Chapter XI

THE DAILY CYCLES OF SIGNIFICANT HOURS
HERE is another important cycle, which will probably be used by the readers of this book more frequently than the other cycles because of its timeliness and the ease with which it may be consulted in regard to many occurrences of the day. I know of thousands of business men and women who have used this cycle in an abbreviated form, supphed by me in the past as a guide to their affairs, and who consult it during the day in connection with every important matter that comes upon the hori2;on of their busi' nesses or their personal affairs. We have tested this cycle in thousands of ways, and all who were for- tunate enough to know of it report that it is one of the most dependable guides ever used by them. This cycle divides the twenty-four hours of the day into seven periods. Each period is of approxi-
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mately three hours, twentyfive minutes, and forty three seconds. The daily cycle begins at midnight and ends at midnight; noon of each day is the center of the cycle. The first period of the cycle is from midnight to twenty-five minutes after three; the second cycle ends at fiftyone minutes after six o'clock; the third cycle ends at seventeen minutes aften ten; the fourth cycle ends at forty two min- utes after one in the afternoon; the fifth cycle ends at eight minutes after five in the afternoon; the sixth cycle ends at thirty-four minutes after eight in the evening, and the last cycle at midnight.
These periods will apply in all parts of the world, but the time used must be the actual time of the country or the city in which the person lives. If dayhght savings time is used in any lo- cality, or any other temporary variation of clock time or standard time, as it is called, these varia- tions must be ignored and the standard time as it is measured from Greenwich must be used.
Standard time, of course, varies slightly from mean time, but the variation is only of a few min- utes in most locahties, and will not require adjust- ment for any particular use of this cycle.
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As stated in previous pages, the use of the periods of the various cycles must always allow for a few minutes', hours' or days' variations at the beginning of each cycle. In using cycles Number Two and Three, a variation of a day or at least of a few hours must be allowed at the beginning and ending of each of the periods. The full effect of the conditions pertaining to each period of any of these cycles does not be- come manifest until the period is fairly well estab- lished. In the case of the present cycle, no matter where you live you should allow five minutes or even ten minutes at the beginning and ending of each period for the conditions to become estab' lished. Therefore, although the first one of this cycle ends at 3:25 in the morning, and the second one begins at that moment, it is safer to consider that the first period ends at 3:20 and the second period begins at 3:30. This leaves a neutral period of five or ten minutes at the end and beginning of each period, when the full effect of the conditions allotted to the period may not manifest. This, therefore, will take care of any slight difference between standard and mean time
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in your locality. Standard time is the time used by railroads, and by the government, and by it all clocks in each community are set.
The value of the daily cycle becomes apparent the minute one attempts to use the system. Test' ing it for a few weeks will give better warrant for its use than any argument I may present in these pages. Those who feel reluctant to guide their lives and their daily affairs by any mechanical or strange system like this, need not feel that there are any superstitions connected with the matter. A superstition ceases to be a superstition as soon as the principle back of it becomes mani" fest, and the operation of the principle proves the existence of a fundamental law. While some may argue that the use of such systems as these is the result of faith or beHef in them, the fact remains that such faith and beUef are natural results from the discovery of the fact that the law is workable, and worXs. As I said above, it hardly behooves me to take your time and my time to argue the benefits to be derived from this system, for it takes only a few weeks of test and trial to show the law that is in operation back of it.
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Before attempting to use the daily cycle, the following chapter dealing with the complete in^ struction for its use must be carefully read. Once these instructions are understood, it will be a simple matter to refer to the periods of the daily cycle any hour of the day, and be guided by the information given. It may be somewhat new in the lives of many persons, the regulating of their business affairs by such a schedule, but if stock brokers and business men dealing with stocks and bonds, and the fluctuations of Wall Street, find it profitable to consult a system like this, and if the heads of big manufacturing and selling cor- porations find it helpful to consult this system in their daily affairs, certainly every business man and woman will find it pleasant, interesting and profitable to consult the clock and the periods in this book, just as the captain of a ship consults his maps and his various guides each hour of the day and night.
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