mental exercise I seem able to direct the spiritual tides to rise as I choose. It may be though, that the tide itself is what makes me do this --- that its rising within me impels me to want to do a certain thing at a certain time. This latter idea might accord more readily with some of the unexplained facts of astrology. At any rate, whichever explanation is correct it is certainly true that I seem to be able to make the tides of spiritual energy rise in any given direction at will. For instance, if I have an article to write at a special date. Whenever I see that my regular work is arranging so that I shall be able to take, say tomorrow morning for the writing, I can invariably get myself "into the mood" at the proper time. I begin the day before. Whenever it occurs to my mind that tomorrow morning I am to write an article I say to myself positively something like this: "Tomorrow I shall be ready to write; I shall want to; tonight I shall rest quietly and wake in the morning fresh and clean and ready to receive from the spirit higher thoughts than ever before, and I shall be able to clothe them in more vital words." I say something like this whenever I happen to remember what I have to do, and especially I do it the last thing before I sleep at night, when I tell "the subjective," the mind which is active whilst we sleep, to get ready for the writing. I doubt if I have failed once in two years to "bring the mood" by this sort of preparation. Every writer will appreciate the immense advantage of being able to bring "the mood" at will, for "the mood" means ease and facility and joy in writing, and no mood means what James Whitcomb Riley is said to have expressed to a certain old lady. She exclaimed,