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throughout all eternity. Now, if we and surrounding nature are brought into existence and controlled by the movements of the planetary system-astral influences, we call them-then it follows that we must gain the dominion by and through alliance with these influences. We are the crown of God's creation, and, consequently, God is manifested in us to a greater, stronger, more complete degree than in the rest of creation. This being so, then it looks to me as if it gave us the priority, the ascendency over creative law, over all other thoughts formed by the creative mind; for if man stands as the highest, the crowning expression of the creative word of God by which worlds were made, then he stands between the worlds created and God the Creator. If, therefore, he stands between the Creator and the created, he may have the dominion.

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We are, however, still under the control of planetary law; how do we expect to get from under its control? By the regeneration, the regeneration of self. We find that the higher we go in the regeneration, the more we feel these planetary influTonight, for instance, it is Libra-Taurus, and the forces are so heavy that it is hard for me to stand them now, notwithstanding all these years that I have stood against them. How came such powers within us? It is because we have dammed up the life currents of the universe, the forces of the Infinite Mind; and if we go on until we get complete control of these astral influences, these creative powers within, we will necessarily have dominion over them.

What does this cover? There is no doubt in our mind that the storms, rains, winds, snows, and the different atmospheric conditions are brought about by the positions and changes of the planets, working in harmony with natural law. Now, when you, as men and women, have taken command of the forces within your own bodies, have risen above them, as the Revelator said, have placed the moon (which is the polarizer of the life energies) under your feet, you will stand between the Creator and the created, you will have taken control of the creative energies emanating from the heavenly bodies, and you will, consequently, have control of the atmospheric conditions by which you are surrounded. If you step in between the Creating power and the thing acted upon, then you lay hold of that power and take the position of being what you will to be, and what was formerly acted upon by the Creator, can now receive

power only from you and will be whatever you make it. Therefore as, in your progress, you take control of the creative forces, you are taking control of the laws of nature, of growth; life in all its forms upon our planet earth is being made subject to your will; everything that lives upon it is coming under your control-will be under your control when you have finished your task, when you have fully taken the name Yahveh, the "I will be what I will to be."

You do not yet realize what it means to step in between God and all things, to take the reins of government from the Almighty and to wield the scepter over all nature; but this you will do. You have now attempted to solve the riddle of the sphinx. You remember that in old times those who attempted this and failed were killed; and it is death for you who have really begun this life to fail, because you have placed yourself outside the pale of orderly natural law; you have begun to hold back the currents of the planets, to disarrange them from the old order and to rearrange them according to the new order that is to be established upon the earth. Think of it-is it not a mighty thought? that you, a little man, a little woman, are to step in between God and his creation, and take the governing power out of his hands and place it in your own; the mighty energies of a cyclone, the terrible force of a volcano, the wind, storms, heat, light, all the various phenomena of nature—all under your control! This is what it means, and nothing less. Now, you must either do this or die.

Therefore, as you take the name Yahveh, it is necessary that you find out how to draw and incorporate in your organism the will power of the Creative Mind, that will that holds command of suns and systems in their orderly course through space. You must ensphere that will, for it is by and through it that you will be able to live and to possess the dominion. It is a mighty thing for a man to say, "I will be what I will to be:" measure the words "what I will to be!" a creature brought into existence by a law and governed by the law that produced him, stepping out and looking upon those mighty energies and saying to them, "I rebel against your dominion, I will be no longer controlled by your power; you shall be my servants and obey my voice."

Again, how shall this be done? Is it by the development of a great mind power, mental power, and the force of the external will that we are to lay hold of these currents? No: the

mind currents of the universe are the currents of life, the vital currents, and cannot be controlled by the thinking, reasoning mind, which is only an instrument with which to form thoughts. The forces can be controlled only by the inner mind that allies us to the life currents of the universe. The inner mind must be united to the mind of God in marriage. To the marriage of the Lamb must He come, and his wife must have made herself ready; white robes must be upon her-clothed in purity. No one can approach those nuptial rites without the wedding garment.

You should know what planetary positions produce certain effects, and you should also know what mental states produce the same effects, because the time is coming, when men and women have taken control of the creative energies in their own bodies, that the fires of this energy will begin to go rampant over the earth, drying up the waters so that the land will no longer bring forth, and thus utterly destroying, starving, the inhabitants. If we are to be the gods of the earth, then we must be a loving, preserving God, not a destroyer; and in order to preserve, we must be able to stay such influences. I used to question what purpose the Spirit had in view in giving Solar Biology, but I now see the reason: it is impossible to understand the life currents without it, and you cannot study it too much. It gives the influences and laws governing life and the mind of the Creator. We must know these influences and these laws, for we have said, "I will take the reins of government into my own hands, I will no longer be governed by these laws, I will take the dominion. Yahveh shall be my God, and

I will be his son."

We may move in our life orbits as serenely as the planets. As the light shines through our eyes, the air breathes through our lungs, and the blood circulates through our system, so will the universal intelligence manifest itself through our daily lives if we only "give passage to its beams."

It is generally through deep suffering that we learn to detach from us the thought of self.

Not until this has been done can we enter the realms of per. fect peace.-CHARLES B. NEWCOMв in All's Right with the World.

OUR EXCHANGES.

MECHANISM OF OUR TWO MINDS.

The following is simply an hypothesis for physicians and for all who are curing diseases by means of Suggestion. I believe in fighting the devil with fire. He may not understand anything else; he will that. We are most of us so steeped in the materialism of the day and so many imagine that we know much more about what our present knowledge of matter will explain than we really do know, that it is necessary, if we would be understood, to translate phenomena into the language of matter and force.

If we can find a working hypothesis that will explain the cures by Suggestion, from the standpoint of matter, we will do away with some of the idiotic opposition now put forward to antagonize these efforts. If we can class Suggestion with strychnine and opium, we will be able to put a quietus on some of the harpers that we cannot cure organic disease.

Every posted man to-day acknowledges that some diseases are cured by Suggestion, so that if we can show the pure materialists that, according to their theory, there is no disease that is not organic and in curing any disease whatever we cure or ganic disease, and that all mental changes are according to this same theory organic, or at least material, hence, in producing any change in mind, we are producing a change in nerve, and through the latter in all the tissues to which nerves go, and hence Suggestion acts simply by working material changes, in material nerves, on a material organic body.

This conception brings Suggestion into a class with all the other physical forces. No more mysterious and no less. We regard it as more mysterious because we are less familiar with it, that is, see it working less often, because we are only lately learning that it is present in almost all thinking, either directly or indirectly.

We make no attempt to explain that unknown something back of phenomena, and until we learn more than we at present know, all attempts must be partial, all hypotheses utilized for

some definite purpose and held loosely, in readiness to accept any new assumption that will better explain matters.

We have one brain with two sets of functions, commonly called objective and subjective minds, but which, as we are speaking from a physiological rather than a metaphysical point of view, we will call voluntary and automatic. In order to make matters clear, we must refer to a few points of anatomy now accepted as true. We now believe the nerve cell and nerve fibre to be one entity, the neuron, so called, not two as was formerly thought. Each neuron is a separate entity with physiological connections only with other cells. That is, there is no anatomical connection between either cells or fibres. One process is prolonged into an axis cylinder or neuraxon, the old nerve fibre. The other processes are called protoplasmic processes, or dendrites. The former always convey impulses away from the cell, the latter toward the cell.

We accept, as proven, that we have two sets of tracts to the brain, one called direct, the other indirect. The former go to the voluntary cells, the latter to the automatic ones. Now, if we will keep in mind that each neuron is independent, we will see that the fibres or neuraxons being separate and direct, means that the cells are separate also. That is, that one portion of brain administers to voluntary life and another portion to automatic life. Now, what we do not know is whether the voluntary mechanism is scattered throughout the brain and the automatic mechanism the same, being contiguous, like apples in the same basket, but not anatomically connected, or whether the former occupy one portion of brain and the latter a portion distinct entirely, that is, in a different portion of the cranium, the two separated by well marked anatomical divisions.

We have many reasons for believing the latter to be the case. In an article like this, I can only hint at the evidence, trusting that those interested will take the trouble to look the matter up. In the first place, I wish to call attention to the two sets of tracts mentioned above. The direct afferent impulses have the following courses:

1st. Peripheral neurons conveying impulses from the surface of the body to the cord. (Peripheral Sensory neurons.) 2ud. From the cord to the optic thalamus. (Spinal thalmic neurons.)

3d. From optic thalamus to cerebral cortex.

(Thalmic cor

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