CONTENTS
For March 1959
PLAYING
CHICKEN ....................................................................................................... 2
THE END OF THE TESTING TIME IS NEAR ............................................................ 3
"FLYING SAUCERS?" .................................................................................................. 6
THE TWAIN SHALL MEET ........................................................................................... 8
TEEN AGE PAGE ........................................................................................................... 9
PRAYER --- AND HOW IT OPERATES ...................................................................... 12
POSITIVE THINKING ..................................................................................................... 22
BULLETIN BOARD ........................................................................................................ 25
BOOKS RECOMMENDED ........................................................................................... 26
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VOL. 4 MARCH, 1959 NO.
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EDITORIAL
Have you ever watched a pair of teen-agers playing
`Chicken?' It is a snort which has come into vogue among certain groups of our
more reckless youth, and one which has made substantial contributions to our highway
fatality statistics. In case you are unfamiliar with the sport, it is played
with 'hot-rods' or if none are available, perhaps just with the family's sedan.
At any rate, two young men (girls have been known to play it too) will each get
into an automobile, drive them about a half mile apart on the highway, turn the
cars around, and then with throttles wide open head the two cars directly at
each other.
The idea of the game is to see which one of the drivers
will turn aside at the last. moment to avoid the collision. The driver who
turns aside is said to be `chicken,' and loses face with the gang for having
saved his own life (and that of his opponent).
In the event that neither youth proves to be chicken, the
remainder of the group must put up the money to buy flowers for the graves of
the two `heroes.'
To the average adult, this does not seem to be a very
intelligent sport. The penalty for failure is disgrace, and the only reward for
success is death. Yet how many people realize that this is exactly the sort of
game which the Soviet Union has been playing with the United States for a
number of years. This international game of chicken is even more deadly because
every nation on earth is riding in one or the other of the two cars-some
willingly, some unwillingly. But all are in equal jeopardy, and if a head-on
collision occurs all nations will suffer the same fate.
Korea was the scene of the first `pass' in this game of
chicken. Moscow, through the mouths of their Chinese puppets, loudly swore that
they would never stop until all of Korea had been `liberated,' and
brought under Communist domination. The United States
proclaimed as its objective, the freeing of Korea from any further threat of
aggression.
A collision did occur, but each nation had turned aside
enough so that the collision was not head-on. Bumpers were smashed and fenders
were crumpled, but both cars were still in shape for further ,jousting. (Even
so, the United States sustained more casualties than it had suffered in all of
World War I.)
Another pass occurred when the Chinese Communists began a
tremendous shelling of offshore islands, at the same time proclaiming that the
shelling and the imminent invasion would be continued until all of the offshore
islands, and Formosa itself had been captured. The United States immediately
rushed guns and planes to Formosa, and ordered its fleet to patrol the Formosan
waters. This time the Chinese Communists turned aside for the moment, although
they are still a constant threat to Formosa, and to the offshore islands.
The latest pass centers about the divided city of Berlin.
Khrushchev has proclaimed that on May 27 the Soviet Union will turn the
government of East Germany over to the East Germans and possibly remove its
troops from the area. This statement, of course, fools no one, least of all the
East Germans. The Soviet Union has never, for one minute relaxed its strangle
hold upon any people or area which has once come under its domination. If the
Soviet troops in uniform move out, the Soviet troops in plain clothes will
remain to protect their puppet rulers who always have taken, and always will
take, their orders directly from the Kremlin.
This transparent strategy would have no particular
significance, except that Khrushchev also says that the East Germans may, and
possibly have been ordered to, deny .to the United States and its allies, all
access to West Berlin. He also says that if force is used to maintain that
access, all-out war may result.
President Eisenhower has stated flatly that the United States
will not surrender its rights nor abandon its responsibilities in West Berlin,
and that if it becomes necessary to fight for that access, then we will fight.
Moreover, he has stated that if we fight, it will be with nuclear weapons. This
means a head-on collision with no possibility of survival for either side.
It remains to be seen which driver will turn aside, or
whether both sides may find a way to swerve sufficiently to avoid the collision
without at the same time, losing too much `face' in the process.
Neither nation wants to be destroyed, any more than the
youth in the hot-rod wants to die, but if this stupid game of chicken is
continued indefinitely, the laws of probability predict that the time will come
when both drivers will begin to turn too late.
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In this chaotic phase of earth's rehabilitation, all the
hopelessly deranged elements of the present regime all over the globe appear to
take precedence over those sane and logical factors essential to any form of
continuing existence. Yet, upon serious reflection, does it not become evident
that all which is detrimental to human progress is now being thrown on the
screen of mass human perception (in all its hideous caricature of regard for
high achievement) and is being appraised at its true worth?
What type of intelligence can much longer be silenced by
the dynamics of perverted systems resulting in the enslavement of increasing
millions of earth's population? Shall the whole vast structure of earth's
evolving life (as manifest in mortal guise upon this planet) be utterly and
forever destroyed by the vicious machinations of demon-inspired despots, using
helpless human beings as pawns in their fiendish plot to destroy what the Lord
God created to show forth HIS PLAN for a world of glorious opportunity to
develop and express high spiritual ideals and aspirations in physical forms?
In His Infinite Wisdom has the ONE who devised Human
Destiny placed just beyond reach countless prizes to challenge Man's utmost
effort of mind and skill of hand that he might capture some elusive prize to
fit his need or add to his comfort or pleasure.
Before this phase of mortal existence is ended, there is
due a happening of so monumental a character that men will be shocked out of
their conceited confidence in their own ability to direct the use of such
supernal forces newly apprehended. WHEN a true picture of their crass impudence
in attempting to adapt these primordial creative processes to their own puny
objectives ... THEN will they humbly seek to make restitution.
Some there be who have, through unholy lust for personal
gain be-come victims of evil forces. Others through ruthless economic
pressures, or lacking incentive to right conduct, have been obsessed by the
Dark Ones and, deprived of all humane instincts, have committed deeds too
horrible to contemplate with sanity. Whatever the cause, the result cannot be
gainsaid. This planet has become a pestilential breeding place for all which
degrades and destroys the Creator's handiwork.
A few there be who see clearly the folly of ignoring the
fundamental principles (or laws) governing all animate and (so-called)
inanimate existence. With commendable prudence they obey these laws as revealed
by their own instinctive perception of the underlying principles of
constructive living.
All creation attests the fact that changes inherent in
every form of visible manifestation are designed to produce an upward trend in
evolving perfection of performance. Nowhere is this demonstrated more
noticeably than in the field of Science. Here more than elsewhere do men comply
implicitly with those laws emanating not from man's inadequate brain but from
the unfathomable wisdom of the Omnipotent Creator. Men discover these laws
through patient, unceasing effort and eagerly apply them to problems they seek
to solve. They respect them! They know their own success and that of the world
they seek to benefit by their untiring research depends upon their
understanding and correct application of these laws. They would not dream of
trying to change or oppose them. If, inadvertently, they misuse or misapply one
of these laws, and an explosion or accident occurs, they do not blame the law.
Quite logically they blame themselves for their ignorance or stupidity and seek
to remedy their error.
Strangely enough, a like honesty and sincerity is all too
often lacking in the infinitely more vital field of world affairs. Here, to an
amazing and appalling degree, well defined laws of right conduct are ignored
and blatantly iniquitous substitutions practiced.
What need to enumerate the myriads of instances of
flagrant volitions of the most fundamental principles underlying all enduring
existence on any planet?
No man can be so blind at this late date as to deny the
fate now con-fronting the entire human race, unless prompt action is taken to
circumvent...extinction! Threatened with death (or worse) by lethal agencies,
man-created, lurking in the skies above, the earth beneath his feet, the depths
of the ocean, the very air he breathes and the food he eats, helpless before
Nature's merciless assaults... where may he hope to find safety?
Appalled at the spectacle of physical destruction leering
at him from every quarter, Man employs the most brilliant minds to concentrate
and debate all possible plans to stem the on-coming tide of devastation fast
encroaching on the only strongholds of impregnable integrity still left.
As many concede, the most important object in subjecting a
soul to the rigors of earthly existence is the development of a strong,
resourceful character, dedicated to those Eternal Principles demonstrated by
those sent to teach mankind what constitutes the highest type of human being.
Challenges innumerable provided primitive Man with opportunities to improve his
mode of living and add to his skills through diligent use of his slowly
awakening intellect and powers of observation.
The intervening centuries have seen incredible advances in
human response to these challenges. Natural resources have been tapped and all
manner of procedures devised to turn them into marvels of useful-ness. Many men
have selflessly devoted their lives to developing these adjuncts to
comfortable, creative living, thus Justifying their Creator's Gift of Free
Will, and a material world in which to use it according to their desires. Some
used it well. Some used it ill... the latter creating conditions directly
contrary to the original intention, thus defying the benign design and purpose
of the Creator. Many civilizations have been completely destroyed by their own
unbridled passion for power and pelf, employing their Free Will for selfish and
destructive purposes.
The higher Man reaches into the limitless expanse of
undiscovered energies, the more deadly become his weapons for destruction ...
if such be his aim! By a strange paradox this twisting of a mysterious source
of energy into instruments of devastation provides a challenge of colossal
proportions to men of good will. Restricted to its legitimate field of
operations, as envisioned by its Creator, this primal force will transform a
weary war-torn world into a perfectly operating assembly of cooperating units.
Recognizing the fallacy of expecting any good thing to
result from the breaking of Divine Laws, those capable of using the gifts of an
All wise Creator to further HIS PLAN for an evolving world will be privileged
to witness a demolition and reconstruction of a civilization newly dedicated to
Life-giving Principles, clearly enunciated and demonstrated by One who was both
Human and Divine.
Each one meeting the present challenge with courage and
determination to use his own talents to help create a better Way of life for
him-self and others, fulfills the real purpose of his life here and is prepared
to participate in the final climax of this long-drawn-out Drama of the Ages.
Is it worth your most earnest efforts to remain true to
your Vision of a transformed world under the leadership of God's "only
begotten Son" when he shall triumph over the Forces of Darkness and reign
over a new and glorified kingdom?
C.N.
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This incident occurred in Michigan on August 23, 1950. My wife and I picked up a new Pontiac, and, on our return trip to California, we had
a most enjoyable vacation, visiting relatives, friends, and places of interest.
It was on this day, August 23, 1950, we had lunch with relatives at Paw Paw, Michigan. Following lunch, about 1:00 P. M., we drove to my wife's cousin Elmer's farm for a visit.
The farm is located about ten miles north of Paw Paw. We
drove onto the drive-way and parked alongside the house. The house was typical
of most farm houses in this farming area, having a large water-tower and tank,
windmill, and a large weeping willow tree, or tree of that type, all located
quite close together.
Not finding anyone at the house, our party decided to walk
out to the large barn to look around and see if anyone was there. While the
rest of the folks were looking at the farm machinery in the barn, 1 said I'd go
see if my cousin Elmer might be in the cow-corral or in the field.
I walked to the plowed field; there my cousin Elmer's son
Bill was busy plowing and moving in the opposite direction from me. Not being
able to get his attention I decided to take in the scenery. As I turned around
slowly and looked back at the house, I viewed a strange cigar shaped object in
the air just above the water-tower.
At first I started to run some 10 or 15 feet toward the
car, to get my camera, hoping to take a picture, but decided against that or
calling to my wife as the object might move and I would lose out all around on
viewing it. Not knowing how long it would stay there, I wanted to watch it as
long as I could, to try to determine the structure, size, distance, how it
could remain suspended in one spot, and many more things of interest and
mystery of this strange craft to me.
I was about 250 or 300 feet from the water tower where
this big brown cigar shaped object hovered in the air. With it's length
parallel to the ground it remained in still position in the air about 20 feet
above the water-tower and close to the windmill. I would estimate its altitude
at this time at about 50 feet above the ground.
There was no noticeable type of propulsion, such as jet,
gas engines, etc., that we are familiar with today. There were no visible
seams. rivets, port-holes or protruding installations of any nature that I
could determine. The object appeared smooth with slightly rounded corners. I
believe that it might have been revolving.
Whether operated mechanically or manned by intelligent
beings, the craft seemed to be under perfect control. I had no fear of this object,
rather felt I was safe and that it could stop within inches of any object
without colliding. For at one time the large object had cautiously moved to
within one foot of the windmill.
For two and a half to three minutes I observed this
strange craft during which time it went through the following maneuvers. From a
still position of about 30 seconds duration to a very sudden forward and
backward motion traveling not more than about one foot and then to a still
position. It then backed up 6 or S feet slowly traveling forward and backward,
repeating this several times. I am saying backward because of the direction
that it finally left in.
Just before take-off there was one more very sudden forward
and backward motion of approximately one foot. When at approximately
three-quarters of its total distance back from start of position when I first
saw it, it slowly moved forward about 10 feet and then angled away and slightly
upwards about 10 feet, and gaining incredible speed, out of sight in the
twinkle of an eye or the snap of a finger.
There was no sound, no fire, no light, no wind or odor
that I could. detect. From speeds observed by our present day conventional
air-craft, I would estimate this strange object to have been leaving this
vicinity between 1000 and 2000 miles per hour. Visibility on this day, August 23, 1950, was clear with no clouds in the sky.
When the craft sped off in a Northerly direction, there
was no change in shape, as the craft angled slightly upward and away from my
viewing point, it appeared elliptical in shape.
Pasadena, Calif.
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TWO LORDS RUSSELL NOTE CONFUSION
LONDON, Feb. 28. -- (U.P.I.) -- Two Lords Russell-Earl
Bertrand Russell and Baron Edward Russell-wrote a joint letter to The Times of
London today to explain which is which.
"In order to discourage confusions which have been
constantly recurring, we beg herewith to state that neither of us is the
other," the Russells wrote.
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There is more to life than what is contained in today with
its joys or vicissitudes; more than tomorrow with its hope for things to come.
Even yesterday has meaning when there is an understanding of the functioning of
life. It is not a mere vale of tears; neither is it just an arithmetic problem
to be solved. Life offers an embraceable, tangible ESSENCE to be lived and experienced.
As humanity stands on the threshold of a New Era, it is
evident that Science and Religion must find the connecting link and work
together if we are to endure as groups or nations. Science based upon knowledge
alone is empty and incomplete without the key factor, "Originating
Spirit." In the search for answers as yet unrevealed, man presses on to
greater goals in the face of impending dangers; he cannot rest until he
achieves his objective regardless of the price to be paid.
Trial and error is a costly procedure but it is the path
which man follows until he discovers the Truth of life. The occasional one who
sees and understands no longer isolates himself as he once did. He immerses
himself in humanity, working side by side with his fellow-man., conscious of
fulfilling the need of the times. This is true in the field of science as well
as in other fields of endeavor. True pioneers of this age are for the greater
part working silently, usually unnoticed and unrecognized by the many.
Religion is also incomplete when it does not recognize
that which science has to give. The tendency of religion is to separate the
spiritual from the so-called material and the living of life "here"
and "now" from that of the "hereafter." Dogmatic teachings
often tend to impose limiting concepts intended for the unawakened numbers
without giving due consideration to the uniqueness and dignity of the
individual. Many a person has glimpsed an expansiveness which transcended the
usual religious concepts only to be ridiculed and shunned by both society and
church.
Today, former barriers are disappearing as new and broader
horizons appear. Religion has not been quick to perceive the many facets
formerly undisclosed. For eons of time there has been the acceptance of God as
being Transcendent but relatively few who have recognized Him as being Immanent
in His Creation. The Psalmist observed that 9
"The earth is the Lord's and the fullness
thereof" but man has not fully- accepted that as being true in his living.
Somehow it has been easier to depend upon a future "perfection" than
to face full responsibility for living in the present. Humanity now has that to
face.
Science and religion are systems through which universal
and spiritual knowledge may be acquired and applied to living. What is truly
scientific must be spiritual; what is truly spiritual must be scientific; the
same basic principles apply to both. The One Law governs, embraces and sustains
everything from the "inner" (Esoteric) to the "outer"
(exoteric). The Truth is expressed continuously through all forms whether seen
or unseen. Reality remains as a sustaining influence while form changes
constantly. In the Scriptures it is pointed out that, "All things work
together for good to them that love God. Here is the recognition of the
creative power that lies at the heart of all that exists and the availability
of true knowledge and understanding through actual living.
The key is given when through the Spirit of Love,
consciousness is sustained in Equilibrium. The appearing opposites
(active-passive phases of the principle-mechanically speaking, the
positive-negative poles) are not destroyed; they are both, yet neither. Being
and be-coming are lived as one. Now it is seen that the spiritual cannot be
separated from the material; that the spiritual must be expressed through all
phases of being. Furthermore, the manifest world is not merely a symbol
separate from its Source but is life expressed in its eternal verities. No two
moments being the same, nothing can be rightly judged by form alone, but rather
by "righteous judgment" which is perceiving in form the Truth which
it expresses.
The walls of limitation crumble as man finally is awakened
to the Truth of the lining "present." Because of the approaching
state of maturity in the present cycle of development, man, through necessity,
is pressing on to the point of "no return." To the last "jot and
tittle" all must be fulfilled either through the pain of sowing and
reaping or through conscious, active participation in the SPIRIT-ESSENCE of
life. May the workers in all fields of endeavor unite to live the Will (Love,
Power and Intelligence) of God, in Earth (experience) as it is in Heaven or Truth.
Isaphene McGuire
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BOYS' FARM OF CALIFORNIA
(a report by Bill Hamilton)
On February 22nd, Art Kloepfer, Joan Fry, Dennis Kloepfer
and I set off in the direction of the crystal blue skies of the Mojave desert.
Twenty-four miles beyond Barstow, we came upon 4000 irrigated acres of land
where a fabulous corporation is developing an area where buildings to house and
educate destitute boys will be located. It is called "Boys' Farm of
California." :t is a subsidiary of P.M. s' Farm international.
Essentially, Boys' Farm of California is a county, state
and federally approved, non-profit, non-sectarian corporation dedicated to
creating and maintaining a constructive home life in a normal environment, with
health, educational, and vocational opportunities for homeless, neglected and
physically handicapped boys. It is planned for a minimum of 300 boys, 6 through
17 years of age, and functioning under a master plan-use program of the vast
productive acreage, Boys' Farm may be self sustaining, alleviating to some
extent, the mounting problems faced by tax supported agencies confronted with the
increasing needs of boys in their care.
If anyone wishes further information concerning this
remarkable and worthwhile project, please contact me. I have some informative
pamphlets relating intrinsic material on the subject.
A talk with one of the Program Directors and Organizers,
Mr. Arnold Dittmar, has given our little excursion party something to cogitate
upon and regard seriously. He told us that unusual means of educating the boys
will be undertaken here. This means teaches them first how to think. That is:
it raises their mental abilities and I.Q. similar to the research carried on by
Scientologists, and then gives them the data to assimilate. While this is being
done, 50% of the Boys' activity will be directed along agrarian lines, such as
raising barley- and alfalfa or in operating a cattle farm.
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Dennis Kloepfer,
Joan Fry
Arnold Dittmar,
(Director) Bill
Hamilton
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In today's world, where the clouds of potential war hang
over countries, casting appalling shadows, group activity dedicated to the
solutions of modern problems is to be stimulated. Worlds hang in balance upon
the decision of our civilizations-whether we will arise, from our apathetic
state and work with such organizations as Boys' Farm as a contingent to world
peace. UNDERSTANDING is such an organization, but we must plant our seeds in
fertile ground that they may be cultivated in the future. Boys' Farm is doing
so by working with tomorrow's citizens.
In closing I would like to quote a message purportedly
received from our Brothers of other planets: "When Man of Earth has
learned, as did we of other worlds eons ago, that each individual is a Citizen
of the Universe, AND NO LESS, he, too, will realize that synthetic laws are but
diversions from the pathway of Universal Understanding. He will recognize no
false authority, and a creed only of the Universe; that creed itself, the
infinite law- of Understanding, Knowledge, and Progression." Regardless of
its alleged source, I think this gem of wisdom bears consideration, for it
makes sense at least, and apparently may be quite true.
As in every organization, the success of Boys' Farm
depends upon the encouragement and financial support of you, the people. Do you
wish to remain indifferent toward the fate of our planet or will you help
divert our path from one of possible destruction? The decision is in your
hands.
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by Eugene E. Whitworth, Ph.D., LL.D.
Remarkable and thoughtful is the following article by Dr. Eugene E.
Whitworth, Founder and Chairman of the Department of Religions, Great Western University
in San Francisco. It was prepared originally for presentation before a group of
businessmen who have met together for fifteen years one morning each week to
read the Bible and promote greater understanding.
Some months ago someone asked our Chairman to explain how
and why Prayer operates. With his usual good humor-but possibly with less
wisdom than is his customarily-be assigned the impossible task to me. To seek
to explain how prayer operates is to presume to add to the work of the
Theologians and Churchmen throughout the ages. Such an attempt may well put me
in the category of the Texas cowboy who, in asking for work, declared:
"I've done everything they is to do, 'cepting ride a rattlesnake. an' I'm workin'
on a bridle for that." Equally as unabashed at the Herculean task I set
forth my idea of how prayer operates. Frankly much prayer went into this before
I started working on the bridle for this potential rattlesnake!
Before this attempt, however, let me request of you a
prayer. Two weeks from this day and for 33 days thereafter, an Expedition of
Great Western University will be in the hazardous Lacandone Rain Forest. All
members of the Expedition will be engaged in a nation-wide experiment in the
best methods of Thought Force Transmission. Since you and I know that Prayer is
effective to the degree that it is Thought Force directed by the pristine will
and pure love of Man and God, we ask you to do something special for all of us.
Surround us daily with your protecting Thought Force, that is, with your most
fervent prayers. We shall lean heavily upon the arms of your mental
prayer-protection. With your help, God walks with his mighty arms around our
shoulders! Thank you for your prayers and now let us turn to how prayer
operates.
Picture with me the Universe as a vast electro-magnetic
field in which God-Forces may either flow or remain still. When they floe, they
may effect anything within this mighty universe. Picture GOD as the stable,
unchanging, pulsating and perfect Positive pole of a giant l battery in this
vast universe. Picture man as the instable, ever-changing, pulsating and
imperfect Negative pole of this same battery. And as you all know, only when
the two poles are connected in the right way does requisite energy flow between
the poles.
To complete our mental picture, imagine that the object
which is prayed for is a drone plane flying anywhere in space.
We connect these two pictures by a rather difficult
picture. Please imagine that Prayer its elf is a giant rocket of the
Hunter-homing type. and that once properly started upon its track, it will
seek, find and contact the prayed for object no matter where it may be in earth
or sky.
Our pictures are now almost complete. But if the battery
is to give energy, the connection must be perfect over a material that will
carry current in either direction. Therefore the Prayer can get off the ground
only if the two poles synchronize their pulsations. But if they do so, energy
may be delivered through this giant Universal God-to-Man battery to start the
Prayer-missile on its way. Again, please note, this is possible if there is
perfect harmony (synchronization) between God and Man.
What causes the Prayer to find its mark, and what causes
it to fail? Once the Hunter-Missile is fired and on its way it should not
fail--and quite probably man's prayers would not fail except for the effect of
man's conscious mind and mental processes after the Prayer is
"fired."
Imagine then that the prayer-missile is on its way. But
the mind of man is a radio that can send an electronic control beam to the
power plant and motor which is geared to the guiding mechanisms of the
Prayer-missile. And to clear up this picture, let me take ideas from the
personal Thought-Force experiments which we performed in gathering material for
"Diary into the Unknown," due for publication this April.
From this we take three basic conclusions, with
explanation
1. Man cannot reach perfect synchronization
(harmony) with God when and if He deals with mental works alone. There must be
an emotional stimulus at the same time which stirs the subconscious until it
rises up and takes over the reigns from the conscious-mental mind.
2. No pulsation on the part of the supplicant will
launch a prayer until the requisite emotion is available: therefore Prayers of
the mind alone-no matter how importuning, emotional or demanding-will never
trigger the subconscious and bring positive results. Therefore selfless
prayers, based on the required emotion (of which love is the best) can help to
fire in partnership with God the prayer-missile.
3. Absolute mental detachment and quiescence is
necessary once the missile has started on its trackless path. For if man brings
mental thought force to bear upon the prayer-missile, he can but cause it to
wobble and deflect. For his thought force affects only its control. Since the
prayer-missile is perfect as a hunter-finder, change of any control must put it
off the right path and cause it to fail.
Prayer fails, then, because there is no true rapport with
the God-Force. The mumbler of words, the demander of favors, can hardly expect
the results for which he asks! Before prayers can be answered, he who prays must
purify and cleanse his own thoughts and emotions and reach God-harmony. Prayers
are sure to fail (because they never fire at all) if sent from the
consciousness-mental-mind level.
Prayers may fail if we raise storms of emotions around
them either before or after we have put them into flight. Just as a fierce
storm may break and destroy the largest man-made missile, so unadvised emotions
may break and destroy a prayer-missile.
Prayers fail because, like an itch on the nose, we can't
help thinking about them. Once properly launched, a Prayer is a sure hit-unless
the mind scratches its nose and deflects the missile. Man cannot launch a
Prayer with his mind, and he cannot control it with his mind. The touch of the
mind must turn it from its true path.
Prayer is the priceless and Sacred contract between the
emotional self of man and the Divine Essence of God.
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GIVES INNER UNDERSTANDING OF OUTER SPACE
B y Fra Prudentia
Many planets throughout the universe have a mass exceeding
100 times that of our earth. If life and intelligence as we know it exist on
these planets, there would be, of necessity, certain unavoidable differences
between those beings and ourselves.
Considerable speculation regarding these differences has
been voiced. However, a scientific consideration of the various aspects of this
problem should lead to a firmer understanding of our newly discovered neighbors
in outer space, which in turn will enable us to communicate and exchange ideas
and thoughts more readily, at least with those of similar intellectual status.
This is only one outstanding avenue for Positive Thinking
in action -providing opportunities for the direct, concise and correct analysis
of unknown quantities by scientific study and inner perception.
Readers who are familiar with the new modern textbook
entitled, "The Positive Way To Practical Results" by FRA PRUDENTIA
may very well have formulated some rather scientific approaches to the problem
being considered. However, for unification of thought and consolidation of
mutual understanding, the procedure will be outlined herein.
First, the physical aspects of the problem will be
presented. These are the obvious, readily apparent and easily discernable
facts. Anyone making a careful study of the general sciences knows the extent
to which these factors have been submitted to analysis, deductions, an
appraisal, hypotheses and, to some degree, conclusions accepted as such.
We live in a physical world with physical problems. It is
only right that these problems be solved correctly. But it is not to be
overlooked that the real understanding of the problems involved will not be
settled on the primitive level of simple physical evidence or effects.
'This is, of course, recognized in the advanced strata of
scientific thought, from which plateau we shall explore the matter in this discussion.
Continuing with the physical side of this consideration,
if planet X, selected at random in outer space, has, for example, a mass 100
times as great as our earth, then the gravitational pall of this planet on all
objects on or near its surface will be considerably greater than the mass
attraction force here on earth. The first obvious question arising is how much
greater.
The universal gravitational law states in effect that the
gravitational force exerted between two objects is directly proportional to the
sum of the two masses involved. Therefore, a brick weighing one pound on earth
would weigh 100 pounds on Planet X.
It's interesting to note at this point that even to this
day in many of our leading universities, the students are taught that a one
pound mass would drop to the earth at the same rate of speed as a two pound
mass (neglecting air resistance). A careful consideration of the universal
gravitational law (which is taught in these same universities) indicates that
the gravitational pull between the two pound mass and the earth would be 1 + M,
and the pull between the two pound mass and the earth would be 2 + M, if M
equals the mass of the earth. It's readily apparent that 1 M doesn't equal 2 +
M. Therefore, a one pound mass does not drop at the same rate as a two pound
mass. Recognition of this and other pertinent facts, along with a clearer
understanding of the physical universe as it really exists will be required if
we are to successfully and efficiently meet the demands of outer space travel.
Further consideration of the conditions on Planet X
reveals that the physical strength of an individual would have to be 100 times
as great as ours in order to move around as freely as we do. A man weighing 200
pounds on earth would weigh 20,000 pounds, or ten tons, on Planet X. It is most
probable that earth humans would be crushed to the surface of such a planet
almost instantaneously.
Therefore, if life is to exist there, it must be consistent
with the physical laws of the universe and local conditions on Planet X.
Increased gravitational pull will indirectly cause the density of a.11 growing
and naturally- occurring materials to be greater. But probably not great enough
to allow the physical bodies of individuals living on Planet X to be as large
as our own. Creatures the size of ants would be more suited to these
conditions.
It then appears that a recognizable trend is
perceptible-namely that as the mass of a planet increases, the optimum size of
a creature living there would decrease.
In a similar manner, it can be surmised that the maximum
creative and retentive intellect of a creature will be approximately
proportional to his size, it being assumed that the size of his brain or
thinking organ will always be in the neighborhood of about 5 % of his total
mass.
As the mass of a planet increases, the density of the
atmosphere which it can support also increases. This means that it is possible
for a greater amount of oxygen to be present. The physical ability limits of
the inhabitants of such planets will thereby be increased, thus enabling them
to advance and evolve more readily-.
Putting these and other sets of data together, it can be
deduced that a planet most likely to promote intellectual advancement through
evolutionary development, would be larger than earth, but not exceeding
approximately five times the earth's mass, would have a denser atmosphere
containing more oxygen or other non-inert gas or gases, would have a reasonably
temperate climate, somewhere between the melting point and the boiling point of
the fluid used as the basis of chemical nutrition, and would have most of the
same elements as are found on earth, but probably not in the same proportions.
From this it is relatively easy to create a picture of the
probable environment on distant planets, the intellectual status of our
neighbors inhabiting them, and our prospects of communication.
This brings us to the second phase of our consideration.
The most interesting and fascinating aspects of life on other planets is not in
the physical realms at all. It is in a realm which we cannot confine solely to
"mental" concepts because it exists in a universality of complex
metaphysical relationships.
Next issue, the subject covered in this column will be
"Understanding Metaphysics Through Positive Thinking."
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