHORS of every law upon our statutes and when one
of their money-man-made laws fails to secure to themselves the
immunity they desire they see to it that the law is repealed and
one better for them substituted.
The storm is gathering and those who make the laws are
perishing by the laws.
In the language of Ernest Crosby: “ Is there anything on
earth more forbidding than a court house?
“Why is it that men’s laws make everything hideous?. There
is no more thought of brotherhood in the court than there is In
the wheels and cogs of a factory.
“It is a dead relentless mill.
“The judges and lawyers and deputies and policemen are
nothing but bolts and rivets and bars—of iron and flint. >
“TH E GREATEST CRIME A MAN CAN COMMIT 18 TO
MAKE A M ACHINE OF HIMSELF.
“Let us leave the accursed place.”
The Problem of the Criminal

By GRANT WALLACE.
It is not so many years since punishment

for law-breaking was merely another way of
spelling cruelty and torture.
The ordeal of walking barefooted over red-
hot ploughshares; of being crushed within
the spiked sides of the steel maiden; and
of the pillory and whipping-post, are only a
few generations behind us.
The idea that the offender might be edu*
catel, morally, mentally and physically into
good citizenship, had not occurred to our
forefathers.
We had not discovered that the sight of cruelty often sug
gests and begets cruelty and crime.
All crime is contagious. This is due in part to the fact
that a ir thought is contagious, and in. part to the suggestion
which the news of crimes brings to the weak and criminally in
clined.
In the old idea of the vindictive punishment of criminals,
these causes have been ignored.
In the hideous, cellular, physical punishment these great
psychological truths have been lost sight of.
We have been trying to reform offenders with a club.
Our penal system is a survival of the barbarous and un
scientific system of the Dark Ages.
For centuries we have gone on blindly trying repression,
only to fail most dismally. Whatever represses the natural
higher expression of any man’s powers— physical, mental and
moral— be he criminal or saint—will inevitably dwarf him and
make a kind of monster of him.
Only by leading the man out into better forms of expression,
can the offender ever be made a more useful and safe member
of society.
To shut a man in a living tomb, either in solitary confine
ment or limiting him to a treadmill existence where his powers
of mind, soul and muscles, are not called into play, is to make
either a maniac or a torpid, dispirited, or rebellious criminal of
him.
No cure for the criminal tendency ever can be intelligently
applied until the causes are located.
For the most part, crime is due to evil hereditary and pre
natal influences; to bad environments, wherein the offender
endeavors, in his blind way, to readjust unjust social and in
dustrial conditions; to insanity, sudden anger, and the like, as
well as to the powerful influence of suggestion and criminal
contagion, sent from mind to mind, in thought-currents.
No offender was ever yet made better nor has society ever
yet been benefited in the long run, by applying the “animal”
system of retaliatory punishment—“an eye for an eye and a tooth
for a tooth.”
That system begets more crime, through the law of sug
gestion, than it eradicates.
Enrico Ferri, the famous author of “Criminal Sociology,*
points out the fact that long sentences of imprisonment in cells
—even doubling thé severity of the sentences—does not di
minish the number of offenders, and Mr. Ferri adds: “ Penal
justice at the present moment is a vast machine, devouring arid
casting up again an enormous number of individuals, who lose
amongst its wheèls their life, their honor, their moral sense,
and their health, bearing the ineffaceable scars, and falling into
the ever-growing ranks, cf professional crime.
“The volume of crime cannot bè diminished by enlarged
codes of criminal law, however skillfully they may be con
structed. The world has reached a period of reaction against
exaggerations and the destructive effects of cellular confine-
merit/ which I regard as one of the monstrous aberrations of

the nineteenth century.”
When a person breaks the laws, why do we punish him?
The old id e a-s till a popular one—was to wreak vengeance
upon the offender, and to make a terrible “example” of him,
for the purpose of deterring others, and thus protecting society.
That is also the spirit of the mob, which pours kerosene
over negro offenders and burns them at the stake.
The newer idea, based on the psychological study of the
individual, and on a more humane conception of justice to him,
and to that society which created the crime for which he suffers,
is to treat the criminal as we would treat any other person
who is malformed, sick and ignorant; that is, send him to a
detention hospital where he may be morally, mentally and phys
ically educated and cured— not only for the benefit of society,
but for his own benefit as well. We are but now beginning to
realize that even the criminal has rights which we are bound
in honor and justice and self-preservation to consider.
Herbert Gladstone, in his report of the Prison Commission
some years ago, swelled the general chorus of damnation of
our savage prison methods, and pointed out that our penal servi
tude system not only utterly fails to reform the offenders, but
in case of less hardened criminals and first offenders, it makes
chronic law-breakers of them.
When punishment reaches the point where it makes men
worse, it surely becomes useless as an instrument of social
defense.
Men are imprisoned largely because they lack a high ap
preciation of the rights of others. We send them to the peni
tentiary or jail, presumably to make better citizens of them;
and yet we retain our inhman “silent system,” solitary confine-
^ ment system, and cell system, all of which have a tendency to
blot out from the convict this necessary social sense. We strip
these convicts of every opportunity to acquire self-control and
the respect for self and the rights of others, and turn them out
like wolves, again to prey upon society.
The present penal system works disaster in a number of
other ways: It kills hope and aspiration, without which no man
can improve.
It is a moral pest-house and a school of crime.
It is a huge, arbitrary, automatic machine, where individ
uals receive about the same consideration that the cogs in a
wheel receive.
Even the judge, in passing sentence, generally applies his

punishment to the crime, without consideration for the peculiari
ties and needs of the individual.
Our system of sentencing criminals to a definite number of
years is based altogether on his past actions, whereas the length
of his incarceration ought to depend upon his future conduct.
In other words, punishment of criminals, like punishment
of children, ought never to be vindictive and retaliatory, but
educational.
We do not need wardens so much as we need teachers.
The idea of punishment may well be eliminated altogether, and
in its place the idea of a system of corrective teaching may be
substituted.
To sentence an offender to ten years, and then to liberate
him ,even though he may be a worse criminal than when he
entered the prison, will some day be looked upon as a piece of
brainless absurdity, equal to that of a physician who would
prescribe the day of cure along with his medicine.
It is on a par with forcing a hospital patient to remain in
bed long after he is cured, or telling him to go, Whether he is
cured or not.
The “indeterminate sentence” system adopted in some of
the Eastern states has worked such wonders in the reformation
of convicts, especially with first offenders, that it is a wonder
every state in the Union has not long since adopted it.
By this method, including the “credit mark” system, the
prisoner is sentenced for no definite time, but is sent home on
parole as soon as he gives satisfactory evidence of reformation.
Set off against the hope inspired by the prospect of condi
tional liberation, on proof of amendment, is the certainty of the
prolongation of the convict’s punishment if he continues to be
dangerous to society at large.
This is a just system.
It arouses at once the spirit of hope and aspiration and
self-respect and self-reliance.'
It. tends to make good citizens, instead of hopeless, chronic
criminals.
It does not put the high-minded and ambitious offender on
a par with the peak-headed, heavy-jawed degenerate, who looks
upon a prison sentence as his natural birthright.
It is a system which leads the convict to advance and im
prove, through giving him the opportunity of expressing his
poWers, instead of, as at present, degenerating, through either
repressing his desires, or expressing them through low channels.
Joy
(W ritten for The Swastika,)
By GRACE M. BROWN.
There is no joy
Which is not loving consciousness
Of God.
There is no joy
Which does not render service
Unto men.
The joy of the world is the stimulus of

the world; not the froth and flutter of ec
static externals, but the undercurrent of
positive vitality which buoys the spirit and
lightens the burdens which men have as
sumed.
Who would not rather feel the strong,
pulsing vibration of the joy current in his
veins than be endowed with the sluggish
riches of metallic ages? The riches dis
solve with our passing individual lives, but
the joy spirit endures forever and always; it responds to our
desire and so vitalizes under our cultivation that it becomes a
part of us for all time.
And the joy people! Don’t you love them, as,they stir up
the atmosphere around them until you feel the sparkle every
time you come near them? It is impossible to estimate the
great good they do just by their cheery radiation, and it is not
always those whose external conditions seem fairest who are
filled with the soul shine-rindeed, it is more frequently those
who have much to do in overcoming outside inharmony who are
filled with the joy spirit.
Have you ever heard of the beautiful duchess who wept and
wailed in her beautiful chateau in southern France because the
rose leaves littered her garden lawn and the nightingales pre
sumed to sing at the wrong time in her trees? Poor, pitiful,
poverty-stricken little duchess— better be a tramp singing by
the wayside than so joyless a soul as she.
No, the real jewels of life are not those which glitter on
the outside. The valuable things have the sou! shine sparkle,
and it is so deep and so enduring that once you have seen its
glinting light and once you have truly contacted its inner
warmth, you will always feel its power and always partake of
its strength.
The soul shine radiation comes from within; it emanates
from pure, constructive energy, which is nothing more nor less
than LOVE, most mighty and most abused word.
The world is such a beautiful place when we have beauty
enough in ourselves to perceive its beauty. The very air is full
of joy expressing itself in vibrant tones of active being and in
the aliveness of all nature, and is it not strange that human
nature seems so unalive to the universal current of construction
which expresses its fullness of bright, fresh life in the vivid
color and sweet odor and heavenly sound which is in all the
air and which even penetrates the damp, sweet earth.
It sometimes appears that men miss the wonderful joy of
being by their lack of appreciation. They fail to sense the real
of things and but dimly perceive even the outside husks as they
permit to slip by the more glorious part of the subtler and finer
essences.
And then, again, do we appreciate each other and ourselves?
Are we aware of our great power of love and fine expression?
Possibly if we would perceive the God of ourselves, we might
more readily realize the God in the inner loveliness of the all
life, in the essence of flower and field and brook and valley as
well as in the real expression of human life and human nature.
Nothing is of the slightest value apart from realization, and
realization opens the door for joy. If a man wants to be happy,
all he need do is to permit himself to realize his relation to life
and to his fellow men. A little gleam of that sort of realization
will soon inspire him to generate the universal life current for
himself and stop absorbing the effort of other people.
When a man is willing to utilize opportunity, it always
comes his way and abides with him; opportunity is the great
active demander of expression and creeps away from leaners and
weaklings.
And when a man cultivates opportunity and gives himself
to the service of life according to his highest understanding, he
develops a wonderful force of concentrated constructive energy.
It does not matter whether his methods are in line with our
approval or not— possibly our methods are not to his liking—
the principle and the fact remain that the man who does the
best he knows, is serving the truth as he sees it, and In the

process he radiates an energy which proclaims—-JOY.
The fact is that the radiant folks do the world’s work.
The life current is magntized with joy and all inspiration eman
ates and radiates with joy.
I wonder why men hesitate to reveal the truth of them
selves.
I wonder why they veil every expression of joy as unworthy.
I wonder why they do not smile on each other and be true
to themselves by recognizing the soul shine in themselves and
in each other.
For it is there. Men could not live upon the earth planet
but for the inspiration of the Infinite Intelligence, and it is man
ifest in every God-unfoldure in natural and human life.
We know the gracious glory of God and why not admit that
we know it. Why not tell people how beautiful they are, and
every one is beautiful when you see him truly, and see them
smile and radiate the true soul-shine of themselves and so prove
how beautiful they are.
Let us love the earth expression and show that we love it
by radiating the soul shine.
The love smile uplifts the world.
And oh, my brother, let us be kind.
Present yourself then to the Great Premise of Sacred Sci

ence; Nothing but God. Throw law out of doors. Face the doc
trine of mercy and miracles. Quail not, before the Conscience—
the giant mother of cowards. Stay Alive. Be too meek to let
pride hoax you into the humbug of sin.— George Edwin Burnell;
In the very simplest expression of life lies the greatest mys

tery. In the common, evedy-day activity are mighty miracles.—
Grace M. Brown.
All true knowledge is but the expression of Divine Wisdom.

All the powers that make one great, spiritual, righteous and
wise, are only the divine powers manifesting through human
forms.— Swami Abhedananda.
Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition
that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to
be cheated by anyone but himself as for a thing to be and not
to be at the same time.— Emerson.
Silent Pieter: A True Ghost Story

By BENJAMIN HORNING.
Pieter and Heintje were fast friends,

friends by intuition and sympathy, rather
than by compact. Heintje was seven and
Pieter seventeen. Pieter was gloomy and
silent, seldom saying more than “Yes” and
“No” to his elders or superiors, chief among
whom he counted Johan, Heintje’s father,
because he had worked for him more than
for any other of the stolid Pennsylvania
Dutch farmers among whom he had been
brought up.
Pieter was a very strange lad—so much so that when some
one spoke of him as “Silent Pieter," the name clung to him and
there were many who thought that while he was quiet and well
behaved, yet he was not quite right mentally.
His childhood had been clouded. His parents came from
“outland,” as the saying was, meaning from the old country.
From what little they made known of themselves, they were
political refugees.
Pieter’s father died, some months before the boy was born,
poor and in want. There were no relatives to take care of the
body so the “Poor Authorities" took charge of the remains.
After Pieter came, his mother still clung to the little hut
on the edge of the woods which kind-hearted Johan had given
them free of rent, until finally she, too, succumbed and was laid
away in a tangled corner of the little acre of unnamed graves
In the poor-house burying ground. .Little Pieter was the sole
mourner at the burial of his mother, as he shiveringly walked
■side by side with the minister, behind the cart carrying the un
painted box in whch remained all that was left of the only hu
man being who had ever belonged to him.
Nothing had been found relating to bis family history, and
his only remembrances, aside from his infantile knowledge of
his mother's misery, was the wedding ring, and a little daguerreo
type of his father and mother which she had wrapped in an
pll-silk pocket and pinned inside his little torn jacket.
As he grew older, funerals held a strange fascination for the
boy. No matter who died in the community—whether known to

him or not— Pieter would leave his work, and making such
change to neatness of attire as his simple means afforded, he
would follow on foot, at the end of every funeral procession. He
was always the last to leave the churchyard, always lingering
until the sexton had completed his task, never returning with
the others, as was the custom, to the home of the diseased to par*
take of the bountiful feast that was always prepared.
Pieter had a yearning in his silent heart, to be able some
day to have a burial plot and have his parents’ remains placed
there, and to be able to look forward to a final resting place for
himself.
So he grew to be “Silent Pieter,” hoarding his scant earn*
ings, and one day after receiving his wages (paid him once or
twice a year) he went into the village, bought a burial plot and
deposited with the treasurer of the cemetery a sum sufficiently
large to pay for a real coffin, the rent of a hearse, and other in
cidental expenses of a funeral for himself.
After that, Pieter seemed to become of more importance to
himself and the two words of all that he remembered his mother
saying, the words “Christian burial—words that seemed burned
into his brain, as if engraven upon a tablet of bronze— meant
more to him than mere sounds.
He would often say that “his future was now provided for,”
and although he talked but little, he begged of his sole confid
ant, Heintje, to see that his one wish “Christian burial” was ful
filled, in case he should pass out first.
Pieter grew to manhood. It was in the days of the civil war,
and the nation’s cry for volunteers reached even to this peaceful
little valley where no one was ever known to get farther from
his home than the county town, where only funerals and “fairs”
formed the public gatherings.
Pieter could not even imagine what war meant, or why it
was ,or the cause of it, but the bounties offered seemed to him
an enormous fortune.
His only thought was, that if he could go to this war, he
would have ample means to place the bodies of his parents in a
beauttful plot of ground all his own.
So he gave in his name at the office of the Township seer*
tary, took the oath, and received his bounty money.
He had little in the way of possessions save what he car
ried on his back, so only returned to say good-bye, started off on
foot for the city, and to the few who thought of him at all, was
V
lost In the great mass of uncouth, undrllled volunteers and con
scripts who were rushed to the front.
Johan and Heintje often wondered who would bury Pieter
if he were killed in the war.
i After a few weeks there came a vague report of Pieter “shot
as a deserter.”
At length the crisis was approaching and even in the little
pastoral Pennsylvania community, with its peaceful Biblical
names of Nazareth, Bethlehem, Jordan, Emaus, and so forth, al
most nightly meetings were held by the farmers to devise means
by which substitutes might he bought for those drafted, or for
those who could least be spared.
Returning one night from one of these meetings, Johan, ac
companied by Heintje, and his dog, by the light of a low-hanging,
sickly moon, cut across fields several miles to his own f a r m -
passing an old unused stone quarry and limekiln.
The kiln was backed against a rocky hillside that formed a
rear wall to the quarry, which, from being so many years un
worked, had become a little lake from the rains and springs.
After nightfall it was always a weird spot. No one ever
went near it and more than one claimed that it was “spooked,”
declaring that they bad heard strange cries coming from there,
even as far as the highway, sounds which all agreed were in
comprehensible for they sounded like “bury me,” “bury me.”
And little Heintje claimed that while returning in the twilight
from driving the cows out to night pasture, he had seen some one
near the old kiln and heard strange sounds as of some one speak
ing and crying “lift it off.” Filled with thoughts of what he
should do, if he were to be drafted, Johan with Heintje's hand
tightly clasped in his own, and followed by his dog, climbed the
fence that would bring them to the highway, and found that he
was directly at the edge of the quarry.
At that moment Heintje’s hand tightened its clasp of his
father’s, and he shcok convulsively, gasping “There!”
The dog bounded to the other side of the road and whined.
s
There, on the other side of the quarry, Johan saw, or seemed
to see, the figure of a man, then another, then fade from view, to
again reappear, struggling with each other. Again the figures
faded from view and a weird wailing tone which framed the
words, “ Bury me, bury me! I can’t rest until I am buried.”
With fear-quickened steps, and backward glances, Johan
and Heintje hurried from the place, scarcely stopping to take
breath until reached own
Johan, in common with his neighbors, shared in all the

superstitions and belief in “witches,” “spooks,” “dopplegaen-
gers,” signs and omens which their forebears had brought with
them from the old country generations ago. so the next morning
he decided that there was cause for the strange things he had
seen.
Calling one of the working men, they made their way to the
quarry.
Diligent search revealed nothing at first save an old city
newspaper with reports of enlistments and an old weather
beaten hat trampled and hardened in the mire. Convinced that
they had found a clue, they clambered up the bramble grown
rocks to the top of the kiln.
The stones around the opening had in places been broken
away, and an oldsheetiron cover that had been left on, to keep
any incautious person or animal from falling in, lay in the bottom
of the kiln under the water which came in from the pond at the
bottom.
With an improvised grappling iron at the end of a sapling,
they lifted the iron cover and dragged the pool. Soon it caught
something that was heavy but moveable, and slowly came to the
surface. It was an arm and hand with crooked, stiffened fingers,
greenish white in the dim light.
Neighbors were summoned and when the body was brought
out of the kiln, in spite of the battered features and water-soaked
clothing, it was recognized as that of Silent Pieter.
He had been brutally killed and robbed for his bounty
pioney.
The country was filled with human sharks like that, the
scum of the cities who lay in wait especially in the isolated sec
tions of country, for the bountymen. Often the thieves would
take the name of the robbed and murdered man so that the
records might show that the volunteer had been in some regi
ment—then wait a convenient time to escape.
Pieter’s right hand was thrust inside his shirt over his heart
tightly clutching a little packet wrapped in oilsilk.
It contained his deed to the little burial plot, the daguerreo
type and his mother’s wedding ring.
The ignominy surrounding Pieter’s name was blotted out.
He was laid away according to his life-long wish, and Johan
placed what was left of Pieter’s parents beside him, and surely
his soul must rest in peace since he had given his life to pro
vide for them and himself, the cherished hope of “Christian
burial." . ,vN
174 THE SWASTIKA.
Books Received ••
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Conducted by ••«
Kenneth D. Lyle
i
CHILD-CULTURE, by Newton N. Riddell, and published by
Child of Light Publishing Co., Chicago, III., is a book that
ought to be in the hands of every parent who can read. It is
more than excellent, it is indispensable, for surely it is through
the training and development of the child that we must look
for the expression of our ideals. The author’s remark, “The
teacher or parent who develops even one child into a noble
man or woman lives not in vain,” will find an echo in the mind
of every intelligent person, whatever his creed or beliefs. I
wish I had space to give a page review of this excellent book,
and heartily eommend it to the attention of every reader of the
Swastika. The book may be ordered of the publishers, or of
the New Thought Center, Albany hotel, Denver, Colo. Price 75c.
PRACTICAL METHODS FOR SELF-DEVELOPMENT, b y
Elizabeth Towne, is just what its title implies. It is a practical,
condensed and comprehensible treatise on self-development,
along physical, mental and spiritual lines. For sale by the
author, Holyoke, Mass., or by the New Thought Center, Albany
Hotel, Denver. Price $1.
SELF-SYNTHESIS, by Cornwell Round, physician and sur
geon, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., London, pub
lishers, is an attractively and originally presented plea for Per
petual life. The author opens his logical discourse with the
query, “Why die? Why? W hat did you know of death* until
told of it by your elders?” The book may be ordered of th e J
publishers, or through the New Thought Center, Albany hotel,
Denver. Price 25c.
A STUDY OF VIBRATION, by Minnie S. Davis, published
• by Progressive Literature Co., P. 0. Box 228 M. S., New York
city, deals with “Living Counterparts,” and is written in a
smooth, literary style. Chapters are: The Unity of Things;
The Living Harp; The Method of Nature; Unity of Vibration;
The Key-note; The Fountain in the Sky; To Be or Not To Be.-
For sale by the publishers. Price 75c. v
THE D IV IN IT Y OF DESIRE, by Eugene Del Mar, published
by the Progressive Literature Co. Mr. Del Mar is one of the
best known as he is one of the ablest writers on New Thought
and metaphysical subjects. In “The Divinity of Desire” he is
at his best. The theme is one not often touched upon, and it
is also one that needs just such handling as Mr. Del Mar has
given it. The book is priced at $1, and may be had of the
publishers.
RETURN TO NATURE, by Adolph Just, translated by Bene

dict Lust, editor of The Naturopath, deals with “the natural
method of healing and living and the true salvation of the soul."
The author gives a great variety of instruction on bathing, diet,
the proper use of water, light, heat, and the life essentials«
Simple and effective methods of dealing with acute diseases are
given. The book has three hundred pages, and may be ordered
of the publishers, 124 E. 59th street, New York city.
FREEDOM TALKS, by Julia Seton Sears, M. D., Sears In
vestment Co., Boston, Mass., publishers, is a book that may be
heartily recommended to “beginners” in the study of New
Thought philosophy, as well as to more advanced thinkers. Dr.
Sears has the needed faculty of lucid expression, even when
dealing with abstruse subjects, and in Freedom Talks the seeker
will find what he or she is looking for. The following extract
will give an idea of Dr. Sears’ aim in this interesting book:
“Every one is engaged in just one work in this world, no matter
how varied their expressions may be, ancLthat is in subliming
matter into spirit, and it behooves us to have a divine in
terest in our own self and our environment, for only as we lift
up the “ I,” and hold it a positive point of attraction, do we
come into that line of direct development which makes'for the
“Life Beautiful.” Freedom Talks is priced at $1, and may be
had of the publishers. .
BYWAYS OF BLESSEDNESS, by James Lane Allen, pub
lished by The Savoy Pub. Co., Savoy Steps, Strand, London.
It is not too much to say that it is very rarely that we find a
writer who touches the heart, inspires the soul and satisfies the
intellect as does James Lane Allen. In the “ Foreword” to the
present volume he says: “Along the great highways of life
there are resting places. Away from the heat of passion and the
dust of disappointment, under the cool and refreshing shade of
lowly Wisdom, are the humble, unimposing “rest-houses” of
peace, and the little, almost unnoticed byways of blessedness,
where alone the weary and footsore can find strength and heal
ing.” And the “Foreword” is but a hint of the 207 pages that
follow. Every word carries with it a vibration of peace and
restfulness, of satisfaction, of spiritual realization that is truly
“blessed.” James Lane Allen is editor of Light of Reason, pub
lished at Ilfracombe, England, and his books may be ordered of
him at that address, or through the New Thought Center, Albany
hotel, Denver. The price is $1.25. Other books by James Lane
Allen are: “Through the Gate of Good,” price 40c.; “All These
Things Added,” cloth bound, purple and gold binding, 150 pages,
price $1. To be had of the author or of the New Thought Center,
Albany Hotel.
OW L HOOTS, by Lucia Griffin, is a “Quaint Gift Book,”
and is published by the author at Albia, Iowa. The title page
says: “Ways to be wise and otherwise.” Also, “Seventy-eight
hoots for half a dollar.” “Owl-Hoots” is indeed quaint, original
in conception, cheerful, happy and helpful. Hoot twenty-three is
a recipe for “saying skidoo to the blues.” “Lauph pit you pan,
.............
and the small imps in blue, who love to pre-empt their quarters
in a human heart, will scatter away like,owls before the music
of flutes. Note: Should rule fail, try this plan: Get busy.”
THE NEW GOSPEL, or the Abundant Life, by Thomas J.
Allen, M. A., LL. D., published by the Aurora Pub. Co., Aurora,
III., will be a welcome addition to the list of New Thought books.
Among the twenty-one practical, logical chapters is one which
Mr. Allen calls “The New Gospel of Work,” and one which will
appeal to every thinker. Here is the opening paragraph: The
blessing of work became a curse when man began to think it a
curse because of that alleged penalty of “man’s first disobedi
ence”—“in the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat bread all the
days of thy life.” Thus has wrong thinking degraded much of
the world’s work to the level of brutish labor, making sad and
sullen toil where noble and joyous work should be.”
LADDER LESSONS: For Beginners in New Thought, by
Olive Verne Rich, published by the author, Seattle, Wash., are
a series of five lessons, in the control of the body and the mind.
They are “How to sit still” ; How to Relax; A Study of Fear;
Suggestion and Affirmation; Concentration. Each lesson is ex
cellent. Price of Ladder Lessons, 50c. Order of author.
TH E PHILOSOPHY OF FASTING, by Edward Earle Puring-
ton, published by Benedict Lust, editor Naturopath, 124 E. 59th
street, New York, is a book that I would like to see circulated
broadcast among health seekers. I believe that if this could be
accomplished, there would soon cease to be any “health seekers.”
The book was published last year and has been reviewed often
and extensively in New Thought publications, but I would like to
add my mite to the sum of interest in extending the circle
of its readers. Mr. Purington say.s on his title page, “A message
to sufferers and sinners,” and as we may all be classed under
that head ,there is no one for whom the book is not intended.
Order of the publisher. Price $1.
TH E STOCKHAM PUBLISHING COMPANY have just
brought out a new edition of “ BROTHER OF T H E T H IR D DE
GREE,” to sell at $1.25.
There is an increasing demand for this interesting romance
and dealers will be glad to know of its reappearance.
Ambition is responsible for much suffering and for perverted

ideals.
Many a good blacksmith has been spoiled to make a poor

lawyer, because of the false standard of ideals held by the blind
world.
There is not a man living who would not rather be an in

conspicuous rancher than to be a ruler, if he could disabuse his
wind of the fancied honor in the position of “authority.”
Mind in Nature
By PROFESSOR EDGAR L. LARKIN.
Since Badarayna and Kapila in their huts in the forests of

India were elaborating the wonderful Vedanta and Samkhya
philosophies; since the esoteric teachers of Bactria, Iran, Persia,
Babylon, Jerusalem, Meroe, Arsinoe, Thebes, Eleusis, Dodona,
and Rome there has not been such a revival of mental research
as that now on.
Letters pour into this observatory from everywhere, their
burden being: “Tell us of the soul, the mind, immortality, spirit,
astral planes, eternity,” and kindred subjects. An intense psychic
age Is already opened. It is here, and humanity—more particu
larly that part of it within the area called Christendom—is in an
active state of mental upheaval.
The vast spirit world filled with those who have passed out,
or rather on, is now seeking to open up a million new avenues
and methods of communicating with incarnate man.
Spiritual pressure is now being sensed by more people than
at any other period in the career of man on earth.
SPIRITU ALIZED OR MENTAL M ATTER!
This idea is the most astounding that ever entered the mind
enmeshed in flesh. It is now agitating the minds of rigid ma
terialists and obdurate mathematicians.
“Cold” physicists, atheists, infidels, electricians, astronomers,
agnostics, chronic doubters, alike the world over, now stand in
awe and amazement when experimenting and trying to even
begin to think about
CORPUSCLES! !
An atom of hydrogen, the lightest body known to former
physicists and chemists, so small that no mind can commence to
think about it, weighs more than 700 times as much as a cor*
puscle.
The atom of mercury weighs 200,000 times as much.
The most rigid scrutiny, so far has been unable to find any
difference between these simply marvelous bodies and electricity.
So I feel like writing this—they are pure electricity. And
this— nothing exists but corpuscles.
Atoms are made by combinations of different numbers of
178 t h e s w a s t i k a .
these mysterious things; and molecules of all matter whatever

are made by unlike combinations of atoms.
These corpuscles are negative and positive.
Incredible beyond all human imagination to relate, the posi
tive are the passive and the negative active.
A nascent negative corpuscle moves with terrific speed until
it attaches itself to a positive.
And the motion of these negatives constitute the MIND,
LIFE AND CONSCIOUSNESS of the Universe.
This is physical and psychic combined in one stupendous
generalization, occult and arcave.
TH E MIGHTY M ENTAL ASPECT OF ELECTRICAL COR
PUSCLES!
A conception beyond all of man’s incarnate experience is
this: These corpuscles KNOW what to do, W HERE to go, and
W HEN to act. That is, MIND is absolutely everywhere and in
all existing matter.
Cosmic mind may be changed to '“ Corpuscular Mind” or, for
short, “ ELECTRICAL CORPUSCLES,” or shorter still, to “COR
PUSCLES.”
For 40 years I have wondered at unspeakably strange hints
and expressions in ancient occult literature about the excessively
small dimensions of the human spirit.
The vulgar form of this deep-seated idea is: “Five hundred
souls like his could dance on the point of a needle”—an epithet
of derision.
The mass of one corpuscle as determined by a number o f
physicists is such that the number required to weigh one grain is
100,000,000,000,000,000,000,0C0,CC0. And a row of them side by
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side one inch long would contain 12,500,000,000,000. See this:
The deepest occult doctrine on earth is that these negative
corpuscles are FEM IN IN E. By admitting this, a number of ob
scure points in very ancient occultism are cleared at once. Here;
THife equinoctial colure, the first standard meridian in the celes
tial vault, used by every astronomer now crosses the lips of the
zodiacal constellation Virgo, the lips of Andromeda and passes
through the uplifted regal hand of Queen Cassiopeia.
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It also cuts the constellation Berenice’s Hair.
These four are the only feminine constellations in the entire
sky. . . . ,;.-v
The astonishing fact appears that
WOMEN ARE TO RULE THIS PLANET PSYCHICALLY.
This explains the colossal movement of Woman, now in her
battle for freedom from a hundred centuries of sex-slavery, for

EUGENIC societies of women are now being established here
and in Europe.
Within eight months, a flood of letters from women has
deluged this beautiful mountain observatory, half anonymous,
and many dotted with tears, imploring me to write and thunder
against this appalling servitude.
I have accepted the task and will lash the earth and sea
with the oppressers of women who must pass under the rod of
maternity.
Stupendous works are now beginning.
Society will be torn up by the roots, and our very habits and
customs changed. ♦
LISTEN ! The vast upheaval is now being caused by the
spirit world, in self-protection.
This immense world does not want its “many mansions”
filled with the pitiful UNHARMONIC spirits of UNHARMONIC
human beings brought into this world, the earth, by UNHAR-
MONICALLY joined men and women.
For women will rule the earth psychically within 50 years,
aided in every possible way by the vast spirit world.
Let me help.
Zen Method of Cultivating

By YANOSKE ISODA.
Many years ago, there was in Japan a Buddhist priest named

Do-Zau, who was a very skilled and learned teacher of the Art
of Meditation, so much so that he had conferred upon him the
title Zenzhi (“Master of-Meditation”).
One day another priest of less competency in every respect
came to see him and asked him, “How shall I avoid being tor
tured by beastly extremes of weather?”
“Why, sir, it is easy,” was the answer; “the best way is to
flee to the clime where there are none.”
Thereupon the questioner enquired wonderingly, “Where un
der tbe sun will one find that kind of region?”
“Ha, ha, ha,” roared the Zenzhi, breaking Into a laugh, “that
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lies in your mind, and there you can at ease freeze out the hot
test summer day or warm up the coldest winter day, if you just
will.”
Doubtless, this cultivation of the power of the will is a mar
velous way of preserving good health and of living a long life,
and easy is the method to perform.
Here is a hint of ten methods of establishing the art of
8elf*Nlastery.
At night when you retire, lie flat on your back and stretch
out the lower limbs together, retaining the strength of the body
evenly from the abdomen and the solar plexus down to the soles
of the feet. Then breathe slowly and naturally until you have
performed a hundred inhalations.
While doing this, close your hand finger by finger with every
round of inhalation and exhalation, counting them at the same
time, then relax the muscles and rest a while.
If you are an ordinarily healthy person and give yourself
faithfully to the exercising, it is sufficient to practice this exer
cise about five times each night and five to seven nights a month,
then you will surely feel every atom of the body fill with energy
and a remarkable difference will soon be noticed.
It is of course unnecessary to impress upon you the point
to keep the mind free from destri’icting thoughts, taking care
to concentrate just upon the directions, during this practice.
Man is the soul of the universe, and all other creations are
Nothing is made that is not necessary for the working of this

Harmonious Whole, and every one of the created has a distinct
purpose and functions different from all others.
There are no such things as the Inner, or the Outer, or the
beginning, or the end, for everything is equally important and is
interdependent for existence. Such a dividing is illusion itself.
Thence, I ask, When were not Things, fellow-feeling (love) it
self ? What place or what thing—which though it may appear to
us, as insignificant or outermost—was not in the heart of The
Cosmos?
N O TE: -W e have arranged with Mr. Yanoske Isoda to publish in The Swastika
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PREDICTION NOT RELIABLE.— Rosa Jones asks: Since,

as you say, clairvoyance is a soul sense, soul vision, why should
it not be reliable?
I have had the same prediction made to me by at least six
different clairvoyants, during a period of ten years. Four years
ago it came true in part and I am now “staking my life“ upon the
fulfillment of the whole. Am I chasing an “ignus fatuus?”
Answer: Clairvoyance does not necessarily include the
power of prediction. No one can predict with absolute certainty,
because all predictions must be subject to the conscious will
of the person for whom the prediction is made. It is possible
to predict tendencies, probabilities and “natural“ results from
certain past and present causes, but when the conscious will
takes control of one’s life forces, all these probabilities may be
changed. Don’t stake your life, or less, on predictions of any
kind, Take the ordering of your life into your own hands.
Don’t wait for things to happen.
SENSATIONAL NEWS.—C. M. Becker, Montrose, writes:
Do you not think that the tendency of the daily newspapers
throughout the country toward publishing sensational news, etc.,
of a baneful tendency and liable to produce additional crimes,
etc., in accordance with the law of suggestion? If so, what would
be your plan of getting newspapers to stop such publications,
or, at least, of limiting them to a small notice?
Answer: I am convinced that “whatever is is best,” there- .
fore we must see the good in the seeming evil of widespread
and exaggerated accounts of crimes, etc. This good lies in this:
The world, as a, whole, will become aware of the necessity for
self-protection and will therefore seek immunity from disaster
by getting on to a higher plane of thought. The self-acting,
soul-conscious, polarized person is not suggestible. It is only
those who are negative and but half awake that are affected by
outside influences. When they have been sufficiently overfed
on the dry husks of human experience, they will turn of them
selves to the perception of truth. Of course, when we look at
individual cases it would seem that the world is “going to the
dogs,” but it isn’t. Everything will work out for a higher race
consciousness and a more unified, altruistic mode of living.
The only way to stop the supply of sensational newspaper stories
is to stop the demand for them. We are already not far away
from the point of satiation, along this line.
W H A T IS T H E ABSOLUTE?— Mrs. T., Albany hotel* aSk$:
What do you mean by “The Absolute?” 2. What is our relation
to the absolute?
Answer: The term “Absolute” practically means God—or
Omniscience. The Absolute is the all of reality, and must be
unlimited; that is, knowing neither time or space, cause or
effect. It must comprise all that ever was or ever will be, not
as past or future, but as now. It is the one and only life or being.
To thoroughly define or comprehend the Absolute would be a
manifest impossibility, since all there is must be indefinable
and impossible of definition in terms of comprehension. What
ever is All cannot be compared, as there is nothing to compare
it with. All attempts at defining God have been very limited,
necessarily, because consciousness unfolds through comparison,
and each advance in race consciousness calls for an enlarged
comprehension of God. 2: As to our relation to the Absolute,
since the absolute is all of reality, we must be the Absolute,
because there is nothing else to be.
OBJECTS HAVE AN AURA.— Dorcas S., Green River, Wyo.,
sends in the following: Do you believe that objects, such as
letters or articles of wear, have an “aura” like a person? I can
sometimes feel the very presence of a person, know their temper
ament and their mental state, by taking in my hands a letter
or other article which they have touched. How is this?
Answer: There can be no doubt that we impinge upon
objects the radiations from our bodies. Thought being a some
thing, it is only less tangible in degree than the letter itself.
Our soul senses are merely an intensified or etheralized exten
sion of the physical faculties, and are different only in degree,
not in character.
THE LIMITATIONS OF HER EDITY.— A student writes: I
am a believer in the law of heredity. I know that I am like a
certain ancestor of mine, in disposition, tastes and inclinations.
With these certified, specific tendencies, how is it possible that
we “can be what we will to be” as New Thought teaches?
Answer: The facts you state are proof that we not only
•can be but are “what we, or our ancestors, have willed to be.”
Without the aid of consciously directed thought, selection, dis
crimination or choice, voluntary decision, one may say, Nature
will simply go on repeating the pattern. The obvious remedy for
this repetition is to change the pattern. If you are made after
a certain mental pattern (and you are), you can only modify
it perhaps for yourself, but you can form a new one for your
progeny.
CONDITION OF SUICIDES.— I. C. asks: Should a person
commit suicide while ¡tisane and irresponsible for the act, what
would be the condition of the soul in the after Fife? 2. Do you
think it wrong to kill birds and animals for food or otherwise?
Answer: There can be no specific knowledge to cover a
case of that kind. The insanity may be simply the result of an
imperfect system through which the soul cannot manifest.
Therefore, on escaping from the body, the soul may be free.
This would depend entirely upon other things. If you mean to
ask.if there is punishment for self-destruction I answer unhesi
tatingly that there is not. 2: I think it unnecessary.
A M A G A Z I N E 0 ^ T R I U M P H . 183
The Pesticator
■ * (W ritten for The Swastika.)
By RUSSELL D. CHASE.
The measure of my usefulness in life is not determined alone

by the deeds I tío, by the works that will serve as my monument,
but by the help that I can give and the encouragement I can ex
press through the appreciation of another’s work.
My usefulness is not centered in myself and when I permit
the idea that it is to take root and grow I am becoming an egotist.
The greatest work is the cultivation of cheerfulness for that work
generates vibrations of Joy, and those vibrations pass cut and
may perhaps smile like a summer sun on a shadowed soul. The
cultivation of the habit of cheerfulness discourages the misery
idea, and with the misery idea uppermost I canft do good work
because I am not useful to others.
The pesticator is a man who hasn’t any work of his own to
do, and keeps you from doing yours. He is suffering from a
chronic condition of ingrowing ambition. He casts a gloom on the
earth because he doesn’t fit in with the accepted order of things,
he isn’t cheerful because he hasn’t anything to do— he doesn’t
create, he doesn’t help others to create— he is simply a pesticator.
You all know the pesticator. He is everywhere. He comes
to you in the rush of the busy day and loafs around your office—
he keeps you from doing your work, he wastes your time, he im
poses upon your cheerfulness and wears it out, he discourages
the habit—you can’t help him because he hasn't any work to do.
The dishonest man isn’t your friend because he steals your
property, the incompetnet man is worse because you can’t tell
Where his competency is going to break out and injure your work,
but the pesticator is the worst of all because he steals your time
through his own incompetency or his ^cussed laziness” and
poses as your friend at the same time.
Let me give you this— a friend is the individual who lets
you do your work, does his own work, is cheerful enough to en
courage you when your work is good, and who doesn't W ASTE
T H E DAY. '■
Cheerfulness makes a light, sunshiny life—the life beautiful,
the kind of life that you and I and the rest of the workers need
so that our work can be best done; So then the "pifflicated pee-
ticator,” the destroyer of the cheerful habit— the loafer, the use
less man, should be consigned to limbo.
Probably the only way to squelch the pesticator is to work
a little harder, radiate a little more cheerfulness and paste a big
SKIDOO sign on the clock— but make some kind of an effort
and see how much more the day will mean without the piffli-
cated pesticator to help use it up.
Ambition has become a God upon whose altar parents sacri

fice their children, men their self-respect and women their hap
piness.
It is the hopeless, objectless work that kills. Work in itself

never hurt any one, and all work is honorable. It is only idle
ness that is degrading.
To Make You Laugh

An old Dutchman having a horse, needed feed for it, so he
called up the feed store on the “phone,” and the following dia
logue took place:
“Hello! Is dis de middle? Veil den, give me de feed store.
Hello! Is dis de feed store? Veil den, send me down a bale of
hay und a peck of oats.”
“Well, sir, who is this for?”
“For de horse now; don’t get gay,” replied the angry old
Dutchman.— Short Stories.
'■ / —------ ■ V/..
A bride’s mother presented her with a check on Christmas
day. With a feeling of the utmost importance, she took it down
to the bank in which her husband had opened an account for
her. The cashier took the check, then handed it back politely,
saying: ■
“Will you please indorse it, Madam?”
“Indorse it?” replied the bride, puzzled.
“Yes, across the back, you know,” replied the man, too busy
to notice her bewilderment.
The bride carried the check to a desk, laid it face downward,
and nibbled the end o f a pen thoughtfully. Then inspiration
came, and she wrote triumphantly across the back:
“For Fany, from mother. Christmas, 1906.— Philadelphia
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