The menorgs have created many functions in the mental system that can either be developed by man or allowed to decay according to the usage given to them.

The most important of all mental functions is that of reason. And, perhaps that is the function man uses the least.

It requires mental effort to reason and mental effort is more difficult to produce than physical effort.

Man has formed the habit of moving along the lines of the least resistance although reason demands that he shall move along the lines of the greatest resistance in order to obtain mental strength.

Through the development of reason man can acquire the ability to look into the future and learn what is coming instead of looking into the past to learn what has gone by.

The future is life the past is death.

Life requires action—death requires nothing.

The past should be reviewed only to obtain the line of procedure that leads to the future.

Through consciousness man finds himself a living creature trying to understand why he is here and where he is to go.

In order that he may secure knowledge pertaining to the subject he must utilize the same machinery from whence he has derived his consciousness.

Man must begin by studying himself and the conditions under which he exists. He must be careful to start from the right base otherwise his investigation will have no foundation to stand upon.

Consciousness proves that man lives upon a planet that is whirling around the sun from which light and heat is derived and that there are millions of other creatures somewhat similar in looks and actions.

Consciousness shows that adults grow from childhood and as they grow they obtain knowledge from others who communicate their experiences. They learn that others who preceded them left behind intelligible records of their experiences which they weigh and consider and accept as part of their knowledge if proving harmonious to such conclusions as they have already arrived at through their own investigations and after making allowances for certain misrepresentations that they have learned human beings make if some personal gain can be gotten thereby.

Reason expands with truth and contracts with falsity.

So if man considers the truth as demonstrated by facts and does not clog up the mental system with absurdities, the function of reason which the menorgs have built within him for that purpose can by constant and careful practice be developed to form correct conclusions of events which have not yet transpired.

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