Vibrations are created by every form of activity.

Thought, in which all conscious actions have their beginning, is in itself an action and creates vibrations to the degree of its intensity. If exalted, then high (uplifting) vibrations; if evil, degrading or destructive, then low depressing, failure, death-creating.

Marconi is said to have made the statement: "A word, or its equivalent (starts or) creates a vibration in the air just the same as a pebble thrown into the water starts a ripple over the surface."

Accepting this as a fact, it is logical to say that the larger the pebble, the deeper the ripple. In like manner and under the same law of cause and effect, it cannot be contradicted that the deeper, stronger or more inclusive the thought, the more intense will be the vibrations; hence the more potent will be its influence for good or ill, for action or inaction; the nature of the thought always governing the influence of the vibrations.

Initiates of the Æth Priesthood have long since proven to themselves by innumerable experiments that the means to all power, force and energy, other than the purely physical or animal, has its beginning in the mind. The mind, in giving birth to the thought-desire, is the generator of the energy to be employed or directed in any given purpose.

As the generator in an electric plant generates the current, so does the mind create the "field" of magnetic forces. Like the electric generator, the mind is capable of creating, but has no facility to store that which it creates, and unless there are provisions for the storing of these forces, they are dissipated.

The beginner in this field of study will find that his first attempt to bring these forces into activity by means of thought, desire and concentration, will seemingly be of little force or effect. If, however, he is persistent and continues faithfully with the practice of the exercises for mental development, his ability to concentrate on any given subject or objective will gradually increase, and his efforts to insulate a thought or desire will be more and more readily accomplished.

In due time, and naturally only after many efforts, he will be able to fully separate one thought from all others and center or direct it as he desires. This is generally known as mental Magic, and the basis is Will, i.e., Volantia.

To more readily understand the method governing the generation and gradual accumulation of power, we will do well to reason from analogy. The generator and storage battery of an individual electric power plant are designed after the human power plant. By using this as an example, we may by analogy, illustrate the point under consideration.

In country districts where commercial electricity is not obtainable, it is nevertheless possible to provide the home and even manufacturing plants with electric lights and power by one of two methods: One is to set up a unit composed of a gasoline engine, or some other motive power, and a generator, proceeding to generate electric current as it is used.

By following this plan the current is drawn directly from the generator. The moment it ceases to run, the current, hence light and power, is cut off until the engine is again started and the current again flows from the generator. This method aptly illustrates the average human plant for the creation of power and force. In most instances, MAN uses almost every atom of power as rapidly as it is produced by nature's methods within himself.

The other and much more desirable plan is to connect a storage battery to the generator so that all current generated will first flow to this battery to be stored for present and future use. This method permits the generation of electricity at any odd time so that the power will be available whenever required, and without any thought of at once starting engine and generator.

Analogous to this is the functioning of the human power plant, composed of body, mind and spirit; the last being life and the spark of power or activity.

The body of man, however, is somewhat different from the engine, because it has a double function. In it and by it, are created or produced heat and life, hence activity.

In turn the activity creates power, and this power is either used as created, or is in part stored for future use. This activity of the body in turn induces action in the mind and as a result there is "thought." Thoughts are like the electricity created by the generator. Thoughts in action are vital power.

The comparison may be continued. Suppose the engine connected with an electrical generator is not in good working order, running more or less irregularly and at less speed than required for the proper generation of electrical current. What is the result? The storage batteries will receive current from the generator only when it is running at a speed closing the contacts, so that the current can flow into the batteries. The storage batteries may be in splendid condition, the generator in perfect running order, but the speed of the engine being at fault, the current generated is not sufficient to keep the contacts closed and whatever current is generated is lost and there may even be a loss from the batteries.

Still following this analogous reasoning, we maintain that man's physical welfare is of paramount importance in the creation of the power or force we know as animal and Personal magnetism. In the development of higher forces or Æth fires there is still another factor involved.

The awakening of the inner spiritual self, the Christos, must proceed hand-in-hand with the development of the physical forces. The mind may not be contaminated with degrading or degenerating thoughts and desires, but if the body does not function normally, if the physical self is weakened, possibly overfed, or starved for proper nourishment, or receives improper combinations of good food, then the engine, the motive power, is not, cannot, be running properly (regularly).

The storage battery, that same body, is like the cells in a storage battery in which the plates have been weakened or destroyed by improper care. Even the mind, standing midway between the body, the gross physical self, and the possibly as yet unconscious Soul, the Christos, does not receive sufficient energy from the body, and like the uncharged cells of the storage battery, this mind cannot function properly either in the direction of physical constructiveness or spiritual awakening.

In the creation of power, material or divine, by means of the accumulation of forces, energies and development of faculties, and especially of the Æth forces which the enlightened man so ardently desires and seeks for, constant and careful consideration must be given to the three basic factors necessary in the generation of these forces, namely: the condition of body, mind and the state of the Soul, the spiritual self. If either department of man's threefold nature does not function harmoniously, the result cannot be desirable, because the one below normal effectually reacts upon the other.

Those who enter the path of the Æth Priesthood for Initiation quickly become aware that the first necessity in the development of their higher potentialities depends upon the cleansing (purification) and the rebuilding (rehabilitation) of the physical self.

This physical machine, generator and storage battery of power must be kept in first-class condition so that in all its parts it can function properly.

This essential precludes all excuses for not doing all those things to this human machine, which the master mechanic does almost automatically to put a machine in perfect running order.

Further application may be made of the analogy between man's organism and the power plant for the generation of electricity.

This magnetic field is a fine, delicate and scientifically wound net-work of wires. Any interference or break in this instrument prevents the production or flow of electrical current. No mechanic worthy of the name, being aware of a defect, would permit the plant to continue to run with the remark: "Oh, well, I think it will be all right." Is this true of the human engineer who has full knowledge that something is amiss in his "plant"?

In the human body there are the like positive and negative forces that should be just as delicately balanced. The nervous system is the world's finest magnetic field. Its network of wires are the finest that God and Nature working together could create or produce. In the human organism or machine, these nerves or wires do not often literally "break," but all too frequently they are starved, weakened and literally bare of their proper insulation.

In many instances this is due to improper care, denatured foods, or good food poorly prepared or wrongly combined. Because of these facts, not only individuals, but nations are becoming Neurotics and Neurasthenics, instead of individual physical spiritual power plants.

Other reasons, at least in part, for this unhappy and undesirable state of affairs are the hurry and worry of every-day life, and the resulting gulping of food, followed by indigestion, malnutrition and nutritional starvation. This directly affects the brain, the engineer of the human machine.

To satisfy the material desires by the accumulation of material wealth, which he foolishly believes to be the only means to enjoyment, happiness and peace, man constantly neglects not only his spiritual welfare, but his physical self as well. Worry, anxiety, constant tension, uncertainty of mind, and nerve exhaustion - these pave the way for mental apathy, delusion and ultimate failure.

The human power house should be kept in a properly-functioning condition. The engine, i.e., the body with its intricately functioning system, must be scrupulously cared for so as to develop the powers and forces required for the highest attainment and the influx of the Æth Fires.

Physical exercises and out-door sports are to be especially encouraged. This includes walking, running within reason, swimming, skating, horse-back riding; in fact, all out-door sports and games appropriate to the various seasons of the year of the capacity of the individual and within his means. One of the best exercises and closest at hand is walking or trotting and deep breathing. There can be no excuse that exercise is impossible because the means are unavailable.

The effect of these various exercises on the body and nervous system is much the same as overhauling, cleaning and properly lubricating an engine. By means of exercise the lungs are compelled to inhale their full capacity of fresh air, rich in oxygen. This at once oxidizes the iron in the blood, furnishing the means for greater vital and virile power.

Such exercises also help to throw out the poisons of dead cells, freeing the body from the congesting accretions which so often interfere with the proper functioning of the body. Just as it is impossible for an engine to continue to function properly without frequent cleaning, so is it equally impossible for the human machine to work efficiently without normal exercise and a proper cleansing regime.

We resort once again to analogy between the body of man and an engine:

To keep an engine in the best working order, running smoothly and without friction, it must be, as already stated, regularly cleaned, and as regularly oiled. The fuel must be of the best. If the single item of correct lubrication is neglected, the engine is certain to become overheated within a very short time. The grade of oil is of the utmost importance. By using an inferior grade of oil the engine may continue to run, but there will be friction, much wear, reduction in speed, and the possible production of poisonous gases.

The food ingested by man is in part to the human body what oil and fuel are to the engine. Man may select an inferior quality of food, or a kind not adapted to his needs. The result will be an impoverished physical and mental condition. The human machine, it is true, may continue more or less active; but there will be an accumulation of waste material; friction in the organism; the body will be full of aches, pains and disturbances. As a natural consequence, man becomes inefficient, a weakling, and finally a chronic invalid.

The correct method to overcome this difficulty is to supply the body with proper nourishment; foods not only tasty, but which will also furnish the vitamins and mineral elements required by the system. There is no reason to conclude, as so many do, that food containing the elements necessary to the body, nerves and mind, are unpalatable. The most wholesome and nourishing foods prepared in a manner retaining all their nutriment are also the most appetizing and richest in natural flavor. These articles of diet are as essential to the human system as oil and fuel are to the engine.

In the human system, not only the general welfare of the body is important in the generation of energy and the Æth forces, but the mind, corresponding to a generator of power, is of utmost consideration. The mind is dependent on brain activity and nerve force, and demands nourishment of a particular type.

If the variety of food containing the necessary elements to supply nerves and brain is omitted from the diet, then nerves and brain will suffer. The body, mind and other departments of man's being are closely related and interwoven, one with the other. No one department of life can be neglected in the efforts toward higher attainment, and the most simple is as important as that which affects the innermost spiritual self, the Christos, or soul.

Those who have gained a little wisdom no longer question: "What has food to do with spirituality? What has exercise to do with developing Personal Magnetism or the Æth Fires?" They know that the highest must begin in, and be based on, the lowest! The highest love may be transmuted out of malice and hate.

Continuing or analogy, if the storage battery is not in proper condition to receive and store for future use the charge it receives from the generator, there will be no stored electrical energy, irrespective of how long the generator may have been running or how much current may have been created.

In like manner, if the inner self is not properly prepared, if the mind is still filled with thoughts of hate, malice, resentment and all the other evil passions, and the heart imbued with them, then no matter how perfect the food, how much exercise is taken, how perfect the breathing and how great the effort, the Æth Fires are no more aroused or augmented than can the imperfect storage battery be made to store the current it receives from the generator.

These retarding influences of forces which close the inner self to the influx of (1) Magnetic forces, and (2) the Æth Fires, may be eliminated just as a defective storage battery may be restored. A deep and sincere aspiration for the higher, if continually held in the mind and heart, will gradually remove all thoughts and feelings of hate, bitterness, malice, revenge, jealousy and the ignoble passions and prepare the entire inner being for the influx of constructive and exalting forces.

It is therefore of primary importance that all who seek to develop (1) Personal Magnetism, and (2) the Æth Fires, should cleanse the heart of its critical tendency and the inclination to sit in judgment over others and PAY STRICT ATTENTION TO THEIR OWN WEAKNESSES IN ORDER TO ELIMINATE THEM.

We have definite instructions in regard to the judgment of others: "What are these to me?" "What concern to thee what they do?" "Look thou well after thyself, thou has much, all too much, to do."

The great Master, the Nazarene, stated this well and in a few works: "What is that to thee, follow thou me." That is to say, it is no concern of yours what others may do; your work is to look after yourself and your own weaknesses. Take care of these, and all will be well with you, ‘though all the world be wrong.

The Æth forces or Fires are developed and accumulated only in proportion to the effort made by first cleansing the body, mind and heart, and consistently and conscientiously feeling the spirit of the Sacred Mantrams, through which a relationship with the Æth Hierarchies may be established. It is a waste of time and energy to attempt the development of these powers and forces if the base or foundation is unprepared, while the mind and heart remain uncleansed from the evil thoughts, desires and passions.

Of those in possession of the Æth Fires, it was divinely said:

"Ye are the Light of the world." –Matt. 5:14

This promise should be a stimulus to greater effort, more earnest devotion and faithfulness in the desire to attain to the highest spiritual realm, that of the Christos and Æth Hierarchy.

To be, in fact, THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD it is essential that man must, in truth become MAN in every department of his nature: body, mind and Soul; one department being as important as another; the "temple not made with hands" being built upon the foundation of spiritual effort and sacrifice, but resting in the earth.
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