acts bring distress to you, you may treat yourself that you are in harmonious surroundings and that all those who come near to you are self-controlled, considerate, and loving. This will cure most cases. If they speak harshly or act unkindly, you can declare the opposite. Say, "I see you loving, kind, and considerate," or make such other statement as appeals to you.

There will always be cases where you would like to help but at present cannot. You can declare that the way is opening up for you to speak the truth to them. You can by the silent word open up the pathway to their minds, but after it is open you must let the truth make its own appeal. You must not force its acceptance. To attempt it is to violate another's individuality. Inquisitions have been established, thousands have been burned at the stake, murders unnumbered have been committed, battles have been fought, nations have been drenched in blood, peoples have been exterminated and civilizations have been extinguished by the well meant effort of religious zealots who sought to force other people to accept their truth. Let us not perpetuate the system. Let us have no established, systematized, dogmatized, orthodoxy of the truth. Let us emancipate the souls of men as well as their bodies. Had God desired conformity to the truth rather than individuality. He would have made man without the power of choice. He would have said, "This is the way; walk in it because you cannot help yourself." He would have forced us to love, to serve, to be right. But love would then have been mechanical, and virtue