It is the consciousness back of the sceptre which installs in it authority. It is the consciousness of power which lends potency to the monarch. Without this consciousness both sceptre and dominion are impotent possessions for the ruler.

It is the fearless consciousness that recognizes its power and realizes its God Authority; and has faith in the right which controls all subjects and removes all obstacles.

It is this consciousness that the individual has need of in meeting any of the problems of his dominion.

The insecurities of life are not overcome by rushing in with challenging spirit but unequipped. Battles are not won by rushing into the fray without the consciousness that right is on the side of the soldier and that success is expected by him and the victory must be won by him. The thought must be back of the action if the laurel is to be won.

It is absolutely necessary for us to cultivate the habit of facing ourselves, of taking our stand and facing forward with a consciousness and remembrance of our Divine inheritance (which is our Godhead,) our potentialities, our latent possibilities if we are to bear them forth into harmonious expression.

One has never yet ruled in order and harmony by resentment, rebellion or ingratitude. Condemnation of things has no power to re-form for the better and he who practices it is more deeply entangling himself in the very mire which he is rebelling against.

There is a conviction in the soul of every being that nobility consists of adaptability, of seeing good in all things and of harmonizing with life instead of combating it. There is a conviction that always charges its hostage for the breaking of the law and the one who knows the Law of Co-operation (which is an immutable, unerring, irresistible law of nature) and uses his potential and divine faculties destructively, fails - and his loss is greater than the one who does not understand the law.

He who acts in ignorance experiences less demand upon him for the payment of his acts.

It is not rebellion but government that wins and government controlled not by conflict or contention but by the authority of knowledge.

The burden of this message is the necessity of habitually righting and equipping ourselves before we go upon the battlefield of life, and of remembering our Divine inheritance of Wisdom and Power before going forward to manipulate the effects that may resulted from past forgetfulness.

If, before concentrating or taking the sceptre in hand with the determination to rule unsatisfactory conditions, we face ourselves in unvarnished honesty, demanding of ourselves a definite, clear-cut pattern of what we really want, much difficulty be eliminated.

The great river of life which flows every being is colored - purified or poisoned - according to its channel (the man thru whom it is flowing), so if man wants his life to show forth only good - for himself and others - he must not contaminate this life flow thru him. The responsibility in this respect is great, and when man achieves the consciousness of this responsibility, he has come into the consciousness of the monarch, he is living the broader life, the harmonious life, and fulfilling his obligation to the human race as well as increasing his own power to cope with conditions.

Man should, as he faces each new day, remember that he is the monarch of this day - for himself - that he is privileged to manage his life for one more turning of the earth. He should face the new sunrise, deeply grateful for the powers he is privileged to use, reverent toward the sacred that has been placed in him, and this combination of gratitude and reverence will clear his path of the obstacles that stand in the way of his achieving his highest ideal. He find his own attitude, his own clear-minded vision of life as he wishes to live it bringing to him an at-one-ment with it.

Each morning man should feel as though he were once more going thru his coronation ceremony - taking his place as king in the kingdom of his own life - ruler instead of subject, holding himself above events, managing them instead of letting them manage him. determined to remain steadfast in his kingly consciousness, radiating peace, calmness and love - being forever an example to others of the happiness that the leading of the kingly life may bring. Superior to his environment, reaching ever upward and outward - expanding his consciousness to encompass all circumstances and events in love - the Great Builder. The man living this life is absorbed in perfectly expressing the power and glory that is each day given into his keeping, constantly excelling his past achievements. gaining ever greater authority and power over himself, his life and all things that in any way affect him. This individual one day wakes to find he is living the magic life, that he goes thru his days in joy and as he nears the end of this expression, he approaches what mortals call death without fear and in gladness as one who approaches a welcome change - an advancement - the entry into a lovelier room. He is not conscious of destruction around him, he does not become enmeshed in EFFECTS but he remembers; always that he and his thinking are the CAUSE. In his majesty, he attains to the power that soothes, power that illumines both himself and others.

It is the realization of this life that we hold out to you, that we appeal to you to choose - for your own sake as well as the sake of those with whom you come in contact. It is this example that we would have you radiate, being aware at each turn of the path, at each challenge of circumstances, that you can meet the trial or tribulation with the serene realization that - When you (trouble) are no more, I shall continue to be. Before you were, I am.

In this consciousness, we gradually overcome our sense of dependence upon material things, our smallness, and come into the realization of our likeness and image of the Infinite One. As we grow and expand into this consciousness, we no longer need to pray for the faith in the power to do and be because our power radiates from us more and more with the continued conscious recognition of it.

Each sunrise, the student should clear his mind of all contention, rebellion, discord or relation to any condition that is distasteful to him, resolutely determined to identify himself only with the ideals of life which he wishes to live, the ideals which he feels will be stepping stones and mounting blocks for attainment to his rightful domain.

It is the sacred responsibility of every student to every day completely clear the atmosphere around him - his own atmosphere - of all destructive qualities or habits of present or past that contain resistance to the good or identification with discord An appeal to the soul to make its protest felt each time temptation comes will surely result in “that small voice" of warning which will help man to overcome his tendency to falter and undo his good and make him turn within himself, knowing that he is the Cause of all ills in his own life as well as the cause of all good. You must hold the center of your own stage, be the chief actor in your own drama. You have one great responsibility, that is to seek, find and stay in the “Secret place of the Most High," the Temple of the Living God, especially if you find the eternal current of life too great. Return again and again into the eddy of the Self, the still place and there abide until you have, indeed, a larger faith, belief in your own power to bring forth results which will harmonize with the Cause within.

Each life is the out-picturing of the degree of faith the individual has in his own power to rule his dominion which was given to him in the beginning. Those who have not fulfilled their destiny, who have not won the victory. have not done so because they have not set the Cause in motion which will bring the Effect into visibility. No effect exists without a cause and let us emphasize again that “according to your faith” in your ability to call into manifestation the effects of the cause that is within you, will be your harvest.

A Student should meditate more and more upon Effects. tracing them back to the Causes, in order that he may next time, be aware of the force he is working with, and the power.

It is not by self-condemnation that we gain greater knowledge of ourselves. but by self-analysis.

Let us will to study life - to see what we can do with ourselves rather than what we can do with things outside of ourselves. Too much time is wasted trying to see what we can do with others - with their will toward us rather than our will toward them.

Hold ever to the Ideal within ourselves, challenging the outer to come up to that which you hold within, thus drawing irresistibly to yourself the counterpart of your Inner Vision. Too much thought - too much power - is given to whether appearances are encouraging, whether your desires are being demonstrated.

Let us emphasize to you that you are the power that creates your goal. Vision your goal and if the realization of it demands certain people for fulfilment, these people will be drawn into your environment, for the Spirit knows what materials are needed for the fulfilment of your desire and uses them - for the good of all. You will find in your fulfilment many persons, many combinations, much co-operation, but the original and impelling impetus is you, the creating thought which draws to you all the elements and completes the crystallization into a tangible form is within yourself.

But the TRUE IDEAL to be sought is at-one-ment with the Great Thinker, the First Great Cause. The individual finally comes to the place where he wills that his own will be one with the Divine Will. This is known as spiritualizing the will and when man's will is identical with God's will, he has reached the place where he has sought and found the Kingdom and where all “These other things shall be added,” for the lesser is always contained in the greater.

One cannot afford to blockade himself from the great cosmic fountain by his small fears, perplexities and resentments about his own problems because, inevitably the smaller will be absorbed by the greater, if man will but swing out, beyond, over it all.