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.