Book excerpt: This antiquarian volume contains Harvey Spencer Lewis's complete guide to life and business based on Rosicrucian principles. Lewis's teachings have been employed by innumerable businesses and business men and women to great success - and with the publication of this book, anyone can be a part of this prosperity. The book instructs the reader in what they should do, and equally, what they should not do - as well as when and how they should proceed in their business affairs. The chapters of this book include: 'The Problem of Mastership', 'Man a Free Agent', 'Cosmic Rhythm and the Cycles of Life', 'The Periods of Earthly Cycles', 'The Simple Periods of Human Life', 'The Yearly Cycle of Human Life with Descriptions of Cycle No. 2', etcetera. This book is being republished now in an affordable, modern edition, complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.