=--y--Warning to Number 9.= Be careful of selfishness and sensual desires. You are, in your own passions, your own worst enemy. Be practical in your morals as well as your business. Others are fully as good as yourself and just as likely to be straight and honest, so avoid jealously, envy, covetousness and lust as you would the plague. Keep busy HELPING others and you will avoid much of the so-called evil in the world, especially in YOUR world. =Application of the Seven Principles= =to the Mind Plane= =--a--=FORCE, the First Principle, when applied to the MIND PLANE of Life, shows itself in the strong will, the stubborn Mind. It enables you to take up new habits of thought. This application causes others to listen to your opinions and even to seek those opinions. It will draw the opposite sex to you, where that person is of the intellectual type. Rightly exerted it leads to POWER among your friends and associates. This POWER will be limited only by your knowledge of the reactions that you will arouse through its use. =--b--=CHOICE, the Second Principle, when applied to the MIND PLANE of Life, enables you to choose the best reading matter; the proper teachers for your education; the things you will accept in matters of opinion in religion, art, science or politics. This application gives you what is called good taste. It leads to RICHES of knowledge and intellect. =--c--=ORDER, the Third Principle, when applied to the MIND PLANE of Life, makes you logical and direct. It gives you good concentration, because it keeps you in ORDER in your thoughts and brings you WISDOM in the minds of your friends. This application makes a channel into your own mind of all the best thoughts that have been or will be along the line to which you are applying yourself. ORDER attracts big minds to you, because you and your proposition seems logical to them. ORDER gives you better expressive WISDOM, as to time, place and conditions to present your ideas. =--d--=COHESION, the Fourth Principle, when applied to the MIND PLANE of Life, makes you more continuous in your application to your beliefs and decisions. It gives you STRENGTH of mind and power to make others want to be in your good graces, to do largely as you do. In fact, you may know fairly well how much of COHESION you are exerting on the Mind Plane by the ease with which you hold friendships and the manner in which you are referred to in matters of opinion. With this application strong you will find that you exert a good influence over many and become a tower of strength to a large number of friends.