THE SYSTEM of Instruction is such that each Student receives Individual attention. This ensures that personal, Individual, helpful guidance, so vitally necessary to the Student's success.
The Student may rely upon the fact that all his communications and all information of a personal nature, will be held in absolute confidence. Under no circumstances will these be revealed to others. This is one of the responsibilities necessary to a right relationship.
The acquisition of knowledge, as well as its application to the problems of life, is an Individual proposition. No two Individuals are alike.
In consequence, there is the widest divergence in the nature and extent of their needs.
So variant and complex are they, that it is only by Individual application, Individual Personal Effort, and Individual Self-Mastery, that the Principles and Laws of Life can be adequately understood and exemplified.
It is true that any Individual who has developed sufficient Intelligence, industry, application and perseverance may work out the problems for himself, just as he might master law, medicine, electricity or any other of the arts and sciences.
It is likewise a fact that he can spare himself many months, or even years, of arduous toil and avoid many delays, difficulties and disappointments, by availing himself of the aid and guidance of those who have traveled the way before him.
Realizing that the Student is in all probability busily engaged in the usual occupations of life, the Lessons are adapted to these conditions, and should ordinarily be mastered without undue demands upon his time and energies.
The Philosophy of Individual Life is based upon exact science.
In order to obtain results it must be studied with at least the same degree of interest and attention one would expect to devote to the study and mastery of any other science.
The value to the Individual lies chiefly in the fact that every step is scientific and, when understood and applied to the problems of his daily life, enables him to avoid many difficulties and perplexities which otherwise would be inevitable.
It is the application of the new views of Truth to his daily life and conduct that will demand the best thought and endeavor of the Student.
For this task, he has all his wakeful hours. Instead of this being a burden, he will soon discover that his greater knowledge adds loftier meaning and zest to life, and transforms his work from toil to pleasurable effort.
The Lessons are so arranged that the Student passes from one to the other naturally, steadily rising to a higher, broader and deeper outlook on Life and its meaning. With each step forward, he acquires a new viewpoint of all that affects his daily living, and discovers new values in even commonplace events. This increases his interest, adds zest to his endeavors, and brings him a genuine pleasure in his efforts and achievements.
He notes as he proceeds, that he is getting enlarged returns from all his labors, all he reads, observes and experiences. His clearer knowledge of Nature's Laws, aided by his Individual Effort in cooperation therewith, is lifting him out of the maze of doubt and uncertainty into the brighter light of Certainty, Satisfaction and Contentment.
New goals to strive for, Greater knowledge and strength with which to attain, reward his every effort. Each victory adds new vigor, courage and desire for greater accomplishment, with constantly increasing benefits, as time goes on.
These are enduring advantages, lasting throughout the years of his physical life, and all the ages that stretch out beyond it. He realizes that he is building for all that lies out ahead of him, without limitation of time, space or locality. He knows that he is adding all his strength and power to the kindly impulse of Nature that makes for his evolution, and impels him onward and upward into the Light.
This newly acquired status he would not exchange for the heritage of kings.
All the Instruction can do for him is to point him to the pathway of duty; help him to understand the exact conditions under which he is to travel; and how rightly to use his Individual Knowledge and Powers in the process of his Individual Development and Growth.
But the Student must do the traveling by the exercise of his personal powers, guided by his Intelligence.