"He who stimulates the imagination of the masses can move them in any direction he chooses, and there is no more powerful instrument for stimulating their imagination than the moving pictures. People go to the theatre to be entertained. If the play is strong, they come away transformed. They surrender their hearts and minds to the author, producer, director, stars, and they follow the example which they see portrayed before their eyes more than they themselves realize.

"Both the press and the radio influence thought, but lack the power of visible example which is the greatest stimulant to action and which the moving pictures offer better now than any other mediums.

"We find ourselves today in the midst of a world-wide depression which affects everyone, rich and poor alike, and from which all are groping blindly for deliverance. The film companies, the picture theatres, and the stars have also suffered from it. If they could help to end the depression, I am sure they would be glad to. How could the moving pictures help in this respect?

"First, it must be understood that the depression is not an accident, nor is it purely the result of overproduction and inflation. Those, although the immediate causes, are merely the instruments which were used to bring about the depression. The depression itself was caused by those entrusted with the evolution of humanity. Man has to be stripped of his material possessions, in order that he may realize through actual experience, that his true base is spiritual and not material. Then be will be ready to receive the truth which I have come to bring.

This truth consists in the knowledge that man, instead of being a limited, separate individual, completely bound by the illusion of time and space and substance, is eternal in his nature and infinite in his resources. The world-illusion is a dream of his own imagining — a play enacted in the theatre of his consciousness — a comedy of which he is at once author, producer, director, star. But his absorption in the role which he has chosen to enact has made him forgetful of his true self, and he stum­bles now as a creature through the part he has created.

"He must be awakened to his true nature. He must see that all material expression depends upon and flows from spiritual being. Then he will be steadfast and serene under all circumstances. There will be no further need then for the depression, and it will disappear.

"Now how can the moving pictures help man to attain to this realization? The character of the pictures exhibited need not be changed. Love, romance, adventure, are fundamental themes.