We do not pretend to say that we have arrived at the manhood of our being; we do not claim perfection in the small acquirements of human life; we know that we have just entered a superior realm from which all phenomena of hypnotism proceeds to establish itself, as appealing to our senses concerning that vast empire of thought beyond us. To-day we feel that we are not like the poor savage of former times. We are progressing. Hypnotism, in whatever form it may manifest itself, always retains its original tendency to expand - to grow. Those who receive impressions directly from spiritual realms dwell in the sphere of vibrations. That the sun, moon, planets and stars have an effect upon the earth and its inhabitants, is as self-evident a truth as that they have existence. The ebbing and flowing of the tides prove this, as well as the periodical returns of heat and cold, light and dark* ness. Those mediums who have breathed beyond the veil of things, beyond time and physical sense, have beheld this inner life of the Spiritual Sun - the Over-soul. They have felt the great truth of this idea. Some minds magnify little objects and belittle great ones, as the telescope makes the planets larger and the fixed stars smaller. Remember, experience is the father, and memory the mother of wisdom.

The universe may be divided into three parts: The physical, the ethereal and the celestial. Each of these divisions present two aspects - the internal and the external. The internal is the principle - the intelligent, everprogressive essence; the external is the vehicle or channel through which the principle expresses itself. The physical part of the universe is the vehicle of expression for the physical principle. This principle differentiates itself into many minor principles, each of which has a separate vehicle of expression. Every plant, animal or physical organism is a vehicle through which one of these minor physical principles is expressed. Hypnotism, animal magnetism, somnambulism and telepathy are vehicles, and rightly understood and applied, will prove a great benefit to mankind. We regret that at present they are being used more as an amusement than for scientific investigation. However, this will soon wear out and the real value will push its way to the front. Hypnotism is the foundation for a true mental philosophy, the value of which to the world can never be estimated. Meditation in solitude becomes might in service. Chapin says: "Man was sent into the world to be a growing and exhaustless force. The world was spread out around him to be seized and conquered.

Realms of infinite truth burst open above him, inviting him to tread those shining coasts along which Newton dropped his plummet, and Herschel sailed, a Columbus of the skies." If we would only trust the ideals that come to us time and again, how much greater our intellectual cognizance of truth would become. In our department of educational arrangement this is thoroughly understood by all advanced students. This knowledge presents cause and effect in their rational and true light; enables one to estimate justly all the conditions of life, when and wherever expressed. If the relation of sleep at night and, in some instances, its converse be real, we cannot reflect without amazement upon the extent to which it carries us. Day and night are things close to us; the change applies immediately to our sensations; of all the phenomena of nature it is the most obvious and the most familiar to our experience. To criticise, condemn and hurl anathemas at a problem does not settle the question or relegate it, as some think, to realms of shade and silence. Hypnotism will compel recognition, because a theme for universal study, regardless of the opposition of established schools. We can retard the truth, but never defeat it. Telepathy supplants physical touch with thought touch.

We may read of nature's most exquisite creations - the flowers, vines and trees - but we cannot come in thought-touch with them in that way, but must needs place ourselves in vibrational thought accord with them, as did the philosopher Bernadin Henry Saint Pierre, who said: "Thenceforth my histories and my journal were the herbage of the fields and meadows. My thoughts did not go forth painfully after them, as in the case of human systems; but their thoughts, under a thousand engaging forms sought me. In these I studied, without effort, the laws of that universal wisdom which had surrounded me from the cradle, but on which, heretofore, I had bestowed little attention." Every color has a different significance because it has a general and special correspondence with tone or sound, or with the notes of the musical scale; and this is more particularly true of the seven initiatory prismatic tints - "the flaming sword." In the efforts of human life to attain a condition superior to the one it at present occupies, the plan of the structure, whether it is in the realm of the mental or the spiritual development, must be a mental unfoldment of the plan, which is termed the ideal, held up before the vision - presented as a model to copy after.

In all ages of the world, as far as we know, human beings have believed or assumed that man has a dual nature, consisting of a material part - the body, and of an immaterial part called the spirit or soul. As to this there seemed to be no doubt among the ancients. It was only when the question arose as to whether the soul continued to live after the death of the body, that doubts disturbed them. Just as the Blue and White Niles run parallel with each other for hundreds of miles, without mixing, so do two natures, quite as strongly contrasted, sometimes seem to be in operation simultaneously in the same individual, he being all the time unconscious of his own duality. Of course, such an one cannot justlv be called a dissembler. Character, in Greek, is from a word which signifies to engrave, to cut into, to furrow. So it means that which is engraved or cut on anything to mark it. In life it is, therefore, that which is distinctive in any individual; or, to put it more simply - it is that which experience cuts or furrows into the life. The mere fact of desiring to know about anything, opens up means towards gaining the desired knowledge. The intuition of man's spirit foreshadows all that we know of art, culture and adornment. Self-hypnotism has escaped general attention.

Self-hypnotism embraces the one-ideaism illustrated when a new truth is proclaimed. Everybody at once urges that it is absurd and that nobody but fools believe it. In a few years, when they find it gaining a foothold in influential circles, they say, "He was not the first to teach that;" and finally, "Why, I always believed that." O, temporal O, mores! Strive, well improving your own talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow-mindedness which is the characteristic of everyone who cultivates his specialties alone. A high human soul is a temple dedicated to heaven and, like the Pantheon at Rome, it is lighted only from above. Wisdom led us to place ourselves in the place of every other man. Wisdom led us to understand that we could not judge another; for in judging another we were judging ourselves. Wisdom gave us sympathy, but forbade us pity. Your reputation is what men suppose you are; your character is what you are. To possess those hardy, rugged elements of endurance and virtue which mark God's noblemen is to be fitted for earth and ready for heaven.