EMPIRICAL PROOF AND BELIEF

       Belief can be a very frustrating experience. Most of the time we try and back up our belief with objective experiences that would tend to verify them, but sometimes they are simply blind faith, and in the absence of anything better, we hold onto them. We know we can't always rely on our senses, and especially with the view of the universe we have gained in recent decades from quantum physics.We know now that seeing is no longer necessarily believing. So what do we believe in, and how valid are our belief? Can we really go through life in such a state of doubt? How can we set any kind of meaningful course in life in the face of a reality that seems to change so often?

      Before empiricism, or proof, there is 'feeling', and feeling is what we need to rely on before we have empirical proof. From all the information we accumulate, we need to select that which feels right for us until such time as it can be empirically resolved. What is important is that we keep an open mind. It isn't always a question of believing or disbelieving. Often it should simply be a matter of being open-minded on any subject, even those whose truth has seemingly been demonstrated.

      Science has come a long way in demonstrating esoteric principles in the same experimental and measurable fashion as was once used only for material research. Empiricism is as valued in esoteric study nowadays as it is in scientific study. Mystic Order approach to esoteric study is in fact demonstration and experimentation.What cannot be demonstrated empirically must remain in the realm of speculation and theory, in other words belief. It does not have to be discarded any more than a scientist would discard a theory simply because it cannot be demonstrated yet. String theory cannot be proven yet,but the theory behind it is so elegant, beautiful and logical that the mere fact that it has not be proven does not mean it has to be discarded. Allowance must always be made by challenged one day by new evidence and new discoveries, and we must be open-minded in this regard always.

      Examine again some of the things you believe in simply on the basis of sheer faith. If their truth has not actually been demonstrated in your own experience, you are obligated to your own search for truth, and to reserve judgement on the faiths of others. Meanwhile, it is not good to live a constant state of disbelief, either. As there is do much we cannot know for certain at any given time, we get on with life through a system of belief derived from our feelings and from the best information available to us. T o believe is something is generally better than to believe in nothing, as long as psychologically we are always in a state of preparation for change.

FINDING YOUR MISSION

How can i determine my mission in life? How do i know what i'm supposed to do? I haven't the faintest clue. Will it come to me one day in a flash of inspiration ?


      This is a very common question. Almost everyone has at some point in life questioned what they should be doing. Such questioning is often the precursor to deeper, more existential questions which in due course leads one to at least a partial discovery of the answer to our main concern. So, let us give this a few minutes thought and analysis.

     First of all, we must remember that the knowledge we acquire is as a direct result of our daily experience and activities. As we interpret and assimilate these experiences and activities we form our particular character, the outer personality. But we are more than just an outer being, we are the manifestation of a soul..., specific, unique and never to be repeated..., which in turn is a partial expression of the universal Soul. The deepest and most permanent manifestation of our living  being, is the personality that the soul manifests in life, the 'soul personality'. This is the 'being within' we aspire to reach whether we are aware of it or not. It is a being of great refinement and supreme accomplishment; and it is more aware of the laws and principle governing our lives than anything we could ever know. The wisdom of the soul is not limited to any particular circumstance but provides the key with which we may interpret all situation that may arise. And it is also the key to discovering our mission in life.

    Our purpose or mission in life is first and foremost to fulfill our growing capacity for expressing the wisdom of the soul in our everyday affairs. Obviously, this implies 'right action'. Ask yourself: What is it that i really want from life? Most assuredly, your answer will include some form of action or activity. The inclinations of the soul personality, its talents and desires, will determine at the deepest levels which particular activity is most suited for us.The soul personality provides the guidance necessary  for us to express our outer personality(our character) to the greatest degree possible in any endeavor.

   Regardless of what course of action we choose, it is essential that it be one that we truly desire from the level of the soul personality, rather than from the much more changeable outer personality. And it must clearly be something we are well suited to undertake, or at least to be able to learn to master. Unless the outer personality is functioning in harmony with the wisdom and collective experience of the soul, the experience of life, while possible pleasing in the short term, will not lead to the experience that our deepest nature requires. what does our deepest nature 'require'? Clearly it requires what its karma mandates it must experience in order to grow and expand in spiritual awareness. And only this deepest part of ourselves can know therefore what is best for us and therefore what our main mission is life should be. Following any other course of action will be at best partially wrong or wasteful of the resources of the soul, but could also be catastrophic for the remainder of pour life.

   Therefore, by listening to the wisdom of the soul through meditation and attunement , we contribute to the fulfillment of our individual mission. It is the way is which we find our mission in life. Through the continued practice of listening to the Inner Master, and then acting accordingly, there emerges a pattern which is soon realized as the guiding force in our life. As this harmonious pattern rises to consciousness, so does our mission come into focus.

    No matter how suddenly the awareness of our mission occurs, and it may or may not occur as an intuitive flash, we may be sure that it has been developing long periods of time, from incarnation to incarnation.

LIGHT OF THE WORLD

The light of the world is always a hope in the hearts of those who seek a greater role in the world. There is an inner conviction for those who have awakened their spiritual sight; a conviction that the day will come when certain spiritual leaders will appear on the world scene who will raise the spiritual consciousness of humanity by their individual effort in various fields.

   Many who believe they recognize this trend in world affairs, point out the growth of interest in occult phenomena and in subject related to parapsychology which catch the public eye. But popular interest in occult and psychic phenomena does not equate to a spiritual awakening of humanity. There may be a peripheral awakening, but psychic phenomena and the occult in themselves, can exist entirely devoid of any real spiritual content.

    There is a trend however on the part of many good people, to be concerned about the spiritual, emotional and material welfare of underprivileged communities. This deep concern for other reveals a spiritual  awakening in many people who give no thought to the phenomena of so-called psychics and occultists. Their only concern is to do something now fro those needy people who have been cut off from the mainstream of life. They are the outcast, handicapped and underprivileged masses who have been cast aside by society because they don't or can't conform. Many are children, unwanted and without the love and guidance of parents or friends. In their eyes, nobody cares.

DEDICATION TO SERVICE

If scientist and politicians directed their attention to lifting a little of the burden of humanity, the light of the world would stand revealed. But we're still waiting while we direct our attention to the sufferings of others in need. Although we may feel powerless to help then many people in their plight, we must hold fast to the knowledge that what little we can do is needed and help is on the way. We must persist in the knowledge that our good works and prayers are helpful and achieve worthwhile result, even though we sometimes see little evidence of it. There is a gradual awakening of the part of many who dedicate themselves to service. Their concern is for more human values which reveal spiritual insight and deeper values.

   Those who have dedicated themselves to helping the needy, whether in the fields of medicine, sociology or many other sphere, aren't necessary mystically inclined; but they do reveal a deep spiritual motivation which  is greatly needed today. It is to be hoped that those who are mystically inclined will also become involved by radiating a spiritual love to all humanity service is the keynote of all mystical work. For preparation is the mystical life we must sooner or later feel the stirring of our deeper spiritual self which urges us to serve the interest of raising humanity to a higher lever of thought and conduct.

   Without the slightest doubt, there is a new spiritual awakening today. Small though it is, it can seen here and there where dedicated people are prepared to stand against all odd and be counted for the advancement of humanity, and especially to assist the underprivileged in society. This trend shows that the light of the spirit of humanity can be rekindled and that there is hope for the future destiny of mankind as long as there are men and woman who place their spiritual qualities above their material desires.

There will always be something we can do, no matter how small and inconsequential it may seem. The helping have we give to someone in needs of others. Service is the key to a better understand of life, for as we give of ourselves and share our lives with others, as fully as possible, so will our enriched. It is in giving that we receive, and to receive th greatest rewards in life we must be  prepared to put aside many of our self-interest and be more concerned for others. what we share will be returned to us in great measure.

    The more we give thought for each other and have the willingness to give some help to one another, the more the spiritual light will grow in the hearts of men and women, gradually bringing a new dawn of greater light and understanding between all people. Then will come to the fore those spiritually enlightened people of all races who will point the way to higher advancement, not by what they say, but because they will be living example of the spiritual way of life.

KNOWLEDGE FROM COSMIC

The ancient records reveals that the early leaders of the Great White Lodge had to depend almost exclusively upon Cosmic Illumination for the great knowledge which they preserved for us. With all their understanding of cosmic laws, they occasionally questioned some of the great truths that come to them. it seems, however, that at time wen by additional information confirmed the startling facts that they had received, and in this way their doubts were gradually cast aside and they learned to put dependence upon the knowledge that came from inner attunement .

The problem which we have to face today is due to the great  amount of education we have had in schools and through books and which is not correct or dependable knowledge. In other words, the ancients did not have a great storehouse of misinformation and untrue ideas which had to be removed as the new knowledge or correct knowledge came to them. We, on the other hand, have so much of this misinformation that is commonly accepted as true and commonly used in our everyday lives that when a different fact is given to us, even by some person who is a recognised authority, we are very likely to be doubtful and hesitate to accept the new information. If the new information conforms with what we have already learned or what we believe, we accept it readily enough; if, however, the new knowledge is so contrary and so different from what we have always understood, we either hesitate to accept the new facts or tend to modify them to fit our former beliefs.

It is plain to be seen, therefore, that the ancient had a great advantage over us. It may have taken them many centuries to learn how to mediate and to attune themselves with the Cosmic and thereby receive the great cosmic knowledge but in those centuries they had not acquired much untrue information which had to be set aside with difficulty. I do not mean by this that during the centuries of their evolution in thinking they did not build up certain belief and ideas of their own. These ideas were simply conclusions that they had come to from observation or from the expression of belief of others and such information did not constitute a system of facts. Everyone knew that most of the beliefs they had were based upon too greatly or adhered to against all reasoning or against new knowledge that might come their way. For this reason the thinking man or woman in the mystery schools of the past was always willing to cast aside any of the ideas that had been given to him or her by parents or friends or other for the newer facts that the Brotherhood taught.

Today, and for the past hundred years, we have been in a different position. Most of the fact and a great part of the knowledge that each one of us attains during childhood and youth come to us through printed books and through the word given to us by teachers in schools or by lectures. We have accepted such knowledge being the mere opinions or beliefs of other people but as being the actual facts discovered and maintained by scientific investigation. Therefore we consider our general knowledge to be very dependable and not such nature as to be cast aside easily. We are making a great mistake in this belief, however, because we are finding out daily that the mere fact that some explanation is printed in a book or taught by a thousand teachers is no guarantee that it is either correct or even partially dependable.

I say that we are discovering this. I mean that we, as mystics and perhaps several million other people are making this discovery. the vast multitude, however, have not made this discovery and they are still laboring under the impression that knowledge printed in a book or newspaper, or statement made by teachers, contain absolute truth, that the person who has a different explanation or knowledge must, first of all, disprove the information given in the books or taught by the teachers before he can present with conviction the new knowledge he has to offer. If we analyse the matter, however, we will see that there is no difference between the ancient teacher who stood in the midst of a green patch in a valley and expressed some of his beliefs about life and nature to a group of ignorant people who were ready to believe everything he said, and the man who has some peculiar ideas or explanations of his own today and is able to raise enough money to print those ideas in a book. Even teachers and professors secured their knowledge mostly through the reading of books written by someone else, and therefore they are expressing only the ideas of another. For this, the printed opinion is no more dependable than the verbal opinion. The only dependable source of knowledge is that which comes from within after we are attuned with the Cosmic.

In the past, the teachers in the Great White Lodge very often startled and surprised their students with the revelation of facts not known to others  or by the revelation of facts that were contrary to what was commonly believed. It is fortunate for us that most of those who belonged to the Great White Brotherhood and who received this new knowledge accepted, tested, proved and continued that teaching of it. Otherwise, today we would not have the great knowledge preserved for us that we do have. Throughout the centuries that have passed, there has been a great deal of false knowledge growing up in the mind of people along with the true knowledge. We of this time and period in the world, have acquired and inherited a great mass of knowledge, part of which is speculative, untrue, doubtful and undependable, and part of which is absolutely correct and provable. What we are trying to do is to separate the one from the other and get rid of the information that is false, modify the information that is partially true and test the information that is doubtful, while at the same time we add to our minds the knowledge that has been proved true and absolutely dependable.

SEPARATION OF TRUE AND FALSE:

You will agree that it is a large undertaking to analysis inherited knowledge, test it and separated the pure from the dross. That is the reason for such organisation as Enlightened mystic Order, Amorc and so on with its rules and regulation; that is the reason we study and work together. All of us are naturally reluctant to cast aside such knowledge as seems to be true and to fit in with the scheme of things. Take, for instance, our belief in the effect of the moon on tides. There was a time when the average man, woman and child did not know what caused the rising and falling of the tides and, or course, when an explanation was given to them they were quite ready to accept it because they had no other belief about it that interfered with or affected their belief in the new information. After generations had accepted a certain explanation in regard to the effect of the moon  on tides and after million of people had found that explanation seemed to be perfectly satisfactory, it is only natural that such people would be reluctant to cast aside that information. Now it is true that for all general purpose the explanation that science gives us about the effect of the moon on tides, and which our parents and grandparents studied in school, appears to be true. Since it seems to conform with the other laws of the universe, we accept it as true and hesitate to have it cast aside or upset or contradicted by anyone who has a different opinion.

Let me ask you this question: have we any proof that is really convincing to us that the explanation about the effect of the moon on tides is correct ? The mere fact that it explains the coincidence between the moon and the tides or that it helps us to understand how the tide rises and falls and the fact the explanation fits in with the periods of the moon exactly to the hours and minutes, are really no proof that the explanation is correct.

The addition fact that our parents and grandparents and great-grandparents believed it, and the eminent scientists believe it, is also no proof that is correct. The minute we hesitate to accept new knowledge because our present knowledge satisfactorily explains things to us, we are closing our mind to illumination, thereby fooling ourselves. Long before the scientist, William Harvey, discovered that the blood circulates through the body, it was a common belief among the multitudes throughout the world that the blood did not circulate. The old idea about the blood had been  taught in every school by scientists and teachers to such an extent that everybody was thoroughly convinced that the blood remained stationary in the body. Harvey had great difficulty in convincing the world that the blood circulates. Another scientist had great trouble in convincing the world that the earth revolves; and we all know that Columbus, as well as others, had great difficulty in convincing the public that the earth is round.

Some of the general beliefs and teachings common to all religions are so unrealistic, when we stop to analyse them, that we wonder why we ever believed some of the theories . Let me give you an illustration of one of the most common belief that is certainly so unrealistic that we cannot help smiling at it: in the Christian teachings millions of people accepted as an absolute fact that God created and populated this earth, and that after God had put people on this earth. He send His Son Jesus here to save us and to redeem the world.

According to that story, this planet called Earth is the only planet in the universe and we are simply one ball floating in space. All the people that God made and everything else that God made are on this one earth. Therefore, Jesus had to come only to this one planet to save the people living here. Yet the very ministers, clergymen, priests, professors, teachers and others who teach this Christian idea admit that there are other planet that God made. If this is so, then God must have sent Jesus or some other son to the other planets to save the people and to improve conditions there, or else God ignored the other planets and simply sent His son o this one called Earth and gave all His attention to us.

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE ILLUMINATI

Reference to the illuminati often involves uncomplimentary remarks. This is due to the individual having an incomplete understanding of the history of the word, and the corruption of its original signification by groups and individuals. Mystics are often dismayed by being told that the illuminati is not the mystically or spiritually idealistic organization that they had believed. And, in fact, there is an negative connectation associated with the word. The world Illuminati, from the Latin, means "the enlightened ones." The word also derives its meaning from illumination, that is, light, which is to be taken both in the intellectual sense and as a physical phenomenon.

The word and its equivalent in other languages dates back to antiquity and was used by esoteric, mystical, and secret orders, particularly by the Rosicrucians, as meaning a most enlightened state of mind. Simply, those who in their philosophical and mystical studies acquired a mastery of related teachings and doctrines which were being disseminated to them had conferred upon them the dignity and honor of being of the Illuminati,"the enlightened ones."

Such an individual had to exhibit more than an intellectual mastery of the teaching of the mystical or metaphysical Order of which he was a member. His moral character also had to be of the highest quality. These qualification are the original distinction associated with the word Illuminati and the Degree in the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC, by that name.
In the sixteenth century, the true Illuminati were suppressed in Spain by the Roman Catholic Inquisition. The enlightened members of the Illuminati were "free thinkers." They sought individualism in expressing their thoughts, which brought them into conflict with the restricted doctrines of the Church. The action taken by the inquisition and the publicity given it made the otherwise uninformed public think of the Illuminati as some nefarious movement.

In 1776, a secret Masonic society with political overtones was formed by Adam Weishaupt, a professor of canon law, that is, of legal procedure within the Church. Although Weishaupt had been educated by the Jesuits, his act of forming a secret Masonic society made him an apostate insofar as the Church was concerned. As a result, Weishaupt and his Masonic body were accused of being anti-Jesuit and were suppressed in 1785.
Weishaupt personally was also classified at the time as a "free thinker", The term was almost considered heretical by the Church because of the non-acceptance by such people of the dogmatic doctrines of the prevailing religion. Weishaupt and his Masonic order, which was of his own creation, were also accused of political interference. He advocated freedom of thought in the school and the right of the people to read any book they chose, even ones contrary to theological authority. This campaign for liberation on his part and opposition to the political influence of the Church caused Weishaupt to be accused of many acts of which he was not guilty, such as plotting a revolution. The literature of the day publicized Weishaupt's alleged villainy, and the Illuminati were wrongly associated with him.

Actually, the true Illuminati had been in existence centuries before the time of Weishaupt. They had no connection with his society and did not participate in a crusade against religion or secular affairs of the time. Nevertheless, for a long period reference works continued to associated the word Illuminati with Weishaupt and his activities . The name Illuminati was stigmatized by individuals who misused it for their personal ventures.

In the eighteenth century, the words Illumination and Illuminati again came to the attention of the people in another manner. This was the period of the beginning of enlightenment, and the word were used in connection with the interest being aroused in philosophy and scientific reason-that is, the appeal to reason instead of the blind acceptance upon faith. The Illuminati of this period were not, of course, associated with the earliest and continued use of it by the ancient, secret orders. Rather, it was identified with men and women of the eighteenth century who were given to the use of individual thought as " opposed to reliance upon external authority." This period was marked by the growth of metaphysical systems arising from the works of the philosophers Descartes and Leibnitz .

Summon The Sacred Within

We are all creations of God, who gifted us with all we need ...

Summon the Sacred 

not from our words
or from priestly incantations
but from our life, in the daily deeds and giving 

Summon the Sacred.

not by desire to fit in
or to please others expectation
but led by our heart's divinity discovered within

Summon the Sacred

not a voice that booms 
from out of the heavens 
from that still small voice that hopes we will listen

Summon the Sacred

not from teachers 
ensconced in their ivory towers
but from all creatures, mountains, rivers and flowers 

Summon the Sacred

not from learned books
or schools that may be the gates of hell
but from our natural and holy, heartfelt curiosity 

Summon the sacred

not by destruction 
wrought in the name of liberty
but with love, it flows like water, so smoothly and freely.

Summon the sacred within,

thanks sister Gael Bage .

Diminishing Abilities

Children are soon taught in school to place entirely too much dependence upon their physical senses and upon the marvels of their brains. Infants who are just starting school are soon made to realize that their success in life and their prospects of reaching fame and wealth depend upon the development of their brains; all they hear about humans as a successful being is the importance of brain development. They come to think of people as being only brain and body. They hear such foolish statements referring to the importance of the five physical senses as "seeing is believing " and similar remarks. Likewise they have discovered during  their early childhood that whatever they have mentioned to described something which their inner sixth sense has revealed to them, they have been laughed at or ridiculed until they begin to think that perhaps only their imagination has been working or that they are peculiar in some way, and they do not want to be considered unusual.

Every child in the early years has a tendency to see lights and moving objects in a dark room, or even in a well-lighted room. At first these things seems to be perfectly natural to the child and they do not realize that they seeing something that adults do not see. Nevertheless, as children begin to speak of some of these things and describe things that they see or hear, they find that adults disagree with them or imagine these things. At first this a shock to the child. Consequently they decide to keep these things to themselves and say no more about them. Then , when school education begins, they do not hear other children speaking of these things( probably for the same reason that he or she does bot speak of them)but hears the teacher agree with what the parents have said about such things being unreal and imaginary. Children gradually develop the idea that they are seeing and hearing things in their imagination that no other child or living being has seen. This makes them believe either that they are mentally peculiar or in some way different and that they had better ignore such things in the future and become normal like all other people. From that time on the psychic faculty in a child is slowly reduced to a minimum.


In adults we find that personal vanity is regard to thinking is one of the great obstacle to the development of psychic senses. People are told all through their schooling to look upon brain development as the highest cultural asset, and they are made to understand that the person who uses their brain the most and who does the most thinking of an analytical nature, and who is the most careful and conservative in their reasoning, is the one who will have the the greatest success in life. It is pointed out by every teacher, by every book, by every system of modern guidance, that as people develops their brain and use it to the exclusion of every other means of intelligence, so will they become a dynamic power in the future and they soon learn that each man and woman should consider his or her own brain as the greatest asset in the world. I cannot help thinking at this moment of the foolish notion the Chinese people once had: namely , that the smallest foot was the most attractive feature that a woman could have. Therefore, they bound the feet and disfigured them, hoping this would attract admiration and attention.


Though strange to us, it is, after all, no more peculiar than the idea that people's brain are the most valuable asset they have and that it should be given a dominant place in all thinking. This sort of idea is what make millions of people believe that if they sit down and reason out something or analyse something, thereby arriving at an objective decision, their decision is superior and, therefore, the only safe guide in life. You can hear great men and women say, when talking to one another, that they are going to do this thing or that thing because the have " analysed it carefully and arrived at a very definite conclusion". According to them such a conclusion should be accepted by everyone else without question.


A problem in connection with business men and women in all walks of life is their reluctance to take anyone else's opinion or advice. People of this kind feel that their reasoning is superior. This is because they have probably tried to build up what the call will-power and thinking power. Generally they read a great deal in order to be familiar with a great many laws and principles of life, they read a great deal about travels, expeditions, history and so forth. Then, when they are face to face with a problem or a particular subject, they sit down and begin to think it over. They view the problem from every angel and allow their personal opinions and beliefs to speak out loud to them. Finally they come to some conclusion and no one in the world could change their opinion. They say to themselves that with their fine education and with their fine brain development they are capable of reaching a conclusion as perfectly sound as the conclusion of anybody else. It is as difficult to try to change the opinion of one these people as to try to move the mountain. These people will say to themselves when they are alone" my brain is clear, it is a good thinking brain; i know how to use it to think, therefore i do not see why i could decide about a matter or come to the conclusion about something without consulting anyone else."


Now when such people get a hunch or an impression, an urge or a message from the still small voice within, they ignore it. I have heard businessman say frankly, "Something inside seems to tell me that i should not make this investment but i have though it over carefully, using my analytical  brain to examine it , and have come to a conclusion. Since i cannot see why my reasoning should be wrong, i am going to follow my reason." This is typical of the vanity of men and women who place their brain faculties above their spiritual or psychic faculties. Why people do not discover more quickly than they do that they are often in error with thinking is a perplexing problem .

VALUE OF INTUITION :

When the great stock market crash occurred in the United States in October 1929, thousand, if not millions, of men and women discovered that their analystical thinking had been wrong. Perhaps a thousand more discovered that they would have been better off, had they listened to the hunch or voice that tried to urge them to do differently.Nevertheless, how many learned a lesson through that experience ? Perhaps most of the thousands who realized they should have listened to the small voice within forgot all about the experience in a few months and turned about and made some more investments, based upon their magnificent , vain thinking and analysis, only to learn that again they had made a mistake. The whole depression that lasted from 1929 to 1932 was a result of the constant dependence that many thousands of people put upon their objective, analytical reasoning.

Although this small voice has many names and many ways of manifesting itself, i shall not deal with these manifestations at present but with the source of knowledge which this small voice seems to have. Granting that the small voice of intuition does give us valuable hints at times, the natural question is, "where does this knowledge come from?''

Through analysis of the intuitive or inspiration faculty of the small voice within us, we find it must be a part of the Universal Consciousness dwelling within us. This Universal Consciousness we can call Cosmic Consciousness, psychic consciousness, inspiration or anything we please,but it is very evident that the source of its knowledge is outside our objective brain faculties. We can see that analytical reasoning has its source of knowledge inside our brain faculties, while the still, small voice has its source of knowledge outside those brain faculties.

Here at once we see that there are two sources of knowledge entirely different and from different sources which are, therefore, in constant contest of supremacy.


As we develop this inner faculty of intuition and learn to listen to it and be guided by it, we sense gradually how it obtains it information . Through these experiences we have learned that the source of this psychic knowledge is the Universal Mind. This lead us to the next important study, namely, that which constitutes the Universal Mind. Before going into that subject, which is a very deep and interesting one, i want to stop long enough to outline a simple way in which you can begin right now to strengthen and increase the functioning of that psychic voice or knowledge before it is too late and before it becomes inactive within you. Fortunately for us, we have some very excellent advice in the regard given to us by the great Masters of the past. Each of them, after long experience and investigation, discovered the same fact, that the only way to quicken, awaken and strengthen the action of the inner voice was by turning outward thoughts inward.