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LAST LETTERS
FROM THE LIVING DEAD
MAN
BY ELSA
BARKER
LIVING DEAD
MAN
THE SON OF MARY BETHEL
THE FROZEN GRAIL
THE BOOK OF LOVE
STORIES FROM THE
FOR CHILDREN
NEW TESTAMENT
LAST LETTERS
FEOM THE
LIVING
DEAD MAN
WRITTEN DOWN
BY
ELSA BARKER
WITH AN INTRODUCTION
NEW YORK
MITCHELL KENNERLEY
1919
COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY
MITCHELL KENNKRLET
PRINTED IN AMERICA BT
J. J.
LITTLE
ft
IVES COMPANY
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
LETTER
49
in
61
IV
67
II
V CONTINGENT FEES
THE THREE APPEALS
VII THE BUILDERS
THE WORLD OF MIND
VIII
ix AMERICA'S GOOD FRIDAY
X THE CRUCIBLE
XI MAKE CLEAN YOUR HOUSE
VI
XII
LEVEL HEADS
54
71
74
76
88
95
97
103
109
XIII
112
XIV
INVISIBLE ARMIES
114
118
123
140
147
CONTENTS
THE FEDERATION OF NATIONS
XX THE NEW IDEAL
XIX
XXI
155
159
A RAMBLING TALK
166
XXII
171
XXIII
179
XXIV
MELANCHOLY
182
XXIX
209
A RITUAL OF FELLOWSHIP
RECRUITING AGENTS
218
190
198
216
227
235
DEAD MAN
INTRODUCTION
fT^HIS
Living Dead Man series, was written between February, 1917, and Februj|_
ary, 1918.
or per-
As
to
do
be finished; and
lisher
urged
that I read
me
it
was not
to issue
it all
it
was
my
pub-
as a fragment
it
until
first
really
an organic whole.
time
a com-
"Perhaps,"
and
still
For had
book been published when it was written, it would have seemed premature now
this
it is
timely as yester-
day's editorials.
For
series,
"Let-
ters
Man,"
In the
first
In-
troduction I said :
you know
?'
Mr.
"So far as I know, I was the first person in Europe to be informed of his death,
and I immediately called on my friend to
tell her that 'X' had passed out.
She did
not seem surprised, and told me that she
had
felt certain of it
some days
before,
the 'X' letter,
though she had not said so at the time.
"Naturally I was impressed by this ex-
traordinary incident. . . .
"But to the whole subject of communication between the two worlds I felt an
10
unusual degree of indifference. Spiritualism had always left me quite cold, and
I had not even read the ordinary standard
works on the subject.
"Several letters signed 'X' were automatically written during the next few
weeks; but, instead of becoming enthusiastic, I developed a strong disinclination
for this manner of writing, and was only
persuaded to continue it through the argu.
ments of
my
friend that
if
'X' really
"When
11
automatically
cere.
me."
by "Letters From
a Living Dead Man," which had been
published simultaneously in London and
The
New
interest aroused
Requests for
translation rights
of the world.
I answered as
many
as I
12
Now
"War
Letters
Man,"
1915.
From
the Living
Dead
"In that
who
ters'
of
personal affairs.
"On the fourth of February, 1915, in
New York, I was suddenly made aware
one day that 'X' stood in the room and
13
He wrote as
follows:
Then I went on
of
my
even a minute
my
dealt with
of things,
Allies,
14
The
one.
first
insistence
of
"written
began.
by automatic
writings,
and
my
15
The
artist in
me had become
exasperIf the reader will permit the exaggeration of the simile, I felt as a man
ated.
might
feel
jaws of a
away
into
the
a trackless jungle.
Before
become known
in
more
countries than I
16
books.
felt,
But
mean a
did not
that
cessation
of correspondence.
Suffering souls to
whose letters the limitations of time and
uncertain health (for I had not been well
made
since 1915)
by return of
proaching
post,
me
sufferings.
conceivable.
it
impossible to respond
re-
The
situation
And
if
had become
in-
social "rest,"
about their
own dead
possibilities of
friends,
and the
communication.
who were
war nearly
17
my
health
down
altogether.
this conflict
studies
So I
was
where pure
seriously took
up
had
teacher,
some of
my
and
fashion.
called,
teacher.
to
One
my
18
He
says:
M'AN
19
short distance.
it
The
"line of life"
in,
lished
life,
we can prove
may
also
have
to the contrary,
human
rea-
son."
my having
20
But
would
it,
came
life,
as
Jung
to its inevitable
end
with the last of this manuscript in FebruThe cause of that was also
ary, 1918.
seemingly accidental. But as this Introduction is only an introduction, it is impossible to follow the course of all the
my
knowing what
tion of
my
it is)
and
essays,
so far as possible,
deflect
21
me from
that course.
"Acciden-
and
legiti-
Of
course
if
hension; but
it
my
As
in
the
22
The
pened."
terpret in his
indicates
2019, I shall
survival, or
it)
introduction
April, 1919.
ing
that
it is
insoluble.
that
we have
the
sum
we
of
all
these
are to assume
all
knowledge.
My
own
belief in immortality
ineradicable.
it
was tested
remember
and shadows.
I did not
out.
amined
at least until
all
seems
we
shall
is
not
what we
have ex-
and
knowledge that
Our
28
is
well-nigh impossible.
rational belief, if
we have formed
is
merely our
hard-won
ing,
we
That
synthesis.
also
an ever-changing, thing.
When
is
a mov-
Otherwise
man
be-
in spiritualism.
conscious."
Yes.
My
father
was
24
was born
My
when I was
little
I was always a
father.
The first time
thirteen.
my
afraid of
I met Judge
father died
Hatch I
told
him
that per-
my father in a "former
He smiled, and said,
"Maybe."
No
My scientific
"A
friends say,
scientist
studying
was
"You
lost in
are
you."
great
phenomena of
the
scientific
In
half
the
am
able
to unify them.
The
us.
we
We
are adrift,
thinking
humans
eth century,
upon a
by winds of
25
We were just
feeling.
to
have
been
Everybody wants
washed overboard.
to
the
reaction
little
In
Later the
to.
too far.
we turned
child-
Then
And
inward, to
is
no despair,
instinctive.
Berg-
26
intelligence alone
could find;
was
itself, it will
never find.
It
by
inevitable
chology, with
should turn
its
its
that
modern psy-
constructive curiosity,
and present.
There
Some
amination,
For
to
be
scientifically
tell
tenable.
(who got
us there
two
and
is
chiefly
27,
a difference of phrase-
Truth
analytical psychology.
may
lie
in
the synthesis.
Between the
credulity of those
lieve everything
who
be-
veil,
"psychic"
who
says dreamily,
between
"You
will
and
do so and so,"
is
and the
anything
in a recent little
"War and
Death," translated
chology himself
volume on
of analytical psy-
28
by Dr. A. A.
every one of us
immortality."
'should
Brill:
is
convinced of his
own
be right?
And, by the way, between the statement of Christian Scientists, "All is love,"
and the statement of the parent school of
psychoanalysis, "All
is
libido," there is
striking similarity.
"We
postulate immortal
necessitated
results
amount of force
29
mo-
tion, manifestation
Truth
roads to
may
it
or specialization."
indeed be one, though the
are many.
and so influence
in us
much
stretching to
fit
not require
us, does
human
race
con-
is
If
we go deep enough
that hypothesis
is illustrated
in analysis
by strange
phenomena.
It
is
more
ir-
The
responsibility.
mendous need.
of doubt.
M'AN. 81
method
is
good
if it
serves
its
purpose, in-
During the
man
has had
Dr. H.
W.
Prink
"The
human
fire.
32
we
When we
.
shall
for
really
know what
fear
is,
we
own
ego's con-
helpless littleness
unknown and
The
reckless cour-
unknowable non-ego.
we change
this disposition
it; if
by an inner
Man
is
dif-
."
indeed his
own
cosmos, the
33
The
great mystics of
all ages,
through
reduced
it
ion, great
modern
scientists like
Jung and
worthy
of profound study.
"The
of the order of grace is the positive character of the contribution, the increase which
they bring to the psychic life of those who
benefit by them.
The idea of God,
the divine presence, or any other form of
inspiration, is no more strange to the mind
of the religious man than is for the savant
the sudden conception of a solution long
.
34
disintegration.'
is
this
An-
stance E.
Long:
is
simply a neces-
The
.
sary psychological
concensus gentium has spoken of gods for
aeons past, and will be speaking of them
in aeons to come.
Beautiful and perfect
as man may think his reason, he may
nevertheless assure himself that it is only
one of the possible mental functions, coinciding merely with the corresponding side
of the phenomena of the universe. All
around is the irrational, that which is not
congruous with reason. And this irrationalism is likewise a psychological funcfunction.
33
Heraclitus, the
very wise man, discovered the most wonderful of all psychological laws, namely, the regulating function of antithesis.
termed this 'enantiodromia' (clashing together) by which
he meant that at some time everything
sentially rational. .
ancient, that really
He
self
it
seizes
ing
but by presenting it visibly to himself
as something that is totally different from
him. .
.
He must learn to differentiate
it,
36
and what
The
result
is an unparalleled general
That is just what the uncon-
slaughter.
scious was tending towards.
This tend-
and always
existent.
is
necessary
87
and
its
brother as
it
greater simplicity
if
only by groaning
aid.
is
if
Roman
act of faith.
38
unconscious,"
the
psycho-
slightest difference to
me.
say,
"He
works."
And whether
in us, as
Fechner
says, or
whether they
and
astral
etheric substance,
makes
also
about
this
whole question!
differences appear, on
close examination, to
be mainly
differ-
The
"X"
to a certain
says in one
39
by
make us
fear.
which surges up in
moments of passivity, the dead will have
in the unconscious,
the
same
effect.
life
by many
different schools,
(if
conscious
is
My own un-
Some
And Jung
40
even the
frailties
of those
He
prophetic dreams.
of
who
believe in
says:
The unconscious is continually accreating combinations of its materials; these serve to indicate the future
path of the individual. It creates prospective combinations just as our consciousness does, only they are considerably superior to the conscious combinations both
in refinement and extent. The unconscious
may therefore be an unparalleled guide
for human beings.
"The unconscious must contain all the
material that has not yet reached the level
of consciousness. These are the germs of
future conscious contents,"
brain.
tive,
41
by the
dreams
am
tendency
to
Very well.
come from a deeper
dissociation."
things which
may
"X" in
be.
the
42
we
did after
we
into the
specific
prophecy in these
letters.
Any
startling prophecy has always had a tendency to shake me out of the passive state
in which automatic writing
But
is
possible.
down
in the manuscript,
as it
is
written.
I merely mention
it
it
as a curi-
conscious.
It was
certainly
my
un-
the tragic
43
my
scious alone
hope of
voice.
voices, I
can only
say that I regard these things rather objectively and impersonally. I never hear
voices except
when
very accurate
memory
cog, William
half-asleep.
If
my
James used to
talk freely of
that I have
any
44
is
ciency in
life,
for health
effi-
and understand-
ing.
ogy
am
so
volume of
as
in
former Introductions.
have not
my
lost
tality.
I assure you
it
immor-
fault of science.
psychology which lead towards the subject of this book, I can only say that this
foreword being by
way
of preface to this
45
relevancy.
many books
about
raphies.
And
logues.
Anyone
it,
containing bibliog-
booksellers
have
cata-
them.
This
is
answering
letters of enquiry.
I have un-
other things.
The
resolution of psycho-
"complexes" frees energy for sublimation in work. It frees ideas for use in
logical
art.
seems destined to
46
be a psychological-philosophical system
for the understanding
vancement of human
and
practical ad-
life."
and pass
on.
The
delay
me
is
after
the
some
am
all
building of Peace.
or
A nation with
certainly has
insane
In the
destruction.
campaign
it
reactions of
47
was interesting
women
State
last
to
watch the
I watched
duties of suffrage.
it
only in
it
There
was an added
dignity, a sense of
was
new
re-
sponsibility,
the
more
significant.
lists,
made
No, these
headed, socially-responsible
it all
level-
women
will
never be swept away by collective insanity; and as the men who return from the
front will return to these
we
sisters,
shall lose in
gained in war.
women,
their
I do not think
peace what
we have
48
And now
this
Dead
Man."
ELSA BARKER
1919.
LETTER
49
S, 1917.
Great
is
America may
travel,
and her
Each land
al-
it.
is
dren guided
have
feet
its chil-
By a
Genius.
Would you
Genius of America,
feel the
may
come,
its
your recognition of
recognition of you,
it.
50
in the
hasten to divulge the message, but treasure it in your heart; for that which is
treasured in the heart can sometimes be
felt
others.
who
will serve
shared in silence
in the silence.
of this land
the mission
upon
this
this land.
land
That
So many wills
have sought to wrest the reins from the
guiding hand so many eyes, looking in so
will not be
an easy
task.
many
directions,
have seen so
many goals.
51
men as
straws
loosely-lying
along.
the
it.
power of a
power of a purpose
it and the future before
in the
way
will that
it.
seen with
of many.
my
unseen place
I have helped un-
act of destiny
You who
is
now unseen
till
accomplished.
have followed
me from my
new
came; you who
first
life,
have
followed
the
me on my
journeys
52
among
me
For
my advice is
and my truth
disinis
of-
has
it
better than
that he suffers.
stand in the
wishes,
way
also
Blocked by your
it
was too
much encumbered by
fragments
that
had
accumulated
through years of residence in a creedbound place. You who have dwelt but
briefly in
obstructions
by
and
I
now
those
sweep away.
your
I shall pass in and out, and speak to you
will,
as I choose.
54
LETTER
II
FEAB NOT
I not
tell
DID
February 8, 1917.
you many months ago
this
Abraham Lincoln
Do
And
yet you do
Slowly the months have gone by, receding into the past. When, in the spring
of 1915, you saw in vision the German
Emperor
posite to 'Uncle
Sam
in his shirt-sleeves,
it
this ?
55
would come
to
such visions to
yourself.
Do
told
you
nearly two years ago that the battle between the powers of good and evil had
been
won
because
my Teacher told me so
I knew
but do not
with-
The stars
new race.
Europe.
Now
I would write of
America
56
and her
is
dawn
is
assured.
In the storms
to come, think
ground
For birds
new age.
sing.
of the
and birds
lull.
the
shall
when
The world
will
come
But nothing will ever be exas it was before. In the lull you
draw breath, and make ready for
as before."
actly
shall
other changes.
Yes,
many
things will be
57
daunted, the world could not face the future without failure.
Is there anything
Is there anything
To
those whose
change.
A rest in the
invisible
worlds
Do
is
in the
I passed
know
so
many before.
Be joyous with me.
A wise
man
once
58
is
tragic.
The
Have
That
it?
is
are full of
full of richness.
is
and her
Shall she
cure
all
of this land
Columbus
led only
The "history
faith. Did not
a history of
by the
ture
it is
is
make
safe as a
dead
man
it
to
faith shall
sure.
Fear naught.
land
their faith in
the future?
God,
Did not
your
forefathers
slept
in
this
quiet,
59
Now
for fuel.
The
earth
is
heavy with
coal.
You
fear
fear,
Labor
is
sweet.
The
child
who makes
la-
your labor?
When
I longed to be building.
ditches in the garden. I made boats
houses of blocks.
I dug
of chips and sailed them on a puddle.
planted seeds.
And
learning?
In the
libraries of the
men
is
stored
60
will
all
ages.
Though paper
enduring than parchment, it will last over into the new age.
is
Fear
By
less
not.
hints I convey to
Go out with it to
progress is change.
meet the future, with a smile on your face
and a song on your lips. The future wears
a rose in
its
Angel would
buttonhole, as your
say.
Vagrom
LETTER
61
III
WHEN
17, 1917.
life
as
you
will look
sometimes
whole
new lease
elimination secure a
of
and by
life.
The
or the earth-spirit,
may grow
too fat
and
by
the equilibrium
again a
these
upon
among
restored,
and he
starts
62
Grim, does
it
But who
seem?
told
you
ing?
deeps of
man
in the
is
for
ele-
March winds!
roses
will
They
are
bloom again.
followed by
now
We
are
in February.
When the
skies are
March when
the winds
Ram, and
is
Do
when
the
afraid
grow
63
you
shiver
and
Equinox
ap-
proaches?
The
soul, too,
ism and
its ideal
has
its
winter of material-
spring.
and I
and I
see
So long
journey.
as the soul
is
its
cased in
with
Sometimes
it
itself.
it
goes out to
fight,
sometimes
scabbard.
Think
less
64
of the race.
You
by regarding too
is
grows I."
There was once a
God
to your welfare.
to live,
By
you may
By
may
become joyous.
sake, I
am
M'AN
65
loved by a multitude.
down
at
my garden.
grass
is
in the hearts of
men
islators.
is
at
responsibility
is
America.
The Flag
66
They
To know
America.
the meaning of
home
we must wander.
I
must work.
gether
is
To
fuse these
many
races to-
Do
union of races.
prophet.
His mission
will
be the
67
LETTER IV
THE
DIET OF GOLD
March
THE
10, 1917.
now tend
draw
it
together.
The many
will find
That idea
One.
temperaments.
new
race,
It irritates
them and
even when
themselves.
America
countries,
is
and we who
The view
point of view
Executive.
is
see
it
that
it
from
this side
in historical peris
nearest to our
far-seeing.
He
day be
his,
when he has
Our country
indigestion of gold.
suffering at this
You
have swallowed
assimilate,
and
If to restore
Do
going to die.
not be shocked by my figures of
is
69
You
medium
of exchange."
hoarded
it
has lost
miser nation
is
its
"Gold
is a;
When it is merely
relation to
life.
its
own
sake.
A miser nation
may
own
sake
it
can save
itself
from the
its
finan-
But
the miser,
known
as such,
is
in dan-
Eu-
rope but your generosity has not yet deprived of one square meal the hundred;
your gold.
But I
care
humans with
hen
delicate stomachs.
Even a
well fed.
labor
power by
gifts of grain,
and have
results.
Later I
less practical
breakfasts.
71
LETTER V
CONTINGENT FEES
March 10,1917.
I heard that a certain rich
from
this
Living Dead
was "money
"through" her, as
my only
I join in your laughter, at your supposed "profitable" investment in the securities of the other world,
and
at the
now
that this
me.
"communications"
from
my writing arms
would
also
seem by the
some of
style of
by
their
Even
eyes.
mark me.
me
my
recent
to jest.
it
"Contingent Fees."
74
LETTER
VI
STAND
11, 1917.
men.
I see more
Had
my
fellow beings
reflected in
other.
my
There are
differences
between
in-
sects.
is
interest
satiety.
ideals,
hunger?
your
The
self-interest,
75
or your
76
LETTER
VII
THE BUILDERS
March
22, 1917.
as to
librium.
You who
needed.
You who
go back
to that
Make
sacrifices.
In saying
that, I
have
77
effect
on yourselves.
work
sometimes more
for
what
is
called
the real.
it
vice, "depending
is
ideal because
it is
Europe needs
It
rebuilding;
now and
for a
herself.
We
when they
so much dis-
There is
content and so much uncertainty that anything which can catch and hold the atten-
78
to Europe,
worthy of
is
and do
But
his hire.
help by
Go
may
also
and discouragement.
to Europe,
see
makes
many
to a country,
what
it
you have
from you by
so skilfully ac-
quired.
rope in
this
long war.
Eu-
79
your soul.
There are engineers in this country who
are less needed here than they will be needed in Europe.
all
There are
who
are
more
We have special-
ists
enough.
Build ships.
the
specialists in
men
tive.
brain
not
let
them brood.
An
idle
If you have
work. There are
make
Now
Keep
ships.
occupied.
Do
is
Build more
in regard to
railroads
Build
ships.
your management of
utilities.
The
would have,
if
put into
whose
effect,
blocked the
80
life
This
You
is
who
This
is
not cant. It
for
you
there.
The
cells
in the
sciousness, as a race.
Yield yourselves to
Get
you
as
viduals, positive
Make
Be
and negative.
the rebuilding of
Europe an ob-
jective point.
it
possible for
discontented workers to go to
rope.
You may
Europe,
when
work
81
many
in
Eu-
from military
double object in
this: the
effect
object of getting
I wish I could
separation
is
make you
see that
is life.
go
in that direction.
You
cannot block
Serve
if
you hope
to survive
would be
82
You cannot
a good motto.
do not serve
all
ure of the
which
being.
cell
It
is
the
of you.
is
way
survive if
you
I like that
fig-
I see you.
it is
related to
When
at last
men
state,
go
selves unable
immediately to adjust to
the changed conditions. For a long time
the brains of men and women have been
stimulated by the coffee of concerted action ;
when they
selves they
may
rest,
who had
of
of
lost the
ability to rest?
their feet,
and clench
their
Then
which
many have
not
known
in the
morn-
they
may
may
fear to rest
they
and fear to
relax.
They
Thus
excitement, as a
That
is
another reason
why I would
Not that
the
American work-
and conse-
84
to feel that he
is
lead-
You
idea
low
hope?
have no idea
this
war
It will be
war the
activity;
ebb-tide
but
it is
is
we
have to consider.
it.
You have
become accustomed to seeing gold flow towards these shores. When the stream lessens,
The world
is
85
good
in itself,
may become an
added danger.
If I
may make
and of
bodies.
another suggestion,
it
is
new
many
dan-
eral,
fective for
a long time.
will
be de-
It will reveal
opened
it
If a
man
time upon a
86
all things,
it
for a
moderation in
action.
he-
prove by reason
you cannot wait for
Weigh and measure
and by
intuition if
proof by practice.
what I say, as well as what the wildest
new prognosticate
hysteria.
says.
A wave of hysteria
Discourage
is
likely to
As
may
tell
is
going to destruction,
and that as they cannot save themselves
from what seems to be universal chaos,
stable, that all is
I see
women
men
afraid to
uncertainty of domesticity.
I see farmers
Again I
say, be not
afraid.
If you
If you
Fearlessness!
88
LETTER
VIII
WISH
epathic communication.
know
there
is
half-
scientific precision in
and
preci-
would
You
are al-
89
mony
of one person
is
not so convincing
who have
wit-
nessed and taken part in the same phenomena. But you are right in hesitating
on the psychic conditions of insincere and merely curious people who would
to take
like to
The
is
make
ficiently
When
negative
for
themselves suf-
the
time
being.
if
and balance,
90
But bear
from
mind
in
the influences in
feel that
any "presence"
banish it and become positive.
is hostile,
at once
After any
its
You
meaning.
live in a sea of mind, as well as in
them
as distinct as possible.
my readers
exactly what I
mean by
There
is
will
not
know
that statement.
91
be-
astral
tween the
astral
and the
physical.
is
Its
dynamics
you
is
developed beyond
the mental.
In
my
mind need
sibility.
They
you go up
Remember
that as
you
and subtler regions, and
urally suppose.
One
92
mental world
falsehoods.
true,
is
By
you project
is
not
mind a
may
it
will de-
will
left de-
are people
tween the
ceive
who cannot
false
and the
discriminate betrue.
They
Those who
dede-
whom
93
if
they have
Test yourselves in that way, you who believe yourselves to be sincere. You may
learn something of value regarding your
own karma.
or Indian terms
meaning.
tal philosophies in
Modern
truth.
science
is
preparing the
man who
toils
may
ture,
is
man who
fellow creatures
tells his
94
work
for his
at least
is
sults.
The new
erance.
things
at-
attacking a thing
we
tacking them.
give
it
By
power.
shalt nots";
The
immense.
in the
world of
95
LETTER IX
AMERICA'S GOOD FRIDAY
April
is
past midnight.
ITday.
Momentous
On
all
It
is
6,
1917.
Good
Fri-
men.
the
human
day that
this
brotherhood.
At
last,
after all
may
be realized.
But
there
was a
cruci-
fixion
96
at a centre.*
To-day,
in
thousands
churches
of
that the
ward
Pray! Prayer
is
the affirmation
its
from many.
Love your enemies.
is
It
by the
War is the
separateness
the only
way
97
LETTER X
THE CRUCIBLE
April 12, 1917.
LET
us speak a
little
of this initiation
passing.
Always the
When
is
trials
new world,
trials
and the
attain-
ment.
98
and some of
it
and
Long
ago,
when you
identified
trials of the
initiatory trials.
You
your
you took
world, the
also called
down
Had
you nearer
I say for all men.
And
this
99
we
call
America,
it is
If I
Back
in that
Europe
to identify
it is
to which
you
will
become
refuse.
from the
They
You
will
know
other.
will
fire
with them.
Be
cies.
the one
too, for
grow
finer.
minds and
If you have
more
to do,
is
of
The unit
man may generate much
your
Few
full capacity.
100
energy, drawing
it
Work
harder now.
Once I
told
you to
the vineyard.
again,
when
The hour
of rest will
In entering
my
come
its close.
country,
The hour
for hate
is
(I say this,
past.
you
Are you
until the
sorry
day draws to
now
that
you
let
When
it
you of courage.
into love.
101
pher's
Hate
turned to love in
will be
cries.
of the Eagle.
is
land
a free
bird,
and
it flies
high.
at,
It
this
The Eagle
bered.
They
will listen
America
nations.
speech.
loyal to
edy in
a brave
face,
may
is
102
a finer
trial
than the
fire
of a battlefield.
Of
those
who
The
earth in
initiatory
its
grasp.
it
process!
has
has in
its
grasp, too.
It
the
whom
They
But they
M'AN> 103
LETTER XI
MAKE CLEAN YOUR HOUSE
May 4,
DO
1917.
is
Work
wanting.
world which
can see
is
to
is
too dishonest.
this
In
man
distrust
man.
far,
You may
love your
104
neighbor
You may
is
too
is
it
again with
see.
war.
The
over
There
into the
is
no other
the greater
war
America!
civilized
country
105
of butter and be
certain that
A new race
is
being born.
Begin with
and teach them honesty before you teach them geography honesty
those children,
When
I was a
that George
little
tell
lie.
and
it
also in
truth.
Once I spent
Had I
left my bones
found
should have
it.
not found
there,
it,
10
You
he wonders
The
if his
teacher
is
fooling him.
disillusionment of children
is
tragic
him
If I
fail
my
seriously, if I fail
irreparably.
You must
going to be reorganized.
have wondered why I have not
America
You
is
written of late.
ing America.
tell
*
you, and
yet.
much
to be quief
You
if
M'AN. 107
knows
no law.
Remember
gerous,
is
dan-
and horns.
There
among
is
the doctors
sal possessions.
Its
more people
living in peace
and plenty
in
America.
Fanatics prattle about the confiscation
of great fortunes. I do not care so much
fortunes.
But I
108
care
land
Do
into.
Keep
danger,
if it
calm.
The country
its
is
head.
in
no
LETTER XII
LEVEL HEADS
DO
come through
you may
If you lose
may
lose
much
lose
besides
can,
(Yes, I
hands and
feet.
still
lost
win
my
feet, the
ad-
am
elimination of
my
members.)
110
You
head.
living without
the most
cratic,
completely
anarchistic aggregation of people could
not be called a nation. Its land would be
only a geographical section populated
with units, and such units unrelated to
other units might as well be ciphers.
Do
A change
is
is
is
adaptable.
is
It can
adjust
itself to
Wait!
world.
unexpected by a
Do not lose your
is
you again.
They cannot
to encourage
me
affect
me, save
112
LETTER
XIII
May
YOU
16, 1917.
of world-disaster, of cataclysm, of
human
race
may
more
Read
the
Old Testament.
The most
Some
But they
men
If panics come
to
in accustoming
help indirectly
the minds of
113
and they
be panic-stricken.
If violence comes
and
it
may
refuse
may
refuse
to be violent.
If discouragements
come
refuse to be discouraged.
When
is
will
moments of excitement.
a soothing spectacle.
unless
They
neighborhood
in
trees.
moved from
A brick wall
It stands steady,
without.
114
INVISIBLE AEMIES
May
23, 1917.
MANY
have become
fully
who
awake and
on
earth.
soldiers
work-
work by giving
attention to their
They can
comrades in the
flesh.
and
instruct.
inspire
We
There
and
are forming an
is
no lack of
army out
recruits.
soothe
here.
America
we know
far
know how
to be saved from. But
It
115
is
not so terrible to
more
die.
It
is
really
terrible to be born.
ages
is
all
ages in
women
this life, I
mean.
also in our
army.
War and
veterans of the
army
there are
command-
Other-
though
among
Ours
us.
call
116
less
We
We
numbers
of the earth.
There
who remain
in the neighborhood
is
on the Gulf
Rocky
am
renewing
my
youth in
Why
do you smile?
There
is
to
this
my
a train-
body
Then
117
elasticity.
We old fel-
leisure
for
many
things
which
now
now
am
back at
my
work
118
2, 1917.
Masters
THERE
of
Wisdom
certain data
and future of
this
America
is
is
119
and
let
America has
laid
up
an
debt
is
ure.
paid,
is
may
once occupied
who were
this
expanding
who
civilization
by the
which grew up in
the place of
turn.
Many
unless
some way
is
life
come a destructive
They cannot be
now, when they wear
force.
eliminated so easily
120
them by
You
and
can
tell
their high
They
in
and
factory
counting-house.
and
la-
European immigrants,
Anglo-Saxon, for
all
the Anglo-Saxon
love of freedom.
A time may come when these now foreign-blooded primitive Americans will instinctively rebel against the restraining
influences that have held them,
when they
it
kingdom of heaven
is
said to
121
have
been taken.
There
is
it
will
am
not trying to
American
heart.
On
instill
the contrary, I
am
stop
for a
in the
will
Learn to
Planetary Spirit.
Your view
is
too nar-
122
Where your
row.
library
stands
on
is
for
All
men must
made
strong.
123
LETTER XVI
A COUNCIL IN THE FOREST
ONE
night, to repose
my
soul
from
one of the
New
upon the
England States.
earth, in
Think-
more
124
ligion.
invited to their
upon my contemplation,
mained and watched them.
intrude
(Yes, there
so I re-
is less
is
greater under-
I did not
fire,
know
the
singing and
meaning of
125
reckoning I knew not of some great Indian massacre in which they had taken
part a hundred or two hundred years ago.
And the
impulse of their dance, the motive power of it, was hatred of the white
scattered
them
from
away
their
hunting
grounds.
this inner
Though
als,
am
and method
form and a
They
by
in this dance,
method and
hostile purpose.
were,
by
scattered
States
company
men
of
men
in these
United
and destruction.
to deeds of
126
"So that
is
the
way
they do
it!"
thought.
by the
wind
and
as
it
know
You must
many
lives.
wind as
it
I could
127
away from
makes so many
souls earth-bound.
do, I
this
it
scattered.
magic
ritual
touched the
I saw their
And
knew
and on
many
ted, that
men
how
for I
real
my
the
karma
crisis
from
had made.
Of
and
their
adopted
land from the simple but complex natives,
whose civilization was older than the civi-
lization of
When
its
spaces.
was
over,
and
away among
the shadows, I
spond to
my
who should
willingly re-
achievement.
was
that!
(What a
What
splendid custom
an incentive to action!
M'AN
129
like that of
a hawk, and
his eyes
mingled which marks the leader and master of men and him alone.
And
thought, for I
knew no word
of his old
language
"I have been an unintentional witness
:
to
your ceremony
enlighten
me
this evening.
further as to
it
Will you
its
purpose?
was directed towards the
With a sweep
of his authoritative
arm
the trees,
he hesitated.
130
And
the
word was
true; for I
saw that
it
was no dabbler
in aboriginal
This
and nasty
a tribal demi-god
day be made constructive and not destructive, an instrument of the great Genius of
letter, the
Weaver
of Destiny
who
We
and I
had be-
stood him.
131
he observed.
"And you do
not resent
my
presence?"
"No."
The
was
keen in my senses, and my new-found companion threw back his head with a splendid motion as
if
to drink
it in.
to
will.
"But
I
the land
said, "to
is
132
"We
do not see
"But," I
and
It
I,
it
so,"
insisted, "are
enjoying
is difficult
it
in
was
his reply.
freedom?"
to translate in
words the
tween
us, as
will to
fare of his race did not call for the destruction of mine.
I told him
so
new
to
how
it
in an-
And
other form.
al-
men by
133
the
keenness of their eyes, their gait, and certain peculiarities of speech and manner.
He
followed
my
is
Then I
former
told
lives
of
my own
vividly remember,
and
which I most
"But what a
life is
America, the schoolhouse with the choking-hot stove and the bad air, the house
134
He
held
up before me
walks of
life,
man
in the lower
paper
collar,
soiled
edges.
Then he showed me
as if to prove the
an
office in
white man's
trivial
man's
had rejoiced
135
in the red
forest.
"And
is it
come back
"But the
soul
must gain
all
experience,"
I said.
The
idea seemed
pondered
"Why
new
to him,
and he
it
all
experi-
God
rich in
ence?" he asked.
"That
it
may
return to
its
knowledge," I replied.
"Its God."
At that thought
the strange
mained immobile.
"Yes," I
God
said, "for
your
God and my
as-
136
is
is
the same in
knows no
division;
that exists
all,
is
one, that
is
also
"No.
it
even when I
is
there of
new
re-
ligions?"
"There
is,"
are one.
where
sued, for I
all
I pur-
half-
belief,
is
in all races
unity.
is
137
a core of
descendants of those
to injure
them
"Then I misunderstood
your magic song."
"Oh!" he exclaimed.
feeling of
yond
my children,
feeling.
My
"You caught
who cannot see
purpose
the purpose of
is
make way
the
be-
only to
for the
life."
"But
said,
the present
is
always a stage," I
future.
And my
people reincarnated,
and yours reincarnated or so many of
them
as are ready to
go on
shall
go on
138
and
together
in
who
new
yond the
seas, a
land.
this
will
They
them from
join
race.
And
be-
thanks
traditions
and
civilization of the
man
red
which
is
to
grow out
new
And
others.
for a part
and women
race
men
and
all
will
real blood-brothers
wounds
the old
shall be healed.
recognize
brother?"
He nodded his
head.
at last,
me
as
your
"And
will
We
record here
for
many
if
hours.
stood me.
my
is
belief that
new
race.
140
LETTER XVII
THE IDEAL OF
SUCCESS
June
PUT
23, 1917.
The
Had
know
the world
known during
all it
No.
haunted.
But a part
made
(and
bet-
of this les-
and to know
141
war and
is
mostly
that
and individual
ency.
ideal of
it is
Amer-
success,
is
not?
Now
America
and you
may
it
is
in a great war,
that could
You
would
142
There
will
Study?
What
think.
else?
.
You
That
is
not
except
But
Amer-
a warlike na-
when threatened by
injustice,
Will she
lose this
to herself or others.
war?
America.
I think not.
there will be complexities regard-
on
we were
organizing
work
all
of you
143
are cells in
Now
moment
form
body of
her.
rifice in
the
office
ac-
in the
race,
will be
still
more
apt.
suffering now.
in a more per-
fect health.
144
who
The
vive?
lost,
But do
essential part of
them
is
not
Have you
life after
may
death the
It
is
because I
am
so busy that I
We
of
with resent-
life
America.
Somehow we must
Otherwise they
be a dangerous element for the fu-
enlist
may
them on your
Some
ture.
your
145
side.
enough to do
The
best
was
real harm.
way
to
less is to
his enmity, to
it
go
turn away
off at a tangent.
famous for
evil
But
by
their frankness.
resentment
deep,
letting
the Indian
conceal
fundamental
it,
of the land
life
of the open.
146
ments of
many
this
knowledge
will
be useful to
of you.
There
is
new
a restless element in
conditions.
all
adjust-
by work which
masquerades as play.
The
Do
Dark Ages.
a Light Age.
we
Oh, no.
It
is
147
LETTER XVIII
ORDER AND PROGRESS
OUR
purpose
that
We
to
make
the changes
sudden changes.
in the world have no faint idea of
want
You
is
to avoid
the influence
our
side.
men
mind
it;
148
away ?
own judgment.)
Just at present we are trying to encourage America as to her future her orderly
is
de-
clared in Europe.
the world
going to smash. They always had that fear in life whenever things
seemed to go wrong; and now they are no
is
less inclined to
as
an omen
women
and on platforms
who are
men and
in pulpits
croaking
away
149
them!
is
But
society has
advance, in mechanical
made
and
too great
intellectual
out, but
do not
torially divided
preterri-
150
in the habit of
ahead rather
The way
steadily.
of
man
institutions, or
that which
is
even
really
its
Only
garments.
worn out
is
cast away.
And
There
is
Oh, no!
a strong pull from
wampum?
this side,
conti-
America
is
now taken
no longer
isolate.
But
She has
tions.
Some
of the souls
who used
like to see
to be
Amer-
151
American
here
life.
But
who can
adaptability.
I have told you that there is an influence tending to draw America backward.
told
not back.
The world
it
will
forward and
go forward.
call the
"departed"
They
more
realize
effective
152
more
united.
mon
sense
Minds
are becoming
Many of us who
have com-
political
judgment give most of our time to lecturing here and there, wherever we can draw
a crowd together. That is one reason why
you have seen me so seldom of late. I
Know-
is
from
my
must
go forward
to greater activity
seek to
No
had
this last
month.
lec-
month
I have
from
city to city.
San Francisco
in the
I can speak
morning, in
New
at noon, in
o'clock, in Butte,
am
ing.
tables,
Orleans at two
Montana,
in the even-
nor do I pay
Believe me,
ica,
New
153
we
my
fare.
Amer-
For
will
not
let the
world be destroyed.
near
it
know how
But
the
we fought
so long have
been scattered
their
effect
lessened.
What we
now
is
the
dom
of fanatics
budgets of
believe
the imwis-
fuss-
up confusion
154
world must
their
That
is
unprac
what the
The re-
action
it
will
who
It
will
is
hope
you
that, lest
tell
Be
you through.
155
LETTER XIX
THE FEDERATION OF NATIONS
THE
ica
August 9, 1917.
time has now come for Amerto get out into the world and
The
isolation of
America
in the past
it
was
Free and
become a part of
the great and creaking machine of interalone, she has not
to
156
national
now
is
she
independent, and,
is
But
politically-
You
formed.
may
and
councils
When
spirit;
now
spirit.
soldiers
France, helping in
many
are doing in
little ways in the
men were
to
go
to
That
is
More and
will
our
men work
157
Soon there
kind of work
There
come a
will
new
call for
a new
for us.
deep meaning in
this
bringing
common
cause.
is
From
that, there is
only a step to
one cause.
The
spend
has spent
The
itself
for
it is
already spent.
tically
We go on because
in
must
it is
there
is
no longer the
fierceness of
land
it is
ened, and in
has
now become a
158
The
me now.
159
LETTER XX
THE NEW IDEAL
August
Germany
SINCE
flamboyant
to foist
it
19, 1917.
and
nationalism
grown
tried
in imperial
skeptical of
or enemy.
more modest.
one of the
She must
must
also
grow
realize herself as
monwealth of
As
a quiet
160
voice can
make
inaudible,
so
heard in a medley of
noises where a screaming voice would be
itself
must America's
voice be-
by reason of
its
dignified
and restrained
accents.
change
great
Europe,
is
taking place
in
American
character.
American who
to his
own country.
man
derstand
it
new
type.
There
it.
warmth now
161
is
France for
at the heart of
this
new
She
sees
(for she
is
of him as measured
But
standards.
subtle)
the crudity
by her more
artificial
trial
now
You are
judgment
as
My
is
heart
before.
and woodlands.
When
I see
and pain-chastened
French grow deep and warm as they rest
upon our
I forget that I
left the
am so proud of them!
also am uprooted, having
boys, I
land of
beyond death.
my
162
In the
war
I clasp
my
hands
to
hands
America
in
The
is
aflame with
French people
in the night grow warm and their eyes
grow wet as they whisper to themselves,
love.
hearts of the
"Les Americains
all
my
Americans
dis-
163
of the worlcUs
life.
You wonder why I say nothing of EngAh! England knows you already.
England has known you long. You can-
land?
strange voice.
new
There
is
You
is
164
be free.
soil
Now
self -restrained
lawlessness
is
is
man
not freedom.
free?
is free,
for
Lawlessness
the edge
of the horizon
my
eye
reaches farther than yours), there will be
room for the fullest development of the
(for
make
individuality has
it stable.
Hitherto
go without.
Watch
the clash
and strug-
is
minds.
The
165
old generation
is
dying
off,
who
industrial
166
A RAMBLING TALK
November 151 1917.
a literary mood to-night,
AM not in
so I
a rambling way.
you know the seriousness
may talk in
I wonder
if
dertaken.
the matter
do.
But before
surprises in store.
London
bombs can
is
fall
large,
many
world
is
will
The
too.
places,
be afraid.
167
Do
not
of the world
Humanity
is
so afraid of change
some of them in
many
The
changes
prehistoric times
more
dramatic than the present change. Humanity has a long history, and little of it is
recorded in books that you can read.
As
am
That sounds
resting to-night, I
may
like
take
You
You do
either in
New York
168
live
little
apart.
down into
it.
Tell
book
is
going slowly.
You
about that.
All these
is
going
fast.
A few
them.
I do not wonder that your head swims
little.
You
so
many
those
to the
new
that
is
coming.
M'AN
Their
169
Silent
is
of you.
The Watchers of
the
universe
own
is
Your
It will give
tant action
is
It seems as
itself to
if
But
that
is
ginning of knowledge.
When the worst of the war
men
are
may
speak
is
over,
and
know
themselves.
And
170
selves
is
as
mirror.
They
will learn to
form
links be-
Joy
is
alive again,
and I mean
all
of you.
At
a good place in
moment America is
which to be. The world
the
Some day
of
all.
171
LETTER XXII
THE LEVER OF WORLD UNITY
November
DO
you not
fluence of
ing
felt in the
19, 1917.
America
war?
Do
is
already be-
you not
see
how
That
is
friendly nations
may
really
work
as one,
172
putting aside
lift
fears
It
all
is
its
labor.
privi-
in the future to
ideals that will
The Anglo-Saxon
like
race
the
must again be
two houses but
shall
have
and you
still
be your
two
sister,
Britain!
re-
down upon
173
the earth, so
The horizons of
sphere after another.
time are also thus expanded, and I see
ahead of and behind the present hour. I
see the causes that have brought the world
to
its
present impasse.
You
will
have to
You
realized
amuse children
in the fire-
ity of
arts,
new age
that
is
174,
and comfort of
to the glory
if
soul.
own
life.
folly
It will
and
blind-
you
The
Limitless will be
The
mind and
aristocracy of
and soul
will
soul,
be cultivated.
is
the
and mind
The educa-
away
that
thought.
The
treasures
of
dead lan-
guages will not be thrown into the dustbin. After the labor necessary to provide
for the material wants of the world, time
will
The mystic
and
175
religious ex-
place.
tragic fracas.
years ago
I told you that the battle had been won in
won by
the
selfish
ways.
war the
In the need
and
Never lose
will
sisters turn.
sire.
more
I see
vitally
it,
I live for
than you)
it
(for I live
176
see
the lightness of
I struggle against
my present body,
that has
You who
have followed
when
early days
me from
those
me
through
And you
will
You
will
it,
in war.
if
you have
177
faith,
from below.
No new
it
is
about
You who
to begin.
breathing" know
the breath out for more than a short time.
It can only be done
tendency
the race
is
is
from which
that
by force of
The
will.
came.
you cannot
It
is
therefore I say
men
love.
is like
the
the
178
You
prevent
it.
So
cannot
inflowing breath
will
is
measured
too.
rest,
There
and
to
death
it
know
who have
there
is
may
there
be?
is
who have
tasted
tasted the
new
everything to hope.
life tell
you
179
LETTER XXIII
THE
November
occurred to
it
HAS
24, 1917.
powers
may
be obliged to
at the time
when they
are due ?
Man, by
retard
progress,
may
when
wave
the
rises
it
high enough
will,
produced in
it
and
will
in-
spite of
his rebellion.
Take
on the
war.
180
They
pose.
common
pur-
Could
By
this
prevision,
it.
have
and to
see the
world as a whole.
Some
own
ency.
And
tell
if,
when
this
war
is
181
good of
forty years
little left
all,
of
all
you could
see
It
it.
is
so threatened now,
182
LETTER XXIV
MELANCHOLY
December
WANT
23, 1917.
of melancholy
Not
that
is
choly,
by a
all
itself.
sad,
and
may be suggested to
soul
beyond the
melan-
a soul on earth
earth.
You
do not
realize
dissatisfied
183
and
round
upon
pathy and
help.
reliant than
They
many
are no
more
symself-
in
Now
You
hopelessness,
sume
unless
would
it
you are
bilious
that the
may
as well begin
184
now
and
to control
and
feelings.
You
recall
away
the worst
fit
will drive
of the blues.
Here
are a few:
am
What
is
of discontent?
If I go deep enough into this midnight
earth, I shall
side
shines.
am
still
I.
these
all
exercise of
ills
befall
power
me,
it
will be
185
an
to conquer them.
of.
if
you
am
Why
Even
should you
death
are afraid of
men
dread anything?
only dreadful
is
when you
it.
difficulties.
They
mastership.
Why,
difficult thing.
is less
work
to go out
and overcome a
it is
to write
a short story.
How
anybody
in
186
even ordinary
The
surest
way
to imagine them.
anything
if
you
all
probabil-
to attract disasters
You
is
imagine
it
strongly
trol
Now the Master entertains only those suggestions that can strengthen his purposes.
187
tor.
What
is
indolence
physical
As
is
not fatigue.
what melancholy
another exercise,
It
is
is
in the
in the mental.
circles
it
light.
You
Turn and
can do
And, by
think of something
else.
it.
for melancholy
is
an hour of mathematical
188
calculations.
defy
be
to
anybody
themselves
and of yourself
at
when they
that
are melancholy.
who had
lost
By wondering
her
Think
job.
you could
af-
ford
...
not
it,
you began to
fear.
Is
it
so?
You may
trouble, but
is
in
Our thoughts
that
long.
it is difficult
But
are
for
you
them
to escape for
ever
melancholy
189
book?
mary
directions"?
When
Now
see
you
smile.
figures
you
forget yourself.
my
When auto-suggestion is powerless to con-
take
advice.
yesterday, and
pri-
You
had small
am
me
when on
earth I
interest in astrology.
But I
remind
that
tions.
190
LETTER XXV
COMPENSATORY PLAY
HAVE
February 1, 1918.
looked in on you occasion-
The
all
oil
and
rest.
Neither
them
let
cool.
to
one labor
to be
hoped that
so long at
war
be given a
that of
it is
may
191
period of compensatory play, doing nothing, before being replaced in the hive of
industry.
them back
Europe
there
is
The
idle
if
she carries a
we
It
meditate,
Day
dreams are
192
good.
and
it
was
future I
my life,
am
building now.
I wanted to
lost,
and I have
mastership.
My day dream
ground, and I
of it out here.
lost
not have
made
the progress
that
the
life.
own
is
198
lost
me
good race
as the years
go on.
Yes, one
My
since
You
execution.
have
She looked at me
all eternity."
in the old
is
way I
slaves,
re-
but
She
renewed
Well,
as
a help.
Why
Our work
our own.
You
other
help each
here
we
of
That
Not
What
poetry!
but
gether,
simply being.
You must
enjoy
the en-
effort of uttering
Effortless being!
it,
for that
Even the
birds
woman
195
not
It
still
alive.
To have
passed through
all
the perils
a living
man is something to make the soul wonder.
The men who have fought in this war
still
to "be"
when
too hard
at last they
can stretch
hammocks
the right.
of peace.
As
they
them with
He
is
because
it
does not
mean
His body
still;
but
196
"What
will
you
do, John,
when
it's all
over?"
"I'll lie in
after
another,
and drink
And what
tea,
and
will
you
do?"
"Oh,
I'll
just look at
my wife
and hold
her hand."
Idle talk, you think?
That depends
after
our
little
skirmish
with
woman
197
"Well," I
lot in
said,
Cuba."
fly
war.
LETTER XXVI
THE AQUARIAN AGE
February 2, 1918.
have wondered why the Masters
YOU
speak
now
common man,
know
that
come, the
world
is
of
destiny?
its
You have read of the iron age, the golden age, etc., and that the golden age follows the iron. You may have wondered
how two
be juxtaposed.
Now
is
a period
199
is
given
and the
is
called the
is
approximately
of that length.!
*
200
What is
You know
the humanitarian nature of Aquarius. You
also
know
We
is
now
is
attrib-
obvious.
The
old-fashioned
world
is
passing
away, the Jupiterian world, and we are
entering upon a period of change, political, social, religious
and personal.
There
is
it
with
In the
later
man
Uranus.
will
from the
When
all
of livelihood,
mind!
201
The freedom
of a
means
will
be in
When
education
is
will
Be
Three years
ago, even we who see far out here had
not afraid,
grave doubts
for
world!
the
future
of your
period of
trial, still
poised on
its
old axis,
noticed in the
Have
hostile
202
you and all men with a triumphant malice? That is a straw which
shows the way of "the winds that blow between the worlds."
earth and
am
psychic states.
are to come.
new
and return
children, to take
new
you
up
age.
There
ginning.
will be
much
now sweeping
wear
and the
will live in
for the
and
203
Men
will
upon them.
each other more and
They
will
affect
is
one reason
why
greater
be necessary.
With the
greater sensitiveness which the new time
freedom
will
will bring,
it
will be
more
difficult for
is
large
common
for all
life.
mankind
to
will
man
re-
The tyranny
Strip family
204
life
of
its
tyranny and
it
be very
may
charming.
The
should be obliged to
slit
every evening
maunderings of the
least progres-
dispensation parents will honor their children's need for the individual
give
it
to
them
life,
and
will
own freedom.
The freedom
will
be manifest
in the
mind.
word
"Heresy"
become
will
obsolete.
The
Holy Ghost
will
be
205
Great friendliness
We
mutual tolerance.
whom we
fear,
will result
and
from
this
a tolerant world
in
All
men
comes
own
his
is
only
When man
be-
schoolmaster he makes
great strides.
liter-
what these
is
to follow.
become
age that
Take the catchwords of the
arts will
in the
Science
is
Aquarius is
us, and the
many
secrets
which
se-
but psychological
206
The
secrets.
search
grew up
You
together.
That
electricity.
When
you.
air
where
you
will
it
last
redoubt of
have
little
need of
coal,
and the
and play
Inventions!
in
see
many
here.
my
"pattern
first
book
you down
be worn before
New
fabrics will
the
When it loses
is
now
is.
coming into
its
itself.
That
is
fact.
The seeming
it
you
will find
new beauties.
207
I will not
But be
reconstruction period.
The
at peace.
The
clairvoyance that
is
developing in
man will
and
The
man to the
stance,
it
which
is
is
Behind and
God.
in giving
and
substance which
is
sub-
take
who joys
will
intuition of the
He
blind.
Himself to His
God,
chil-
dren.
As
208
ants.
che
and they
209
LETTER XXVII
THE WATCHERS
February
3,
1918.
STOOD
he said?
fii-
ture"
"Are there so many, then, who look forward with apprehension?" I asked.
"All those who think and see and have
responsibilities are apprehensive,"
he re-
plied.
Then
America, looking
in
upon
all sorts
of
men
210
I read in their
the day
is
the evil
them
when I
company.
The
helped
faith of
many
when the
He
fail
of her
skipper.
many
When
all
to criticize
is
and
211
overboard
verse storms.
I do not advise
all
men
to disregard
must be persuaded
his soul to
self.
For
to descend
the
and
only partially
212
lessons
and learn
may
significance,
conscious part of
God whom
it
worships
and serves, however the lower self may be
immersed
in trivialities
and blasphemies.
Watcher
your link
is
One and he
many.
with God, Oh, men! He
is
He
is
is
your
You
213
life,
will
am unable to
while there
is
beauty
so much work to be done for
me
now. Bye
but when I go
to heaven for a long sojourn you will hear
from me no more.
and bye I
shall re-ascend;
see
it
his
own
Silent
Watcher.
understands
loves, are
is
And
pure as
all things.
the soul of
his
own, and
Friendships, like
true friend-
214
ters of eternity.
Ygdrasil, and
its
its
It
is
deep in wa-
deathless as the
and
branches below.
But
it is
to fail in friendship.
If a
man
is
he
an adept.
is
a whole man, he
is
is
Lincoln
He has become
Father, and
if
you are
The higher
souls of
men
are closer to
215
men now
terror
ideals of
raised in a
race falls
tunity.
But
216
LETTER XXVIII
A RITUAL OF FELLOWSHIP
February 8, 1918.
It
ago,
We
are
long
since.
is
of blood.
and
the others.
217
and
all
brotherhood?
cries
love.
in their country
and
living
now you
they also
LETTER XXIX
RECRUITING AGENTS
February, 1918.
a day or two after America declared that a state of war existed, I
FOR
spent most of
my
how matters
stood in those
my mem-
ory, for I
put
it
into execution,
and sometimes I
When
de-
failure.
my
survey that
219
Then together we mapped out our campaign. Here are the main points of it:
Conservation
where
the
negative
Construction
Coordination
forces.
their
way
bodied
about, but
upon
how
material-
dis-
and
mem-
The burden
was conserva-
220
conservation of
all
activities of
who were
filled
war.
went about
in
bands
instilling their
pa-
triotic
felt,
Then
ers of
among old
lead-
in quelling disorder,
Wherever a group of
wild-eyed, peace-
sponsive
the
221
dangerous
principles enunciated.
I will not bore you by giving all the details of this plan of help which we labored
no longer required.
That may not seem to you a great number
to help invisibly a nation of more than one
hundred millions; but one to every hunservices
their
dred
is
are
for each
is
active workers,
among
army made
reports,
have proved
it
One
time
when I wanted
to
go North,
222
is
during the
have.
last
But men
months.
Perhaps they
good results
may
mind.
I had an amusing experience in the city
of
There is a "pacifist" there who
.
among
the
223
not a
up
pacifist,
ornithology.
Yes, he
many
is
and
young
will
be young for
incarnations.
later called
by the
is
in
224
He feared the
His
draft.
labors as
So he
digestion.
would be a
failure as a soldier.
Do
him
to
you think I
Oh, no I I took
how
der
And
made
down
rarily left
daytime.
see
it
interested him.
And
And
he overheard &
girl
225
say to a
hours, I
his
and
So he
enlisted.
I took so much
man
young
and
whole after
life.
226
When
not a clerk.
I like to pay
my
debts.
227
LETTER XXX
THE VIRUS OF DISRUPTION
February
16, 1918.
FREEDOM
responsibility"
would be a
in the years
social
The end
body
of this
of confusion.
politic.
war
The
will not
be the end
and
it
will
need the
wills of millions
work-
228
common end
to expel
the poison
ity to
America
as
and mother,
liberty, father
against
If
now
the
degenerates
oppression
and
positive
protest
of pro-
and
those
may
to be governed
The human
race
tell
you that
themselves have
outside.
is
passing through a
finds
which to work
them ready
spirit of de-
tools
with
its will*
The kingdom
ately at hand,
The
of heaven
and
full
is
not immedi-
229
man-
be
made
a leader, those twelve might lead the people out of the wilderness. But where are
they?
is
in unity
strength.
And
may mention
that in disunity
is
disintegration.
liking,
Finding the
230
unsuccessful.
right.
he
he
is
is
to justify passion
itself.
The
heart of
brain of man.
man
is
superior to the
feel
isolate.
education
is
the beginning;
But popular
it is
the seed
231
it is
how temporary
unrest
is
only a
Remember
that.
The
Be
like the
supple
tree,
America.
In
282
The anxious
eyes of a
Europe
in con-
world.
scales of
know
come
trials
and
tests,
them he cannot go
man race
on.
your mind
is
If
of your fellows
it
233
it.
Even
if
it
web from
the
himself, he
common
in his power.
You may
you
dom
the test.
rest.
234
the
treasures
you
have
labored
no longer needed
the
for
discard
utensils.
wooden shoe
in a wisely ordered
235
LETTER XXXI
THE ALTAE
FIRE
February
18, 1918.
In
ALWAYS
all
let
made
The enemy
great use of
its
it,
opposite. It
is
tries of earth.
America of
all
nations
is
best fitted to
Each
for
all,
and
for each.
But
236
"My
heart, so will
make you
are of them.
all
men.
Your
maker
man who
of phrases.
That
is
good.
can make phrases that shall carry themselves around the world can influence the
thought of the world.
"To make the world safe for democwill
racy."
Those words
turies.
and
its
It
is
still
237
and
From many
stocks he will
blended from
him.
He
No man
will be
A man
not, as
consciousness.
It
is
themselves, that
reveal
themselves to you.
If
or
when
unique consciousness
which shall flower in the Sixth Race.
Yes, a great art will grow up in Amer-
238
After another
ica.
Let us hope
be
it
ripe.
ple preserve
This war
its solidity
is
is
not
It
is
struggle.
now
broken-hearted
are
finding
their
souls.
it
Cana
of
Galilee.
and
insufficient food.
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I should
wounded.
the strain of
women
many worlds
live
of
tasted.
at once.
Do
make
life,
America
now than
is
better
known
to
Europeans
Many
of
you
will
own nationality
I do not mean flaunting
glorifying your
in
your
hearts.
it.
Let
it
burn as an
THE END
University of California
..UC
SOUTH ERN
REGIONAL LIBR