WARFARE AND VICTORY are ordained by Nature as means of progress and success. They are as much acts of instincts as are the four appetites. The latter are established so that, when properly used, they may carry on existence in a necessary manner to necessary ends. But as they are essential in life, they are always supercharged with danger. Like electricity, if given free scope, the excess kills. Because of the dangers locked up in the four appetites, we are compelled to carry on a most obstinate warfare against them, and wage it until there can be no doubt about the final outcome. Victory must be assured, and must be permanent.

Until this victory has been achieved, magnetism will be kept on the defensive, and we have learned that any person or cause that remains always on the defensive, is under adverse control.

We have found that it is better to wage the war at the very beginning of this study; to understand what is threatening success; to meet the issue manfully and squarely, and to win the greatest victory of life.

The goal of magnetism is to WIN, If you ran win now against these natural enemies, you can win anything in life that you wish. Put this to the test. There are two classes of enemies working against magnetism: 1. Those that are inborn or natural. 2. Those that arc acquired.

When both classes of enemies are overcome the result is natural personal magnetism, or that high grade of power that is called a gift; and it is always better to possess natural gifts than those that must come from hard lifelong struggle, taking too much time and effort. This distinction is so important that it should be kept always in mind.

The inborn or natural enemies of magnetism are the Four Appetites that we have described. In this lesson our work is to show the way of giving them one great battle and thus secure a victory that will never be wrested from the winner.

It is an old saying and a true one that he who rules himself is greater than he who rules a city. We can extend it to read that he is greater than the grandest king who ever lived. In ruling yourself, you must win over the two classes of enemies; over the Four Appetites; and over the foes that you have acquired and taken into your camp as associates. Here we have the story of nations and organizations told over again in tabloid form. Everybody and everything has two enemies, those without and those within. Every nation has had this twofold danger. Napoleon, the greatest master of mental magnetism when in his successful career, made use of another law that served him well. Just as soon as a successful campaign was ended and he had come home to France to give attention to its needs, the usual unrest and intrigue began, and foes within were eating at the vitals of the nation. To offset this he invented stories of danger from foes abroad. The effect of this law is that a threatening outward enemy will cause a disintegrating inward condition to mend itself. Home enemies unite to fight a common cause such as an outward enemy. The plan succeeded even to the end of his reign.

The process we employ herein begins with the overcoming of the outward or natural enemies; then we proceed to drive out of camp the hidden foes that are lurking there to destroy our newly acquired power.

This lesson we have named Mental Magnitude, or the greatness of the mind as an agent of warfare. The battle is waged in a series of steps. The first step is to recognize the Four Appetites. The second step is to recognize the nature of each. The third step is to recognize the danger attending the activity and control exerted by each. The fourth step is an honest inventory of the influence over your life and habits resulting lever control they exercise over you. The fifth and final step is to create within yourself a Mental Magnitude sufficient to completely master the Four Appetites. Let us unfold this method:

1. The Four Appetites are the stomach, the sexual, the greed, and the spiritual.

2. The nature of each has been fully explained in the lessons just preceding this; and they should be thoroughly reviewed.

3. The danger attending the activity of each in its control over you, is indicated very fully in these lessons. What you should do is to make yourself familiar with them.

4. The fourth step is to be taken now, and with it the final step, the creation of Mental Magnitude, or a mind big enough to make you ruler of yourself, and therefore greater than he who rules a city or a nation.

There are several vital laws that are at work in establishing this power and these we will state in simple form so that they may be easily understood:

FIRST VITAL LAW:—Mental Magnitude is a form of personal power that is greater than the combined power of the Four Appetites.

SECOND VITAL LAW:—Mental Magnitude, by enabling a person to escape the attitude of being continually on the defensive in life, which means being under adverse control, brings immediately to every man and woman who acquires this Magnitude the power of personal magnetism as a natural gift. THIRD VITAL LAW:—Mental Magnitude, working in another channel of influence, tends toward the development of the power known as the control of Mind over Matter. It is a very great step in that direction. FOURTH VITAL LAW:—While the control of Mind over Matter is now present only as an instinct, and in very crude form, it is greatly increased by the building up of Mental Magnitude in developing personal magnetism as a natural gift. FIFTH VITAL LAW:—Mental Magnitude is readily acquired and firmly established by the practice of shifting the defensive attitude to that of the aggressive, and thus removing all adversecontrol. SIXTH VITAL LAW:—The menial determination acting in any direction, if given sufficient strength, it capable of accomplishing the greatest things in life; on the principle that what a man determines with all the power of his mind to do, he will do, and nothing can prevent the consummation sought. It is readily seen that we are laying the foundation of personal magnetism as a natural gift.

SEVENTH VITAL LAW:—The simplest and at the same time the most effective method of practicing mental determination is had in the system known as the Regime of Mental Magnitude. This will appear in the next lesson.

Books might be written on the subject of the control of Mind over Matter in its now crude form, in which it appears chiefly as visitations of instinct. But what its purpose is, as it now influences humanity, is not known. The familiar example of this crude form is seen in the oft quoted case of the man who comes home hungry and sits down to a generous dinner, well prepared and highly inviting. He has eaten a part of the meal when a telegram is handed him, which he reads. The blood leaves his face and he is deathly pale, the gastric juice refuses to flow into the stomach and his partly eaten dinner remains undigested. His appetite, which was vigorous, is gone. Yet all that has happened is the intelligence, conveyed to his mind, that he has lost his entire fortune in an unfortunate investment.

His respiration drops to almost nothing; his heart is barely able to carry on its beating; and his whole body totters as he proceeds from the table to his room above where he falls upon the bed. It is not difficult to understand why he suffers mental anguish, but why the influence of his mind should control the material body, is a mystery. Every function is subjected to the mastery of his thought.

This is only one of many thousands of instances showing that the mind can and does control the body; or in other words that there is such a thing as the control of Mind over Matter.

It is not alone bad news that will affect digestion. Good news plays its part both ways. Another oft quoted example is found in the case of a very beautiful young lady whose parents were rich enough to give her all the comforts and luxuries of life; and who yet fell into anemic ill health and could not be brought back to a normal condition. Every possible method and treatment were tried, but in vain. At length her parents began a campaign of discussion and preparation for a magnificent trip abroad, including visits to places that held great attractions for her. Books, pamphlets and folders were read and studied; and she was advised to make an itinerary for the journey. Still she did not show any signs of getting better. Then the doctor made the following mental experiment; consisting of a long letter which he wrote in apparent confidence to her father, in which he said that the young lady was not well enough to undertake so great a trip abroad; some day she was sure to get well; but not now; and the journey must be postponed to a future year. By seeming accident this letter fell into her hand. She read it, and replaced it, and said not a word. But her mind took on at once the mental determination to get well. She resolved to get well. She did get well.

Ordinarily the prospect of a trip abroad or some pleasing venture, will increase the health when other means fail; but such improvement is generally temporary. On the other hand when the MIND sets itself into a fixed determination, real and lasting results follow. This is a well known law of psychology. Great doctors employ it. The public statement of Thomas A. Edison, who is probably the greatest man now living, all things considered, asserts that his grandfather and also his father both died by the determination to do so. We quote here the exact words of Mr. Edison published some years ago in a leading magazine: "My grandfather ate carefully and lived to be one hundred and four. No disease killed him. He was perfectly well up to the time that he died. He lost interest in life. The Dells of which his body was composed were anxious to get away. So my grandfather told his children that he was going to his daughter's house to die. He went to her home; undressed; went to bed; AND DIED. There was nothing the matter with him. Be was simply tired of life. And my father died the same way. They had found that the secret of long life and perfect health layin right eating. As for me I eat only because I want to live.

As aresult my body is not poisoned with decaying, surplus food.

Myarteries are as soft as a child's." There are published in books many instances of the power of themind over the body; of the mental magnitude that, instead of being swayed and enslaved by advene control as of the Four Appetites and other enemies, rises superior to them all, and mastersthem. By this process have come the great men and women of the world.