THE NEW AVATAR
From all the foregoing general considerations it may be discerned that the “New Avatar” is strictly that of Scientific Demonstration.
As we use terms in vogue at the present day, it pertains to the field of Natural Science.
This does not imply that it is irreligious, nor unreligious, nor sacrilegious.
When it is clearly apprehended it will be found to be the only thing that harmonizes—not the Institutions of man—but Science, Philosophy, and Religion per se, as departments in human intelligence.
Man will thus discern “the rational order that pervades the universe.”
The purpose and result of such knowledge to man are Harmony, Enlightenment, Courage, and Hope.
Man is the arbiter of his own destiny. He may become the Master of his own Fate. Such are the Illuminati, the “Masters of the Great White Lodge,” the Benefactors of the whole human race, the members of the “School of Natural Science.”
What would I have my readers do? I answer, Investigate! Study! Think! Wait! Hope! Anticipate!
Careful, intelligent, and conscientious investigation will determine the fact that we possess in America to-day one who can fill all the requirements that I have endeavored to designate and portray—not as a “reincarnation” of Buddha or Jesus, but as a “Master”—one who has been duly instructed and prepared, who has had the personal experience, and has made a practical demonstration, that determines Mastership.
He has demonstrated that “there is no death,” but transition only (except through conscious and determined devolution, or suicide of the soul). Man is, after all, and in the last analysis, a “free moral agent.”
As a Member of the “Great School” he was educated and initiated many years ago, and has consecrated his life to this service. He has demonstrated the separability of the soul by leaving and returning to his body at will.
The School of Natural Science; the Great Work; the Individual Representative; the conditions of the present age; the opportunities offered; the demand for real knowledge everywhere; the falling in pieces of creeds and dogmas; the expectancy so often voiced—all of these correspond intimately with what the ancient Aryans designated as “Avataric.”
It is not now the deification of any Individual, but the “apotheosis of Natural Science,” as the foundation and method in the achievement of actual knowledge.
From this actual knowledge will arise a new Faith, not a new religion, but the old Religion of Humanity, precisely as taught and lived by Jesus, Christna, Buddha, and all the other “Redeemers,” and real Avatars of the past.
The “Enemy of all Righteousness,” as already said, have made many attempts to assassinate this Representative of the Great School, but he goes steadily about his own work. These enemies realize the danger to their unholy work, but not the Power back of this great movement. This they can never destroy.
The day of enlightenment has come, and the cry has gone forth, Ho! all ye who are heavy-laden, involved in fear and doubt and uncertainty; bewildered, discouraged, despairing, and committing suicide! There is no death! Man is the Arbiter of his own Fate! Look up and Live, and Hope and Realize!
And there shall dawn for you a new heaven and a new earth in which dwelleth Love and Peace and Righteousness; with Jesus—the Christos—your “elder Brother,” leading the way, and the downtrodden, the poor and despised children of men, shouting Hosanna! for the Loving Kindness that will have taken the place of selfishness, strife, cruelty, superstition, and Dogma.
Religion will no longer be a matter of mere sentiment, nor of emotion, of blind belief, nor of fear, superstition, dogma, nor creed—but a Great Work. So Mote it be.
The author of this volume can lay no claim for it as a systematic treatise on Psychology, either according to the rules of composition or the orderly sequence of science.
It is rather a number of essays, some of which were written without reference to publication, or the design, at the time, of putting them together in a single volume.
There is, therefore, more or less repetition, the same subject under a different title, viewed from a different aspect, yet involving the same principles, motives, and aims.
But the subject of Psychology is so vast, so intricate, so interesting and important, and yet, in the average mind, so confused, and so little known, that considerations from many sides, and even repetitions in the application of a given principle in various ways, are believed more likely to make the whole subject apprehensible to the general reader to whom it is addressed.
Moreover, the author believes that the time has come when Psychology, as a Constructive Science of the nature, laws, and destiny of the Human Soul, need no longer be regarded as unknown or unattainable, but open to all who seek it in the right way, giving to it the consideration, time, and loyalty it so amply deserves.
To such as these, it is hoped, the foregoing pages may give many clews and sidelights, suggestions, encouragement, and hope.
Psychology, to the Author of this volume, means literally A Knowledge of the Human Soul, rather than of treatises upon the subject, or of the opinions, beliefs, or dogmas of men.