What Do You Call Earthy Matters, Aside From Perceptible Substance?

Well, we call the following matters of an earthy nature: Reserved thoughts, slow speech, deliberation, close counsel or timidity of intentions, covetousness, suspicions, unforgiving or unforgetting tendencies, melancholy, self-esteem, regardless of the esteem of others; withal prudence, carefulness, austerity or surliness in manner or deportment.

And What Are Watery Matters?

Things which, like water, are not substantial, as cowardice, luxuriance, wantonness, mutability, dullness, femininity, timidity, or deceit.

And What Are Air Matters?

Something like water, but dry. Airy things are the intellectual or passional things of life. Mutable, mirthful, liberal, free, reasoning, argumentative, literary and such matters as belong to civic recreations.

And What Things Relate To Fire?

Rashness, hastiness, earnestness, combativeness, pride, ambition, ingenuity and fury. Blither or all of these various elementary correspondence, while good of themselves, when required, are relatively good or bad in the world, according to their environments. If the environments are equalized by airy, watery, earthy or fiery combinations, then what might otherwise termed evil might be honored as saintly, gentlemanly, heroic or good. Appreciation or disapproval depends entirely upon Thought, or, the Manifestation of Mind.

Are We Not Learning That Man Can So Understand His Faculties That He Can Control Thought?

Man is Thought; hence to understand his faculties. Man or Thought should know what Thought, or Man, is. "The greatest study of Man is Man."The greatest study of Thought is Thought. "Know thyself."

From Whence Comes Thought Or Man?

From the Mind. Thought or Man, is but the action of Mind. Mind is the Father of Thought. There is but One Mind, and that is Universal Each man, or Thought, is but a Manifestation of Mind, adapted to its particular attraction from time to time. Thought, or Man, is in a constant process of change; never for any two consecutive moments alike, but Mind is always the same, yet varying its expression, or action through Thought, which is the true Man, made in the image of its Creator, which is Mind.

Is The Mind "God?"

No. God is the Omnipotent power behind the Mind. Mind is an attribute of God, through which Man, or Thought, exists.

What Is That Which We Call The Mind Of Man?

It is the God attribute, or God made manifest in the flesh. The expression of God through flesh is in accordance with the changing Thought or the attractions from time to time of the Mind. Regular laws of attraction are laid down in the operations of Nature and true Man conforms to these regular laws, by thinking it hot when it is hot and thinking it cold when it is cold, etc., because the God attribute minds the heat or the cold. There is, in Thought as in all tilings else, a positive and a negative power of expression, and these are termed the Male and Female Man, irrespective of sex. which belongs to the Animal expression of life and not to the Man expression. These positive and negative powers, when in harmony with each other create a condition of peacefulness and joy in that particular realm of the eternal mind, as is expressed in the individual so favored to possess the harmony. Mind can express itself by Inward Thought or by Outer Thought These are the esoteric and exoteric phases of Man, or Thought. The Mind or God Manifest in the flesh cannot change the regular workings of Universal laws, for individual purposes.

It would stop the whole machinery of the universe for some dwarfish purpose, but. by an exercise of individual will power, the individual phase of the God-Mind (such as you and I are) can turn its mind inward, and review, or draw from its great storehouse of Mind Knowledge, and thereby create peace, or benefit to its individual requirements. Just as a belt may be thrown off a special machine in a manufactory, and the machine comes to a rest with its power conserved, without stopping the operations of the entire factory. This is the proper course for each individual when in certain kinds of trouble. "Be still and know that I am God."

Should One Not Put His Spiritual Forces Into Full Equipment For Service?

No. His spiritual forces are always equipped for service. The first and most essential thing to do is to look within, seriously, and without prejudice or outside suggestions, and learn just what the spiritual forces are, and to which realm of life they each belong. The Animal realm has its spiritual forces, so do the beast and the material realm have theirs. These are all equipped for service in every individual, although in many, the powers of some of the realms, or "Seven Heavens," have been stultified by parental errors, by social fads, by civil laws, or some such outside influences. When we know which realm of spirit forces we desire to arouse, we have but to turn our Thought inward, to the Father Mind, and call into service that spiritual force desired. It will surely respond according to our Will. We may call up to our own immediate use the spirit of that which the world calls "devil"or that which the world calls "joy."The Father Mind giveth as it is seriously desired to be given, for with God there is no evil. All is Good. Man's appreciation makes Heaven or Hell, through his own Assumed Knowledge of Good and Evil, which is the "forbidden fruit." Proper appreciation makes all things good.

Evil (so called) does not injure God, or the Universe; it merely destroys the true peace and happiness in Thought, or Man.