Fear of the Future:  in life; beyond the present life.

Instinct and reason strive to place us in right relations with all these causes.  The existence in us of fear shows that we already are, either in mind or in fact, in wrong relations therewith.

The mastery of fear involves the discovery of right relations, mental or concrete, and the placing of self in those right conditions which are determined and provided for by the ground-plan of our nature.

And the first thing thus provided for is health.  All treatment for the conquest of our universal enemy must begin with development of individual tone:  tone of body, tone of mind, tone of the deeper self.

I am not writing for those who are constitutionally fearless, but I have in mind all who do yield to the feeling of fear.  Our ideal, however, is not a mere animal courage, not the courage of insensibility.  It is rather the courage of the whole man or woman making for the white life.  If you are only partially yourself, you cannot possess the highest courage.  Such courage may be yours, infallibly, if you will but resolve for the goal and go on into the great ideals of the harmonic personality.  This you can do—­ anyone can do.  And to come thereto is the greatest thing in the world.

You are invited, then, to begin by substituting in your thought the idea of self-preserving reason for any kind of fear (even the so-called normal) as your perpetual guard and guide.  Make it a profound conviction of your deepest self that no real harm can come to that self because you have entered the highway of the white life—­the life of purity, reason, honor, good-will, and confident assurance.  Swing your life into the unfolding and infolding of the Infinite White Life of Worlds.  Courage will become to you the very breath of your lungs.

    I send you this sure message:  Fear is dead
    In all the pure, by reason’s wisdom led,
    Who wear white honor and evince good-will,
    And trust the self to Love’s unfailing skill. 
    I send you this sure message:  Courage lives
    When man to Courage all assurance gives.

THE SOUL OF THE CELL.

This crystal of Quartz,—­the queen of its tribe,
Amethyst, Onyx, Chalcedony, Heliotrope, Agate,—­
Some toiler of old Japan, the Artist fantastic,
Has polished to likeness of ice,
Ruining form to reveal it Fleche d’Amour
That the marvelous, delicate, hairlike inclosures
Of crystallizations foreign might please the beholder. 
Herein worked the Infinite well,
And, let us say, too, the artisan patient,
To one limit—­significant boundary! 
Health!

I request you to define it—­configure the wonder
Of this dust-common, beneficent Gift. 
Who lacks it, he knows quite precisely his want;
Who has it divulges precisely the thing. 
Yet never man—­scientist, poet, physician—­
In words can portray it—­the Soul of the Cell,