Book Description
SCIENCE OF BEING offers an up-to-date scientific
explanation of the "WHY" and "HOW" of human existence, an explanation
that will satisfy that inner craving within each individual to know:
Why he is born to this world? From where does he come and where does he
go? What is his ultimate aim and purpose? Does life begin only with his
human birth and end with his bodily death or is there a continuity of
existence hereafter? Is life but a mere happening or is it directed by
some definite Immutable Laws? Is there a Supreme Power governing this
Universe or is everything but a combination of Material Elements ruled
by Hazard and Chance?
SCIENCE OF BEING teaches how to unfold the Forces and Powers latent
within the individual and use them daily in every department of human
activities.
SCIENCE OF BEING builds CHARACTER and assures to everyone the
realization of their Ambitions and Aims in Life.
SCIENCE OF BEING is a complete education in the Fine Art of Living, an
art not taught in schools and colleges, yet without which nobody can
get along through Life successfully.
The Fundamental Principles of SCIENCE OF BEING are, that there exists a
Supreme Ruling Intelligent Power called Universal Life Energy, latent
in every individual, pervading the whole Universe and governing
everything by Its own Law. There is that supreme, guiding, sustaining,
protecting Law. There is an Infinite Supply of that Universal Power,
meeting all human needs. Yet, most human beings have no knowledge of
those wonderful Gifts, which are so lavishly bestowed upon them. They
do not know how to contact that Great Supply, how to draw on those
Universal Forces, how to use that Great Law constructively in their
lives. As a result of that ignorance they are, so to say, starving in a
land of plenty or aimlessly drifting along on the Great Ocean of Life,
yet with a wonderful compass at hand to direct them safely to a secure
haven.
SCIENCE OF BEING explains how to contact and use Universal Life Energy,
to overcome all limitations and obstacles which bar the way to Health,
Success, Prosperity and Happiness.
The Basic Aim of SCIENCE OF BEING is to insure to the individual his
unalienable birthrights of Liberty, Self-reliance, Self-determination
and Pursuit of Individual Happiness, thus MAKING LIFE WORTH LIVING.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
LESSON ONE--- THE ABSOLUTE (SPIRIT)
The Great Principle
The Pyramid of Life
The Five Statements of Being
The Three Attributes of Divinity
Trinity
Scientific Definition of Man
Questions and Answers
LESSON TWO--- LIFE ENERGY (I)
Vibrations
The Mental Contact
The Star Exercise
Qualities of Universal Life Energy
Causes of Physical Discomfort
Human Emotions
Use of the Magnetic Force in Modern and Ancient Times
Concentration of the Magnetic Force in Inanimate Objects
Questions and Answers
LESSON THREE--- THE RELATIVE (MATTER)
The Origin of Matter
Aspects of Matter
Scientific Definition of Matter
The Universe
The Law of Attraction
The Universe, the Worlds, and the Law of Attraction
Indestructibility of Energy, Substance, the Universe, and the Soul
Scientific Definition of the Soul
Soul the Basis of Man's Existence
Incarnation of Soul in Matter
The Human Body and How to Sustain It
The Material Body in its Last Analysis
Questions and Answers
LESSON FOUR--- LIFE ENERGY (II)
Radio-activity
The Human Aura
The Use of Universal Life Energy in Daily Life
Healing by Use of Universal Life Energy
Self-Treatment
Magnetic Chemicalization
Magnetic Sleep
Success and Prosperity
Rejuvenation
Questions and Answers
LESSON FIVE--- LAWS, ABSOLUTE AND RELATIVE
Laws of the Absolute
The Law of Life and of Spirit
The Great Law
The Law of Vibration
Laws of the Relative
The Law of Polarity
The Law of Rhythm
The Law of Gender
The Law of Cause and Effect
The Law of Love
The Law of Evolution
Questions and Answers
LESSON SIX--- MIND FORCE
Mental Vibrations
The Telepathic Apparatus
The Concentrated Thought
The Self-Consciousness and the Sub-Consciousness
Mental Laws
The Power of the Concentrated Thought in Daily Life
Mental Treatments
Mental Self-Protection
Mental Self-Treatments
Treatments at a Distance
Intuition
Questions and Answers
LESSON SEVEN--- SPIRITUAL POWER
The Way to Obtain Spiritual Power
Theory of Spiritual Vibrations
The Baptism by Fire
The Two Roads
The Origin of Evil
The Legend--- "The Dream"
Questions and Answers
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INTRODUCTION
Let those
who read this book understand that its main object is to bring
Enlightenment
to Humanity through Pure Knowledge aflame with Love, and its
mission is to
pave the way to Peace and Harmony and Power.
Though a book
of Science, it is a friend of true Religions and Philosophies. They
will find
their fundamental tenets scientifically explained by the Science of
Being,
which will also show them that they are all brothers, because
Truth is One,
and is the Golden Thread on which are strung the varied pearls of
Religions and
Philosophies.
The day will
come when Humanity will have outgrown its present concepts of Divinity,
when
Man will have lost his faith in teachings based on Faith alone, the day
when
utter despair will grip the heart of a World which has lost its God.
Humanity
will then discover through the Science this book teaches that God has
always
lived with men, yet they have not known Him.
The Author
Excerpts from
LESSON
ONE
- THE ABSOLUTE (SPIRIT)
THE GREAT
question—the greatest of all questions—has been asked by Humanity for
countless
ages, "Is there a God?" From the point of view of Religion, it is
accepted on faith that there is a God, a Divinity, Who is called the
Father of
Man and of the Universe. But human beings are not satisfied with
believing on
faith; they want to know, to have irrefutable proofs of the
existence of
Divinity. Therefore has it become the task of Science to investigate
the matter
and find an answer to this question, an answer which will satisfy the
searching
of the rational mind; and Science has solved the problem nobly.
Through
scientific investigation, it was discovered that there is a Universal
Force,
which may be termed Eternal Energy—Primal Energy—pervading the whole
Universe,
filling Infinite Space. If Primal Energy fills Infinite Space for one
moment,
it becomes at that moment one with Space; and if it is one with Space
for one
moment, it must be one with Space for Eternity, because there is no
place where
it can lose itself. Therefore, by logical reasoning, the Basic
Energy of the
Universe is found to be Infinite, and at the same time Eternal, has
always been
and always will be so.
Through
further investigation, it was discovered that Infinite Energy expresses
itself
in most admirable laws, sublime laws; that it shows the profoundest
intelligence
and logic, a self-conscious-ness expressed in the divinest terms; laws
invariable,
true to themselves, mathematically correct, and above all,
harmonious and
beautiful.
As a result of
all this reasoning, was discovered, through Its first Universal
Manifestation
as Primal Energy, That which has always existed, the Eternal Unmanifest
called
God, conscious of Its own power, law emitting, law abiding and most
Harmonious.
In other words, there is a Unit, a One, existing eternally, expressing
Itself
through Its Creation, the Universe, consciously governing it,
sus-taining it in
a condition of Eternal Harmony, and loving it—for Harmony and Love are
one.
Harmony means Attraction. Love IS Attraction.
Thus Science
has discovered Divinity under another name. Therefore for the word
"God," which would have been used in Religion or Philosophy, will be
substituted a word having a deeper meaning, covering broader
ground,—the
word "Principle."
The word Principle
is not related especially to Divinity, but applies equally to
every science,
logic, activity and art, as the principle of music, the principle
of
mathematics, etc. The word Principle gives a clearer idea of the Great
First
Cause, of Divinity, than does the word "God." The word itself
cannot
be exhausted by its various definitions, and if instead of a few
definitions,
we should give ten thousand, the whole ground would not have been
covered. Yet
there are five words which characterize the word "Principle" in
general, including Principle as applied to the Great First Cause
(Divinity),
The Great Principle.
* * * *
* *
Scientific
Definition of the Word Principle
"PRINCIPLE
IS THAT WHICH CREATES, CONSTITUTES, GOVERNS, SUSTAINS AND CONTAINS
ALL."
These five words include all the various lesser definitions. What must
Principle do first? First it must CREATE, because it cannot handle
anything
before it has created the very thing it has to handle.
Thus the
first activity of each principle, no matter if it is the principle of
music or
of mathematics or of anything else, must be creation. The principle of
music
creates notes, the principle of mathematics creates numbers, etc.
But
creation does not inevitably mean order. It may be chaos. So that there
should
be order, it must CONSTITUTE, that is, assign to each phenomenon its
proper
place which it will keep eternally. With numbers, the activity of
constitution
demands that one is made 1, two is made 2, three is made 3, etc.
and each has
its proper place. Two can never lapse into three, or three can never
become
four,—they are all IMMUTABLE. It is only because they are what they
are,
eternally, immutably, that we can calculate at all mathematically. The
most
complicated, intricate calculations are possible only because each
cipher has
its place assigned, con-stituted in order out of chaos.
What is the
next activity of Principle? It must bring forth out of itself its
laws—changeless laws—by which it GOVERNS that which it has created and
that
which it has put in order, constituted. These laws are then named.
There are,
for example, the laws of mathematics. Through the application of
these laws we
attain the invariable result of our calculations. If we misapply the
laws we
make mistakes. This applies equally to music, to logic, etc.
But the acts of
creation, constitution and governing may be for but a moment. There is
nothing
in these three activities which ensures their continuance. After
Principle has
created, constituted and governed, it must SUSTAIN its very creation so
as to
make it permanent, eternal.
And finally, if
Principle creates everything there is out of itself, it must then
CONTAIN
within itself all its creation. It must be the father of its creation.
It must
be the circumference, from within which springs all creation; and since
Principle from its own center creates all and becomes its own
circumference,
therefore, it is the center and circumference of all. PRINCIPLE IS ALL.
So it is
with the Great Principle, The Great First Cause, Whom we call Divinity,
or God.
FROM ETERNITY OUT OF ITSELF THE GREAT PRINCIPLE CREATED THE UNIVERSE.
INCLUDING
MAN AND EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE UNIVERSE. FROM ETERNITY IT ASSIGNED
TO EACH CREATED
THING ITS PROPER PLACE. Every blade of grass has its place, every star
knows
its course; and as long as all keep their places and perform their
duties, the
Law of Order in the Universe continues to operate. But if they should
slip from
their places or fail in their duties, there is chaos. The Law of Order
and
Harmony is transgressed.
AFTER IT HAS
ASSIGNED TO EVERYTHING ITS PROPER IDENTITY, ITS
INDIVIDUALITY. IT ISSUES FROM
ITSELF THE UNIVERSAL, CHANGELESS LAWS, WHICH THEN GOVERN THEM.
Everything down
to the smallest electron is governed by Its Laws—Laws as precise, as
invariable, as mathematical as the laws of mathematics itself, for
mathematics
is part of Its Creation and is therefore subject to Its Laws.
Nothing can be
above or beyond these Laws, for they are a manifestation of the Eternal
Activity of the Great Principle Itself.
THE FOURTH
ACTIVITY OF THE GREAT PRINCIPLE IS ITS POWER TO SUSTAIN. IT POURS OUT
ALL LIFE
AND ENERGY FROM ITSELF, AND SANCTIONS AND SUPPORTS ITS OWN LIFE,
INTELLIGENCE,
LAWS AND LOVE SO THAT THEY WILL EXIST WITH IT ETERNALLY. From It
proceeds all.
And lastly, as
the mother-bird covers her fledglings with her wings, so the Great
Principle
enfolds all Creation within Its boundless protection and Love. IT
CONTAINS THE
WHOLE UNIVERSE and therefore may be said to be in a way greater
than Its own
Creation. Yet It is identical with Creation, for Creation is the exact
counterpart
of the Great Principle, the Eternal Unmanifest, of which we perceive
but the
Manifestation. No one has seen the Great Principle, the Unmanifest, at
any
time. We perceive and appreciate It only through Its manifest Laws. THE
UNIVERSE IS THE MANIFESTATION AND THE SCIEN-TIFIC, ACTUAL PROOF OF THE
EXISTENCE OF THE GREAT PRINCIPLE.
TO THIS
PRESENT STATE OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS, THE GREAT PRINCIPLE APPEARS IN
FOUR
DISTINCT ASPECTS—
LIFE
MIND
TRUTH
LOVE
They are
in a certain scientific order; they have been so eternally and cannot
be
changed. It has been said, "God is first Love." But one cannot love
if one does not already live, and even Divinity Itself cannot reverse
such a sequence.
THE GREAT PRINCIPLE IS FIRST LIFE. It must first live and then It can
think. It
must first live and then It can express Truth, Law. It must first live
and then
It can love. THE FIRST ASPECT OF THE GREAT PRINCIPLE, THEREFORE, IS
LIFE.
What comes
next? MIND. For Life must become conscious of itself, conscious of its
own
existence. If it were not conscious of itself, Life might be said not
to exist
completely; but it is able to say, "I think, therefore I am."
Next must
come TRUTH, LAW. The Self Conscious Life must be true to itself
eternally,
law-emitting, law-abiding, since it can only work harmoniously when it
is true
to itself.
And finally,
what must be last? It must be LOVE—HARMONY. For if Life were not
capable of
Love, of Harmony, it would be set against itself, repelling instead of
attracting, self-hating and there-fore self-destructive. Love and
Harmony are
synonymous terms. LOVE IS THE LAW AND ALSO THE FULFILLING OF THE LAW;
it is
Love alone that sets the seal of Eternity on all; it is Love alone that
justifies Eternity and makes it what it should be, a blessing. Without
Love,
Eternity would be the most terrible hell imaginable, for it is only
when we
know that there will be Everlasting Harmony that we can face Eternity.
And the
only guarantee of Eternal Harmony lies in the fact that The Great
Principle
Itself must love eternally, in order to maintain throughout Eternity
Its Own
Existence. That is why we cling to Love to the very last, when all
else, Life
and Mind and even Truth, have apparently failed us. LOVE IS NOT FIRST
IN ORDER
BUT IN IMPORTANCE. Whatever else may be achieved will be of no use
without
Love, for it is the beauty and radiance and joy of the Universe.
These are
the Four Aspects of the Great Principle. They are instantaneous and
simultaneous,
yet expressed in their logical order. This order cannot be changed; it
is fundamental
and scientific. Those Four Aspects of the Great Principle, as
mani-fested in
our lives, may be regarded as the four corners of a perfect square, and
their
mutual relations analyzed from a scientific point of view.
Let us
take the upper left corner, Life. What does Life face, if we pass a
line across
the square diagonally? We find Life facing Truth. What does this mean?
It means
that THE FIRST ETERNAL DUTY OF LIFE IS TO BE LIVED, that it must be
true to itself.
For if Life is not expressed through activity there is no hope possible
for it.
In order that there should be continued activity, energy manifested
(thus
making all else possible) Life must be true to its own mission, TO
LIVE; for
this reason it faces Truth.
What has
Life on its right side? It has Mind. The right side is always
considered the
dominant side, because it stands for the right. Therefore Life has Mind
on its
right side. This implies that LIFE MUST BE CONSCIOUS OF ITS OWN
EXISTENCE, of
its own operations, of its own duties, for if it were not
self-conscious, it
could not achieve all that it should achieve.
Upon the
left side, Life has Love. This means that Life must not only be
constantly
active, conscious of itself and its activities, but that in order to be
eternal, IT MUST ALSO BE A LOVING AND HARMONIOUS LIFE. It is the left
side which
is the side of the heart, the organ, the symbol of Love.
We come
now to the lower left corner of the square, Mind, and draw a line
across the
square diagonally. What does Mind face? It faces Love. This means that
the
Mind's eternal duty is to be expressed first in Love; it must interpret
Harmony, for without this nothing would be good in its work.
Therefore, Mind
must always face Love. THIS IS THE GREAT LESSON THAT MIND HAS TO LEARN,
THE
LESSON OF LOVE.
What has
Mind on its right side? It has Truth. This means that it must
demonstrate
Truth, because Mind had once perverted Truth in his own nature. It is
said of
Satan that he was a liar from the beginning; and yet Satan is Lucifer,
is Mind.
Therefore, THE NEXT LESSON THAT MIND MUST LEARN IS TO BE TRUE. Truth
implies
Law—a constant reminder to Mind to be law-abiding, for it was Mind also
that
first violated the Law.
And upon
the left side, Mind has Life. It must express activity—MIND MUST BE
OPERATING.
THINKING. As that is a natural function for Mind, it becomes a
secondary duty;
hence Mind has Life on its left side.
At the
third corner of the square stands
Truth. What does Truth face? It faces
Life, for TRUTH MUST
FIRST BE LIVED. Truth which is not lived is not Truth. For that reason,
the
first thing that Truth has always to face is its own expression, its
manifestation.
Law, the
corollary of Truth, must be demonstrated, put into operation. The Laws
of the
Universe must be eternal and voicing themselves eternally, or the
Universe
would sink into chaos.
And what
stands upon the right side of Truth as its dominant power? Love. FOR
TRUTH, LAW,
MUST PROVE ITSELF TO BE ARDENT, COMPASSIONATE, TENDER, a Law of harmony
and
beauty. It must be radiant and great-hearted, not the cold, dry truth
of the
intellect. It is the burning Truth of Love.
On the left side of Truth
stands Mind. It signifies that Truth
must be expressed consciously; the Law must be intelligently
formu-lated; but
those functions being natural to Truth, Mind is placed on the left side
of it.
And finally to the fourth
activity of The Great Principle. What
does Love face? Love faces Mind. Love manifests itself last, but is the
most
sublime of the Four Aspects. IT IS A POWER SO GREAT, A GIFT SO
PRECIOUS, THAT
IT MUST NEVER BE WASTED OR MISUSED. IT MUST BE USED INTELLIGENTLY;
FOR THAT
REASON IT FACES MIND OR THE CAPACITY OF DISCRIMINATION. Jesus
said: "Cast
not your pearls before swine." Do not squander Love, the precious gift,
on
those who do not understand it. Jesus knew these Laws, and the
relation of
these Aspects of the Great Principle to each other; therefore he warns
us to be
careful not to throw away this most wonderful treasure. SO LOVE MUST
FIRST FACE
MIND.
What has Love upon its right
side? It has Life. This means that
Love must be continually expressed in activity. IF WE DO NOT LIVE
LOVE, THEN
WE DO NOT LOVE.
At its left side is Truth. Love
must be true to itself. But
Love IS always true to itself. Truth, Law, is a very secondary power
for Love,
because by its own harmonious nature it is always law-abiding,
always true to
itself.
The Two greatest powers in the
World, Love and Mind, are facing
each other in the Square. They are the two manifestations, the first
dual
emanations of the great Principle, of Divinity, — Christ and Lucifer.
Love
expresses Christ; Mind expresses Lucifer. Satan was once called
Lucifer, The Carrier
of Eternal Light; his Eternal Mate was Christ, the Anointed One. But
Mind in
his pride had fallen, AND CHRIST, LOVE, TO SAVE THE WORLD. ASSUMED THE
ACTIVITIES WHICH HAD BELONGED TO LUCIFER AND BECAME BOTH IDEAL LOVE AND
PERFECT
MIND. Originally it was not so, and finally it will also not be so.
There will
come an adjustment, and the two counterparts will be re-united and
become equal
again.
Mind comes to us and leads us
to Perfection, yet it cannot enter
with us through the door of Perfection, of Heaven, for it is an exile
from
Heaven. For the time being it is shut
out; and because it is seemingly separated from the Infinite
Principle, it
cannot grasp Infinity. It is only through Intuition and through
emotion,
especially of the higher self, that we can become One with the Great
Principle,
and rise into the highest vibrations, into the Infinite All. Mind cannot bring us there. It is Love, the
Christ in our nature, that part of us which has never fallen and
which has
remained perfect eternally, which ALONE CAN
LEAD US BACK TO INFINITY. It is therefore our duty to work out of the
limitations imposed on us by Mind, the Lucifer principle in us, and to
ATTUNE
MIND TO THE CHRIST PRINCIPLE IN US; this redemption
will unite again these two apparently diverse
principles in
Eternal Harmony.
Now if equal lines are drawn
from the four corners of the square
upwards to a common point, the figure produced will be a pyramid. And
if we
work harmoniously and simultaneously from the four corners, Life,
Mind, Truth,
and Love, and extend these to one point, that point will symbolize
SPIRIT, the
Absolute, the All-inclusive Principle from which everything proceeds
and to
which it finally returns. The ancient Pyramid of the Egyptians, built
so many
centuries ago, meant this very thing. It
meant Divinity working from the four-square of Humanity, through Life,
Mind,
Truth and Love to Its own apex, Spirit.
Geometrically
it would be impossible to construct a perfect pyramid unless each side
were
equal to the others; the apex would never be reached if even one side
failed in
its proportions. So it is just as impossible from the point of view of
the
Absolute Law to reach Spirit, if any one of the Aspects of the Great
Principle
in us is at fault. THE FOUR SIDES MUST BE HARMONIOUSLY EQUAL; none must
fail or
dominate the others. We should not concern ourselves too much about
reaching
the apex, Spirit, if only we work conscientiously at harmonizing the
four
sides, for the Law itself will look after the results of our work.
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