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tive, Volition, Will. 6. This power of action and of choice, inspired by intelligence, aware of the self, adapts actions to ends. This involves reason and judgment. 7. In the course of experience along the lines of action or restraint, and observing results in either case, the individual desiring or preferring certain results to others, acquires more or less self-control. He controls himself to secure desired results. Here then, in brief outline, are the basis and the elements of our Psychology. They are drawn from common observation and experience, and are verified by the facts of daily life--generally complicated, confused, or lost sight of in treatises on psychology. Two of these factors, viz.: Consciousness and Will, enter into all psychological phenomena such as Hypnotism and Mediumship, and into every form of mental alienation, insanity, obsession and the like. Moreover, by building out of mental phenomena a distinct entity--largely independent of the self-conscious Intelligence, and almost equally so with consciousness--our "philosophies," "metaphysics," and explanations have become as confused and unreliable as the psychical phenomenon itself. Hudson's so-called "Law of Psychic Phenomena," "Subliminal" and "Supraliminal Consciousness," and the juggling with the terms "suggestion" and "hypnosis" may serve as sufficient illustrations. In each instance phenomena are made to take the place of principles and the core of the problem is ignored, confused, or lost sight of. In the meantime these empiricists are hunting in the "rubbish of the temple" (which temple they have _metaphysically_ destroyed), for the Human Soul--i.e. the concrete, intrinsic Individual Intelligence, which is ONE, and which the Master Builder (Universal Intelligence) placed on the Trestle-board of Creation and Time, for the building of character, and the evolution of the Human Soul. If the Ideal, Archetypal, or Divine Man, is recognized as the _Modulus_ of both Nature and Divinity, our Theorem must consist in adhering to the Modulus and working out the problem. Q. E. D., if applied to man's completion of his own individual Temple, might stand for the last words of Jesus, "It is finished," The problem is solved; "I have finished the Work Thou gavest me to do." Science, Religion and Philosophy have clasped hands. Divinity revealed in Humanity is triumphant over Death. "There is a Natural (physical) body and there is a Spiritual b
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