have no goal; if there be no goal, there can be no paths and roads, for paths and roads must lead to place.

The mistake made by the logical for ages has been the studying to find the path leading to the goal or light, fancy had rudely sketched as an unfixed place more attractive and more desirable than the one occupied. Longing or wantonly desiring something better than one possesses, and blindly seeking paths to the unknown and unimaged, means merely that the individual is trying to get away from something he dislikes. He then is seeking paths that lead from a place or so-called environment, that is all. He is trying to free himself from something; that is aimless.

Let me try and emphasize this with a few practical illustrations. In a rustic school, we find a young girl who has exhibited a taste and skill for drawing and sketching. Her teacher recognizes in her something more than talent; and the young girl's ambition rises at times to a craving for better instruction, for an opportunity to test herself. With that ambition comes the realizing sense of her surroundings, the poverty of her parents, it may be, or some other obstacle the logic of sense perception suggests. If the practical, so-called, predominates in her,

her ambition is checked with the "impossibles " and "cannots" of conscious reasoning, and she may go through life with the refrain of what she wished and could not trembling on her lips. The false teachings and the false philosophy of the ages so weighted the atmosphere about her that she did not see the light. She looked for paths and could not find them. She did not recognize the message, nor whence its source. Had she done that she might have imaged the ideal and held it firm; then paths would have opened. You may decide to go west to-night, but until you fix your destination more specific than "the west," there is no need of your studying railway timetables.

Robert Fulton first applied the power of steam to navigation, and the practical men of the day laughed at the folly of his wasting time and money on what was deemed by them a useless toy. He was his own engineer on that first trip from New York to Albany; and, though people at places along the banks of the river crowded to see the strange craft, not a single fare was collected. About to return from Albany, one man came asking the fare,-$6.00-and paid it. Even that was a God-send to Robert Fulton, for his purse was drained. That round trip,

however, made people more wise, and the prac ticability of the invention was demonstrated. Steam power was practicable for navigation, they said; but they also said: Of course, it can never be used on the ocean, for the wood required to run it (coal was not to us a fuel then) would more than load the vessel. Robert Fulton did not trouble himself about the question of fuel, nor of that of many other paths to the end-he kept his eyes fixed on the light. With vision beyond the reach of clairvoyance, he saw steam moving mighty vessels over all expanses of water. How the steam would be manufactured did not disturb him. He recognized God's message to him from the infinite, then he imaged the material creation to be, and firmly held that image to the light. Against poverty, against ridicule, against the known scientific laws, against the undreamed source of fuel supply, he labored in the cause of truth to attain an ideal and to bless mankind. Clairaudient he may have been, though, if so, he never told it; but it seems to me, as I write, that he must have heard over and over again the inspired words of those ancient guides, "Keep toward the light thine eye." By so doing, faith became triumphant, and the ceaseless soul breathings of "I can" and "I will's" rever

berating force, opened all paths to the clearly defined and perfect goal.

History is full of examples showing how perfectly men have followed psychic laws subconsciously to the attainment of purpose. To-day, in an effort to gain power, the advanced thinker, with full recognition of these laws, is only asking their application to himself. I trust now we have reached that plane where doubt cannot come. If one questions the message, let him wait in the silence still. There, and there alone, must he seek knowledge; there must he wait, until he knows. It is true that I have been emphatic on this in other papers; but, in this, we must review somewhat, that the philosophy may stand out in all its completeness.

With the message of inspiration and promise, came to you first a shadowy picture afar off. Again and again the picture came, and half consciously, as you gazed upon it, you heard the word, "yours." Never doubt after that. Through every fiber of your being ran a thrill of joy; it was the infinite force of the universe bringing you into fellowship with your own divine selfhood. Recognize your oneness with it and know the truth. The image will rise from the mist surrounding, like the face from the canvas touched by the brush of the artist

inspired from the unseen.

The longed-for be

comes the true, the real.

Without hesitation

over ways and paths, you know the image as the real, that it is, and is yours.

“True majesty is self-poised man—
There is no higher thing.

Man has lived all, has made the span
From molecule to king.

"So live for what thou art to-day,

Thy thought blooms every hour,

Thy spirit knows no truer way

Than free-thought's full-blown flower.

"Self is thy stronghold; stand for self—

"Tis the noblest attitude.

The universe of love and wealth
Cannot thy claim elude.

"Hold high, hold strong; have faith that moves
The mountains, sails the air.

Be fearless, for thy love behooves

To more than priest or prayer.

"Be thine own prayer; be thine own priest;

Permit no man to say,

In what thy soul finds flow or feast,
Or where thy joyful sway.

"Stand thou for truth, with love beside; Then in thy radiant soul,

Naught of ill can thee betide

Or turn thee from thy goal.