ORIGINAL COPY

All three men are now well educated. All three are wealthy. All three are powerful. Now let us inquire into the source of their wealth and power. Thus far we have been dealing only with effect; the true philosopher wishes to understand the cause of a given effect.

It is a matter of general knowledge that Mr. Ford, Mr. Edison and Mr. Firestone are close personal friends, and have been so for many years; that in former years they were in the habit of going away to the woods once a year for a period of rest, meditation and recuperation.

But it is not generally known - it is a grave doubt if these three men themselves know it - that there exists between the three men a bond of harmony which has caused their minds to become blended into a Master Mind, which is the real source of the power of each. This mass mind, growing out of the co-ordination of the individual minds of Ford, Edison and Firestone, has enabled these men to "tune in" on forces (and sources of knowledge) with which most men are to no extent familiar.

If the student doubts either the principle or the effects here described, let him remember that more than half the theory here set forth is a known fact. For example, it is known that these three men have great power. It is known that they are wealthy. It is known that they began without capital and with but little schooling. It is known that they form periodic mind contacts.

It is known that they are harmonius and friendly. It is known that their achievements are so outstanding as to make it impossible to compare these achievements with those of other men in their respective fields of activity. All these "effects" are known to practically every school-boy in the civilized world, therefore there can be no dispute as far as effects are concerned.

Of one fact connected with the cause of the achievements of Edison, Ford and Firestone we may be sure, namely, that these achievements were in no way based upon trickery, deceit, the "supernatural" or so-called "revelations" or any other form of unnatural law.

These men do not possess a stock of legerdemain. They work with natural laws; laws which, for the most part, are well known to all economists and leaders in the field of science, with the possible exception of the law upon which chemistry of the mind is based. As yet chemistry of the mind is not sufficiently developed to be classed, by scientific men, in their catalogue of known laws.

MODERN REVISED COPY

All three men became well educated. All three became wealthy. All three were powerful. What was the source of their wealth and power? So far we have been dealing only with effect; the true philosopher wants to understand the cause of a given effect.

           It is known that Mr. Ford, Mr. Edison and Mr. Firestone were close personal friends for many years and often went together to the woods once a year for a period of rest, meditation and recuperation. But it is not generally known (and it is doubtful that these men knew it) that there was a bond between these men, a bond of harmony that blended their minds into a "Master Mind" that was the real source of their power. This mass mind, growing out of the coordination of the individual minds of Ford, Edison and Firestone, enabled these men to "tune in" on forces with which most men are not familiar.

A student who doubts either the principle or the effects described here should know that more than half the theory is a known fact. For example, it is known that these three men had great power. It is known that they were wealthy. It is known that they began without capital and with little schooling. It is known that they formed periodic mind contacts.

It is known that they were harmonious and friendly. It is known that their achievements were so outstanding it is impossible to compare them with those of other men in their respective fields of activity.  

All these "effects" are known to practically every school-boy in the civilized world; therefore there can be no dispute as far as effects are concerned.

We may be sure of one fact connected with the achievements of Edison, Ford and Firestone; namely, that these achievements were in no way based upon trickery, deceit, the "supernatural," or so-called "revelations" or any other form of unnatural law. These men did not use “slight of hand.” They worked with natural laws that are well known to all economists and leaders in the field of science -- with the possible exception of the law upon which chemistry of the mind is based. The chemistry of the mind is not sufficiently developed to be classified by scientific men in the catalogue of known laws.