The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-05-20

1 Onu ule cause OF many unpleasant
Experiences is understood and remedicd
such experiences will continue and can
only stop when the cause ceases to
Operate. When it is understood that
leach enc himself by his own thought
land attitude attracts these undesirable
things it eIso becomes possible to put a
stop to them and to attract the opposite
Experiences and treatment. Everyone
must accept responsibility for himself
and must decide to guide his own life
and action henceforth by his own rea-
son and conscience, and in harmony
with ascertained natural laws.
If one will adjust his conduct co-or-
Ultimately to natural principles, invari-
liable natural laws, and think, live and
act in accordance with the golden rule,
both in its inhibitory and its desirable
aspect, (whst enc should abstain from
doing, such as meddling or attempting
to arbitrary control others deceive OF
exploit them, or, on the contrary, help
in enlightening them and assisting them
to acquire on equitable terms the
necessaries, comforts and amenities
of life at a minimum expense
of time and labor) no fear of the re-
suits need be entertained. Everything
else will fall in line. And ones life
will be,rich and serene in the conscious
ness of righteous living and duties fully
performed and in the peace that has to
be experienced for it 'Passeth under
standing"
knowledge alone qualities one fer
1.-THE Pc Torrance of any kind of
work, thorough knowledge Of any sub
iect alone enables one to make valid
decision in that particular matter. No
one can do something that he does moi
know, end no one can deal intelIigently
with any proposition that he is ignorant
about. Ignorance is chiefly responsible
for all physical, industrial and social
ills. If people were not ignorant they
could not be deluded by untruthfuI
newspapers and spellbinding politicians,
and if the ignorant do not take an in
terest in discarding their ignorance and
gaining the necessary knowledge their
spoliation and wretchedness will con-
tinue.
Let no one deIude himself into be-
lieving that he can live life better by
guessing at what to do instead of
KNOWING what to do. 1t is only by
conforming to reality-NATURE, Wis
IDLE and invisible-that we can ever
hope to place life and conduct upon al
sound basis. Philip H. Erbes, in his
"Cranio-Muscular Origins of Brain and
Mind" says:
In mind there occur associations
of which we gain no conscious know
ledge save as to the result, and their
correspondence to reality, therefore, de-
ponds upon the soundness Of the brain
and its >earnestness accuracy of OBJ
servation. | do not reject the teach
ings of the Nazarene; but do declare
that they are not understood or seen
in the proper relation to fact and real
ity, to say nothing Of their not being
lived up. to by their protested votaries,
or being embodied in our constitutions.
In this state of affairs the sooner we
arrive at what the facts of reality and
self are, the better it will be for man
kind.
THE true religion will turn out to
be nothing more than comprehensive
utilitarian form of materialism in which
the supreme moving energy is that
which is spoken Of as God. In respect
to obedience of universal natures laws
we must stand abashed before our ro-
bust barbarous ancestors, of whom err
ror and the rigors of existence upon
the body's plasm destroyed many, but
sin wrongdoing against self and 9TH
ersl, few. To their painstaking obed-
fence we owe the magnificent heritage
of our organism and mind"
In its best form mind is dependent
upon selection and reduction of the
diet. so that the entire organism may
not become clogged and encased.in cal
lous tissue. People who gorge Them
selves with a superabundance of heavy
foods. becoming inert when their vora-
cious appetite has been stated, even fall
ing asleep and permitting a period of
brain anemia to take place while the
process of food assimilation goes on,
are the least fit for the development
of structure favoring accurate think
ing.
Brete Harte who wrote large num-
Der of highly popular, books on pion-
eer life in California and in the Ser
ira Nevadas, while he was living on a