Since the childhood of the race mankind has
been haunted by the knowledge that .all around
him are riches and supplies sufficient to more
than satisfy his every want-if only he could lay
his hands on the. key to. make those fiches
available.
. . You find this thought running through the
ancient Chinese and East Indian legends; you
.meet it II) the tales of Aladdin and Ali Saba
from the Arabian Nights, you corne across it in
the folklore and myth. of every' by-gone people.
Van Dyke tells of. it in the "Lost Word" and'
Longfellow in "Sandalphon."
, In most of these tales, the key takes the form
of same magic word, as in the story of Ali Baba,
where his "Open Sesame!" opened to him the
door of the robbers' treasure cave, containing
. uncounted fiches.
Even among the Jewish Rabbis, there was a
secret cult called the "Cabala," which believed
that writing was revealed to man as a means of
penetrating the Divine mysteries, and that every
letter, every word and number, even every ac-
cent in the Scriptures contains a hidden mean-
ing. And by their system of interpretations, they
arrived at this hidden meaning.
But there was one word that was lost, and this
word was the most important of all-the secret
name of God! One of the very foundation
stones of the ancient Jewish religion was that
the knowledge of the secret name of God enabl-
ed anyone who possessed it to perform the
most marvelous Psychic Deeds.
This secret name was said to have been
revealed 'to Moses by God himself, taught by
him to Aaron and handed down to the High
Priests of Israel. It was the secret enshrined in
the Holy of Holies. It was the supreme object of
all attainment, for with it one could do
anything.
The possession of this secret name was believ-
ed to be the power by which Moses was able to
overcome all the might of the Pharaohs, to br-
ing down the ten plagues upon Egypt while
keeping his own people free, to divide the Red
Sea, to lead the Israeli tes through the wilderness
to the edge of the Promised Land. Elijah had it,
and Elisha-all the great wonder-workers of
antiquity-and by it they cured the sick and the
crippled, by it they defeated great armies, by it
they even raised the dead.
Sounds incredible, of course, but the strange
part is that It Is True! To him who knows .the
secret name of God, all things are possible. It is
the Lost Word of Psychic Power, the "Open
Sesame!"
of Aladdin,
the "Schem-
Hammaphoraseh" of the Israelites. What is
more, YOU can learn it. Not only learn it, but
USE it!
How?
"The Word is near unto us," we are assured
in Deuteronomy, "even in our hearts and in our
mouths." But how get hold of it?
In the Book of Job, we are told that "If there
be a messenger with us, an interpreter, we shall
be delivered from going down into the pit."
And again in Job, we are assured that by acquainting ourselves with God, we shall not only
be at peace, but shall lay up gold as dust and
have plenty of silver.
On through both the Old and the New
Testaments, we are told that if we possess certain understanding, all things we desire shall be
ours-riches and honour, health, happiness and
triumph over our enemies. And again and again
we are given the records of those who triumph-
ed through such understanding.
The Bible might well be called the Book of
Promise, so many and so varied are the promises of good in it. And through all of these promises there runs this common element-the
idea that if we acquire certain wisdom, certain
understanding,
all good things will be given us.
Job makes them contingent upon rightly interpreting a certain message. The Psalms speak
of their attainment,
through
"ways made
known unto Moses." Solomon adjures us to
seek first understanding,
and all else will
follow.
Similar promises are to be found in the Vedas
and the sacred books of other old religions.
For an idea to persist through so many ages,
it must have at least a grain of truth back of it.
And that there is more than a grain of truth in
these promises, we think you will agree when
you have read the following.
"Lord of a thousand worlds, I AM;
I've reigned since Time began;
And night and day, in cyclic sway,
Pass by while their deeds 1 scan.
Yea, Time shall cease ere 1 find release,
For I AM the Soul of Man."