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THE AIJ..SEEING EYE
With Jimmy Shine it is different. He is afraid of neither space nor time and would as soon hang on to a comet's tail as walk down Broadway. But Jimmy will not work on Friday the 13th, is scared to death of black cats, and all the money in ten kingdoms couldn't make Jimmy walk under a ladder or go against the dictates of his ruling planet. About this time Rebecca McFag goes over Niagra Falls in an eggshell, following this with a dive from the fifteenth story of the City Hall into a fire net. While she was receiving the applause someone told her that she had a hole in her stocking whereupon she fainted from stark horror. Joseph Teasem is a man who was loosened into a brass cage with sixteen ferocious lions and glorifed in the experience. This same individual however is very bashful and when he was loosened among some doting admirers of the fair sex his terror was so great
that he went into convulsions and died, his last words being, "If they had only allowed me to fight ten man路eating sharks instead of bringing me in to this social swim, I'd have been all right." Sylvester Slide, the world's famous skii jumper, jumped two hundred and eighteen feet and landed on a track four feet wide where a single slip meant death. He does this three times a week for the consideration of ten dollars per each. But if anyone suggested that he go out without shaving, he wouldn't dare to stick his nose between the portals. Now, friends, we will ask you once more why an individual who is willing to swing from Ule end of a rope ladder by his toes is afraid to contradict tlle parson? How come's it that an individual who is perfectly willing to take a parachute jump into the Atlantic is afraid to grow whiskers when his wife says no? We repeat, why is it?
Abstractions
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NE of the greatest curses that confronts the student of occult philosophy is his inability to get any real information_ He is flooded with concepts and abstractions but not one of them is capable of solving the practical problem. TIlere is no greater abstraction on the face of the earth than the word "Truth ... which covers every doctrine and misquotation known to man. We are told that Truth is the answer to the problem but we nre not told what Truth is. Those who claim to have it, demonstrate only an abstract condition which cannot possibly he true because it does not answer any problem, solve any difficulty nor educate the human mind in any practical way. Such words as "truth," "love," "God," "I aw, ""I"Ight" an d" rea I'IzatJon . " are a II 0 f them absolutely abstract. We do not know whetller the light referred to is gas, electric or spiritual; and if spiritual we have no idea of its dimensions, power, use, or means or
perpetuation. Our so-called students of new thought pepper their entire phraseology with these abstractions which mean absolutely nothing to average heathens like us, bu! are used like Latin phrases by the profeSSIOnal people-to conceal the sum of human ignorance. So we humbly request that these words only be used in connection with concrete, descriptive adjectives and that the process he explained along with the nouns in question. There is no greater abstraction in the world than to say: "Believe in God." I have nevet met anyone who has tlle slightest idea of whal God is and not one in a million knows the mental alchemy which must be passed through in order to hatch a belief. The average in路 dividual does not know how to believe anything. The statement "be good" is first cousin to the above, hut have two individuals ever come to a mutual understanding as to what is right and wrong? Good and had are