Trees and animals, minerals and other objects of material life absorb it.  The walls of your room, the clothes you wear, the letters you write are all being impressed by the aura of your thought-force.  If you go to a clairvoyant or a psychometerist and put into his hands a letter, a lock of hair, a cloth-piece, or anything else pertaining to one of your friends, he or she will psychically trace out the personal appearance, temperament, past and present history, and everything else in connection with that person.  Marvellous, ‘Impossible’ you cry in surprise.  But it is done.  Realise through study and investigation the importance of your thought-life and avoid vitiating it by fear-thoughts, hate-thoughts, sensual and sensuous thoughts and vanity thoughts.  Because, mark you, these four giant-weeds poison the roots of the Tree of Life.  All humanity suffers pain in diverse ways, on account of these four bad thoughts and their millions of off-springs.  Now you will say this is all very well but: 

HOW?

That is just what I mean to teach you all along.  I don’t want to feed you on mere empty theories, but I can and I will give you that knowledge which when assimilated shall build up strong flesh, bone, muscle, tissue, pith and marrow which will give you superb health, strength of mind and spirit—­all of which are necessary adjuncts to Spiritual Growth and Happiness.  Let me give you in detail methods and exercises.  The ideal fearless man has many qualities.  I say the Ideal Hero—­no imitation patch work vulgarian.  These qualities are in rough detail:  (1) Devotion to God. (2) Knowledge. (3) Concentration. (4) Will Power. (5) Energy and Aspiration. (6) Health. (7) Self-Esteem. (8) Self-Control. (9) Love for Humanity. (10) Chastity.  There may be other qualities but you will do well to build up the above and others will come to you by themselves.  Let me drop a few helpful suggestions on the above.  Follow each sentence closely.

1.  DEVOTION TO THE ABSOLUTE WILL.

I have always said, written, observed and felt that the most courageous individuals are devoted to God.  Such men are rare.  You all understand the meaning of “Fearlessness” in its fullest sense.  It means absolute independence—­in two words, he is the FEARLESS man who “fears-nothing,” and “faces-everything.”  That everything includes everyone.  That nothing excludes no one.  Viewed from this standpoint is not the fearless man rarely to be met with?  You may come across degrees of fearlessness.  Now the man who possesses this quality in the “highest degree” has faith in this God.  Everyone has his conception of God.  Everyone sees the absolute from his individual plane of vision.  That conception which you have of God will do for you.  I say, it will do for you and you alone.  Don’t force it upon others.  Keep it for yourself.  If you want to improve this conception of God pray in the Silence thus:  “O, THOU, I UNDERSTAND NOT THY NATURE.  I KNOW NOT—­YET