2. The term _Individual_ means distinct, concrete, relatively separate. Man being an Individual Intelligence; God is the Universal Intelligence. Just as the organism of man is involved in, and evolved from Universal Nature; so the Intelligence of man is involved in, and evolved from Universal Intelligence. The empirical fact of the intelligence of man presupposes a "sufficient reason" or source. Still we do not know what God and Nature and Intelligence are. We only know _how they manifest_. Our intelligence enables us to observe, reflect, reason, and in some measure apprehend the _method_ and _manifestation_. I am not seeking to build nor unfold a "Philosophy." "Yes," someone replies, "but a philosophy is implied or involved." Very well, let _it_ unfold _itself_. 3. The next empirical fact of prime importance is, The Individual Intelligence, not of man, but which _is_ man, is _aware of itself_, i.e., "self-conscious." It is able to distinguish between the self and the non-self. 4. Again, as to _consciousness_, as with intelligence: We know that man has it and uses it, and what it _does_ to some extent; but we do not know what it _is_, intrinsically, nor do we need to know any of these _ultimates_. The effort to explain them has never ended in anything but confusion. We shall herein name them, and then pass them. 5. We have now postulated a self-conscious, Individual Intelligence, as the real man. Next we find this Man can _do_ things, or _refrain_ from doing; act, or refrain from action. This is called Initiative, Volition, Will. 6. This power of action and of choice, inspired by intelligence, aware of the self, adapts actions to ends. This involves reason and judgment. 7. In the course of experience along the lines of action or restraint, and observing results in either case, the individual desiring or preferring certain results to others, acquires more or less self-control. He controls himself to secure desired results. Here then, in brief outline, are the basis and the elements of our Psychology. They are drawn from common observation and experience, and are verified by the facts of daily life--generally complicated, confused, or lost sight of in treatises on psychology. Two of these factors, viz.: Consciousness and Will, enter into all psychological phenomena such as Hypnotism and Mediumship, and into every form of mental alienation, insanity, obsession and the like. Moreover, by building out of mental phenomena a distinct entity--largely independent of the self-conscious Intelligence, and almost equally so with consciousness--our "philosophies," "metaphysics," and explanations have become as confused and unreliable as the psychical phenomenon itself.