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Note To Reader: As you carefully read and study this book, you will undoubtedly come to appreciate the universality of Mr. Parkers mind and recognize the universal truths revealed through his writings. Use the newfound knowledge to develop your universal potential and come to enjoy the beauties found in establishing individuality of mind and universality of purpose. Alfred J. Parker Founder 1897-1964 During Mr. Parkers lifetime the reference to man and mankind had a universal meaning that included both sexes. Today there is much greater emphasis on identifying the separate sexes in order to make clear their equality. Rather than alter the original writings by changing all such references to humans and humankind, interpret these references as universal terms that include both sexes on an equal basis.
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Thou Shalt Not StealTime .....................................................2 Time, A Natural, Universal Phenomenon..................................3 Rhythms Of Nature ....................................................................3 The Pattern of Plant Growth in Each Cycle...............................4 A Natural Law for Human Mind ...............................................5 A Key To Remove Uncertainty .................................................6 A Badge of Ignorance ................................................................7 Man, Without Mental and Spiritual Wisdom...........................11 All Life Must Follow A Pattern ...............................................11 Man Has Lost the Art of Living...............................................12 Sum Total of Human Thinking ................................................12 Sowing and Reaping ................................................................12 Time and Life are Synonymous...............................................13 From the Cradle to the Grave...................................................14 Know Result Beforehand.........................................................16 Involution and Evolution .........................................................17 Divergence Between Reason and Reality ................................18 Clothed in Flesh....................................................................18 Spiritual Destiny ......................................................................19
Prologue
How strange that man has always felt such a strong akinship to magic powers that many have sought through strange rites and magic words to reveal all the secrets of nature and the answers to human problems. There is such a power, but it is not revealed through incantations, nor mystery; it is the basic key to science, time, space, economics, health, balance of mind, and to every conceivable thing, including human nature and destiny. This profound power is not unknown, although it is misunderstood in its entirety. It is the power to analyze, theorize, weigh, measure, and deduce, to arrive at definite and logical conclusions. Of such is the Power of the Word and the Divine Principle of Mathematics working through the Cyclic Law, which reveals the quality and unfoldment of the human mind through time. Time represents the unfoldment of the evolutionary forces of nature working in the finite plane of existence through our calendar principle of seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years, and ages; it is based upon the movement of the earth around the sun. When man fully realizes that numbers are symbols of Divine Intelligence as well as being mathematical gradations, that they have quality as well as quantity, he will realize the relationship of season to time. A plant grows according to time and season, which are predetermined. Thus is God discernible through his own laws, governing the growth and unfoldment of all life upon the earth. Perhaps, you as a businessman have been dreaming of the key that would reveal the nature and trends of our economic cycles. We are told: "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven," (Ecclesiastes 3:1), the secret being to find the nature and experiences relative to time, so that it might be revealed in a practical way. It is only logical to assume that the reason and plan of being is contained within being itself, and it is man's duty to become the interpreter. There is a magic key to the growth and unfoldment of human mind, as well as to that of all existence, such as the nature of the ages. This magic key is the Cyclic Law, that reveals the relationship of economic and natural conditions to the divine measuring stick, mathematics, as the contents of this book will reveal. Sincerely, Yours in service, Alfred J. Parker
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ending or perfectible vacuum that is discernible only in mental and scientific growth in which the history of man is written upon the scroll of life.
Rhythms Of Nature
Now, let us discuss this quality and quantity side of life and time. Time is deduced from the rotation of the earth around the sun. This gives us our calendar; it also gives us the seasons, which represent quality because each season represents a quality of weather and temperature in which grow the many species of flowers. Thus does time express quantity and quality, with quantity giving time, distance, and calendar. Each species of plant has its own season in which it is planted and will not naturally grow out of season. This natural law is applicable to people, who also have their own individual cycle or seasons of time, both quantity and quality. Scientists have known for
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many years that the quality of time runs in rhythms known as the Cyclic Law; they also know that these rhythms bring certain conditions such as dry seasons and wet ones, sun spots, electrical disturbances, high and low tides; they affect the breeding and death of animals in their natural habitat and they denote the migration periods of certain animals. Earthquakes, the exact movement of Halley's comet and other heavenly bodies, the fat and lean years in crops, as well as epidemics such as the plagues of the past, all manifested in certain rhythms of time. Coming closer to home, we observe the changing bull and bear markets in grains and stocks and what is known to business as booms and depressions in all major industries, in real estate, in general depressions, and the movement in individual cyclic conditions. These movements are based upon the number nine, the basic rule of mathematics. Science has known about these rhythms of nature but so far has never discovered the key that would unlock the exact knowledge of application in a practical demonstration. The proof of this principle makes us wonder why the knowledge has not been discovered and revealed before, for, truly, time is man's greatest investment; it is his very life, his happiness, success, health, completeness in all things, his material and personal balance; it gives a clear picture of the present and of the future and replaces the element of chance with an exact mathematical rule. All nature comes under the one great universal law of growth and, properly to understand this unfoldment of nature, a close study of plant life will reveal the picture. The principle of mathematics is based upon the trinity, or thirds; thus three times three symbolizes nine. The finite scale of natural growth is based upon nine; thus we will apply it to plant growth as follows, each mathematical gradation standing for a degree or phase of growth, with the number nine representing the completed pattern.
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5th Cycle
Active Growth
Strengthened root system adds power for concentrated growth. Plant sprouts branches and leaves. Buds are formed and fill out if plant is healthy, a promise and indication of fruit depending upon care and soil. Plant completes growth of leaves and branches, and rests from labour or active growth. It diverts energies to size, colour, and fragrance of flowers. Flowers drop petals, and fruit or seed pods ripen. Fruit is plucked. (Period of accumulation in business).
6th Cycle
7th Cycle
Flowers Appear
8th Cycle
Fruit On
9th Cycle
Close of Cycle
What fruit is not picked falls to the ground. During fall and winter time, seed pods are shaken by the winds and distribute seeds for the next season and cycle. Fruit lies under leaf mulch and rots, leaving seeds to create a new plant in the spring.
Thus do we relate the old cycle with the new to show the law of growth working through plant life.
systematizing business methods preparatory to enlarging and facilitating one's growth and preparation for promotion to benefit from one's efforts in the following period. There is the period in every year when money goes out almost faster than it comes in, when one is assailed from all sides with bills. This is the period of redistribution of wealth so as to facilitate buying power. We cannot make a profit on what we owe so we pay out to complete our obligations. There is always that refinancing problem when funds for growth are urgently needed. Is the time ripe for borrowing funds? Can we plan ahead on it with certainty? When should one expect the most accumulative period? When should one buy and sell commodities or properties at the best price? When are the times for a successful department sale? How should one analyze the integrity of a business client or his business? How can one tell the future financial conditions of any stocks and bonds? When should one buy and sell? When should changes or mergers be made? When is the best time to take a vacation? To have a family? or to increase overhead expenditures? When is the most propitious time to meet and interview that special client or financing committee? Every action pertaining to your personal and business activities must be arranged according to your cycle chart, and your efforts combined with the natural and mathematical law, a divine or universal law, which provides the right time and conditions for your every action.
off, and for how long; when to collect money promised; when to be careful of a proposition; how to understand and influence clients and business associates.
A Badge of Ignorance
Millions of American business executives suffer through an ulcer of the stomach, necessitating operations and the use of drugs: this fact has been linked with their success as though it contributed to it. It actually is a badge of ignorance of the laws of nature that govern harmony and peace of mind, and health. The reason for the ulcer is too much intense concentration and worry, an exhausting application to long hours, and a negligible attempt to assume marriage responsibilities. This destroys happiness, marital understanding, and health; however, it is the price one must pay who does not have knowledge of the Cyclic Law. One must pay with sacrifice of health and happiness what one could gain with wisdom, understanding, and peace of mind. Why remain on the casualty list? Let us study the following chart as applied to mathematics and the law of growth-the Cyclic Law-relative to the nine-year cycle as previously applied to plant growth. 1st cycle 2nd cycle This is the year or month to seed or start business activity, under proper cyclic conditions. Build through association, make friends, join clubs that create good contacts. Your success lies through othersmake yourself known. Remember the old adage: "One good turn deserves another." Make use of associations and entertain the right people. Help others. Be a good fellow. This could be a happy and fairly successful year. You will make many friends. The proper type of friends determines your success. Continue the above, but be careful of a loose tongue, criticism, and too much sociability of the wrong type. The first half of the year could be very promising. Save finances against a test period ahead. This year will offer many promises and opportunities which should not be pursued; carry on with what you started two years ago. Do not pull up the roots. It is best to complete unfinished business by September, if possible; otherwise, you are bound to have a disappointment. You will feel the first indication of a let-down in July. Expenses could be heavy, involving a serious decision. Over-financing or extended overhead in the first part of the year could bring you a heavy test with some very adverse conditions the following year that could be
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disastrous to your business affairs. If you follow the advice to save during the first half of this year, then your troubles will be minimized. The plans or suggestions of the first half to make a change could well be disastrous if carried through. Sit tight. "Save and cut down on all overhead expenses" is the keynote of the third cycle. Your integrity and that of your business, your patience, and forethought will be tested by the close of the year. 4th cycle This is what is termed the test year. (The same applies in the monthly cycle). It represents in plant life and in your business affairs the period when the shoot, having appeared above ground, must become acclimatized to the changing weather of the early spring; your affairs will be tested. The plant is creating a stronger root system to take care of growth above ground. The same applies in business and personal affairs. Growth is taking place, only it is beneath the surface; i.e., it is not apparent and this could be quite disconcerting if you are not prepared, and could influence serious decisions. In business parlance, it represents similar conditions. Your actions and growth will be tested should you have become misled by one of the spurious opportunities that seemed so desirable in the first half of your last, or third, cycle year. Increased overhead and any gamble entered into last year will be heavily tested this year and could cause you to have to refinance and adjust your affairs. Lack of good judgment and finances could well be your undoing. Only expert advice could save the day. It does not have to be tragic, but it will be a test year. Do not broaden out or assume financial responsibilities above your normal ones. Do not make any major changes, invest, buy, or sell in a major way. Strengthen your financial position by reducing overhead. Systematize your affairs and prepare for activities of the next five years. Be careful in your living habits or nature will catch up with you, and your health could suffer. "Draw in your horns" this year and play it safe. Just carry on cheerfully and "stay with the ship." Consolidate your business. This is the cycle year in every businessman's life when, if he has not been wise, he could be forced out of business. Be careful in your driving. Watch the other fellow. This is the year or month that you have been waiting for: one of great activity, of expansion, and of business promotion. It is the year when you could expand your
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investments to a great degree and try out schemes for promotion. There could be changes and travel, and many new and valuable contacts made. Take advantage of opportunities. Try to relax between activities, and try not to worry or your ulcer could bother you severely; i.e., if you have one. If you follow this advice, you will never be bothered that way. It removes uncertainties. This could be the most active and progressive year of the last five years, bringing into realization the seemingly good opportunities that were offered in the early part of the third cycle year, but which did not materialize satisfactorily. This is the cycle to try your wings. Keep busy; do not be afraid to take a chance. Let action be your keynote this year. 6th cycle Like the budding time in plant life, this year should show good promises and opportunities for future growth, promises of financial accumulation for the next three years to the close of the cycle. This is not an accumulative year, but allows you to clear all indebtedness to leave you free for the next three years of the cycle. Plan wisely; refinance for greater business expansion; make important decisions and settle up indebtedness, pay-out is the keynote of the year. This means consolidation of your affairs for future growth. Invest with due caution. The next two years should repay you for the care and conservativeness of the third and fourth cycle years. This is not the year in which to liquidate your assets or to sell important holdings, but to accumulate more real estate and good investments for a successful and accumulative liquidation two years hence in the months of July and August. This represents the opening of the bud in plant life. In business, it means the beginning of your accumulative period for the next three years at least. The first half of the year could seem slow, but do not be fooled, for after July matters could turn over very quickly and wonderful opportunities present themselves. The efforts of the past six years should begin to repay you the latter half of the year, although the month of June could represent the darkness before the dawn. Do not make any changes in June, but sit tight. Get out into nature more this year and take those trips you have promised yourself and your family. Relax your thinking and your body, for any undue tension this year could affect the heart, lungs, or bronchial organs. Do not expect it; avoid it. Like
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plant life, the flowers of accomplishment should begin to show on your business plant and you should be able to relax more from extreme activity, particularly the second half of the year. 8th cycle This is the year of accumulation, the best and most accumulative of the nine-year cycle-if you are prepared. It is a good year to liquidate assets, to sell property at the best price, or for a quick buy and sell. It is your year to make money and buy and sell at your own price, but you should have a cycle chart to advise you on the best months and days in which to act. This is what is erroneously called your lucky year; however, nothing is gained without effort, so you merely reap what you have sown. This is your fruition in business accumulation and in finances. This is the closing year or winter time of your cycle, one in which to reflect over the past years and plan accordingly for the next year's sowing for the coming cycle. This is not the year to start anything new, as things are merely working under the surface preparatory to next year's activity. Its financial conditions should be the carry-over of last year's accumulation and liquidation. Take it easy this year and learn to serve your fellow man. This is the year in which to give, to work in service to your fellow man. Do not start any new enterprises or invest to any extent. If possible, travel and see the world and do not worry. Think and plan for the future, starting next year. Spend more time with your family, if married. If not, look around this year, for it is particularly vital in close associations relative to the emotions. You will feel that you need more love and understanding this year. July is a very emotional month which could bring a test in this respect, or someone could come into your personal life.
9th cycle
If you study the first chart dealing with the principle of growth and the unfoldment of nature, you will readily see how all things in life are subject to this law and quality of growth. It is a demonstration of quantity (time) and quality (the nature of). The same law applies to the ages in respect to the evolution of life, of species, and the physical and mental evolution of man. This knowledge gives you the mathematical key to life and thus removes the gamble and uncertainty in human effort in all phases of life. We know that life as it is presently understood is nothing but a gamble, for out of the millions of men who go into business, only a very meager number succeed-and
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then only with an intense application through which they develop their ulcers, or become drug or tranquilizer addicts.
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through human affairs. This principle should be known and practised by governments and in national affairs, for seeds of any endeavour can be planted only at a specific time in the cycle if success is to be assured.
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read his chart to him. The next morning, bright and early, the group arrived and said they could not go without the older boy. His mother put sentiment before logic and let him go, with a caution. That was the last she saw him alive-he fell into a canyon and was killed. The mother knew it was a tragic or adverse period-the chart said so; nevertheless, she broke the law and paid for her ignorance. How many times do such calamities occur: the disappearance of children and other major tragedies? Yes, they can be avoided, but not through blind faith. This knowledge helps in the choice of a marriage partner and reveals the propitious time for marriage for a harmonious relationship. The time of marrying is largely contributory to the happiness and success of a marriage, thus determining the outcome. It also suggests the proper period for having children so as to facilitate the birth. Childbirth at certain periods of the cycle can cause disastrous results; past experiences testify to this statement. A woman may have two or three successful deliveries and the fourth may prove disastrous to her health, or interfere with the completeness of the child. In maturity, if, as we are told: "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven," then the affairs of man could not be exempt from this law. To demonstrate the use of cycles in business affairs, I will relate an incident: I was approached by a man who felt it particularly vital to dispose of some very valuable property within a limited time. He had been given a very good offer and wanted to know whether to accept it. My answer was: "Do not sell until next month, at which time you will receive a better proposition." He took my advice, but so anxious was he to sell that he questioned me afterwards as to the logicality of the move and expressed his fear of not having another chance for a sale within the next month. I hastened to reassure him and gave him the actual date of the expected contact for sale. He sold on the date advised at a better price and a cleaner deal. Thus, "To every thing there is a season, and a time..." Perhaps, you have been given delivery dates of certain goods that have been promised your customers. Without a knowledge of cyclic conditions, you could not guarantee time of delivery. How many times have you been held up by goods lost in transit-weeks lost whilst the freight car is being located? So, you want to start into business. You have the capital and the technical assistance. But, are the conditions auspicious? Yes, the time you start your business creates the cyclic conditions under which you operate. So many people start into business with money and confidence, but how small are the number of successes. Why? You answer the question logically. How about that vacation? Can you be sure of not losing any business opportunities in your absence? Or are you sure that you will not encounter driving difficulties through
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adverse conditions? How about the driver who arrived at the scene of the accident in time to be a party to it, with tragic results? An earlier or later vacation would have avoided the accident. There is the right month for a vacation, both from a business and pleasure viewpoint. Perhaps, you desire to broaden out in your business activities, to make a change, a merger, or a sale. Is the time propitious? How many times have you wished you had not invested, or bought something that did not come up to expectations? How could you tell? Naturally, by the cyclic time the proposition was offered to you. How about that court case that could cost you money if conditions are not right on that date? What would be the right date to have the case reviewed? Would cyclic conditions warrant an appeal? How would you choose your personnel so as to get the best results from them? When should you not have that operation that might well prove disastrous? Are you and your partner in relative, good cyclic conditions for success?
confusion. We are told the cause is cerebral thrombosis, but this is not the cause, only the effect of the state of mind upon the body. Had he known himself, he would have known about the result of his thinking upon his health and the time the harvest could be expected-unless he changed his thinking and outlook upon life. Is this not a practical, logical, scientific, and basic conclusion of life-with its individual steps to mental and spiritual attainment? Without such knowledge the human race is bound to degenerate into mental confusion and chaos. We cannot attribute such conditions to a deity or a devil, but must look for a more logical and natural interpretation for human degeneration. The churches place the onus upon their God's shoulders in the biblical quotation that "A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit," (St. Matthew 7:18), thus implying predestination.
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If reason is contained in being, why does it not express through the human channel called mind?
Clothed in Flesh
We know that what is termed God, actually and logically expresses the reason of being and the Consciousness of life, or Supreme Intelligence. This power is translated as spirit or abstract, i.e., being above and beyond all human sense, emotions, and mind. It is the highest conceivable power. This Universal Consciousness, so generally referred to as the Christ Consciousness, is the reason of being; thus life is the involutionary manifestation of Consciousness, or God become clothed in flesh. Thus are joined the highest and the lowest forms of life: the positive and negative principle, or the two direct opposite forces of life. When God, the positive Principle, becomes involved in the finite, or physical plane of existence, the highest becomes involved in the lowest and subject to his own natural laws of material existence. Thus is spirit born into flesh. We now see that Consciousness has become involved in matter and manifests under the finite law of growth. The spirit is seeded into the flesh every time a newborn baby draws his first breath of life. This power of Divine Consciousness, often termed wisdom, now has its physical instrument through which it desires to manifest but cannot do so until the maturity of the body, the emotions, and the mind; and then only if the mind desires to reach out and search into the reason or origin of its own being, for mind is the only physical channel of intelligencestarting at its lowest level of emotional desires with an unlimited growth potential to a final mergence or conjunction
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with its source of Consciousness. This state is often symbolized as an at-Oneness with God.
Spiritual Destiny
When man has learned to merge his human mind with its divine source of Consciousness (wisdom), he has fulfilled his spiritual destiny; the spirit has become involved in, or seeded into, flesh, thus changing its state of universality to that of human individuality. This starts the cycle of involution at the lowest point of human existence; and then evolution, growth, and unfoldment take place until human, or mortal, mind progresses from a material and limited concept to a universal, or Godlike, state of mind. Thus does Universal Consciousness become clothed in mortality and then, through mental growth and concept, evolve back again to its original state of Spiritual Consciousness; these states represent the imprisonment of the spirit within man, who actually represents the cross, and its emergence through spiritualized concept of man; thus has Christ Consciousness been freed from the cross of mortality and individuality.
Individuality is the direct opposite to that of Consciousness; thus mortal life is only a reflection of God, or the opposite and lowest manifestationjust like ones reflection in the mirror is not the original because it is backwards and directly opposite, and cannot be touched, nor has it any feeling. It might better be termed an illusion or only an imitation of the real thing. Our mind is in the same category in relationship to Divine Consciousness; thus, we have good and evilthe highest and lowest states of mental existence. Birth brings the submergence of spirit or Consciousness into flesh and all physical limitations. For mind to grow requires seeds of wisdom, system, and order; mental balance and understanding must be planted into every childs mind through theorythrough reason and logic.
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