If he could understand that it is not so much the endowment of objects and possessions, from without, as it is a consciousness from within of self power. If the in dividual could induce, would induce this positive aggressiveness, this positive spirit of conquest, this positive spirit of awareness, of its possibilities, of its irresistible powers, it could move forward on the course of its evolution without these delays in reaping that it so often suffers from. It is so essential that the pupil should take up these particular fundamental exercises and practice them, apply them in all the little experiences of life. See to it. that it is when it needs power and poise and wisdom that it calls it forth for itself. There are those who declare that much is possible but when the test and trial time comes they desert their post and leave their throne and come down among the mutinous elements and there among them conflict with them. 'While the emperor, the true conqueror stands qualified above, instead of becoming mixed up with - manipulates and dictates, yet does not mingle. If the individual could play his part well, practice being a queen, a king. practice ruling his kingdom, practice that dignity and confidence that comes to one who holds within his hands the scepter, being continually aware of the obligation which power incurs; continually aware of the fact that his very kingdom depends upon his reign to preserve.

The dignity of his throne depends upon the steadfastness of his purpose and the trueness of his living to the ideal of his kingdom. If this individual who has taken life up in its disturbed place and found conditions resisting him, trying and confusing to him, would not swing out into the conditions and battle with them, but draw himself back into the "secret place of the most high," closet himself within himself, right his attitude of mind, make of his own consciousness a challenging power of the ruler, see to it, that he begins at the very center of his being and declares authority, out to its circumference. The spirit of the ruler would be aroused, would be induced, would be ungirdled within, he would express to himself, his ideals, familiarize and identify his mind with his ideal, that he, then, would ascend to the throne and command audiences that would hold precedent, that he would rule, that he would conquer, that he would succeed in whatever he commands. in whatever he would order. This is the consciousness that no other but himself could be responsible for, no other could do for him this thing. It is possible for him to set the standard of the mental attitude of a ruler and then to ascend to it, to grow into it, to include it in himself until he and his ideal of the ruler become as one. and in the ascent, comes the greater range of freedom afar out, beyond and above any experiences he has ever conceived of.

As revelation and appeal comes back to him with inspiration to seek still higher and greater heights until he finds the evolution of the soul is eternal. That the course is perpetual and continuous and that the experience in expressing of experience, should be joy, no matter what the difference may be. As he transcends many of the little inconveniences and distresses and situations on earth, with a consciousness that is worth while, he learns that what he earns is often at the cost of yielding up something, yet, this transcending is also joy to him. So it is true of the great souls, the conqueror who stands above physical distractions, material distractions, social or spiritual distractions, looking upon them as means to an end, forever and forever friendly, accepting every so-called stumbling block as a mounting block, seeing to it, that it is what he believes it to be, making of it, what he Wills for it to be, and, seeing to it, that he suggests to it its nature, rather than it suggests to him its nature, seeing to it. that every condition is the embodiment of his ideal for it, rather than it should present itself. and he would have to accept its interpretation of its value. So in meeting his friends, in meeting all of the experiences of life he sets his standard for it, he holds them aloof expecting from them the best, expecting from them that which he needs for his ongoing and growth, expecting that the noblest and best will be radiating from them continually and that he will bask in the benefit of these experiences. This attitude of mind challenges and calls forth from the greatest depths and the greatest heights, that which attunes itself to his present needs to the well-being of all concerned.

It is possible for the soul to command that which is for its good, for its growth, there is no way for a soul to escape that which is its next step. It may have banked up many so-called stumbling blocks to mount over before it knew, before its vision was clear, never-the-less the most friendly are these very so-called stumbling blocks, for they can be transmuted into mounting blocks, for until they are recognized in friendly appreciation of what they may mean to the soul's ongoing, until that soul lays hands upon them with the intention of using them as friends, until this is done they are to the soul that which he believes. If he believes evil of sickness, evil of poverty, evil of discord, if he believes that these things have in them no redeeming virtue, to him, they are as if they had not; but, if he will look about and see other souls in their course of evolution, see them as they were but a few short years before, and as they may now be and realize that through the very overcoming of conditions that seemed so unsatisfactory, to the very meeting and bearing with them, they have grown into the consciousness of the monarch, have grown into greater and greater awareness, until their orbit is larger than it was before, until their consciousness of the value and privilege of life is larger than before. This is possible if the soul will not be blinded by the mote that is before his eye, if he will see with larger range, if he will look back over his own path, over the path of his friends, he will easily learn to induce the quality of recognizing, of discriminating blessings in all things, blessings in the very rod that is laid upon him, that it arouses; blessings in the primitive soul that it hungers that it might go forth to find. So with the soul today, the limitations are his greatest aid, for they will teach him dissatisfaction and a Will to win more satisfactory conditions, which is promised.