Not by the elimination of the spiritually weak (as unfit to survive), but rather by the elimination of the spiritually strong (as needing no longer to survive) is virtue in this world increased. Q. Do you try patent medicines? A: Yes, I try them first on my wife. And if they suit her, I know … Read the article »

The people arrested, Shams says, “My name is Mohammad, The rabble will not take gold That is not coined.” * * * * The Rod of Moses swallows up the rods and other engines of Pharoah’s magicians (70 camel loads) and yet became no thicker or longer. Lighted taper devours darkness without suffering any addition … Read the article »

The objective mind lulled down to sink into the subjective and hence the suggestibility of multitudes (and mobs). Nowhere else, except perhaps in solitary confinement are the voluntary movements of man so limited as they are in the crowd; and the larger the crowd, the greater the limitation, the lower sinks the individual self. Intensity … Read the article »

As the human Will seems capricious because the springs of volition are hidden from our observation, so to the unknown will that limits our own has been practically ascribed an infinite caprice. Anthropomorphism has been to some degree universal because each man must think in terms of his own experience. Into his own universe all … Read the article »

It is not the truth in man’s possession that makes the worth of man. Possession makes him selfish, lazy, proud. Not through possession, but through long striving comes the ever-growing strength. If God should hold in His right hand all truth, and in His left hand only the ceaseless struggle to reach after truth, and … Read the article »

We can trust our life to it; belief in it adds to the safety of life. Action based on illusions leads to death (mirage). Truth makes you free and gives you life. * * * * What we know as pain is the necessary danger signal. Organic beings need such stimulus to veracity. A man … Read the article »

Is the name given to the hypothetical basis of all ponderable matter that is supposed to be the primitive stuff from which all the chemical elements etc. are derived (which are taken to be one in essence). Avoid all discussions “foreign to your purpose.” The essence of “belief” or “Creed” is the categorical (dogmatic) statement … Read the article »

THE CHILD OF ALTRUISM ALONE SURVIVES When the drone-bee – the male – has accomplished his purpose, he is ruthlessly stung to death by the workers. He is no longer needed in the community: That he would live for life’s sake, that he would buzz for buzz’s sake, does not concern the workers. He is … Read the article »

Poverty = absence of stored up economic force. It may arise from sickness, accident, or from various temporary conditions. The person now subject to poverty may have within himself the cure for it. The pauper cannot cure himself, and all help given him but intensifies his pauperism. * * * * Why all this misery … Read the article »

“As a snow bank grows where there is a lull in the wind, so where there is a lull in the truth, institutions spring up; by and by the truth blows over them and takes them away.” (Thoreau.) All forms of tyranny have their beginning in kindness. * * * * There are schools which … Read the article »