Life — January 12, 1911 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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LIFE: » Rrenwnlly Satna taOEE Ong ON ey) = Begin as before and repeat ad fib. NEARLY FIVE MILLION WOULD-BE MENTAL SUBSCRIBERS TO THE MENTAL LIFE ADDED THIS WEEK. HIS is our banner week. We have been taking in mental cash so fast that our Vibration Department has had difficulty in putting it away. Five million requests have been re- ceived and recorded. This leads us to call attention to our new Loan Department; we found that we must have some way to dis- pose of our surplus, and we have taken this effective means of doing it. Any one on Life's imaginary list can borrow money at any time by concentrating and demanding it from Gee. Ime. Mit. State the amount needed and the length of time you will want it. Bear in mind that you have to put up no security whatever, and that we will lend you all the imagin- ary money you want, up to the end of our resources. This is no dream, It is a genuine fact—the only reality. What our subscribers know already will soon begin to dawn upon the whole world— that right here in the Mental Life office has at last been discovered the secret of happiness. How, you ask, can we loan money without any security? In order to understand this, you must first rid yourself of the coarse, physical way of looking at things. Mental money can only be spent in a certain manner. It reacts eventually, of course, upon the physical life, but in actual practice it can only be expended in the mental world—the only real world. Now in ordinary practice, when money is lent, the whole process is one of fear; the man who lends it is afraid that he won't get it back, and the man who borrows it is afraid that either he won't be able to pay it back, or that he will. But under our system, all fear is banished; we borrow and lend freely, knowing that the debtor is obliged to pay us back eventually; for when once he has entered upon the second harmonic plane, he responds only to the vibrations in that plane, and this mears that no one else can get the best of him; therefore if he borrows money, he is bound to get his own return from it in higher values—because there is constant vitratory progress upward—and thus in a short time, he will be able to pay us with interest. What is the use of borrowing mental money? you ask. Mental money represents the power in the psychic uni- verse. Here is a letter just received that explains the whole matter: Dear Gee. Ime. Mit.: I am still using a real pen and.ink (Pardon me, I mean a coarse, physical pen), but that is only because I want to convey to some of my old friends who don’t know yet that they have a subliminal self, just what it means to join the Mental Lifers. Two wecks ago I was just an ordinary commonplace per- son; I had my troubles, and I lived my physical life without the slightest idea that there was anything beyond. I took the common or physical Life every week, and thought I was enjoying myself; well, I suppose I was, in a physical sense. One day I happened to read your announcement. The whole thing struck me as being supremely ridiculous. However, at that time I happened to be near my sideboard, and I fixed my eye on a bottle of Scotch whiskey that was standing there, and at the same time, half in a joke, I repeated to myself, “Here goes a fiver to Gee. Ime. Mit.”” I forgot all about this little incident until about a week later, when one night, about one o'clock in the morn- ing, I saw a row of blue discs as | was coming home from my club; more- over, they were revolving. 1 cannot tell you why, but from that moment all fear dropped away from me. The second day after, as I awoke one morning early, | saw my subliminal self standing by the bedside. Thought it was my wife at first, until it faded away; now I've got so I can call it back at any moment; in fact, I talk to it all the time, and only yesterday the con- ductor on the train (who confided to me that he was a Mental Lifer) wanted to charge me double fare. It didn’t seem possible to me at first, that my physical troubles could be at all affected by this mental change; now I realize that, after all, what we deem physical troubles are in reality only mental ones, which react in the physical world in strange, uncanny forms. After a while, however, I began to realize that back in my consciousness something had happened; that all was changed; that harmony was coming into my life—indeed at that mo- ment I was beginning to slide on to the first harmonic plane. Then I saw my subliminal self and knew that a grand life lay before me. But I am an old business man and saw at (Concluded on page 111) (e) n eae | once t mental I beg: Do yo byas Tama out of getting althou twenty loan v sorbiny monic if Scotch ment, outsidi Ren whiske don't every | record: comicbooks.com