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physical conditions, these currents are beaten back, 

 deflected as it were, by the antagonistic repulsion 

 of the discordant vibrations holding sway over 

 the body and surrounding it with their unwhole- 

 some atmosphere. Thus, the Universe of mat- 

 ter, to our vision unmanifested, surrounds us. 

 We choose from it what we will! 



If we desire harmony and poise, we must think 

 of harmony and poise, for such vibrations do not 

 impinge upon either physical or mental states of 

 heat and excitement or depression and worry. 



Here is the place to protest emphatically against 

 the false logic which argues that there is no deep 

 feeling, no earnestness, unless it expresses itself 

 with passion and excitement, and defends the 

 strenuous life as the only progressive life of deeds 

 and accomplishment. At this particular epoch of 

 racial evolution, especially as expressed in Ameri- 

 can life, the influence of this sophistical denuncia- 

 tion of the good, the true, and the beautiful in de- 

 fence of the bad, the wrong, and the hideous is de- 

 plorable. The intemperance of living which it ad- 

 vocates and extols is a national menace, for it af- 

 fects men and women mentally and morally as 

 well as physically; and characters deteriorate even 

 faster than physiques under the iniquitous strain 

 after success at any cost. 



You will learn in this study of self-develop- 

 ment that is, soul growth through self-con- 



