The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-04-13
PEOPLE'SFORUn
The Meeting Place Of God and Man
is Within Man.

mand: it is simple statement of
truth. knowledge from within can
not come to us unless we are still;
nor can 1t come If we doubt or fear
To open the way that it may come,
with stiffness we must combine trust;
FOLLOWING that, as a heritage, will
come patient, receptive listening.
That you may put yourself in such
an attitude, it is proper that | here
60 somewhat into detail First, then,
learn to sit and be still physically.
Select an hour, in the day or evening
"A full hour, and just an hour, when
you can be free from Interruptions,
and no other. Sit with both feet rest
ing on the floor; let the chair be of a
height to permit this. With both feet
resting on the floor, a right angle
should be formed at the knee. Next,
be careful that the spinal column be
kept erect. knowing now the posi-
ton to take, and the absolute require
ment Tin the initial work of cultivat-
ing acquaintanceship with your souD
Of coming to these sittings the same
hour each day, you are ready to COM
mence your work. For a month, l
advise you to pay no attention what
ever to your thoughts during these
hour sittings; let them run on, let
them run whittier they will. Your
first discipline is physical-this too
many have ignored. Within month,
your walk even, and find a delightful
stiffness surrounding you, and the
mind absolutely free. This physical
rest and stiffness Is most essential to
true progress. Having gained this
stiffness you commence to command
thought. Send 1t on the simplest Of
errands at first. Keep it within your
physical selfhood. Center it on the
hand-and then try to trace every SEN
sationy you feel in the hand. Follow
this by directing to other parts Of
the body. An increased supply of
blood is sent to these members by
this exercise, and atrophied organs
and muscles have thereby been restor-
ed to their normal condition.
To imagine requires intellect; in its
exercise it calls on both memory and
imagination. Let your first imagining
be of the real, not of the ideal. Say
city you visited long ago. Call up
in memory all it readily gives forth;
and, passively waiting, enjoy, as you
can, looking at these mental pictures.
The next day you will find the pict-
ures more distinct, A street you
scarcely recognize comes to your WIS.,
iCn more or less distinctly. A week
or two of these sittings pass; and
your soil, through the subconscious
mind, will have revealed all it has to
reveal on that subject. Possibly you
nave llol Sdlutu hHoNi
edge; but if you have been patient
and followed this course carefully,
you have opened communication with
your soul. You can want nothing to
which your thought, rightly directed,
may not help you. Follow for some
weeks the calling up of images which
will put memory to its test. Say the
school and playmates of childhood,
their youthful faces, their names,
their characteristics. The soul
forgotten nothing; let it prove this
to your consciousness. Within three
months of faithful work. following
these simple lines, you Will find your
self fast approaching mastery of your
own thinking self. That opens the
portals to the soul, the treasure
house.
The next step in unfoldment goes
beyond the individual or conscious
self. You want to reach out mentally
to others. Your discipline has now
prepared you for this. In your first
attempts, select some purpose most
unselfish in itself and directly affect
ing the good of another. If you can
know when he is asleep, select that
hour to treat or help him. This, of
course, as to time. refers to your be-
ginnings. Sit still; image him where
he is. and you near him; speak your
wisdom to his soul. You will be sur
prised how quickly the work will be
done. In your practice. always pre-
serve the attitude OF listening as in
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