Mastery of Self for Wealth Power Success - Frank Channing Haddock (reading eggs books txt) 📗

it is your self that hurts your self. The only evil in the Universe is some one’s act hurting others, but more, hurting self. If to you evil is, then, it is yourself. You can so live the sublime WHITE LIFE of harmony as to be able to say: “So far as I am concerned, evil has gone out of the world. There is no evil to me.”

You see, surely now, that you need not fear “evil.” I do not know anything more absolutely and sufficiently opposed to the permission of that self-acting which alone, for you, is evil, than reason. Fear has nothing properly to do with the matter. And reason-assurance has to do with it only by living the WHITE LIFE and denying fear and evil altogether.

You are invited to make these heaven-born truths your own.

I AM GROWING IN MY SOUL A PERFECT COURAGE.

 

CONTENTS.

 

CHAPTER I. The World’s New Dawn CHAPTER II. Fear and Reason CHAPTER III. Physical Tone CHAPTER IV. Dual Health-Tone of the Self CHAPTER V. Fear of Self CHAPTER VI. Fear for Others CHAPTER VII. Fear of Things CHAPTER VIII. The Fears of Timidity CHAPTER IX. Some People We Fear CHAPTER X. Some of Life’s Relations CHAPTER XI. The Fearful Crowd. CHAPTER XII. Fear of Events-Old Age CHAPTER XIII. Courage for Future Events CHAPTER XIV. A Perpetual Tonic

 

PREFATORY MATTERS.

 

“The New Dawn” “Fear-Thought and Fear-Feeling” “The Soul of the Cell” “A Regime” “Fear Not Thyself “Fear Not For Others” “Fear Not Dumb Things” “The Massing of a Hundred Faces” “Fear Not Thy Fellows” “Life’s Relations” “The Raw Material” “Youth is Courage” “Fear Not Events” “The Rock of Courage”

 

The Call of Life.

Now must the man be summoned forth To discover himself, his dual reality: His world, ten thousand fathoms deep, His star-vault, ten thousand spaces high; And come to his own like a king.

 

THE CULTURE OF COURAGE.

 

THE NEW DAWN.

“The dawn of a New Day!” Never an Aryan felt the flare of this electric Fact, Nor any, or priest at his worship or earth-toiler swarming the land, Till Zarathustra discovered Ahura Mazda, Till Buddha discovered himself, the Thou of THAT, BRAHMA, Till the CHRIST-MIND assumed IT to be the I AM THAT I AM.

(The flare—the ghostly breath of the long-coming Dawn— Had passed o’er the Nature-Face, had kissed the swart Human, Ages and ages, with never a conscious start In the Man-Soul, till these had upsprung as if gods.— For, whosoever kens the flare, kens THAT and knows the ONE ONLY WHO IS).

So, thrice have men ventured the Word: “Comes now a full Day that is New!”

Since these giant Men-Types, what times of the Small Have opened and set on poor mouthings of Truth! What Night for a thousand years twice told! With Fear, and the fierce Stars, and no Sun in the Void! Shadows—and Fear—and Death!

A fourth time man whispers: “The Dawn!” We LIVE! And behold a New Day!” Does the Flare of its Flood-Tide winds stir YOU? Does the light of its splendoring Sun thrill YOU? Does the marvelous Life of it stimulate YOU To a birth of the self and the kingship of THAT?

YOU live! The New Day is for each: For the hitherto Common Man, slave, For the Women, no longer a Thing, For the Child, now escaped from the animal lair. Dawn’s here! (With Opportunity leading “captivity captive,” (And the stars urging on to achievement, (And the Sun, breeding life triumphant); With heart courageous and faith almighty To fare forth and possess the whole world! Soul of YOU, awaken! The New Day is yours.

—THE AUTHOR.

 

THE CULTURE OF COURAGE.

CHAPTER I.

THE WORLD’S NEW DAWN.

“Let us not look at ourselves but onwards, and take strength from the leaf and the signs of the field. He is indeed despicable who cannot look onwards to the ideal life of man. Not to do so is to deny our birthright of mind.”—Thomas Coke Watkins.

 

I am often asked, “Do you think the world is really becoming better?”

My inmost self—the self I trust and try to assist—is sure that the world is growing better, whatever the hampered intellect may from time to time aver.

For one thing, I FEEL that the world’s mind is slowly yet swiftly changing its adjustment to one supreme reality—Truth.

Always have men believed that they desired only the truth, and always have they sought and found it in part. But then they have immediately wrapped it in packages and stowed it in boxes with elaborate labels. Our nature craves reality, not wrappings and tables of contents. Therefore every age has torn off some of the ancient outer things, and insisted at last on truth alone. More than during all the centuries before, men today demand reality— just the essential reality a human soul craves, and can recognize, and can use in the building of its life.

Henry Drummond spoke of the adjustment which a great telescope needs for photographing the stars. Let us think of one fixed star. “No adjustment is ever required on behalf of the star. That is one great fixed point in this shifting universe. But the WORLD MOVES. And each day, each hour, demands a further motion and adjustment of the soul. A telescope in an observatory follows a star by clock-work, but the clock-work of the soul is the WILL.” The world and the man must WILL TO ADJUST TO TRUTH if they would really find and know Truth.

 

THE WORLD ADJUSTING TO TRUTH.

 

I hold that the world to-day, more perfectly than ever before, is urging an accurate adjustment of the human soul to truth—that which alone the body demands for health, the mind for development, the deeper self for peace and power.

The old adjustments no longer satisfy. Truth is, indeed, eternal, but our relation must keep pace with it as we swing through the vast heavens of time. The photographs of yesterday do not speak correctly for to-day. We do not deny the stars; we only deny the science that is past.

This adjustment is a huge PRAYER. It is a request for truth, in a sense, but for truth only. And it is an ASSURANCE. It expects the truth. Now, that is the best kind of praying I know—Expectation in Adjustment.

When you plant your seed or properly place your telescope, you have created adjustment, and you expect harvest and picture. EXPECTATION IN ADJUSTMENT IS ASSUMPTION.

The world no longer merely ASKS for truth; it harmonizes with Nature and Life, and so, APPROPRIATES.

The World’s New Dawn.

You are invited to make this thought a lifelong affirmation: IN HARMONY I APPROPRIATE ALL GOOD.

Such is one of my reasons for believing that the world is growing better. This attitude toward Truth has influenced for the better every legitimate activity of man. The results are seen in Benevolence, Business, Education, Government, Religion. A new day of splendid, unhampered, happy and growing spiritual life is bursting over the earth. Souls are coming free. Hearts are thrilling with courage. In minds has begun the swing and heave of the sea.

I ask you to take the following lines as a symbol of the world’s wonderful sense of appropriation that is everywhere evident.

The sea, the pine, the stars, the forest deep, Bequeath to me at will their subtle wealth. Or still days brood, or rough winds round me sweep, Mine is the buoyant earth-man’s vibrant health: All things for love of me their vigils keep— I am the soul of health, of wealth.

Run, sea, in my heart! Pine, sing in my heart! Stars, glow in my heart! For ye are mine, and my soul, Like ye, is a part Of the Marvelous Whole.

There’s no thing dear to me is not my wealth, And none that sees me I would distant keep; For swift possession is my earth-man’s health, Or still days brood, or rough winds round me sweep: All things for love of me their vigils keep— I am the soul of health, of wealth.

You are invited, now, to seize and use the spirit of this attitude of appropriation for your own welfare and power.

 

COURAGE ABROAD.

 

And I hold that our life is growing better for the reason that I discover, in all this new adjustment to truth, this expectation and assumption that Good will not withhold itself, and BECAUSE of these things, a new era of courage sweeping the heart of humanity from sea to sea. There is abroad a Universal Breath, manifest of Life. This breath consists of two general activities, that of Denial and that of Affirmation. Courage is a denial of fear and of the reality of fear’s cause. But denial is only the beginning; the really vital thing is confidence in self and in the huge friendly Universe in which we live. Kindly remember this. You are not making progress merely because you turn your back on the Night. Progress means that you also turn face to the Sun and walk buoyantly into the Day. Courage is affirmation:

I am the spirit of the soul Harmonic with the Perfect Whole.

Why, the attitude of healthy denial is everywhere apparent. Permit me to run over some of the things that are coming more and more to be refused acceptance. You will understand that the items are illustrations only. We are denying: The divine right of kings; the littleness and unholiness of fundamental human nature; a God who is a kind of huge carpenter; a Deity who needs to be appeased; a Providence which punishes; the idea that some people are created for toil and service and others for ease and to be served; the notion that we must eschew all drugs or depend only on drugs; the thought which makes disease an entity; the fancy that the illness of some is a divine will; the feeling that wealth should not be craved, or that it exists for a favored few; the creed that “evil” is a necessary existence; the faith that heaven is reserved for the “elect” who “believe” a number of things; the horror of an eternal hell; the heresy that religion, the spiritual, need have anything to do with creeds, rites or ceremonies; the feeling that success is only for the favored ones of earth; and so on, and so on.

These are merely miscellaneous examples of the thousand old-time “truths” which are now more and more denied. Many pages would be required to set forth the ideas and dogmas which are unceasingly and emphatically being rejected, thoughtfully, deliberately, and in a wholesale manner throughout the world of earnest men and women to-day.

But when you deny, it is a great mistake if you do not affirm something better. The breath of courage which is sweeping over the earth, therefore, is splendidly declaring for ten thousand deathless realities to take the place of mistaken beliefs. I have space simply for a few illustrations. Are we not affirming somewhat as follows at the present time?

 

SIGNS OF THE NEW LIFE.

 

Deity is neither Jew nor Gentile; He is the Infinite All-Good—the Eternal White Life.

The Infinite and Eternal White Life is evolving a Universe toward the ultimate perfection of absolute harmony.

All HUMAN BEINGS are in fundamental nature divine.

We are here for the purpose of GROWING TO BEST ESTATE.

Every man, woman and child in the world is ENTITLED TO HEALTH, HAPPINESS, POWER.

“EVIL” is derangement in individual life induced by individual and world-thought gone wrong. As such derangement “evil” is real, but this reality is not necessary or essential, and it may be banished totally and forever.

DISEASE is diseasement of the matter of a body induced by diseasement of soul in a body. The self creates or builds its own body, and the condition of the