For one to comprehend the nature of mentality one must first realize that space without size extends everywhere and that its contents obtain size only by comparing one thing with another.

It must also be understood that the physical contents of space known as matter are capable of indefinite divisibility causing penetrability by its difference in densities.

Furthermore to be able to grasp the nature of these different densities the mind must be taken both up and down the scale by the power of scope.

Without the physical power of scope one must then be blessed with the power of mental vision to understand such things.

The natural scope of man is to see substances that are necessary to his method of existence such as solids and liquids.

But he cannot see air, heat or electricity because they are of densities of a different scope. For that reason it is no easy task to educate him in the difference of densities that causes penetrability and the general movement of matter by the power of suction and pressure.

The human mind which has been developed to understand only such conditions of which it is a part, or comes within close proximity to, cannot of course, grasp a condition with which it has never become familiar—not, at least, without having extensive powers of forethought and reason.

Now, mentality is a substance that is not within man’s scope to see but still he can feel it and use it and be benefited by it.

Mentality is a substance of lesser density which man cannot see but which he can understand by its effects.

The eyes of man cannot see heat but he can understand it by its effects, he can feel it.

So the eyes of man cannot see mentality but he can feel its effects.

Water is of a greater density than mentality. That comes within man’s scope and sphere. He can see it, and harness it and measure it and utilize it.

Mentality is of a lesser density than water and comes within the sphere and scope of the menorgs who can see it and harness it and measure it and utilize it.

Matter is everywhere in space. It is pushed and pulled about by suction and pressure and integrated and disintegrated perpetually.

Mentality is a part of matter which is drawn together by Suction and forced apart by Pressure. It is utilized as a medium for the dissemination of intelligence.

Human intelligence is collected in quantities according to the quality of the mental system that receives it.

Constant exercising of the mental functions in constructiveness creates expansion of those organs which develops greater efficiency for absorbing it.

The only limit to human intelligence is caused by the lack of exercising the mental functions properly.

The chief governing functions of the mental system are located in the brain which is a mass of cells and tissue that almost fills the cavity inside of the skull. It has three parts—cerebrum, cerebellum and medulla oblongata—each of which has separate governing functions.

The weight of the brain of an adult will average about three pounds. Its weight and size is increased by concentrated thinking. It obtains its fuel for power from substances brought to it by the blood.

The brain is made of two kinds of materials—gray matter composed largely of cells that are operated by the menorgs and white matter consisting principally of fibers through which the currents of mentality pass to all parts of the body.

The cerebrum, in which the mind is located, is in the topmost and largest part of the brain. It is covered with deep furrows and convolutions and is divided into two parts by a groove extending from front to rear. The right half controls the left side of the body and the left half controls the right side of the body.

The cerebellum, in which the muscle control is centered, lies at the back of the head beneath the cerebrum.

The medulla oblongata is situated between the main brain and spinal cord. It is about one and a quarter inches in length and controls the heart action, breathing, swallowing and the expansion and contraction of the blood vessels of the vaso-motor system.

Connecting with the medulla oblongata and running downward inside of the spinal column is a circular cord about a half-inch in diameter known as the spinal cord which terminates at the lower end of the back bone.

The spinal cord is protected on all sides by the vertebrae of the spine and is also covered with soft membranes. It is also divided into halves, like the brain, by a groove running up and down both sides of it. There are thirty-one mental channels running off each half of the spinal cord.

The spinal cord containing the cells of the menorgs and the mental fibers through which the currents of mentality flow are composed of the same gray and white matter as the brain. The gray matter containing the cells is located in the center and the white matter made up of the mental fibers is on the outside of it.

There are two mental channels—sensory and motory.

The sensory channel carries from all parts of the body to the mental centers and brain the impressions felt by the skin, tongue, nostrils, eyes and ears.

The motory channel conveys the orders issued from the brain through the mental centers to the different muscles of the body.

One channel is used by the brain for receiving messages and the other channel is used by the brain for sending messages.

Each channel from the spinal cord starts from the cells in the center of the cord and passes between the vertebrae and outward to the different parts of the body connecting with the brain. Each of these channels comes from the cord in the two branches known as roots.

The anterior root conveys orders from the brain to the muscles and the posterior root carries the impressions from the skin and other organs to the spinal cord and brain.

When the two branches combine, they form a mental trunk which is made up into a bundle of innumerable mental fibers by which means every menorg operating the mental instruments of every cell in every muscle or every part of the skin receives from and sends to the brain messages. The substance mentality is used in the transmission of these mental messages according to the same principles that the substance sound is used in the transmission of oracular messages.

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