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LW THOUGHT MEANS A

JMPHANT DEMOCRACY [UNITED STATES OF

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WOKLD.

[Address given by

HENRY HARRIInternational

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New
Cal.,

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THOUGHT MEANS
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A UNITED STATES THE WORLD.

An
Address given by
at the

*'

HENRY HARRIInternational

SON BROWN
Sept.
1,

New
Cal.,

Thought Congress, San Francisco,

1915.

"Peace on earth among

men

of Good- Will."

hold these truths to be self-evident, that are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights among these rights are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Declaraall

We

men

tion

the people of the United States, in order form a more perfect union, to establish Justice, do ordain and establish this ConstiU'iu,i! iY.r the United States of America. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or of abridgement of Constituthe freedom of speech or the press.
to
.
.

We

of Independence.

United States. Four- score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the
tion oi the

* * proposition that all men are created equal. We here highly resolve that the dead shall that this nation shall not have died in vain
;

rnder Gcd have a new birth of freedom, and that the government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth. Lincoln's address at Gettys*""*'

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It is

one huiVt red and xhirty-nine years

since that august

body

declared that "ail

men

in Philadelphia are born equal,"

and 133 since from Independence Hall came forth the document that forever

ment by placing

revolutionized the principles of governin the hands of, it

"We the People." It is fifty-one years since Lincoln declared this government
"of the People shall not perish," and 50 years since the close of the war which

cemented the confederacy into a nation and thus settled the question of the perpetuity of this Government of the People.

This Ideal of a government, "of the people," rests where, until that time, no government or institution did rest, and that Faith in kings, is upon faith in Man.
faith in warriors, faith in priests,
in

faith

some authority of book, birth or gods, had heretofore been the source of power and reliance of man. The Puritans of New England had
sowed the seeds of this rebellion against authority, and manifested faith in the
individual conscience,

clared for
n

"A

state
n

when they dewithout a kirg and

1

rhnrrh without

hi c<hop."

From
come

the French
into

had Encyclopedists other sections other streams

of rebellion.

The Hugenots had brought

and Lord Baltimore, had declared in Maryland,

the spirit of liberty

a Catholic,

for religious toleration. All this ferment had been working, until it

broke out at Lexington and Bunker

Jefferson had begun the agitation and Patrick
for Free-

Hill.

in Virginia six years before,

Henry had already thundered

dom.

Thus was

the Declaration "All

men

are

created equal" but the culmination of a New Thought movement a movement

that

had been growing en

this soil for

over an hundred years. "All men are equal" how?

Not

in

ability; not in character; not in conNo man of avscience not in reason

;

erage intelligence would so affirm. "endowed by their creator" are

But
the

words.
that
is

Thus all men are equal before "Power behind phenomena" which
called

commonly

GOD. From

iL""

the Fathers logically concluded that all men should be equal before the civil law.

This
3

is

the

American

Ideal.

This

is

that

Unity for which

New
Life!

Thought

stands
!

One God! One

all

One Huall

manity This Unity includes

tions.

mankind,

na-

In Ideal; in Principle; our nation and the New Thought movement

stand for the Universal Federation of
the World.

One

Universal

Brotherin

hood; one "Parliament of man"

all

which

battle-flags shall be furled!

We
Vv'iil

seek to establish that era of Goocl-

among men

so

that

Universal

Peace must come.

Good-Will which
Is.

must precede any desired era of peace!

With Good-WillPeace

During all those 139 years events have been moving continually toward the recognition of equality, and to the establishment of the government

among

the

people, and by the people, and for the It has not yet been realized in people.
its

fulness but the Perfect

is

on the way.
its reali-

We

are doing our part to help

is

zation.

the

one Principle upon which all cults embraced under the generic term New Thought unite, and
various
is

There

that

The

Divinity of

the

Human

is

Man Soui, and its infinite possibilities. the one conscious expression of the

one Power which we term Mind, or God. This statement of the Declaration which

saw as a Principle, they apas they were obliged or otherwise plied fail in their attempt to organize a govthe Fathers

ernment, and so did not include in

the people''

"We

woman and

the black man.

We

have grown so that

we

recognize

Principle of equality has no more limitation than a principle of mathematics, and today the black man, and
that this
in

many

states

woman,

is

the equal, un-

der the law, with man. It will not be long till she is so recognized in every
state,

and

will add, in
Spirit.

All are of
to

One

It is

every nation. our purpose

so teach that each person shall see

this Unity.
ple,

Then we
time
all

shall

be

One

Peo-

and
I

in

people shall be one

nation.

When

realize that I

am my

brother,

and iny brother is I, then will all wars cease, for all wars are born in competiborn of wanting something my tion, brother has, whether they be wars be5

tween neighbors, merchants, states, or Good-Will as my brother will nations. and communion bring co-operation where discord and dissension is impossible.

Wherever and whenever

of our Fathers
is

this

Principle

is peace. the people" are one Soul, as we are one blood. I and my Father are

lived there

"WE
one.

him

him and he is in me. In One! What is for my good is for my brother's good, and what is for my harm is for my brother's harm. The harm or the good of one is equally
I

aru in

all

are

true of

all.

Act from Universal

Principles,
life.

must be

the rule of each individual

Never was a Principle of government,

or of personal conduct, so all-embracing

and so greatly stated

in

that

most

in-

spired of all documents, the Declaration of Independence. It is an Eternal Charter of Liberty, for the constant unfold-

ing soul of man.

ual

It

frees the individ-

from
the
all

all
all

and places

authority outside himself, authority within the man.

"We
from

people!" are not only freed external authority in all ques-

oi
that

right,

but

we maintain
it,

this

we are responsible Freedom and perit

petuate

and thus pass

our children.

down unim-

paired to

a free-born, or as a naturalized American, there has been placed in my hand the scepter and the miter heretofore wielded by king

As

and

priest.

AM

necessity I should first be self-governed that I may in turn be a safe integral part of the one

THE GOVERNMENT.
When

Of

government.

the
will

individual
the

is

selfrgoverned then

nation

be

wisely governed. The first duty then is for each to learn and each to teach the

Divinity of the Soul and to inspire

to
its

men

expression.
citizen should affirm,

"Upon me," each

''upon
all

depends the just settlement of questions of national and internationin this

me

al

Do

importance !" you understand that here

a

Am-

we have ment? A new

erica,

governexperience in all history? Here for the first time is authority

New Thought

placed within the individual.

Where do

you
7

as a

New Thought

responsibility and authority

person place the for ycur

health and happiness? You place it where it is placed in the Constitution of

the United States.
citizens of

The

first

truly loyal

any nation are we. say " in our lives "Amen to the statement
of 78.

We

Within
that

is

the Throne of God.

all

From
life.

throne issue

the

edicts

which we obey every waking moment of

It
is

our mission to develop

till

this

con-

sciousness in the people

they by be-

coming
shall

self-reliant

and

self-respecting

indeed form a nation of self-governed people whose only authority is the

Inward Voice, which ever thunders

"DO RIGHT!"
It is

the mightiest task a people ever set

is

for themselves to build a nation of in-

dividuals where the state

not

man

for

the

state.

for man and One hundred

and thirty-nine years is but a tick of the clock of progress measured by the task
before us.
yet

But the Idealism of 76 shall become an objective reality. We are on the way and Democracy is coming. During this century and a quarter the
Principle of liberty of democracy,
the

has

been

possessing

Thomas

When people. Paine thought out the Declara-

which Jefferson's hand wrote oui thought would have found no sympathy When Paine said, ''The world my country and to do good my religion!" it was heresy and still worse was his heresy when he said, "I believe in One God and no more and hope for happiness beyond this life" for there were then three Gods, and no man, not a churchman, had
tion

right

this earth life.

socially

hope for happiness beyond He was persecuted and ostracised. And today an Exto

rresident calls him

fidel!"

"A

dirty

little

in-

But we proclaim it, and are received with acclaim. The opinions of men do
change.
tion stage. have no longer toleration or merely statute law protection, but

We have We

passed the persecu-

we

possess in almost

perfection,

the
free

guarantee of no meddling

with

speech. heart of the people is always right. All we need is to give way to the natu-

The
ral

impulses
l;ein-;r

of

man and
all will

that

human

heart

Love

be peace.

Truth is finding its way and we trust it. r he Thinker his come and the Thinker Erner>un warns us to "Beware n:lcs.
\

when
er,

the

gmtt Ood
all

lets toose

the Think-

For then

things are at his meris

Ihe wisdom

of the Fathers

now made

manifest in this great body who echo back across the centuries "The soul of

man
I

can be trusted to the end!'' wish you to see where you- where

this

ward Freedom.

me

Congress stands, in the march toI wish you to feel with the great debt we owe and the great

responsibility that rests upon each as inheritors of the spirt of '76 and the institutions

born from

it.

As

children of

that early Idealism that materialized the United States of America it devolves

upon us
is

to materialize "THE UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD!" This

our manifest destiny.

This

is

the

mission of America
of the world.

among

the nations

As they were the Fathers of "Many made One" so we, New Thought peoand I say it with a full heart and with a loyalty to which my life is concentrated it is our duty to crystahze the spirit of today as they did the spirit In the dawn of the of unrest of '76. twentieth century we hold as important place in the world's history as did the
ple

of Concord, Putnam at and Patrick Henry in the Legislature of Virginia. Soon there will

minute

men

Bunker

Hill

be a crystal organized that

will,

in the

Spirit of the old Liberty Bell, proclaim

Freedom through the world.

It is to us,

the only body today dealing

is

with

CONSTRUCTIVE THOUGHT,
made an
States

to see that that proclamation universal reality.

All the world but the

United
has failed

seems
the

in chaotic conditions.
lost its

Ecclesiasti-

cism has
test

hold

it

when

came; war is rampant among the great nations which have called themselves Christian. The church is Socialism is powerless. Evpowerless.
ery institution that has claimed to stand for brotherhood has failed. The Red

Cross welds

all

into one in

its

sympathy,

and while
it

is

has no constructive power, the preparing the way for

it

of that Unity, which can only come through suffering. But here, we are an International Body with Uni-

thought

versal

Truth and Love for our power,

and

ONLY i-ODY THAT REPRESENTS THE SPIRIT OF THE NOW, AND WEO HOLD A CONSTRUCTIVE

WE ARE THE ONE AND THE

THE POWER OF TRUTH; THE CONSTRUCTIVE POWER OF THE

IDEAL
tle

WORLD. WE KNOW THE POWER OF THOUiHT.

IDEAL FOR THE
and upon us has
fallen the

man-

of the prophets and we must fulfill that which they have foreseen and bring

about a Universal Brotherhood. This Universal Federation cannot come through legislation. It cannot come by

any
is

artificial

means.
is its

Nature's evolution

of the

human

heart's expression

which

Friendship,

economic conditions
for

they will

only way. Improved will not bring it, not eliminate selfishness
It

from the

heart.

will

never come

through physical hygiene. These do not reach, and only mitigate the evil. All conditions which the world
does not find to
its

or

social

advantage

as

joy

Lringer, as experience shall decide, will as fall cff the body politic, and social, leaves

from the

trees in

autumn.

Only

the best of each generation will remain for future use, and when this is out-

grown it will also fall away. The end of present undesired conditions can come and will come through the
awakened consciousness of Man. Consciousness of his Divinity and his Unity

with

all

the race.

He must come
"I
I

to a

realization not only that

Father are One" but that

and and

my my

Brother are One.

Consciousness of the

One
in

Indwelling God will create that feeling of Brotherhood which will result

an era of Good-Will which must pre-

cede any era of peace. This is seen by many whose occupation is war. Sir Francis Younghusband, who
led the British

army

to Thibet, in a re-

cent article says:

Men who regard themselves as integral parts of the whole, with every other single part of which they are most related, and who also
realize that each, in his own small degree, contributes to form that spirit which has made

them, will have not only this deep sense of They unity, but a craving to make it closer. will resent the tyranny of a rigid order imposed from outside, but they will establish
for themselves that full and flexible orcic* which free individuals possess of a sense of responsibility which freedom engenders, and

naturally

evolve
scope

for
for

themselves.
individuality,

They
for

will

allow
will
.
.

full

they

know
.

It

that thereby will unity be increased. is not so much peace and rest to

which they look forward, as the harmony which comes of activity, an activity bent on
i3

frsimr
the

all

discords.
Spirit

Men imbued
be
sensible

with,

Universal
is

will

of

it

working-

what

through them, making always good propelling them upward.

;

for

right to Life," say our organic law, "and the right to liberty are one/'

"The

Only under
expression.

liberty

can

life
is

have

its

full

But

liberty

a constantly

is Its definition unfolding Principle. never the same in any two generations.

The Liberty dreamed

in '76 would be and our liberty would tyranny now, have meant license to them. Even Paine and Jefferson would have shrunk in terror from present individual freedom and the spirit of Hamilton if it has

not kept in touch with mundane affairs, will see that all he feared has come upon
us.

But because we have trusted the

Principle they announced, we are freer, and I believe happier, than were our Fathers. All this advance has come as
all

growth in individuals and nations comes through suffering, pain, agony, tears, and blood.

O A

Freedom thou art not as poets dream, fair young girl with light and delicate limbs And wavy trtsses gushing from the cap
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With which
slave

the

Roman

master crowned his

When

Armed

he took off the gyves. A bearded man to the teeth art thou one mailed hand Grasps the broad shield and one the sword;
;

thy brow Glorious in Beauty though it be, is scarred With tokens of old wars thy massive limbs
;

Are strong with

has launched

struggling.
his

Power

at

thee

His bolts and with

thee,

lightenings

smitten

They could not quench

from heaven.

the

power thou hast

Bryant.
is

And
great

the struggle for Freedom new as ever in the past.

its

as

It

has
its

changed weapons.

fields,

its

methods and

struggle that greets us in the objective world is the struggle for economic freedom, for what we in
first

The

term prosperity or opuThere must be freedom from the one present slavery of wages on the hand, and the equally oppressive slavery of over-possession on the other. All the attempts toward this is but the attempt
lence.

New Thought

of Justice to balance her scales. As long as men live to possess rather than to Be;
as long as possession
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is

sought, and Be-

ing ignored, the scales of Justice will never balance.

But we are nearer Justice

in every av-

enue of human endeavor than we were one hundred years ago. We are indeed

our brother's keeper.

think for him.

But

am

net to

Am

not authority for him.

Am

for his thought to be a post for

rules and regulations and conduct. I am not him to lean upon. I am not to save him from the effects of his I am to leave him as free as thinking.

not to

make

I am to see that I wish to be myself. he has equal opportunities with myself, then, if he refuses to use them, I am to

leave

him

to the

Law

am my

to love

him under
still.

all

of Justice, but I conditions, as

brother

Economic

liberty

when

it

comes

will

be

only the John the Baptist to that Jarger Liberty of the Sons of God; that spiritual liberty which we foresee and toward which we work. When that liberty dawns we shall be a self-governed

nation

of
is

self-governed
all life is

individuals,
till

whose God
This
is

Love, and where

men

are brothers and

co-operative

Democracy.

Kcar

Whitman's
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declaration
I

speak the watchword primeval

Democracy.

By God! I swear I will have nothing that every man cannot have the counterpart of on
equal terms.
is the Spirit and the Purpose of Thought. As far as I know it 1^ the motive of every editor and teacher, healer and lover in our ranks in this, the last and greatest demand for Freedom. All around is chaos. The world is

This

New

in the birth-throes of a

institutions are

tumbling

have

all

been tried

era. Old Old methods and found wanting.

new

The most progressive

nations are prov-

ing that education, culture, theology and politics are impotent to save from war.
If

we

believe
near.

look only on one side we may well that the end of civilization is

There

is

destructive thought. Where are builders? Where is the savior?

a rampant holocaust of the

Only a movement that

the clouds and will

will look

above

sciousness

that

come vith the conthought is Power and

with an Ideal of Universal Brotherhood, and with constructive thought, will be

equal to the

work

of

reconstruction.

Now

is

that psychological

moment when

the Savior can come, and can save.

And
ment,

the saving power, the

is

savi??.v;

move-

here.

This world-wkU: move-

ment, called
??ad the only,

New

Thought,

is

the one,

movement before

the race

today that comes constructively. know know the power of Silence.

We
all

We

that
this

Though:
and

is

creative,

and amid

tumult and chaos

it

WORD
sea, so

speak the will create more than a

into

we

Tabled Eden.

As God spoke Light

the

being and Jesus calmed

troubled

we, a million people with underConstructive power, standing of our speak the word PEACE, and peace IS, and that which IS in the world of Rea"ty, will soon be seen in the world of

the objective.

but among

t*>e

inalienable rights
is

is

that

Life.

This statement

not alone the

recognition of the right to life, but the recognition of the fact that Life is, and
it is

for me. claim Life, and we proclaim with T'.r.th "I come that ye may

We

have life and have it more abundantly/' and the slavery of disease mtibt end. Not
alone the right to
I will be, in

life

and

liberty,
life

but
lib

inv

own

person,

?nd

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in that larger liberty the equal sons of a co-nmc u possessed by iather, where there are no limitations of

crty.

Will

live

ncr even education, wealth, custnm, those of vice and virtue. Ail these are

unknown.

We

have ushered

in Uie thou*

band years of Unity of

Spirit,

where w^

recognize only the Divinity of the human soul and demand for each expression of tl:;it soul, equal opportunities.

Freedom comes
in

in those successive steps

which the

intellect

of

man

translates

the emotions into action.

start at birth full of the animal, and are slowly "crushing out the ape and letting the tiger die/' In this growing con-

We

sciousness of ourselves as

POWER TO
are fast over-

\VILL
last

AND TO DO

we

coming conditions and

disease

shall

conquer the
poverty,

three enemies or the race

and the involuntarily leaving the

body by the present process of death. Man will eventually leave his body when he chooses, and at will will take it up Through the power of his again. thought, he will overcome all the conditions of mortality and will consciously live an immort'u Being here and now.

Our

first

freedom came at birth; the

last physical step was takbecai le capable of earning

next when free from mother's arms and

breasts.

en

The when we
living.

our
with

Intellectual liberty has progressed along

thir.

physical

liberty.

Few

reach

liberty in tko'ight for instead of resting

ability to perceive truth, statements from some authey accept

upon

their

own

thority.

Few have

in

all

history

ex-

pressed this

intellectual

freedom.

Am-

erica has placed, in the

panthenon of the

gods, two men who represent her nineteenth century

freedom.
in the

When
gods of

these old

two were ushered

times arose and vacating their seats gave Ultra the places of honor, and these two

Emerson and Walt Whitman.

Complete
emancipation
declare, as did

comes
and

only
live

when we
Walt
Here

Emerson and

declare, our

own

divinity,

in perfect trust in ourselves.

is

my

declaration of complete in-

r!rrendcnce as taurrht nie by Emerson:

I TRUST MYSELF. MY HEART VIBRATES TO THAT IRON STRING. I ACCEPT THE PLACE DIVINE

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PROVIDENCE HAS FOUND FOR THE CONNECTION Ob EVENTS; THE SOCIETY OF MY CONTEMPORARIES. ALL GREAT
ME.

MEN DO -THIS AND I DO IT ALSO. AM SURE THAT THE ABSO^LY TRUSTWORTHY IS WORKING THROUGH MY HANDS, IS BEATING IN MY HEART AND IS PERMEATING ALL MY BEING.
I

L,

This
ship,
spirit,
\vili

is

the Spirit of
it

and when

American citizenbecomes the manifest

then the government of the people surely be a government for the peoit

ple

and

will

never perish from the

This coming is delayed by the conservatism, pessimism, lack of trust in

earth.

man, and the fears of the timid and most

of
trust the past only a precedent and for and who cry for "Thus said the Lord" will authority. keep back the car of progress for an
all

by those

who

hundred years, when a "Thus saith the heart of man! would bring brotherhood and peace. There must come today, to all, that faith i:i the Self, that Luther had when he declared "Here I stand! I can no oth1

'

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er!

God

helping inei"

are very near the dark and bloody gi^i.nd of Europe but we are in the

We

dawn
is

told that

of Europe's greater day. The tale upon Calvary the sun was

darkened and the earth shook. So do the clouds of war always darken the sun and shake the earth. But as that
darkness presaged the Resurrection, so does this upheaval prophesy the awakening of the Soul of Man from the

grave of militarism, selfishness and materialism and death.

I

TRUST MYSELF!
watchword.
Christ that
is

hereafter will be

his

The

was

to

coine

is

here!

not a personality but a PrinIt is the ciple inherent in every soul.

Christ
led to the cross,

and inspired Jesus and it has inspired evin all ery teacher, lover and martyr times and all lands. It is here It has been precipitated from the Universal and crystallized its body
Principle
that
!

in

this

Congress.

It

is

today as un-

known and

as unperceived, as it always has been, by the generation that gave

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it

birth,

will

but upon the grave of today be built monuments to the Messiah's

truth embodied in our fundamental
is

advent.

The

Law
bring

in

the Christ Principle, that shall a Triumphant Democracy.

ill,

the authority and the grind of a false system of wealth, that allows one person to possess more

redemption from the

necessary for his own pression, while ethers want.

than

is

life

ex-

Democracy
vior.

equality

is

the

world
people,

sa-

We, New Thought

great body

are

the
to

first

who have attempted

word
here.

bring scientifically and by practical the Kingdom of the Good upon

That kingdom has always been The early teacher said, "It is at hand!" Turn and grasp that hand of
earth.

Love, always extended by

It is there.

man

to
it

Look
it.

for

it

Expect

man. and

you
all

shall find

the altruist declaring "All

is

In that kingdom stands And is mine.

is "

thine

Supply is in-' finite, and always there is enough for rich and all. Come and be healed! We pray I-P.M!(

There yours. for we are one

no mine and

risniy:

"May

earth

!"

We

come on thy kingdom care for no other kingdom,

nor time, but always enough for HERE! This kingdom lies in the faith of the Quaker when he poet

AND
'insi '9
j

NOW

know

not where His islands Their fronded palms in air; only know, 1 cannot drift, Beyond His love and care.

lift

'ih^t

kingdom of

the

Good
it

comes
is

through the recognition that

the

here
of

moment we
its

look to the

Law

Causation and realise Cause and Effect

as
Chancellors.
is.

Goodness

Think Goodness and Think righteousness and

righteousness is! By thought we build it within where all Goodness dwells.

Affirm: /

and

let

it

Spirit.

the Kingdom of the Good! bring forth the fruits of th* Emerson says, "God hid the

am

whole world
firmed
:

in thy heart," and also af''The whole future lies in the " bottom of his heart." Mind, "heart

net intellect.

In his
it,

thought.

Let
find

Love and not in hi en the waves of your

objective

emotion,
for

its

expression,

LOVE

IS

ALL POWER,
we

and

in

giving Love in Friendship

fulfill

the

24

Law
There which
desire,

we
is

fill

the

Law

full.

but

is

law, the law of Love, the Law of Desire. What 1

One

I have already in Reality, or I could not desire it. 1 am Will to bring it forth. Desire and Will lead to Expec-

tation,

c.nd

of these three

all

material

things are mine. For I am an individualized expression of the Absolute One. Through me the Absolute rim-i; con-

work of Creation. The Absolute made a world

tinue Its

of mineral,

vegetable and animal life, and It could do no more till, through Man, came and in Man God thinks, and Thought, by Thought continues creation. With-

out

Man

not a

nail.

With Man

see this

Exposition.

Without Man, God would

tinued
to

have
to

con-

swim

in the fish,

croak

in the frog, to sing in the bird,

and

to

blossom

in

the rose.

But
all

in

Man

the

Absolute will express

possibilies

of

Being through new

in

creations forever.

Therefore the time has come when

consciousness
of
his

Man

Divinity must

now
that

declare his freedom of limitations,

in this

faith

God

mav

continue

through
It
13

liim

the process of Evolution.

for this Alliance to teach

I

Man

to

proclaim
firm
I

In his perception of infinite possibilities he is to af:

AM

FREE!

THE DIVINITY

AM FREE TO EXPRESS AM
I
i

Every condition of consciousness

that

is

possible to Infinity I am now. I am to knew this, and to give each clay a fuller

expression of that which

I
I

am.

Know-

ing this

am

to affirm

AM THE

LAV/! Because
the Declaration

of this fact affirmed in

"WE, THE PEOPLE," ARE THE LAW, AND BEYOND US THERE IS NO OTHER! with myself, My work, therefore,
lie^>

and within myself.

simply to

And

that

work

is

KNOW

MYSELF.

Over

the expressions of life in any person or nature I have neither right nor

wish to interfere. If the wind cools If cheek gratefully that is Good.

carries
it

my
it

me by

cyclone into the

I

Bay

still

is

Good.

For alone am

to decide

upon me. And I have decided that whatever conies IT shall produce for me and in me Good. Work toward me your sweet will, my
\vhat shall be the effect

26

brother, no
that
it

ii

latter 'il uo

you
to

it

'shall

you give
it

me

hate.
still

I shall

so, for

will be

not know me your own

sweet

will,
is

for I
it

will
all

sec the Divinity

which

behind

and that Divinity

cannot wrong me, if it would. I am not an aspen leaf to be fluttered by every whiff of emotion frcm niy neighbors.
I AM THE ROCK OF AGES. NOTHING EXTERNAL TO ME CAN MOVE ME If I like the sensa!

tion
I'll

I'll

repeat

it.

If I

do not

like

it,

refrain.

have learned that every friendly act

produces in

me

happiness, therefore

am
all

at all times

and

in all places

and

to

persons,

A FRIEND.
is

The only
which
w^e

test

character that

and the only epithet of worth anything, is that

pay to Jesus

FRIEND OF
SINNERS.
Only that we
fail

PUBLICANS

HE WAS A AND

by lack of friendship

to transmute them, there are to us publicans and sinners. I have trans-

formed them through my Love to FRIENDS. When I so live, when I so recognize, mv divinitv and the divinity

Uicr? has Goodjjos.s done its perwork, and eternity has for me no higher plane of expression, and I may

of

-rill,

fect

forever continue to evolve in this

life of

LOVE.
In this consciousness of the Wholeness
of the Universe, I nothing that is not
session
is

realize
all

that

men's.
I

I have That pos-

robbery, and that

Infinite

am

to de-

Supply from which, when I take, I take from no man that which is his need. I shall have passed

pend upon

into

when he

that opulence which was Jesus' said he had neither, like foxes
for

or birds, the necessity because all was him.

The

possession, hearts and

hopes of
the

all men was his, and at need Law would materialize coin or bread My wealth is common, I possess

No

petty province, but the

Whole!
less

mine still Than treasure shared by every

t's

mine alone

is

soul.

have a stake in every star in every flower that gems the day.
hearts of
oars,
is

All

men my

My

arterial

coffers are tides convey.

"All mine

thine" the Sky-Soul saith,

I am thou must become, Richer and richer, breath by breath,

The wealth

And

Immortal gain, Immortal since all his mine also

gifts

room!"''
is,

Life's

outrun

my

fancies

far,

And drowns the dream in larger stream As morning drinks the morning star.
D. A. U'asson.

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