The best way in which to forefend against evil is to deny it and cast out the fiction.
This entire question of evil is at your command. Evil exists because other people admit its existence. If all were to live the WHITE LIFE, each person might rightly declare, "There is no evil."
The only real evil is that which can hurt your best self. When anything hurts your best self, it is your self that hurts your self. The only evil in the Universe is some one"s act hurting others, but more, hurting self. If to you evil is, then, it is yourself. You can so live the sublime WHITE LIFE of harmony as to be able to say: "So far as I am concerned, evil has gone out of the world. There is no evil to me."
You see, surely now, that you need not fear "evil." I do not know anything more absolutely and sufficiently opposed to the permission of that self-acting which alone, for you, is evil, than reason. Fear has nothing properly to do with the matter. And reason-a.s.surance has to do with it only by living the WHITE LIFE and denying fear and evil altogether.
You are invited to make these heaven-born truths your own.
_I_ AM GROWING IN MY SOUL A PERFECT COURAGE.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. The World"s New Dawn CHAPTER II. Fear and Reason CHAPTER III. Physical Tone CHAPTER IV. Dual Health-Tone of the Self CHAPTER V. Fear of Self CHAPTER VI. Fear for Others CHAPTER VII. Fear of Things CHAPTER VIII. The Fears of Timidity CHAPTER IX. Some People We Fear CHAPTER X. Some of Life"s Relations CHAPTER XI. The Fearful Crowd.
CHAPTER XII. Fear of Events-Old Age CHAPTER XIII. Courage for Future Events CHAPTER XIV. A Perpetual Tonic
PREFATORY MATTERS.
"The New Dawn"
"Fear-Thought and Fear-Feeling"
"The Soul of the Cell"
"A Regime"
"Fear Not Thyself "Fear Not For Others"
"Fear Not Dumb Things"
"The Ma.s.sing of a Hundred Faces"
"Fear Not Thy Fellows"
"Life"s Relations"
"The Raw Material"
"Youth is Courage"
"Fear Not Events"
"The Rock of Courage"
The Call of Life.
Now must the man be summoned forth To discover himself, his dual reality: His world, ten thousand fathoms deep, His star-vault, ten thousand s.p.a.ces high; And come to his own like a king.
THE CULTURE OF COURAGE.
THE NEW DAWN.
"The dawn of a New Day!"
Never an Aryan felt the flare of this electric Fact, Nor any, or priest at his worship or earth-toiler swarming the land, Till Zarathustra discovered Ahura Mazda, Till Buddha discovered himself, the Thou of THAT, BRAHMA, Till the CHRIST-MIND a.s.sumed IT to be the _I_ AM THAT _I_ AM.
(The flare--the ghostly breath of the long-coming Dawn-- Had pa.s.sed o"er the Nature-Face, had kissed the swart Human, Ages and ages, with never a conscious start In the Man-Soul, till these had upsprung as if G.o.ds.-- For, whosoever kens the flare, kens THAT and knows the ONE ONLY WHO IS).
So, thrice have men ventured the Word: "Comes now a full Day that is New!"
Since these giant Men-Types, what times of the Small Have opened and set on poor mouthings of Truth!
What Night for a thousand years twice told!
With Fear, and the fierce Stars, and no Sun in the Void!
Shadows--and Fear--and Death!
A fourth time man whispers: "The Dawn!"
We LIVE! And behold a New Day!"
Does the Flare of its Flood-Tide winds stir YOU?
Does the light of its splendoring Sun thrill YOU?
Does the marvelous Life of it stimulate YOU To a birth of the self and the kingship of THAT?
YOU live! The New Day is for each: For the hitherto Common Man, slave, For the Women, no longer a Thing, For the Child, now escaped from the animal lair.
Dawn"s here!
(With Opportunity leading "captivity captive,"
(And the stars urging on to achievement, (And the Sun, breeding life triumphant); With heart courageous and faith almighty To fare forth and possess the whole world!
Soul of YOU, awaken! The New Day is yours.
--THE AUTHOR.
THE CULTURE OF COURAGE.
CHAPTER I.
THE WORLD"S NEW DAWN.
"Let us not look at ourselves but onwards, and take strength from the leaf and the signs of the field. He is indeed despicable who cannot look onwards to the ideal life of man. Not to do so is to deny our birthright of mind."--Thomas c.o.ke Watkins.
I am often asked, "Do you think the world is really becoming better?"