In thine OWN day and age, look at what happened to those as
in the era when Leiter [?] [Joseph Leiter, capitalist, son
of Levie Z. Leiter, born Chicago 1868, died Chicago 1932?]
chose to use such knowledge, such an understanding of those
conditions and commodities that dealt with the very food of
the world.
Look at those in the more recent of Livingston [?] [Jesse
Livermore?] [Gerald Livingston?], when the break came in
twenty-nine ('29) and swept him, with others that became the
factors in the activities of the money powers of the earth.
And look at what their bodies, minds and souls are today!
Are ye willing, then, to pay such a price?
Are ye willing that such shall be thine OWN temptation? that
ye are to build within thine experience that which will give
thee, in thine own personal self, the right to say Yea and
Nay to thy brother in want here and there?
Are ye willing to take, rather, that of knowledge - as
Elisha, thine OWN helpmeet oft - and not look for the power
as may bring self effacement [self destruction?] but to use
same in such a manner as that the lowliest, yea those in
authority, yea thy fellow man that ye meet day by day will
call thee blessed?
Or is it POWER alone ye seek?
As to the manners, then - these ye MUST determine within
thine OWN consciousness; and these ye would weigh well with
thy purpose through this material experience.
For know, ye ARE constantly meeting thine OWN self! Not that
an individual is not to be endowed with purposes, desires and
the like in relationship to his fellow man - or to conditions
of every nature whether they be social, economic, political
or what not. But for what purpose are these positions chosen
by thyself?
Are ye to keep well-balanced? Are ye to keep the influences
and the activities in those directions in which ye may know
ever that thy purpose is that the glory of the Father-God is
to be daily manifested in thy dealings with thy fellow man?
Or are ye to become a lord, a god within thine own right;
that ye may say to this one, "Go," or to this one "Stay" and
he doeth it?
These ye must weigh well.
Choose thou. For today, ever - as today, there is set before
thee life and death, good and evil; choose thou.
As to individuals' activities in relationships to short moves
of stocks and the like; that manner which has been chosen by
Arthur Cohen is nearer to the manner than any now being
applied in the market. And what is he doing with same?
As to means or finance or money, over-flowing. As to mental
and physical and spiritual - a rake, a wreck!
Yet these from figures, from data, are gathered as this:
All factors enter into producing an influence, yet all of
these factors are as naught when there are groups or combines
of one mind that determine - for the day, for the week, for
the month - to control an individual stock. Yet general
trend, the purpose when there is considered the astrological,
the numerological and the activities of those that go to make
any individual stock's activity - what is the purpose of that
group association or corporation?
If it is that they are to serve their fellow man in a manner
commensurate with the effort expended by the corporation,
then such a stock may be judged and the trend may be seen -
by the combination of the influences astrologically and
numerologically of the organization of such a corporate
activity.
When those influences arise that come from fear or of
unforeseen acts, that are called of the nature that arise
from unnatural or from acts of God - then these factors
become as naught.
Yet he that has set his purpose for determining for the GOOD
OF THE ALL, and not for SELF, may be forearmed by being
forewarned.
We are through for the present.
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BACKGROUND
See
826-8 on
8/11/36 and subsequent Reports.
REPORTS
1/10/38 P.M. He continued questioning in re rules or formula
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826-10.



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