REGENERATION 
SPECIAL METHODS 
For Men and for Women 
WITH SPECIFIC DIRECTIONS 
How to Calculate the Times Dangerous to 
Conservators 
BY 
KENNETH SYLVAN GUTHRIE 
♦ • ' ) ■ 
(M.A., Sewanee, Univ, of the South; Ph.D., Tulane; A.M., Harvard; 
M.D., Med. Chir. College, Philadelphia.) 
THE THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY 
244 LENOX AVENUE 
NEW YORK CITY, U. S. A. 
London: LUZAC & CO., 56 Great Russell Street, W. C. (Copyright, 1905, by Kenneth S. Guthrie.) 
Entered at Stationers' Hall. All Rights Reserved. 
INDEX. 
I. 
Conservation-Calculations. 
II. FOR MEN. 
How to Capture the Daily Vitality-Germ. 
I. The Vitality Germ. 
2. Main Reason for Watching. 
3. Facts of Experience. 
4. Aborted Experiences. 
5. Great Remedies. 
6. Allowable Sleep. 
7. God's Forgiveness. 
8. Watching a Cure for Constipation. Degrees of Sleep; Methods for Over- 
coming Sleep. 
9. Appendix for Women. 
Have I Succeeded ? 
III. FOR WOMEN. 
I. A Practical Introduction to Conservation for Women. 
II. Regeneration for Women: How and Why Conservation Applies to 
Women. 
III. Regeneration Applied for Women : Drills. 
1. The Negative Emotion Drill. 
2. The Positive Emotion Drill. 
3. The Hate Drill. 
4. The Direct Drill. 
5. The Sleep Drill. 
6. The Pelvic Drill. 
7. The Wheel Drill. 
8. The Fear Drill. 
9. The Memory Drill. 
10. The Muscle-Consciousness Drill. 
II. The Astral Consciousness Drill. 
12. General Considerations. ConBrervadion-Cedculadiomr: 
Whskt They Are and How To Do Them. 
It has been found by many that they cannot understand 'Regeneration Applied' 
and the Danger-Charts. While the cause of this is to seme extent that they do not 
study the Instructions carefully, we propose (if God smiles on the project by giving 
us the means) to publish a line of Instructions that shall be so awfully plain that 
it will be a man's own fault if he does not grasp them. help us in this we will 
appreciate if those who have any difficulties will kindly sene them to us. But we 
will not answer any unless the question is distinct and clear, and the writer be a 
subscriber to the 'Prophet' or (what costs no money) belongs to the B.E.C. 
How can a man of your education have anything to do with As- 
trology? 
Gently, my friend; in the first place it is not quite so sure that 
Astrology is quite so contemptible (if we are not to judge what we 
have not studied). In the second place you are exposing your own 
ignorance in confusing Astrology with Charafter-study. Now please 
try and understand and remember the dilference, for the sake of 
both of us. Astrology pretends to do the impossible thing of predict- 
ing the events of a life-time, whether fortunate or str a- ; Char- 
adter-study is merely experimental ethics, simply studying the char- 
acter with which you were born, its failings and virtues, and how to 
improve it. 
fery well, then; why do you waste your time in Character-study? 
Because I have to. In trying to conserve I (and all other con- 
servators) have found that I had difficulties whenever the moon 
was in certain positions, and these dangerous positions correspond- 
ed exadly to the astronomical conditions at the time of birth. Now 
common sense shows that it is foolish to go on stumbling blindly 
when one can predift these times of danger to the hour? And as 
far as success goes, this knowledge is, for the average man, a ne- 
cessity. Of course, it is conceivable that there are men so watchful 
persistent and wise that they will never be off guard, and so dis- 
cerning as never to be deceived by his feelings, or the wiles of the 
enemy. You may be such a man; but if so you are the exception; 
years of failure have shown me I at least cannot afford to do with- 
out any help, much less the greatest of all, which changes conser- 
vation from chance to certainty, as science changed alchemy to 
chemistry. Cony'ervsdion-CaJculadiork/': 
What They Are a.nd How To Do Them* 
I 
Why do you not use the old well-known names ef the signs instead 
of changing them to the absurd ones of Brains, Feet, etc, ? 
For two reasons. First, because they are obscure; second, because 
they are inaccurate. I, obscure: not mentioning at all the fact that 
among other than the Latin traditions the names and divisions of 
the Zodiac are entirely different, the traditional Latin names do not 
indicate what part of the body they govern, they are very fanciful. 
Our names on the contrary are plain statements of the facts, de- 
manding no other unconnected facts to be remembered. And the 
letters we use to denote them are simply the first letters of these 
words; F for Foot, B for Brain. 2, Inaccurate. The worst of the 
old terminology is, that it is entirely inaccurate. By the precession 
of the equinoxes which takes place every year, the earth does not 
return to exacty the same spot each year, and by these little diffe- 
rences for thousands of years the apparent positions of the skies at 
the constellations from which the signs were named have by two- 
thirds moved out of the astronomical sign of that name, so that at 
the present time the constellation Aries is in the astronomical sign 
Piscis, and so all the way around. This gives rise to an endless 
confusion, and in a thousand year more the signs wil have changed 
wholly. So you see it is not a matter of fancy, but necessity, the 
cnange of names. 
II 
What are the main times of danger? 
The main times of danger are when the moon or any of the pla- 
nets are in any of your four vital signs, or when these signs are ri- 
sing. Conservation- Calculations III 
Ill 
What do you mean by rising sign? 
The earth turns on its axis once a day, daily, and therefore the 
horizon daily traverses once each of the twelve divisions of the 
Zodiac, taking about two hours to each one. Now whichever one 
of those twelve divisions happens to be on the eastern horizon is 
for the time being called the rising sign. To make the matter clea- 
rer we have given it a new name, the dawning dodecatemory or 
hour-pair. These words are preferable for the following reasons: 
x Dawning', This, we prefer to rising, because, strictly, it is the 
earth turning and not the sky rising. 2 Dodecatemory. A good, 
classic English word found in the Dictionary, meaning strictly a 
twelfth part, and is preferable to sign, because the word sign might 
refer to the astronomical sign on the constellation, which, as pre- 
viously explained, differ by two thirds. 3 Hour pair: This word 
suggested itself because a dodecatemory or sign is measured in as- 
tronomical language by two sidereal hours. 
For purposes of their own the astronomers have agreed to apply 
to the celestial equator two kinds of terms, meaning the same thing. 
Because it is a circle they have divided it into 360 degrees and be- 
cause once in 24 hours the revolution of the earth discovers it com- 
pletely, it was divided into 24 hours sidereal time, so that sidereal 
time has nothing to do with earthly time and is only a convenient 
term. It is also called Right Ascension, so that there are really three 
names for the same thing. Conservation- Calculations IV & V 
IV 
What are one's vital signs? 
The vital signs are those signs which affect one through life in 
the matter of exciting vitality. Because at the moment of birth ei- 
ther the moon or the earth was in one of them, or one of them 
was at that moment rising. They are as follows: I The earth-sign 
(referred to as E.H.P.) the sign in which the earth was at birth. 
2 The conception-sign (referred to as C.H-P.) the si gnin which 
the earth was at the time of conception. 3 The moon-sign (refer- 
ed to as M.H-P.) the sign in which the moon was at moment of 
birth. 4 'The Rising-sign (referred to as D.H-P.) the sign which 
was on the eastern horizon at the moment of birth. These are your 
four vital signs and they affect you as long as you live, as any one 
will find out who takes the trouble to notice himself, wether you 
are man or woman. Of course the influence on women is so plain 
that they cannot deny it, but the logically corresponding influence 
on men is just as true and as readily noticeable by observation. 
V 
Why should one's vital signs affect one all through life? 
Many seem to think it strange or unreasonable that the position 
of the heavenly bodies at brith should affect the nature of the child 
dorn, but it is a strictly scientific and logical proposition to suppose 
that any and all existing natal conditions have some influence on 
the organism. This is directly in line with the strictly materialistic 
view, that life is the adjustment between the organism and environ- 
ment, especially at the time of birth when the child is so extreme- 
ly impressionable that even the thoughts of the mother result often 
in physical difformities. 
Part of the reason why these objections are urged, is on account 
of the old astrological claim, that the natal aspect of the heavens, 
at birth decided irrevocably the future events of the life. Now cha- 
racter-study has nothing to do with events, it only emphasize.® and 
carries out to its logical conclusion the scientific experimental fact 
that uatal circumstances irrevocably decide of the nature (physical 
- body and mental-character) of the child. Conservation-Calculations KI 
VI 
Has Chara<Uer-Study then nothing whatever to do with the fu- 
ture events of the life? 
Only so much as the nature, charafter and will influence his ac- 
tions under the events that might happen-as a war, a business 
complication, etc. But these future conditions are for the most 
part undecided till some short time before they occur, whereas the 
child's natural character is fixed once for all at birth, physically, at 
least. Do not misunderstand us. The circumstances of birth decide 
absolutely of the physical nature, and the times of danger. It is, 
however, to be hoped that every human being will sufficiently un- 
derstand the meaning, and grasp the opportunity of life to over- 
come the bad traits in his nature, and strengthen the good ones. 
While we do not wish to start here the interminable discussions 
of the Free Will Controversy, this seems a fitting place for a few 
common-sense statements, for the benefit of astrologers. 
It is well that men are born with a reasonably fixed charafter, 
or there would be no leverage, no known starting-point out from 
which to alter the charafler. 
But if the fixed Fate demanded by the astrological scheme(there 
are many well-meaning astrologers who fail to think so far) were 
true, then morality, responsibility, and amendment were mistakes; 
for a responsibility that could not affeft any event either way is 
simply a lie or a quibble, a warning of something quite unavoid- 
able a cruel sport of fiends (and we do know that the Unseen 
Helpers who are not cruel do warn us), and a pang of conscience 
(such as we do feel) would be impossible if all deeds were forced. 
The truth is that we have a fixed sub-conscious charafler, and a 
free consciousness. Chains of events can generally be altered only 
at the critical periods, which we are sometimes quite conscious of 
deciding. Astrology therefore cannot be true; its many good pre- 
dictions being no greater in number than its many failures. This 
is not to defame Astrology, which has its uses, but to explain our 
Charader-study. Conservation-Calculations, VII & VIII 
VII 
What is the relative importance of the Vital Signs? 
First, the Earth-sign, next the Moon-sign; then the Horizon- 
sign, and last, the Conception-sign. 
With some, however, it would seem as if the Horizon-sign af- 
fected the body and its accidents more than any other. 
VIII 
Outside the Vital Signs, are there no other signs that are dange- 
rous? 
Yes. The planetary positions at birth, especially the position of 
those planets which have a greater influence on the body. Mercu- 
ry, Venus and Mars. These may indeed interfere with the usual 
order of importance of the Vital Signs as given above. 
Where the same sign, or group of signs is indicated by several 
planets, or by one planet and a vital position, or by several vital 
positions, that one's influence of course predominates. 
A complete chart would therefore also show the passage of the 
closer, and also of the larger planets both through his vital signs, 
and through their own signs-that is, the particular signs tradition- 
ally assigned to them, in which they seem, at least, to exert great- 
er influence. 
All these refinements of danger-times the intelligent Conservator 
should carefully note, and watch. This will open to him a most 
fascinating field of study. Did we say fascinating ? This does not 
half express its interest-and the experience of the writer has ve- 
rified the statement of Hiram Butler that there is a certain divine 
benediction on whoever engages in it. Conservation- Calculations IX 
IX 
Is not all this teaching of yours about dangerous signs theoretic 
only? 
By no means. It was only through the experience of more than 
several years that the writer himself became quite convinced that 
several signs were dangerous to him, and only after discovered the 
reason why. 
But might not the danger of these signs be due, by the law of 
Suggestion, to the knowledge that these were his Vital Signs, in 
which danger might be expected? 
One particularly interesting and significant case occurred. By 
long experience he had found that the Brain-dx^c\ (Aries) was in- 
variably dangerous to him. But why? A friend suggested that it 
was his Conception-sign, and the writer, then young, placed con- 
fidence in his friend, and accepted it as such. But, about a 
year later, reflefting on the matter, he became convinced that 
there must be a mistake about the matter, inasmuch as the Con- 
ception-sign is reckoned from the Earth-sign, nine months before, 
or, for the sake of convenience, the equivalent three months after. 
But surely, Aries was three months before Cancer-Leo, and there- 
fore could not be his Conception-sign. But what was it then? 
The writer did not know his Horizon-sign. He determined to in- 
vestigate the matter, and after six months of unpleasant corres- 
pondence managed to elicit from the authorities of his birth-place, 
Dundee, Scotland, the exaft birth-time, which was n p.m., at 
which time the Brain-dx^n. Aries was rising at the horizon, on July 
22, 1871. Nobody can claim that suggestion was the cause of the 
danger, in this instance, at least. Conservation- Calculations X 
X 
Is it not conceivable that some persons will have some signs that 
are peculiarly dangerous to them? 
Doubtless our reasonings are not ultimate, and there must be 
many reasons to us unknown and perhaps almost unknowable why 
certain signs might, in addition to the Vital and Planetary Signs, 
be dangerous to the Conservator. But how shall these be located ? 
The writer once located them as follows for one of his students. 
The latter sent him a list of the exaft times of such of his misfor- 
tunes as were not attributable to any known direft cause, extend- 
ing over almost a year. Of these were chosen 22, whose 
time of occurrence was known to the minute. The corresponding 
moon-position, and horizon-sign were ascertained and considered. 
Very remarkable results were discovered in the matter of agree- 
ment between the dangers of the Lunar and Rising influences. 
Class I. No occurences A lunar and rising, G lunar, N, S rising. 
- II. i B N,C,-, F . 
- III. 2 S,P,F-, C,K . 
- IV, 3 T K , P,G . 
- V, 4 R,H 
- VI, 5 ' H . 
_ VII, 6 R . 
On examining this table it will be found that 
I, With the exception of G, which, strange to say, in everv in- 
stance we have elsewhere investigated, has also turned out to be 
a most uncertain sign, and for most people dangerous, 
2, All the other signs remain in the same or next Class of fre- 
quency of occurence, both as to Lunar and Rising positions; and, 
3, Strange to say, two signs, R and H, together make up one 
half of all the occurrences, and are, both of them about equally 
dangerous in Lunar or Rising position. Conservation- Calculations X 
Analyzing these results first generally, we find confirmation o» 
our teaching given elsewhere that signs are equally dangerous in 
Lunar or Rising position-that is, that the influence of a sign is e- 
qually important when it is rising on the horizon, as when the 
Moon is in it. 
Analyzing these results now for the individual, it is evident that 
these two signs were to him the most dangerous; and knowing this 
he never need have had trouble with them, by preparing himself 
against them by exceptional watchfulness. Thus had he found out 
by experiment that these two signs were the most dangerous 
for him, something which, perhaps, we could not otherwise have 
foretold. For the student did not know the hour of his birth, so 
that either R or H might have been his Rising Sign; but as he 
knew that H was the natal position of Saturn, R was probably his 
Rising Sign. But, say you, what of his Earth-sign and Moon-sign 
which are suppoosed to be the most important, almost ? His was 
one of those measurably rare cases in which these coincided, and 
consequently the danger of either F influence much neutralized. 
In such cases H as the most vital and interior of the signs is sup- 
posed to preponderate, which is also verified in this case, explain- 
ing the otherwise mysterious prominence of H, for which the 
mere Saturn-position could hardly account. 
The writer insists that such experimental work is quite necess- 
ary, and will probably always be, inasmuch as there will always 
be persons who do not know their birth-dates exa&ly, and because 
there will not probably ever be perfect calendars, both because of 
the rarity of persons both willing to, and capable of doing the 
work, and the stupid lack of cooperation among spiritual people. Conservation- Calculations XI 
XI 
How do I find what my vital signs are ? 
One finds one's vital signs from different sources. 
First, the Earth-Sign. This is found easily by simply inspecting 
the table below. 
The Conception-Sign is found by taking the ninth sign before the 
birth sign. For the sake of convenience instead of counting nine 
signs back, you can count three signs forward, which amounts to 
the same thing. 
The Moon-Sign is found by consulting a moon-calendar for the 
year. Do you ask, which moon-calendar ? Probably the cheapest 
and best way of finding the moon-position is to send for Raphael's 
Almanac for the year of your birth, which costs 25 cents, and can 
be obtained through any book store or from Wm Foulsham & Co, 
4 Pilgrim Street,Ludgate Hill, London E.C. It gives you the num- 
ber of degrees and minutes and seconds ( called longitude ) that 
that the moon has progressed in a sign for noon and midnight of 
each day. If your birth happens to be near the line between two 
signs, you can calculate exactly where the moon was at time of 
birth. 
Nevertheless, for several reasons, this method is not the most 
ex aft one. Write to the Curator of the Nautical Almanac, Wash- 
ington, D,C., and ask him to write to you, telling you what the 
moon's Sidereal Time was at the moment of your birth. By con- 
sulting the subjoined table you then can tell in which subdivision, 
sign, or hour-pair that particular moment falls. 
Between 23 h. 51 m. and 1 h. 46 m. ST, Brain or Aries, B, or <y>. 
. 1 h. 46 m. and 3 h. 49 m. ST, Neck or Taurus, N, or 
3 h. 49 m. and 5 h. 59 m. ST, Shoulders or Gemini, S, or □. 
5 h. 59 m. and 8 h. 4 m. ST, Chest or Cancer, C, or 55. 
8 h. 4 m. and 10 h. o m. ST. Heart or Leo, H, or 
XO h. o m. and 11 h. 52 m, ST. Solar-plexus or Virgo, P, or ng. 
II h. 52 m. and 13 b. 46 m. ST, Reins or Libra, R, or st. 
13 h. 46 m. and 15 h. 50 m. ST, Secrets or Scorpio, G, or U^. 
15 h. 50 m. and 17 h. 54 m. ST. Thigh or Saggitta,ius, T, or /. 
17 h. 54 m. and 20 h. 4 m. ST. Knee or Capricorn, K, or Vy. 
20 h. 4 m. and 22 h. o m. ST. Ankle or Aquarius, A, or 
22 h. o m. and 23 h. 51 m. ST. Feet or Pisces, F. or }£. Consrvation-Calculations XI-2 
Rising Sign. This is, in astrological language, the Ascendant, 
which can, therefore, be found in the same way the astrologers 
find it-from that universally available source, Raphael's Almanac. 
A graphic way of representing the above calculation, and which 
therefore enables you to find the Rising Sign mechanically, with- 
out any calculation, is as follows. Get from Thos Whittaker, Bible 
House, N.Y., a Planisphere, (75 cents). Turn it around until 
you have made the moving cover and the margin to coincide at the 
desired moment of birth. For instance: if you were born at 6a.m. 
on a 16th of December, turn the cover till the spot marked 6a.m. 
coincides with the i6th of December. Having done this, look at 
the Eastern Horizon (that part of the cut-out rim on which these 
words appear), and notice the spot where it cuts the Ecliptic {not 
the Equator}. Now look and see in which of the twelve divisions 
of the skies that is (the skies are divided by twelve white lines 
branching out from the centre of the card-board skies). Having 
ascertained between which two lines the desired spot is, follow the 
lines to the margin, and read off the constellation-name appearing 
between them. That is the one you are looking for. Of course 
so very simple and rapid a method (it will be found such when it 
is tried) cannot be more than approximate when it happens that 
the Eastern Horizon cuts the Ecliptic near or upon one of the i 2 
white dividing lines. 
But because the real sign-lines given above vary very consider- 
ably from the traditional theoretic division into 300 each, both the 
above methods are inadequate for birth-days between the loth and 
26th of several months. The best then is to do as follows. Get 
the ST for (noon of) that day-you will find this in the Table, 
p.236 of Regeneration Applied, for any year, or from the Nautical 
Almanac for that year, (a postal will bring the desired information 
from its Curator at Washington, D.C.}. Add to (if after noon), 
or subtract from (if before noon) the ST as many hours and min- 
utes as the birth-moment is before or after the noon of the birthday. Conservation- CalcuIationsXI-3 
For instance, if you were born at 7.30 a.m. on Dec. 1 5, you sub- 
tract 4 h.30 m. from that day's ST, 17 h. 34 m., giving as re- 
vised ST (written thus: RST) 13 b. 4 m. Again, if the birth- 
moment was 7.30 p.m. of the same day, by addition the RST is 
25 h. 4 m., or 1 h. 4 m (as there are not more than 24 hours in 
any one day, the addition or subtraction of 24 hours does not afF- 
eCt any result). Now consult the following table, calculated for 
the latitude of New York. 
Sign or B, (Brains,) begins to rise at ST 18 h. and continues to rise til 
- N, (Neck,) 19 13 m. 
- □ , S, (Shoulder) 20 37 
- SB, C, (Chest) 22 34 
- SI, H, (Heart) O 55 
- njj, P, (Solar plexus) 3 30 
- -a-, R, (Reins) 6 
- BL, G, (Seeret) 8 33 
- /, T, (Thigh) 11 8 
- kJ, K, (Knee) 13 28 
- w, A, (Ankle) 15 26 
- X, F, (Fee;) 16 50 
NOTE; To save time, you can thus fairly accurately estimate the noon ST of 
any day. Double the number of the month and (adding 24 where necessary ) sub- 
tract 8. This gives the hours, which with 30 minntes added, gives the ST for the 
1 st day of that month. Multiply the day-number by 4, which gives minutes to be 
added to the ST found for the first of the month. Example: wanted ST Nov. 16. 
Nov. is nthmonth. Twice 11 is 22, less 8 is 14. ST for Nov. 1 is then 14 h. 
30 m. Four times 16 is 64 m., or I h 4 m. Add, 15 b. 34 m.-which is cor- 
re£t to within 6 m. A very easy and useful method, invented by Dr Guthrie. 
Of course where the hour of birth is not known, one cannot tell 
what the Rising Sign is, except by long experiment. Conservation-Calculations, XII kA XIII 
XII 
But how do I ascertain just when these danger-times of mine occur? 
Knowing what your Vital Signs are, that is an easy matter. 
Begin with your Earth-sign. Find out 
1, What month the earth is in it. 
2, On what dozen pair of days during the year the moon is in it 
3, At what times it rises every month or so during the year. 
Do likewise with the other Vital Signs. 
Note when Mercury or Venus are in any Vital Sign. 
If you take a blank Danger-Chart and carefully fill it, this seem- 
ing confusion will reduce itself to order, and be easily understood. 
You will need a moon-calendar for the current year. Also a 
Regeneration Applied, or a Planisphere, the above preferred, as be- 
ing more accurate, and containing almost all the practical informa- 
tion yet accessible. 
XIII 
About the Danger-Charts-why do they run from 22nd to 22nd, 
instead of from 1st of a month to the 1st, as all other Calendars? 
And what is their use-can we not get along without them? 
The Charts run from the 22nd because on or about that date 
the earth swims out from out one sther-ocean into another (chan- 
ges sign). This change is of crucial importance to any conservator, 
especially when it comes to the turn of his earth-sign, compensat- 
ing by far the slight additional difficulty in making out the chart. 
For during the whole time the earth takes in swimming through 
any one tether-ocean, all the conservation-dangers have at least the 
basic element in common, and may be met in the same attitude. 
Can you get along without the Danger-chart ? Of course-if 
you are not doing your utmost to conserve yourself! Everything hin- 
ges on that ! It reminds you of the sort of things you should do 
or avoid in times of danger; it reminds you graphically, unfailing- 
ly when these may be expefted-and how divine and necessary 
this mission is, may be judged by this, that it is one of the chief 
tricks of the Opponents to make Conservators forget their times. Conservation- Calculations, XIV 
XIV 
What is a Sign-line ? 
The Sign-lines given above are imaginary planes drawn through 
the axis of the celestial poles, and forming the horary angle ex- 
pressed by the above Sidereal Time; or, in other words cutting the 
celestial equator at the points of Right Ascenscion corresponding 
to above Sidereal time. These indicate, to the best of our present 
knowledge, the boundaries of the celestial aether-oceans constitut- 
ing the quality of the solar signs, the exaCt places at which the 
apparent Sun enters a sign, or the Moon swims from one terrene 
aether-ocean or sign into the next. 
It will be evident on inspection that they have nothing in com- 
mon with the astrological lines of 30, 60, 90, 120, 150, 180, 
210, 240, 270, 300, 330 and 360 degrees of celestial longitude. 
Simple inspection betrays that these are entirely theoretic, a priori 
in character; their simplicity would render them very convenient, 
did they represent any astral reality. Our own lines, on the con- 
trary represent the concurrent experience of sensitives who report- 
ed a consistent change of feeling exaCtly or nearly at certain mom- 
ents of earthly time. These then being converted into the then 
corresponding Sidereal Time, revealed fairly consistent standard 
horal angles (points of Sidereal Time) which at the observed times 
the celestial bodies were transiting. Consequently, they are mat- 
ters of direCt experience, and as such both open to revision, but 
also not subjeft to merely theoretical objections. Conservation-Calculations, XV 
XV 
Are these Sign-lines accurate ? 
No, they are not, and probably never will be exa&ly accurate. 
It is not likely that in our life-time, at least, sufficient independent, 
reliable, educated sensitives will be found to get at the accurate 
objective fads. For even experience of only few or grouped indi- 
viduals (such as alone, till now, have been found willing or able 
to undertake this arduous work), must necessarily be affefted by 
the personal equation. We have, however, in ascertaining our lines, 
had some remarkable independent testimony. 
However incorreft our lines may ultimately turn out to be, con- 
servators must have some working method, so these lines have been 
given out provisionally. However, for the world's sake, every con- 
servator should (it would be to his own personal interest also, both 
developing his own sensitiveness, and in keeping his attention on con- 
servation) help correft them, or, for his own sake, discover when 
the changes occur for him. 
It is easy enough to adapt these Sign-lines to discoveries or cor. 
reftions. If, for instance, a sensitive should feel a particular Sign- 
ehange invariably 3 m. 42 s. earlier than the time given in our 
Moon-calendar; and should this observation be verified by many 
independent sensitives; the Sign-lines could be altered to suit, as 
follows. Divide into this 3 m. 42 s. the average Difference for 1 
Minute given by the Nautical Almanac for that particular Sign- 
change; and then the result is to be added to, or subtrafled from 
the given Sign-line of ours. 
In the meanwhile, our Sign-lines are entirely accurate enough 
for all pra&ical purposes. Conservation- Calculations, XV-2 
Astral Sign-lines, with Averaged 'Difference for 1 Minute* 
The Sign-lines are expressed in Sidereal hours, minutes and sec- 
onds, down to lOOOOths of a second; the Averaged Difference for 
one Minute (of earth-time^) being expressed in Sidereal seconds, cor- 
reft to looths of a second. We give the Line first, the Difference 
last. 
Brain-Aries, Deep Blue, begins at ST.23,50,50.33. Diff. 2.22 
Neck-Taurus, Light Blue, 1,45,51.5667. '2.38 
Shoulders-Gemini, Green, 3,49,27.2162. 2.45 
Chest-Cancer, Orange, 5,59,03.4288. 2.35 
Heart-Leo, Yellow, 8,04,12.7768. 2.65 
Solar-plenus-Virgo, Raw Sienna 10, 0,23.4123. 1.84 
Reins-Libra, Crimson 11,51,31.6561. 1.88 
Secrets-Scorpio, Scarlet 13,45,58,9885. 2.01 
Thigh-Saggitarius, Purple 15,50,26.3016. 2.28 
Knee-Capricorn, Brown 17,54,18.0761. 2.37 
Anklo-Aquarius, Salmon 20.04,02,2087. 2.34 
Foot-Pisces, Pearl 22. 0,08,0433. 2.23 Conservation-Calculations, XXI 
XVI 
Why should not the interval between the Sign-lines be equal ? 
Because of an indisputable faft of Nature-the inclination of the 
Earth's orbital axis to that of its equator of 22.5 degrees. The ef- 
feft of this is that the Sun appears to be half the year above the 
celestial equator, and the other half below it, crossing it on the 
equinoxes, March 22, the vernal, and Odober 22, the autumnal. 
This obliquely inclined path is known as the ecliptic. Consequent- 
ly the Sun (or amount of celestial longitude) seems to have a 
longer path to travel passing the signs when the ecliptic slants a- 
way from the pole, than when slanting towards it. Thus the inter- 
vals of the Rising Signs vary from I to 3 hours, though their sum 
remains 24, just as if the Sun followed the equator, remained in 
each 2 hours, and the days and nights were equal all the year 
round. 
This will explain the inequality of the Rising Signs' appearance; 
but the inequality of the Earth's transits from one solar tether-oce- 
an to another must be partly due to the Earth's orbit being ellipt- 
ical, and not circular, having a shorter path through some than 
through other oceans. 
As to the Moon's path through the Earth's effluence or aether- 
oceans, neither is its orbit circular, and its orbit's plane has al- 
so a sort of ecliptical inclination to the earth's equator. 
Evidently there ought to be three different sets of lines, to ac- 
count for the entirely different nature of the orbits of the Signs, 
Earth and Moon. The one set we give is therefore a rough aver- 
age of these three entirely different data-the best we can do so 
far. It must, however, be near the correft state of things, in view 
of the marvellous accuracy with which they account for vital ac- 
cidents. Conservation- Calculations, XTII 
XVII 
Has Sidereal Time anything to do with earthly time? 
Nothing whatever. Earthly time is a measure of genuine time, 
while Sidereal or celestial Time is really an indication of position. 
This terminology was adopted because it takes so much earth-time 
for the celestial projection of any one spot on the earth to revolve 
from one spot on the celestial sphere to any other designated poss- 
ible spot on it. Now, in the Nautical Almanac we find certain fi- 
gures given as the 'Sidereal Time for the Day.' What does this 
mean? That this is the position of the Sun at noon of that day, in 
his apparent yearly course through the stars. And of course, be- 
ing for noon of that day, it is always on a line connecting the pole 
and the zenith (point overhead). 
Now, if you should ask, What is the Sidereal Time correspond- 
ing to any given moment of earth-time (say 9 a.m. on Feb. 24) ? 
you really mean, What is the exaCt spot of the celestial equator 
cut by the zenith-pole line at 9 a.m. Feb. 24? Or, simpler, What 
spot on the celestial sphere is at that time overhead? 
Then, from a table such as that in p. 233 Regeneration Applied, 
you can tell what sign is at that time appearing at the Eastern ho- 
rizon concurrent with any given celestial zenith-spot; that is on an 
average of 6 sidereal hours earlier. 
Now one finds the ST {overhead sky-spot} of any given moment 
by simply adding to or subtracting from the ST, overhead sky-spot, 
for noon of that day the intervening period of time (seeing that 
the whole sky revolves around the earth once in 24 hours, and the 
sky-equator was expressly subdivided into 24 Sidereal hours on this 
account). Now the over-head sky-spot for noon of any day is ea- 
sily ascertained (see original method in Instruction XI). For 9 a. 
m. one would then subtract 3 hours, or for 9 p.m. one would add 
9 hours. And in order to approximate the Rising Sign by this 
mental method, simply subtraft 6 hours from the given moment's 
Sidereal time, and halve the result, giving the order-number of the 
signs, as, Aries, 1st; 6th, Virgo; \ 1 th, Aquarius, etc. Conservation- Calculations, XTIII 
XVIII 
I grow confused with these astronomical terms. 
No wonder; but they are easy enough when studied in order. 
Because of the inherent difficulties of the subject astronomers 
have been forced to adopt three different ways of describing the 
position of any celestial body. This is effefted by three sets of 
coordinates. 
What a Set of Coordinates is. 
Take a sheet of paper, and make a mark on it, which shall be 
a) four inches from the bottom-we will call this dimension y; 
b^ and two inches from the left hand side-this dimension is cal- 
led x. 
Now it is evident that the set of coordinates 2x and ^y accura- 
tely locate the mark. So do the astronomers, but use the three sys- 
tems to be described below, all of them starting reckoning from 
the first point of Aries, the vernal equinox, sun's place,March 22. 
First Coordinate-system, Sidereal Time, used frequently by sea- 
captains in taking observations. Here y is Polar Distance, up to 
90 degrees, and x is Moral Angle, or Sidereal Time. This may be 
measured, if desired, on the Equator as Right Ascenscion; but is 
expressed in terms of hours, min. and sec., up to 24 hours. 
Second Coordinate system, used mostly in scientific calculations, 
and in maps and catalogues of stars. Here x is Right Ascenscion, 
measured on the celestial equator, to the right from the vernal e- 
quinox, up to 360 or o degrees; and y is Declination, Morth or 
South, 96 degrees, to the respective poles, the north pole chancing 
to be marked at present by the 3d magn. star, Polaris. 
Third Coordinate-system, used in sun-calculations, and by as- 
trology. Here x is Celestial Longitude, measured in degrees up to 
360 or o degrees, on the ecliptic, not equator; y being Latitude, 
North or South, by 90 degrees to imaginary poles. The ecliptic is 
the Sun's apparent yearly path through the stars, crossing twice, 
at the equinoxes, the equator, which is a projection upon the ce- 
lestial sphere of the equator of the earth, at an angle of 22.5 deg. Conservation- Calculations, XIX 
XIX 
Is not the whole civil Calendar unhandy? 
Most assuredly; the Julian Calendar has nothing but universal 
usage to recommend it. 
First, there is nothing peculiarly sacred about it. Neither Julius 
Csesar nor Gregory command special reverence, nor had any in, 
ner justification for what they did. 
But its artificiality is specially obnoxious to Conservators, whose 
whole struggle forces them to keep in touch with natural fafts, 
giving them the constant confusion well shown in the Danger- 
Charts having to run from 22nd to 22nd, instead of from 1st to 
to 1st. This, however, would only be a trifle, were it all. For, 
indeed, no difficulty of reckoning is so great that it cannot be ov- 
ercome on occasion; and, for the matter of that, the purposive dif- 
ficulties are not so very great when Danger-charts are employed, 
and made up a year ahead. But the trouble comes in when one is 
busy, or sick, or amused, or distressed. Then there is nothing to 
remind one, to spur one on, to carry one over slight difficulties, or 
moments of negleft or discouragement. It is the whole difference 
of going with or against the current. Consider history, or experi- 
ence, and it will be seen that this means failure usually. 
That our position is not peculiar may be gathered from the faft 
that such natural calendars were formerly used universally. Take 
as instance the Jewish Calendar, preserved to us in the Bible, from 
22nd to 22nd, with Feasts of the Full Moon, and other natural 
events. We advise the Conservator boldly to revive the Calendar 
publicly; the effort, publicity and opposition will brand the periods 
on his own mind. Conservation- Calculations, XX 
XX 
Please explain the Danger- Charts. 
The Explanations published in connexion with the Danger- 
Charts were designed to meet all material points we thought could 
ever arise in connexion with it; but experience has shown that 
further questions may advantageously be answered. 
We insist, however, that five minutes' careful study of Instruct- 
ions and Chart would make all questions unnecessary. 
Why all that confusing array of figures on the left hand side? Why 
could not one single set be made to do? 
The Rising Signs rise 2 hours earlier every month. In construct- 
ing the Charts the choice between making twelve plates, one for 
each month, with a single row of figures, or one Chart that would 
do for all twelve months, but with twelve rows of figures was a 
difficult one. On the one hand was the slight confusion of the pres- 
ent arrangement, and the great convenience of being able to make 
up a Chart for any month from any blank at hand; on the other, 
a cost at least 20 times greater, and the inconvenience of having 
to have just the right one kind out of 12. 
However, the present arrangement is simple enough-cross out 
every column except the one you want. 
But will you not need to leave 2 columns uncancelled, one for the 
days, say of August, from the 22nd to the 30th, and another for 
the days from 1st to 22nd of September? 
No, the Charts are so arranged that they are correft if you just 
follow direCtions: Leave uncancelled the column of the month 
with the 22nd of which you wish the Chart to begin. So for all 
the days under 22, as the 12th of September, you have to look in 
the August column, but for days over 22, in that of the month. 
Which way do you read the marginal figure-columns? Up and down 
How do I know if the hours are a.m. or p.m. Look at the head 
and foot of the uncancelled column for the first and last figure; the 
others you can deduce from those, in regular order. 
Why are columns cancelled? You want the ^cancelled one only. Conservation- Calculations, XX-2. 
If the day of the date of the daily column begins at the midnight- 
line only, to what day belong the hours above it? To the day before 
of course, and the day itself is completed in the next column, 
down to the midnight-line. Anybody who dislikes this arrangement 
had better find fault with Nature. 
What is the meaning of those oblique parallel lines? They repre- 
sent graphically the faft that the Rising Signs rise regularly earlier, 
by 4 minutes every day, amounting to two hours in one month. 
Follow those oblique lines carefully; and you will see that on the 
right hand margin they are higher than on the left by two squares 
exa&ly. Each of these squares represent an hour; which hour it is 
you can tell by consulting the uncancelled column on the left hand 
side, while the letter and sign found at either end of any of the o- 
blique lines indicate which Rising Sign it represents. And besides, 
the position of the oblique line on any day indicates exaftly the 
time when that Sign rises on that day. 
It is possible to take advantage of this faft so as to use an un- 
filled Chart as a permanent Calendar of Rising Signs all the year 
through by simply consulting the appropriate month-column at the 
left-hand side. 
What are all those letters scattered promiscuously all over the face 
of the Chart! They are not scattered promiscuously; far from that! 
They are carefully filled in from a Moon-calendar. Each one re- 
presents graphically the exaft moment the Moon entered the sign 
referred to by that letter. You can thus follow graphically the 
monthly course of the Moon through the I 2 Signs. 
But what has the Moon to do with the Rising Signs! Nothing what 
ever; that is just the point at issue. But why are they both upon the 
Danger-Charts! Because both of them constitute danger-times for 
the Conservator; the Rising Signs for a few hours a day each, 
(marked in the Charts by the horizontal shadings,) and the Moon 
for a couple of days monthly each (vertical shadings in Chart). 
Of course crossings of these shadings are of special danger. Conservation- Calculations XXI 
For Men Only. XXI. 
How can I tell the nature of an accident from a harmless flow of 
prostatic secretion? 
The difficulty of identifying spermatozoa by the microscope in 
the case of old stains is admitted. Florence of Lyons {Archives 
d' Anthropologic Criminelle 1896) has introduced a chemical test 
which seems valuable, judging by recent reports ( Boston Medical 
and Surgical Journal, April 8, 1897). The re-agent used was the 
one used in testing alkaloids, the Tri-iodide of Potassium, KI^. 
lod.Potass. 1.65 Gm or gr. 25. Iodine 2.46 Gm or gr.38, Distil- 
led Water jo cc. or 1 fl.oz. When a drop of the fluid obtained 
by moistening a seminal stain is placed side by side with a drop of 
this solution large numbers of peculiar brownish-red, pointed crys- 
tals appear. They are rhomboidal, and closely resemble haemin 
crystals. Dr. Wyatt Johnson states that he readily obtained the re- 
action with stains a year old. He also confirms Florence's state- 
ment that other secretions of the human body, such as blood, ur- 
ine, sweat, saliva, bile, tears, milk, pus, nasal or vaginal mucus, 
do not give the reaction, which is doubtful with the semen of ani- 
mals. Dr W.F. Whitney devised the following method for seminal 
stains even two and a half years old. A drop of the fluid obtained 
from the moistened stain is evaporated and fixed by the flame. The 
film is stained with eosin and methyl-green and mounted. At the 
base of the head of the spermatozoa is a hemispherical portion 
which stains deep green, while the anterior part and the tail stain 
red. This serves at once to identify them, as there is no other ov- 
al spore or cell which has an eccentric hemispherical nucleus, while 
the semen of animals does not stain deeply. This is the only cer- 
tain method, as alkaloids generally give a precipitate of some kind 
with the above reagent. INSTRUCTIONS HOW TO USE THE DANGER-CHART 
( Copyrighted ) 
I. The Chart begins with the 22nd day of the month because 
that is the approximate date when the Earth passes from sign to 
sign, some of which affeft every person. 
II To use the Chart, I, cancel all the hour-columns except the 
one for the month you desire to begin with. These hours will serve 
up to the 22nd of the next month, on account of the construction 
of the chart. 
Ill Just above the figure '12', (the one which is p.m., mid- 
night, in the now only uncancelled hour-column) II. Draw a 
heavy line across the chart. This is that month's Midnight-line, 
indicating where the days whose dates are printed on the charts 
begin. The height of this midnight-line naturally varies with each 
month, but in every case all that part of any day-column which 
lies above the mid-night line belongs to the previous day, the day 
before the one whose date heads the column. This is true even 
when the midnight-line is within two hours of the bottom, as oc- 
curs in November, the day completing itself in the next column. 
December is the only month whose day corresponds exactly with 
the dated columns. 
IV Keeping this day-beginning in mind, and from some moon- 
calendar such as that published in 'the Prophet' Fill in on the 
chart the moon's progress for the month. This can be done by a 
heavy horizontal stroke of the pen at the right date and hour, fol- 
lowed by the letter or mark of the sign beneath it. This can be 
done very neatly. 
V Every person, according to the hour and date of their birth, 
has four so-called vital signs which during the whole of the life 
thereafter constitute times of danger to the conservation of vitality, 
which can be avoided by careful watching. To show when these 
come monthly is the purpose of this chart. If you do not know 
which your four vital signs are, enclose a self-addressed postal to 
Secretary of the B.E.C., Box 9, Medford, Mass., with hour and 
date of your birth. Copyrighted Instructions for Danger-Chart 
VI With pencil or pen Shade vertically (up and down) all the 
time that the moon is in any of the vital signs. 
VII Next, Shade horizontally (from side to side) all the time 
that the four vital signs are rising, from beginning to end of the 
month. 
VIII While all the shaded portions are, in varying degrees, 
dangerous, of course the particular hours of danger are where the 
shadings cross, especially when the vital sign in which the moon 
happens to be is also rising. The comparative danger of the vital 
signs is as follows: earth-, moon-, horizon-, and conception-sign. 
The germ is born when the earth-sign rises while the moon is in 
it, and matures while the moon-sign for the last time rises while 
the moon is in it. There is danger the whole month the earth is in 
any of those signs, the new year's growth beginning while it is in 
the conception sign. 
IX In times of danger take no chances; the protection given at 
other times is withdrawn, in order to test the chara&er. The 
more you pray, the severer will be your losses. God wants you to 
rely on yourseif. Eating draws the blood from the head, and in- 
duces sleepiness, even if it seems to wake one for a moment. But 
above all be sure to be moderately aCtive, and be sure to keep the 
tongue as quiet as possible. Do not compliment anybody sufficien- 
tly to dispute with him. Agree with everybody, but go your own 
way. Stand on your feet if necessary to keep awake. At night 
work, keep meditation for the day. Go as little as possible in com- 
pany, and do not try to convert anybody-if you succeed with 
yourself you are doing well. Read through your Regeneration 
the Gate of Heaven, and your Regeneration Applied once a month 
regularly. There is nothing quite so good as to keep your whole 
attention on developing your sensitiveness to the continual changes 
of the rising signs and the moon's progress, till you can feel them 
clearly and distinctly. Make no engagements at dangerous times. 
Make conservation the main business of your life, and you will 
never regret it. Drop anything else that interests you. HOW TO CAPTURE 
THE DAILY VITALITY GERM 
INTRODUCTION 
Che Student's Attitude. 
LMOST every conservator at one time or another has 
been advised to watch at night. Some think they can 
be better without, and think the advice a pretty hard 
one. This is the unfortunate result of any advice by a human 
being, that an element of personality may enter into the ques- 
tion and cause the beginner to suppose that he is cheating 
the hard-hearted demand or adviser when he does not do so. 
An instance in point is the case of a boy at school who thinks 
he is cheating his teacher when he manages by hook or crook 
to avoid a certain lesson. He then thinks that he has scored 
a point over his teacher ; in reality however he has only suc- 
ceeded in cheating himself, for he went to school for his own 
ultimate benefit; it is no advantage to the teacher if the pu- 
pil learns his lerson. On the contrary, if there be an advan- 
tage, it is the advantage to the teacher to keep his pupils as 
ignorant as possible so as to keep his power of greater lear- 
ning intact. Young conservators therefore, if advised to 
watch all night, may rebel at such difficult tasks, but they, 
like the school pupils, forget that if there be an advantage 
in watching, it is all their own. 
When a student gets the advice to watch from within, he 
is not as likely to suspect the Unseen Powers of jealousy or 
maliciousness as might be chargeable to a human teacher. It 
might be therefore advisable to let young people find out the 2 
The Daily Vitality Germ 
advantage of watching for themselves, but as many would 
not have the ingeniousness or grace to seek knowledge per- 
sistently and wisely enough to attain it, it is the business of 
the teacher to give the advice, expecting to be misunderstood 
and abused on the chance of doing the unwilling pupil some 
good. 
This point is made so emphatically here because this same 
point arouses sometimes antagonism between the pupil and 
the Guiding Powers beyond. The pupil gets tired of watching 
and then imagines he is cheating the Heavenly Powers when 
he refuses to do so, when, if he only knew it, he has been 
spurred to greater efforts for his own sake. 
The pupil takes a great step, when he once gets it firmly 
fixed in his own mind that what he is required to do is for his 
own interest. He may be told to watch or take cold baths 
because the Higher Powers see the ultimate use of them, 
whereas the pupil not seeing this greatness of the prize rebels 
at the present outlay of effort or self-denial of comfort, not 
seeing any further than his own nose. The reasons of the 
advantage of watching at night have been given at length 
in "Regeneration JlPPliefl" in the chapter on "Watchfulness" 
to which the student should refer. It is proposed to give here 
the details of practical reasons, why watching is almost a 
necessity for men. The following account is the outcome of 
the experience of watching of more than 3000 nights of the 
the writer. It opens an entirely new field of research in order 
to lay bare the reasons for these inassailable facts of expe- 
rience ; but the general reasons are perfectly patent, and in 
any case the student in Self-Control has only to guide himself 
according to facts. Main Reason for Watching 
3 
CHAPTER I 
main Reason for matching. 
HEN pupils tell the writer, as they sometimes do, that 
they consider him mistaken, or when others insist that 
there is no need for it, (and among these may be per- 
sons who have attained quite a little) the writer simply says: 
"I cannot help it, it may quite conceivably not be advisable 
for you, but from the experience of more than ten years I 
know, that I myself must do so." Why ? Because the writer 
has never known of a case of a person who, if he sincerely 
tried to watch, did not within three nights of beginning to 
watch receive from his inner self distinct guidances of divine 
assistance helping him to do so, and this both in his own case 
and that of others to whom he gave the advice. 
In his own case he has for at least ten years been assisted 
to watch by Powers within, either by vision with sudden wa- 
king or some signal like knocks, ringing of bells, or even a 
slap. This takes place never more than three times running 
in one night, and only at the three first failures to hold cons- 
ciousness when he was sincerely trying. After these first 
three failures no further warnings of any kind occurred, lea- 
ving him to his own devices, often ending with a katabole. 
Now you cannot advance the theory, that it was the writer's 
own soul that did this, because often for weeks at a time 
there would be no assistance, even when desired, and these 
cases generally occurred when he had really not been doing 
his utmost to watch; but after the first sincere night of effort 
these warnings would return. For the nature of these war- 
nings, the writer refers to the chapter on "Magic" in 
Iteration HPPliCd", and it may be added that they never came 
twice in the same way during the ten years. 4 
The Daily Vitality Germ 
Chapter ii 
theory. 
N cases in which the writer advise^ watering to others 
the same results occurred within two or three nights of 
sincere starting, and stopped for good when the persons 
stopped trying. Outside of visions, these persons received 
slaps, knocks and other uncomfortable sensations (in the as- 
tral realm of course). 
The result of these fac«s seems an unavoiuaoie conclusion 
that the Powers beyond were pleased with the efforts to watch 
and better authority than Them can no man have. Anybody 
whdo esires experiment of this can have it easily by a little 
self-denial, and may we uot say that it is a fairly good com- 
pliment to the rightness of a method to receive so quickly, 
continuously and noticeably Divine Assistance. If God did not 
approve of it, why should He trouble Himself with men ex- 
actly in accordance with the sincerity of their efforts? Facts of Experience 
5 
CHAPTER III 
Tacts of Experience. 
N the last chapter was given an account of the apparent 
witness of divine approval to watching. The writer will 
now give the physical facts gleaned from the self-observ- 
ationinten years of such efforts. In "^generation UppHed" 
it has been said that the night was the time when the new 
vitality was created. What authority did the writer have for 
this statement ? That of his own experience. 
JL IDEAL EXPERIENCE. 
The ideal experience of vitality cannot be gotten when 
sleep has been prolonged after midnight exactly. Sometimes 
the writer has found the characteristic results of an ideal ex- 
perience if he slept even not later than 12.30 a.m. There have 
been times rarely when very good if not ideal results have 
come even after sleeping as late as 1.30 a. m., but this has 
been a very rare exception. 
The ideal experience consists of five elements : I The First 
Vitality, II The Second Vitality, III The Germ, IV The Nod- 
ding. V The Fragarnt Happiness. 
It would seem as if the nodding were the characteristic of 
the ideal experience as it does not occur after so delicate an 
event as the killing of the germ. 
Let us say a few words of each. 
B. the first vitality. 
The first vitality comes on suddenly. One can often distinct- 
ly feel the first sleepy breath as it were, and notice the first 
three or four sleepy breaths, each one sleepier than the last, 6 
The Daily Vitality Germ 
not aiways accompanied by dropping of the eyelids. It comes 
on not earlier than half past three and may last till half past 
five at latest, although the writer had to fight for two 
hours and a half at a time the almost unopposable desire 
for comfort added to strong erections. This seems to be not 
the birth of the germ, because the germ does not mature at 
the second vitality period if sleep has been prolonged after 
half past one a. m., although perfect watching later than 
that had taken place. 
The first vitality is characterized by sometimes almost over- 
powering desire for sleep and the sense of stupendousness 
and fullness whose energy is sometimes terrific. 
£ THE SECOND VITALITY. 
If the first vitality period has been successfully fought off, 
no further difficulty will be experienced until the second vital- 
ity period, which sometimes occurs as early as half past six 
a. m., but not later than eight a.m. This is the time of the 
maturation of the germ. The kind of sleepiness that comes 
over one is radically different from that of the first vitality 
period; whereas the first is a deep intoxication, this is as 
light as the breathing of a zephir, (that is as to "taste", not 
as to intensity which is often quite strong at times). It comes 
over one as sudden noddings of the head and extremely strong 
visions or dreams of a peculiarly spiritual character, and so 
much so that often this is chosen by the Helpers beyond as 
the opportunity to give general warnings about life and gene- 
ral circumstances. The dreams experienced at this time are 
peculiarly powerful and beautiful, their attraction seems ir- 
resistible and full of color, music and power ; on account of 
the light quality, (not quantity) of these dreams; sudden 
awakenings from them are the rule, generally with a start. Facts of Experience 
7 
Of course, this period, as the other, is caused by activity, 
and the erections are generally few, sometimes not more than 
three or four, but short and sharp and quick; so much so, 
that losses are easily possible through the suddenness of the 
erections, and the conservator, if he was sitting, may have to 
jump up suddenly. 
Strange to say, although this sleep is much lighter than 
that of the First Period, it is much harder to fight against. 
It comes so suddenly, that it is almost entirely unnoticeable 
in its approach, and is of a far more mental nature. Physic- 
al means are useless against it practically, and it has to be 
fought mentally. 
Now the heavy sleep of the First Period can be felt coming 
over one, and he has, as it were, a lever with which to fight 
it, and one can do so by hard physical exercise or cold water 
baths, whereas the second can only be overcome by having 
taken precautions beforehand. 
D. the germ. 
Now the nightly germ as has been said above, does not 
even mature if sleep has been prolonged later than half past 
one a. m., so it must be born before that time. The one re- 
markable and critical thing is the fact of the way in which it 
is killed. Dosing even five minutes at the Second Vitality 
Period will do this. It would have been more accurate to say, 
not "even five minutes" but "the first moment of fully un- 
controlled sleep".Whether th is is because the Opponents kill 
the germ by sucking it, or whether it is of such a nature that 
physical sleep allows the vitality simply to flow back into the 
body instead of being driven upwards by the force of cons- 
cious life, the writer would not like to say, although from the 
visions he has had, he thinks it must be the former alternat- 
ive. 8 
The Daily Vitality Germ 
Now this killing of the germ can be distinctly felt, inas- 
much as no further warnings are given by the Unseen Help- 
ers, and one feels a certain calmness, quietness, warmness 
and deadness, which is in marked contrast to the energetic 
resiliency and warnings occurring before the Germ is entire- 
ly killed, even if one or two nods have been indulged in ; and 
that it is not too late is shown by a warning vision, inasmuch 
as when the Germ is dead, there is no further help from the 
Unseen. 
Of course, for an ideal experience, the Germ has to be 
conserved entirely, and so true is it that this Second Vitality 
Period is not the mere result of the sleepiness, that the writer 
has felt the three or four sharp Second Vitality Period erect- 
ions while running the press, when of course the sleepiness 
of the period was entirely wanting, so that the erections can 
not be blamed on the sleepiness, but rather the sleepiness on 
the erections. If one wishes to sleep, one can do so with safe- 
ty even only ten minutes 41W the maturation of the Germ. 
This is in strong contrast with the critical nature of even a 
moment's sleep some moments before. 
€. NODDING. 
If the night has been spent well from midnight on, and the 
Vitality has been caught, and if a person continues to work 
straight along up to noon, there will be experienced then, if 
not before, a series of light noddings absolutely involuntary; 
but in which the person will be able generally to catch him- 
self. When under such circumstances the writer tried stand- 
ing in meditation, he would find himself falling on the floor, 
(very rarely however). The difference between these nod- 
dings and of the Second Vitality Period are as follows : In the 
Second Vitality Period the nods are few ; at noon, they are 
indefinite,-that is, there is no serious risk is indulging sleep 
then, and might continue until circumstances altered, or he Facts of Experience 
9 
slept sufficiently, or he took dinner, or he was distracted by 
important business ; but the main difference is that the noon 
noddings are not accompanied by any vivid dreams. If he 
should go to sleep after the noon noddings, he will find that 
the sleep he will get is of a lighter and better kind than be- 
fore. The meaning of this is that the mental assertions over 
the body incurred in keeping awake properly at night have a 
sensible effect upon the natural sleep of the individual-in 
other words, a distinct step towards continued consciousness 
and a definite spiritual growth; but, if after having fallen 
asleep so lightly, he lazily takes as much sleep as he would 
usually do, the sleep will gradually grow heavier and more 
like the usual kind had before. Of course, regular gettings of 
the daily germ for one month, let alone six, would make a 
very sensible difference in the power of consciousness of the 
life. 
f. FRAGRANT HAPPINESS. 
Now the accompanying result of success with the germ is 
a sort of feeling that cannot be described otherwise than as 
"Fragrant Happiness"-a feeling of the river of life stream- 
ing upwards, a power, a reserve force, an inspiration like 
which there is no other feeling in the category of human ex- 
periences. A person who once has tasted it, will neither ever 
forget it, nor will ever be willing to do without it,-it is the 
fabled spring of which, if a man once drank, he would never 
thirst again, nor ever be satisfied till he drank of it again. 
One would think that a person who once has tasted this extasy 
would see to it that it were daily repeated, (as it can be); 
but the fact is, that the unfortunate victim of sleep never 10 
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has time even to think of this possibility-he stumbles down, 
and, from misfortune to misfortune, he falls down to a kata- 
bole. 
Now neither the noon noddings nor this fragrant happiness 
occur unless the Germ has been stored, and these are signs 
by which the conservator may judge of his success. Aborted Experiences 
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CHAPTER IV 
Aborted experiences. 
ASY as the conditions of storing this daily germ are for 
men, it is strange how few store them. The main causes 
of failure are,-in order of importance: 
JI. The extremely critical Second Vitality Period at the 
time of maturation of the Germ, when only one moment of 
forgetfulness will rob one of the fruits of a whole night's 
efforts. 
B. Sleeping later than twelve midnight or even half past 
one a. m. Many try to sleep till twelve and expect to wake 
up just on time for the night's work, but the experience of 
years of the writer has shown him that it is so risky that a 
beginner might as well give up trying. At another time he 
decided not to sleep later than eleven ; but even then he over- 
stepped the bounds. 
Mercifully, however, the Unseen Helpers will assist persons 
and sonetimes wake them at twelve or shortly thereafter, if 
they will take advantage of the hint. But very true is the 
Bible verse that the children of this world are wiser in their 
generation, than the children of the light; and no one who 
has not himself struggled for self-mastery would even believe 
the stupidity of conservators-and how long (ten years at a 
time) they can sincerely keep up the struggle. That is why 
God is so pitiful. 
Now this line between one day and another (from twelve 
to one or quarter past one a. m.) is so true that even if a 
conservator has a strong loss at twelve exactly ( or even be- 12 
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fore one o'clock sometimes) he will still, if he behave rightly 
after that, make the full morning's attainment; but if that 
loss occur at two or three a. m., the whole day's vitality is 
dished. A few minutes only on the wrong side of that line are 
often quite fatal. 
0. The reason that the lines given here are variable de- 
pends on many things: 
S3. Probably slight differences of nature. 
bb. Differences of vital power and habits. 
CC. Differences of weariness and conditions. 
ad. Differences of positions of planets. 
it. Differences of rising of the vital signs. 
ff. Differences of transits from sign to sign of the moon, 
especially when going in, or coming out of a vital sign. 
D. The abortion of the First Vitality Period is not so no- 
ticeable, being more in quantity than quality, usually. It may 
persist long, but not so vigorously, and if one sit down it may 
still further be humored (if sleep does not ensue). The Sec- 
ond Vitality Period may sometimes be aborted down to a 
single erection-sometimes to a mere fulness of the organs ; 
to a scarcely noticeable feeling. 
€. Half-consciousness or semi-waking, or merely the habit 
of falling into that paralized (as to action) condition, which 
is a kind of a trance, are fruitful causes of continuing in sleep, 
and very dangerous for emissions of various kinds, especially 
in the kind of sleep of the Second Vitality Period, and espec- 
ially during certain positions of the moon. This is a great and 
serious danger and should as far as possible be avoided, by 
energetic habits of action. Especially easy under such cir- 
cumstances are sudden, losses caused by sudden attacks by 
the Opponents. Why, sometimes even when fully awake one 
will receive a sudden blow from behind, and the conservator 
will have need of his utmost prompt resiliency to save him- 
self. Of course, this would be especially the case with women. Aborted Experiences 
13 
T. Conservators will sometimes notice that some nights 
they have more, and some nights less, vitality. What is the 
reason of this ? There are, of course, many reasons for any 
one phenomenon in case of so complicated a matter as the 
human organism. Besides the general conditions of the con- 
servator, (if he sleeps soundly during the day his amount of 
vitality at the first period will, of course, be lessened) the 
position of the moon (and also of the planets) in the vital 
signs will increase the vitality. Often it is only in the second 
night of the moon's stay in one of the vital signs that the 
vitality is noticeably great, and yet you cannot always tell- 
it is probable that if the conservator thought carefully over 
these problems, he might from within be assisted to their 
solution ; he may rely on receiving such knowledge as may 
be necessary for his growth. 
G. Many conservators delude themselves into the idea they 
are conserving because they get up at four a.m. Doubtless 
it is better than if they slept till eight, or six, or five a.m.; 
but as to the germ, they are not anywhere near it. They say: 
"Oh, I only sleep two hours." Very well, that is two huors 
too much at that time. Sleep ten hours if you please at un- 
critical times of the day, but if you must sleep at the one 
only critical time, don't expect the Germ. When you do so, 
you are not cheating the writer, but only yourself-and you 
best know if you can afford to do so. The mere petty incon- 
venience of its being dark is not to be mentioned in compari- 
son with the spiritual results of Germ-storing-there always 
were such fools who, for a mess of pottage, sold their birth 
right. 
I). A frequent cause of failure is procrastination. On hear- 
ing of good methods conservators say : "All right, I will do so 
later on, when circumstances will change." Yes, but then it 
will be already too late. Believe me, reader, nobody values 14 
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time highly enough ; and, unfortunately, that is one of the 
griefs of Theosophy that it at least does not condemn pro- 
crastination of the inestimable opportunities of today. And 
to judge by the urgency of the appeals and warnings of the 
Spirit, it would almost seem as if the Spirit was much more 
anxious than men usually are about the importance of making 
full use of the opportunities of today. 
T« Among the many causes of abortion of the daily germ 
is one which to most (and especially the interested parties) 
will seem to have little, if any, connection with success in 
storing it. That is hypocrisy, or a double life, compromises 
in the daily life. So subtle are the springs of human action, 
that anything short of absolute freedom of motive and action 
in every relation of life unnerves the resiliency and energy 
which the conservator has to employ-(especially the case 
with women, and with the wearing of all sorts of jewelry, 
even with men). The conservator who does not believe this, 
need not; if he does not have the sense to realise he is only 
hurting and paralyzing himself. Perfect freedom is an ab- 
solute prerequisite to attainment,-that is the reason why 
slavery (the very thought of it) made attainment impossible 
both for the victims and the masters. The Great Remedies 
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CHAPTER V 
Che Great Remedies. 
Sleeping in tbe Afternoon. Standing anb Exercise. 
HE Book **RCQCttCr^tiOtt BPPliCd" goes into this subject 
very carefully. It is here desired to notice only the two 
methods that are absolutely necessary in connection with 
our subject of how to capture the daily Vitality Germ. 
Firstly, whoever would watch at night absolutely must rest 
in the afternoon ; common sense dictates this. Rest, the hu- 
man organism-machine must have, and if one wishes to fight 
sleep at the most dangerous times, it is manifestly insane to 
add to it the natural temptations of weariness. 
Of course,' unless the Conservator is in a community where 
the recognised hours of work are regulated with this same 
end in view, occasional conflicts will occur. Often will he come 
to the choice : Which shall I do,-go to sleep now, late, if 
possible, before midnight or two a.m., or fight the night 
through as best I can ? The advice of the writer, the wisdom 
of which was gained through ten years of failure, is : "Fight 
it through." But if the business was not absolutely necessary, 
it should have been postponed without regard to social con- 
siderations or chance desires of people not interested in con- 
servation-for often just the fancy of going out in the after- 
noon of some one else may force the poor conservator to up- 
set his tear-bought efforts. If he wishes success he must at- 
tend only to business which is his duty to God, and is absolute- 
ly unavoidable. 16 
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Secondly, as advised in^RCgCWiltiOtt jHpplfcd", the best 
thing is to stand on your feet in time of danger. Exercise, go 
out walking, hoe the garden, invent work. The Conservator 
may rely on this, that idleness is not nobility, and that it will 
be a blessed day for him when he has invented for himself 
some useful manual labour-manual labour being especially 
valuable as it keeps the body active and is useful, while leav- 
ing the mind free for meditation. Let the Conservator pray 
for inspiration confidently inasmuch as the Unseen Helpers 
will be only too glad of such sensible and efficient assistance 
to their efforts to keep the soul awake. Allowable Sleep 
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CHAPTER VI 
JIllowaMe Sleep. 
OW, of course, there are many conservators who choose 
to take the other way-not to watch, but to sleep con- 
sciously, on the principle that it is cheaper to work 
with the mind than ■with the body. 
Now the writer had no choice, because he was so led, and 
the continual assistance received showed that at any rate in 
his case, this was the right thing to do. He would tell the 
beginner this : "It is preferable (if you can do this) to sleep 
consciously and also secure your germ. But if you can't, you 
will have to see to it that you act, so as to secure it whichever 
way suits you; but the daily germ is the prime consideration. 
Your business is to secure it somehow." 
INFLUENCE OF THE DAY. 
Some conservators who have business during the day find 
(or profess to find) that the watching or its results unfit 
them to do their day's work. At any rate this is the excuse 
they advance for not watching. 
The writer would say that this is the wrong principle. The 
right principle is to obey God and then trust Him to carry 
you through whatever necessities are thereby created. And 
the writer, who was a clergyman in the Episcopal Church a 
number of years while conserving himself, found that when- 
ever he obeyed God in watching Saturday night, in some un- 
expected and providential way his duties were lightened on 
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The writer, by the experience of many years, can deny that 
anybody need fear for his business or health. He grew fat 
and well in the beginning by it-and it is universally known 
that bakers, watchmen and others who have to work at night 
are in fact exceptionally healthy-getting their Germs un- 
consciously-although their very undevotional life and other 
losses keep them from making spiritual attainment. 
Besides, a little ingenuity will enable many a conservator 
to arrange his business to suit his struggles. If some slight 
inconveniences should arise thereby, he may console himself 
with the thought that it is well worth while. 
But if it really comes to an unavoidable conflict-if busi- 
ness or conservation must be given up,-then must the con- 
servator decide for himself whether it will pay him or not- 
to make a few dollars or gain immortal life. If the latter be 
anything more than a name, can anything be even for a mom- 
ent contrasted with it ? Should the dollar be preferred to the 
man ? Must not all be left behind at death ? And if it seems 
a question of deciding between starving and conserving let 
the conservator remember that the Unseen Helpers are not 
blind, not powerless, not unjust, to forget their labour of love. 
He is wise who puts the Immortals in his debt. Trust God ! 
god's forgiveness. 
Many say : "I would like to conserve-but God knows how 
tired and weak I am, and doing my best I will just trust my- 
self into His hands, and doubtless He will support me, and for- 
give me my inability." Yes, God can afford to forgive you, if 
you can afford to forgive yourself. Laws of gravitation, 
chimistry and cohesion do not forgive or make exceptions ;- God's Forgiveness 
19 
and if you are too tired even from unselfish labours,-your 
Germ will go from you just as certainly as it came to you. 
The question is, can you forgive yourself ? Oh, how we would 
like to dodge righteousness and obedience to law ! 
The Christian religion has done so,-but are its most devout 
children among those who have made the attainment de- 
scribed above ? I trow not. 
ONLY PURPOSE OF LIFE. 
In short, if the conservator proposes to succeed he must 
make conservation the main and exclusive purpose of his life. 
This will not be displeasing to God, whose only purpose it 
seems to be (if the the writers' dozen years oi experience 
counts for anything) to make men get to this view, just to 
enable them to succeed. No sacrifice that is in your power to 
make will be too great; no effort that is in your power will be 
too violent; and the writer does not hesitate to call God to 
witness to the truth of this, and vindicate him or any who 
dispute this. 
"HU Winds have T counted as dross, that T might behold 
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CHAPTER VII 
matching a natural Cure for Constipation. 
N unexpected physiological discovery was made by the 
writer in the course of his practice of the methods out- 
lined above, and in noticing the experience of those who 
followed his suggestions. 
He found that on those nights when he kept active from 
midnight on, he experienced about half past three a. m., and 
sometimes as late as half past four a. m., the most imperative 
need to relieve intestinal congestion. On those nights when 
he began only at three or four a. m., this did not take place, 
at any rate not until the natural impulse to do so was felt 
after a meal. 
That this was not the result of imagination on his part, 
may be seen from this : that for several years this had occur- 
red without his noticing it particularly, as he had not for 
many years suffered seriously from constipation. 
When, however, he began recommending watching at night 
to a woman, who was sincerely determined to make attain- 
ment in conservation, and who had all her life (at least six 
years) devoted her whole energies and efforts to overcome 
chronic constipation in vain, she noticed that to her great 
surprise, without drugs of any kind, she began having copious 
daily movements. 
Then he remembered his own experiences and noticed just 
how it worked with himself, and on mentioning the matter 
to others found to his surprise, amusement and delight that 
they had had similar experiences. 
He had thus stumbled on a great physiological discovery, 
which at any rate was a practical fact, whatever explanation Watching a Natural Cure for Constipation 
21 
may be given to it. It has the merit of working independent- 
ly of any theory, and anybody who doubts it can try it for 
himself and be convinced, allowing two or three days for his 
system to break loose from its former habits. 
We do not have to go far for an explanation. The night is 
the time when by metabolism the body's wear and tear of the 
day's work is being replaced. This involves the carrying away 
of the waste materials into the natural outlet or dumping- 
ground, the intestine. Now, if the body is reasonably active 
at that time each activity assists the other, and the result is 
an immediate evacuation of the whole waste. 
When however the body at this time is quiescent, (as it is 
in sleep) the waste settles in the intestine. If during the day 
the body's activity, combined with the weighing down of a 
meal taken in, is sufficient, a partial evacuation occurs. We 
say partial, because the evacuation can never be as complete 
as before the waste has settled in the intestines, taken their 
shape, and is caught in the innumerable irregularities of 
their surface. 
If, however, the person's sedentary duties or laziness do 
not very soon, (within a few hours) determine an evacuation, 
the waste hardens,....and may stay indefinitely, or is expelled 
accidentally. 
But why is not this sufficient ? Because that word harden- 
ing (so common a process, alas I) represents in reality a 
process so horrible that we can hardly find words to express 
it. Think for a moment of what it means, just to cure you 
till your dying day of inaction or laziness. Hardening means 
that all the foul fluids eliminated from the body (and how 
they stink I) have been reabsorbed by the helpless villi, and 
are being circulated in the blood, to the muscles and the deli- 
cate nerve fibres, and the marvellous brain-structure. Think 
of it! Headaches ? Why, of course ! And to think that the 22 
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majority of human beings permit such conditions to exist per- 
manentiy! 
But many will hold up their hands in horror, as if no such 
horrible thing ever happened to them. Oh, no ! Their evacuat- 
ions are normal, you know-are fairly firm, but yet soft. In 
vain. Unless the waste leaves the intestine in the same form 
it enters it, semi-liquid, it has already begun to harden-to 
be reabsorbed. 
We are not advertising this physiological discovery as it 
deserves to be-but we notice it as every conservator who 
watches will discover it for himself anyhow, and because 
perfect elimination is for conservation a SlMC QUA HOM. And 
this for many reasons-but we will go no further than that 
the genital organs are as it were sandwiched in between the 
bladder and the rectum. Let both be filled-result, pressure 
from both sides, and the the storehouse 
of the secretion, (or for women the OWiCS) are squeezed, so 
that its contents are practically forced out. 
The conservator of course desires the exactly opposite state 
of affairs. He wishes the VCSiCUUi or OV^rlCS to be as elastic 
and engorged as possible, and therefore the bladder and rect- 
um must never be distended at the same time, or more than 
transitorily, either one of them singly. 
This discovery should therefore guarantee the conservator 
the perfect health he needs. 
There is no patent on it, and God will bless him who helps 
his neighbor by telling him about it. But there is no danger, 
it will not revolutionize the world. People are too lazy, to 
carry out the necessary watching, and they will soon forget 
about it, if they ever knew it. Blessed are the few, who will 
take this knowledge, use it, and make new men of themselves, 
free of any money or price. Cbe Degrees of Sleep 
The first step when you want to alter a thing, is to study the 
thing itself. Those who want to conquer sleep, must have some 
fair idea of the stages of attainments in this direction. This table 
will be useful both to show the general nature of sleep and to as- 
sist the conservation in remembering where he is at in his struggle. 
The struggle itself is made almost one half shorter by knowing 
deffinitely just what you are at-all the difference between the 
ages of ignorance with chaotic unorganized information and the 
sudden bloom and marvelous achievements of science coming 
through the same information, which was known before, only 
clasified, systematized. 
Stages of Sleep 
I. Unconscious, heavy Slumber with snoring or physical func- 
tional disturbances. 
II. Heavy unconscious Sleep with no physical disturbances, 
t 
III. Heavy unconscious Sleep with unremembered dreams. 
IV. Heavy Sleep with remembered dreams. 
V. Dreaming Sleep. 
VI. Sleep with dreams that have some meaning. 
VII. Light Rest with visionary dreams (true dreams) and abili- 
ty to wake at any time. 
VIII. Physical Rest with continuance of self-consciencness 
throughout. 
This is conscious Sleep. 
In reading over this list of stages, you cannot fail to recognize 
where you are at in your development, and to see what stages you 
must yet wrork for in order to attain ultimately the goal of Immor- 
tality, which is simply the ability to hold on consciousness perma- 
nently. Methods* % Overcome Sleep 
Since the getting control of the sleep-conditions is one of the 
prerequisites of any aftual attainment, suggestions of methods ad- 
apted to it are always in order, especially when,like the following, 
they have been successfully tried by many students. 
Before beginning, however, let us once more remind the reader 
that it is cheaper usually in this as in all other things to work by 
mental rather than by physical methods; but physical methods are 
better than none. 
I Limiting sleep to a definite number of hours. 
2 Limiting the time of day within which sleep is to be taken. 
3 Sleeping in uncomfortable postures. 
4 Breaking up sleep into short rests and limiting their depth. 
5 Giving oneself mental tasks during times of rest. 
6 Taking every day one long stretch of waking. 
7 Being aftive during times when energy is being created. 
8 Keeping the mind on continued consciousness while lying down. 
9 Always resting alone, and always resting dressed. 
io Giving yourself strong mental suggestions before lying down. 
The word 'strong' however does not corredly render the thought. 
Doubtless the auto-suggestions will have to be strong; but they 
must be adequate, whether that take io minutes or io hours. 
11 Relying on none but yourself alone for waking. 
I 2 Never lying down without clear understanding of waking-time. 
13 Charge the mind to stay near the body to proteft it. 
14 Never to sleep between midnight and 8 a.m. 
1 5 Eschew warm covers, soft mattresses, nor ever lie on the back 
16 Lie in the direftion that suits you best, and with as strong a 
light as you can bear. 
17 Letting your short rests alternate with times of exercise. 
18 To lie down only when thoroughly awake; if you are half-in- 
toxicated with weariness, rouse yourself before lying down. 
19 To rouse yourself, the specific is cold water. 
* The vidlory is to the most ingenious, persistent and stoical. Appendix For Women 
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CHAPTER VIII 
Appendix Tor Women. 
BY A WOMAN-CONSERVATOR. 
woman who reads the above chapters would naturally 
askWhat about us ? Is there nobody who can enlight- 
en us in 0U1* struggles ? What have I got to feel ? What 
have I got to do to secure Uiy daily germ ?" 
There is, as far as I have noticed, no difference in the 
times. The female germ is born and matured at the same 
times as above mentioned ; a woman who watches feels the 
same sleepiness at the same mentioned times. She gets even 
the noon noddings when she has captured the full germ. 
But as to what concerns the sensations, that must of course 
be different. A woman feels a sense of fulness in the womb, 
and the vagina, and very frequently during danger and other 
times, she feels the life forces trickling down the walls of the 
vagina and reaching its orifice. Sometimes she feels a bearing 
down and fulness-sensation, accompanied with throbbing. 
The thing to do in both above mentioned cases is to keep the 
sphincter muscles tight shut, and to lie down flat on a couch 
or bed, or the floor if necessary, and do the following breath- 
ing exercise. 
Breath-drawing Exercise. 
Once every hour during the morning, or night, or when the 
sexual organ feels full, or at danger-times, or when one feels 
a downward flow in the vagina and one wants to keep the 
life-forces in the body, do the following exercise for three to 
five minutes. 
Lie flat on your back, cross the right foot over the left, 
breathe a full, deep, positive breath, accompanying this breath The Daily Vitality Germ 
by drawing up your utmost thought-power and will, forming 
a wheel of life from the sex-organs to the chest, with thought 
entirely concentrated on what you are doing. Will the life 
forces to go upwards along the spine from the sexual organs 
to the chest. With the i n breathing, imagine the wheel turn- 
ing from the sexual organs along the spine to the chest, and 
with the out breathing imagine the wheel turning from the 
chest over the front to the sexual organs. With the o u t- 
breathing draw i n the abdominal muscles, and draw u p the 
vaginal muscles ; with the i n breathing inflate the abdomen 
as full of air as possible. A better way of doing this exercise 
is to lie flat on your back, but with the knees drawn up, as 
this position gives the least strain on the ligaments of the 
womb. It is also very advisable to keep your attention on the 
right way of standing, sitting, and walking ; back straight, 
abdomen in, chest out. 
The sense of fulness will go, and oftentimes, when she is 
successful in transmuting, she will feel while breathing an 
electric current going over the spine to the chest, and the 
chest will come into a glow. Of course, beginners will not 
have this from the start. If a fulness or trickling down of the 
life forces is felt in day-time, or when the woman-conservator 
is with other people, and thelying-down is inconvenient, she 
can do the following exercise, standing, or sitting, with or 
without breathing ; (with breathing is better.) 
Pelvic €xerci$t 
Draw i n the muscles of the abdomen and at the same time 
draw u p the muscles of the vagina and womb. Then loosen all 
the muscles suddenly. Seven consecutive times is sufficient 
for beginners. This exercise can be done with or without 
breathing. If with the breathing, the abdomen has to con- 
tract with the out-breathing, and distend with inspiration. 
As regards sleep, it is of course best to sleep in the after- 
noon ; but if inconvenient one can sleep at any time one can Appendix for Women 
25 
spare during the day. There is no inconvenience to it for 
one's health. The writer has been forced by circumstances to 
change her hours of work and sleep half a dozen times with- 
out having felt any bad results from it. The time of sleep is 
six hours, more than that is not needed even for one who 
is working hard physically or mentally ; five hours is sufficient 
for some constitutions. Sleeping with as much light as con- 
venient is recommended. Read carefully the chapter on sleep 
in "Regeneration Applied " 
Of course a hygienic living, plenty of fresh air, some 
physical culture, the drinking of two quarts of fluids, (pure 
water is best) sufficient good food, etc., are much recommend- 
ed. Corsets are prohibited if one wants to succeed in Conserv- 
ation. 
Dr. Guthrie is now writing a very interesting book (with 
the help of some women-conservators, of course,) which will 
have the title "Regeneration for Women." It will be as 
complete as possible under the present circumstances of 
evolution. The book will contain very much valuable informa- 
tion and hints for conservation, and we can recommend it 
strongly. 
Those who best know Dr. Guthrie personally marvel at 
tremendous amount of his knowledge and the judgment he 
has, and pray to G o d that he may a long time successfully 
serve humanity in his way, which is comprehended by only a 
few, but a select few. We I Succeeded? 
Many people imagine that they are at a great rate succeeding in 
the work of re-creating themselves in a better manner, have the cou- 
rage to ask at times:f'Have I, or have I not succeeded this month?" 
Such a question implies the answer,"No,you have not." 
Why? Because if you do not succeed,nothing happens, things go 
on their old way, and it is no wonder such a question as the above 
can be asked. 
But you can know if you have succeeded by the occurrence of 
the following events. 
I A distinct spiritual exaltation, or refreshment, or experience- 
something unmistakable, heart-shaking, tear-drawing-extasy-pro- 
ducing;-something which can be expressed in no way better than 
by the Biblical phrase of "being clothed in one's right mind." 
II A dream or vision of the Spiritual Temple of the World. 
Ill Being in dream or vision or in remembrance of such initiated 
in that Temple. 
IV Seeing in full daylight and in normal condition of the Holy 
Ones. 
If any such experience has come to you, then you may say "I 
have succeeded." A PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION TO 
CONSERVATION FOR WOMEN 
1. HEALTH 
T is almost needless to emphasize the importance of 
health, for it is something which everyone wants and 
something without which life is spent in pain and tribu- 
lation. Those who have lost it, appreciate it for the first time 
and it would almost seem a necessity for some to lose it to 
make them realize its value. 
But to those who have lost it there is no need of any re- 
mark about its value; the loss of it makes this earthly exist- 
ence so different. 1. It takes away the zest even of money; 
2. destroys ambition and appreciation of art; 3. warps the 
judgment; 4. darkens the moral life and makes life a burden 
to self and others; 5. and sometimes makes even suicide ap- 
parently justifiable. 
1. Money and what it will purchase, that attractive earth- 
ly agent which almost buys man's conscience and for most 
people means all the difference between light-heartedness 
and pratical slavery, making them politic and subservient- 
even all this shrinks at the touch of palsy. 
To become healthy again, many a rich man would give all 
that he has ; this underlies the extortionate fees of many phy- 
sicians who know they can charge all that they please : nay, 
many the rich man who literally spent all that he had in 
the oftentimes alas 1 vain search after health. Men will put 
up with all kinds of discomforts in order to heal thmselves ; 
long trips, tedious cures, and all manner of privations are 
borne with patience by even the most self-indulgent. II 
INTRODUCTION 
2. But not merely the pleasures of life are thus affected 
by the loss of health; not only does the the loss of health 
make life dull and unprofitable; it destroys all sorts of 
ambition. Not only does lack of health deaden the desire to 
keep up with one's fellows, which is often the root of doing 
much of that which one would otherwise not feel oneself 
capable of, but it necessarily diverts from the work in hand 
much of one's best efforts and interest. 
The next sure effect of continued ill-health is the warp- 
ing of that discrimintion which takes pleasure in judging the 
beautiful. One has not the heart, nay, nor the ability to give 
oneself up to an ideal; and, like the touch of a shroud it sobers 
the generous enthusiasm that quickens the faculties. 
3. But the most serious result is, that it actually warps 
the judgment. A physician who is sick usually relies on the 
sober judgment of another, because doubtless he often feels 
that his wits are not sufficiently nimble to take an unbiased 
view of the situation. The connection between dyspepsia and 
a melancholy pessimistic view of life is too well-known to need 
more than a mention and in the case of serious operations 
the operator often refuses to undertake one on himself. 
4. If the unfortunate results of ill-health were limited only 
to oneself it would not be so bad, but ill-health usually entails 
much work for others, not only in the nursing but in pro- 
viding the sustenance of life. As a duty to others therefore, 
each should insist on good health for himself. It is well 
enough that love lightens the burden but nevertheless a thou- 
sand and one things have to be done for the sick. 
Such then are a few of the definite reasons why a man owes 
it to himself to enjoy good health. To be a help instead of a 
burden in life should be the aim of everybody. With the best 
intentions an invalid must be more or less of a burden (and 
that is what continued ill-health simply forces a man into.) 
Some invalids make it up by special grace of mind as Frances INTRODUCTION 
III 
Havergal; but nevertheless it is just so much labor for others 
to care for them, however willingly done. Many of the most 
well-meaning sick ones grow cranky and are a real trial of 
patience to everyone. 
But there is still one argument which will especially reach 
those who cannot hope to be beautiful and attractive or 
graceful. Doubtless there are certain forms of sickly hot- 
house attractiveness,but in the long run a woman needs health 
to be beautiful, all the host of cosmetics are only tawdry im- 
itations of the flush and glow of health. Even the graces of 
mind depend on sanity and wholeness, on the riches of a good 
education, which itself is an impossibility without an under- 
lying foundation of some kind. It is the strong, vigorous 
woman after all who wins the admiration from men, for fetch- 
ing costumes are only stage setting for true or similated vigor. 
4. Though beauty may seem to women the climax of good 
health, there is the further argument of sanity. The old Latin 
proverb had it, that a healthy mind was only to be found in a 
healthy body-hence all this bluster about athletics and the 
infinite labors of the gymnasium and palaestra. 
And last shall we not say that holiness is impossible with- 
out the glow of health ? The false emotionalism of hysteric 
devotees may appeal to the sickly sentimentality of false re- 
ligious conceptions; and the time was, when a Saint Simon 
Stylites, when remaining on a monument, unwashed and the 
common needs of his nature remaining unattended to, could 
draw to his feet a Constantine; but no actual divine attain- 
ment was made this way. For any actual attainment ill-health 
is a misfortune, and will have to be overcome before the hu- 
man plant will bear its fragrant flowers of attainment. IV 
INTRODUCTION 
2. THE MONTHLY SICKNESS 
Granting therefore that health is a good and desirable 
thing it remains for us to inquire how women can increase 
their health, or at least how they can avoid longer or shorter 
periods of weakness or sickness. We are taking it for grant- 
ed of course that the women of whom we are speaking are in 
normal conditions of health ; acute or functional or organic 
diseases are of course to be overcome in some manner or 
other. We are only dealing here with the general normal 
conditions and while there are many causes of weakness such 
as weariness, confusion, etc., one of the most important dis- 
turbances among women is the monthly weakness which in 
many amounts to serious indisposition unfitting them for 
work. Now this is, at any rate, one great cause of weakness 
and if this source of weakness could be even only diminished 
there is no reason why woman's health should not be as satis- 
factory as man's, not mentionining at all that woman's life 
would be much happier. 
This monthly difficulty is more serious with some persons 
than with others. Some experience it as a real hemorrhage 
with serious loss, entailing being in bed for several days; 
with others on the contrary it is a light, hardly noticeable, 
temporary weakening, and while, as we shall show later on, 
this is by no means the most important loss of vitality, it 
nevertheless remains one, and a very frequent and recurring 
one. That this monthly weakenss can be alleviated is certain 
from the fact that it is much more serious with some than 
others, and the same persons at different times have different 
experiences. It is a poor rule that does not work both ways; 
and if we know that a licentious life increases the difficulty, 
it stands to reason that the opposite of a licentious life will 
produce the opposite result. INTRODUCTION 
V 
It is plain that before one can think of making any perma- 
nent gain of vitality or mental reserve these perpetually re- 
curring set-backs will have to be stopped. It is like the old 
simile of the man who had holes in his purse, and found it 
necessary to fill it with new money instead of darning the 
purse so that the little money that was in it would remain. 
As a rule such is the folly of man that he will go to the 
utmost lengths in order to provide new money for his purse; 
no effort is too great, no cause too difficult for this; yet the 
care of what he did have would have demanded only the very 
simplest care and thoughtfulness, the least bit of homely eco- 
nomy and management. Such is the stupidity of man that in- 
stead of making use of what he does have he as a rule goes 
to his wits' end to get new vitality. Likewise instead of see- 
ing to it that he eats only what is nourishing, he works hard 
to make money to get the greatest amount of valueless food 
which leaves the body unassimilated. Likewise instead of 
being grateful for what he does have, he considers Provi- 
dence unjust for not giving him more, never reflecting that, 
no matter how much he does have, he would still want more. 
This is an aspect in which the life of woman can, and should 
be improved; and it is not something new and untried, or in- 
dividual or a matter of opinion only. 
The ideal we are trying to enforce here is that women 
should attain a state of health such as that of men, in res- 
pect of eliminating this monthly indisposition. 
But it is not merely to make woman's life brighter and 
more satisfactory that we advocate this idea. Many employ- 
ers openly declare against the employment of women on this 
very ground, namely that their very nature makes them un- 
reliable from month to month, if not by actual physical sick- 
ness, entailing absence, at least headaches or lowering of 
general vital energy. But our ideal of equalizing the health of 
men and women needs to be shown practicable. INTRODUCTION 
4. THE POSSIBILITY OF CONTROLLING THE WEAKNESS 
Now it is not possible to stop the menses, because the 
menses are one of the laws of woman's nature. They are not 
something which can be stopped arbitrarily; they must be 
accepted and the best made of them with good grace. 
The fact is, if it were possible to do so, it would not be de- 
sirable ; for the menstrual flow consists for the most part of 
decayed matter entirely useless to the system. It consists of 
corrupted blood and the waste secretions of the several acces- 
sory sexual organs, for all of them contribute to it. If left in 
the system the flow would become a source of contagion and 
infection. The sooner therefore this is out of the body, the 
better. Besides, the suppression of the menses is a recognized 
disease, marked by serious disturbances of the spinal and 
sympathetic nervous systems, as well as affecting the brain 
in the shape of headaches and melancholy. Nor is normal 
health restored till the disease be overcome. It is therefore 
no virtue to have effected a suppression of the menses; it is 
rather a mistake. 
Under these circumstances it may be asked, "However un- 
pleasant this monthly weakness be, is it not an unavoidable 
sacrifice which nature demands of woman ? Supposing indeed 
this monthly weakness does set a woman's health back conti- 
nually had it not better be accepted both as apparently the 
normal condition of affairs and the only alternative from 
numberless diseased conditions ?" 
Apparently we are still at the same place from which we 
started, with a vain wish to attain the impossible. Neverthe- 
less, let us look at facts. Nobody will deny that some women 
at least, have a more serious menorrhagia than others. With 
some it means a real sickness, and stretching out in bed; 
nay, with others it amounts to a serious hemorrhage. From 
these facts of observation we may conclude that although the INTRODUCTION 
VII 
phenomenon of the catamenia is unavoidable, its seriousness 
certainly does differ with different women. 
It might therefore be possible to improve its condition, and 
render it less and less serious to general health. But how 
shall it be improved ? We have just seen that any direct 
effort to suppress it is impossible and unadvisable. If there- 
fore it is at all to be improved, it must be altered at the root, 
at the hidden cause of it. What is this ? 
4. THE CAUSE OF THE MONTHLY SICKNESS 
We have now decided that if the monthly weakness is to 
be fought it must be fought indirectly, through its cause, and 
we must ask ourselves what this cause is. 
Looking at the life-history of any one woman nobody would 
deny that it had some connection at least with the sexual life, 
that it was due to the growth and decay of sexual life, the 
the awakening and decay of sexual impulses. Without making 
this discussion too technical we will content ourselves with 
pointing out two facts ono ne will venture to deny. 
First, women whose life is unregulated (women of bad re- 
pute ) are known to have very painful menstruation. In fact 
during the three or four years in which they are able to 
keep themselves afloat, their existence becomes one long he- 
morrhage, less and less interrupted by times of comparative 
comfort. On the other hand, nuns and women who lead an 
absolutely solitary life find their menses growing less and 
less, so that, at times, they hardly leave a trace. Of course, 
it may be argued that some persons naturally have a more 
pronounced menstruation, being born with apparent different 
degrees of mental innervation of the body (mental control 
over it) and the argument might be that the painful men- 
struation of weakwomen (or of loose life ) was due not so 
much to their occupation as to the fact that it was their very 
nature that drew them to their occupation. And the same VIII 
INTRODUCTION 
might be argued in the opposite case, namely that it would 
be the naturally chaste woman who was drawn to a pure life. 
Again the seriousness of the sickness differs not only with 
different individuals but no one will question the fact that in 
the life of each woman this weakness has at different times 
presented a different degree of gravity. In any case, it did 
not appear till puberty, and ceased after the change of life. 
Moreover it began gradually and its intensity was only mar- 
ked years after, from this point decreasing gradually. We 
are therefore driven to the conclusion that how ever unavoid- 
able the monthly weakness be, its seriousness varies with 
each individual at different times. We have therefore in at 
least two cases seen plainly and surely that it is variable in 
the same women, and if it is variable, why cannot it be at 
least minimized ? 
How then shall we minimize it ? From what we saw above, 
it is not only hopeless but a crime to minimize it directly. 
We will have to inquire into the cause, why these differences 
we noticed existed and possibly if we try to work with the 
cause which makes these undoubted differences, we may suc- 
ceed in producing differences at our will. If, for instance, we 
could produce a slight improvement so as to diminish the 
monthly difficulty to the point it is diminished in many wo- 
men, or to the point at which it was diminished in former 
years perhaps in the very same woman, this at least 
would not seem to be impossible. And it might be also said 
that it would be impossible to attract to this chaste life a wo- 
man who had a painful menstruation as it would not be at- 
tractive to her. 
However wholly true this argument might be in isolated 
abnormal cases and however partially true it might be in all 
cases, it would still remain, that the facts were so, whatever 
the reasons might be ; and nobody will undertake to deny that 
these tendencies are universally observed in many lives. INTRODUCTION 
IX 
We may therefore accept these facts as bases for the de- 
duction that the first essential for any sort of control, (pro- 
gressive or spasmodic,) is absolute refrainment from all sex- 
ual intercourse. 
Now while this seems to be an unexceptionable conclusion, 
married women will immediately take issue with the implica- 
tion, first, that their matrimonial relations are not pure, and 
secondly, that it would be unfair to them, that by the natural 
life of a well regulated person the higher attainments should 
be impossible. To which we would answer, let us drop the 
word "pure", inasmuch as we have not the slightest desire to 
assert that the marriage relations are reprehensible, or to li- 
mit the use of the word. What we mean will be clearer if we 
do not confuse our point with another and entirely different 
controversy. Let us put it on a simply physical basis. Let us 
simply consider the scientific experimental facts of life with- 
out any social implications. Nature in any case recognizes no 
technical legal aspect of relation, and the physical condition 
depends wholly on the physical aspect of behaviour. Any phy- 
sical connection, legal or not, directly increases the monthly 
catastrophe, and the logical conclusion is, that if you wish to 
minimize it as much as possible absolute abstainment must be 
the rule. Of course those who do indulge legally know just 
what they are doing, and must take the consequences, though 
these would doutbless be less fatal than an illegal relation 
not because of its illegality, but because it is more likely to 
be unregulated and wholly animal. 
Nor should those who indulge in these natural relations 
complain if they do not attain what those might, who do not. 
They are getting the good things of this world in return for 
a certain sacrifice of themselves and doubtless there are cases 
in which the seriously praiseworthy childbirth makes a cer- 
tain amount of suffering worth while ; nevertheless, nature is INTRODUCTION 
pitiless. One cannot have the cake and eat it too. He can 
take his choice as to what he thinks most worth while ; but 
he should not complain if deciding to eat the cake moder- 
ately he cannot preserve it intact. It is a question of choice : 
each must decide for himself; each knows best what he con- 
siders worth while; and if he has bad judgment the stern 
lesson of experience will teach wisdom (though usually too 
late.) Nevertheless, it remains certain that he who would 
have all that is possible must sacrifice to it all his life with 
not reserve of any kind. 
5. THE PHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECT OF THE WEAKNESS' CAUSE 
We would not blame the respected reader if she cried out 
in justified anger that the writer was insulting her, and ac- 
cusing her of loose life because with her the catamenia was 
pronounced. The writer answers : "I beg your pardon, but 
please before throwing this paper away, let me explain myself. 
I used the case of a woman of loose life only as an instance 
of a certain physiological condition of low mental innervation 
of the body which may be natural with many on account of 
lack of vigour, whereas the fallen woman's condition is only 
induced by her habits." 
Let us look at the matter from the physiological side only. 
Let us drop all reasons for the condition, now that the exam- 
ple of the well-known condition has enforced the point I was 
striving to make. The feeble condition may occur naturally 
as a misfortune, quite as much as artificially. Hence this 
feeble condition has to be improved physiologically by physi- 
cal culture and other exercises, even if the conscience be as 
clear as a bell. 
6. THE DUTY OF THE PRIVILEGE OF GOOD HEALTH 
We have therefore analyzed the hidden cause of woman's 
special continuous set backs in health; we have seen that her INTRODUCTION 
XI 
initial ideal of good health, as perfect, as rugged as a man's, 
is a possibility to woman, because all undesirable physiological 
conditions have been shown to be under control of the will. It 
remains therefore only to say that this possibility, this privi- 
lege, is therefore a duty for all rational, sane, well-inclined 
persons, not only because of the trouble to others which ill- 
health implies, but for the intrinsic value of good health, and 
its accompanyment of sane mind and ultimately of a sane re- 
ligion or holiness. 
It remains now to point out that emotions are the key to 
the physiological retrogression or progression mentioned a- 
bove. Being more peculiarly affected by their emotions than 
men are, emotions, the chief source of danger even to men's 
power and clearness of mind, are almost omnipotent with wo- 
men. It is therefore here that a woman must seek the lever- 
age by which she shall overcome her possible inherited or na- 
tal lack of mental bodily innervation of control, and these 
emotions must be used in several ways. 
(1) First she must avoid all unpleasent or needless or sex- 
ual emotions. 
This may seem very easy to say, but doubtless will not be 
so easy to practice, even for unattached women who either 
have business fatigues or duties. The exigencies of life, un- 
foreseeable, and often omnipotent, enforce themselves con- 
tinually : "man proposes but God disposes"-"the plans of 
mice and men gang oft a-gley." Bad enough for men, but 
worse for women, who have to keep up appearances, and re- 
strain their feelings, or whose sympathies are more easily 
roused or excited. 
But leaving aside the more unavoidable relations of daugh- 
ter, mother or sister, which appeal to the emotions enough, 
the more dominating (because to some'extent unavoidably 
sexual) emotions of wifehood, search the very heart; and 
many women are by brutality and vulgarity forced to meet XII 
INTRODUCTION 
daily insults or injuries of many and repulsive kinds. What 
shall they do ? 
Let us state it here as a principle, that no woman has a 
right to stand (much less is obliged to stand) such insults 
and sorrows. Affecting as they do the very roots of her nature, 
she has a right to insist on peace, and failing this to make 
peace by supporting herself by work, if necessary. 
(2) Having avoided all the dangers and backsets of emo- 
tions she can in them find the key by which to overcome her 
weakness and increase her strength. Let her put her love 
wholly on health, and as if by magic the bloom of health will 
transfigure itself on her cheek and crown her with the crown 
of grace and beauty. 
For women therefore who are seeking no more than per- 
fect physical health, we may say : "You can, and therefore 
you ought to overcome all monthly set-backs, and have per- 
fect physical health, and be not a drudge or a slave, but a 
Goddess." REGENERATION 
FOR WOMEN 
CHAPTER I 
Iked of we Book 
1. PHYSICAL CONTRAST 
HE difference between men and women, must necessarily 
involve a difference in methods to attain the same or 
common aim. The aim of entire sexual control is one 
which is common to men and women. It is the peculiarly 
human attribute dependent on and correspondent to the differ- 
ence between consciousness and self-consciousness. The latter 
being capable of self-control, the former being unable to do 
ought but to live out its impulses for good or ill. 
One peculiarly strong illustration of what is meant here is 
furnished by the bear, whose physical impulses are so strong 
that though he may be perfectly familiar with the nature and 
location of the trap he walks right into it,when te mpting bait 
is in it. 
The distinguishing human conduct under the circumstances 
would be to suspect danger and deny himself the tempting 
bait. This ability to deny the impulses of the body constitutes 
the content of the spiritual struggle, and it may be said to 
increase it. 
Now it is evident that the method by which this self-control 
can be increased, is dependent on the condition of the nature 
that is to attain this self-control. The best method for men 
to attain this self-control was given in the book "Re gen er- 2 
NEED OF THE BOOK 
ationApplie d." In order to adapt those methods to wom- 
en, it is necessary to inquire in what the nature of woman 
differs from that of man. This difference or contrast once 
thoroughly understood, will make it possible to discover the 
alterations which should be made in the methods for men, ex- 
plaining the reason, nature and extent of these changes. 
2. DIFFERENCES OF SEX 
The first and most salient difference is of course the natur- 
al one of sex, with all the difference in the structure of the 
sexual organs, their nature and function, including the differ- 
ence of physical sensation connected with them. Roughly 
speaking, it may be said that the male organs are outside of 
the trunk ; in the woman, on the contrary they are all con- 
tained within the trunk. 
This matter is not one of position merely, it symbolizes to 
some extent the relative importance of the sexual life to ei- 
ther sex. With man the sexual life to some extent is but an 
incident, and many nen pass through life without any serious 
discomfort connected with it. With women it is different. 
The sexual life cannot by them be evaded, however much they 
turn their minds from it. 
While the control of the sexual function is with most men 
a matter of choice, (for only a relative few are in such a con- 
dition that they need to control it to continue to be in good 
health, unless they have voluntarily meddled with it by self- 
indulgence,) most women, in order to enjoy even fair health, 
would have to make the most heroic efforts at self-control. 
The causes of this will be considered elsewhere, but the point 
here is, that the facts are such. 
The only discomfort which attends the activity of the male 
sexual life may be an occasional overflow, on the contrary, the REGENERATION FOR WOMEN 
3 
normal condition of woman's sexual life consists of a month- 
ly recurrence of two or three days of feebleness and inability 
to attend to duties. Morover it appears (though for the most 
part fallaciously) that the male sexual function is under some 
control of the will, vzhereas the mennorrhagia of women is 
not only independent of volition but entirely opposed to it, 
and, worst of all, its mere omission leads to sickness. 
3. CONTRAST OF STRENGTH 
It is hardly necessary to do more than to refer to the con- 
trast of the difference of strength of men and women, entire- 
ly apart from the weakness or sickness depending on the 
menses, and entirely apart from the difference of bodily struc- 
ture which gives rise to strains or misplacements of the inter- 
nal organs, (misplacement of the womb being much easier to 
produce, and common, than hernia which demands actual rup- 
ture of the peritoneal membranes.) 
The resistance of the muscles even in an athletically train- 
ed woman is not comparable to that of men. 
The skin itself is of a finer texture, and there are many 
physical organs in women that interfere with freedom of 
movement and energy of action. One might also add, the so- 
cial conventions of dress, which are obstacles to free motion, 
long hair and its arrangement, both weighs and demands cir- 
cumspection in action; and skirts weigh and impede. 
All this apart from the accentuation of all these impedi- 
ments due to fashion or desire for beauty. It is in any case 
sufficient to point to the fact that the greater number of 
athletes are men. 4 
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4. CONTRAST OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM 
While the physical nerve tracts are actually the same, the 
comparative strength and sensibility differ to some extent. 
Mercifully for her, the sensibility to pain of woman is not as 
great as that of man. On the contrary, the sense of feeling 
may be more subtle, and, whether it be training or nature, the 
motor nerves do not possess that skill and stability peculiar to 
the male organs. 
5. DIFFERENCES OF BRAIN MATTER 
Physiological psychology further insists that in relative 
weight of brain matter, woman is behind the man. Some in- 
terpret this as meaning that woman is less advanced in the 
scale of evolution, being nearer the animal. This seems absurd 
seeing that they are born of the same parents ; possibly the 
physicalness of the "role" woman plays in generation demands 
of her a more physical development and thus she is better 
equipped in this direction. 
6. SOCIAL RELATIONS 
Net less than her own sex-peculiarities, are the social re- 
lations in which women usually and legally stand. These, 
hearing almost entirely on the sex relation, naturally affect 
the sex life to a very great extent; and women who intend 
to make any sort of attainment therefore need to pilot them- 
selves very carefully, lest missing the path in some unguard- 
ed impulse of the heart, in one moment they often decide of 
the possibilities of years. NEED OF THE BOOK 
5 
7. PECULIARITIES 
Besides all these natural differences, there are other serious 
reasons why a book dedicated to the Conservation of Women 
is imperative. So far, the reasons for, and nature of conser- 
vation has been generally so misunderstood, that it has been 
a quite common remark that Conservation might apply to 
men, but that structurally, it had nothing to do with or fcr 
women. Again, the amazing ignorance of the few who have 
taught Conservation to women has led them to make such 
egregious blunders in the use of words that it is no wonder 
that well-informed persons have properly turned away in dis- 
gust and disbelief. Where palpable errors were unblushingly 
made and insisted on, who was to guess that there was a sub- 
stratum of truth ? It needed therefore that somebody who 
had the interest of conservation at heart should take the 
trouble to point out the true state of affairs, from the stand- 
point of modern anatomy and physiology. 6 
REGENERATION FOR WOMEN 
CHAPTER II 
UJby Conservation Applies to momen. 
1. PROBABILITY 
E have above pointed out the great need of a separate 
treatment of the nature and methods of Conservation 
for Women. Especially is this the case for a reason 
not yet mentioned, namely that many object to men's Con- 
servation, on the ground that (assuming that Conservation 
does not apply or cannot apply to women) if Conservation 
were true, it ought to apply to both sexes, and not one only. 
To this the writer answers, that in his own life at least he 
has tested Conservation so as to know it exists, at least for 
men. Hence the principle they urge, which the writer also 
urges, should make it probable that some such process exists 
in the body of women. This assumption of theirs, however, 
that Conservation cannot apply to women, we have here to 
disprove, and show that not only is woman's Conservation a 
probable and natural process, but anatomically quite possible. 
The reader will say, "Why not demonstrate it certainly ? 
Why rest content with probability and possibility ?" In an- 
swer to this the writer says: Conservation for women is a 
certainty to the several women he has known who have prac- 
ticed it, and succeeded in it. But you cannot demonstrate 
a physiological process as involved as this with mathematical 
certainty; you can alone show it is the only simple sat- 
isfactory explanation of all the well-known phenomena of life 
and the many physical experiences of women. At least, you 
can make it sufficiently probable to women to induce them to 
test it in their own lives, when their own experience will con- 
vince them permanently. WHY CONSERVATION APPLIES TO WOMEN 
7 
For such women, who seek health physical and mental, and 
spirituality also, is this book written, to induce them to test 
Conservation; and if they find the statements of this book car- 
ried out in their own experience, and the results are satisfac- 
tory, they will be convinced and always seek to bring its light 
to their suffering sisters. 
Let us immediately say that this book is not primarily writ- 
ten for objectors. "A man convinced against his will is of the 
same opinion still." Those who are earthly minded, whose 
material interests are at variance with the possibility or prac- 
ticability of it (such as husbands who have no intention of 
losing the pleasure of union with their wives,) taking ad- 
vantage of our own inability and unwillingness to push such 
matters into the arena of bantering discussion, will insist 
that modern methods demand for any new idea overwhelming 
proof with the microscope, test-tube, scalpel and inthel a_bo- 
ratory. 
Such evidence, from the nature of the case, cannot be fur- 
nished; and as to their assent we care little, remembering 
the many mistakes of science, the many spokes it has put in 
the wheels of discovery, and even in this enlightened age the 
very rudimentary state of the reasons the best physiologists 
can as yet advance for the most important and best investi- 
gated processes, such as those of digestion, or why the stom- 
ach and the intestines do not digest themselves. 
But we will show such evidence as will seem overwhelming 
in its character to all openminded people, reminding them 
that we advance it, not as a theory, but as an explanation of 
facts experienced by many women, and which would have 
been experienced by all, had they only analyzed their feelings 
as carefully as their more self-observing sisters did. And as 
we rely only on facts of experience, those who so far have 
not observed themselves can immediately begin to do so, and 
be convinced, do they so desire. 8 
REGENERATION FOR WOMEN 
2. THE MAIN PRINCIPLE 
We cannot here repeat at length the Chapter on "Rege- 
neration in Biology" of "Regeneration the Gate of 
Heaven." We can only here repeat that we pointed out 
•there that all life was the resultant of the two processes of 
katabolism and anabolism ; and that if we intelligently dimi- 
nished the former or increased the latter, singly or better 
still, simultaneously, we could increase life almost at will, 
and put death off to the extreme human limit. 
It was then shown how this process of Conservation applied 
to the nature of man, not only from the writer's own expe- 
rience, but from the scattered writings of the best known 
and recent authorities of all countries, whose testimony was 
all the more valuable that none of them either believed or 
professed Conservation so that they could not be accused of 
partiality. 
Considering these two admitted points-namely, 1, that 
all nature shows this equilibrium of destructive and construc- 
tive forces, and 2, that in the case of man this process of 
conservation was conclusively shown; consequently in con- 
nection with women, there is only one conclusion possible, 
namely that it must apply to women also. For this process 
is not accidental, adventitious, or cursory; it represents the 
very hidden springs of life all along the line from the worm 
up, and therefore it would be more of a miracle if it did not 
apply to women, than if it did. For then women would be an 
exception to all living matter, which of course is ridiculous, 
and being born from the same parents as the males it is to 
be supposed their natures are basically alike. 
This then is the main principle that forces us to grant such 
a process in woman-that it exists in men ; and therefore the 
burden of proof lies on him who denies it rather than on the 
writer who affirms it. Such being the case the writer feels it 
only necessary to show just how this process occurs normal- REGENERATION FOR WOMEN. 
9 
Our purpose must be to refute the objection so often 
made to Conservation in general: that it cannot be true, 
inasmuch as a physiological Law would have to hold good 
for both sexes; and it is presumed that the structure of 
the female Sexual organs makes such a process impossi- 
ble. These are only presumptions, but they must be met 
as well as possible in the present condition of scientific 
research on the subject, which will not yet admit of 
positive demonstrations on the points at issue. Our 
proof will have to be divided into three parts: (1) Gen- 
eral biologic processes; (2) Presumptive demonstration 
of the results of such a process in women as well as in 
men; (3) Special Theory and confirmation thereof con- 
cerning how such a process goes on in the female or- 
ganism. 
2. General Biologic Processes. - These have been 
treated of at length in '1 Regeneration, ' ' Chapters II and 
III. These show that the Law of Growth of living or- 
ganisms reveals the principles underlying Regeneration, 
and of course apply to men as well as women; and the 
natural inference is that if these Laws of Growth apply 
to the general metabolism of the woman's body, they will 
also hold good in respect to the function of the several 
organs, among which is the sexual. 
3. Presumptive Proof of Regeneration in Women.- 
This has been gone over at length in "Regeneration," 
Chapter IV. The male standpoint was there considered; 
it may be well to mention here, in the same order, the 
special female aspects of the four great proofs: from 
Virility, Old Age, Vitality and Disease; the Objection 
of Nervous Shock need not be considered specially. 
A. Virility. The changes which occur normally in 
women at puberty are well known, and also that they do 
not occur if the girl be castrated. Such cases are, how- 
ever, rare; and the proof will have to be deduced from 
the retrogressive physiological changes occurring in post- 
puberty period resulting from operations such as ovari- 
otomy or hysterectomy. 
The following is from A. T. P., p. 274: "There is pos- 
sibility of the ovaries furnishing an internal secretion 
that plays an important part in general nutrition. In 10 
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gynecological practice it has been observed that complete 
ovariotomy with its resulting premature menopause is 
often followed by distressing symptoms, mental and 
physical. In such cases many observers have reported 
that these symptoms may be alleviated by the use of 
ovarian extracts. So also in the natural, as well as in 
the premature menopause following operations, it is a 
frequent, though not an invariable, result for the indi- 
vidual to gain noticeably in weight. The probability of 
an effect of the ovaries on general nutrition is indicated 
also by the interesting fact that in cases of osteo malacia, 
a disease characterized by a softening of the bones, re- 
moval of the ovaries may exert a very favorable influence 
upon the course of the disease. These indications have 
found some experimental verification recently in a re- 
search by Loewy and Richter, made upon dogs. These 
observers found that complete removal of the ovaries, 
although at first apparently without effect, resulted in 
the course of two or three months in a marked diminu- 
tion in the consumption of oxygen by the animal, meas- 
ured per kilo, of body-weight. If now the animal in this 
condition was given ovarian extracts (oophorin tablets) 
the amount of oxygen consumed was not only brought to 
its former normal, but considerably increased beyond it. 
A similar result was obtained when the extracts were 
used upon castrated males. The authors believe that 
their experiments show that the ovaries form a specific 
substance which is capable of increasing the oxidation of 
the body." 
Mosse, the recent French authority, says (pp. 21-99) : 
"Long since it has been acknowledged that the ovary was 
the special determining cause of the particular charac- 
teristics and special attributes of the woman; and hence 
the proverb: 'Propter solum ovarium, mulier est quod 
est. ' Heger, although opposed to such an absolute stand- 
point, has nevertheless had to acknowledge that the ovary 
has a preponderating influence on a great number of the 
sexual characteristics of woman; in fact, without ovaries, 
there occurs no development of the uterus, no menstrua- 
tion, no sexual life. It is no less true that the beginning 
of the ovarian activity, marked by the appearance of REGENERATION FOR WOMEN. 
11 
menstruation, characterises puberty - a period when 
woman acquires the characteristics distinctive of her sex. 
Moreover,woman's sexual life is so closely connected with 
the activity of the ovarian function that at the latter's 
ceasing sexual activity ends. Besides, the castration of 
children, although it does not destroy their growth, modi- 
fies considerably the distinctive characteristics which ac- 
company puberty. 'These children become large and 
muscular, without any female attribute; no menstrua- 
tion, no vulva, no breasts, a narrow pelvis.' (Roberts, 
loc. cit.). After puberty the extirpation of the ovaries 
brings on the suppression of the menses, and generally 
the atrophy of the sexual organs. And this premature 
menopause is often followed by the common pathological 
phenomena of the real menopause." 
B. Old Age. The menopause results solely from the 
cessation of activity of the sexual function; consequently 
the physiological retrogressive changes resulting there- 
from point out that such physiological conditions were 
due to the activity of the sexual function. 
C. Vitality. Much more than in men does in women 
weakness and exhaustion follow excessive sexual activity. 
Well known is the prostration after the catamenia, espe- 
cially if excessive; if it is slight, this exhaustion is mini- 
mized. A complementary proof is the growing stout and 
healthy of married women who have satisfactory con- 
nection with a man, which must be due to the vital value 
of the injected semen, as it does not occur without this 
in unmarried (non-cohabitating) women who have just 
as regular a catamenia, with indeed a much less exhaust- 
ing or prostrating result. 
D. Disease. The proof from the effect of the ovarian 
internal secretion is the most striking. Only lately has 
the existence of these internal secretions been demon- 
strated; it remains yet to be shown exactly what they 
consist of. Our theory of the process of Regeneration in 
Women may indeed show that the "internal secretion" 
is no more than the till now unsuspected action of other 
long since known elements; but that will be shown else- 
where. Here we are only concerned to show the value 
of the ovaries and their influence to the general well 12 
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being. (See books of Camboulas and Mosse.) Mosse 
mentions the following (p. 65) as recognized sequelae of 
natural or post-operative menopause: Chlorosis, Amen- 
orrhea, Membraneous Dysmenorrhea, Mental Maladies, 
Osteomalacia. 
Internal Secretion. A priori, the reproductive organs 
can scarcely be regarded as organs that are quiescent 
during the greater part of life and passively await the 
reproductive act. The view that they are more than this 
is supported by some, although slight, experimental evi- 
dence. Notwithstanding the fact that removal of the 
testis or the ovary in adult life is often unaccompanied 
by great somatic changes, the profound effects of early 
castration upon development, in both male and female, 
show that upon the presence of the sexual organs depends 
the appearance of many of the secondary sexual charac- 
ters-characters which apparently are independent of 
these organs and yet of themselves distinguish the indi- 
vidual as specifically masculine or feminine. The mode 
of dynamic reaction of the sexual organs upon the other 
organs can at present be little more than hinted at. It is 
entirely probable that such reaction is either nervous or 
chemical, or perhaps it is both combined. Regarding the 
former, little is known. Regarding the latter, certain 
facts point to a possible normal and constant contribution 
of specific material by the reproductive glands to the 
blood or lymph, and thus to the whole body. Such a 
process is spoken of as internal secretion. 
4. Special Theory. Having shown that the general 
Laws of Growth, as well as the phenomena of Life, espe- 
cially in women, point to the existence of such a process 
as Regeneration, we must now attempt to show that such 
a process is physiologically possible. We will have to 
give our theory on the subject, merely as the occasion of 
adducing some important facts which indeed may later 
be shown to have a significance other than we attribute 
to them, but which reveal new and till lately undreamed 
of properties of the female sexual organs. We will there- 
fore begin by studying the menstrual flow, and the 
ovaries, and their secretion. Having done this, we shall 
be able to deduce therefrom certain conclusions which REGENERATION FOR WOMEN. 
13 
may later turn out to be fairly accurate accounts of the 
facts of life. 
A. The Leucorrhea. We cannot quote all of W. T. 
Smith's book on the Pathology and Treatment of Leu- 
corrhea; so we will refer to pp. 21-56, etc., in which he 
details the various elements which go to form the flow 
called "Leucorrhea"-which includes the secretions of 
the (1) Vulvo-vaginal glands, (2) the glands of the 
"ostium vaginse" (secreting freely during sexual inter- 
course), (3) the glands of the walls of the vagina, (4) 
the glands of the cervical canal, (5) the "Nabothian 
glands," (6) the glands of the walls of the uterus and 
fallopian tubes. The most important kinds of leucorrhea 
(which term includes all discharges from the vagina ex- 
cept blood) are the Vaginal or Epithelial, the Cervical 
or Mucous, and the Specific forms and Purulent. Here 
follows a description which may be of some help to Con- 
servators from W. T. Smith, pp. 81 and 311. 
The next symptom which we have to consider is leu- 
corrhea, under which head we include all discharges from 
the vagina except blood. Very little of value can be 
drawn from the statements of patients, as women differ 
widely in their estimate of what constitutes a discharge. 
Some women are rendered miserable by the slightest sus- 
picion of moisture about the vulva, while others have 
well marked leucorrhea without noticing it at all. Vagi- 
nal leucorrhea is thin, creamy, non-viscid, and, as a rule, 
not very profuse. If due to acute vaginitis, it is accom- 
panied by heat and swelling of the vulva and vagina, and 
when gonorrhoeal in origin, not infrequently by ure- 
thritis. When chronic, the heat and redness disappear, 
and the thin creamy discharge sometimes changes to a 
thick smegma-like secretion which clings to the walls 
of the vagina. 
Cervical leucorrhea, if merely an abnormal amount of 
the natural secretion of the glands, is clear like the white 
of an egg, viscid, and non-irritating. 
A thick, opaque, or yellowish discharge which makes 
its appearance in clumps at intervals, often only when 
some straining occurs, as during micturition or defeca- 
tion, or on cough or other exertion, is characteristic of 14 
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endoeervical catarrh. "When the endometrium is affected 
the discharge is usually thinner than when it is purely 
cervical, is very apt to be of a brownish color, due to some 
admixture with blood, and may have a slight odor. When 
the secretions from the uterus is markedly purulent it 
suggests tubal disease. 
The leucorrheal discharge of chronic inflammation of 
uterus is practically the same as that noticed just above. 
In senile eases, and sometimes in younger subjects, the 
white of egg, Nabothian secretion is absent, or is present 
in very small amount; the discharge in senile cases may 
be free and purulent. In the most common cases, how- 
ever-that is, in cases developed during the years of 
greatest menstrual activity-the discharge is a mixture 
of viscid and muco-purulent secretion, the major portion 
of the latter coming from the uterus. 
B. The Ovaries and Their Secretions. The following 
passages are from Mosse, pp. 20, 24, 25: "All glands 
provided or not with excretory ducts pour into the 
blood useful principles whose absence becomes observable 
after extirpation or destruction by sickness. The ovaries 
have a sort of internal secretion of an unknown nature 
which is continually poured into the blood, and which 
favors the oxidation of the organic phosphoric sub- 
stances, of the hydrocarbons, and the fats. The ovary 
has three functions: 1, ovulation; 2, menstruation, of 
which it is the at least indirect cause; 3, an internal 
secretion, which is not yet perfectly determined. 
C. Conclusion. Having thus given some account of 
the more recent views of disinterested writers, we may 
now construct in the light of all these facts a theory 
which may account for all the facts shown in our Second 
Proof, from Virility, Old Age, Vitality, and Disease. 
It is understood that the female is born with the germs 
of all the ova she will ever develop, variously estimated 
from 36,000 (Waldeyer) upwards (Mosse; A. T. Ph. says 
twice 17,600). This would allow for each day of woman's 
life after puberty till the menopause two or more ova. 
No doubt the daily pleasurable hyperemia that occurs 
with women in the early morning if they have been 
awake at night, or later in the day if not, is connected REGENERATION FOR WOMEN. 
15 
with activity of the ovary (it is so generally conceded to 
be the case between ovum, menstruation and uterus) so 
that it is possibly that in the hyperemia of the organs one 
or two of the ova are carried off into the oviduct and 
thence into the upper horn of the uterus. Under normal 
conditions there is no egress hence; consequently the 
lymphatics absorb the vital secretion (ovum with mu- 
cus that has brought it), and this vital secretion is trans- 
formed into vitality in the blood, and by it is carried to 
the central nerve centers, stimulating their growth and 
increasing consciousness. 
This daily drama may be enacted at the same time the 
morning germ is born and matured with men; that is, 
midnight to eight A. M. There are other hyperemias 
during the day, and they will stimulate the growth of the 
ovaries, and the maturation of the next day's germs. 
Monthly, however, the same influence of the moon which 
stimulates the male virility effects in the ovaries special 
changes, whereby one ovum matures more perfectly, or 
grows larger, and is carried off for ultimate propagation 
at the time of the catamenia, and meets either the fate of 
fecundation if it meets a male spermatozoon, or is voided 
if not retained and transmuted. 
It will be seen that our theory demands the existence 
of large lymphatics in the uterus, capable of absorbing 
vital secretion with immature ova (the only possible 
"internal secretion" the ovaries can have). Anatomy 
and physiology show that right here just such lymphatics 
exist which are generally supposed to carry off any secre- 
tions of mucus present. Why then not the vital secre- 
tion? The main point of woman's effort would therefore 
have to be to shut off loss of any secretion at those critical 
times; and after three or four hours all serious danger of 
the loss would have passed. And that this is not impossi- 
ble is shown by the fact that if, when a woman begins to 
feel tickling at the upper orifice of the vagina, she lies 
down perfectly without motion for a few hours at most, 
she may get up and work with impunity. A certain 
process of resorption goes on any way; therefore, why 
might it not also deal with the vital secretions as well as 
with indifferent secretions? This, then, is the circle of 16 
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life and the mechanism of the resorption of vital secre- 
tion, constituting regeneration among women. 
It will be noticed that such a resorption would absorb 
any and all secretions that might be in the uterus at the 
time, together with the only valuable secretion from the 
ovaries. But that would do not much harm; the mucus 
would be carried off, and any toxins eliminated. It 
would also be noticed that such a process would not con- 
template the resorption of the excretion of the lower 
uterine, Nabothian and vaginal glands; especially the 
catamenial uterine excreta, which ought by all means to 
be eliminated in the shortest way possible. For Conser- 
vation, therefore, timeliness would be the main element, 
and the presupposition would be a condition of health 
such that there would be normally, outside of the cata- 
menia, very little secretion or excretion (leucorrhea). 
The attainment of such a state of health would there- 
fore be a preliminary condition to effective conservation 
for women: a much harder task than with men, with 
whom it is quite feasible to conserve the entire sexual 
secretion stored in the "vesicuhe seminales," and this 
may be attained by entire shutting off loss of any kind; 
having no such problem of timeliness and good judg^ 
ment to consider, and no catamenial flow to permit, nay, 
indeed, to promote, as women have. There are two points 
which our theory takes for granted, namely, that the 
process of ovulation or activity in the ovaries is a con- 
tinuous one, and that in the normal healthy condition of 
the uterus a plug of mucus forms in the cervix uteri 
and remains there from one catamenial period to an- 
other, so that in normal conditions the vital secretion 
would be retained mechanically in the uterus until re- 
sorbed by the lymphatics. For both of these points we 
fortunately have good authorities, which, however, we 
can do little more than refer to here. For the second 
point we refer to the passages quoted under the head of 
Leucorrhea, and for the first we refer to the articles on 
Ovulation and Menstruation in Kirke's Handbook of 
Physiology. Also to the American Text Book of Physi- 
ology, p. 455, and "Wood's Cyclopedia of Gynecology, 
p. 91. REGENERATION FOR WOMEN. 
17 
"The discharge of the ovum is technically ovulation. 
In most animals ovulation is a periodic phenomenon ac- 
companying certain seasons, and is marked by general 
sexual activity. In woman and many domesticated ani- 
mals the relation to the seasons no longer exists, but too 
little is known of the causes and time relations of the 
phenomenon and its general bearings upon other physi- 
ological processes, notably upon menstruation in women. 
A large but not wholly decisive literature upon the sub- 
ject has been written. It is a common belief originating 
in the seventeenth century that ovulation in women is a 
periodic phenomenon occurring regularly every month 
and contemporaneous with the occurrence of the men- 
strual flow, and numerous post-mortem observations of 
the presence in the ovary of freshly discharged Graafian 
follicles at the menstrual period afford evidence of the 
frequent coincidence of the two phenomena. But the 
ovulation at the time of menstruation, though probably 
usual, is not exclusive of ovulation at other times, for 
intermenstrual observations of fresh ovarian scars are not 
rare and prove without doubt that discharge of an ovum 
may occur at any time between two successive periods. 
Graafian follicles develop even during infancy; most of 
them and perhaps all retrograde without discharging 
their ova, but the occasional instances of pregnancy at 
the ages of seven, eight or nine prove that ovulation may 
occur in childhood. Ovulation generally begins at pu- 
berty, its commencement thus coinciding with that of 
menstruation, and continues until the climacteric." 
After the climacteric it may occur in exceptional cases, 
although here, as before puberty, retrogressive degenera- 
tion of the Graafian follicle is the rule. It is commonly 
believed that ovulation is at a standstill during both 
pregnancy and lactation. The undoubted possibility of 
a pregnancy originating during lactation would, how- 
ever, seem to prove the possibility of ovulation during the 
latter period. It is not decided whether removal of the 
uterus does away wholly with ovulation. 
The researches of Coste, Negrier, Douvernay, Raci- 
borski, Bishoff and Courty showed definitely that the 
phenomena of spontaneous ovulation exists in woman as 18 
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in other species of animals without the intervention of 
the male. But though this intervention is not necessary 
to determine the rupture of the follicles, and the ejection 
of the ovum, it does not follow that it has no influence 
on these two physiological phenomena when it is ex- 
ercised at an opportune time. 
The following passage will substantiate our view of 
the normal mucous plug at the cervix uteri: 
W. T. Smith, page 46. "In the unimpregnated condi- 
tion, when the cervix uteri is found perfectly healthy, 
little or no discharge is seen issuing from the cervical 
cavity; but when the labia uteri are separated the canal 
of the cervix appears to be full of its peculiar secretion. 
In examination after death in which the uterine organs 
are in a healthy condition the mucous crypts and the 
canal of the cervix contain viscid mucus so as to block 
up the passage from the vagina to the cavity of fundus. 
This appears to be the normal condition of the cervical 
canal in the unimpregnated state. 
"When first secreted the cervical mucus is less thick 
and viscid than it afterward becomes. Thus it would 
seem to be the function of the glandular structure of the 
cervix, in the unimpregnated uterus, to secrete each 
month a sufficient quantity of viscid mucus to fill the 
canal of the cervix, the mucous follicles becoming com- 
paratively inactive when this has been accomplished 
until after its removal at the next flow of the catamenia. 
The function of the cervix is, therefore, in a certain 
sense, like that of the fundus, periodical; and we shall 
see hereafter that this periodicity is discernible in the 
diseased conditions of the cervix and its secretions. In 
healthy subjects the canal of the cervix is always full in 
the intervals between the menstrual flow of the cervical 
mucus into the vagina. Just enough is secreted to fill 
the canal. The mucus itself consists of myriads of mucus 
corpuscles entangled in a transparent viscid plasma. The 
plasma is so tenacious that the mucus corpuscles are 
found to be arranged in strings when placed under the 
microscope, and individual corpuscles are frequently seen 
to be elongated from the same cause. 
"The use of the cervical mucus is probably twofold. REGENERATION FOR WOMEN. 
19 
In the first place, it closes the cervix uteri and defends 
the cavity of the fundus from external agencies as com- 
pletely as though it were a shut sac. In the second place, 
it appears to afford a suitable medium for the passage 
of the spermatozoa through the cervix uteri into the 
uterine cavity." 
5. Methods for Leucorrhea Reduction. From the 
above it follows that for women conservators excessive 
leucorrhea must be reduced. What means shall be em- 
ployed ? Of course, the first thing is to remove or avoid 
any local irritants or voluntary hyperemias caused by 
contact, emotion or thought. Removal of the cause, if 
external, is the next thing to do. Climate may have some- 
thing to do with it; but, unfortunately, if so, women may 
not be able to remove just on this account, and women 
must learn such control as to succeed anywhere. It is 
therefore with little hope of help therefrom that we 
quote the following from Tyler Smith, p. 170: 
"Climate has always been referred to as a cause of 
leucorrhea, and this disorder has always been considered 
to prevail more in Holland than any other European 
countries. Its prevalence among the Dutch has been at- 
tributed to the damp atmosphere, and to the chauffe- 
pieds used by the women. Leucorrhea is very common in 
Russia, where the winters are chiefly passed in rooms 
heated to a high temperature by stoves. It is also re- 
markably frequent in English women who have lived in 
hot climates." 
The writer doubts that climate as such would have 
much, if any, influence on the leucorrhea; but it is very 
probable that the observed peculiarities or frequency 
mentioned above may be due to other causes: in Holland 
the over-feeding and materiality of women; in Russia, 
their laziness, and among English women from hot cli- 
mates, artificial stimulation by diet (curries) and inac- 
tion due to being waited on so much. However, all this 
is pure supposition and of little practical benefit, except 
to avoid extremes of temperature and exposure to damp- 
ness. Let us now pass to Rectal Irritation (Tyler Smith, 
P-171). 
"This is highly important as a cause of leucorrhea. 20 
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In habitual constipation, when the rectum is constantly 
filled with hardened faeces, the lower part of the uterus 
is subject to continual irritation. In the irritation of 
the rectum by asearides, leucorrhea occurs from the 
extension of irritation from the lower bowel to the uterus. 
Some of the most obstinate cases of leucorrhea are 
caused by these worms, and it often happens that pa- 
tients who suffer from them do not mention their exist- 
ence, unless the matter is inquired into. Hemorrhoidal 
tumors also excite irritation of the uterus, and are some- 
times accompanied by a dilated or varicose state of the 
veins of the neck of the womb. ' ' 
"In the same way leucorrhea may be produced in 
persons who take aloes habitually, as an aperient. Leu- 
corrhea is also frequently found in connection with fis- 
sures at the margin of the anus. ' ' 
Vesical and Urethral Irritation is the cause next in 
importance: 
"The influence of irritation of the bladder and the 
urethra upon the uterus, in exciting leucorrhea, is not so 
marked as irritation of the rectum, but it is tolerably 
constant. As in the case of the rectum, the bladder af- 
fects the uterus partly in consequence of vascular con- 
tiguity and partly through a nervous reflex influence. ' ' 
This vesical and urethral irritation may be also caused 
by the use of iron, alum and tonics which are astringent 
in action, or too violent purgatives (p. 180). 
Excessive leucorrhea may be corrected by the follow- 
ing means: 
"The injection found most useful in cervical leucor- 
rhea is a solution of alum and tannin (dr. j to dr. ij of 
tannin and dr. ss of alum), dissolved in a quart of water, 
is the strength I generally prescribe, one-half to be used 
at night and the other in the morning. 
"I generally recommend, when the discharge is pro- 
fuse, the injection of a considerable quantity of cold or 
tepid water before the use of the astringent solution, with 
a view to clear the vagina and the os and cervix uteri as 
much as possible from discharge, when, as already men- 
tioned, the injection acts more efficiently. 
"In leucorrhea attended by pain the lead injection, REGENERATION AOR WOMEN. 
21 
.combined with opium, is especially useful. Injections of 
cold water simply, in considerable quantity, are often of 
great value in giving strength to the vaginal walls and 
lower segment of the utervs. ' ' 
This on pp. 183, 184, of Tyler Smith. The following 
on pp. 193, 194: 
"In persons living at the seaside, and who use sea- 
bathing, leucorrhea discharges are not common. Cold or 
tepid local bathing is lighly useful, and when the dis- 
charge is excessive coU or warm hip-bathing in a strong 
solution of alum, one pound to a gallon of water, is very 
beneficial. Cold bathing not only affects the lower part 
of the vagha, but by a reflex action contracts the uterus 
itself, ever in the unimpregnated state. I have no doubt 
that if cod or tepid hip-bathing were more common, leu- 
corrhea vould be less frequent. When astringent solu- 
tions are used, it increases the efficacy of the bath to 
admit the solution of alum, etc., to the os and cervix 
jutep during the bath. Change of air and residence in 
dry situation is useful in this as in all other disorders 
depending upon or accompanied by debility. Many cases 
of prefuse leucorrhea will get well from resting for a few 
weeks without any other treatment. This method of 
relief must not be depended on alone, as leucorrhea dis- 
charge cured in this way is apt to recur as soon as exer- 
cisi is resumed." 
So much from Tyler Smith. Dr. W. E. Ashton gives 
the following in his quiz-compend (p. 89) : 
"If the discharge be slight, use tepid injections: alum, 
borax, sulphate of zinc, carbolic acid, chlorate of potas- 
sum, or common salt. If the secretions are excessive and 
cause irritation of the genitals, the use of the cotton 
iampon is the best treatment. Take a dry tampon of cot- 
ton and enclose in it either boracic acid, alum, or the 
subnitrate of bismuth. Then introduce into the vagina 
and allow it to remain twelve or twenty-four hours; after 
its removal use a tepid astringent injection. A tampon 
saturated with glycerin containing either boracic acid or 
tannin may be used in place of the dry tampon. A new 
tampon should be introduced into the vagina every day 
for three or four days. If the leucorrhea be specific in 22 
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origin, apply to the vagina either a solution of corrosive 
sublimate, 1 part to 1000, *r nitrate of silver, 30 to 60 
grains to the ounce." 
All these local methods wTl, however, be unavailing 
without abstaining from emojons, and even touch of 
hands of persons of the opposite sex, or prolonged ca- 
resses from persons of the sane sex; also sleeping with 
others. 
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Keating & Coe: Clinical Gynecology. Philadelphia: J. 
B. Lippincott Co.. 1895. REGENERATION APPLIED FOR WOMEN 
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FOR WOMEN 
I 
The Negative Emotion Drill. 
he PURPOSE of the following drill is to give the con- 
servator practice in subduing the changes in her emo- 
tional life, which render vain the most heroic efforts at 
conservation. 
The REASON why this Drill is so important is because of 
the especial influence which emotions have on women's lives. 
It is quite true that men are just as much as women unable 
to centre their attention on anything without interest or love 
to direct it and keep it steadfast; but with men the emotions 
being less changeable, there is not so great danger of fre- 
quently repeated changes. 
There are four main reasons for this difference between 
men and women. First, Occupation:a man usually has 
hard or connected external effort, whereas a woman has a 
varied round of small, aggravating, distracting duties, all of 
them lying within the loved home sphere. Second, Position: 
a man has definite work to do, whereas a woman is preemi- 
nently a wife or mother. Third, Nature: a man's sexual 
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be lost sight of in hard work. Some of the reflexes are strong- 
er with her, and pains and vicissitudes of child-birth and men- 
struation keep her at least monthly in an uneven state of 
health. Fourth, Society: which includes the general public 
opinion that she must please, be attractive, try to be beauti- 
ful, dress stilishly, behave conventionally, and be 'womanly' 
in her ways. 
The PHILOSOPHY of this Drill is to give the inner spiri- 
tual self control over the changing moods and emotional co- 
louring of the affection- or passion-nature, and through it of 
the body. For when you once realize that your emotions are 
not yourself, their significance will immediately shrink to ac- 
cidental conditions; they will no more masquerade as springs 
of action, or worthy motives; it will be evident that they 
ought, and therefore can, and shall be controlled by the rea- 
son. 
THE DRILL. 
1. Sit down and try to distinguish your inner true spirit- 
ual self or immortal consciousness from the emotions of your 
outer self or body. 
Say to yourself, "I am spirit, I am consciousness, I am rea- 
son. I am not my body. I am not my passions, my affections, 
my desires. They are not Me. I am myself." Say this to your- 
self until you are quite sure of yourself-till from within you 
feel you realize it, whether it take long or short time. 
2. Then for one hour by your watch try to keep that con- 
sciousness intact while going on with your usual life. 
You will naturally do this when your emotions are less like- 
ly to be upset; but when, having succeeded for (a) one hour, 
you try it for (b) twenty-four hours, you will find unexpect- 
ed difficulties ; and more so still if you try for (c) one week. 
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It will be very difficult to hold on to this consciousness 
even while children misbehave and have to be corrected, or 
when meeting and dealing with the loved or not loved. 
Nevertheless, these are the real tests, and not until a woman 
is superior to these can she consider herself mistress of her- 
self, let alone mistress of her body, or mistress of her desti- 
ny. 
The Practice of this Drill is peculiarly easy, inasmuch as 
it makes use of any and all daily experiences, demanding on- 
ly the few moments of preliminary self-recollection. 
WARNING. 
Nevertheless, as with all of them, not much good can come 
of this drill unless it be clearly carried out for EXACTLY 
the length of time determined upon before starting, and be 
done at regular times. And it will be found that no sooner 
has a regular time for it been decided upon than unexpected 
tests aud difficulties will be sure to come up somehow. 
The beginner is therefore advised to begin with only a short 
time, and succeed with that rather than fail with a longer 
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II 
Positive Emotion Drill. 
he PURPOSE of this Drill is the same as that of the Ne- 
gative Emotion Drill, being its complement. It is to as- 
sist women, who by their nature find their body, often in 
spite of themselves, responding to their emotions, to control 
these thoroughly. 
The REASON: The reason why this Positive Emotion Drill 
is so important is two-fold. 
In the first place, it is the complement of the Negative E- 
motion Drill. It is perfectly evident that control of any dy- 
namic machine or being is composed of the two-fold ability 
to start and to stop at will. Mere negative control would be 
useless unless the machine had power, and mere power 
or urging of the machine would of course lead to a wreck 
without perfect appliances for slowing and stopping it. 
Therefore it is foolish to talk of controlling the emotions 
unless one is able as with the thoughts to pick them up and 
lay them down, absolutely at will; and both the positive and 
the negative are one as important as the other. This is the 
theoretical aspect of it. In practice every person finds that 
she lias more ability in one direction than the other, and it is 
left to the good judgment of the conservator to most prac- 
tise that drill which she most needs. Nevertheless, under no 
circumstances should the one be practised to the exclusion of 
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The second reason why this Positive EmotionDrill is impor- 
tant, is that most undeveloped people (and especially those 
who in childhood learned to love the church) will find it eas- 
ier to begin by the positive drill than the negative, although 
it is not to be denied that many coming from other religious 
associations such as the "New Thought" or Theosophy might 
find the negative easier. On the whole the less developed will 
find it easier to begin control of the emotions by most work- 
ing at this positive drill until successful. Besides the psycho- 
logical reason, the love for this positive drill being the easier 
of the two, the emotions generated will act as motive forces 
to carry out the more abstract negative drill, so that it is 
advised when both drills are to be done, one after the other, 
to begin with the positive. 
The PHILOSOPHY that underlies this positive drill is two- 
fold : first, the most materialistic psychologists insist that in- 
terest is the basis of attention, and we cannot get away from 
the fact that love is the motive force of anything that we do 
well. Passion as such is not evil, it is good. A passionless in- 
dividual is a nonentity. The evil arises when this passion is 
directed towards low objects, and it is safe to say that nobo- 
dy can ever hope to make the highest attainments who is not 
consumed by the fire of a deathless passion to behold the 
Supreme. Therefore emotion is not to be killed out as so ma- 
ny occultists have taught, but it is to be cultivated hand in 
hand with the opposite, and so kept under perfect control, 
while increasing its power. It is not for us to point out the 
fact that those who merely kill out the emotions fail to make 
any attainments. We will simply say that no man can ever 
hope to make a deep change in his life without having the 
strenghth of controlled emotion. 
What we want emotion for is therefore to effect soul a- 
mendment, and to point out what we mean, it is only neces- 
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under the blows of the hammer rather than change its form, 
while if heated can be led to assume any form soever of its 
own motion. Whoever therefore wishes to make an efficient 
soul alteration, and one which will be sufficiently rapid to be 
practical, will have to apply the heat process instead of the 
cold process. 
The second principle that underlies this positive emotion 
drill is this, that because of the natural suggestibility of the 
inner self, it is better to fight its faults positively than nega- 
tively. Whoever touches pitch even to clean it off is thereby 
defiled, and in many cases the cure for mistaken notions is 
simply to fill the mind so thoroughly with the ideals to be at- 
tained that the undesirable elements will simply be crowded 
out of the consciousness. As the Apostle says : "Finally, bre- 
thren, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are 
pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of 
good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, 
think on these things." 
THE DRILL. 
(1). Beforehand make up your mind as to how long you 
will practice this drill, whether twenty minutes, thirty min- 
utes, or an hour or a day or a week, remembering not to un- 
dertake too much. 
(2). Sit down quietly and try and recall to your mind and 
heart the feelings of love which you at different times in your 
life have felt towards your mother or other dear ones, and 
try to awaken this feeling, this emotion again. If necessary, 
rouse your love by talking aloud, or if you feel so inclined, 
sing. If absolutely necessary, speak soft, loving words with 
as much tenderness as your voice is capable of until you have 
really roused affection in yourself. 
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It is very earnestly suggested that you look upon Him or It 
as your Heavenly Father. If you are helped thereby, you 
might make use of whatever symbols are of any use to you, 
although of course the fewer symbols you use the fewer pos- 
sibilities of error you will have. It is of no importance as to 
what you call the Divinity, whether a Central Sun, or a Prin- 
ciple, or a Being, or a Trinity. The point is to get the thought 
clearly before your mind. 
(4). Try and realize that your Heavenly Father loves you 
better than you love yourself. Remember all the unspeakable 
kind warnings and helps and spiritual comforts He has given 
you in your lifetime. 
(5). Now turn to your Heavenly Father all the love that 
you have been able to generate. Express it in song or hymn 
or prayer, and do not be afraid of expressing it, because al- 
though it be true that still waters run deep, you may be sure 
if a love does not affect your expressions it has not become 
overmastering, such as you wish your love to God to become. 
(6). Having succeeded in making yourself turn all your a- 
vailable, practical, real, human love on God, you are now to 
keep it unaffected through all the vicissitudes of circumstan- 
ces, however prosaic or distracting, for just the length of 
time you had decided on, and under no circumstances permit 
yourself to be distracted from it for that time that you had 
agreed upon. 
(7). Of course the best of those who are poor in love will 
be very poor, but as a simple and convenient standard it may 
be said that success in this will not have been attained unless 
this love for God has brought tears to the eyes. Some of us 
can produce tears very easily, but this is meant for those who 
cannot produce them. 
(8). Now this drill is not meant as an indefinite sentimen- 
tality. It is to be undertaken with a distinct thought in view 
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a predetermined plan, and we have only chosen God as the 
author of this emotion because God is the only safe object 
for any emotion. 
THE PRACTICE. As we have pointed out above, this posi- 
tive emotion drill is not to be practised without its opposite, 
the negative emotion drill, and it is advisable after the first 
few efforts, which doubtless will demand quite a little time 
for some people who might even have to devote half a day to 
it to make its predetermined duration the same as that of 
the negative emotion drill, one following the other within ex- 
orable and unpitying accuracy and system. It has been sug- 
gested that one who used soft loving words or song, might 
provoke criticism; but some people will have to learn not to 
mind what other people will think of them in making this ef- 
fort, although of course it is very beautiful to do it either in 
the sanctuary of your own room or in the solitudes of nature. 
But for daily practical purposes the practice should be made 
businesslike, and with the main object always kept clearly in 
view. 
WARNING. 
Nevertheless, as with all of them, not much good can come 
of this drill unless it be clearly carried out for EXACTLY the 
length of time determined upon before starting, and be done 
at regular times. And it will be found that no sooner has a 
regular time for it been decided upon than unexpected cir- 
cumstances will arise. The beginner is therefore advised to 
begin with only a short time, and succeed in that rather than 
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The Hate Drill. 
he PURPOSE of this drill is to cut out of the heart all 
those petty stumbling blocks which incapacitate a soul 
to see things clearly, and are likely to upset it at the 
most unexpected times. 
The REASON is that most women at least are in fixed cir- 
cumstances and are therefore in certain fixed emotional con- 
ditions when they begin to try to make attainment. To con- 
quer the world is not to fight the devils separately, but to cut 
off from yourself the handles by which the world, the flesh 
and the devil are able to upset you. Reforms begin inwardly 
and until a soul has absolutely learned to love all nature, ani- 
mate and inanimate, as well as all human beings, it cannot 
even begin a course of regular unobstructed development. 
The PHILOSOPHY of universal love is the need for system 
and regularity. The strength of the chain is that of its weak- 
est link, and as long as there remains any one hard spot in 
the soul, the soul cannot be entirely responsive to the emo- 
tions of the spirit. This refers mainly to the hates or indiffe- 
rences (which are just as bad as hates if not worse) against 
human beings, but also to all sorts of antipathies against any 
sort of animals. 12 
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THE DRILL. 
(1). Sit down with pen and paper in hand, and think over 
every human being and animal whom you do not positively 
love, and put down the name. Begin by those who have injur- 
ed you. 
(2). Make out the list on a card such that you can carry 
with you conveniently anywhere. If necessary make a special 
pocket in which the card can be conveniently kept. 
(3). Every hour of the day earnestly pray for the spirit- 
ual development and godlike attainment of every one of these 
persons and animals, and only cross them off your list when 
you have begun to feel a positive burning goodwill towards 
the person or animal. Two weeks should usually suffice even 
in the most extreme cases, if the prayers are made with any 
sort of earnestness and seriousness. When you have crossed 
off the last from your list, you may then consider the drill 
ended. 
THE PRACTICE : As to the practice of this drill, it is use- 
less unless it is done seriously, regularly and with the whole 
burning devotion of your being. To illustrate the need of this 
we may mention the lady who was an example of piety to a 
dozen States, a marvelously beautiful and noble woman, who 
went to holy communion every day. When asked how she 
managed to do it in view of the many persons whom she had 
a violent antipathy toward, she replied that she simply forgot 
them for the time being. This is just to show the mistake of 
those who imagine that because they are indifferent to a per- 
son they are in the right relations to him. It will be a great 
help under these conditions to remember that you and all 
those whom you hate or are indifferent to are brethren, and 
children of a common Father. 
The trouble about such drills as the two last ones is that 
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thoroughly businesslike spirit and should be done quickly and 
thoroughly as serious steps to attainment. Sentimentality is 
not sentiment, and such drills might easily seem sentimental- 
ity except to those who are pressing on to the heavenly goal. 
Whosoever undertakes any of these drills in a sentimental spi- 
rit may expect to be thoroughly punished for blasphemy, 
for love, being the holiest of emotions, and being divine, 
should not be trifled with, for it will levenge itself, like the 
sin against the Holy Ghost from which there is no repentance 
because there is such a thing as veering suddenly round and 
actually not wishing to turn heavenwards. 
WARNING. 
Nevertheless, as with all of them, not much good can come 
of this drill unless it be clearly carried out for EXACTLY 
the length of time determined upon before starting, aud be 
done at regular times. And it will be found that no sooner 
has a regular time for it been decided upon than unexpected 
circumstances will occur. The beginner is therefore advised 
to begin with only a short time and succeed in that rather 
than fail with a longer period. 14 
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IV 
The Direct Drill.' 
he PURPOSE of this Drill is to teach tne Conservator 
practically how to control the occasional, unexpected 
losses of vitality, whenever they may feel the danger 
coming over them. This is effected by learning conscious vo- 
litional control over the Sphincter Vaginae muscles. 
The REASON why this is both advisable and possible is as 
following: 
On account of the crucial importance of the A d v i s a b i- 
1 i t y of wholly conserving or retaining the Leukorrhea we 
must risk some repetition, and take for granted what else- 
where we have shown to be reasonable and probable. 
Why try to retain the Leukorrhoea, which is nothing but 
the harmless and impotent secretion of the uterus walls and 
neck, and vagina? Because 1, Experience shows that such re- 
tention re-invigorates the system, and 2, Physiologically con- 
sidering it, it contains daily the one or more ova detached 
by each daily hyperemia or fulness of the organs from the 
at least 140,000 ova with which each female child is born. 
But why retain all of the useless secretions also? Because 
it is impossible to differentiate the useful from the useless, 
Nature purposely mingling them, just as in the case of the 
male secretion, where the spermatozoa are mingled with the 
harmless and impotent secretions of the prostate and Cow- 
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But is it not harmful to retain and resorb all this quantity 
of secretion? Not any more than to swallow the saliva. 
But the Leukorrhoea is in my case very excessive and pu- 
rulent. Then in your case Conservation is out of the question 
till a thorough local cleansing and hygienic austerity have 
re-established an even approximately normal condirion of af- 
fairs, although, however hopeless, the efforts should be con- 
tinued for their moral and invigorating effects. 
Now as to the Possibility of this Retaining; do you 
object that it is both unnatural and impossible? We will show 
two things: first that Retaining is the only normal process, 
and secondly, that it is possible, even if it were abnormal. 
1. If Retention were not the normal process, all women 
would have a continuous oozing or trickling, without any in- 
termission whatever-which is not the case, as is well-known. 
The physiological process which Nature establishes is as fol- 
lows: At the end of the monthly period the natural secretion 
of the glands in the uterus forms in the narrow neck of the 
cervix a sort of natural barrier which, growing firmer, lasts 
normally till the next monthly period. Thus it happens that 
if in the meanwhile the flow is not too copious it is mechan- 
ically retained for the half-hour necessary for its complete 
reabsorption through the many lymphatic channels into 
the blood, by way of the thoracic duct, that empties into the 
left subclavian vein, so that the vital elements are ultimate- 
ly delivered to the blood-current, and by it to the muscles, 
nerves, spine and brain. But of course this physiological bar- 
rier grows only in those who have attained a state of self- 
control equal to that of most men, while with those who are 
in a weaker condition, the natural protection never material- 
izes, the continuous efforts of Nature being continuously ab- 
orted. 
2. Now the above normal process would prove an adequate 
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self-controlled; and it is doubtful whether any ever attained 
to it without applying, probably quite unconsciously, just 
such methods as are here proposed to be done consciously. 
Of course, this Drill being at first practised only occasional- 
ly at times of need, and secondly done at other times for the 
purpose of producing the desired innervation of the muscles 
will soon so thoroughly become second nature, that only at 
very occasional or important critical astral times, or under 
stress of circumstances need it be resorted to consciously. 
The problem of rightly innervating the 'sphinctores vagi- 
nae' muscles is evidently of the same nature as that of the 
'sphinctores ani', about which we definitely know that child- 
ren are born without any sort of control over them, and at 
death these muscles relax entirely; so that the continual ap- 
parently effortless contraction during life is entirely a mat- 
ter of education and second nature. Why then should it be 
impossible to attain an equally satisfactory result with the 
near-by, analogous and similar vaginal sphincters? Another 
similar problem is keeping the lips tight shut, or keeping the 
shoulders habitually thrown back, especially in children, to 
prevent stooping. 
The PHILOSOPHY of this Drill explains why this physical 
Drill is given fourth, not first; for although it be beneficial, 
nay invaluable, for any woman in any condition, it should al- 
ways be preceded by the Emotional Drills-does it not seem 
rather useless to try to mend large holes in the bottom of a 
purse while one is continually holding it upside down with 
mouth wide open; when by clearing away all emotional ob- 
stacles the purse has been turned right side up, then may 
one expect the greatest benefit from carefully darning every 
hole and crevice-still, even a little is better than nothing. 
Of course it is understood that this Drill is approximately 
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only when it has already occurred, of course have before 
them a long period of struggle before they can come to the 
condition in which they may feel it long enough beforehand 
to prevent it entirely. But the more hopeless the case, the 
more desperate should the struggle be, for success is sure 
for all who struggle long and hard enough; only the struggle 
to be successful should be not physical only, but along all 
other lines too, mental and spiritual. 
The purely physical drill can be practiced with success on- 
ly by those who being sufficiently ready mentally, emotional- 
ly and spiritually are able to apply it at the right time and 
in the right way. Let those for whom the Path seems almost 
impossible not forget to lift up their eyes unto the Hills from 
Whence cometh all strength, Where every prayer for assist- 
ance is heard and answered, seeing that There dwells He who 
loves her more than she loves herself, and is only waiting for 
the opportunity to send the help which can be efficient only 
when the soul opens herself to the divine assistance and in- 
spiration. Even when the Opponents have gotten the better 
of one in a disaster the right thing to do is to bless them 
to their face, while praying for assistance, instead of break- 
ing into cursing, as sincere Conservators may well feel temp- 
ted to do. 
THE DRILL. 
1. At the first intimation of any trickling, even within the 
uterus itself, (the more sensitive can anticipate it psychical- 
ly,) the Conservator should be in a position to be able imme- 
diately to lie down flat, and automatically to dismiss all emo- 
tions and practical problems. 
2. The mind is now to be centered on the sphincters of the 
vagina; and gradually also on the Sphinctores Uteri, which 
though slight in size, are very important, and can certainly 
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partially striped muscle-fibres. These voluntary contractions 
should be continued until they become partially habitual, the 
mind being meanwhile perfectly calm and collected. 
3. Deep breathing is extremely useful, especially in con- 
tinuing the feeling noticeable in the lungs when a breath is 
taken, carrying it down by the power of the imagination in- 
to the whole pelvic region and, as it were, consciously tra- 
versing these sphincters with the mind, till they respond to 
the will easily. 
4. While lying down it is well to keep the inner conscious- 
ness so active in listening and watching in the astral as to 
be conscious of any help, in the way of Instruction or Warn- 
ing, that might be given by any Unseen Helper. To help re- 
cognize this condition, it may be explained that it is an in- 
tensely mental one, which may express itself in tightening of 
the lips and half-closing of the eyelids in passionless scrutin- 
ization of the world around. 
5. The Conservator should stay in this attitude for a half- 
hour if possible. After the first impulse to loss seems to 
have been checked, she should not arise immediately, but lie 
still till she is reasonably certain it is safe for her to rise. A 
guide in this will be the Inner Voice, or some astral sign- 
for inner help comes invariably to such as deserve it. 
This Drill should be practiced not only at the times of ac- 
tual danger, but at other regular times. With this, as with 
other spiritual things, those who most need it think of it 
least, and those who least need it are those who practise it 
best. It is, for instance, advised that a daily period of not 
more than five minutes, if no more can be given, be devoted 
to it at a regular time, so as to learn the feelings and me- 
thods by which the physical control is attained. 
This Direct Drill is of course the most important of all, as 
being the most vital; but success in it will soon relegate it 
to emergencies. REGENERATION APPLIED FOR WOMEN 
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V 
The Sleep Drill. 
he PURPOSE of this Drill is to enable the Conservator 
to check Disasters during sleep, just as the former one 
teaches how to do it during waking times. The reason 
why this should be '.practised, is that, just as anything is 
better done that has been thought about or practised, and 
just as in the unimportant details of life, so in the crucial 
acts of self-control, do Care, Consideration and Preparation, 
and their resulting artistic skill, keep the mind from being 
'flustered' in emergencies. The Conservator should be etern- 
ally prepared to do the right thing in the right way. 
The PHILOSOPHY which underlies this Drill is the dem- 
and for One Continued Consciousness of the Internal World, 
which is what we will need when the body has collapsed. And 
this is necessary right now for the shutting off of all psy- 
chical losses, and so much the more of actual physical ones. 
Of course the Inner Self will often wake a struggling person 
from deep slumber at the right time; or the Unseen Helpers 
will wake her through an astral bell-ringing, or door-knock, 
or body-shaking, or any other kind of an easily comprehensi- 
ble symbol. But to those who most need the Direct Drill 
such helps mostly come too late, so that the ultimate condi- 
tion necessary for complete Conservation might just as well 
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In Regeneration Applied For Men the whole question of 
psychical losses is gone into; but it is far more important for 
women, as they are often more negative, for four reasons: 
1, they can be emotionally affected by Opponents, even in 
dreams; 2, the usual physical condition of wromen, which is 
the one in which only very weak men are; 3, it is the distinc- 
tive female characteristic, as opposed to the positive male; 
and 4, the devotional religious life appeals to them usually. 
Hence she needs not only to read about the matter, but to 
practise just such a definite Drill as is given below, not ne- 
glecting many long hours of fond meditative dreaming over 
the effort, so as that it soak down into the Inner Self. 
THE DRILL. 
1. At various times during the day lie down flat ( not on 
the back, however, because no Conservator should accustom 
herself to lie on the back without protest, as that would an- 
tagonize the habit it is so difficult to make the Inner Self 
form of not letting the body lie on its back during sleep). 
2. The body should be entirely relaxed, which will be seen 
by the establishment of a regular breathing, like a child's. 
Until this breathing has begun, the body is not entirely re- 
laxed; and the Conservator should get into the condition in 
which it can be induced voluntarily at a moment's notice. 
3. Drop the External Mind entirely. Refuse to think any 
thought whatever that may come up; as soon as you catch 
yourself thinking a thought of anything, dismiss it. 
3. Remain intensely conscious of your surroundings and of 
yourself, and of the astral surroundings. 
4. If necessary, talk to yourself; say «I am I. I am myself. 
I am eternal, spirit; there is no need I should become uncon- 
scious. I will not lose hold of myself. I am Myself, and I re- 
main Myself through all the vicissitudes of the Body, which 
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6. For beginners it may perhaps be advisable not to drop 
the External Mind, and to occupy it with the Memory Drill. 
7. This is to be done for as long a time as the Conservator 
is sure of keeping awake, remembering that one failure does 
as much harm as two successes do good; and therefore she 
should not undertake more than she can reasonably expect 
to succeed in; but always just a little more than last time. 
Let it be only 5 minutes, or 10, or 15, SO; but, whatever it 
be, be sure that the consciousness remains whole. 
8. Another form of this Drill is to spend one half hour in 
seeing how near to falling asleep you can get, and yet rouse 
yourself thoroughly, and do this repeatedly. 
The PRACTICE of this Drill should be daily. The beauty of 
it is that it can be done at almost any time and place- 
friends will simply think she is a little tired, and resting; or 
it can be done while travelling, although it had bettter be 
done only where there is no danger of interruption, intrusion 
or accident. But it must be done, however often, till abso- 
lute and permanent success is assured. Whenever then the 
Conservator chooses to lie down at night, when the astral 
and physiological difficulties are so much greater, she will not 
only know just what to do, and how to do it, but she will 
have confidence in herself. Then she can at least make an 
effort to wake up automatically every hour, by, so to speak, 
charging her consciousness, and before again lying down 
sponge herself,or if necessary for waking the full normal con- 
sciousness properly, getting a little fresh air, or exercising, 
or for 5 minutes standing straight, with the arms outstretch- 
ed, cross-wise. Unless some such refreshment be taken, fre- 
quent wakings are more likely to send the Conservator into 
a deep sort of somnambulistic condition-so these Drills are 
not to be trifled with-the Opponents, once roused, will 
not fail to do harm. Yet within 48 hours the sincere Neo- 
phyte will be made aware of the Unseen Helpers' assistance. 22 
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VI 
The Pelvic Dril^. 
HE PURPOSE of this Drill is 1, to increase the innerva- 
tion of all the pelvic contents; 2, to promote conscious- 
ness of their conditions; and 3, to pave the way for 
conscious Control. This Control is very important because 
most womens' habits of dressing, living and emotion have 
brought about that serious indolence of them that is witnes- 
sed by the so frequent womb-prolapse and constipation. 
The PHILOSOPHY of this Drill is that life is characterized 
by activity, and inactivity means death. To vitalize any 
bodily function, therefore, it has to be exercised constantly 
and voluntarily. Of none of the organs is this truer than of 
the most important, especially those half involuntary. The 
fact that the Sphincters of the Vagina are muscles of the 
striped or voluntary variety, proves that conscious control 
over them is the normal condition, and that the almost uni- 
versal lack of control is an unnatural one; and so even over 
the involuntary or unstriped muscles; this is evident in hyp- 
notic conditions, and in hysteric ones, in which persons have 
been known at will to empty the contents of the stomach, 
though the muscles of the oesophagus are of unstriped vari- 
ety. And it is well known that in health the emotions of joy 
or fear affect the unstriped muscles of the heart, and the 
Erectors of the hair, as in 'goose-flesh'. REGENERATION APPLIED FOR WOMEN 
23 
THE DRILL. 
1. Prepare for the Drill by carrying it out mentally first. 
For those who have yet very little control it will be necessa- 
ary to try to feel the actual Drill beforehand, imagining it 
so strongly till the physical motions occur. 
2. By will-power raise all the pelvic contents. For a few 
seconds, hold them high and tense, then suddenly drop them 
by simply relaxing the muscles, not violently. 
3. This should be done twelve times running, without haste 
or such deliberation as to destroy the energy,-the signific- 
ant part of this energizing of the pelvic contents. The Drill 
may be done with or without breathing, preferably with it; 
breathing in as the pelvic contents are lifted, and letting the 
breath go out as relaxedly as they are dropped. 
The PRACTICE of this Drill is especially valuable for per- 
sons who may chance to be in a negative condition, on cars, 
or in company, when feeling themselves involuntarily influen- 
ced by other peoples' thoughts and emotions. Nevertheless it 
should be done for its own sake once a day, although not at 
times in which the monthly Period occurs, inasmuch as those 
hemorrhages should be permitted to heal up as fast as pos- 
sible, perfect rest conducing to this. 
The advantage of this Drill is that it may be done at any 
time and at any place without anybody's knowledge, and can 
often be done when time would have otherwise to be wasted 
in cars or elsewhere. Good judgement is of course necessary 
not to prolong it unduly, or to permit time to be wasted by 
doing it too platonically. 24 
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VII 
The Wheel Drill. 
0 as to assist the transmutation of vitality to its psy- 
chical form, and to draw this to the brain, to wake up 
the higher forms of consciousness, is this Drill useful. 
For in the spiritual man who is making progress worth men- 
tion there is a constant vital current ascending from the sa- 
cred lumbar centre, up the spinal cord, to the brain; and the 
establishment demands this Drill, assisting Conservation as it 
does. For in most persons the natural external associations 
and undeveloped aspirations form a sort of barrier so that 
the sacred Vitality, instead of following its destined path 
up the spine to the brain, it will then accumulate in the lower 
portion of the body, excites the lumbar centres, extravasat- 
ing, in the next deep sleep. Now, these lumbar centres are, 
when looked at in the astral light, the darkest and most in- 
fested in the human body: so that a double advantage accrues 
by this Drill-cleaning them out by establishing the current. 
The philosophy of this Drill is the Law of Cause and Eff- 
ect; nothing happens by chance, although the vicissitudes of 
life lead us unconsciously to employ laws and forces, which 
it may take us quite a little trouble to analyze correctly. So 
reflection shows that physical vitality does not transform in- 
to spiritual energy without will power, conscious mental eff- 
ort. This Drill therefore involves the attainment of thinking 
in any desired part of the body. What this means is not un- 
derstood usually until success has been attained in healing- 
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THE DRILL 
1. Draw in a deep breath of cool fresh air to the lungs, vi- 
olently enough to learn and then also remember to under- 
stand what a feeling in them is, so as to be able ever after 
to 'think in them' by a real breath of fresh air. 
2. As you continue drawing in the breath, draw this feel- 
ing of breathing all the way down the front part of the bo- 
dy till this consciousness has fully reached the vital organs. 
3. The purpose of this is to seize as it were by mental 
power the psychical portion of the vitality, and to push it up 
through the lumbar centres up the spine, through the neck 
to the front of the brain. In the meanwhile the attention ha- 
ving left the physical breath, it is at liberty to unconsciously 
mechanically find its way out again, so that by the time the 
attention has reached the forehead the lungs are empty and 
ready for another breath 
4. It will be perfectly possible to feel whether or not one 
succeeds in raising the vitality from the vital organs to the 
brain; but success must be attained before progress can be 
made. The power of this Drill is seen if practised while the 
vital organs are active-they will be reduced as by a sudden 
blow. 
5. When success has been achieved the process should be 
carried on rhythmically, regularly, persistently. 
6. The Drill will be much facilitated by imagining the fo- 
cussed attention as a point of light, and then making it des- 
cribe a Circle or Wheel; and it will be found that when it is 
once started it will go of itself. 
7. At this stage a noticeable difference will be felt in the 
quality of consciousness; if sleepy one Wheel will for the 
time restore full normal consciousness. 
8. After success twelve Wheels at one time daily should be 
taken; but until success it will be necessary to repeat it in- 
definitely. 26 
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VIII 
The Fear Drill 
HE REASON of this Drill is that in order to allow the 
Normal Self to sway the Internal Self it is necessary, 
especially for women, to put out of the way all emoti- 
onal considerations, chief of which is Fear or Regard-of-Con- 
sequences, which are both powerful, unreasonable, ill-timed 
and disastrously inconvenient for Conservation. 
The PHILOSOPHY of Fear-eradication is that Fear is the 
only handle by any soul can be injured from an external 
source; it is quite true that tWC j$ tO Mt TWF, 
Fear is nothing but a Manikin, a Clothes-Horse, a Scare-crow 
a Theater-goblin; and yet Humans are such fools as to per- 
mit the Opponents to keep them in life-long slavery by the 
crack of these toy-whips! And all for the lack of a few mo- 
ments of sober reflection, such as this Drill furnishes. 
However, it would be more accurate to say, 'for lack of 
the result of a few moments of sober reflection'. For it will 
be noticed that the Drill below contains nothing strictly new. 
Its only value consists in putting in systematic form the fixe 
sources of fear so that they may conveniently be held before 
the Internal Self so logically, comprehensively, often and 
long that they may act on it as suggestions, till all the sub- 
conscious instinctive cringing, or wild terror, cold perspira- 
tion and shivers, or 'womanly' (?) yielding and servitude has 
gone, and there remains a being responsive exclusively (but 
that perfectly) to the Conscience-fearless from wisdom, not 
from that stupidity that intrudes where Angels deliberate. REGENERATION APPLIED FOR WOMEN 
27 
Many, mistakenly, scorn this Drill, as needless for them! 
How do we know that CVCfy button Vdilg at some one time 
needed or will need this Drill? Because it is the Destiny or 
or Purpose of every soul to develop its spiritual senses to 
such a fineness as to be fully conscious of the Temple; and 
one preliminary stage of this is acquaintance with Opponents 
as well as Helpers-who denies, simply has never been there. 
THE DRILL 
1. Go by yourself; lock the door. Best sit comfortably; but 
if worried, walk around, talking to yourself, with gestures. 
2. Analyze your emotion, deciding from which of the fol- 
lowing five groups of causes it proceeds; talk to yourself ac- 
cordingly, taking a general treatment occasionally. 
3. Overcome Physical Fear, by remembering that 1, in 
these modern times there is practically nothing to fear from 
violence; that 2, after taking all precautions, there is naught 
to do but to accept accidents as under God's dispensation. 
"I understand perfectly that the root of Fear is passionate 
desire for Self-preservation; hence I cut the roots of Fear by 
being ready to leave my body at any time. My Heavenly Fa- 
ther, who loves me better than I love myself, will not permit 
any physical harm to come to me, unless it had been particu- 
larly planned to suit the momentary need of my spiritual de- 
velopment. Hence I receive it gratefully and reverently as a 
Messenger from Him. No harm can come to me therefore; 
and since He is with me, tlWC K10FC for ttie 
MC." This must be repeated until a distinct assurance 
of peace comes over one, and then daily renewed so as to 
keep this assurance alive and dominant. 
4. More persistent fear is generally Elementary in origin. 
Propose to Nature a Covenant to the effect that you will 
cease all conscious, voluntary opposition against It and all 
its forces; that you will work together with It instead of a- 
gainst It; that you will love all natural Beings, and will not 28 
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harm any, but expect their love [ in Kipling's Jungle-stories, 
Mowgli's treaty with the serpents]. Repeat this day by day, 
as often as may be necessary, till you feel from within the 
assurance that this Covenant has been accepted by Nature. 
This Covenant having been established, it will be found that 
That Elementary Fear will have passed away entirely so long 
as the individual refrains from harming needlessly any form 
of life, however small; yea, even forbearing to tread need- 
lessly on grasses, plucking flowers, let alone killing any ani- 
mal, or eating thereof. Any transgression hereof will be fol- 
lowed by a return of the fear; and it will be found impossible 
to renew this Covenant until after an effort at least 3 or 4 
times as great as the original one. So it is not to be trifled 
with; nay, if once broken, few have usually the persistence 
to renew it successfully, circumstances preventing. 
5. But the Fear Conservators will have to meet will have 
Elemental causes: from Opponents; it is felt when alone in 
dark places, such as cellars, or cemeteries, or empty houses, 
at midnight, during storms, in large windy rooms; in the pic- 
tures that play before the eyes on closing them at night, or 
in bad, vivid dreams; children see large faces in the dark. 
This fear is overcome by the following attitude: "I alone am 
utterly powerless; but as I have entirely consecrated myself 
to accomplish God's purposes, I demand His protection, with 
the right of service as well as of that of sonship. In God's 
power am I irresistible. I demand protection, and call my 
Opponents to Judgment before God." This attitude, if adopt- 
ed permanently, and repeated in emergencies such as often 
happen when in dreams Opponents with steel grey, piercing 
eyes attempt to frighten or overwhelm, will conquer. 
6. Of course, Personal causes for Fear exist. Few women 
are entirely beyond the influence of 'What-will-people-say?', 
of natural timidity, of reasonless forebodings, and emotional 
considerations. Thus may it be overcome: I am living for REGENERATION APPLIED FOR WOMEN 
29 
God's approval, not any Man's. Fear is as useless as it is pow- 
erless for good; it is as foolish, as it is expensive in time. If 
harm is to come, it will come anyway, and cannot be avoided; 
and if it is not to come, worrying about it is useless; hence 
anxiety would be wasted in either case.' 
7. There remains the, for some, most serious form of an- 
xiety: Social or Financial Fear. The cure for this is Conse- 
cration, the Eternal Covenant between God and Man: where- 
by, if Man will put his whole mind on Character-Amendments 
He will provide the necessary support. No human being need 
ever, unless he himself wishes it, let himself be whipped in 
line, or 'forced' by a threat of withdrawal of support. If a 
woman be willing to support herself, the God of Freedom will 
make a way somehow for her. The trouble is that most even 
religious people believe more in the Devil, than in God-in 
the all-mightiness of the God of Purity, Freedom, Honesty,, 
Righteousness. They are afraid to trust in their own Father; 
they forget to do so; that there is a wide world outside the 
narrow circle; and they that when the Devil cracks 
the whip of Conformity they ittUSt obey! fools! 
This Drill should be PRACTICED daily, for five minutes; 
more especially by Women, whose more pronounced emotion- 
al development demands more work in this direction than 
with Man. Till each attitude is established 5 minutes a piece 
would not be too much; later, an orderly 5 minutes' review 
of all of them should suffice. But they should never be suffi- 
ciently forgotten not to be ready for use in emergencies. 
It would, in fact, be well to make, and hang up in a pro- 
minent position, a little sign, reading somewhat as follows: 
1. Physical Fear: Overcome by Faith in Providence. 
2. Elementary Fear: Overcome by Covenant with Nature. 
3. Elemental Fear: Overcome by Appeal to God's Judgment. 
4. Personal Fear: Overcome by Fatalism. 
5. Social Fear: Overcome by Consecration to the Father. 30 
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IX 
The Memory Drill. 
HE PURPOSE is to make the Conservator understand 
and realize that she Herself is not her External Mind, 
by teaching her to control it at will. 
The Memory Drill depends on the REASON that incidental 
to the development of a Continued Consciousness such as is 
indicated in the Sleep Drill the Waking Consciousness has to 
be strengthened by organization and practice-forming a ca- 
pacious and reliable Memory, working by the laws of Associ- 
ation of Thought: Inclusion, Exclusion, and Concurrence. 
The secret of Continued Consciousness is, after all, onlya 
special application of the general truth that Activity pro- 
longs Life, while the penalty of Inactivity is Decay, and is as 
follows: During rest of the Ittind, Reep the Body active? while 
during the rest of the Body the Dlind must he Kept active; and 
they who have not yet attained the ability to keep awake by 
simply meditating will find no other, nor can find any better 
means than the present Memory Drill while lying down. 
Even only from the grounds of Healing and Self-control is 
this Memory Drill invaluable. If the Body is to be reduced to 
control, it is very evident that the Mind, which is the means 
by which the Individuality rules it, must itself be in control. 
No one can heal herself or others by mental suggestion if 
she lacks the mental control to keep the Mind itself on the 
suggestion. Therefore mental Self-control is the exclusive 
presupposition of physical Self-control, or Healing. How im- 
portant this consideration is may be gathered from the fact REGENERATION APPLIED FOR WOMEN 
31 
that that insane people and animals cannot be hypnotized, as 
they are not able to keep their attention on any one thing 
long enough. Indeed, many society women boast of this im- 
munity, without knowing its reason. 
The PHILOSOPHY of the Drill is that none can develop a 
memory until one has something to remember; it is depres- 
sing to hear persons say they cannot memorize when the on- 
ly trouble is they never put in their minds anything to re- 
member! 
THE DRILL 
The materials for this Drill should be systematic; and since 
few have the necessary facilities to gather for themselves, 
we suggest our 'Poems for the Higher Life,' gathered by us 
on purpose for this Drill. Or take Matthew Arnold's Sonnets, 
or Loisette's Memory System (Funk and Wagnails, N.Y.), or 
anything suitable. Nevertheless every Conservator should get 
into the habit of getting up for herself definite lists of use- 
ful things she wishes to remember. Or she may simply in her 
mind go from one well-known place to another, not missing 
one street. Best of all would be any form of Will-task, ex- 
plained on a following page. Most simply of all, the Conserv- 
ator might go over these Drills in their proper order, remem- 
bering what was said under each head. 
Of course, the position of the body does not matter-sit- 
ting in a chair, or street-car, lying on a lounge, or when 
forced to listen to a dreary discourse. Nevertheless, it would 
be wiser, if this Drill is to be done seriously, to dignify its 
results by regularity and thoroughness. 
The PRACTICE of this Drill, by anybody, cannot be too 
highly recommended. What an incredible blessing, to have 
made YOUR very own, the very best expressions of the very 
best writers, to have them live through you! And the self- 
respect that comes from good tasks done well! REGENERATION APPLIED FOR WOMEN 
X 
The Muscle-Consciousness Drill. 
HIS Drill has as purpose the entire subjection of the In- 
ner Self-which is necessary for Healing and thorough 
Self-Control; but we cannot do more than indicate it. 
In the first place, what do we exactly mean by Inner Self? 
Various psychologists describe the human mind by various 
terms; so that, do what we please, we cannot satisfy all. But 
the hypnotism-researches of, say, Moll, show that there is a 
part of Consciousness which lies under the threshold, and is 
the normal creator, guide and controller of the vegetative 
functions of the body. It has far-sight and -hearing ,and per- 
fect memory. It is credulous of anything suggested, entirely 
lacking discrimination. If independent, it leads to what am- 
ounts to insanity; but when in normal subjection to the Ex- 
ternal Mind it constitutes the handle by which the Eternal 
Immortal Spirit within ( we will call this the Internal Self ) 
lifts or uses the body, and the habitation in which it dwells as 
a Temple, and which, like Janus is to Consciousness consci- 
ousness, and to Matter matter; the natural fact that under- 
lies and justifies the philosophical theory of Monism. 
THE DRILL 
The point is to learn to 'think in' every part of the body; 
not only the voluntary part of the body, the domain of the 
External Mind, but later and chiefly the Involuntary muscles 
and organs of the body, the domain of the Inner Self. Thus 
not only will the Body be reduced to control, but the Inner 
Self suggestioned and itself controlled. REGENERATION APPLIED FOR WOMEN 
XI 
The Astral Consciousness Drill. 
HIS Drill presupposes all that has been given in Rege- 
neration the Gate of Heaven' and 'Regeneration Ap- 
plied', and is given especially for women, in order to 
make that knowledge as practical as possible. For it is sure- 
ly impossible for all human beings to have with them astral 
Calendars of the Moon accessible all the time. As it is, only 
an infinitesimal number of persons have them at all, and in 
emergencies it is out of the question to rely on them. 
The PURPOSE of this Drill is to learn to be able to tell 
at any moment where zodiacally the Moon is, or also what 
Sign is rising, by the feeling in the respective function of 
the body, or in the activity of the creative function. It is u- 
sual to be unconscious of danger-times until too late; the 
only reason why we care to insist on knowledge of them is 
to prevent accidents. 
The PHILOSOPHY of this Drill is that as the Moon pro- 
gresses through the twelve Signs it successively energizes 
every function of the body; so that every year each function 
is stirred up to new activity, and caused to grow. This is par- 
ticularly noticeable when the Moon is in the four vital func- 
tions, which are the most vulnerable. The point of Regenera- 
tion is this, that the germ of the month being caught and 
transmuted goes to strengthen its respetive function so that 
if the germs are caught successively the whole body is suc- 
cessively perfected, opening an infinite number of opportun- 
ities of sanctification. REGENERATION APPLIED FOR WOMEN 
THE DRILL 
1. First develop your physical sensitiveness by foliowin 
the Moon Calendar carefully, and trying to feel the changes 
in the respective functions of the body. Having succeeded in 
about three quarters of the changes, notice how far you dif- 
fer from the printed times of Moon-transits, and notice if 
these differences are constant. 
2. Having reasonably succeeded in this, make up a Calen- 
dar from your feelings only. 
This Drill is given to Conservators especially because it is 
to them indispensable, and keeps their minds on Conservati- 
on, and forces them to watch all dangers carefully. 
The Rising Signs can be felt almost by anyone after some 
days of entire solitude. In the midst of other people, or in 
confusion, these feelings become unnoticeable. 
Then it is well to learn to tell the astral colours of the 
Signs by closing the eyes while trying to 'feel' them, night 
or day. Sometimes the Sign-change will be given by some 
slight symbol, such as fishes or feet for Pisces. A little sin- 
cere effort along these lines will be rewarded further by the 
hearing of music in the different respective keys, and the 
change of these keys at the times of transit. 
Nevertheless, except for those who have leisure, the first 
step only is possible-to watch the Calendar from time to 
time, regularly every evening, noticing the respective phys- 
iological bodily feelings. The latter especially is an invalua- 
ble help for conservation. These practices are always re- 
warded by Unseen Helpers to any who begin them, so that 
they cannot be recommended too strongly. REGENERATION APPLIED FOR WOMEN 
XII 
General Considerations 
'HERE are certain general considerations which will ma- 
terially assist the Woman Conservator in making in- 
telligent use of the above Drills. 
Outline of Woman's Conservation. 
A short outline of Woman's Conservation will explain the 
significance and use of the Drills. 
1. The Cause of Menstruation. 
Over half a woman's life is Menstruation. This must not, 
neither can it be interfered with directly; but it may be gra- 
dually stopped by gradually stopping its cause, the Leucor- 
rhoea. Of course, as long as Menstruation continues the con- 
servation of the Daily Germs is ont of the question; but if 
it be accomplished in the inter-menstrual intervals, the Men- 
struation itself will rapidly disappear. 
2. The Leucorrhoea. 
Woman's vital secretion is called the Leucorrhoea. It is 
exactly analogous to the male semen, inasmuch as the ova 
are diluted by the secretions of various glands, all of which 
has to be conserved for the sake of the ova, as men do. But 
many women are so far back that they actually do not feel 
the beginning of the secreting, way up in the uterus, only 
knowing of its presence when it has already perished. Con- 
servation cannot begin in earnest until by repeated efforts 
sensitiveness of its very beginnings has been attained, and 
its quantity materially reduced to normal. REGENERATION APPLIED FOR WOMEN 
3. Natural Protection. 
People say Conservation is unnatural. That shows they are 
ignorant that Nature made a mechanism on purpose for it. 
Right after Menstruation the walls of the uterus secrete 
mucous matter, which flows down into the neck of the ute- 
rus, forming there a sort of a plug, which retains the vital 
secretions till reabsorbed, under normal conditions; when the 
plug would remain there till the next menstruation, which 
would carry it away; after which another plug would begin 
to form. But unfortunately most women are so far back that 
the plug never has the chance to form, or become thick e- 
nough to protect from losses, and is itself carried away. 
4. The Direct Drill. 
Nothing else is then left the woman to do than to use her 
utmost Will-power to contract her Sphincter Vaginae mus- 
cles. Again it is said that this is impossible. But that this is 
possible must be evident from the analogous Sphincter Recti 
the innervation, contraction and subjection of which has to 
be learnt by every child. Likewise with the lips. 
5. Rest. 
Now in order to carry out the above Control, absolute rest 
and a reclining position, at uncertain times are necessary. 
Quite evidently most occupations would not admit of this, so 
that the Conservator will very probably have to change po- 
sitions-nay, Conservators have very hard times getting a- 
long. But they will be taken care of somehow by the Unseen 
Helpers, so that none can have any worthy fears about be- 
ginning the path of Conservation. 
6. Emotions. 
This matter of Occupation is far more important for wo- 
men than for men, not only for social and economic reasons, 
but because women are by nature more swayed by emotions, 
which therefore become serious dangers to Conservation; 
not only her own emotions, but also those of others. REGENERATION APPLIED FOR WOMEN 
7. Destination. 
For these emotions disturb the control of the Vitality 
which, if retained in the uterus, nay even in the vagina, is 
reabsorbed, and is by the lymphatics through the thoracic 
duct emptied into the blood of the left sub-clavian vein. So 
true is this that occlusions of the duct are rapidly fatal, 
although the amount of the accompanying lymph is compar- 
atively insignificant. 
8. Constipation. 
One more female condition is of grave import to Conser- 
vation. It is well known that Constipation is far more com- 
mon and serious among women than among men; also, that 
they void their bladder much less frequently than men do. 
Now it happens that the female organs are entirely sand- 
wiched in between bladder and rectum. What then will hap- 
pen to the organs under the above pathological habitual con- 
ditions? Constitutionally, they will become atrophied (this is 
why there are so many female diseases); and locally, any se- 
cretions are immediately pressed down and out. Conservation 
is therefore entirely impossible until the above habits are 
left behind, and natural conditions begin to obtain in the 
pelvis. 
9. Frankness. 
On account of the almost omnipotent influence of emotion 
over Women, it is well-nigh necessary to success in Conserv- 
ation for them to be in a position of freedom-from herself, 
as well as from others. Especially necessary to success is 
frankness about Conservation. How so? Because success in 
Conservation demands the entire and exclusive efforts of the 
mind; and tortuous evasions of themselves imply lack of will 
power; and the desire to please, natural to women, is of it- 
self a part of the Life of Generation. Few Conservators have 
not at one time or another tried to serve both God and Mam- 
mon-in vain! You cannot eat your cake, and have it too! REGENERATION APPLIED FOR WOMEN 
Need of a Class. 
It would be wise for Conservators to get together frequ- 
ently in a sort of Class. Theoretically, this would be needless 
in view of the explicit and elaborate books about Conserva- 
tion. But practically it is well known how difficult it is to 
get even intelligent people to read simple statements-to 
judge by their questions. It is therefore advised that Con- 
servators gather together informally 
1. To study the text-books; 
2. To tell each other one's experiences; [other 
3. Mutually to warn, encourage, comfort and console each 
4. To practice together Drills and to invent new ones. 
5. To draw new Members. 
6. To form a little Library, and exchange Magazines. 
7. To inspire each other to action by the singing of hymns, 
the holding of Sunday Services, reading of papers. 
It would be well to take up some such courses of study as 
the Chatauqua; or history, or science-but never losing sight 
of the main object, or the teaching as given in the books, or 
the Divine Guidance. 
Above all else, a group should limit itself to one sex, al- 
though groups of different sexes might at intervals meet or 
collaborate at some purpose. 
A group gathered for such a purpose should not be dis- 
graced by any debate warmer than a friendly discussion; no 
resolution should be arrived at, nor member admitted except 
by unanimous consent. This would of itself bring about a dis- 
solution of the Group whenever personalities might have 
crept in too far. 
Dues had better not be demanded, so as to leave every- 
thing within the sphere of influence of the Divine Spirit. 
The Group had better even bear no name; the Unseen Hel- 
pers will have no difficulty finding it. REGENERATION APPLIED FOR WOMEN 
Stages of Conservation. 
It is important that the Conservator should know where- 
abouts she is at; this she can find out from the following. 
First Stage: Conversion. 
She approves of Conservation in a general sort of way, 
applying in her life no more than is entirely convenient, and 
quite unnoticeable from the outside. 
Second Stage: Spasmodic Effort. 
This stage is not a clearly self-conscious one. The struggle 
is begun in an unsystematic, indefinite, careless manner, 
without any distinct consideration of the ultimate result. 
The conscience seems to be entirely satisfied with spasmodic 
sincere efforts, even though failure be the only result. 
Third Stage: Occasional Forgetfulness. 
If the soul ever progresses further, either through serious 
physical loss, or through some very unlooked-for inspiration, 
or because of the progressive assistance of consecration, it 
becomes fairly definite in its attainment, barring occasional 
periods in which it forgets all about its aim. She belongs to 
to societies, works for them; works for position, or money; 
goes to theatres and concerts-and then suddenly remem- 
bers the abandoned Quest! 
Fourth Stage: System. 
Genius is a passion for systematized work; The strength 
of a chain is that of its weakest link. These two maxims fur- 
nish the task to be accomplished at this stage.At this period 
the Conservator suddenly finds himself living a double life. 
He wants to serve both God and the World in which he is. 
Though told this is impossible, he is going to try. And for 
years he fails in his conservation; and usually continues to 
fail till death unless by some divine experience he is led to 
choose God, and to go out from the world once and for all. 
Then may he expect fruit from effort of an undivided mind. REGENERATION APPLIED FOR WOMEN 
Fifth Stage: Single-Heartedness. 
Even those who have succeeded in leaving the former 
stage by entire Consecration, had had none but such occasi- 
onal successes as to encourage their decisively shifting their 
interests so as to make Conservation the one only business, 
relegating everything else to the place of pastime-as it 
were crutches, useful indeed, but which must never usurp 
the best energies of life. Here begins some sort of substan- 
tial progress in the matter of daily and monthly germs. 
Sixth Stage: Separation. 
So long as Conservation was a theory only, or was unsuc- 
cessful, the friends of the old life remained; but no sooner 
something is being accomplished, but they feel it instinctive- 
ly and retire. Regular worldly employment and any external 
success are impossible to a conserving man who lives out- 
wardly what he is inwardly. During this first withdrawing 
from the world may come some vision of the Temple. 
Seventh Stage: Attainment. 
The question of support solves itself generally by mutual 
association with like-minded ones, through the economy of 
which association they may all live as they wish, free from 
the trammels of society. Then may a man conserve his con- 
secutive daily and monthly germs, and thereby be enabled to 
enter, and ultimately become an inmate of the Sanctuary. 
Unfortunately, many Conservators do not care for this 
this possible attainment, having started out for health-im- 
provement only. Consequently Conservation will not for them 
eventuate in any such mystic results-they never go further 
than is entirely convenient; then comes delay-and forget- 
fulness sooner or later will surely wipe out every bit of as- 
piration until the man has actually so changed that ho has 
absolutely forgotten, and sincerely denies that he ever had 
any such aspirations-he has beoome a Materialist for life.