In the previous lessons I explained in detail all the separate subjects which constitute complete life culture. In this lesson it is my intention to sum up the essentials and place them before you in a condensed form so that you may refer to them and quickly gain the information you need.

When you have not the time to spare to read the detailed lesson, you can refer to this one. I would advise you to read this lesson once a day. The suggestions it contains, if repeatedly recognized by the brain, will soon become a habit in the life and create the desired condition.

At first it may appear that on account of the numerous points covered, that much time must necessarily be spent each day in carrying out the rules, but this is not so. In making a change from your previous method of living to a new and better one, you simply allow one habit to take the place of the other. The time you have been spending in unhygienic living is to now be used for hygienic purposes. The time usually devoted to eating breakfast can be spent in taking the physical and breathing exercises, the cool bath, etc. When the new mode of living has become fully adjusted as a habit, you will find that it requires no more time to live correctly than it did to live unwisely.

Keep the following points ever present in your brain that they may become your guides to a long and healthful life:

Realize clearly and distinctly that the prolongation of life and the attainment of health and beauty are to be secured only by mental and physical co-operation with the laws of Nature.

See clearly before your mental vision the ideal of one hundred years of superb health, youth and beauty and never permit a lesser ideal to obscure the view.

Avoid all habits that limit your normal expression of life and persistently cultivate those habits which renew and invigorate.

Cultivate the right mental attitude. Encourage thoughts that are cheerful, inspiring, confident, courageous and ennobling. Avoid all thoughts that are discordant, fretful, fearful or pessimistic.

Be conscious at all times that your body is being made new by molecular change. Never think of yourself as growing old.

Cultivate the art of concentration by always centering your entire thought and force upon the subject under consideration. Never do anything in a careless manner.

Practice the mental exercises for building a youthful model from which to pattern the body, as instructed in Lesson V.

Form a mental picture of yourself as in possession of perfect health, youth and beauty and affirm your power to make this ideal manifest in your daily life.

Have a definite purpose in life. Be continually interested in some work, study or attainment. A mind without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder. It accomplishes nothing.

Develop your breathing capacity by breathing correctly an abundance of pure air. Never sleep in a room that is not thoroughly ventilated.

Cultivate a correct carriage and poise of the body. Increase the internal and external strength by following the system of natural exercises.

Take at least one moderately long walk in the open air every day, paying particular attention to the correct poise of the body and the natural method of breathing. Look for the beauties of Nature while walking as this will give you inspiration and enthusiasm.

If troubled with constipation, either chronic or acute, don't neglect to take the exercises prescribed for its cure.

Take a cool sponge bath every morning immediately following the regular physical and breathing exercises. A warm bath should also be taken once or twice a week in the evening, just before retiring. Give your entire body a sun bath frequently.

Remember that two meals a day are sufficient to sustain the highest degree of health. That food eaten in excess of the needs of the body is the cause of disease and suffering.

Select a diet of nutritious, easily digested food. Avoid the use of animal flesh, alcohol, coffee and tea.

Masticate thoroughly every morsel of food, remembering that digestion begins in the mouth.

Drink from eight to twelve glasses of distilled water every day. Drink no fluids with your meals, but drink freely between meals, sipping the water slowly and realizing that it will dissolve and carry away the cause of "old age" and bring youth and beauty.

If you already express symptoms of advancing age, eat ripe cured olives or olive oil at every meal, and also rub the body with olive oil before retiring to sleep.

Eat at least one ripe, juicy apple every day, for this fruit is especially rejuvenative. It transforms age into youth.

Eat moderately. Over-eating is a crime, and the direct cause of premature death.

When your appetite is not natural, do not attempt to stimulate it, but fast for from twelve to thirty-six hours. Do not take drugs or stimulants to create an appetite. Nature will inform you when it is in need of more food.

Cultivate the art of relaxation, so that you can completely relax the body at a moment's notice. Avoid all needless tension and do not waste physical or mental energy.

Secure at least eight hours of rejuvenative sleep, and as much more as you find necessary. Relax and allow the bed to hold you.

Wear common sense clothing - that which serves the comfort and hygienic requirements of the body. Avoid excessive clothing and such articles as restrict the normal expansion of the lungs and the circulation of the blood.

Cultivate the highest possible degree of personal beauty by fidelity to the principles of hygiene and by holding the purest and most beautiful thoughts your mind can conceive.

Keep the ideal of love and courtship ever present in your heart and brain. See that you always live and act the part of a devoted, intelligent sweetheart. Cultivate the higher and finer exchange of the sex forces.

Husband and wife should make a loving agreement to blend the united force of their beings, mental and physical, toward the attainment of renewed life and beauty.

Learn to protect yourself from accidents by cultivating a calm, purposeful activity. Take no unnecessary risks of life or limb. Cultivate your intuitive power and be guided by your mental impressions of danger. Listen to the inner voice.

Make a special effort to understand the process of destruction and reconstruction going on within your body. Let the thought that this process is constantly at work rebuilding a new body, penetrate every cell of your brain.

Realize that your concentrated thought is the sculptor of your entire being. Affirm your power to modify and improve your life as you may desire.

Never admit the idea of maturity into your brain Instead realize that the possibilities for unfoldment are unlimited. Make "perpetual youth" your motto.

Have no doubt as to your ability to make a complete and perfect success of demonstrating abundant life. Refuse to accept from others the suggestion of possible failure. Confidently expect to look "younger and stronger each year" as far as would be consistent in realizing superb manhood or womanhood.

Realize that the attainment of enduring health, youth and beauty is not a matter of conquest, but is simply a harmonious co-operation with Nature and its wonderful processes.

Read and study these lessons carefully and frequently. If you find statements herein that are new to you, do not discard them as of no value, but study them thoroughly. As you come more closely into harmony with the laws of correct living, you will gradually realize the truth and value of every statement.

After you have learned these truths and demonstrated them in your own life, carry the message of power to others. By explaining these principles you will gain further strength and power. Avoid argument and do not waste time in trying to convince those who oppose your statements. They are not yet sufficiently advanced to be able to accept and comprehend. Convince them by your own demonstration of abundant life, and not by words.

The way to live one hundred years and retain youth, health and beauty is to so think, speak and act that you are from the most natural standpoint - fit to live.

When you have reached your ideal by living in perfect health and beauty for one hundred years, you can then set up an ideal for another hundred years, and if you continue to improve the physical and mental system as you should, there is no reason why you should not prolong life indefinitely.

My object in setting the period at a hundred years was to give you an ideal that you could grasp, one that to you would seem less hard to demonstrate, than had I said at the commencement that you were to prepare yourself to live indefinitely.

The children of those who follow the rules given in these lessons will naturally inherit a long and healthy life. After a few generations life will become perpetual and death be unknown.

The End.