out from belief the possibility of there being a personal God, sitting in a material heaven on a material throne, welcoming good immaterial souls to this material heaven, and, with equal justice, sending other immaterial souls to a material hell. What could a material heaven or a material hell hold of joy or fear to the immaterial soul?

Growth is impossible with such conceptions of Being--with such ideas of possible material future dwelling-places for disembodied souls. Intelligence is fast burying this rubbish of outworn theological beliefs in unmarked graves beyond the possibility of resurrection.

Assuming, then, that you have awakened, or have never been enthralled in that nightmare of ignorance, and that God, or Being, means to you, above all, Intelligence; that within this Intelligence is substance-the creative force of the universe; that you are one with that creative force; that you are an atom, if you please, in its composition-then, can you not understand why it is your right and privilege to come into harmonious vibrations with all the other atoms, with the absolute creative force of the universe? This being your birthright, you want what is yours. God gave man dominion over all the earth.

You are on the earth-you are man.

Do you not now understand? You are seeking only what Creative Intelligence gave you ages and ages ago. You are not seeking what does not belong to you, nor what it is impossible for you to gain except by payment of wearisome labor. No; you are only asking to know how to take the Almighty's free gift to you. Fully recognizing this, let me lead you, if I may, to the treasures all your own. Not yours only, but mine. The way a strait and narrow one,' but it is open to all. If, then, you know your birthright-your oneness with God--your way to possession is, as I tersely put it in my very introduction, through vibrations, and these become magical with power when one's atmosphere is made attractive and the channel of faith laid open.

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Having attained a true concept of Being, and our relations to the great Impersonal It of the Universe, we are ready to enter upon the study of atmosphere. The atmosphere surrounding us was not placed there by our parents. We must drop all belief in the possibility of inheriting spiritual qualities. We may give the stars their fair share of credit without making them our prison-keepers as to atmosphere. We, being one with God, and having dominion over all things, must not bow to heredity or to the

influence of the stars. We cannot recognize any master, for, in doing so, we would, in our first statement, be repeating idle words and not appropriating the mighty truth they express. Our atmosphere then, marking our own individuality, may have become very unwholesome through our non-recognition of the truth. Though that may be so, it is in our power to make it what we would.

Now, the ways: From our true selfhood springs the desire of the hour, the desire of the month or year, the desire of our life. Let it be, for illustration, the recognition of a desire to master the thought and purpose of the poet, Browning. To do this you must bring yourself into harmony with the vibrations from the Infinite that thrilled the intelligence of Browning as he wrote. How will you accomplish this?

First, if my argument is correct, you must fix your atmosphere-you must Browningize it. Select an hour for the daily reading of Browning's poems, first giving attention to the study of his life, by his best biographers. In the study of his life, pay especial attention to the order in which he wrote his poems-as far as you can, group them into periods that mark his literary growth. You will soon find that this particular hour in the day or night will have a

sacredness. It will be a dedication of that time to the thought of Browning. Read no commentaries on Browning-study no criticism on his works. You are seeking guidance from a higher source. You may, and will, carry more or less in your daily work, whatever it may be, your Browning atmosphere. However, try to overcome that-during the other hours of the day you may and should (as far as possible) lay aside all mental debates that arise during these hour sittings. Leave them to be taken up on the following day. Within a few weeks you will have finished the drudgery of your work; and, at that hour each day, you will find new beauties in these poems. Sitting in the same chair, in the same room, and at the same hour each day, with mind resting on his thought, you will have found a new atmosphere, and that new atmosphere will be congenial to poetic inspiration on the lines that Browning found.

Your greatest work is now completed. You have created an atmosphere the vibrations of which will attract from the infinite forces of the universe just what you need to bring you the fulfilment of your desire. Now you may lay aside your books, repeating, however, often in the silence some of the poems, particularly those

that once seemed meaningless or mystical to you. Your atmosphere having been made right to accomplish your purpose, the vibratory forces now merge you into the infinite oneness, where all is revealed. Still, you must learn to be, or you will disturb these vibrations. New meanings to these poems will come to you—their beauty and their philosophy will be yours. Possibly, in the stillness, at times, you will almost feel the presence of Browning, and the clairvoyant, if present, might see him bending over you. Better than all, from within you will be told that you have fathomed the mysticism of Browning, and intuitionally you will know that you have come into the same harmonious thought-vibrations that made Browning a genius, and made you to appreciate and understand his greatness.

For another example, and one most practical, let me take that of desire for money at a particular time, to help one out of a particularly embarrassing position. This is really the problem of the age--of the day-of the hour. The failure that many make to draw from the infinite what they need is due to the fact that their anxiety brings them a repelling rather than an attracting atmosphere. Overcome that one must, or the supply from the infinite