The imagination, void of love,—­the feeling of harmony with all,—­ forgets reason and permits fear to enter the soul.

Fear is an alien to our life, and never a friend.  The real friend is reason, acting amid harmonic conditions.

When you are threatened by some hostile force or event, reason tries to induce self-protection, but you know no real fear if you are saturated with the feeling of harmony.  You may believe it is fear that seeks your self-protection.  But your reason can do precisely the same thing without fear.  Fear is, then, only an extra, a distressing extra, foisted in front of reason.

You are invited now to live the white life, to cast fear out, and to make real reason its substitute.  By so much you will add immeasurably to personal comfort and power.

Love and reason alone can take care of man, so far as his own efforts are concerned.  In properly blended proportions these constitute the very life of courage.  What conceivable service then, can fear render any man or woman?

If you desire panic and distress, let imagination fill your soul with fears.  But if peace, happiness, health and power be your desires, live the white life and hold fast only to reason.

By the reality called reason I do not mean mere cold calculation and hard logic.  Such phases of reason are legitimate in their place, if freed from cunning and deceit, but the higher reason is to these as a woman’s love—­look is to the glitter of ice.  The higher reason is not alone intellection, it is also intuition and harmonic assurance—­what religious thought calls faith.  The higher reason declares self-preservation to be the first law of life, and then, just because this is true, it cares for self and trusts the White Universe to assist.  I really do not see what a human soul need actually fear when that soul and the White Universe are bent on the same goal, the soul’s welfare.

The Universe is a growing organism.  It is forever striving to realize its own best estate.  This is the true goal for all individuals.  It is saying the same thing if we affirm the goal to be Health—­for worlds or man:  Body-Health, Mind-Health, Self-Health.

When any form of health is threatened, you say, perhaps, it is fear that warns you to self-preservation.  But I say it is reason, and your fear-feeling is unnecessary and hurtful.  If you can remember that the White Life or Universe and you have the same desire, your highest welfare, you can banish the fear-element, reserving only the reason-assurance element.  All the fears in the world cannot benefit you.  Harmony and courage will sublime your whole life.

I have never known a person whose reason has induced self-suffering.  Suffer-fear is always a product of diseased imagination.  What some may call reason-fear, when they think they are extremely sensible, is simply fear, and nothing but fear, and it is due to imagination, not to reason.