PRINCIPLE—The best use of self demands that it be understood.
Our ideal specimen of human nature is the whole man at his best.
The etheric life demands (a) the vibrations native to the body in health--(Physical Magnetism)--(b) the vibrations induced by the active mind, (c) the vibrations intensified by controlled emotional states, (d) the regulative vibrations of psychic righteousness or honor--(Psychic Magnetism). In this scheme nothing is inferior, but all elements are appointed to be subordinate to the last. These vibrations should run through the whole etheric activity a binding thread of force.
We are now to study the four pyramids of the etheric life. The purpose is four-fold. If you will put yourself into this lesson as you have, presumably, put yourself into the preceding twenty-six lessons, you will discover—
Firstly—Magnetic CONCENTRATION;
Secondly—The RELATION of the DIVISIONS of self to the WHOLE self;
Thirdly—A better UNDERSTANDING of your personality;
Fourthly—The supreme importance of PSYCHIC RIGHTEOUSNESS.
It is altogether probable that the majority of people live almost wholly in the physical pyramids of existence.
A CURIOUS ILLUSTRATION.
A point has neither length, breadth, nor thickness. Move it in thought any distance in one direction, and you have the line. Move the line FROM its direction any distance, you have the surface. Move the surface OUT of its plane any distance, you have the solid. Thus you have obtained length, breadth, thickness, line, surface, solid, motion, space, time, number, structure, body, and, in the attention, mind,--and scores of other factors (study out a long list),--by means of that which has no length, no breadth, no thickness.
The real YOU is that point. YOU move and describe a line of life. This line, repeated, becomes habit, which moved through time, makes conduct, and right conduct, projected through life, yields magnetism.
If you live only on surface I, you are mere animal. If you project, that surface through to III, you are a fine moral person. If you project surface II through to surface IV, you are magnetic. If you combine these solids, YOU are the Ideal Pyramid, “_I_ AM POWER.”
Let us add the following:
“Culture is not measured by the greatness of the field which is covered by our knowledge, but by the nicety with which we can perceive relations in that field, whether great or small.”
This book desires that you become acquainted with the unused portions of your nature.
In order to this, you are now invited to make a long regime of mining out the magnetic significance of—
THE FOUR PYRAMIDS.
I
Harmony—
Exercise—Recreation
· Air—Sleep—Water
· Food—Regularity—Digestion
· Cleanliness—Economy—
Scientific Body-Building and Using.
I. Pyramid of Physical Health
II
Will—Muscular
Development
· Nervous Condition
· Inner Energy—
Responsiveness—Self Control—Staying
Power—Health—Body-Tone—
Personal Qualities—Physical Characteristics.
II. Pyramid of Physical Magnetism.
III
Peace—Will
· Righteousness—
Love—Knowledge
Faith—Hope—Courage—
Body-Health—Right Heredity—
Right Environment—Right Training.
III. Pyramid of Moral Health.
IV
Will—Alertness
· Fidelity—
Hope—Courage—
Confidence—Honor—Thought—
Faith in System—Physical
Basis: Health—Body-Magnetism.
IV. Pyramid of Personal Magnetism.
You are now invited to write out all the possible TRUE combinations of these four pyramids, and particularly to observe the following:
RIGHT PYRAMIDAL COMBINATIONS.
We see that—
1. Physical Health makes for Physical Magnetism;
2. Physical Magnetism bases Psychic Magnetism;
3. Physical Health neighbors Moral Health;
4. Moral Health conduces to Physical Magnetism;
5. Moral Health is indispensable to Psychic Magnetism;
6. Psychic health bases Physical Magnetism.
We also observe that—
7. Physical Magnetism assists Physical Health;
8. Psychic Magnetism assists Physical Health;
9. Moral Health assists Physical Health.
It now appears that—
10. Physical Magnetism is indifferent to TRUE Moral Health;
11. Psychic Magnetism assists Moral Health;
12. Psychic Magnetism assists Physical Magnetism.
We therefore conclude that the following are
INCOMPLETE PYRAMIDAL COMBINATIONS.
1. Physical Health--[Physical Magnetism + Psychic Magnetism + Moral Health].
2. Physical Health + Physical Magnetism--[Psychic Magnetism + Moral Health].
3. Physical Health + Physical Magnetism + Psychic Magnetism— [Moral Health].
4. Physical Magnetism--[Psychic Magnetism + Moral Health].
5. Physical Magnetism + Psychic Magnetism--[Moral Health]. Impossible.
6. Psychic Magnetism--[Physical Health + Physical Magnetism].
7. Psychic Magnetism + Physical Health--[Physical Magnetism + Moral Health]. Impossible in part.
8. Moral Health--[Physical Health + Physical Magnetism].
9. Moral Health + Physical Health--[Physical Magnetism + Psychic Magnetism]. Impossible in part.
You may thus possess physical health without physical magnetism. But if you seek physical magnetism, you must go by the way of physical health.
You may possess moral health without full psychic magnetism, but if you seek the highest form of psychic magnetism, you must go by the way of moral health.
It is now evident that the following are IDEAL COMBINATIONS.
FIRST—FROM THE STANDPOINT OF MORALS.
1. First:--Moral Health. Next:
2. Moral Health + Psychic Magnetism + Physical Magnetism + Physical Health. Next:
3. Moral Health + Psychic Magnetism + Physical Magnetism. Next:
4. Moral Health + Psychic Magnetism + Physical Health. Next:
5. Moral Health + Psychic Magnetism. Next:
6. Moral Health + Physical Magnetism. Next:
7. Moral Health + Physical Health. Next:
8. Psychic Magnetism. Impossible alone.
9. Physical Magnetism. Impossible alone.
10. Physical Health. Mere animal life.
SECOND—FROM THE STANDPOINT OF MAGNETISM.
1. First:--Psychic Magnetism. Next:
2. Psychic Magnetism + Moral Health + Physical Magnetism + Physical Health. Next:
3. Psychic Magnetism + Moral Health + Physical Magnetism. Next:
4. Psychic Magnetism + Moral Health + Physical Health. Next:
5. Psychic Magnetism + Moral Health. Next:
6. Psychic Magnetism + Physical Magnetism. Next:
7. Psychic Magnetism + Physical Health. Next:
8. Moral Health. Next:
9. Physical Magnetism. Impossible alone. Next:
10. Physical Health. Valueless alone.
CONCLUSIONS.
Summarizing possible conclusions, we have the following:
1. Physical health is indispensable to physical magnetism;
2. Psychic righteousness (health) is indispensable to psychic magnetism;
3. Psychic magnetism is indispensable to best physical magnetism;
4. Physical magnetism is not wholly indispensable to psychic magnetism.
5. PERFECT PSYCHIC MAGNETISM INVOLVES HEALTH, PHYSICAL MAGNETISM AND PSYCHIC RIGHTEOUSNESS.
The ALL-IMPORTANT departments of your personality are those of PSYCHIC RIGHTEOUSNESS and PSYCHIC MAGNETISM.
But the IDEAL MAN of success is the WHOLE MAN always AT HIS BEST.
The whole man is more than psychic development; he is a PRODUCT AND A CREATOR OF PRACTICAL AFFAIRS.
MAGNETISM A GROWTH.
Let us understand. You cannot reasonably hope to succeed by merely DREAMING about success.
You surely cannot achieve success if you PLUNGE BLINDLY through your career.
You cannot really succeed without possessing some degree of PERSONAL MAGNETISM.
When you began the present study, you certainly possessed a measure of magnetic capacity, either physical or psychic, otherwise you would not have purchased this book. If you have energetically observed its directions, you have developed both varieties; but, above that, you have also combined them into one living whole, the magnetic personality.
This result has required at least a year of persistent effort. If you have arrived at this point in less time, you should go back and begin where haste first retarded your progress.
MAGNETISM IS A NATURAL GROWTH.
No matter how great may be your ability to read and understand books, that growth, that law, require time as well as intelligent effort. No matter how poor may be your ability in such respect, that growth is absolutely certain if you put reasonable time and genuine effort into its acquisition.
The giant trees of California were once puny saplings. The slow lapse of time has drawn nature into their mighty hearts. Magnetism can no more be acquired by the mere reading of a book, or by hurried practice of its directions, than can these giants of the West be produced in the hot-house culture of a northern summer.
MAGNETIC GROWTH IS NATURALLY SLOW. Its principles, its methods, and the results of its study, have to be deeply sunk into and absorbed and assimilated by the subjective self before the reaction of magnetism in the objective life can obtain. This book has promised no miracle. If you have read it correctly, you have learned that magnetic growth cannot be hurried. These statements are placed here because, had they appeared at the beginning of our work, the outlook would have seemed, perhaps, discouraging, but more especially because they would not have been understood. You now understand them because you have toiled, and you can afford to smile at such possible discouragement. You have paid an easy price for magnetic power, for the gains discount the pains.
MAGNETISM AND PRACTICAL LIFE.
The faithful observance of the suggestions of this volume has developed many surprises during the time occupied. It is possible that the lessons have unduly cultivated your subjective life. In a work of this kind, such a danger is unavoidable. The growth of magnetism involves intense and continuous concentration of thought upon the psychic field, and it is very likely that you may find it necessary to guard against that danger. The method of so guarding is briefly indicated below.
The sole value of magnetism consists in its practical application to everyday affairs. Success-Magnetism is not an accomplishment merely; it is a practical power. When rightly developed and used, it controls the subjective self in the concrete work of the objective. The definition of the goal you have been seeking now appears:
SUCCESS-MAGNETISM IS PERSONAL MAGNETISM INTELLIGENTLY MULTIPLIED INTO ACTUAL LIFE.
The first duty of man is practical sanity.
AVOID MERE OCCULTISM.
It is possible that you have now discovered in yourself certain occult talents, such as telepathy, hypnotism, mediumship, clairaudience, clairvoyance, psychometry, psychic healing, and the like.
It would be evidence of ignorance to call in question these “faculties” of the human ego. The author’s personal experience forbids. Nevertheless, it is now freely stated:
NO SO-CALLED OCCULT SCIENCE FORMS ANY INTEGRAL PART OF PERSONAL MAGNETISM.
Hypnotism and magnetism are widely separated.
Psychic healing occupies another field.
Clairaudience and clairvoyance are not utilizable by magnetism.
Telepathy and psychometry are related to its etheric explanation alone.
Mediumship is totally independent of it.
In other words, personal magnetism in operation requires NONE of these talents, except, perhaps, telepathy and genuine palmistry— the study of hands as indicative physiologically (not occultly) of present character (not past or future events).
It is a noble characteristic of personal magnetism that, while issuing in and from the subconscious self, its real instruments are the everyday body, the everyday mind, the everyday self, as its real field is the everyday, objective world, big with opportunity, adequate to the splendid development of any human being.
All things are his who steadfastly remembers that “life is real, life is earnest.” Magnetism is sanity at work. It is unalterably opposed to runaway fads, chimerical visions, unstrung nerves, mental aberration, psychic gourmandism. Magnetism is practical cooperation with level-headed people who are bent on making the best of self and the world through created opportunity.
For these reasons, you cannot study magnetism too deeply nor practice it too faithfully. Its legitimate culture will harm none, will benefit all.
Original text by Frank Channing Haddock, edited and revised by D. J. McAdam - this text © 2005. Please note: all applicable material on this website is protected by law and may not be copied without express written permission.
