Personality

f death, I will fear no evil." We are all acquainted with the unpoised man the self-conscious, negative creature; the one who "doesn't know" and who says "I can't." The whole world is full of a great skulking apologetic crowd, who cannot even come into our presence without carrying with them the atmosphere of begging to be excused for being born. This is the expression of the unpoised man, and it is he who has caused all the trouble between labor and capital in the world, and will continue to cause it until the "I" in all these individuals is lifted up and placed where it should be by themselves. It never occurs to them that they can brace up and look the whole world in the face; and that they do not have anything they do not want; they do not know how to say "no" and will never say "no" to things unless they will; they simply go on allowing themselves to be bullied to death by stronger wills, which would gladly give them everything they want if they knew how to get it; they whine, groan and curse, and then strikes and bombs tell the rest of their unpoised story. The poised man does not need any of this, in fact, he will not accept it; he is strong and creative; he knows what he wants and how to get it; he is not influenced by outside talk; he has inborn right of purpose; he is neither sick, poor nor down-trodden, simply because he refuses to be; no sweat shops for him, and if he ever runs one himself it is because he, like a thousand others, sees this great world full of unpoised human lives in which they can traffic, which seems only fit to be sweated, and because he, with others of his kind, has not learned that greatest of all humanitarian lessons "as ye did it unto the least of these, ye did it unto me." The power of poise is great when used for evil; it is Divine when directed toward the uplifting of self and the race. The first step toward poise is to cast out fear; there is nothing in all the world of which we need be afraid; we must know this, say it, feel it and live it until it stands out in our lives a part of our every action and we have passed into mental freedom. Be sure that we are the highest expression of life on this plane and have absolute dominion over our lives; we must never waver in our mental mastery; after we have secured our own freedom, set about getting it externally; we can have what we want and what we want is the very best thing for us to have; it is our consciousness trying to get into expression; do not let anyone