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THERE is a power latent in every man which , when aroused, changes him at once into another being. It thrills, awakens and transforms him into a new man, making of him a veritable dynamo of tremendous energy. His conscious identity with this newly awakened power is amazing, and the use he makes of it astonishes all who have previously known him.

From a man of inaction he becomes a leader. He seeks advice from no one, but realizing his awakened powers he relies upon himself, and goes forward sustained with a confidence and enthusiasm, nothing doubting, to the accomplishment of his own desires.

He has become an awakened soul, knowing and fearlessly exercising his newly realized powers of dominion. He knows just what he wants; he is determined to get it and he goes out and gets it. He has come to know himself.

The supreme lesson of life is that of self-realization.

You are living in a world of magic. You have more power within you than that ever recorded of any genii of whom you have ever read or dreamed. Wake up ! Learn who you are before you condemn yourself to a further life of inaction and inefficiency.

To come to recognize yourself is the best elixir of life you will ever know. It will take a psychological operation to rid you of your self-imposed limitations. Well, here it is. Words have a magic power. The greatest event in all the record that infinite intelligence has made, was manifest by the power of the Word. "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God." What is the meaning of that? It means that God pictured in Mind all that is, and then spoke it into actuality, creating man in His own image, an individualized center of His every attribute — consciousness, creative power and love.

Did you never pause to think that man is the only instrument God has fashioned through which His word may be most fitly spoken? The man who has not come to realize this truth is apt to find that most of the paths of life lead down to the bottom of the hill, where those who have taken them lie bound by their own thoughts of limitation, which are more powerful to imprison than though made of steel. If you are there, awake and burst your bonds ! Stand forth free and rejoice in your strength, for you are the ruling Prince in the House of the King of Kings.

To come to recognize yourself is to experience the greatest event you will ever know. Though you may be presented at court and dine with the king, that event will be as nothing of importance to you beside it; though the king should bestow all honors upon you within his power, they will prove in consequential, compared to the wonderful honors you will find awaiting you, when you come to know yourself.

You are a king and a creator in your own right. You have made yourself just what you are, and you have the power to change yourself into a being greater and more powerful than it is possible for you to conceive. You are possessed of unlimited powers, and if limited you now are, you, yourself, have raised the walls of limitation, and you have power to remove them or you may let them stand. You are ruler of your own kingdom.

When you come to know yourself as you are, the very splendid powers which are yours will awaken in you such respect for them that you will feel called upon to live at your very best, at all times, in order to be worthy of the high dignity of your position in life. This knowledge will put new blood in your veins and a song of joy in your heart. Your whole being will be filled and thrilled with a sense of being so much greater than that you have ever felt before, that no thought of fear or failure will ever again find lodgment in your mind. Love and faith and courage will shine out in your every word and act, and dignity will mantle you as one to the purple born; the light of kindly determination will fill your eyes and you will be fired with an enthusiasm that will render you invincible, where before you have been faltering and filled with indecision.

I Wish above all else to introduce you to yourself — the real man that you are, and have you see yourself as you were made in the image of God, endowed with His every attribute, and in actual possession of all the tools wherewith to make yourself greater than any conception of greatness that has ever entered into the heart of man.

Don't refuse the offer of this acquaintanceship, for the one great lack of man upon this planet, the one thing in which he stands in direst need, is nothing more or less than a more intimate and thorough acquaintanceship with himself.

If I may, even in a small way, be instrumental in furthering your acquaintanceship with yourself, I feel assured that I shall ever stand high on the list of your cherished friends.

I am aware that it may appear presumptuous on my part to assume the role of one intimate enough with your life to make bold to introduce you to any person, to say nothing of the implied knowledge on my part and the lack of it on yours, to undertake to introduce you to yourself. It may be, however, that the awakened curiosity in your minds as to how I have acquired sufficient knowledge of you to assume to introduce you to yourself, will cause you to refrain from taking offense. Again, it is generally assumed that one who introduces one person to another stands as sponsor for the one introduced, a responsibility, I have no doubt that each one of you have, at one time or another, found to be more or less embarrassing. In this case, I hasten to assure you, that I cheerfully assume full responsibility, for the personage I would introduce to you is worthy of the highest honors you may bestow, and one whom you will feel highly honored to know. If you will cultivate his acquaintanceship, and be guided by his advice, whatsoever of good you may desire will come to you.

Concentration will enable you to further this acquaintanceship as nothing else can. The young man who had fall en to the level of the swine, "came to himself," and felt no need of asking the advice of any one, and if you are, living a life short of the realization of your best desires you should come to yourself, and know that "the kingdom of God is within you," and that if you will only concentrate upon it earnestly enough, and long enough, that you shall here and now come into possession of and enjoy every good your heart may desire. Health, wealth, honor, power, station, peace and love are awaiting the exercise of the powers that you possess, in order to be and abide with you, just so long as you may will them to remain.

When man comes to know that he is the being of power, intelligence and love that he truly is; that he is master of his own thoughts, and that he has access to the Source of Infinite Life, his thoughts take on a splendor and beauty which finds their expression in living every moment of his life at its best. He finds that all intelligent choice and necessity of action, to be one and the same; that the right way of thinking is the only way open to the man of the en lightened mind; that all growth is, in its final expression, upwards, and that consciousness is ever passing from a lower to a higher plane and in so doing that a sane, sensible and normal life is assured by maintaining a state of equilibrium between his inner sense and his environment.

We are free to select the thoughts with which we feed our minds, more free than we are in selecting the foods with which we feed our bodies. This is well, for the character of our thoughts is far more important to our health and happiness than the nature of the foods we eat.

Clean thoughts not only make clean minds but they also make clean, healthy bodies. A body ruled by a strong, clean mind is best fortified against all of the current ills of life. Your thoughts build into your body the very sub stance of which it is composed. Thoughts of envy, malice, hatred and all thoughts that lead to despondency, devitalize the blood and affect the body ruinously. Anger is a positive poison to the blood, while thoughts of kindness, cheerfulness and good-will are powerful tonics, stimulating digestion, and contribute, in the most wonderful way, to the harmonious working of all the vital organs of our bodies.

When man comes to realize the power of mastership which he wields over his body he will become more cautious in his thinking than in his handling of sharpened tools. He will send out only thoughts of strength, of health, of harmony and love. "When he learns to do this he will find that his bodily intelligence will respond promptly and eagerly, every cell in his whole system taking in the full force and character of his thought and, if he has thought wisely and constructively, he will find his body to be a radiant expression of all that he has commanded it to be.

Extreme as these statements may at first glance appear, they will be found upon examination to be the most practical and useful truths of life.

Thought wedded to purpose is the only way by which our plans may be carried out. It is impossible for us to set too high a standard for our thoughts. Man finds himself a weak, vacillating creature, without purpose because he has been taught that he is a weak, negative creature. It is high time that his attention be called to the possibilities of his being, when his la tent powers are aroused and placed in action.

Wherein lie the powers of dominion said to have been given man, unless by the power of the awakened spirit within him, he may make all conditions to serve him? We know that success comes only to the man who has a definite object, who thinks strongly and who strives earnestly and fearlessly in the battle of life. The man who marks a straight line from his desire to its realization and who permits no allurements to draw him aside, is the man who wins. No man who has not done so, may, or should succeed.

To permit a doubt to enter the mind as to the essential unity of the human soul with the source of all power, all intelligence and all love, is to render every effort ineffectual; to cloud the mind and to paralyze the arm and, in a word, to invite inevitable disaster and defeat.

Why, then, should the intelligent investigator stop short of accepting and announcing the inevitable conclusion to which he is driven? Doubt, fear and prejudice and all products of negative thought, when allowed to enter the mind, drive out constructive thinking by devitalizing the mind of its power and energy. A knowledge of what we can do must precede the effort to do.