758 LIFE PERPETtJAL. 



Yet he taught a class in physical culture and claimed to be able to 

 walk 20 miles in a day without undue fatigue. At 70 he was an "old 

 man," weak and near the end, according to the doctors. Then he 

 learned pf the power of thought and right eating and breathing and 

 the result is apparent. A score of similar instances might be cited. 



LIFE PROLONGED INDEFINITELY. 



We know little of the life of early mankind but we are reason- 

 ably sure that some lived to be 500 and up to 900 years of age. But 

 the thought of death, on seeing earthly things die, hastened their 

 end. Today as ever since the earliest times every child is born and 

 reared and passes through life in the belief that in a little time he 

 must sicken and die. 



Man is endowed with two minds, the conscious and the sub-con- 

 scious. The latter preserves the activity of the vital organs when in 

 sleep and when by accident or otherwise we are unconscious. But 

 it is directly subject to the influences of the conscious mind, and if 

 this holds steadily to the belief in gradual decay and death, the sub- 

 conscious will gradually lessen its action and thus cause decay and 

 death. 



The new science teaches that if we can live from infancy, or better 

 yet, prior to birth, by the unconscious power of the parents' thought, 

 in the belief and expectancy of permanent life, then life can be main- 

 tained indefinitely by merely following the plan of life already out- 

 lined, a plan that will sustain the body by giving it only the food and 

 drink necessary for renewal of the worn and waste particles without 

 undue deposit of excess matter which clogs the natural channels of 

 harmonious existence. 



If the child is taught this belief and made acquainted with his 

 natural powers of sustaining life indefinitely and grows up in a realiz- 

 ation of the supreme influence of his thoughts and beliefs there is no 

 reason why he should not live forever as a human being in perfect 

 health and with all his God-given capacity for enjoyment and happi- 

 ness constantly retained, as the latest scientific investigations seem 

 to prove. 



Many imagine that to live the life that will give them perpetual 

 health means that they must forego what they term the pleasures of 

 life, but this everyone who has attained the higher life knows to be 

 the opposite of the truth. In fact, the latest scientific study proves 

 that the welfare of the body is best promoted, not by repression but 

 by proper expression of the normal physical appetites and desires. 

 When we have cultivated' right habits of thought and have all our 

 passions and appetites under intelligent control the pleasures of the 

 physical nature are immeasurably prolonged and increased. Real 

 joy and happiness are not attained through the isolation of the monk 

 nor yet through ignorant self-indulgence of abnormal or acquired 

 tastes, but they do follow the self-discipline necessary to obtain full 

 mental control of bodily functions and the controlled expression of 

 bodily appetites. 



