Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-04-12
BY CAROL NORTON


therefore significant: God is Love
.whosoever dweleth in Love dwelleth
in God and God in him. Perfect love
casteth out fear. Whosoever tearest
is not made perfect in love.
Fear is the worlds greatest slave
holder. Monarchs and peasants, learned
and unlearned, the old and the young
the civilized and the savage, all In
greater or less degree yield temporary
obedience to the arbitrary dictates of
this most cruel of cruel task-masters.
A mouse may stampede whole herd OF
elephants. The greatest conquests OF
human history have not been the much
heralded victories of nation over ma
ton. army over army, or Of man over
the forces of nature. Such triumphs
may be and have been great, but there
is yet greater conquest. rms con-
quest is the victory gained over rear
in the individual consciousness of every
human being. The processes of man 5
awakening in the divine image ana
likeness of God seem to be from begin
ming TO end a succession of victories
over fear. both in the abstract and IN
the concrete, Fear Is both the tempter
and the tempted, the torment and the
tormentor, Fear is the worlds torture
chamber to which the race, through Ell =
roneous belief commits Itself. lndl-
vidual effort, moral courage and mental
ascension into oneness with the divine
nature. reverse this sentence and de-
strov the element of human nature
which would lead every 1nd1Vldual INTO
this place of torment.
Fear Is parent to such mentally de-
bilitating moods as apprehension
worry, tlmidity, coward1ce, depression
superstition, self-deprecation' seII- nm
itation. and that merely animal or 1901
hardy false courage, which under stress
will hazard the most unnecessary rlsks'
Fear of suffering and of the disclpllne
CONSEQUENT upon the infract1on OF moral
and spiritual law often begets as
honesty of thought and action. Hence
fear is frequently the parent Oh uis-
honesty. Fear is little less than athe-
ism. It is a mood, belief, or sense OF
things which practically denies tne
ever-presence of God as all Truth, Lie,
and Love- Fear is a component part
of the Adamic or animal nature; re-
dictionary state of thought when Is at
all times delusion. Fear is the prolhic
cause of day-ghosts, and OF the hlslli guy,
said that fear is the devils ablest rep
resentative agent, the child most re-
senbling the features of its parent.
Fear is the intimate and congenlal ac-
comnlice of evil in the majority of the
great tragedies of human experience
Is a Divine Process
The healing, saving consciousness or
the all-Good, ll-Love-God-cure as
ease. and annihilates the false claim OF
remem bered or present fear. This nor
NAL state is heavens native atmos-
pierre &c :,
dividual human nature are the cardinal
fears of that nature, therefore an IN
diyiduaPs weak points include his lead
ing fears The conquest of these FEARS
through the acquisition of the thoughts
of divine Mind constitutes the divine
process through which is acquired the
Mind of the Master and the gradual
possession of immortal sovereignty.
Fear is a mood of error that has
MANY subdivisions, and is in human
belief especially contagious. Through
the long centuries of human progress,
fear has been the chief Weapon in the
hands of tyrants. In the ages past
fear rather than love has ruled the
race. but the present hour sees the
exaltation of Love as the supreme
power. ..
Fear will always be found arguing
for the interests and victory OF its own
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. loss, demorailza-
tion. accident, defeat, death. Fear rules
over a house divided against itself, for
IT is the law of friction in itself and
ultimately proves the occasion OF lte
own destruction. The discriminating
of the human mentality, and its purl-
fication through the recognition OF pure
Mind. leads consciousness by sure de-
grees into the repose of spiritual actiV-
jtv wherein progress is painless, ana
individuality is progressively dlscoV-
cred. ,.,, :.
Identical with that of the race in It's
inward climbings from sense to Soul,
from the slavery of fear to the l1berty
pf spiritual fearlessness, so the actual
history of the mental struggles OF the
race as a whole is identical with the
history of the individual. The conquest
of a sense of indefinite fear must be the
starting point for our victory over hu-
man limitation, and an innumerable
succession of victories over fear consti-
tutes the history of every ascending
career. From earliest times tribes, ma
tions, and peoples, like individuals, have
risen from low to high conditions by
this overcoming.
Fear does not always define itself
AT times it is without form or argu-
ment instructive and depressing. Under
dark chasm of materialism, the bottom
less pit Of nothingness some mountain
peak of defined catastrophe, collapse,
or fatality. Surrender to what may be
dcnominated the fear mood, brings the
mind into the mental realm of false
argument, erroneous concept, and chaos,
and effectively excludes peace, courage,
and happiness. A mans leading fear is
that mans personal devil. His minor
or lesser fears may be termed the
devils satellites. His happiness and
success are therefore in his own keep
ing, and it is largely his own fault If he
is mentally hospitable 10 this deVilish
sovereign and his troop
Fear Exceeds the Ills
Strange as it may appear, the first
tendency of the human mind seems to
be to ascribe reality to the unreal. With
further analysis and thought, however, !
the positive reality appears, and easy
victory is gained over the condition
feared. At all times it should he re-
membered that fear gains its power
over thought from the fact that a false
sense entertained, argues for the reality
of the obnoxious unreal. Fear is at al |
times a pessimist, an enemy to health /
and happiness, and continued adver- |
sary to the normal rights of the indi- |
vidual.
BE not afraid, only believe" said the !
Master. He who refuses to think a fear
thought and mentally affirms Loves |
allness, dwells secure in the embrace of |
The eternal. Thus is salvation wrought |
Because sickness, mental and bodily |
liscord. and death menace the instinct |