various forms through an understanding of his own power and the use of the password “No.” It was explained to him that by use of the mental or verbal “No” toward every form of negativeness he might contact, he made an opportunity for positiveness to express.

This teaching included a description of the three chief obstacles of negativeness, which the candidate must meet and pass. They are described to him as, “Passion that shrivels the intellect; Pride that clouds the judgment; and Inertia, that smothers the soul.”

Only the main features in the Pyramidal Method of conquest over negatives will be given here, to show a brief analogy between the ancient ritual performed by the olden candidate of the Greater Mysteries, and the modern candidate for Positive Power.

Those who can travel mentally by means of this sketch through the halls and passages of the Pyramid will find it to be a sort of initiation of their own. For, if they are by nature rightful members of the Ancient Positive Mystery School, they will perhaps find here an answer from the Pyramid that is applicable to their need. An open, willing mind will be required to enable them to see the suggestive correspondence between the instructive symbols of the past and the needs of man today.

If it proves that there are some that can experience “Initiation” in this way, then such must determine man’s rightful place in the Universe. They must adopt for every moment of their lives the attitude of being positive, and make a constant practice of the “No” to check all further negative approach.

In ancient times the candidate was not fully instructed in the use of this positive attitude until after he had evinced his positiveness and obtained at least a partial