CHAPTER VIII.

GENERATION OF MIND.

It is the weakness of matter which compels it to
lie dormant and still in one place ; this it is which
causes it to fall down when not supported. Gravita-
tion is only another name for weakness. So it is
with mind. That which is under law is weak, and
the more materialistic the mind is the weaker it is,
and the more bound by law.

Mind is law, but the thing moved and governed is
matter. To fulfill the law, then, is to perfect the
mind, and the matter under it ; for law makes mat-
ter, and imparts every quality to it — motion, weight,
buoyancy, etc.

To the perfected mind all mundane things are under,
or inclosed in it, as a large circle incloses smaller
ones. There is no such thing as perfecting nature —
it is already perfect. Neither can an imperfect thing
generate a perfect thing. The imperfect changes by
rising up to, and receiving the perfect within itself.
Thus the wise man works through nature, not
against it ; and mastering its modes, methods, laws
and minds, transcends them all; and looking back,
becomes a spectator rather than an actor.

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This is the fulfillment of law, or in other words,
the being filled full of mind. For as we ascend in
the scale of power, we become more and more in-
volved, or enveloped in mind, which, penetrating
through and through, illuminates the spirit, and gives
buoyancy and fluidity, or malleability, to the matter
composing the body ; thus connecting it with other
matter, to influence, control, mould and fashion it for
use, as one uses his hands.

In order to pass from one nature, or mode of ex-
istence, into another, generation and birth are neces-
sary. This involves a sleep. The spirit worlds are of
this nature. In order to go beyond them — to the
realm of absolute power, the germs of the mind must
be ripe. We are here for the purpose — some of us,
at least — of generating mind ; not merely to spend a
few years in amassing wealth, or in toiling to support
bodies.

Those in whom the mind is not half generated
remain in this nature to try it over and over again.
Unripe germs will not grow. To pass into the
nature or " Kingdom of God" a regeneration is neces-
sary, because it is an incomprehensible nature to this
finite mind — hence the entire man must be re-made.
The body is of no account. Mind is that which
determines. Some minds are of no account. Fate
determines.

The truly generated mind may, and does, regen-
erate the man, and endow him or her with super-
natural power and immortal life, here on this earth.

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That which ensues at the death of the body is simply
generation, and not a regeneration ; for in the regen-
eration the body is changed in quality consciously,
by the joining to it of the Divine Mind. There is no
sleep or trance in this ; it is effort ; not physical, but
mental effort, in the destruction of things that disturb
the harmony.

There are many enemies to human progress, promi-
nent among which are the following of a downward
or retrogressive series, which are antagonized by an
upward or progressive series. They may properly be
termed Powers — one of Light, the other of Darkness.

POWERS OF LIGHT. POWERS OF DARKNESS.

( i. Revelation. ( i. Ignorance.

( 2. Joy. | 2. Sorrow.

( 3. Temperance. ( 3. Intemperance.

( 4. Continence. ( 4. Concupiscence.

( 5. Justice. ( 5. Injustice.

( 6. Communion. ( 6. Covetousness.

( 7. Truth. ( 7. Deceit.

\ 8. Good. \ 8. Envy.

( 9. Light. ( 9. Fraud.

( 10. Life. ( 10. Wrath.

— Hermes.

Revelation may be known by its imparting a great
satisfaction, rest, or joy to man. Joy is prolific, since
it is the feminine of ideas. As Revelation drives
away ignorance, so joy drives away sorrow — or pre-
pares the mind to resist sorrow, and to be self-sus-
taining in its completeness — to stand calm and
tranquil amid life's changing scenes, and be content
and happy despite adversity.

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Temperance in all things is revealed as the source
of health, and immediately is seized upon by the
mind, and when it has grown apace, Continence, the
feminine of it, is evolved. And they two drive away
Intemperance and Concupiscence.

When this is accomplished the mind is as clear as
a polished mirror. The turbid waters of selfishness
and lust have subsided, and Justicey stripped of vin-
dictiveness, stands revealed as mercy, and becomes
the ruling power of the mind. Then comes Com-
munion, the feminine of Justice, and Injustice and
Covetousness flee away. There is now no feeling of
"mine and thine " left in the mind. All things are
pure and all things are common. The communion of
the sexes, of races, of spirits, angels, and Gods, is
effected, and the mind trembles with its fullness upon
the confines of absolute truth or oneness of being.

The soul has now ascended to the seventh sphere,
and is pregnant with male and female twins — " the
Truth of Good, and the Good of Truth," which in due
time are born into the conscious mind, whereupon
deceit and envy take their departure. In the light
of truth all distinctions and differences disappear, and
all things are good.

But this light reveals another light — dimly seen
at first — far away upon the backgrounds of the soul,
fitful and fleeting, obscured by passing shadows, it
grows brighter and comes nearer — an immortal light
in the centre of which is the germ of another life —
of an immortal substance called " the Tree of Life. '
LofC.

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It slowly enters into the mind, and descending from
thence enters into and transforms the changeable
matter into a substance at once homogeneous and not
particled. The man is no longer in light and in life,
but light and life are in him.

The Infinite is no longer without and far away, but
it is within ; not divided and separated from, but the
integral part of all being, tangible, visible and intel-
ligible. The impossible does not belong to this life,
and flees away upon its approach, or is not.

The darkness and ignorance which form the back-
ground of the soul, in which we are hidden from our-
selves, has been withdrawn, and we are revealed as
the Over-soul itself, containing all life and forms
within. We are no longer involved in law or mind,
for we contain all of these, and are conscious thereof.
And we use them as we now do our hands and feet.

Man is master of all his soul embraces. This is the
proper generation of mind, wherein the body and
spirit are regenerated. To such, death is not, for
death is a weakness. The intuitions of a ripened
mind are as broad and deep as the universe, but those
of a small or an unripe mind are weak and shallow.

Hence the necessity of mental culture — not in the
acquisition of earthly knowledge, but in the effort to
grasp creative power — philosophy, astronomy, etc.,
in their broadest and deepest aspects. Philosophy is
the highest of all studies. It wings the soul.

Truth is so little known that it is folly to waste
words in argument ; but speculate, think, entertain

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and master all ideas thereto ; imagine, grasp at the
Infinite Mind, and bring it into yourself, for in the
effort the mind expands, stretches out and grows.
What if you accept an error to-day ? You can change
your opinion to-morrow ! Above all things beware of
fossilization.

Had Jesus healed the whole world in a day, it
would have been sick again in a few weeks, if not
days. He did not teach worship, but manhood, as a
Divine thing. He taught salvation as flowing from
works, and not from his merits or blood, or from the
worship of him, or anything else but principle. He
taught the influence and value of belief ; and also of
several kinds of baptism — of water, of fire, and of
the Holy Ghost ; and also of a baptism which he
should undergo at his death.

We are left to conjecture what baptism he meant
when he said, " He that believeth and is baptized
shall be saved," etc. (See Mark xvi. 16, 17, 18.)
But we are not left in doubt in regard to its being
the baptism with water, for the Christian world has
been " sprinkled," " poured," and " plunged" in water
for eighteen hundred and eighty-two years ; and where
are the "signs" he said should follow as an evidence
of salvation ?

He said he was the bread of life; to eat thereof
was to be immortal. Now, the truth is, he was teach-
ing the same thing I am trying to illustrate, and his
ignorant apostles, or some one else, have got it mixed
up and distorted, in order to deify him. He said the

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bread of life came from heaven ; and also that " the
Kingdom of God is within you." He also spoke of
another birth, and of sight, as a result of that birth.
Baptism with water is a symbol of purification in order
to the reception of another Baptism, viz., that of fire.
The Baptism with water is typical of the softening and
the making tender (as a seed) the natural mind, so
that it may expand or revolve in its growth towards
rationality. The softened, tender, sympathetic, open-
ing mind, inhales the fragrance of another life, and it
buds, blossoms and bears fruits which are a blessing
to all. Its blossoms are a sight of the kingdom of
God, and its fruit is the entering into the spirit of all
truth, and the birth of a Divine Body, indestructible
and eternal.

Bathing assists the will in the healing of the body,
and in the subduing of the heat of passion. Water
opens the pores of the body — belief opens the mind ;
the first for the reception of magnetism (spirit), the
latter for the reception of ideas, which are, indeed, of
the soul (Holy Ghost).

This is the building up of a divine body of a super-
natural substance, from the atmosphere of a thought-
world. We need not die, if we only know how to
live. But what can we say of a world of men who
think of nothing but vanity, and concerning the
serious part of life hire their thinking done ? The
thoughts doled out from millions of pulpit-grinders
every seventh-day are but the effluvia of the past, the
exhalations of the dead ; what kind of substance do

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they furnish for a dying world ? Is this the " bread
of life " ? Is there a spark of original fire in it ?

He who depends upon books for his inspiration is
but an exhumer of the dead. The heavens are as
open to-day as when Isaiah, gazing aloft, said, " Lo, I
am God ! and I change not ; therefore, ye sons of
Jacob, are ye not devoured." The same power is
waiting for us to reach up and take that existed in
the olden time for him they nailed upon the cross.
The tables of the Infinite are spread and loaded, but
no one will be compelled to partake. Help your-
selves, is the universal law.

At the tomb of Lazarus, in view of a body lying
stark and dead, with the smell of death, and the
mould of the grave on his pallid lips, with eyes that
gazed the Infinite out of countenance with their un-
flinching audacity, He of the magic Will said, " If a
man believe in me he shall not die." Did he mean
physical death ? Most assuredly he did. Take this
as corroborative : in speaking to the Jews at another
time he said, " Your fathers did eat manna in the
wilderness, and are dead ; but I am the bread of life
which came down from heaven, of which, if a man
eat, he shall not die," meaning the same death the
fathers died in the wilderness, viz. : physical death.
And yet, in the face of these positive declarations of
the Inspired One, the pulpit organs grind out a spirit-
ual explanation. They make Jesus' work apply to a
future state, when he intended it wholly for this life.

The Hermetic Philosophers, the Alchemists, and

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the Rosicrucians, have all believed in and taught the
doctrine of eternal youth, and sought for the "phi-
losopher's stone," and the " elixir of life;" and Jesus
taught that life was within the Kingdom of heaven,
which " is within you ; " and laid the foundation-stone,
Belief.

The fakirs of India cause a shrub to grow out of
the ground, blossom, bear its fruit, and ripen it, all in
one short hour. And it is no phantom fruit, for it is
passed around and divided among the bystanders, who
eat thereof. Scores of travelers have witnessed this
feat, and many have written of it, but my authority
is a gentleman of veracity who was born and reared
in India. It is done under circumstances which
utterly preclude the idea of jugglery or trick of any
kind. They know and say it is the power of the will
that does it. But there is no growth to their power.
Why ? Because they have no higher ideas of human
powers than the manipulation and production of
things. They are not a progressive people. They
are at their highest point. It remains for the Anglo-
Saxon race to go higher ; for it is a higher race.

Jesus said, " Greater works than these shall ye do,
because I go to the Father." And it would have
proved true had they made the conditions. It re-
mains for us to make the conditions, which are, to
work for that baptism with the Holy Ghost and with
fire, viz. : the union of spirit and soul. Water makes
the body soft, tender and pure. Baptism is to be
submerged, swallowed up in the spirit, which is the

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beginning of a new life with wondrous powers, gen-
erative of new matter — a divine essence, superior to
death and dissolution, which in appearance resembles
this body, but which, in fact, is not mortal.

It was this body which Jesus, Moses, Elijah,
Philip, Enoch and several Rosicrucians of the
olden time are reputed to have had. This was why
Jesus said, " I will lay my life down ; you cannot
take it." This Divine body may die, if corrupted by
the desire to die. Thus St. John could live, notwith-
standing he was plunged into a cauldron of boiling oil,
till he desired to die. The Divine body is not a
spiritual body, hence it is no apparition, or material-
ized form, dependent upon a medium and conditions.
It is totally subject to the will, and as it is projected
from the mind, it may be drawn back into the mind
again, and thus disappear. Or it may change and
become some other form. This was why the Disci-
ples failed to recognize Jesus on the way to Emmaus.
" He appeared to them in another form/' says Mark.
But when he had blessed the bread and broke it, he
was himself again, they recognized him, and then he
disappeared.

At another time he stood in their midst, and as
they doubted, he said, " Feel my flesh and bones, for
ye know a spirit hath not flesh and bones.,, The
doctrine of the metempsychosis of the soul is as true
as it is old. All things are in the divine mind, and
are projections thereof by Divine Will and Love.
Hence, man, when he rises to the Divine, has the

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same powers, so far as he is concerned, as an indi-
vidual. Thus, he may clothe the naked, feed the
hungry, heal the sick, raise the dead, walk upon the.
water, still the tempest, or visit the GoD-worlds at
will.

When that good time comes we will not need to
take thought for to-morrow. Then we can " give to
every one that asks," and "he that would borrow "
we need not "turn away." Then "whatsoever ye
shall ask shall be granted/' not because ye ask in
anybody's name, but because then we may say with
Jesus, "I and my Father are one." Then there
shall be no high and no low, but as brothers we shall
dwell together, and the nations shall learn war no
more. Then shall " the lamb and the lion lie down
together/ ' and " the knowledge of the Lord cover the
earth as the waters the great deep." Then good-bye
to mammon and to a civilization whose glory is " an
eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth/' — "whoso
sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be
shed/'

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