to take you over the course suggested step by step. I trust, however incomplete this brief paper may be, some, at least, may grasp a method that will help them to find the way that leads to purpose fulfilled. All spiritual advancement is a growth. The unfolding can come no faster than you are ready for it; without discipline it may never come at all. The limitless powers of the soul are the limitless powers of man. Possess your conscious self of the wisdom of your soul, and the book of knowledge will be open before you. Then you will need no more to go to books, for infinite knowledge will be yours. Even though no mortal may ever reach the pinnacle of this sublime height, every approach toward it is upliftment to worthier deeds and nobler lives. We have only the glimmerings of our own possibilities. History shines with names here and there that tell us what man has done. In learning of the powers of the soul, you have learned of the absolute unity of all life and force, and the secret spoken by our wisest philospher that all have "an identical nature."

"God is the ocean limitless

That doth all springs supply,
God is the 'I am that I am,'

The self of every I."

Then

"In the silence, in the silence,
In his love, so kind and true,
In the living, throbbing silence,
Find the work you have to do."

After you have over and over again proved the truth of this philosophy by receiving revealings from the soul of wisdom never gathered by others, then hesitate not to assert your oneness with creative force and power, and sing with Emerson:

"I am the owner of the spheres,

Of the seven stars and the solar years,

Of Cæsar's hand and Plato's brain,

Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain."

POWER; HOW TO ATTAIN IT.

WERE the question asked the student, the professional man, the mass of struggling humanity generally, what would ye, the reply of each and every could be crystallized into the single word, Power. The way to the end desired, be the end what it may, is through some path whose goal or end is what is comprised within the scope of that magic word. To gain power, the seeker consults what is called the teachings of history, and reads the conclusions drawn from experience. The story of a life, a great and noble life, is presented by one who has made himself familiar with the events of that life, and there we find the story of purpose and accomplishment. After all, what have we? A compilation of facts that may tell of daring deeds, of wonderful victories, of glorious triumphs all done and won by the hero. These are marvelous things, we may say, and he has won his title to renown. We may become, with other readers, a worshiper at that shrine. We may speak his name with veneration, and

thank God for such examples of God-like men. Then the reader pauses and reflectively wonders if he may find, in his time, some similar hero. The story is simply to such a reader one of interest. The lesson to be learned by the life is lost. The real lesson is not understood by either the biographer or the reader, and may not have even entered into the consciousness of the hero himself.

When one finds himself in doubt as to what is for his best interest in a new venture, when intellect presents no solution, when past experiences fail to give any light, he seeks counsel, hoping thereby to bring about a focusing of intellects to penetrate the mystery and reveal the secret. From these counsels he usually comes as wise, but no wiser, than when he entered them. To act blindly he feels is not good judgment, so he returns to the battle now more than before filled with confusion and doubt What he needs is foresight, he says, meaning by that knowledge of the undetermined, while the conclusions of judgment are drawn only from experience. In our ignorance, we have defied intellect, through which the reasoning faculties were developed. This has been made to represent the dividing line between the brute creation and man. It characterized the highest

animal plane. It represented a force capable of limitless culture and expansion. It was the human element to be trained and disciplined by the schools. By the machine drill, it was to be made useful to direct in all the affairs and businesses of life. Blindly we are still going on in the same way, mingling doubts and fears, and hopes and longings. Force is scattered. Possibly the seeker turns to prayer; but even then the church dogma advises his way may not be God's way, and that he must learn to be content with what may come. The ecclesiastic advises that there may be a wise purpose in the withholding, for this is the logic of the theologian. He does not enter into the warm high hopes of the seeker who is working toward, it may be, his noblest ideal. That ideal came to him he believed from God, that God make it radiant and holy, and now that God, after such an awakening in his soul, prevents, the ecclesiastic may tell him, the realization. He, the seeker, can have no further use for such a God. His intellect again speaks, and apparently more wisely; he turns back to it, declaring he has no longer time for dreams. A point has been reached, a point passed; only error has been won. Effort finds a new path which reason approves, and work again begins; but doubt and questionings