It is: not controversial, but is; sent forth in the, hope- that it may help to clear some of the difficulties which have beset the minds of students of the deeper philosophies in the past. In order to avoid serious misunderstanding, it should be firmly, impressed upon the mind of the student, however, that there is no infallible revelation of this complicated subject, which includes everything under the sun and above it also. An infallible exposition would predicate omniscience upon the part of the writer, and even the Elder Brothers tell us that they are sometimes at fault in their judgment, so a book which shall say the last word on the World-Mystery is out of the question, and the writer of the present work does not pretend to give aught but the most elementary teachings of the Rosicrucians. The Rosicrucian Brotherhood has the most far-reaching, the most logical conception of the World-Mystery of which the writer has gained any knowledge during the many years he has devoted exclusively to the study of this subject So far as he has been able to investigate, their teachings have been found in accordance with facts as he knows them. Yet he is convinced that the Rosicrucian Cosmo-conception is far from being the last word on the subject; that as we advance greater vistas of truth will open to us and make clear many things which we now "see through a glass, darkly." At the same time he firmly believes that all other philosophies of the future will follow the same main lines, for they appear to be absolutely true.

    This is success, and there is no other. Orison Swett Marden Such gems of knowledge are aplenty in the author's books and these books were written long before the modern Gurus descended! 'Every Man builds his own world,makes his own atmosphere.He can fill it with difficulties,fears,doubts and despair and gloom,so that the whole life will be influenced to gloom and disaster:or he can keep the atmosphere clear,transparent and sweet by dispelling every gloomy,envious malicious thought.Hold the enduring,the immortal thought in the mind,and discord will disappear.'This is the train of thought running through out this Book,seeking in every word and every page of the Book,Investment in one's own Self.As valid today as it was seventy years back when the Book was written.