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NEW THOUGHT HEALING 
 MADE PLAIN 
 
NEW THOUGHT HEALING 
 MADE PLAIN 
 
 BY 
 
 KATE ATKINSON BOEHME 
 
 PUBLISHED BY 
 
 THE ELIZABETH TOWNE CO., Inc. 
 
 HOLYOKE, MASS. 
 
 L. N. FOWLER & CO. 
 Ludgate Circus, London, Eng. 
 
 1918 
 
COPYRIGHT, 1918 
 KATE ATKINSON BOEHME 
 
 m -4 1918 
 
 .A494911 
 
INTRODUCTION 
 
 IN 1902 I wrote a book entitled ''Mental Heal- 
 ing Made Plain." Today, sixteen years 
 later, I have written another, "New Thought 
 Healing Made Plain." The earlier book com- 
 pared to the later is a tiny mountain rivulet, 
 while the later is like a deep, wide river that had 
 its birth in the rivulet. The stream of my 
 thought has, in the passing of sixteen years of 
 meditation and experience, grown to larger pro- 
 portions, and yet I find upon rereading the first 
 book that I still hold the same ideas, but see them 
 in broader perspective and in clearer light. 
 
 The later book contains very little of the 
 subject-matter of the former. Here and there 
 a phrase or a paragraph, occasionally a helpful 
 illustration or incident, and that is all. On the 
 other hand the latter book contains much that is 
 not even hinted at in the former. I rejoice that 
 I find nothing that I would contradict or unsay 
 in my earlier writing, nothing that a larger experi- 
 ence would prove to be untrue, for this convinces 
 me that I have uttered Truth, since Truth, like 
 God, is not subject to change or shadow of turning. 
 
 Faithfully, 
 
 The Author. 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 CHAPTER PAGE 
 
 I. What is New Thought Healing? 9 
 
 II. Thought is a Force 22 
 
 III. The Subconscious Mind 34 
 
 IV. The Superconscious Mind 46 
 
 V. How TO Heal Yourself and Others .... 53 
 
 VI. The Helping Hand 72 
 
 VII. Ensouling Thought-Forms . 81 
 
 VIII. The Quickening 89 
 
 IX. The One Will 96 
 
 X, Tapping Higher Levels of Energy .... 106 
 
 XI. First Aids to Healing 119 
 
 XII. New Thought Leads to the Blessed Life . 131 
 
 XIII. Affirmations for Achievement 139 
 
CHAPTER ONE 
 
 WHAT IS NEW THOUGHT HEALING? 
 
 IF you are at all observant of life and its hap- 
 penings, you will admit the fact that your 
 thought aflfects your body for good or ill. You 
 have discovered that worry, fear and anxiety 
 lower your heart action, deaden your circulation, 
 give you indigestion, headache, neuralgia and 
 other ailments. It is said that a reiteration of 
 worried thought beating on the same brain cells 
 wears the cellular tissue so thin that finally it 
 breaks, usually resulting in death. Even if the 
 result is not so serious, a long siege of worry 
 usually ends in a spell of sickness, which, by the 
 way, is a preservative effort of Nature, as it 
 turns worry into a new channel, so that it beats 
 on a different set of brain cells, or, better still, 
 stops worry altogether, for when one is very sick, 
 the usual causes of worry do not matter much; 
 in fact, nothing matters but the physical suffer- 
 ing and how to get rid of it. 
 
 This is a mere hint at the many ill effects of 
 thought upon the body. We will not dwell upon 
 them, but turn to the good effects of the health- 
 giving thought, and more especially of New 
 Thought. 
 
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 This brings us to the question — What is New 
 Thought? I can think of no more perfect, full 
 and complete definition of it than we find in those 
 wonderful words of Schopenhauer — "Clear Vi- 
 sion of the World." 
 
 New Thought stands for a tremendous move- 
 ment of the human mind toward the under- 
 standing of things as they really are. From the 
 beginning of human life on this planet, from our 
 earliest savage ancestors, it has been a long, hard 
 voyage of exploration and discovery, without 
 a chart to guide, except that of pain or pleasure. 
 I believe that Man has always instinctively 
 sought the Truth, but has encountered it veiled; 
 hence his false beliefs regarding it. In the evo- 
 lution of a germ of Truth existing in each false 
 belief lies the advance to ''Clear Vision of the 
 World." 
 
 We cannot imagine what this earth appeared 
 to primal Man, but we know that it seemed under 
 the dominion of grim, cruel forces, always ar- 
 rayed against him in the struggle for existence. 
 
 Now, in his clear vision he sees those forces as 
 beneficent, all working toward his highest evolu- 
 tion, all tending toward ultimate health, joy and 
 general wellbeing. These states of mind and body 
 cannot be laid on Man from the outside; they 
 must be worked out from within, as a spider 
 weaves its web out of its own substance. God 
 does not confer Joy as an unearned gift upon 
 Man. He brings it forth from him by means of 
 the Divine Urge. 
 
 As Man's enlarging intelligence compasses more 
 
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 and more of creation he has discovered Thought 
 to be a mighty though hidden Force. For that 
 matter all Force is hidden, but in some instances 
 the material means are evident, while in the 
 working of Thought the mechanism is invisible 
 and intangible. 
 
 How is it that Thought acts upon the nerves 
 and muscles of your body, causing motion .^^ Who 
 ever saw a Thought when it so acted on nerve 
 and muscle.^ No one has ever explained this 
 mystery, and yet we accept it as a fact, not wholly 
 because physiologists tell us it is so, but because 
 we know it through our own experience. 
 
 I see a book on the table. I think I would like 
 to examine it. I am conscious of that thought. 
 Then I think I will take it up. I am conscious 
 of that thought also. Then I do take it up and 
 I am conscious that in some mysterious way my 
 thought has caused my hand to reach out to the 
 table and draw the book toward me. Hundreds 
 of nerves and muscles have been brought into 
 play, and yet I do not know how it was accom- 
 plished. I may have it explained to me how 
 muscles respond to nervous stimulus, how they 
 contract and expand in obedience to it, and I 
 may see that the entire network of nerves and 
 muscles throughout the body is controlled by 
 thought; but that is not seeing how it is done. 
 
 That, it seems, must remain a mystery. But 
 for that reason do we deny it.^ Not at all. I 
 know of no one who does not acknowledge that 
 thought controls the body, that is, that his 
 thought controls his own body. 
 
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 I may, therefore, take it for granted that you 
 acknowledge so much, although I cannot expect 
 you at this juncture to go so far as to acknowl- 
 edge that the thought of another person can act 
 upon your body or upon your mind. Of course 
 we know that the audible speech or written word 
 of another will affect your mind and, secondarily, 
 your body, but that an unspoken thought should 
 produce such an effect is beyond your credence. 
 
 The law of Telepathy or Thought Transmission 
 is now accepted by scientists the world over. 
 Such men as Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir William Crookes 
 and Alfred Russell Wallace have tested this law 
 and proved it to be a fact. 
 
 Or, if you seek proof nearer home, you can 
 find it in the following simple experiment. Get 
 together a few of your friends. Blindfold one 
 and place him in the middle of the room, after 
 having shown him a key or some other object 
 which you intend he shall find. Surround this 
 person by the rest of your friends, standing in a 
 closed circle with joined hands, while all of you 
 think steadily of the key in the place where it is 
 deposited. After some hesitation the blindfolded 
 person, with slow and uncertain steps, will move 
 toward the key and will ultimately find it. 
 
 I will describe the sensation of the person 
 blindfolded as I experienced it. First my mind 
 felt utterly vacuous. All thought seemed to 
 vanish. Then in a few seconds I felt pushed by 
 unseen hands in a certain direction, although 
 no hands were touching me. So strong was 
 the inclination of my body in that direction that 
 
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 I would have fallen had I not put out one foot 
 to balance myself. Then another push and 
 another step, and so I gradually approached a 
 chair on which the key had been placed. When 
 I reached the chair my whole body relaxed, 
 and I drooped over it with arms listlessly hang- 
 ing until one hand touched the key. On another 
 occasion the key was hung upon the wall, and 
 when I touched the wall I felt a desire to stretch 
 upward with one arm. I did so and grasped the 
 key where it hung upon a nail. 
 
 Now, had the force of those minds been directed 
 to my mind I might have had a definite idea 
 of the position of the key. I would probably 
 have thought — The key is on the chair, or. The 
 key hangs on the wall, but I had no such definite 
 thought, nothing but a vague blind movement 
 for which I could not account. I was impelled 
 to move, I knew not why. It therefore seemed 
 that the thought of the minds concentrating 
 upon me acted directly upon my body without 
 passing through the medium of my mind. To me 
 this was conclusive proof that the thought of one 
 person can act directly upon the body of another 
 person. 
 
 There is a large hospital in France called La 
 Salpetriere. It is one of the oldest and largest 
 hospitals in the world, covering an area of seventy- 
 four acres, and consisting of forty-five large 
 blocks. In that hospital the patients are treated 
 almost entirely by the power of Thought, but it 
 is used as hypnotic suggestion. They do some 
 strange things there which you would hardly 
 
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 credit, did not the reputation of the physicians 
 in charge and the standing of the hospital back 
 up the statements. 
 
 Let me tell you what is done to those patients 
 while in a state of hypnosis. A drop of cold 
 water is placed on the flesh, and the patient is 
 told that it is boiling oil. It then draws a blister. 
 Now, how do you suppose this effect is pro- 
 duced.^ Quite a mystery, is it not.^ But being 
 done and testified to by reputable physicians in a 
 reputable hospital you cannot very well doubt it. 
 
 They also take a fly-blister and divide it into 
 three equal parts, 1, 2, and 3. Number 1 they 
 place upon a patient's right arm, number 2 upon 
 the left arm, and number 3 upon the arm of a 
 person who is not hypnotized. This done, the 
 doctor says of number 1 that it will not draw 
 a blister, and says nothing of numbers 2 and 3, 
 The result is that number 1 does not draw a 
 blister. They call that negative suggestion, which 
 means that the blistering power is taken out of 
 the number 1 piece of fly-blister, while it remains 
 in the other two pieces, numbers 2 and 3. I 
 say the blistering power is removed from number 
 1, but perhaps it is more correct to say that the 
 skin of the patient is made positive against it. 
 The fly-blister becomes negative, therefore, to 
 the skin of the patient, and produces no effect 
 upon it, although it is a good, strong blister, as 
 may be seen by the effects of numbers 2 and 3, 
 of w^hich it was originally a part, the one fly- 
 blister having been cut into three parts for the 
 experiment. 
 
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 This, then, is the power of Thought. It can 
 turn a drop of cold water into a violent irritant, 
 or a fly-blister into something as harmless as a 
 bit of paper. 
 
 When you realize that cold water when used 
 with suggestion can draw a blister, can you 
 doubt the power of Thought over the secretions 
 of the body? Moreover, the drop of water is not 
 actually necessary in the experiment, for Thought 
 without material aid has caused a blister, in the 
 tests just quoted, and Thought alone has pre- 
 vented a blister. 
 
 New Thought Healing is not Hypnotic Sug- 
 gestion. I am only quoting the latter to prove 
 the power of Thought. 
 
 The late Professor William James of Harvard 
 said that tumefaction can be produced by Thought 
 in any part of the body. On the same principle, 
 applied in the opposite manner, tumefaction 
 can be removed by Thought. 
 
 Dr. Elmer Gates of Washington proved to me 
 conclusively that blood can be sent here and 
 there through the body by simply turning the 
 thought upon it and directing its current. This 
 he showed me by actual experiment. Other men 
 of science are giving out quite as remarkable 
 statements, and their word must go for something. 
 You accept a great deal on the evidence of chem- 
 ists, astronomers and naturalists, and the evidence 
 in favor of the power of Thought is just as 
 convincing. No one who investigates thoroughly 
 can doubt it. 
 
 I think perhaps the greatest obstacle to our 
 
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 believing that Thought can pass from one mind 
 to another is that there seems to be no material 
 agent of transmission, no vehicle for travel. 
 But there is. It is a refined matter in the form 
 of ether, and on this ether Thought travels. 
 There are things we may not detect with our senses 
 which nevertheless exist, and this ether is one of 
 them. 
 
 Who would have supposed, some years ago, 
 that today we should be telegraphing without 
 wires .^ A transmitter is set up in New York and 
 a receiver in Boston, or any other two points, and 
 the message goes straight from one to the other. 
 
 Why then may not a message travel on the 
 ether from healer to patient .^^ The healer is 
 the transmitter and the patient the receiver, 
 the message going straight and true from one to 
 the other no matter how great the separation 
 between the two. A telepathic message goes 
 from here to England, Finland, Australia, South 
 Africa, or wherever the receiver, in the form of 
 a patient, is located. It takes weeks and months 
 for letters to go to those distant points, but 
 Thought goes in an instant, like an electric flash. 
 We have an electrical Thought Power, and we 
 live in an electrical age. Greater wonders still 
 are to be revealed in the coming years. 
 
 It is not the message sent from healer to patient 
 that heals. It is not the thought of the healer 
 that heals. What is it, then.^ It is the Spirit 
 of God dwelling within the patient himself. 
 
 And why does it not heal without the inter- 
 vention of a healer.^ Sometimes it does, and again 
 
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 it needs to be called into expression by the faith 
 and reaKzation of another mind, such as the mind 
 of the healer, — one that has superabounding 
 faith in the power of spiritual healing. 
 
 While the Spirit of God is all-powerful, it must 
 flow through certain channels in order to do its 
 work, and those channels are mental processes. 
 For that reason we formerly used the term "Men- 
 tal Healing," but have discarded it, as it does not 
 suggest the spiritual principle at work. Mental 
 processes are dead and automatic unless infused 
 by the life of the Spirit, as I shall show you in 
 the next chapter. 
 
 Spirit is formless, but it takes upon itself form 
 when it creates a tree, a flower, a planet, a man 
 or an insect, yes, or a thought, for thoughts have 
 form, although invisible to the physical eye, as 
 are myriads of other forms in the universe, being 
 of flner matter than the retina of the eye can 
 register. 
 
 Thought-Forms are ensouled with life and in- 
 telligence and they perform a wonderful work in 
 healing disease and unhappiness. When I said 
 that the thought of the healer does not heal the 
 patient, I should have added that it has an in- 
 fluence for good upon the patient in that it calls 
 forth its correspondence in the mind of the patient, 
 as, for instance, thoughts of courage and hope 
 call into being thoughts of courage and hope in 
 the patient, and these thoughts are conducive 
 to health and happiness. Thoughts of faith 
 going from healer to patient arouse faith in the 
 patient, and that is instrumental in healing, so 
 
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 in that way the healer is an agent in the cure, 
 but what I wish to impress upon your mind is 
 the fact that you are as close to the Di\ane Heal- 
 ing Power as the healer, and that when you learn 
 to open the channels of your thought to its in- 
 flux, it flows straight from God through you. 
 The true healer is, therefore, a teacher, both 
 consciously and subconsciously, teaching con- 
 sciously by means of lessons and subconsciously 
 by means of thought transmission, by the send- 
 ing out of thoughts of Truth and Love. 
 
 Suggestion is not hypnotic control of necessity, 
 but is merely thought transmission. The Medical 
 Summary of Philadelphia says editorially: ''Sug- 
 gestion is the moving power in the treatment of 
 disease. Experienced practitioners habitually em- 
 ploy it to advantage of the patient. Prudent 
 friends and callers at the bedside practise sug- 
 gestion by taking with them the assurance of 
 better things to come. A word of cheer, the 
 reassuring smile, inspire hope — this, too, is sug- 
 gestion. Rheumatic rings, magnetic healing and 
 divine healing all have their tap-root in suggestion. 
 If, with ability to diagnose disease, and without 
 the aid from coal-tar sedatives and opiates, the 
 physician can relieve such maladies as headache, 
 lumbago, sciatica or the anguish of rheumatic 
 joint, duty imposes the obligation to do so." 
 
 This shows the trend of the more advanced and 
 liberal in the medical fraternity. They, with 
 us, are coming into a "Clear Vision of the World" 
 which involves the seeing of finer curatives 
 than we find in drugs. 
 
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 You see the world keeps moving on, and no con- 
 servatism can stop it. One system gives place 
 to another. Different schools of medicine have 
 put in their claims, had their day, and vanished 
 to give place to more effective ones. 
 
 New Thought Healing is here now and is y;^ 
 having its day. If it proves to be what the 
 world is seeking, it will keep its hold. If not, 
 it will give place to something better. That, 
 however, does not concern us, for, while we have 
 a power for relieving the sickness and sorrow of 
 humanity, it is best to use it to the uttermost 
 instead of vaguely seeking what may possibly 
 follow. When it is on the wane will be time 
 enough to look for something better. It is not 
 now waning but steadily rising toward the 
 Zenith. 
 
 Before passing on to the next chapter think 
 over what I have said about the power of Thought, 
 and the proofs of its transmission from mind to 
 mind. These two points admitted, you will not 
 be long in conceding to Thought the function of 
 either creating or healing disease, and later you 
 will see how it is that New Thought heals 
 disease. 
 
 New Thought heals because it, in its clear vision 
 of the world, sees the Universe to be governed by 
 Love and Intelligence, and therefore knows that 
 nothing can go really wrong in these lives of ours. 
 It sees in sickness, unhappiness and adversity 
 angels in the night to be wrestled with until 
 the dawn, when they will depart, leaving a bless- 
 ing with the wrestler. 
 
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 New Thought shows us that our power is 
 WITHIN, that we are the temples in which the 
 Holy Spirit dwells. It teaches us that God is 
 not apart from us, sitting on high, and an aveng- 
 ing Deity, holding us under a curse and frown- 
 ing upon our joys. We have said in the past that 
 God is Love, but we have not had a clear vision 
 of that Love, else we could not attribute to it 
 cruelties that a loving human father could not 
 inflict upon his children. 
 
 No mind can be at peace and no body can be 
 healthy when dominated by a God of Love who 
 is practically a God of Hate. As well might a 
 growing plant strive to reach the light and air 
 when held down by a huge block of granite. 
 The block must be lifted or blown to fragments 
 before the struggle for life and growth will count 
 for anything with the plant. 
 
 New Thought is lifting this crushing weight 
 from the human soul, hence its great beneficence 
 and its healing power. No man can be really 
 healthy who is oppressed by fear, or who thinks 
 himself a weakling in a world of antagonistic 
 Giant Forces. He must know himself to be the 
 Giant, and the Conqueror, because of the God 
 
 WITHIN. 
 
 New Thought teaches that since God is omni- 
 present He must be within Man, in continual 
 touch with his soul, in fact one with it; one in 
 spiritual substance, even as the ray of light is 
 one with the sun, so that it has been truly said, 
 ''Closer is He than breathing, nearer than hands 
 and feet." 
 
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 Outside and inside, everywhere God and a God 
 of Love, like the vision of the poet — 
 
 "Oh! the Httle birds sang East, and the little birds sang 
 West, 
 And I smiled to think God's greatness 
 Flowed around our incompleteness — 
 Round our restlessness, His rest!" 
 
CHAPTER TWO 
 
 THOUGHT IS A FORCE 
 
 THE Force or Energy that upholds, sustains 
 and moves the Universe is silent and 
 hidden. We only know of it through its expres- 
 sions, which are many, and Thought is one of 
 the finest and most powerful of these expressions, 
 but Thought itself, although an expression of 
 World Energy, is not sufficiently expressed (ex- 
 pressed or out-pressed) to become visible to the 
 natural eye. It has form, but that form is 
 invisible. It is unseen and unheard until it has 
 ex-pressed or out-pressed itself in writing, print- 
 ing or speech. 
 
 The fact before us is this — Thought is a Force, 
 even when it has not found expression in written 
 or spoken word, and Thought is an outflow from 
 God or the Infinite and Eternal Energy. Thought 
 is the essence of all things, that is, every living 
 thing is an embodied thought, a Thought-Form 
 clothed in matter. It may be said that Thought- 
 Forms clothe themselves in matter. 
 
 Shall we then think lightly of Thought? Shall 
 it be vaporous and unreal to us.^ Not if we have 
 clear vision of the world, for we shall then see 
 Thought as something more real than those 
 
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 material things we know as houses, clothes, food 
 and drink. We who desire to work in Thought 
 Substance must know something of its nature 
 and possibilities, as the artist must know some- 
 thing about the mixing of colors and laying them 
 upon the canvas. 
 
 If you wish to run a locomotive you must ac- 
 quaint yourself with all its parts and learn their 
 relation to each other. You must practise run- 
 ning your engine until you are expert in its manage- 
 ment, before you are prepared to take out a 
 train without accident. 
 
 On the contrary we have attempted to run a 
 human engine of which we knew little or nothing, 
 and naturally we have had our mishaps which we 
 called diseases, and our engines have been in the 
 repair shop far too much of the time. If the 
 Master Engineer, the Universal Mind, had not 
 occasionally given us a command or word of 
 advice, there might not have been anything left 
 of our engines to take to the repair shop. 
 
 The human engine is more complicated and 
 diflScult to understand than its iron brother, 
 but it is possible to learn all about it and to 
 keep it under perfect control. It takes time and 
 study and perseverance, of course, but it is time 
 and study and perseverance well spent. In fact 
 it could not be better spent. 
 
 Is there any study that can compare with it? 
 I should say not. Indeed it may well be made 
 the first of all studies, for without health, peace 
 of mind, and the ability to master circumstances, 
 what can we accomplish in any direction.^ Our 
 
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 unevolved powers are greater than we can imagine, 
 and to evolve those powers the acme of the 
 New Thought ideal. 
 
 We are like the man who desires to run an 
 engine and seeks to gain the requisite knowledge 
 for his work. He must experiment, and so 
 must we. He must find the motive power and 
 learn to use it and so must we. He must be able 
 to increase that motive power and so must we. 
 
 But here the analogy ends, for while the power 
 of an engine has a limit, the human engine has 
 no limit. 
 
 We are veritable giants when our powers are 
 brought to the surface. They lie within us like 
 seed germs awaiting the touch of life, as in the 
 tiny acorn lies concealed the mighty oak. 
 
 I once saw a slender, delicate little fellow, who 
 had been without food for a week, perform a 
 feat that would have tested a Samson. He had 
 been thrown into a hypnotic sleep in a public 
 hall and kept under the strictest surveillance 
 during the seven days of his fast. At the end 
 of the week he was placed in a chair and held 
 down in it by six strong policemen. Then the 
 man who held him in hypnotic control gave a 
 signal and the little, frail creature sprang up and 
 threw off those powerful men as though they had 
 been insects. Where did his strength come from.^ 
 It was certainly not resident in his flabby muscles. 
 
 I have seen many exhibitions of this kind, 
 but the one just quoted occurred in a small town 
 and reputable citizens, among them several 
 physicians, testified to its genuineness, while the 
 
 
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 policemen who figured in the test were the regular 
 oflBcers of the town, so there was little or no chance 
 for fraud. 
 
 When I was a member of the Society for Psy- 
 chical Research in Boston I saw two hypnotized 
 subjects impersonate Bill Nye and a political 
 orator. Dr. Pfeiffer was the hypnotic operator 
 and he simply suggested to the one that he was 
 Bill Nye and to the other that he was on the 
 stump in the interests of his candidate. The 
 speeches began and continued simultaneously, 
 and it was difficult for us to follow each speaker, 
 but we heard enough to know that the pseudo 
 Bill Nye was irresistibly droll and very original, 
 his witty eloquence flowing in a steady stream to 
 the end of his long address. The stump speaker 
 was just as good in his role, and it seemed remark- 
 able to me that each should excel in his own 
 adopted style of oratory. Both men in their 
 natural state of mind were very ordinary, hardly 
 up to the mediocre in their degree of intelligence, 
 and yet when under hypnotic control each ex- 
 celled in his line, each differing diametrically 
 from the other. 
 
 The operator could not have given more than 
 a mere suggestion to each, for to have given to one 
 speaker his discourse word for word, he must have 
 been an unusually fine orator, while to have given 
 the two addresses simultaneously would have 
 been a feat to be undertaken only by an East 
 Indian adept. 
 
 What, then, was the inference.^ Each speaker 
 must have tapped for himself the source of his 
 
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 inspiration. In some inscrutable manner the 
 suggestion to the one that he was Bill Nye must 
 have brought him in contact with Bill Nye's 
 current of thought; he must have tapped it, as 
 it were, while the stump speaker must have tapped 
 the current of stump oratory. 
 
 These instances and many others that have 
 come under my observation have led me to think 
 that under certain conditions we come in touch 
 with other minds, and also with a great reservoir 
 of Life and Mind containing all that we desire 
 to express of strength, vitality, health, harmony, 
 opulence and beauty, of even more that we can- 
 not now imagine. We have but to open the 
 channel and it will flow through us. 
 
 I would not advise the channel opened by 
 Hypnotism, for that calls for an injurious negative 
 etate, and brings many evils in its train. I quote 
 Hypnotism for the purpose of illustration, but 
 do not indorse its use. 
 
 To return to the simile of the engine. We see 
 it on the track, a motionless, lifeless thing, await- 
 ing the touch of the engineer's governing hand. 
 He opens the throttle and away she springs, 
 a creature of life and power. Is it a miracle? 
 No, an everyday occurrence, and yet a matter of 
 law, a matter of adjustment, a matter of scientific 
 certainty. 
 
 Power and life are let loose in us in very much 
 the same way, as a matter of law, of adjustment, 
 of scientific certainty. Complicated the human 
 machinery surely is, but it is not impossible to 
 understand and control it with a master's hand. 
 
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 The engineer uses steam or electricity to run 
 his engine. The human engine is run by Thought, 
 the amount of energy put into it being regulated 
 by the character of the Thought. There is a 
 current of Thought generated in Illusion that is 
 weak and inefficient. There is another, based 
 on Truth, that is strong and all-sufficient. As 
 a man thinketh, so is he. If he thinks himself 
 strong he becomes so, as did the hypnotized 
 subject who threw off the six strong policemen. 
 Although physically weak he had been made to 
 think himself strong; strength was suggested to 
 him by the hypnotizer, and he became as a giant. 
 The suggestion opened the way to the Universal 
 Energy, which flowed through him and made him 
 strong in spite of his feeble body. 
 
 And the truth is — Strength is not in muscle 
 and nerve but in the spiritual force that infills 
 them, else how is it that flabby muscle can per- 
 form the work of a Hercules.^ Also, how was it 
 that Jeffries lost the fight with Johnson? His 
 trainer said he was physically fit, but he began 
 to doubt his power several days before the fight 
 and so he lost it, because, although really a giant, 
 he was bound in mental chains of weakness. 
 Again, As a man thinketh, so is he. 
 
 You may think it is demeaning to spiritual 
 force to assert that it gives strength to the prize- 
 fighter. But why not.f^ God is no respecter 
 of persons. He gives of His Power to all who 
 know how to get it. He sendeth rain on the 
 just and on the unjust. God gives energy but 
 does not stipulate how it shall be used, because 
 
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 Man's will is free. He can use or abuse Power 
 as he sees fit, but of course he has to bear the 
 penalty if he misuses Power. That is a part of 
 his education in the mysteries of life and the laws 
 of his being. 
 
 But to return to the subject — Thought is a 
 Force, and whatever you think of yourself, that 
 do you become, for Thought is not only a Force, 
 but a Creative Force. If you think persistently 
 that you have a disease you contract it; and on 
 the contrary, if you have contracted the disease 
 and can be made to think strongly enough that 
 you are in perfect health, you rid yourself of the 
 disease. Two subjects in hypnotic sleep, one 
 with a cough and the other without, can be so 
 treated by suggestion that when they awake 
 from the sleep, the one who had the cough is 
 free from it, while the other subject has con- 
 tracted it. This is a singular fact but full of 
 meaning, showing you how illusory are the 
 diseases of the body and why New Thought can 
 heal them. 
 
 You may have some internal trouble and you 
 may think it is a cancer. If you think so per- 
 sistently it will turn out to be a cancer, no matter 
 what it was originally. Or, on the other hand, 
 you may actually have a cancer, but if you can 
 be made to think strongly enough that you have 
 not one the cancer will disappear, on the same 
 principle that the fly-blister, when subjected to 
 negative suggestion, loses its power to affect the 
 skin. 
 
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 a cancer when you know by every indication that 
 you have one? Ah, but have you? That is 
 the point. It depends upon what you regard as 
 you. If you are your physical body, why then 
 you have the cancer. I shall not dispute that 
 evident fact. What I do deny is that you are 
 your physical body, and instead I declare that 
 you are a birthless, deathless, spiritual i^dentity, 
 having the power to put on and throw off your 
 physical envelope. In the course of your evo- 
 lution you have had many of these physical 
 envelopes, vegetable, animal, and, perhaps, human. 
 One after another you have cast them off, like 
 the chambered nautilus, leaving your outgrown 
 shell by life's unresting sea. Your present shell 
 is constantly changing, and if it has a cancer 
 now, it need not have one if you gain sufficient 
 control over your body to cast it out. 
 
 When I say — If you gain sufficient control 
 over your body — I suggest that you are some- 
 thing above and superior to your body. Else 
 how can you control it? As long as you 
 think of yourself as your body, or your body 
 as yourself, you cannot establish any claim of 
 superiority or command over any of its states 
 or activities. 
 
 When you deny that you have a cancer you are 
 speaking of the real self that is you, the self that 
 is in the image of God or the externalization of 
 God; for an image is an externalization of a thing. 
 This real self has no cancer nor any other defect 
 or disease. As you realize this your thought 
 becomes exalted, becomes positive in character, 
 
30 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 
 
 and easily controls the body. Thought, when 
 exalted, increases in force, because it holds more 
 of the Divine Energy. It can then heal your 
 body. 
 
 And what is true of healing disease of a physical 
 nature is also true of healing disease of the mind. 
 All worry, fear, apprehension, grief, weariness, 
 mental trouble of any sort, is a disease of the 
 mind, and subject to the control of divinely 
 energized Thought. 
 
 I can feel within myself how it is true that the 
 real self is not touched or deeply hurt by sorrow, 
 trouble or adversity. As Emerson says: ''What 
 opium is instilled into all disaster — the only 
 thing grief has taught me, is to know how shallow 
 it is." 
 
 While I was thinking how best to explain this 
 great truth to other minds I was led by the 
 Spirit to read an article by M. E. Carter in The 
 Humanitarian, a part of which read as follows: 
 
 ''Some years ago, while at Greenacre, I saw a 
 picture that impressed me deeply. It was painted 
 by an idealist, a girl only nineteen years of age. 
 The picture represented a beautiful head, the 
 face being perfect in outline and color; but the 
 large, dark eyes seemed to be looking far away, 
 seeking with a hungry, unsatisfied expression 
 something apparently unattainable. The face 
 was inexpressibly sad with its beauty and earnest- 
 ness. Close beside this head, with a cheek 
 almost pressed against it, was another head — 
 the face perfect in serenity and a study in its 
 calmness and peace. Both were beautiful; but 
 
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 one left on the beholder a sense of hunger and 
 anxiety, while in the other there was nothing to 
 desire. The picture interpreted itself as one 
 looked upon it. There in graphic outline was 
 the oft-repeated story of the human being not 
 yet awake to its Divine Self — hungry, anxious, 
 sad, yearning for it knows not what; and all the 
 time the Divine Self, the Real Self, the True 
 Being, close at hand, waiting for recognition. 
 It is this True Self of each one of us with whom, 
 sooner or later, we must get acquainted, and whose 
 presence we must learn to realize every moment 
 of our lives thereafter.'' 
 
 It will help you greatly to see in mind the two 
 selves so well portrayed. One restless, sad, 
 unsatisfied, hungry, anxious and longing for it 
 knows not what; the other perfect in its seren- 
 ity, and a study in calmness and peace. And 
 remember the other Self, the True Self, is very 
 very close to you, fairly touching you. 
 
 Seek this Real Self and you will find it. Then 
 will your troubles melt in air and your diseases 
 fall away from you like the old plumage of a 
 bird in moulting time. You accomplish this 
 with that Force called Thought, which is Spiritual 
 Energy expressing itself in terms of Mind. As 
 Emerson said: ''When the spiritual Energy is 
 directed outward, then is it a thought. 
 
 There you have the subject of this chapter on 
 the authority of a poet, philosopher and idealist 
 who stands high in the teachings of the New 
 Thought. 
 
 Believe me the Real You is a Great Self, as 
 
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 glorious as an angel, as radiant as the sun. Some 
 one has called it the Shining One, a beautiful 
 and fitting name. 
 
 In your hours of exaltation, when you feel 
 yourself moved to great and wonderful achieve- 
 ment, and no height seems too high to scale, it 
 is the Shining One irradiating your being. It 
 is then actually speaking through you, and 
 stirring you to endeavor. But the hour passes 
 and you fall again into your negative, everyday 
 self. Darkness and limitation shut you in while 
 the Shining One withdraws behind the environ- 
 ing clouds. 
 
 But, you know, the natural sun is often obscured 
 by clouds, yet it will come forth again, and while 
 obscured it is still shining, though its rays do not 
 reach you. Take courage, for your Shining One 
 is near you, though hidden, and it will surely 
 illumine your life again. 
 
 There is a state of consciousness that corre- 
 sponds to the earth in shadow, and that is your 
 present state, except for your occasional glimpses 
 of the Shining One. In course of time the illumi- 
 nation will become permanent. Then you and the 
 Shining One will have made your at-one-ment. 
 
 Your evolution consists in learning and apply- 
 ing the laws of Thought that shall clear your 
 mind of clouds and darkness, due to the false 
 beliefs descending to you from your ancestors 
 and their primitive animal beginnings in the far- 
 away past. 
 
 I do not wonder that the Apostle said, "For 
 now we see through a glass darkly, but then. 
 
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 face to face." He thus prophesied the clear 
 vision of the world that shall see things as they 
 are, or face to face. 
 
 Thought is the Force that shall heal you of 
 mental and physical disease and bring you health 
 and peace. 
 
CHAPTER THREE 
 
 TEE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND 
 
 VARIOUS writers use the term ''Subconscious'' 
 in different ways. With some it describes 
 what I should call instead the Superconscious, 
 or what Emerson called the Over-Soul. 
 
 That is not what I mean by the Subconscious, 
 for I use it to denote a product or result of the 
 Conscious. Taken in a large and general sense, 
 the Subconscious might be made to stand for all 
 that is not Conscious, but I consider that it makes 
 the study of Mind and its processes more under- 
 standable if we divide it and its functions into 
 Superconscious, Conscious and Subconscious, the 
 Superconscious standing for that vast storehouse 
 from which we draw our thoughts, and of which 
 we know very little, the Conscious standing for 
 what we perceive to be the form of mental activity 
 which we recognize as the human mind, and the 
 Subconscious, standing for automatic mental 
 processes or habits, initiated, in the first instance, 
 by the Conscious Mind. 
 
 It is of the Subconscious Mind that I will speak 
 in this chapter. To begin with, let us consider 
 its office in controlling the involuntary action of 
 the body, such as the beating of the heart, the 
 circulation of the blood, digestion, etc., any process 
 
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 in fact not immediately set in motion by the will. 
 The act of walking is largely subconscious, but 
 the direction in which one walks is generally 
 dependent on the will, although it often happens 
 that when one goes in the same direction daily 
 the feet will turn certain corners while the Con- 
 scious Mind is occupied with other subjects of 
 thought. 
 
 The Subconscious Mind is a bundle of habits, 
 and its habits are of long duration. The Sub- 
 conscious contracts habits of disease; that is, 
 a part of it gets to running irregularly, and keeps 
 on so moving to the disturbance of the general 
 physical harmony, until something happens to 
 set it right, or all the other parts adjust themselves 
 to the erratic action, compromising, as it were, 
 for the sake of temporary peace. 
 
 It is well known that the different parts of 
 the body will change position to make room for 
 an organ that is out of place, and though they 
 could perform their work much better in their 
 own proper places, still, after a little grumbling 
 (pain), they settle down to business in their new 
 quarters, and get on quite amicably, though 
 there is always an element of discontent. They 
 do not break out in open riot, but make the 
 owner of the body in which they are ensconced 
 feel somewhat uncomfortable. He knows that 
 something is wrong with the servants in his house, 
 but does not discover what it is. 
 
 We have discerned the fact that the physical 
 economy is regulated by intelligence, but have 
 not learned that this regulating intelligence 
 
36 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 
 
 dwells within the organism itself. That it does 
 is one of the strongest points in our healing 
 philosophy. 
 
 Long ago, in the early beginnings of life on this 
 planet, that little protoplasmic form, the amoeba, 
 had a natural desire for food. Impelled by 
 this desire, it floated here and there, until it came 
 in contact with the object of its desire, when 
 it folded itself about that object, absorbed from 
 it what it could assimilate, and released the 
 balance. As time went on its desire grew stronger 
 and its need for more varied food greater, so that 
 instead of letting its prey go quickly it held on 
 to it longer, so as to extract from it more sus- 
 tenance. This resulted finally in a settled, per- 
 manent contraction which converted the flat 
 surface of the amoeba into a tube-like formation, 
 the first nucleus of a stomach. 
 
 But this stomach could not digest all that it 
 had captured and held, for now it did not give 
 up its prey, and how to get rid of the unused 
 unavailable matter was the question in the 
 amoebic mind. It did not think out the matter 
 as we would do, but set to work to form ducts 
 or channels that served as primitive bowels and 
 kidneys. Later to supply its growing needs 
 it formed the eyes, heart, lungs and other organs. 
 
 Note that these organs owe their origin and 
 growth to conscious action on the part of the 
 creature projecting them. No matter how low 
 the form of life, if it has any knowledge of exter- 
 nal objects that knowledge may be termed con- 
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 know, the word "conscious" coming from the 
 Latin ''conscius," from "con" and "scire," 
 to know. The amoeba was conscious because 
 it knew of the presence of its prey, and it knew 
 enough to grasp that prey. It also had will, 
 for it willed to grasp its prey. 
 
 But, as its desires grew apace, it dropped the 
 conscious control of the first established activi- 
 ties, because it could do so by virtue of mechanical 
 law which converts conscious activity into a 
 habit, that becomes automatic, and practically 
 conducts itself without conscious direction or 
 supervision. If you set a ball rolling it is 
 carried forward by the momentum given by 
 your hand, which is the agent of your conscious 
 volition, and the ball rolls on until the force 
 transmitted to it is spent. By the same law the 
 mechanical action set up at first in the body 
 by conscious volition continues until the force 
 imparted to it is exhausted. 
 
 In this way our bodies are running on the motive 
 power given to them by conscious volition in the 
 long ago. As we pass from childhood to old age 
 we get farther and farther away from the original 
 impelling force and we finally run down, as in 
 death, just as a clock would that needed winding. 
 
 But, just so surely as the clock can renew its 
 action when a new impulse is given it, just so 
 surely can the human body do the same, and in so 
 doing conquer old age and death. 
 
 In winding the clock that its action may be 
 renewed you are dealing with a merely mechanical 
 object. In renewing the bodily mechanism you 
 
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 are dealing with living tissues, animated by 
 mind and spirit; therefore, in the latter instance, 
 your tools must be of mind substance because 
 you cannot regulate a thing of mind with a 
 steel tool. You cannot adjust mind substance 
 with a screw driver and hammer. The body 
 is really mind substance, you know, solidified 
 into material atoms and molecules. 
 
 Schopenhauer reduced this world to two factors 
 — Will and Idea. Will stands for the Eternal 
 Energy and Idea for the form it assumes. 
 
 I believe this to be true, and as the individual 
 is the Microcosm, or epitome, or microscopic 
 edition of the Macrocosm or Universe, I consider 
 that the motive power of the individual is made 
 up of Will and Idea. Thought is the form that 
 Will resolves itself into; therefore Thought is 
 a Force, and it is the Force with which we adjust 
 and regulate the living tissues of the body. 
 
 If you mentally tell a sick person that he is 
 well, no matter how sick he may apparently be, 
 the affirmation falls into his Subconscious Mind, 
 which takes the suggestion and acts upon it, for 
 the Subconscious Mind is sensitive, vibrating 
 mind substance and when it is touched by a 
 living word it moves in accordance with that 
 word. 
 
 Living words are words of health, words of 
 success, words of good cheer, and the Subconscious 
 Mind responds to them by setting up better cir- 
 culation, steadier heart-beats, better muscular 
 and nerve action, better sight, better hearing and 
 better digestion. 
 
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 On the other hand, dead words, such as — I 
 am sick, miserable, poor, unfortunate and hope- 
 less — all have a disastrous effect upon the Sub- 
 conscious Mind, lowering the tone of the whole 
 system and producing the exact opposite of the 
 effect of the live words. 
 
 Not once only in the history of the world was 
 the Word made Flesh, but every day, every hour 
 and every moment is it occurring. The Word is 
 continually made Flesh, and happy he who chooses 
 the living Word for his utterance. 
 
 If you are told that you are well when you are 
 as sick as you can possibly be and live, it will 
 seem to you like a baseless and false assertion, but 
 it is not, and why.^ 
 
 It is not baseless and false for the reason that 
 your sickness refers to a passing physical state 
 which does not belong to the real you. If I see 
 you in a rage at a certain time, and yet know you 
 to be really a person of equable and sweet temper, 
 shall I pronounce you a savage brute .^ That 
 is what you seem to be at the moment of obser- 
 vation, but I take into consideration that this 
 passing brain storm does not represent you as 
 I know you to be. 
 
 Your bodily sickness is just as much a passing 
 mood of the body, so the New Thought healer 
 takes a firm stand and asserts that you are in 
 reality perfectly well, sound and whole. This is 
 true of the spiritual substance which is really you. 
 
 This spiritual you is a Creator. It is an 
 Emanation from the God-Centre of all Being and 
 brings with it Divine Power, Creative Power. 
 
40 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 
 
 Its words are living words and are externalized 
 in beautiful, healthy, bodily substance. 
 
 Try the effect upon the Subconscious Mind 
 of vigorous, positive, living words. When you 
 are weak affirm that you are strong. Remember 
 the hypnotized subject, who, through suggestion, 
 acquired such tremendous power, though his 
 muscles were flabby and his body puny. The 
 only difference between hypnotic suggestion and 
 auto-suggestion is that in the former the con- 
 scious mind of the subject is made quiescent, and 
 is thus unable to foist its doubts on the Sub- 
 conscious Mind, so that the latter, not being 
 handicapped by doubt, can accept the suggestion 
 and act upon it without hindrance. In auto- 
 suggestion you will have doubt to contend with, 
 so it will take longer to get results, but if you 
 persist, you will finally cast out doubt and thus 
 obtain a clear channel for Infinite Power to flow 
 through you from centre to circumference. 
 
 Even though you are overwhelmed by poverty, 
 sickness and sorrow, affirm the opposite. Say 
 with all the earnestness you can muster: I am 
 rich, I am well, I am happy. Say it again and 
 again, day after day, though all things conspire 
 to give the lie to your words. If you do this 
 faithfully you will at last enable the Subconscious 
 Mind to make your words come true. 
 
 If you throw bicarbonate of soda into an acid, 
 you correct its acidity. By a law certain and 
 unvarying you can sweeten by affirmation the 
 sourest states of body and environment. 
 
 I have proved this in my own life, and knowing 
 
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 what auto-suggestion has done for me, I entreat 
 you to see what it will do for you. It calls for 
 persistent effort, but that effort in itself and aside 
 from results is beneficial. You have nothing 
 to lose in the attempt. You risk nothing and 
 you have so much, so very much to gain. 
 
 We are too apt to think of the Conscious Mind 
 as the whole of Mind, not understanding that there 
 are mental activities of which we are not aware, 
 but the reasoning, philosophical person accepts 
 on good proof much more in the world than the 
 small part of it that comes under his immediate 
 observation. He believes in suns, stars, planets 
 and worlds that are beyond his cognizance. We 
 have equally good proof of the existence of Mind 
 that is beyond our cognizance. There certainly 
 are mental activities that are carried on without 
 direct volition from the Conscious Mind, and 
 without our knowledge. 
 
 When you were a little child, just learning to 
 walk, you had to balance yourself very carefully 
 on one foot while you lifted the other and took 
 a step forward, often losing your balance and 
 falling. After many trials you managed to keep 
 your balance and were then able to walk; but 
 even then you could not run and leap. Those 
 were later efforts. The first attempt to walk 
 led gradually to the later accomplishment. In 
 the meantime the first effort at balance had 
 become a habit, a something automatic that did 
 not call for constant care and attention. 
 
 Now you can walk and think about something 
 else all the time. If every day you go to your 
 
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 place of business or to some other destination 
 by the same route, after a while you will not need 
 to think about your course, for you will turn 
 corners unconsciously, and finally arrive at your 
 office or other point, hardly knowing how you 
 reached it. Your walking as mere muscular 
 activity was subconscious, and that which sent 
 your steps in one direction was also subconscious. 
 
 Life is made up of these subconscious activities. 
 Without them achievement of a high order would 
 be impossible. At first you learned your letters 
 with difficulty, then words of one syllable, then 
 longer words. Then you learned the various 
 parts of speech — nouns, verbs, adverbs, ad- 
 jectives, pronouns, etc. For a long time reading 
 was a matter of slowly spelling out words, but 
 today you grasp whole sentences at a glance. 
 You spell words no longer. All that work is 
 done subconsciously, and with lightning rapidity. 
 
 The late Professor James of Harvard, in his 
 "'Psychology," stated that art would be impos- 
 sible were it not for subconscious processes. 
 You can see that this is so, for if the mind had 
 always to busy itself with every detail in art 
 which at first it apprehends with care and pre- 
 cision, there would never be free bold strokes of 
 the brush. All would be cramped and labored 
 like the writing of a child. The free sweep 
 comes from the care given to the earlier detail 
 which falls as a habit into the Subconscious Mind, 
 and is thereafter executed by it. 
 
 In my early study of the piano I was an im- 
 patient pupil. I could not understand why I 
 
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 was kept on scale and arpeggio, when I thought 
 I could learn to execute them just as well by 
 taking them as they occurred in a piece of music. 
 My music master knew better, and he said, 
 "You must make your technique a habit, so that 
 you can execute runs, etc., unconsciously, for 
 later you will have other things to consider and 
 cannot give your thought at the same time to 
 technique in detail." Some time afterward I 
 saw this to be true, but could not understand it 
 at the moment. 
 
 The same rule applies to the study of bettering 
 our physical and mental states. We must hold 
 certain thoughts in the Conscious Mind day after 
 day, possibly month after month, and in some 
 cases even year after year, until they become an 
 essential part of us, until they fall into the Sub- 
 conscious Mind and set up there an activity. 
 
 If you wish to be healthy and carry about with 
 you the magnetic aura of sweetness, goodness and 
 power — in other words, if you wish to be a radiant 
 success in life, shining with the joy of accomplish- 
 ment — you must hold in mind the thoughts that 
 make such attainment possible, and you must 
 go on holding them until they bring results. 
 A fleeting thought will have little or no effect in 
 bringing you the ideal states that you are seeking, 
 but a thought held day after day becomes a 
 tremendous Force in your life. If the thought 
 be true and noble the Subconscious Mind moves 
 to the measure of truth and nobility. If the 
 thought be crafty and mean, the Subconscious 
 moves to that measure. As it moves it registers 
 
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 its processes in the glance of your eye, the turn 
 of your head, the tone of your voice, the move- 
 ment of your hand, and in many another form of 
 your expression. Your inner self, which you 
 fancy is hidden from observation, is thus con- 
 stantly revealing itself to others and attracting 
 or repelling their conj&dence and affection as the 
 case may be, and the confidence and affection 
 of the world around you are two strong factors 
 in winning success. If you are not liked and your 
 life is not a success, look to your inner life and see 
 what is wrong with it. The trouble lies doubtless 
 within yourself instead of in the world outside. 
 
 The Subconscious Mind is also creating your 
 physical conditions to the measure of your thought. 
 It does this so silently, so secretly, that you 
 have no idea of its work in affecting the con- 
 ditions of your body. 
 
 You will understand better how you can be 
 unconscious of the activity of the Subconscious, 
 when you notice that you can pursue a long 
 train of thought, and be so absorbed in it that 
 you are not conscious of yourself as thinking, 
 and will not be until you ''come to yourself" 
 at the end of your train of thought. Your mind 
 has been working intensely all the while, but you 
 were not conscious of it. 
 
 It is certain that the Subconscious Mind pur- 
 sues a very active course without our cognizance. 
 It is also far-reaching and extends beyond the 
 bounds of our immediate surroundings. It reaches 
 out and works for our good or ill, according to 
 the nature of our thought. 
 
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 Our best thoughts and purposes come from the 
 Superconscious Mind into the Conscious, and 
 thence proceed into the Subconscious in the 
 form of Habits of Thought. They pass from the 
 immense, illimitable tract of the Superconscious 
 into the comparatively small channel of the 
 Conscious, thence to pass on to that other im- 
 mense, illimitable tract of the Subconscious, where 
 they become living factors for our weal or woe. 
 
CHAPTER FOUR 
 
 THE SUPERCONSCIOUS MIND 
 
 THERE is a vast storehouse from which we 
 draw our thoughts. It is great and won- 
 derful beyond our imagination, and it is open to 
 every one of us. This storehouse was called 
 by Emerson "'The Over-Soul," and perhaps no 
 better name could be given it, but for the purpose 
 of distinguishing it from the Conscious and 
 Subconscious, I shall call it the Superconscious 
 Mind. 
 
 No one knows exactly what the Superconscious 
 Mind is; for that matter we know very little 
 of the Conscious and Subconscious Mind; but 
 we are learning more through observation and 
 experience, and I believe we are close to a greater 
 knowledge of the Superconscious Mind. We 
 believe it to be the home of the potential or the 
 unexpressed instead of the actual (act-ual), or 
 expressed. 
 
 What the Unexpressed is I shall not attempt to 
 define, because I cannot. If I could define it, it 
 would cease to be the Unexpressed and become 
 the Expressed. 
 
 All we need to know is this — Is there a Super- 
 conscious Mind? If so, how are we related 
 
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 to it? If it be a storehouse, and we can draw 
 from it, what can we draw and how can we 
 draw it? 
 
 A thought comes into my mind. Where does 
 it come from? Some other mind? Yes, pos- 
 sibly. But where did it come from in the very 
 beginning? How did it get into that other mind 
 from whence it comes to mine? A coin may 
 pass from hand to hand in the course of its cir- 
 culation, but originally it came from the mint. 
 Still farther back it came from a mine, and 
 earlier still it may have been in the form of 
 ether, so in the first place it was not a coin in 
 circulation. It is passed to me by another hand, 
 but that hand did not make it. It simply passed 
 it on. Our thoughts are transmitted from one 
 to another, but that does not account for their 
 origin. Where do they come from in the be- 
 ginning? 
 
 They come from the Superconscious Mind. 
 What they are like before they are born into the 
 Conscious Mind we know not, and it matters not. 
 What does matter is that we get the thoughts and 
 that they are the right thoughts to work out our 
 health and happiness. 
 
 We want something that shall move the machin- 
 ery of mind and body, making it speed on merrily, 
 singing as it does, instead of creaking, groaning 
 and finally stopping entirely. Can we get it? 
 Yes. 
 
 We have reached a place in intelligence where 
 we know what we want from the storehouse, 
 but doubt if we can get it. The doubt para- 
 
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 lyzes our effort and we do not try to get what we 
 want. Moreover, we would not know how to 
 get it if we had courage to make the attempt. 
 
 When we want anything in the material world 
 we reach out the hand for it. This we cannot 
 do in the mental world. There we reach out 
 with the mental hand of our desire. Knock 
 and it shall be opened unto you. Desire is the 
 hand that knocks at the door of the Supercon- 
 scious, and the door is opened. 
 
 Thought comes into the mind, but it seems to 
 come in hit-or-miss fashion. It, however, does 
 nothing of the kind. It is regulated in its coming 
 by law. Every thought that comes to us is 
 drawn as unerringly as one chemical atom is 
 drawn to another. It is drawn by the nature of 
 our desire and by its kinship to the other thoughts 
 present in the mind. 
 
 If our thought is concerned with Art, then we 
 draw what relates to Art. If it is concerned with 
 Music, then we draw what relates to Music, 
 and so on. Whatever we elect to do and let our 
 thought dwell upon, to that do we draw fresh 
 stores from the Superconscious, and so do we 
 grow in our endeavor, whatever it may be. 
 
 The old thought of the world was that each 
 person had a certain amount of talent or genius 
 conferred upon him, and beyond that limit he 
 could not go. The New Thought teaches that 
 there is no such grudging limit placed upon 
 Man; that he stands at the door of Infinite 
 Supply. 
 
 If you desire intensely to do anything in the 
 
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 way of high achievement, know that you can do 
 it, no matter what your drawbacks or your age. 
 I know a modiste who turns out the most ex- 
 quisite creations in gowns and both hands are de- 
 formed so that she cannot wear a thimble, the 
 first and second fingers on both hands having 
 but one joint. Her deformity has Kfted her from 
 an ordinary seamstress to the plane of Art, where 
 she works out beautiful designs which subordi- 
 nates carry into execution. 
 
 I know also a woman who, at the age of fifty, 
 began the study of painting and at the age of 
 sixty became a very fine artist, so you see, 
 obstacles such as deformity and age vanish 
 before the determined effort to realize one's 
 desires. 
 
 If your desire is to heal the sick, it shows that 
 hidden within you is the power to do it. Open 
 your mind to the Superconscious, letting the 
 thought that is related to your desire flow into 
 your mind, and you will develop the power to 
 heal. 
 
 We are at all times open to the Superconscious, 
 but we can increase our receptivity by desiring 
 to be receptive. We can also exclude from our 
 minds all that is extraneous or foreign to our 
 purpose, as one would remove the weeds from a 
 flower-bed. 
 
 The Healing Thought comes down from the 
 Superconscious, hence the beautiful words of 
 Carpenter: "Lo, the healing power descending 
 from within, calming the enfevered brain and 
 spreading peace among the grieving nerves." 
 
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 If you are suffering pain, either of mind or body, 
 repeat these lines, and desire intensely that the 
 healing power shall descend. Then wait and 
 fully expect that it will. When it comes it will 
 feel like a fine, cooling shower falling gently upon 
 your heated brain, while little rivulets of peace 
 course along the suffering nerves and still their 
 grieving. 
 
 I know this to be so from actual and repeated 
 experience. You have only to prove it for your- 
 self. 
 
 The Superconscious is the realm of the Divine. 
 How then does it happen that thoughts of worry, 
 of hatred, of dishonesty and even of murder 
 come to us from that source, if it indeed is the 
 source of all thought.^ 
 
 They do not. When a bright new coin comes 
 from the mint, it is quite different from the same 
 coin after being long in circulation and becoming 
 worn and tarnished. 
 
 But the analogy is imperfect and I will not 
 follow it farther. No material illustration can 
 convey to you what it means to open the mind 
 to the influx of the Superconscious. It means 
 freshness, richness and fulness of thought. It 
 means a rush of new purpose and a great tide of 
 in vigor ation. It means everything good and de- 
 lightful, my friends. 
 
 You cannot remain sick if you are thus renewed 
 and regenerated. You cannot remain poor if 
 you are open to the flow of Opulence. You 
 cannot remain unhappy if you receive the inrush 
 of Love and Joy. 
 
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 Concentrate all your power on the one effort 
 to draw from this Source of Supply. Pray if 
 you will. Why not.^ Prayer is ''the soul's sin- 
 cere desire, uttered or unexpressed." 
 
 You desire only good. If you desire anything 
 less it is only a mistake of your growing intelli- 
 gence which will soon be corrected. You desire 
 only good and that exists for you in the Super- 
 conscious, awaiting your call. How can you 
 think yourself sick and miserable with all life's 
 richest treasures at your very door.^^ 
 
 The New Thought is helping you on because it 
 does not deal in the old hackneyed thought of 
 passed ages, that is like old, long-used coin worn 
 so thin as to be nearly valueless. It is giving 
 out to you fresh coin from the mint, showing you 
 new truth, for although truth is as old as the hills, 
 and older, there is now a new presentation of it. 
 It is telling you of laws hitherto undiscovered, 
 by which you can improve and idealize your 
 life in every particular. It is showing you how 
 to apply those laws, and demonstrate results 
 from their application every day. It is giving 
 you clear vision of the world, and showing you 
 that you have everything to live for. It is prov- 
 ing old age and death to be spectres of false belief, 
 without a shadow of reality. It is removing, 
 one by one, all the bugbears of life that have 
 filled your soul with terror and chilled the blood 
 in your veins. It is proving that you have un- 
 limited power of achievement. It is doing all 
 this, and more. 
 
 The New Thought is swinging the door leading 
 
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 into the Superconscious wide open, so that all 
 who will may enter. 
 
 Do not then lie down at the portal like a beggar 
 and whine. Get up and put on your purple and 
 fine linen, for all are princes who enter the King- 
 dom of the Superconscious. 
 
CHAPTER FIVE 
 
 HOW TO HEAL YOURSELF AND OTHERS 
 
 IN my search for the secret of New Thought 
 Healing I studied Faith Cure, Mental Sug- 
 gestion, Hypnotism, Christian Healing, Divine 
 Science and Christian Science. All seemed good 
 and helpful with the exception of Hypnotism, 
 which I consider injurious, but I failed to find 
 just what I was seeking, and the door to the 
 Superconscious stood merely ajar, not wide 
 open. Then I turned to Theosophy, not because 
 of its therapeutic value but because of its exposi- 
 tion of occult laws. I thus learned much of the 
 mobility of Matter and its obedience to Spirit. 
 During this time of study I felt like an embryotic 
 germ, blind and groping for sustenance, ever 
 seeking something, but blindfolded so that I 
 could not see and grasp what I sought. After- 
 ward, as I looked back on this experience I could 
 see that I had been growing and moving toward 
 the light. 
 
 Finally came an illumination in which I saw 
 all spiritual substance as one and indivisible, 
 from which I argued that I must be one with this 
 indivisible spiritual substance or else I must be 
 NOTHING, and since Emerson said, ''When the 
 
54 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 
 
 spiritual energy is directed on something out- 
 ward then is it a thought," a statement which I 
 beheved, then, since I could think, I must be of 
 spiritual substance, possessing spiritual energy. 
 
 Then I turned to Spinoza and read, ''If God 
 be Infinite Substance, there can be no substance 
 outside of God, and Man is therefore no sub- 
 stance, or he is God." This corroborated my 
 thought as to the oneness of substance. 
 
 Substance, according to Spinoza, is not a mate- 
 rial apart or distinct from God, which he manip- 
 ulates in the formation of worlds. He teaches 
 instead, ''Extension is an attribute of God, or 
 God is an extended thing." 
 
 If God or Substance be an extended thing, 
 then no point of extension can be other than 
 intelligent Substance, for unintelligent Substance 
 could not be God-Substance. 
 
 If God creates by the extension of Himself, then 
 Man is formed by the pushing forth into exter- 
 nals of God-Substance, hence Man is either no 
 Substance or he is God-Substance. But while 
 Man is formed by the extension of Substance, 
 he is also formed by the limitation of Substance, 
 for were he not limited he would have no form. 
 God is limitless in extension and also limited 
 in extension. This sounds contradictory, but 
 it is as though Infinite and Unlimited Substance 
 should set up within itself limits. Indeed the 
 very conception of infinite extension implies 
 infinite limits; for when the mind attempts to 
 think of extension infinitely extended, it reaches 
 out into space, until it is forced to set up a limit; 
 
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 but just as surely is it forced to look beyond that 
 limit, only to set up another, and so on through 
 infinity. Therefore the limitations of Man do 
 not prove that he is not of God-Substance, but 
 rather that he is, for God-Substance sets up limits 
 within itself, but they are limits like the horizon 
 that vanishes as we advance upon it. So do 
 Man's limitations vanish before the advance of 
 the intrepid and adventurous soul. 
 
 Then I turned to Nature and there I saw all 
 living, growing things unfolding from a centre. 
 I saw Life ever pushing forth from a centre to a 
 circumference, and finally it came to me as a 
 sort of revelation that God is at the Centre of 
 Being, and from that Centre is continually 
 extending His Substance into Creation as the 
 sun extends itself in its ray. I saw that God is 
 the Living Soul of Creation, everywhere present 
 in it and yet focussing in dynamic vibrations 
 at the centre of every seed and at the soul centre 
 of every human being. 
 
 Then, for the first time did I have a satis- 
 factory explanation of the manner in which 
 God acts in our activities, and I understood why 
 Fenelon said: 
 
 ''AH that exists, exists only by the communi- 
 cation of God's Infinite Being; all that has 
 intelligence, has it only by derivation from His 
 Sovereign Reason; and all that acts, acts only 
 from the impulse of His Supreme Activity. It 
 is He who does all in all; it is He who at each 
 instant of our life is the beating of our heart, 
 the movement of our limbs, the light of our 
 
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 eyes, the intelligence of our spirit, the Soul of 
 our soul." 
 
 That is exactly my conception of God. I 
 believe that He is in the very beating of our heart, 
 in the movement of our limbs, in the light of our 
 eyes, and in the intelligence of our spirit, and that 
 He is the Soul of our soul. 
 
 This places God within, does it not.^ Still, 
 because God is immanent He is none the less 
 transcendent. He is the great, living spiritual 
 Presence within each one of us, and yet at the 
 same time He is omnipresent. Electricity may 
 be everywhere existent in the atmosphere, and 
 yet come to a focus in certain places. This may 
 seem an irreverent illustration to apply to God, 
 but no natural fact can be irreverent, for God 
 ensouls all Nature. 
 
 In order to heal yourself or others you must 
 hold the right conception of God and of your- 
 self, else you will not induce the flow of the heal- 
 ing current, or, I should say, increase its flow, 
 for there is a natural power in all organisms that 
 works for their betterment. It is called the Vis 
 Medicatrix Naturae and it often heals the sick 
 without aid from drugs or other curatives. In 
 many cases, however, it needs help, and nothing 
 helps so effectually as mental and spiritual re- 
 inforcement, for it is an intelligent power, and 
 accepts suggestion. It can be intensified by 
 affirmation or suggestion as to what it shall do 
 for the organism. 
 
 As Thought is a Force, or, as Emerson calls it, 
 *' Spiritual energy turned outward," therefore 
 
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 the healing Word is mighty with spiritual vibra- 
 tions. The power of the Word is great or small 
 according to the state of the mind projecting 
 it. There are comparatively ''dead words" 
 and there are ''live words." All depends upon 
 the amount of Spirit that is in them. 
 
 To speak the Word, then, is of no more avail 
 than a passing breeze unless that Word be alive 
 with spiritual energy, and the way to fill it with 
 spiritual energy is to first produce within your- 
 self the mental state that calls forth the spiritual 
 current from your centre in God. 
 
 You can do this because of the very nature of 
 Mind, for it is by nature formative, that is, 
 it forms receptacles that the Spirit fills with life. 
 These receptacles are called Thought-Forms. 
 
 To illustrate — Let us suppose that before you 
 is a spring of water from which you would drink. 
 To do so you must have a receptacle to catch 
 the water and convey it to your mouth. You 
 shape a leaf, or curve your hands into the needed 
 receptacle, for one of some kind you must have 
 to make use of the water. Or you bend down 
 and place your mouth to the stream, in which 
 event your mouth becomes the receptacle. 
 
 Not in so mechanical a manner does the mind 
 shape its Thought-Forms for the receiving of 
 Spirit, but nevertheless it does shape actual forms, 
 and those forms are thoughts that are images 
 or pictures of Truth, and the deeper, broader 
 and more capacious those Thought-Forms, the 
 more Spirit do they hold. 
 
 You need, therefore, to examine your mind to 
 
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 see what your thoughts really are. I mean, 
 you should see what you iJiink concerning God, 
 concerning yourself and concerning the world 
 in general. If your thoughts are shaped accord- 
 ing to REALITY, or what REALLY IS, then you 
 have good mental forms for the receiving of 
 Spirit. Otherwise you have not. 
 
 When I speak of the receiving of Spirit I do 
 not mean that Spirit is a Something separate and 
 apart from you. Spirit is at the Centre of Being, 
 and as it flows outward into externals it pro- 
 duces YOU, first in your inner self and then in your 
 outer self. This outer self is an outer part of 
 your mind, and it is this which is formative. 
 It is this that shapes thoughts for the receiving 
 of Spirit. 
 
 Let me illustrate more fully — Suppose a liquid, 
 plastic substance should solidify at its boundary 
 lines, thus forming cells or receptacles into which 
 the liquid part of the substance continued to flow. 
 This would describe, as well as any material 
 terms could, your actual oneness with, but ap- 
 parent separateness from. Spirit. At the centre 
 is Spirit, liquid, plastic, flowing, so to speak, 
 although this does not really define it, and as it 
 flows outward to the circumference of your 
 mind and body, it solidifies into form, making 
 thus receptacles for itself to flow into, first be- 
 coming Thought-Forms, and later, Body-Cells. 
 In itself Spirit is formless, but it evolves forms 
 out of itself in which to hold itself. It builds 
 forms as the spider weaves its web out of its own 
 substance, and then dwells in the web, made out 
 
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 of itself. Water is one with the ice that is formed 
 on the surface, and thus is your mind, with its 
 Thought-Forms, one with the Spirit. Your body, 
 with its tissue-cells, being an output from your 
 mind, is also one with the Spirit. 
 
 You cannot think at all without making some 
 kind of a Thought-Form, and that Thought-Form 
 is either receptive or non-receptive to Spirit. 
 If all your Thought-Forms were receptive you 
 would always think live thoughts and be 
 full of health, joy, and all the good things that 
 come from Spirit. Your evolution consists in 
 consciously creating new and better Thought- 
 Forms. Had you started in life with the right 
 beliefs you would have been an automaton in- 
 stead of a living, growing creature, so do not 
 deplore your mistaken beliefs, but set yourself 
 gladly to correct, revise and remodel them. 
 
 The process of thinking is largely mental pict- 
 uring. What you think you picture mentally, 
 and what you picture mentally is the form 
 your thought assumes, for, as I have said before 
 — Mind is formative. It is always creating 
 Thought-Forms that the Spirit fills with life, 
 according to the nature and capacity of those 
 Thought-Forms . 
 
 If you hold a mental picture of God as a Great 
 Person, or large type of Man, seated on a throne, 
 in some remote region above the clouds, you 
 are not thinking in accord with Truth, in accord 
 with what God really is, and therefore your 
 Thought-Form is a dead form, and not a fit 
 receptacle for the Spirit. 
 
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 This conception of God is proved to be untrue 
 by "reductio ad absurdum," for if God be over 
 your head he must be under the feet of the people 
 on the opposite side of the globe. 
 
 I assume that you have outgrown this childish 
 conception of God, formed when the human race 
 was in its childhood, and knew so little of science 
 as to suppose this earth to be a flat surface, 
 instead of a sphere. Then, too, the natural 
 tendency of the mind is to look up to that which 
 it reveres, hence the conception of a God above 
 the clouds. 
 
 But while you have rid yourself of this con- 
 ception in a measure, the sense of separateness 
 from God still lingers with you, as a last vestige 
 of a mistaken race belief, somewhat as the vermi- 
 form appendix lingers in the body, though now out- 
 grown as to use, and often aggressive and harmful. 
 
 To get rid of this vestige of false belief you must 
 picture God as Omnipresent, Formless, Spiritual 
 Substance, and see this Substance as taking on 
 FORM and pushing outward from a hidden centre 
 into the outer world, yourself included. Then 
 think of this flowing spirit as feeding you with 
 LIFE, LOVE, ENERGY, and INTELLIGENCE Contin- 
 ually, your mind and body receiving this living 
 current. 
 
 The stream of Life flows through you to a de- 
 gree without your conscious cooperation, else 
 you could not live one instant, because your 
 life supply would be cut off. By cooperating 
 consciously you increase the flow of Spirit and 
 receive more abundant Life. 
 
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 It is the lack of a fuller flow of this living 
 current, shut off partially as it is by our false 
 beliefs or dead Thought-Forms, that is the cause 
 of our weakness, disease, old age and death. 
 To have the true idea of God and of ourselves is 
 to open wider the channel through which Spirit 
 flows, and receive a fuller stream of renewing 
 Life to counteract the material tendency of the 
 body toward disintegration and death. 
 
 If you did nothing else in treating yourself or 
 others but hold the true conception of Man's 
 oneness with God, the healing would be accom- 
 plished, were it not that the mind wearies of 
 holding one idea for a length of time without 
 change, and as it thus wearies it fails to hold 
 the thought clearly and strongly enough to 
 produce the desired effect. For this reason it 
 is necessary to add to the fundamental idea of 
 oneness other ideas based upon it and in harmony 
 with it. 
 
 For example, — having pictured Spirit as flow- 
 ing from the Centre outward through you, then 
 direct it in thought, or picture it as going, to that 
 part of mind or body that is weak or diseased. 
 If any function or faculty seems to be failing, 
 then picture the spirit as flowing into and vital- 
 izing that function or faculty. 
 
 Growths in any part of the body are due to 
 a lack of proper activity or functioning. When 
 any vital function becomes inert or deranged so 
 that it fails to perform its office, effete matter is 
 not thrown out of the system, as it should be, 
 the circulation is impeded here and there, and 
 
62 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 
 
 the points of restriction become stopping places 
 for particles of broken-down tissue in the blood. 
 You know what would happen if a stream of 
 water were arrested in its course. The water 
 would become stagnant, and there would be a 
 precipitation of whatever sediment the stream 
 contained. Then, if the current sought outlet 
 and made a detour in order to get it, the sedi- 
 ment would remain where it was deposited, 
 for the motion of the turning current would 
 be sluggish, slow and without sufficient force to 
 flush away the deposit. Surgeons have many 
 technical terms that they use in describing the 
 origin of tumors and malignant growths, but 
 when given in simple language it amounts to 
 what I have just stated. 
 
 In treating a growth or congestion, picture the 
 stream of Spirit as playing upon it and dispersing 
 it. Hold also the thought — it is melting 
 AWAY. Say this many times daily, and as you 
 fall asleep at night. Keep this affirmation in 
 mind day after day, and night after night. The 
 same treatment applies to goitre. 
 
 In Diabetes, — picture the Spirit as a living, 
 electrical fire, such as appeared to the Apostles. 
 See this fire as searching the kidneys and bladder 
 and burning up the sugar in the urine. I know 
 of a case in which an elderly man with a long- 
 standing case of Sugar Diabetes was healed by 
 this treatment in one month, so that upon exami- 
 nation of the urine not a trace of sugar was found, 
 and it never returned. I have also proof of a case 
 of kidney trouble of forty years' duration that 
 
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 was healed in a few months by this treatment. 
 The same method destroys the uric acid that 
 causes rheumatism. 
 
 Should there be weakness in sight or hearing, 
 a simple, easy, and most effective treatment is to 
 — picture the Spirit as flowing to the eyes or 
 ears and revitalizing them. 
 
 Treatments are like inventions. What we want 
 in them is a lack of superfluous detail, simplicity 
 and adaptation to an end. In these days when 
 we are learning to economize motion we must 
 also learn to economize words. The Spirit does 
 not hear through ''much speaking." It acts upon 
 the merest suggestion. 
 
 I am sometimes asked if the "Word of Healing" 
 is some special word. It is not. It is any state- 
 ment of health and wellbeing. If you formulate 
 words in your own way they will be quite as 
 effective as the set phrase or formula given you 
 by a teacher. It is well enough to accept and 
 use such formula until you are able to frame one 
 of your own, but no longer. The sooner a stated 
 formula takes a new form in your own mind, 
 the greater its vibratory power, and the more 
 Spirit it calls forth. 
 
 I am also asked if the Word must be spoken 
 aloud in order to be the spoken word. Not of 
 necessity, for to formulate a thought in the 
 mind is equivalent to speaking it, and a word 
 spoken ''In the Silence" is surely not the audible 
 word. 
 
 There are occultists who contend that the 
 audible word stirs vibrations not possible to the 
 
64 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 
 
 inner or thought word, but I cannot testify to 
 the truth of this, as I have never experimented 
 with the audible word, the silent word having 
 been sufficient for my purpose and wonderfully 
 powerful. 
 
 To mentally affirm that Spirit can renew any 
 function of mind or body is to speak the Word 
 that shall be made flesh, or in other words exter- 
 nalized in mind, body and environment. 
 
 That which creates any function can re-create 
 or repair the same. The English surgeon. Sir 
 William Gull, goes on record with these words: 
 
 ''What shall the doctors do.^ Rest and be still. 
 The workman that made the machine can repair 
 it." 
 
 A material machine sometimes gets beyond 
 repair because it is made of matter that wears 
 out, but the human machine never gets beyond 
 repair, for it is made of living tissue, which, 
 according to Dr. Carrel of the Rockefeller Insti- 
 tute, never wears out if it is properly fed and 
 cleansed, getting stronger instead of weaker as 
 it grows older. Dr. Carrel pronounces the ani- 
 mal cell immortal because of its power to renew ; 
 itself, and we of the New Thought believe that 
 Spirit can vastly increase that power. 
 
 God is the Divine Workman who constructed 
 the human machine and He can repair and 
 renew it, for with the Power of the Spirit all 
 things that can be imagined are possible. 
 
 Keep therefore before your mind this thought — 
 God who made me can also re-make me. 
 
 When you fully believe that God can and will 
 
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 re-make you, you will have a Thought-Form 
 receptive to the renewing, recreating current of 
 Life, and the effect will soon be evident in both 
 mind and body. 
 
 Bodily disease is usually attributable to an 
 excess of dead material in the system, through 
 having the mind clogged with dead thoughts, 
 and thus causing their correspondence in the 
 body. Children often inherit this state from the 
 thought of some ancestor who has transmitted to 
 them the diseased mental state causing physical 
 disease. Such an inheritance can be annulled by 
 the action of New Thought upon the diseased one. 
 In such a case one should picture the stream of 
 Spirit as flowing through the diseased body 
 cleansing it of all useless and dead atoms. 
 
 In treating mental faculties, memory for in- 
 stance, as you cannot form a picture of it, you 
 will either have to designate it by name, or 
 you can say — "I now picture Spirit as flowing 
 toward that faculty and vitalizing it so that it 
 may do perfect work." 
 
 In paralysis of mind or body, think spirit 
 strongly into the paralyzed parts, giving life 
 where there is now deadness. 
 
 That dread disease tuberculosis, and others, 
 whatever their nature, call for the same treatment 
 that I have outlined in the few instances given. 
 Specific details vary according to the case, of 
 course, but the New Thought Healer must pos- 
 sess enough intelligence to apply the principle 
 in varied forms to varied cases. The method is 
 always about the same, very simple, directly 
 
66 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 
 
 to the point, and couched in as few words as 
 possible. 
 
 If you find yourself lacking in ability to reach 
 your ideals along any line of endeavor, it shows 
 that your mind needs a greater flow of Spirit. 
 Form a picture in your mind of what you wish 
 to do, or state it in words, and then hold the 
 thought that Spirit is flowing in the direction 
 of your desire. 
 
 Spirit is not only Life, but all that constitutes 
 Life, so that it contains the very essence of Art, 
 Music, Literature, Philosophy, Invention, Me- 
 chanics, Manufacture, Commerce, Metaphysics, 
 or any of the myriad forms of human activity. 
 You can take from the stream of Life what you 
 want very much as a tree on the bank of a river 
 can absorb through its roots the chemicals in 
 the water that enable it to grow and branch out. 
 Your ability, in like manner, grows and branches 
 through what you receive from the stream of 
 Life. 
 
 Do not get tense or excited in trying to help 
 yourself or others, for that tends to pinch the 
 channel and restrict the flow of Life. The 
 more you realize that God's inexhaustible Power 
 is yours, because of your oneness wTth God- 
 Substance, the more you will see that there is 
 nothing for you to fear or be anxious about. 
 You need not even fear holding the wrong men- 
 tal picture in giving treatments, for since you 
 fervently desire the right one, the Infinite Power, 
 working through you, will help you to form it. 
 The wrong picture of today will change its out- 
 
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 lines and become the right picture of tomorrow. 
 You cannot go far amiss if you bear in mind the 
 image of the sun and its ray or the ocean and its 
 bay as symbolizing your oneness with God. 
 
 You can use the following statement of oneness 
 and will find it helpful — "I am open on my 
 inner or spiritual side to the inexhaustible ocean 
 of Divine Power. I flow forth from it and am 
 one with it as a bay is one with the ocean, or as 
 a ray of light is one with the sun." 
 
 In treating others begin as you would in treat- 
 ing yourself, with a realization of your oneness 
 in substance with God, for through this realiza- 
 tion will come your power. Then substitute this 
 other person for yourself, calling mentally his or 
 her name, for this secures the attention of the 
 Subconscious Mind to which your suggestion is 
 to be given. 
 
 Tell the patient mentally that he is one in 
 substance with God and that the healing current 
 is waiting his call to flow through him to bring 
 him into perfect health. Then picture the heal- 
 ing current as flowing through the patient from 
 his centre in God. Later picture it as going 
 specially to the diseased point and acting upon it, 
 according to the nature of the disease. Should 
 it be a fever, picture it as a cooling flood. Should 
 it be great weakness, with coldness of the parts, 
 picture the current as warming and vivifying. 
 
 Be filled with loving sympathy for your patient, 
 for Love is the highest healing vibration. 
 
 The patient need not be in your presence, for 
 Thought goes to any distance and there is really 
 
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 no separation in the omnipresent realm of Mind 
 and Spirit. I know of cases of healing where 
 healer and patient were separated from each 
 other by thousands of miles. I know of other 
 cases where a patient wrote to a healer and 
 before the letter reached its destination the 
 patient was healed, in which event the appeal 
 from the patient instantly touched the Sub- 
 conscious Mind of the healer and brought an 
 immediate response. In such a case as this 
 there is a strong sympathetic vibration and sim- 
 ilarity of thought between healer and patient, 
 so that appeal and response do not require the 
 medium of ordinary communication. 
 
 The mere process of giving treatment to your- 
 self or others is quite simple. The difficulty 
 lies, not in the treatment itself, but in the previous 
 training of the mind to the needed state of power, 
 by the eliminating of false beliefs and the estab- 
 lishing of true ones. 
 
 A skilled and efficient healer can give a treat- 
 ment in from ten to fifteen minutes. When a 
 longer time is needed it is because the mind has 
 not been able to concentrate upon the healing 
 thought. Sometimes it takes a beginner an 
 hour or longer to get in condition for giving a 
 treatment. 
 
 To go into the Silence does not mean to banish 
 all thought from the mind, for that is impossible. 
 To stare at a spot on the wall and attempt utter 
 vacuity of mind either brings on self-hypnotism 
 or reduces to idiocy. To go into the Silence 
 does mean to free the mind from certain thoughts 
 
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 connected with cares, worries, anxieties, and all 
 false beliefs of that nature, but you must not 
 leave their place vacant, or like the unclean spirit 
 recorded in St. Matthew, 12-44, they will return 
 bringing seven more unclean spirits with them, 
 and the last state shall be worse than the first. 
 When you sweep and garnish your mind you 
 must not leave it empty of occupants, but fill 
 it at once with thoughts of truth, lest the un- 
 clean spirits return. In the Silence your thought 
 should dwell upon your immortal eternal being 
 (The Shining One), and its oneness with God. This 
 it is to be in the Silence, to still the turmoil of 
 mortal life and be alone with God. The exter- 
 nal, mortal life implies activity, noise and bustle; 
 hence the life of the inner self, alone with God, 
 is called '*In the Silence." 
 
 In the Silence the mind is uplifted to that 
 higher plane where it sees Man to be as disease- 
 less and deathless as God Himself, for Man, be- 
 ing of God-Substance, has the attributes of that 
 Substance. 
 
 From this high viewpoint of spiritual realiza- 
 tion only can one heal the sick mind or the sick 
 body, and indeed the sicknesses of the mind are 
 quite as many and as serious as those of the body. 
 
 False beliefs have the power conferred upon 
 them by heredity and habit, but they can be 
 cast out by the power of the Spirit. The truth 
 shall make us free. 
 
 Do not be disheartened if you do not get 
 immediate results from your treatments. Some- 
 times results are long delayed, but they come at 
 
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 last if you are faithful and persistent. Think 
 of Jacob who wrestled all through the night 
 with God and in the morning won his blessing. 
 Think of Job and his long-continued sorrows and 
 trials, but by faith and patience he came into 
 peace and prosperity. Bossuet says, "'God does 
 not always refuse when He delays. He loves 
 perseverance and grants it everything." 
 
 And why.^ Because perseverance is a God 
 attribute and by manifesting it we come into 
 rapport with God, making the passage of his 
 blessing clear and easy. God's perseverance is 
 shown in the persistence of the Eternal Energy, 
 which could not be eternal did it not persist. 
 
 If you have relapses and setbacks in your 
 progress toward health, do not be disheartened, 
 for there is a rhythmic swing in growth which 
 I will now explain to you. 
 
 Professor Bose of the University of Calcutta, 
 in studying the law of growth in plants, in- 
 vented an ingenious instrument by which he could 
 measure their growth, a growth that was imper- 
 ceptible to the natural eye. He discovered that 
 plants grow upward for five seconds, then shrink 
 downward for five seconds, then remain sta- 
 tionary for ten seconds, after which they start 
 upward again and repeat the same round. In 
 shrinking downward the motion is slower than 
 in pushing upward, hence the five seconds of 
 shrinkage do not carry the plant completely 
 back to its starting point, so that, on the whole, 
 it gains in stature. But note that the five seconds 
 of shrinkage and the ten seconds of remaining 
 
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 stationary are as three to one to the upward 
 push. This is practically three steps backward 
 to one step forward. (I will enlarge upon this in 
 Chapter Eleven.) 
 
 If your progress is something like that do not 
 complain that you are not getting ahead, for you 
 are. 
 
 Every time you treat yourself or others you 
 become stronger and your Word is more effective, 
 and in time you will be so ensouled by the healing 
 power that it will emanate even from your very 
 garments. You will then heal unconsciously, and 
 in some instances, where the faith of the patient 
 is very great, you will heal instantaneously. 
 
 To have faith in the invisible, intangible 
 healing power is at first like stepping into seem- 
 ing VOID, but you will find in that void the solid 
 ROCK under your feet. 
 
CHAPTER SIX 
 
 THE HELPING HAND 
 
 DO not think you stand alone in sickness, 
 weakness, poverty and misery, for you 
 are encircled by Love and you lie in the lap of 
 Wisdom. You are a child in your mother's 
 arms, nourished at her breast, the breast of kind 
 Nature, who though she sometimes punishes, is 
 ever ready with her reward. She only punishes 
 to drive you back into the path leading to your 
 greatest happiness. When entreaty and advice 
 both fail, then she applies the lash to save you 
 from the destroyer. 
 
 There is a natural healing power called the 
 Vis Medicatrix Naturse. It is generally known 
 only as a function working for the good and 
 preservation of the physical organism, but the 
 New Thought practitioner views this physical 
 functioning as only one phase of an infinite, uni- 
 versal Power, working to bring the ideal into 
 manifestation. The single phase known as the 
 Vis Medicatrix Naturse is wonderful, while the 
 entire Principle, at work through all creation, is 
 great and marvellous beyond our present com- 
 prehension. 
 
 We may well study this Principle and learn 
 
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 all that is revealed of it at the present time, for 
 such knowledge will increase, and we shall finally 
 see that the entire universe is moving toward 
 ideal states, and that Man's dream of Heaven 
 may be realized here on earth. 
 
 The universe could not reach perfection until 
 its parts are perfect. A perfect fabric must be 
 made of perfect warp and woof. If threads are 
 uneven and defective the whole fabric will be 
 uneven and defective. The perfection of a whole 
 presupposes the perfection of all its parts; there- 
 fore, when the universe reaches the ideal state, 
 its every part must be equally ideal. 
 
 This involves perfection for you, for me, and 
 for all humanity. It means a steady growing 
 into better and better states, which are naturally 
 happier and happier states. 
 
 Vis Medicatrix Naturse is a Latin term for the 
 Healing Power in Nature. If Love did not gov- 
 ern Nature then no such healing power would 
 be vested in it. This power heals wounds, knits 
 broken bones, throws out poisons, renews vigor, 
 and by devious ways restores the body to health, 
 even when such restoration may seem utterly 
 impossible. 
 
 This healing power does not stop with the body, 
 but is operative in healing mental wounds and 
 mental suffering of all kinds. 
 
 It also extends itself to circumstances and 
 environment, because circumstances and environ- 
 ment are an extension of the individual, as the 
 odor of a flower is an extension in fine particles 
 of ether of the flower. As an odor corresponds 
 
74 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 
 
 exactly to the nature of the flower, so does the 
 extension of the individual, as represented by 
 circumstances and environment, correspond ex- 
 actly to the life and thought of the individual. 
 
 There are states and conditions of environment 
 that correspond to the ailments of the body. 
 There are wounds, lesions and broken bones of 
 environment, as exemplified by the breaking of 
 settled states by means of separation, bereave- 
 ment and alienation. There are neuralgias of 
 environment, or the sharp pains caused by 
 violent antipathies and quarrels. There are in- 
 digestions, or the mal-assimilation of relatives 
 and friends, resulting in fermentation and dis- 
 comfort. There are catarrhs, congestions, fevers 
 and other diseases of environment quite as actual 
 as those of the body, and the Healing Powder of 
 Nature is fortunately as effective in its action 
 upon diseases of environment as upon those of 
 the body. 
 
 What bearing has this upon your life.^ Why, 
 it is a Helping Hand outstretched to uplift 
 and relieve you. It is at work every moment 
 to bring the chaos and disease of body, mind and 
 environment into harmonious and beautiful order. 
 It is helping you out of present states into more 
 beautiful ones that shall make glad your soul. 
 
 Out of chaos into order is the process of Crea- 
 tion, and it is also the process of RE-creation, 
 which is RE-pair, or in other words, it is the re- 
 pairing or new pairing or new adjustment of 
 mental and physical atoms. 
 
 By a mysterious action of the One Mind upon 
 
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 Matter this planet came into existence, and 
 every form of life upon it had the same origin. 
 Biologists tell us that in watching the forming 
 of a bird in an egg the yolk appears to be pinched 
 in here and there as by an invisible hand, until 
 the form of the bird is vaguely outlined. Day 
 by day this form grows more clearly defined 
 until the living bird escapes from the shell. This 
 illustrates the mode of creating in every in- 
 stance. It is always the drawing together of 
 indeterminate atoms into definite form. 
 
 The One Mind, arranging and rearranging at- 
 oms in you, is continually re-creating you, from 
 moment to moment, from hour to hour, from day 
 to day, and from year to year. 
 
 Whether you wake or whether you sleep, the 
 re-creation is accomplishing itself in you. The 
 healing, idealizing, curative influence is working 
 in and through you to bring you into the Heaven 
 of your heart's desire. This is the Helping Hand. 
 
 You can hinder results or you can advance 
 them according to your failure to recognize or 
 your readiness to cooperate with this Power. 
 The best, simplest and most natural mode of 
 cooperation is to think many times daily of the 
 existence and continuous activity of this Healing 
 Power, for creative action is intensified by con- 
 scious thought. 
 
 The healing of a scratch is actual evidence 
 bearing witness to the Vis Medicatrix Naturae, 
 but not so apparent is its functioning in the 
 inner, invisible mechanism of the body, and even 
 less apparent is it when acting upon your mind 
 
76 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 
 
 or environment. Where evidence is lacking your 
 wisest course is to accept the Heahng Power on 
 faith and await results. When you get those 
 results then will your faith be justified. 
 
 I know of no more uplifting and hopeful out- 
 look than to see that my life is being continually 
 shaped into more ideal form, that it may become 
 a perfect expression of Divine Order, Health, 
 Beauty, Opulence and Joy. Thus and thus only 
 can I express the Divine. 
 
 Just as surely as the yolk of the egg, so vague 
 and shapeless, is the nucleus of the bird that is 
 to be, so am I now the nucleus of a higher, hap- 
 pier being. So are you. The law is universal 
 and applies to all. 
 
 I can endure an unhappy hour if I know it 
 ushers in a happier one, and especially if I know 
 the former holds within itself the germ of the 
 latter, and without the former the latter could 
 not have existence. As the seed generates the 
 future entity, so is the evolution of a human 
 life, each new phase of it evolving from the 
 preceding. 
 
 Lacking this knowledge we have in the past 
 hindered the good to come, for in dark hours of 
 sickness, sorrow, bereavement and trouble, we 
 have not consciously recognized the Power that 
 was even at that very moment striving to bring 
 us into better states ; and the law is — If we do 
 not consciously recognize this Power we handicap 
 its endeavor, by reason of the fact that our 
 conscious thought influences for better or worse 
 all that concerns us. 
 
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 Fortunately for us this Healing Power stands 
 ever at hand awaiting our oft-belated recogni- 
 tion, and it is never too late for us to begin to 
 cooperate with it, for even after death it helps 
 us in the life beyond. 
 
 We are apt to think of the Subconscious which 
 is Unconscious or Non-Conscious as being inactive 
 because we are not cognizant of its action. That 
 is the great mistake of our lives. When we under- 
 stand that the Subconscious never sleeps but 
 acts continuously, for our weal or woe, we shall 
 know that we control our destiny, and do so 
 through moving the Subconscious to the meas- 
 ure of our Conscious Thought. 
 
 Do not mistake my meaning and think that 
 Superconscious, Conscious and Subconscious are 
 three separate and distinct Minds. They are 
 all One Mind, but One Mind differentiated in 
 functioning as a tree might be differentiated into 
 root, trunk and branch. 
 
 Subconscious Mind is as intelligent as Conscious 
 Mind, if not more so, as its activity indicates 
 a very high order of intelligence. The Vis 
 Medicatrix Naturae is an intelligent activity of 
 the Subconscious, and therefore we are not 
 conscious of its operation, noting only the re- 
 sults, and by virtue of them assuming that it 
 is operative. 
 
 Having satisfied ourselves of its operation 
 toward beneficent ends, we cooperate with it or 
 intensify it by dwelling in thought upon it, and 
 by suggesting to it certain channels for its forces 
 to move in. When Conscious and Subconscious 
 
78 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 
 
 have a united purpose the former does not pull 
 against the latter to hinder its action. But if, 
 on the other hand, the Conscious Mind is filled 
 with doubts and misgivings as to the ultimate 
 victory of good, with its attendant joy and 
 health, then the Conscious Mind pulls against 
 instead of with the Subconscious, and hinders its 
 accomplishment. 
 
 It devolves upon you, then, no matter what 
 your present state may be, nor how disheartening 
 it may seem, to see it mentally as holding the 
 
 GERM of FUTURE BETTERMENT. 
 
 That great scientist Sir Oliver Lodge has ar- 
 rived at the following conclusion : 
 
 "No existing universe can tend on the whole 
 toward contraction and decay, because that 
 would foster annihilation, and so any incipient 
 attempt would not have survived. Consequently, 
 an actually existing and flowing universe must 
 on the whole cherish development, expansion, 
 growth, and so tend toward infinity rather than 
 toward zero. Given existence of a non-stagnant 
 kind and ultimate development must be its 
 law." 
 
 Note how that term "flowing universe" co- 
 incides with the Radiant Centre idea that Life 
 flows outward into expression from a Centre 
 which is God. 
 
 The universe is on its way to higher and 
 better states. That which tends toward infinity 
 tends toward perfection. One cannot think of 
 the Infinite as Imperfect, as subject to bondage 
 or unhappy conditions. Development, expansion. 
 
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 growth, all lead to increasing freedom from all 
 that restricts and binds. 
 
 Bonds, however, have their use for a time, 
 for Power is not gained without overcoming the 
 limits set by opposition, restraint, resistance, 
 obstacle and hindrance. That is why I say — 
 The unpleasantness of the present hour holds 
 within itself the undeveloped germ of future joy. 
 The fairest lily has its inception in the bondage 
 of downpressing earth and darkness, from which, 
 and by means of which it pushes upward into 
 freedom and light. 
 
 Bear constantly in mind that the Vis Medica- 
 trix Naturae is always working for the good of 
 your mind, the good of your body, and the good 
 of your life in its every detail. 
 
 If appearances contradict this statement, let 
 me remind you that appearances are like the 
 horizon, only an appearance, and the horizon no 
 longer deceives you, since you have learned that 
 it does not mark the end of the earth. Neither 
 do your apparent limitations mark the end of 
 your endeavor, for the horizon line symbolizes 
 another illusion that has long held the world 
 in bondage to disease and weakness, namely, the 
 MENTAL HORIZON LINE that limits your powers to 
 the finite, when the truth is they extend beyond 
 this illusive line and stretch far and away into 
 the Infinite. 
 
 Not the least of your Infinite Powers is the 
 Vis Medicatrix Naturae, the Healing Power, the 
 Helping Hand, that is working unceasingly for 
 your betterment, and for a higher type of well- 
 
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 being than you can now imagine, for, in your 
 present state, at its best, when compared to your 
 coming state, you are as the grub to the butter- 
 fly, or the atom to the archangel. 
 
 Goaded, driven, coaxed and carried, you go 
 on your way to better things, in spite of your 
 mistakes and shortcomings. You could not stop 
 your progress entirely if you tried, but you could 
 hinder it for a time by not cooperating with the 
 law. 
 
 Be at peace with your surroundings for they 
 are an indispensable part of your unfoldment. 
 They are in your life by law, and they will go 
 out of your life by law, as the ripe apple drops 
 from the tree. Some day you will look back 
 and see it so. Then you will know that without 
 certain unpleasant experiences your mind could 
 never have gained its subsequent buoyancy and 
 
 joy. 
 
 Wine in the stage of fermentation is cloudy, 
 but give it time and the dregs will settle, leaving 
 the wine clear and bright. So shall your life 
 separate itself from its dregs and become a spark- 
 ling, radiant heaven of hope and joy. 
 
 Keep the Vis Medicatrix Naturae, the Helping 
 Hand, before your mental vision and aflBrm 
 over and over again that the Law of Love which 
 is also the Law of Evolution is bringing you out 
 of the confined, dark, seed period to the time of 
 blossoming. Trust the Infinite Love that has 
 you in its keeping and rest in peace. 
 
CHAPTER SEVEN 
 
 ENSOULING THOUGHT-FORMS 
 
 I WILL now tell you something about the 
 creating or ensouling of Thought-Forms. To 
 do that I must define briefly several terms with 
 which you may not be familiar, or, if you are, 
 a definition will not be out of place, as it will 
 show more clearly what I intend to say. 
 
 Dating far back to the beginning of language 
 we find our present word ''Man" had its root in 
 an ancient Sanscrit word ''Manas," which means 
 "Thinker." This word has come down through 
 the long ages with but little change, until now, 
 instead of "Manas" it reads "Man" and it still 
 means "Thinker." 
 
 Man in his real essence is a thinking prin- 
 ciple, and that Principle, the true Ego, is called 
 by Occultists "Manas," because the term char- 
 acterizes the Ego as a Thinker. The Ego is 
 known as "Manas," and its plane of activity is 
 known as the "Manasic Plane." 
 
 There is also a plane of Feeling, Emotion and 
 Desire on which the Manas or Thinker functions, 
 and that is called the Kamic Plane. (Not Kar- 
 mic but Kamic, for Karma and Kama are two 
 distinct terms.) 
 
82 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 
 
 I use these occult terms for the reason that I 
 get my knowledge of the creation of Thought- 
 Forms from Vedantic Philosophy and wish to 
 give credit to the same, also because I know of 
 no better terms with which to define the planes 
 of Thought and Feeling. 
 
 Manasic activity and Kamic activity must 
 combine to produce the vibration that builds 
 Form and moulds Matter. 
 
 How is this building of Form accomplished? 
 The process is difficult to put in words; never- 
 theless, I shall try to describe it. The creation 
 of Form is a subtle and fine process and cannot 
 be detected by the physical senses. We should 
 know nothing of Thought and its transmission 
 did our knowledge depend upon a conscious 
 perception of it as it passes from out the mind 
 to perform its various activities. Telepathy or 
 thought transference is known only by its results. 
 That is to say, — when two people agree to send 
 each other thought messages, and those messages 
 are received, word for word, as clearly as though 
 spoken audibly to the listening ear, or through 
 a mental perception as distinct as though written 
 upon paper, why then there can be no doubt 
 that Thought has been actually transmitted from 
 mind to mind. We neither see, hear nor feel such 
 thoughts in their coming or going, and yet it is 
 demonstrated in hundreds of instances, by scienti- 
 fic experiment, that they do come and go. They 
 often present themselves to our minds something 
 as our own thoughts do, coming from we know 
 not where. Whenever we have a thought for 
 
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MADE PLAIN 83 
 
 which we cannot account by the law of asso- 
 ciation, a thought so unrelated to our other 
 thoughts as to be actually startling, we may 
 safely assume that it comes to us either straight 
 from the Universal Mind, or is transmitted to us 
 from some other human mind. Experimental 
 tests have demonstrated the law of thought 
 transmission over and over again, until the fact 
 of Telepathy is no longer questioned among sci- 
 entific men or intelligent people. 
 
 The mode of ensouling Thought-Forms, so far 
 as it can be described, is as follows: 
 
 The Manas or Thinking Principle forms a men- 
 tal image by drawing into definite shape the 
 diffused and highly etherealized matter of the 
 Manasic Plane. The mental image thus formed 
 is an ethereal creation, a thing without form, 
 color or weight, and it is drawn down into the 
 Kamic Plane of Feeling or Emotion where it is en- 
 souled and then becomes a substantial Thought- 
 Form, a living entity, possessing form, color and 
 weight and having the power of moving from 
 place to place in accordance with its desire. It 
 obeys the law of life and moves outward from 
 the centre to the circumference of the individual, 
 even going beyond that circumference into the 
 surrounding world. 
 
 A collection of these Thought-Forms round 
 about us create what is called a Thought Aura, 
 and it impresses other people either pleasantly 
 or unpleasantly according to the nature of the 
 Thoughts composing it. The person with a pleas- 
 ing Aura is liked and attracts success, while the 
 
84 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 
 
 person with the unpleasing Aura is disliked and 
 repels success. 
 
 You, in your inner essence are a Thought ema- 
 nating from the Divine Mind, and your thoughts, 
 in their turn, are secondary entities, emanating 
 from your mind. 
 
 As you have independent action and can go 
 here and there at will, so your thoughts, being 
 microcosmic editions of yourself, acquire inde- 
 pendent action and move out into space, doing 
 many things of which you are not aware. Your 
 thought is capable of going of its own accord to 
 places and people utterly unknown to you, and 
 to this you owe much that seems unaccountable. 
 Congenial friends are drawn together in this way 
 from remote parts of the world, and so are peo- 
 ple who can benefit each other. It is thus that 
 Desire and Aspiration find their fulfilment, and 
 it is thus that Success is gained by thinking. 
 
 Some thoughts are weak and short lived. 
 Others are strong and able bodied. You feed 
 and nourish a thought into strength and vitality 
 by THINKING IT day after day and year after 
 year. If you think a thought of health in this 
 persistent way you finally make the thought so 
 strong that it dominates the diseased conditions 
 and drives them out of your body. 
 
 Your physical organism may be described as 
 a collection or assemblage of Thought-Forms. 
 The thoughts you think, going out from your 
 centre embody themselves in your nerves, mus- 
 cles, flesh, bone, blood and secretions. These are 
 actually made and re-made by your Thought- 
 
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 Forms, the "stay-at-home" ones that do not get 
 out of your body into your environment, and 
 since every part of you is composed of em- 
 bodied Thought, every atom of your body must 
 have its soul or intelligent principle that responds 
 to every thought you think and every emotion 
 you feel, for the intelligent central principle or 
 soul of the atoms is highly sensitive to all in- 
 fluences. Were this not true there could be no 
 possible relation between the healing thought 
 and the diseased atoms it would affect and 
 control. 
 
 Sometimes the intelligent principle in the 
 atom is lethargic and slow to respond, and in 
 such cases healing is slow. This lethargic state 
 of the atom is not always due to the patient's 
 mind but dates back to ancestors who held cer- 
 tain mental states and transmitted them by 
 heredity to their descendants. Time and effort 
 will disintegrate the inherited thought, even as 
 the rocks of the earth are ground to powder 
 by the continued action of the elements. 
 
 Your body of today is the sum of your past 
 thoughts and the thoughts of your ancestors. 
 This would seem a difficult or even impossible 
 proposition were it not that the Law of Life is 
 working with you to produce that which you are 
 destined to be, a perfect individual. This is 
 the end and aim of Evolution, and therefore I 
 say — The Law of Life is with you in your seek- 
 ing for perfect health of mind and body. 
 
 Do not think of your atoms as fixed, for they 
 are not. There is a temporary fixity, without 
 
86 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 
 
 which the preservation of Form would be im- 
 possible, but this temporary fixity is always sub- 
 ject to the action of Spirit, to that stream of 
 spiritual life that is continually flowing forth from 
 the Centre of Being and becoming you. 
 
 You always generate more Thought than you 
 can utilize in your body, and this surplus of 
 Thought constitutes the current that travels 
 outward into your Aura and beyond it. You 
 produce your Thought Aura, and it may be as 
 sweet and delightful as the perfume of a flower, 
 or as noxious and repellent as the stench of 
 putrefaction. Your Aura is an emanation of 
 your Thought and corresponds to its quality 
 in every particular. 
 
 No one can harm you if your thoughts are 
 continually good, for each good thought is a 
 positive force, forming part of your Aura, and 
 helping to build around you a protective 
 environment. As you go on making good 
 Thought-Forms they become a veritable army 
 of protectors, and this is the occult meaning of 
 the text — ''He shall give His angels charge over 
 thee, to keep thee in all thy ways." 
 
 When Stradella sang holy songs before the 
 altar his protective Aura was so strong that 
 the assassins, stealing upon him, were powerless. 
 They could not strike his death blow. 
 
 We can readily believe such things possible 
 when we reflect that Thought-Forms are ensouled 
 with intelligence and energy, and that they can 
 therefore mass themselves together as a protective 
 army around the person projecting them. 
 
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 To be convinced of this is to become absolutely 
 fearless in all conditions and circumstances. 
 
 Fear thoughts produce unwholesome, diseased, 
 weak atoms, so it is necessary to eliminate fear 
 from your mind, and you can do this if you realize 
 that you are one with God-Substance and have 
 nothing to fear. 
 
 Anxious, worried and sad thoughts come under 
 the head of fear thoughts, and they can be dis- 
 pelled by the knowledge that you are of indes- 
 tructible spiritual Substance that cannot be 
 harmed. 
 
 God's Infinite Power is our power, therefore 
 we have nothing to fear, nothing to be anxious 
 about, nothing to worry over, and no real cause 
 to be sad. When we perceive all this then our 
 troubles fall away from us and a vast peace per- 
 vades the mind, registering itself also in the 
 body. 
 
 But why is it that fear thoughts gain such 
 control over us before we know the truth of our 
 being? I will tell you why. We trace our inheri- 
 tance of mind clear back to the savage, the fetich 
 worshipper, who feared an unknown and undis- 
 covered world, in which he fancied an enemy 
 ambushed behind every tree. Psychologists, like 
 Dr. Stanley Hall, have shown us how we have 
 inherited our fears from the early savage, but 
 fail to show us how to get rid of them. It re- 
 mains for the New Thought to show us that. 
 
 Remember that your future body is to be made 
 up of your present Thought-Forms, or ensouled 
 atoms. Even the materialist Haeckel in his 
 
88 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 
 
 work on Evolution is obliged to accord souls to 
 atoms to account for their intelligence and activity. 
 You can address Thought-Forms as you would 
 human beings, telling them what you wish them 
 to do. Thus, from day to day you will grow into 
 better conditions by creating new and vibrant 
 Thought-Forms that shall bring you Health, 
 Prosperity and Happiness. 
 
CHAPTER EIGHT 
 
 THE QUICKENING 
 
 IN the forming of an organism there is a moment 
 when the Quickening comes, and from that 
 moment the organism becomes a creature of new 
 Hfe and action. Before the Quickening it has 
 life in a certain sense; that is, it grows and has 
 some functional activities, but after the Quick- 
 ening it has a new power, that of independent 
 or volitional movement, of acting upon impulses 
 of its own. From being a negative being that 
 is acted upon, it becomes an acting entity, an 
 individual with a will of its own. 
 
 Take the embryo of a bird in the egg, for in- 
 stance. The yolk of the egg gradually assumes 
 the form of the bird. Little by little it develops 
 a spinal column, heart, lungs, etc., and all the 
 while it is being nourished in its growth by the 
 albumen in the surrounding white of the egg. 
 When the form of the bird is nearly complete 
 and it is ready to break forth from the shell, 
 the Quickening comes, and with it the instinct 
 to work its way out of the shell. The bird was 
 alive before the Quickening, but negative and 
 acted upon rather than acting. With the Quick- 
 ening comes a higher, more positive life, and the 
 power to move and achieve for itself. 
 
90 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 
 
 So is it with the human embryo on a larger 
 scale and to a higher degree. From the instant 
 of Quickening the foetus becomes something dy- 
 namic, and finally assists in its own delivery at 
 the time of its birth. 
 
 There is an all-pervasive analogy between 
 things physical and things metaphysical, and so 
 I infer that there is a Quickening in the mind 
 of Man for which preparation is made. For a 
 long time the mind is vague and negative in 
 its action, but all the while it is growing, develop- 
 ing, forming for the Quickening. In other words, 
 we are not fully individualized, and we must pre- 
 pare to take a step upward into a higher individ- 
 ualization. We must make ready for the mental 
 Quickening. 
 
 All our vague and desultory thinking is really 
 working to an end in which it shall take on orderly 
 arrangement around a central thought and become 
 organic, for what is true of the embryo is equally 
 true of the embryotic individual, the human 
 being. 
 
 And after the Quickening comes the birth into 
 a higher life. All along the line of Evolution 
 things are being born again upon the next higher 
 plane. The one-celled organism is born again 
 as the two-celled, the three-celled, the many- 
 celled organism, and so Life sweeps on in its up- 
 ward trend. 
 
 The sadness, the questioning, the dull monot- 
 ony, the drawbacks, the heart sickness, are all 
 phenomena of the embryotic life and must be 
 lived through patiently and hopefully if we would 
 
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 reach the Quickening which is close at hand. 
 Grief, pain and trouble are the pangs of gesta- 
 tion and pass away when the embryo attains its 
 growth. 
 
 In the forming of the embryo the yolk of the 
 egg in which it dwells is fed by the albumen in 
 the surrounding white of the egg. The germ of 
 the future life lies in the yolk and the yolk is 
 in the centre, surrounded by the white. So does 
 Man lie in the centre of his environment, and 
 that which the environment contains in the way 
 of event and circumstance is necessary to the 
 forming of his mind while it is preparing for the 
 Quickening. 
 
 You are now organizing your mind, making of 
 yourself an organic being mentally. You are 
 already organized physically, but the present 
 organization is imperfect and is being unsettled 
 preparatory to a reorganization of a more perfect 
 character. Old habits of body are being dis- 
 turbed for the purpose of forming new habits. 
 It is the same with the mind, only the mind has 
 never been organized like the body, and not hav- 
 ing been organized, it is the more easily made to 
 conform to a new order of thought. There are, 
 of course, many old habits of thought to break 
 up, and new habits to form, but the old habits 
 are not crystallized in organic formation, so they 
 are plastic and yield readily to formative in- 
 fluences. 
 
 If your mind feels peculiarly chaotic and 
 unsettled, it merely shows that a new order is 
 about to form, for chaos always precedes a new 
 
92 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 
 
 order. It did in the Creation, according to the 
 account of it in Genesis, and we have the same 
 process now in creating. In chaos, atoms are 
 lying about in disorder, and the creative act con- 
 sists in drawing those atoms that are related to 
 each other together into an organic form of life. 
 In the creation of these organic forms there always 
 comes the Quickening. 
 
 I am reiterating the term "Quickening" so 
 that you may have it written indelibly in your 
 mind. I want it to fill your consciousness full 
 for a time, until you are permeated with the 
 conviction that a Quickening is to come to you. 
 I want you also to know that you are now work- 
 ing to make it come, working with Creative Law, 
 working with God. 
 
 Work that has no happy, pleasurable end in 
 view is a treadmill, and as such it is a torture 
 to a sensitive mind, so I point out to you the 
 end toward which you are moving, as the Apos- 
 tles of old moved toward the Pentecostal Fire, 
 the Quickening of the Spirit. 
 
 As they moved toward the Great Event, so did 
 it move toward them, until there came the Exal- 
 tation. 
 
 Spirit dwells in us continually. Without it 
 we could not draw the breath of life. It does 
 not descend upon us from the outside, but from 
 the inside. Spirit expresses itself through us, 
 but it has lower and higher phases of expression. 
 We have passed through many of the lower forms 
 of this expression and are now being prepared 
 for a higher. When our new mental form is 
 
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 finished the Spirit will flow into it, and lo, the 
 Quickening and later the new birth. 
 
 When you feel inclined to lament your apparent 
 failure to make your life what you wish it to be, 
 take comfort in the blessed truth that you are 
 preparing for your Quickening, that no matter 
 how dull and wretched the outlook, how sharp 
 the pain of conflict, how deep the grief, how heavy 
 the trouble, all are factors in producing the great 
 result. All are formative influences, shaping you 
 into the perfect form that shall be a fit dwell- 
 ing for the Spirit. All things have to be shaped 
 for their Apotheosis and Man is not exempt from 
 the universal law. 
 
 If the embryo of a bird had mind or conscious- 
 ness it would feel joy as it grows more definite 
 in shape, more like the bird that is to be, but the 
 probability is that the intelligence of the embryo 
 is not equal to this cognizance. However, the 
 larger mind of the biologist, watching through 
 his glass the gradual formation of the bird, sees 
 what it heralds, knows the ultimate of the unfold- 
 ment, is sure of the result. 
 
 There is in Man a larger mind, a higher con- 
 sciousness, that sees and waits for the Quicken- 
 ing, the finished product, the perfect individual, 
 but this larger mind is not always in evidence, 
 and when it is not, the smaller, everyday mind 
 is appalled by difficulties, troubled by fear, dis- 
 turbed by doubt, worn by monotony, and an- 
 guished by pain, but under the Creative Hand 
 the difficulties, the fear, the doubt, the monotony 
 and the pain are all worked in as building mate- 
 
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 rial for the growing form that is to be quickened 
 when it is complete. 
 
 I know a number of honest, reliable people 
 who have related to me their experience of the 
 Quickening, and while differing somewhat in 
 details all the experiences were very much alike. 
 One in particular appealed to me so strongly 
 that I will give it to you for your encouragement. 
 The individual saw and touched a three-tongued 
 spiritual flame, such as came to the Apostles at 
 Pentecost. It was not a hallucination or a vision, 
 but the experience of a perfectly wide-awake 
 normal person, one not given to trances or psychic 
 states. When this flame touched her on the 
 temple she heard a voice saying — "This is the 
 Healing Power.'' She mentally recognized it 
 as such before she was told so by the Spirit, 
 for when the flame touched her, electric waves 
 quivered through her body, and she was filled 
 with vitality as never before. For days after- 
 ward she walked as on air, so great was her sense 
 of exhilaration and lightness of body. She 
 seemed to herself to be all Spirit, and believed 
 that she could have walked on water or floated 
 in the air. In course of time this exhilaration 
 became less intense but she never fell back to 
 the old level of heaviness and stolidity, neither 
 did her mind ever go back to its old plane which 
 was haunted by doubts, anxieties, worries and 
 fears. By nature she had a sad, morbid tem- 
 perament, apprehensive of the future and given 
 to brooding over sorrows of the past. The 
 Quickening made of her a new creature, com- 
 
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 pletely metamorphosing her former self into a new 
 and powerful being who had lost all her fear of 
 what Life held for her, and who seemed to have 
 power to mould circumstances to her will. 
 
 She told me that her quickening was long in 
 coming, that for years she had struggled on, 
 faithful to the Truth as it had been revealed to 
 her and trying to express it in every detail of 
 her life, but often dismayed and disheartened 
 at her failures and her inability to bring health 
 to her body. After the Quickening her diseases 
 seemed to drop from her, and all things became 
 new. She began to live in a higher consciousness 
 so that she understood what is meant by being 
 "born again." 
 
 Others have had the same experience, so I 
 feel justified in asserting that a Quickening and 
 a new birth is in store for all who live the Truth. 
 
 Will you not then yield your hearty cooperation 
 to this work of growing toward the Quickening, 
 and dare to feel courage and hope.^ 
 
 You can trust the universal law and the Quick- 
 ening beckons you on. 
 
VP 
 
 CHAPTER NINE 
 
 THE ONE WILL 
 
 THERE is but One Will in the Universe 
 and that Will is good, therefore your 
 will being an output of the One Will cannot be 
 bad. In itself it is good, but according to the 
 direction it takes it seems bad. An automobile 
 spinning along on the boulevard seems good, 
 but wrecked in the ditch it seems to be bad, 
 or at least a derelict. The human derelict is 
 styled a sinner, the mechanical one, an irrespon- 
 sible wreck. But in either case the poor derelict 
 has missed the road and fallen into the ditch. 
 
 Your will is an output of the One Will, bearing 
 the same relation to it that the wave of the 
 ocean bears to the entire ocean, or the branch of 
 the tree bears to the entire tree. The wave is 
 essentially one with the whole ocean, the branch 
 is essentially one with the whole tree, and your 
 will is essentially one with the whole Will. You 
 can easily understand this to be true of the ocean 
 or the tree, but it is not so apparent with the 
 Will. 
 
 This is because the individual is a sort of storage 
 battery, appropriating a certain amount of force, 
 storing and using that amount until it is exhausted, 
 
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 and then appropriating, storing and using more, 
 so that while busied with its limited store it is 
 not conscious of the whole, of which its store is 
 but a fraction. 
 
 With the physical eye we see the entire tree 
 and its connection with the branch, and we see 
 enough of the ocean to imagine its entirety and 
 connect it with the wave, but with the inner eye 
 we do not at first perceive the whole of that 
 hidden force, the Will, and therefore we do not 
 realize its connection with the individual will. 
 
 But when it is brought to our attention that 
 such a Wholeness or Unity of Will exists, then, 
 while looking at a portion of the One Will, which 
 we recognize as our individual portion, the mind 
 sees dimly, symbolically, the Whole Will, some- 
 thing as the physical eye, when gazing directly 
 at some object, sees dimly and indirectly the 
 surrounding objects that impinge upon the fringe 
 of vision. 
 
 There is an abnormal state of the physical 
 eye in which the sight narrows and can see only 
 the point where it centres its vision, all else 
 being excluded, and this same abnormal state 
 of the inner eye prevails when that portion of. 
 the Will which you call your will is only present 
 to your perception. The more abnormal your 
 inner sight, the smaller your will seems. 
 
 At such times your inner eye is sick, weak 
 and imperfect, so that it cannot see what really 
 is, that which is present with you, and there for 
 you to see, but shut away from your vision be- 
 cause you are ajfflicted with mental astigmatism. 
 
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 There is one very curious thing about this 
 inner seeing and that is it is transmissible. There 
 is a transference of sight from mind to mind. 
 For instance, if I see something clearly I can 
 transmit my seeing to your mind so that you can 
 see what I see with my inner eye. If I see the 
 Whole Will, and see my will or your will as one 
 with it, and invested with its power, I can impress 
 that picture upon your mind and you will see 
 what I see. If I give my impression to you in 
 writing, you will at once look through and beyond 
 the writing to my thought-picture, which will 
 then stand out vividly in your consciousness. 
 I can convey to you the vision that is mine. 
 It is not mine to secrete but to pass on to other 
 minds as a part of the sacred Flame of Truth. 
 This is the secret of New Thought Healing, 
 the transference of spiritual vision. The healer 
 transmits to the patient's mind a mental picture 
 of spiritual Truth, and that mental picture is 
 a receptacle into which the healing current flows 
 straight from its God-Fountain. As I have said 
 before it is not the healer who really heals the 
 patient — he but opens the way — and yet his 
 mediation is essential where the patient is unable 
 to open the way for himself. 
 
 If you would increase the power of your will 
 you must see it as one with the Whole Will, and 
 as continually flowing from it, through you, as 
 an outlet of universal force. You may imprison 
 it for a time within yourself, but if you do not 
 ultimately send it out, it ceases to be power, 
 and like a drop of the ocean, left alone on the 
 
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 beach, it passes into the ether and is no more. 
 If you hoard it as you would a small store of 
 something that you feared to lose, it will ooze 
 away from you and leave you weak in purpose 
 and action. 
 
 If you get the idea that your will is bad and 
 its exercise a sin, that the personal will is some- 
 thing to be crushed, then your inner sight is 
 diseased and defective, and your inference illogi- 
 cal, for to crush the will involves an exercise of 
 will to do the crushing, and the spectacle of will 
 crushing itself out of existence, and remaining 
 a victor in the field after it has crushed itself, 
 is an unthinkable proposition. It is equivalent 
 to saying that you have destroyed yourself and 
 yet still exist. 
 
 The very impossibility of the conception proves 
 that Will is an Essential to Life and Being, and 
 being an Essential, its destruction is inconceiv- 
 able. Herbert Spencer's argument for the in- 
 destructibility of Matter is that you cannot think 
 it out of existence. You can think of it as passing 
 into other forms, but you cannot think of it as 
 utterly destroyed. The same argument would 
 hold good concerning the Will. 
 
 Schopenhauer held that the entire Universe is 
 projected into space by Will and Idea, which 
 I suppose is equivalent to saying it is projected 
 by Energy and Thought, Will standing for the 
 Energy that projects and Idea for the shape or 
 Thought-Form assumed by the projective Energy. 
 Every object in Creation is put forth into exist- 
 ence by effort of this One AVill and the will of the 
 
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 individual is never separated from the One 
 Will. 
 
 There are apparently separate wills because 
 objects are externally separated from each other, 
 but the Will is not subject to the laws that meas- 
 ure material substance and divide it into parts. 
 On the vast ocean of Will you rise as a wave on 
 one part of its surface while I rise as another 
 wave on another part of its surface. You may 
 be in London and I in Washington, but the omni- 
 present Will joins us as one. Your wave may 
 move to the North and mine to the South, or yours 
 to the East and mine to the West, but we both 
 are one with the ocean of Will. 
 
 The whole force of the Universe is conserved 
 in the One Will. Its energy as a whole is never 
 increased, never diminished, always the same in 
 its entirety, though its individual demonstrations 
 differ, now manifesting great power, now little, 
 as the case may be. 
 
 The Will is constructive except at times when 
 it destroys for the purpose of building a better 
 structure. Nature's effort in Evolution is to 
 bring all beings to the highest expression possible, 
 and the energy that backs and sustains this effort 
 is the Universal Will; hence it is good and we 
 can trust it to work out our highest ideals and 
 aspirations. 
 
 Weakness and disease mark a falling away 
 from the Ideal, but in this falling away we 
 are led to a knowledge of the laws of health, 
 and learn the possibility of repair and recon- 
 struction. 
 
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 The wisdom, the breadth of experience and the 
 depth of sympathy that should come with the 
 passing of the years are wonderful and beauti- 
 ful marks of age. Not so are the broken-down 
 tissues, the sickness and decrepitude. It is pos- 
 sible, so the New Thought teaches, to acquire the 
 beautiful marks and to obliterate the unlovely 
 ones by a proper direction of the Will. 
 
 I may know what is ideal, and yet not will to 
 express it in my life. In that case my knowledge 
 does not tend to beauty of expression in my 
 mind and body. I may know that certain thoughts 
 are corrosive and generate poison in my body, 
 and yet I may will to hold such thoughts as the 
 years roll over me, in which event my will is 
 my destroyer. With all the knowledge of Truth 
 that it is possible to gain, one cannot renew or 
 re-create himself to the ideal without using his 
 will. It is either his Savior or his Destroyer. 
 
 You can use the will to good effect with very 
 little knowledge, because there is within you an 
 intuitive perception of what is good for you and 
 what is not. You know by the effect of certain 
 thoughts and feelings that they are injurious to 
 you. You know it is not well for you to indulge 
 in spells of depression, of resentment, of envy, 
 anger, anxiety, fear, etc., and you may prefer 
 not to have such thoughts, yet it seems you 
 cannot arouse will enough to expel them. You 
 try once, twice or three times to put out the nox- 
 ious intruders, and perhaps you succeed for the 
 instant, but back they come trooping, and more 
 "devils" with them, like the unclean spirit of 
 
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 old. Then you are quite discouraged and struggle 
 no more. 
 
 You would not thus succumb if you knew what 
 a mighty power is at your back, even the whole 
 Will of the Universe, every bit of it. It is the 
 old mistaken idea of the separate will that para- 
 lyzes your effort and makes you think you have 
 used up all your force when you have not. 
 
 Think about your oneness with the Universal 
 Will, the Moving Power of the Universe, the next 
 time you get discouraged, and see how quickly 
 your own will springs up refreshed and reinforced. 
 It will amaze you with what it can do. 
 
 Have you reached the place where you reach 
 out for something that will renew your mind, your 
 health and your life in general.^ If so that 
 reaching out is a movement of the will. It is at 
 work for you. Keep it moving. Keep your 
 automobile on the highway. Charge it with 
 more power. When one charge is used up put 
 in another and push ahead. Use your intelli- 
 gence to keep it out of the ditch and you will 
 happily proceed to the place where you would 
 
 go. 
 
 The exercise of will is a pleasure in itself, even 
 when it moves to difficult accomplishment. The 
 finest and best endeavor of the will lies not in 
 the subjugation of others, but in the control of 
 self and of circumstances. The will unifies, 
 adjusts, and regulates many conflicting elements 
 into one harmonious, beautiful whole, obedient 
 to a high, dominant idea. 
 
 No man can serve two masters and no organism 
 
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 can be harmonious and perfect until all its parts 
 serve one dominant idea. 
 
 In perfecting the human organism, both in 
 mind and body, this law is regnant. There 
 must be a ruling Ideal, and the oflBce of the Will 
 is to bring all thoughts, desires and purposes 
 under this dominant Ideal. Until this is accom- 
 plished the house is divided against itself, there 
 is contention and discord in the organism, lack 
 of peace in the mind, and in consequence, pain 
 and disease in the flesh. 
 
 While the Will cannot crush itself out of exist- 
 ence, it can use one part of itself against another 
 part, one part desiring to follow one course and 
 the other part desiring to follow the opposite 
 course. One of these two courses is in accord 
 with the Ideal, and the other is not. The better 
 course does not look attractive at the start, 
 and it requires a decided effort of the Will to 
 follow it. This is good for the individual, for 
 with the exercise of the Will force is called forth, 
 intensifying the life. 
 
 To have more life is to move upward and away 
 from weakness and disease. Therefore to under- 
 stand the use of the will and to see its oneness 
 with the Universal Will, to set it in operation in 
 obedience to the highest and best that we know, 
 is to find renewal of Life, Health, Youth and 
 general Happiness. 
 
 In nervous prostration one loses interest in 
 all things, desiring nothing, caring for nothing, 
 doing nothing, and all this indicates a lessening 
 in the activity of the will. But underneath this 
 
104 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 
 
 non-caring, non-desiring, non-doing state, there 
 is really a desire to be lifted out of a condition 
 that may well be defined as a living death. This 
 desire is a faint stirring of the will, and should 
 be encouraged in every way possible. If the 
 sufferer can be induced to use the will a little 
 every day in the effort to banish from the mind 
 depressing thoughts and also to overcome the 
 tendency to rehearse his troubles to every sym- 
 pathetic ear, he will take the first step from dark- 
 ness into light. 
 
 All troubles, whether mental or physical, grow 
 and increase as you dwell upon them in thought, 
 for you thus create a mental atmosphere in which 
 diseased conditions thrive like noxious weeds. 
 The only safe course is to uproot and cast out 
 diseased thoughts, so as to give healthy thoughts 
 a chance in the mental soil. 
 
 Have you not many times found your fears 
 groundless and your apprehensions worse than 
 the thing apprehended, when it came to pass.^ 
 And then, did it not seem foolish to have lain 
 awake nights worrying about the future, and 
 tearing down tissue cells with your gloomy fears 
 and forebodings.^ 
 
 And are you going to keep up this useless and 
 harmful habit until your bodily health is un- 
 dermined, your thought Aura unwholesome and 
 repellent, and your face deeply lined with ugly 
 furrows of anxiety.^ Are you going to do this? 
 Or are you going to stop it now, and begin to use 
 your will as a saving factor.^ 
 
 Why not say to yourself — ''My will is one with 
 
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 the Universal Will, the Energy that upholds 
 the world. By this Will all things are created; 
 therefore I can use it to get rid of the conditions 
 I deplore, and replace them with Health, Beauty, 
 Intelligence, Genius, Prosperity and unlimited 
 Achievement. I will use my will to these ends, 
 and to the educated and active Will all things 
 beautiful and glorious are possible. I will never 
 forget that my will is backed by the Universal 
 Will, that reservoir of Inexhaustible Energy. 
 
 "I will waste no more time in vain complaints 
 and regrets, but instead use the Creative Will 
 to give me what I desire/' 
 
CHAPTER TEN 
 
 TAPPING HIGHER LEVELS OF ENERGY 
 
 SOME years ago I was greatly impressed 
 by an article written by Professor William 
 James of Harvard University in which he made 
 some astonishing statements regarding the pos- 
 sible renewal of Energy. In the article he used 
 the term ''Second Wind" to denote a phenomenon 
 in Psychology, indicating a psychic law. 
 
 You may know that it often happens in ath- 
 letic sports that a contestant will be prostrated 
 by fatigue, even to the point of acute distress. 
 The breath will come in short, painful gasps and 
 the physical state be one of utter exhaustion, 
 but let a sudden excitement occur, such for in- 
 stance as the cheering given to another contes- 
 tant, and a strange thing sometimes happens. 
 The exhausted man will get his second wind, and 
 this second wind will be better than the first, 
 for it is a great spurt of energy and usually 
 means victory. 
 
 After due observation of this phenomenon 
 Professor James came to the conclusion that not 
 only is a second wind possible, but a third, a 
 fourth, or even more. 
 
 Now to me this is very inspiring, for it confirms 
 
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 what I have long believed, that Man is the 
 possessor of unlimited power. Beyond the fatigue 
 limit, where one seems completely spent, there 
 are higher levels of energy waiting to be tapped, 
 and what is needed to tap them is the sharply 
 pressing edge of a persistent purpose, the mental 
 
 act of PUSHING ON. 
 
 Right here let me enter a word of caution. 
 I would not advise you to push beyond the 
 fatigue point physically until you are prepared 
 for it mentally, for if you do there is danger of 
 utter collapse or even death. You must first 
 become fully convinced that you can tap higher 
 levels of Energy. There must first be the men- 
 tal ACT of PUSHING ON, and it must be made 
 a habit before you can safely try the physical 
 PUSH beyond the fatigue point. You must es- 
 tablish within yourself a steady, unconquerable 
 purpose to push on. 
 
 Professor James enumerates the various excite- 
 ments that produce the second wind, and I notice 
 they are in the ultimate either thoughts or emo- 
 tions. He also explains that there need be no 
 external excitement, that the determination to 
 push on is often quite sufficient. I will quote his 
 exact words in this connection: 
 
 "On usual occasions we make a practice of 
 stopping an occupation as soon as we meet the 
 first effective layer, so to call it, of fatigue. We 
 have then walked, played or worked enough, 
 so we desist. That amount of fatigue is an 
 efficacious obstruction on this side of which our 
 usual life is cast. But if an unusual necessity 
 
108 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 
 
 forces us to press onward, a surprising thing occurs. 
 The fatigue gets worse up to a certain, critical 
 point, when gradually or suddenly it passes away 
 and we are fresher than before. We have evi- 
 dently tapped a level of new energy, masked 
 until then by the fatigue obstacle usually obeyed. 
 There may be layer after layer of this experience. 
 A third or fourth wind may supervene. Mental 
 activity shows this phenomenon as well as physi- 
 cal, and in exceptional cases we may find beyond 
 the very extremity of fatigue distress, amounts 
 of ease and power that we never dreamed our- 
 selves to own, sources of strength habitually 
 not taxed at all, because habitually we never 
 push through the obstruction, never pass those 
 early critical points." 
 
 The fact is, we use up one layer of energy and 
 think that is all we have at command. We 
 believe ourselves exhausted because we do not 
 know of the other layers to be tapped by us at 
 will. 
 
 Whatever goal we have in view, whether it be 
 health, or some other ultimate of human endeavor, 
 we are too apt to let the fatigue obstacle "knock us 
 out," though level upon level of higher energy 
 be waiting to be tapped when we push mentally 
 beyond the fatigue point. Note that I say men- 
 tally, not PHYSICALLY Until you are prepared 
 
 MENTALLY. 
 
 To be prepared mentally is to be absolutely sure 
 of your one-ness with Universal Energy, or God- 
 Substance. To be equally sure that you are 
 flowing forth as a stream of life from that Sub- 
 
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 stance into the outer world continually. To be 
 also sure that you can tap, or release within 
 yourself more energy when one store of it is 
 exhausted. 
 
 You may be so exhausted physically that to 
 move a muscle seems impossible, or you may be 
 exhausted mentally and in the bitter pangs of 
 despair, but the persistent will to push on will 
 tap the higher level of energy, yielding the glo- 
 rious ''Second Wind" and turning life into a song 
 of triumph. 
 
 If you are sick the energy to combat disease 
 has run low and you need to tap a higher spiritual 
 level. Then the disease will be routed and the 
 machinery of your body will run smoothly, with- 
 out clog or hindrance. 
 
 If your trouble be a matter of adversity, of 
 disappointment, of what we call hard luck, the 
 same rule holds good. You have merely reached 
 your fatigue obstacle, and the more distress you 
 feel, the nearer you are to your ''Second Wind." 
 Now is the time of all times for you to achieve 
 success by tapping a higher level of energy. 
 Now is your great opportunity. Do not 
 give up on the eve of victory, push on. 
 
 The physiologist will tell you that the body 
 is bound by certain laws, that its strength cannot 
 exceed the quality of its muscle and the nerve 
 stimulus. Why is it then that a small puny 
 hypnotic subject can perform Herculean feats 
 of strength when under the power of hypnotic 
 suggestion.^ The same physiologist will toll you 
 that while a second, third or fourth wind may be 
 
110 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 
 
 possible, still there is a final fatigue limit beyond 
 which bodily effort cannot pass. I deny this on 
 general principles for it is not borne out by facts 
 and living experience, and because I see with the 
 the eye of the Psychologist, which sees powers un- 
 known to the Physiologist. Psychology is sweep- 
 ing away the old limits of Physiology, and this 
 is shown by experiments in Hypnotism. I do 
 not indorse Hypnotism as a curative agent, but 
 I credit it with adding greatly to our knowl- 
 edge of many hitherto undiscovered powers, and 
 with showing the horizon of the Impossible as 
 ever receding when we advance upon it. Let 
 your limit line of belief, separating the possible 
 from the impossible, be to you like the horizon 
 line, which is really no line at all. It is merely 
 where your sight stops, and depends upon the 
 point where you stand. Advance and your 
 horizon moves with you, showing a beyond not 
 before visible. 
 
 Some one else may tell you that your ideals 
 are impossible to realize. This I also deny, for 
 I know beyond all doubt that nothing is impos- 
 sible that your mind can fashion or your heart 
 long for. The impossible is only that which you 
 fail to reach by stopping at the fatigue point 
 because your mind is weary of waiting and hoping 
 and stops short of the ''Second Wind." 
 
 Simply to know that higher levels of energy 
 exist and can be tapped will stimulate you to go 
 on and tap them. That has been my experience, 
 and from what I know of universal human char- 
 acteristics I judge it will be your experience also. 
 
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 Physical pain is sometimes the means whereby 
 we are pushed on to tap higher energy levels. 
 Evolution, though always kind, is often appar- 
 ently cruel, driving us out of certain conditions 
 with the lash, as horses are driven from a burning 
 stable, administering the lesser pain that the 
 greater pain may be escaped. 
 
 A physician in Washington told me of a patient 
 of his who was confined to her bed and seemingly 
 unable to leave it, though for no organic dis- 
 ability that he could discover. Every organ 
 was normal and functioning properly, but still 
 the patient was bedridden. After exhausting all 
 remedial measures at his command the doctor 
 determined on a psychological treatment, and 
 a severe one at that the setting fire to her bed. 
 The woman did not stir until a leaping tongue 
 of flame scorched her hand, when, with a shriek 
 of terror, she sprang from her bed and fled from 
 the room. The cure was not only for the moment, 
 but was permanent. 
 
 We all, more or less, fall into lethargic states 
 where ideals fail to rouse us to action, and it is 
 then that pain, with stinging lash, drives us from 
 our lethargy, the lethargy that leads to death. 
 We flee our burning beds in the anguish of fear, 
 but in that fleeing we find renewal of life, of energy, 
 of hope and of joy. 
 
 We of the New Thought can tap higher levels 
 of energy by putting into practice the principles 
 in which we believe. We know we are actually 
 one with the Eternal Energy, even as the raj^ is 
 one with the sun. Therefore the Eternal Energy 
 
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112 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 
 
 is ours to manifest. It could not be otherwise. 
 The ray is of sun substance and manifests the 
 sun. 
 
 Naturally we cannot use the whole of the 
 Eternal Energy at once, for that would be out of 
 proportion to our needs. We do not want an 
 avalanche of power, but just enough for our pur- 
 pose at the moment. 
 
 To use a homely illustration — We are like 
 pipes or channels that convey Energy from its 
 Divine Centre to its Human Circumference. 
 Pipes limit or narrow Energy to their own capac- 
 ity, but in so narrowing they focus it to definite 
 use. Electricity floating freely in space cannot 
 light our houses, run our cars, or turn the wheels 
 of the world's activity. To do this it must be 
 narrowed, focussed or confined to the limits of 
 a tiny wire. 
 
 In our inner, spiritual selves we are this very 
 Energy itself, and like the electricity floating 
 freely in space, while our outer, functioning 
 selves may be compared to pipes or wires or 
 conductors of Energy. 
 
 Remember this distinction, for it is very im- 
 portant. It is as though the ray said to the sun 
 — ''I am with you at the Centre of Substance, 
 but I go forth from that Substance into the 
 activities of light and heat." 
 
 At first we tap Energy at a low level, then at 
 higher and higher levels, as we rise to higher planes 
 of thinking and living. It is, therefore, true 
 that at present we cannot form an adequate 
 conception of the great and wonderful achieve- 
 
MADE PLAIN 113 
 
 ment we shall make as we ascend the scale of 
 Being. It is an endless progression to better 
 states. 
 
 A Second Wind may come to you in various 
 ways, but never without the push or endeavor 
 of your own mind, backed by the Spirit. That 
 push is never so effective as when you press 
 against an obstruction, against ill health, adversity 
 and unhappy environment. Right there you meet 
 your fatigue obstacle which is really the source 
 of the Second Wind, for it is only by means of 
 overcoming great obstacles that you get the 
 Second Wind. 
 
 As I have just said, a Second Wind may come 
 to you in various ways. It may, for instance, 
 come in a sudden, inexplicable betterment in 
 your affairs, or in your health, or in your peace 
 of mind, or in your energy of accomplishment. 
 Your world may have been upside down and in 
 chaos, when suddenly everything will be righted, 
 and just as you have desired it to be. This is 
 an exact result of your mental push, instead 
 of the streak of good luck you are inclined to 
 call it. That mental push has tapped an en- 
 ergy level and in consequence a Second Wind 
 has blown over your world, turning it right side 
 up. I mention this because otherwise you might 
 not recognize the event as attributable to a Sec- 
 ond Wind. You will understand better how this 
 can be when you realize that a Second Wind is 
 a spiritual power or influence, acting intelligently 
 for Humanity, when Humanity obeys its law. 
 
 So I find that you are really a Giant in chains. 
 
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 A Giant in your Godhood, but bound by chains 
 of mistaken belief. You are self-hypnotized into 
 ideas of limitation. You are self -hypnotized into 
 a belief in your separateness from God. Your 
 state may be compared to a dream in which 
 you try to move and cannot; a waking dream, 
 similar to those you have in sleep. The giant 
 Gulliver, when bound by the fragile cords of the 
 Lilliputians, could easily have broken his bonds, 
 but imagining himself held by them he made 
 no effort to free himself. That is exactly your 
 state. 
 
 Do you realize what it means to be a Ray 
 flowing forth from the Divine Energy .^^ No, 
 of course you do not, for if you did you would 
 know you could break your chains, and would 
 no longer be held by them. 
 
 You will never be entirely healed of your 
 disease and weakness until you learn your power. 
 When I say you are self-hypnotized into ideas 
 of limitation, I will explain what I mean by 
 calling your attention to the state of one who is 
 hypnotized by another mind to think he cannot 
 open his eyes when they are closed, or move hand 
 or foot. He is practically paralyzed by the 
 effect of the other mind acting upon him, so that 
 he really cannot open his eyes or move hand or 
 foot. Until the impression is removed from his 
 mind he remains paralyzed although his nerves 
 and muscles are capable of perfect action. 
 
 In something such a manner do the false beliefs 
 of the world impress the individual mind, and 
 New Thought Healing is the removing of the 
 
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 false impression or belief, thus setting free the 
 Giant who is enchained. 
 
 It will be a helpful thought for you to picture 
 yourself as a Giant in chains, for that is what you 
 are in reality, and your apparently heavy chains 
 are but cobwebs compared with your strength 
 to break them when the Giant within you comes 
 into a knowledge of itself and its God-Power. 
 You may clothe the thought, if you will, in the 
 following simple words: 
 
 / am a Giant in chains, hut my chains are only 
 cobwebs. All power is mine because of my God- 
 hood. I flow forth from God continually as the ray 
 flows forth from the sun, and as the ray carries 
 with it the Sun-Energy, so do I carry with me 
 the God-Energy. 
 
 Your tired muscles are tired because of your 
 false belief concerning yourself, a belief that just 
 so much energy and no more is given you, whereas, 
 in very truth there is a continual flow of energy 
 through your muscles, did you but realize the 
 truth about yourself. You cannot realize this 
 truth at once, and until you do so, sleep and rest 
 are essentials in your life, as periods for gathering 
 and storing new energy. The reason you find 
 sleep reinvigorating is because then the Conscious 
 Mind releases its grip on the Subconscious and 
 allows it to follow its natural bent, which is to 
 open itself to the God-Energy and let it flow 
 in without clog or hindrance. 
 
 As we grow more and more into the Truth of 
 Being we do not tire as formerly and we require 
 
116 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 
 
 less sleep. We do not step into new and better 
 conditions on the instant, but grow toward them 
 imperceptibly, until, all at once, comes the Quick- 
 ening, as is the case with all embryonic growth, 
 and the Quickening is followed by the New 
 Birth into a higher, stronger life on this earth 
 and in this body. 
 
 Sometimes a release of power comes suddenly, 
 as in the case of a man who was so crippled 
 by rheumatism that he was practically helpless. 
 He had to be dressed and undressed, and even 
 fed, for he could not use his hands. One Sunday 
 evening the entire family went to church, after 
 undressing and putting to bed this apparently 
 helpless man. The house caught fire during their 
 absence, and no one responded to his cries for 
 help. Higher and higher crept the flames, and 
 more intense became the terror of the poor man, 
 until, with a sudden influx of power, he leaped 
 from the bed, dragged everything out of the 
 bureau drawers, and filling a sheet with his be- 
 longings, he shouldered the great bundle and ran 
 downstairs into the street. 
 
 His muscles had been held in the belief of 
 rheumatism, but when his mind was filled to 
 overflowing with fear of the fire, the belief in 
 rheumatism was crowded out and found not a 
 nook or a corner to lurk in. The chains of belief 
 were broken and the Giant set free. The chains 
 were essentially mental, as you see, and they 
 were broken by thought. The man thought he 
 would be burned to death unless he managed to 
 get out of the burning house, and the thought 
 
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 of escape flooded his muscles with the energy to 
 act. 
 
 I gave a similar incident earlier in this chapter, 
 but the two cases differed in that the first was 
 a mental paralysis, while the second was a phys- 
 ical affection, but both yielded to the power of 
 thought. 
 
 Evolution is working with you to unchain the 
 Giant within. The chains are weakening in 
 places, and will finally give way. 
 
 Is it harder to believe that you have a Giant 
 within you than to believe that in a tiny acorn 
 lies hidden the mighty oak, giant of the forest? 
 Given the right conditions and the oak breaks 
 through its bonds, the Giant breaks its chains. 
 
 The real, spiritual Man that is made in the 
 Image of God is the Giant within. It is Man 
 before his fall into Matter and the illusions 
 attendant upon Matter. The processes of In- 
 volution and Evolution demand that this Giant 
 Man shall become entangled in the illusions of 
 Matter, even as the oak is imprisoned in the 
 acorn. The Giant must be bound hand and 
 foot by its chains up to a certain time, and shall 
 then set to work to free itself. This is for some 
 reason a necessary experience. The why and 
 wherefore is still largely unknown to us. We 
 only know such to be the process. We do not 
 know why a seed has to germinate under the 
 burden of the dark earth, instead of in the light 
 and air, but our lack of knowledge in this respect 
 does not hinder or alter the fact. 
 
 What we do know is that such is the law, and 
 
118 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 
 
 we act in conformity with it, placing our seeds 
 in the ground with faith that it is the right thing 
 to do, and getting our results. 
 
 All manifestations of unusual strength or of 
 hitherto unknown powers such as healing the 
 sick, great genius in literature, art or invention, 
 come from the Giant within, who has for the 
 moment slipped his bonds and is extending his 
 fore-arm into the world as a prophecy of fuller 
 manifestation in the future. 
 
 Trials and difficulties in your path are not lions 
 seeking to devour you, but kindly angels coming 
 to wrestle with you in order to leave you a bless- 
 ing. They bear a friendly challenge to the Giant 
 within to come forth and try his strength. 
 
 The Second Wind is the breath of the Giant 
 within, the breath of the Spirit. 
 
CHAPTER ELEVEN 
 
 FIRST AIDS TO HEALING 
 
 YOU cannot learn to heal by the use of set 
 rule or formula, for the healing power only 
 comes to those who lift the thought to a higher 
 state of consciousness. One of the first aids is 
 a realization of 
 
 The Mobility of Matter. 
 
 You must convince yourself that Matter is 
 mobile and plastic to the motion of Spirit. Occult- 
 ists have always believed in the mobility of 
 Matter, and now Physical Science is confirming 
 that belief. It has shown us that Matter when 
 reduced to its ultimate is an aggregation or 
 assemblage of "electrons" or ''ions" that are 
 particles so small, so electric as to be infinitely 
 plastic. These "electrons" or "ions" combine 
 to form atoms or molecules, and are always in 
 a whirl of vorticular motion. 
 
 A mass of stone, though apparently fixed and 
 solid, is really in constant agitation within itself, 
 this agitation being caused by the vorticular 
 whirl of its constituent particles. Not perceiving 
 this motion we think of the stone as a solid mass 
 of inanimate Matter. 
 
120 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 
 
 There never was a greater misconception. 
 Dr. Paul Gibier, of the Pasteur Institute, very 
 truly says: ''We are unceasingly deceived by 
 general appearances. And thus, knowing as we 
 do the imperfection and unreliability of our 
 senses, we may advance as a manner of axiom 
 that the strongest illusion is what we call 
 reality." 
 
 Dr. Gibier, of course, does not mean Reality 
 itself, but what is called reality and which de- 
 pends upon the testimony of the senses. If, 
 instead of the sensory illusion, we could see the 
 actual state of the stone, the constant agitation, 
 the vorticular whirl, we should know that its 
 electrons in their activity are closely related to 
 the vibrations of Mind in their fineness and 
 subtlety of motion, and we should not feel it 
 impossible to affect even a stone by the action 
 upon it of Mind. Then, seeing this truth con- 
 cerning Matter and Mind, we should know for 
 a certainty that Mind can change the electrons 
 of the body, even to its bone structure, for bone 
 has greater plasticity than a stone. 
 
 God manifests His Spirit on this earth through 
 Matter, and is only knowable to us in terms of 
 TIME and SPACE. Thoughts have form and are 
 therefore Matter, for Spirit itself has no form, 
 though it ensouls forms. Spirit organizes Matter 
 in forms both high and low. Thoughts are high 
 forms of Matter and dominate the lower forms. 
 
 As we call more Spirit into manifestation in 
 our thoughts the greater becomes our control 
 over material things. It was thus that Jesus 
 
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 walked upon the water, healed the sick, raised 
 the dead, turned water into wine and stilled 
 the tempest. It was thus he performed all his 
 miracles. 
 
 Man has learned how to cause Matter to act 
 upon Matter by mechanical means, but he is now 
 learning a higher law by which Spirit acts through 
 Mind directly upon Matter without mechanical 
 intervention, changing its shape, annulling its 
 destructiveness, increasing its constructiveness, 
 and making it altogether obedient to spiritual 
 mandate. 
 
 Many strange things are happening to rev- 
 olutionize our false beliefs regarding Matter. 
 Some time ago a young machinist in Massachu- 
 setts attracted the notice of scientific men, among 
 them the late Professor James of Harvard Uni- 
 versity, by some remarkable feats such as bath- 
 ing his face, hands and arms in blazing alcohol, 
 without raising a blister or suffering the least 
 discomfort. 
 
 He also dematerialized his body and became 
 invisible to those in the room with him for about 
 forty seconds. Those who watched him said he 
 seemed to dissolve in air until entirely invisible, 
 afterward returning to his natural form. These 
 tests were made under the strictest conditions 
 so as to guard against mistake or fraud. The 
 young man seemed to be in a passive state and 
 said he thought of nothing in particular. This 
 would indicate that he used no conscious control 
 over Matter, and the probability is that a Sub- 
 conscious Power came to the surface and asserted 
 
122 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 
 
 itself, independently of conscious volition, for 
 the purpose of challenging the attention of the 
 world and stirring it to learn the law regulating 
 the phenomenon, which, if true, and it is well 
 vouched for, opens to us a wide range of per- 
 spective. 
 
 Matter, thus viewed, does not present the im- 
 pregnable front that too often dismays the New 
 Thought healer, for, like the walls of Jericho 
 it is ready to crumble at the trumpet call of the 
 New Thought Prophet — Always is Matter jplas- 
 tic and Spirit compelling. 
 
 Another aid to healing is — 
 
 The Magical Power of Sleep. 
 
 Magic is not an uncanny or unnatural thing. 
 It is but an activity based on a law not generally 
 understood. The magical power of sleep is due 
 to a law of the Subconscious Mind, by which it 
 works out the suggestions given to it by the 
 Conscious Mind, and does this most effectually 
 during sleep, for reasons which I will explain 
 later. 
 
 A great engine can be set moving by a finger 
 touch on a controlling lever. The Subconscious 
 is like the engine and the Conscious is like the 
 finger touch on the lever, giving impulse to action. 
 This impulse in itself seems slight and insignifi- 
 cant, but it is most important, and even actually 
 necessary to start the desired motion, whether 
 in the engine or in the Subconscious, and it is 
 the direct cause of the motion and its results. 
 
 This is a fairly good illustration of what occurs 
 
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 in sleep, due to the impulse given by the Conscious 
 to the Subconscious. It is a fact known to 
 Psychology that suggestions can be so given to 
 the Subconscious as to be executed by it in 
 minutest detail. Suggestions for health, sugges- 
 tions for success and prosperity, and suggestions 
 for happiness, can all be made to the Subcon- 
 scious, and by it be actualized in the life of the 
 person for whom they are made. You can, 
 in this way, help yourself and others to actualize 
 what you desire for yourself or for them. 
 
 In giving these suggestions to yourself, a process 
 which is called auto-suggestion, you should make 
 them just before sleep, and even if you fall asleep 
 before finishing your suggestion, so much the 
 better, for the Subconscious can pick up half 
 a suggestion and act upon it, so great is its in- 
 telligence. 
 
 The reason that the Subconscious acts more 
 powerfully while you sleep is because it is not 
 then hampered and hindered by the doubts of 
 the Conscious Mind, for doubt is the arch 
 
 ENEMY TO SUCCESS in REALIZATION. 
 
 A very good suggestion to make to the Sub- 
 conscious is the following: 
 
 I desire to be convinced of my oneness ivith 
 God-Substance, and to know that I continually 
 proceed from it in a stream of life, and knowing 
 this, I desire to be free from fear, free from icorry, 
 free from anxiety, free from depression, that my 
 days may be serene and happy, I desire an ever 
 increasing realization of strength and mastery, so 
 
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 that whatever trials come to me, I may look down 
 upon them from spiritual heights, knowing that I 
 have power to control or alter them. 
 
 Any other desires you may have, put them in 
 your own simple words and give them to the Sub- 
 conscious to work out for you, as you would place 
 a seed in the ground and leave it to Nature to 
 germinate. You can only place it in the ground. 
 You cannot cause the seed to open and push 
 upward. That is beyond your personal effort. 
 So is it with the suggestion seeds which you 
 plant in the Subconscious. 
 
 Another first aid to healing lies in the under- 
 standing of 
 
 Imperceptible Motion. 
 
 Students and patients are often discouraged 
 because they do not for a time perceive any 
 good effects from study or treatment. They 
 should then be encouraged by learning a few 
 facts connected with imperceptible motion. 
 They should be reminded of the constant mo- 
 tion in our bodies of which we are unaware. 
 What, for instance, do we know of the swift 
 coursing of the blood through veins and arter- 
 ies.^ What do we know of the constant activ- 
 ity in building bodily tissues.^ Cells are being 
 torn down and new ones built, but this is im- 
 perceptible to us. What do we know of the 
 digestive process? except for the unpleasant sen- 
 sation of slow digestion, and that is not so much 
 an activity as its cessation. Many of the bodily 
 motions might be completely revolutionized with- 
 
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 out our knowledge, until later when we noted 
 an improvement in health. 
 
 Patients sometimes stop treatment while all 
 this wonderful recuperative activity is going 
 on within imperceptibly, and when the treatment 
 is thus stopped the outer result is never made 
 manifest, and the patient mistakenly thinks the 
 treatment has had no effect, whereas it has had 
 an effect, but only interiorly. 
 
 The action of thought is imperceptible; hence 
 it is hard for us to realize it to be a force. In 
 the immense tract of the Subconscious there is 
 always motion that is imperceptible. We do not 
 see and feel thought when it goes forth to bring 
 to us our own, or perform its mission of healing, 
 and there are great powers working within us of 
 which the Conscious Mind is unaware. 
 
 We stand upon an apparently quiet and sta- 
 tionary earth, and yet we are flying through 
 space with incredible speed, turning somersaults 
 the while, but this motion is to us imperceptible. 
 Do you then find it difficult to believe that other 
 motion may be equally imperceptible, and that 
 the appearance of inaction may be as illusive as 
 that of the earth appearing stationary.^ 
 
 When you are inclined to feel discouraged, 
 remember that your conscious thought controls 
 the imperceptible motion in your body. De- 
 pression and discouragement have a bad effect 
 upon this motion, while hope and courage have 
 a good effect and stimulate recuperation. 
 
 I will repeat here for your encouragement some- 
 thing that I alluded to in a previous chapter. 
 
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 Professor Bose of the University of Calcutta, 
 in experimenting in plant life, constructed an 
 ingenious instrument by which he could measure 
 their growth, though the process, as you know, 
 is imperceptible to the eye. We notice that a 
 plant has grown, but we do not see it in the act 
 of growing^ because the extension is so infinitesi- 
 mal at the instant as to be beyond our perception. 
 But, as I said. Professor Bose succeeded in get- 
 ting a measurement by means of the instrument 
 he made for the purpose, and this is what he 
 discovered. 
 
 A plant grows upward for five seconds^ and 
 then shrinks downward for five seconds. Then 
 it remains motionless for ten seconds, after which 
 it starts upward again and repeats the process 
 just described. 
 
 In shrinking downward its motion is slower 
 than in pushing upward, and therefore in the five 
 seconds of shrinkage it does not go clear down to 
 the point it started from. If it did, of course, 
 there would be no increase in height. At each 
 upward push it gains something over the amount 
 of shrinkage, and this gain constitutes the exact 
 measure of its growth at the end of twenty seconds 
 given to pushing upward, shrinking downward 
 and remaining motionless. All of this motion 
 is imperceptible to us, and yet, after a time we 
 say, ''How that plant has grown!" 
 
 We have always supposed that plants grew 
 right on upward, never dreaming that they shrank 
 downward and even stopped growing entirely, for 
 a while, and yet we might have known the truth 
 
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 about their manner of growth had we reasoned 
 on the line of general principles, for we know the 
 Law of Rhythm regulates all motion, therefore 
 the motion of growth cannot escape it. 
 
 I discovered long ago the operation of this law 
 in mental and spiritual growth, and mentioned it 
 in my writings, saying that the healing thought 
 drew the atoms of a patient's body into a new 
 adjustment, and then the inertia of atoms drew 
 them back into their former unhealthy adjustment. 
 Then, if the treatment were continued, the heal- 
 ing thought pulled the atoms back again into the 
 position of health, and again the inertia drew 
 them into the state of degeneration and disease. 
 But, finally, if the treatment went on, the swing 
 toward health became so compelling and strong 
 that it conquered the tendency to pull back into 
 negative conditions. I knew this to be true, 
 and now I find confirmation in the research of 
 physical science. 
 
 Please observe that the effortless period with 
 the plant lasts as long as its upward push and 
 downward pull taken together. Also notice that 
 the plant spends three times the number of sec- 
 onds in shrinking downward and remaining sta- 
 tionary that it gives to upward pushing. In 
 all twenty seconds are given to one round and 
 only five seconds of that time are given to the 
 upward push. If your time of slipping back 
 and of inaction should seem long to you, the 
 plant has the same, and yet, in spite of this it 
 grows upward and so will you. 
 
 When I say, — "You will grow upw^ard," — I 
 
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 mean you will push your way mentally up into 
 planes of Being that are high and positive to 
 weakness and disease, and in that way you will 
 outgrow them; that is, you will grow above them. 
 
 The plant does not know enough to reason and 
 doubt and worry about its manner of growing. 
 It simply obeys the law unconsciously, and in 
 so doing it gains and grows in the face of set- 
 backs and stoppages. 
 
 Man is now in the era of conscious growth and 
 can promote or hinder his advance by the nature 
 and manner of his thought. He is fast learning 
 the law of growth, and beginning to use it to 
 accelerate his progress. 
 
 As he learns more of this law he will see that 
 shrinking downward from accomplishment does 
 not mean that he will not reach his aim ulti- 
 mately. Neither does a long spell of "doing 
 nothing" or ''getting nowhere" invalidate the 
 final beneficent outcome. If, instead of convert- 
 ing such times into spells of depression and dis- 
 couragement, he will regard them as times of 
 "storing energy," he will know them for what 
 they really are, and increase his receptivity to 
 the infiux of energy, and be able to do all the 
 more because of the motionless period. 
 
 Another first aid to healing is: 
 
 The Mighty Logos. 
 
 This stands for the Spoken Word. The Cre- 
 ative Vibration which the New Thought teaches 
 you is a wonderful Power, making for your ad- 
 vancement in health, happiness and wellbeing. 
 
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 By means of the Word, God creates. Long 
 before the human race came into existence God 
 spoke through the Elohim who were high spiritual 
 beings, saying, "Let there be Hght!" and light 
 sprang into existence. The Elohim acted as the 
 Logos, speaking the Word directly to primeval 
 Matter and the Word was creative. It acted 
 on Matter and produced light. So, today, is 
 your Word creative. Matter is now as it was of 
 old, obedient to the Word, even as plastic wax 
 to its vibrations. 
 
 Be assured of this when speaking the Word 
 of Health to atoms that are out of adjustment 
 in the body, and know that because of their law- 
 enforced obedience to the Logos, they must as- 
 sume new polarization at your command. 
 
 Do you think this a mystery.^ Let us then 
 compare it to another mystery, that of the voice 
 in singing. How do you produce a tone.^^ Sup- 
 pose you wish to sing middle C. This tone is 
 made by disturbing the air at the rate of 128 
 vibrations to a second of time. Or will you have 
 middle D.^ This calls for 144 vibrations to a 
 second of time. Middle E calls for 160 vibra- 
 tions to the second, and so on up the scale. But 
 when you sing these tones you have nothing to 
 do with the number of vibrations you set in 
 motion, and you need not know of them, any 
 more than a bird does in its song. 
 
 What is necessary then in order to produce 
 these and other tones? You need simply to ihiiik 
 and will to produce a tone and this impulse 
 speeds to the vocal organs and sets them vibrat- 
 
130 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 
 
 ing, disturbing the air in the exact ratio demanded 
 for the tone. 
 
 These intricate changes in the vocal organs in 
 the production of various tones take place in 
 response to a command of your thought and 
 WILL. You utter the command and the Uni- 
 versal Mind sees that it is executed. 
 
 You have the same power over the molecular 
 motion in your body. You have only to speak 
 the Word and it will be fulfilled as it is in the 
 production of tone. 
 
 Remember how a musical tone is made, and 
 then, on the same principle think and will 
 that the molecules of the body shall whirl to 
 the pattern of health, and they will obey your 
 Word which is God's Word. 
 
 Speak the Logos and the molecules will obey. 
 Also speak the Word to circumstances and they 
 too will obey. God sings through you. He 
 will also SPEAK through you. 
 
CHAPTER TWELVE 
 
 NEW THOUGHT LEADS TO THE 
 BLESSED LIFE 
 
 IN their effort to get away from too vivid 
 a consciousness of material things, some New 
 Thought writers are incKned to depreciate or 
 totally ignore the office of the external world in 
 the evolution of spiritual life. They forget that 
 were it not for external stimulus, intelligent 
 expression would be impossible. Shut a child 
 away from all that acts on his senses and his 
 life on this plane becomes extinct. Shut him 
 away partially, and in proportion to his seclusion 
 does he lack expression. We need this touching 
 or impact from the outside to call forth that 
 which is within us. 
 
 As Emerson says: "We stand before the secret 
 of the world, there where Being passes into 
 Appearance and Unity into Variety." 
 
 That is the place where the secret unfolds it- 
 self to us, the place where Being is passing into 
 Appearance, and Unity is passing into Variety. 
 
 To stand where we see Being and Unity only, 
 or Appearance and Variety only, is to stand afar, 
 and not be present at the revealing of the secret. 
 
 We who know the secret see all Being as One, 
 
132 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 
 
 but we also see that One as the Continent or 
 Container of the Many, the Source of the Many, 
 the Projector of the Many. 
 
 This is really the primal or basic truth upon 
 which all other truths rest as upon a sure foun- 
 dation. When the mind holds this truth it is 
 prepared to build upon it. It can see a Perfect 
 Whole, a Perfect Good, no matter how imperfect, 
 incomplete and apparently evil the Appearance. 
 
 You are asked as a student of New Thought 
 to acknowledge that All is Good, but you say: 
 ''How can I, when I plainly see that a part of 
 the All is Evil.? " 
 
 Now you are looking at the Appearance and 
 not at Being itself. Can you not imagine a state 
 of pure, white light in which there is no shadow. ^^ 
 That is Being, the ''light that never shone on 
 land or sea." When it does shine on land or 
 sea, it becomes Appearance, and is then divided 
 into light and darkness, and the darkness is Evil, 
 or the appearance of it. Often the light seems 
 almost swallowed up in inky blackness, but the 
 light shineth ever more and more unto the per- 
 fect day. From darkness to light is the evolution 
 of the individual; from the darkness of ignorance 
 to the light of intelligence, from the darkness of 
 hate to the light of love, from the darkness of 
 despair to the light of hope, from the darkness 
 of sorrow to the light of joy. 
 
 This evolution of light from darkness follows 
 the plan of creation when God said, "Let there 
 be light." Those words come ringing down the 
 ages and the command still is, "Let there be 
 
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 light." In the True Life there is no poverty, 
 disease or unhappiness. They are only shadows 
 of the ''apparent hfe," and when the True Life 
 appears these shadows flee away. 
 
 The Vedanta has a beautiful teaching that the 
 Central Consciousness or Being is Pure Bliss, 
 and I believe that to be absolutely true. 
 
 The Swami Abhedananda says: ''True Life, 
 or Being or Blessedness is beyond time and 
 space and is not bound by conditions of any 
 kind." He also says: " Unblessedness consists 
 in the idea of the separateness of the part from 
 the whole, and in the bondages of other imper- 
 fections, arising from this mistaken notion of 
 individual isolation. To be united to the Whole, 
 to be free from the bondages of these imperfec- 
 tions, and to be perfect, is Blessedness." 
 
 The New Thought is proving to Man that he 
 is not separated from the Whole of Being, but 
 that he is one with it and inherits its power and 
 perfection. 
 
 Hold up your hand with the fingers extended 
 and the palm toward you, and you will see what 
 is meant by being one with the Whole. Let 
 the palm stand for Being and the fingers stand 
 for external expressions of that Being. From 
 out the palm extend the fingers and their life 
 proceeds from the palm. Sever the connection 
 and the fingers die because cut oft' from the 
 source of their life. You are a finger on the 
 Palm of Being and you are one with it. The 
 Living Whole is the sum of its living parts so 
 you are one with the Whole. 
 
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 The day is coming, if not now, when you will 
 see yourself as continually proceeding from the 
 Father, and being born again from moment to 
 moment, as new life flows through you. It is 
 in this sense that you are a child of God, and not 
 in the sense of a child separated from the parent 
 body. The ocean is father to the outlet that 
 flows forth from it, and the sun is father to the 
 ray of light. The ocean gives of itself to its out- 
 let and the sun gives of itself to its ray. It is 
 thus that God, the Father, gives of Himself by 
 continual influx to His children. The only cut- 
 ting off or shutting off of this influx that can be 
 is in the non-recognition of this truth. We are 
 only partially awake concerning ourselves, but 
 a fuller awakening is at hand, with which shall 
 come a greater influx of life. 
 
 God gives Himself to His children without loss 
 to His own Substance because that is infinite 
 and inexhaustible, and, moreover, since God 
 and Man are of one Substance, that Substance 
 merely passes from Centre (God) to Circumfer- 
 ence (Man), and is not lost in the passing. 
 
 God gives Himself in Opulence to His Children 
 
 Since God is the Container of all that is ex- 
 pressed in the Universe He must be Opulence 
 itself, and may truly say: ''Mine are the cattle 
 upon a thousand hills," for ''The world is mine 
 and the fulness thereof." The Creative Power 
 which has made and is making you continually 
 also placed vast stores of gold in the mines for the 
 use of his children, and gave each of them an 
 
MADE PLAIN 135 
 
 Aladdin's lamp, which is really the power of 
 DEMAND. The rubbing of this lamp, which brings 
 one's desires to pass, is the action of the mind 
 in affirming the demand. Then, too, each child 
 has the ability to cooperate with the lamp by 
 using hand and brain to give to the world a 
 fair equivalent for its share of gold from the 
 mine. This would be a poor world indeed, 
 a world of beggars, if things we desire could be 
 had for the asking, for as Channing wisely said: 
 "If Man could live on acorns alone he would 
 gather his store, lie down under a tree until his 
 store was exhausted, when he would gather more 
 acorns and lie down again." The Universal In- 
 telligence knows that Man requires a stimulus 
 to effort, and it fills him with multitudinous 
 desires, making him work to actualize them. 
 
 But often the very best work does not bring 
 its equivalent in gold, and that is where the 
 New Thought Aladdin's lamp helps to bring to 
 us our just reward. To know that we are one 
 with God and therefore the world is ours and the 
 fulness thereof, is to rub the lamp so that our 
 
 OWN MAY COME TO US, IF WE WORK FOR IT. 
 
 God gives Himself in Health to His Children 
 
 You cannot think of God as diseased or weak, 
 can you? The Infinite cannot be bound by weak- 
 ness or disease, else would it not be infinite. 
 In ''The Wisdom of Solomon" it is written: 
 
 "For God made not death, neither hath He 
 pleasure in the destruction of the living. 
 
 "For He created all things that they might 
 
136 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 
 
 have their being; and the generations of the 
 world were healthful; and there is no poison of 
 destruction in them, nor the kingdom of death 
 upon the earth. 
 
 "For righteousness is immortal; but ungodly 
 men, with their works and words, called death 
 to them." 
 
 Thus spoke that wise man Solomon. He knew 
 that God did not make death, and that He had 
 no pleasure in the destruction of the living. 
 
 All things that God made are living realities, 
 and the things He did not make have no real 
 existence, though they may seem to have it. 
 They are myths, chimeras, figments of the brain, 
 illusions of a sick mind. Therefore the sane man 
 must brush them aside in order to see the clear 
 vision of the world. 
 
 Why did God make men.^ Not that they might 
 glorify Him, for He needed no added glory, 
 being Perfection and having glory in its fulness. 
 No, He made men and all things, simply that they 
 might have their being. To this end He made 
 them healthful, or in His image; and He placed 
 in them no poison of destruction that would pro- 
 duce sickness, nor did He institute death in the 
 order of creation. As Solomon said — men have 
 called death to them, or brought it upon them- 
 selves. God gave of His own Substance to make 
 man, and that Substance being righteousness is 
 immortal. 
 
 God made you and me that we might have 
 being that is without the poison of destruction. 
 Then away with the miasmic unbelief that de- 
 
MADE PLAIN 137 
 
 clares for disease and death as a part of God's 
 great plan. 
 
 God is Living, Spiritual Substance, the only 
 Substance in the world, the Substance that sub- 
 stands, or stands under sun, earth, moon, stars, 
 men and all living things, and that is their Source 
 of Life. 
 
 God, or Living Substance is eternal, immortal, 
 and because you and I are of that Substance we, 
 too, are eternal, immortal, and therefore have no 
 poison of destruction in us, no disease or cause of 
 death. 
 
 God gives Himself in Happiness to His Children 
 
 Since God gives His Substance to Man, He 
 must give Happiness, for we cannot conceive 
 of God as being unhappy; if so He could not be 
 Perfect and Infinite. God is Pure Bliss, and in 
 so far as we fall short of this state we fail to 
 receive the constant flow of God-Substance. 
 
 New Thought, in its clear vision of the world, 
 shows us that God is Wisdom, Power, Love, Per- 
 fection, Wholeness, Harmony, Opulence, Beauty, 
 Joy, and even more than our present ideals can • 
 compass. We sight but dimly the glory that 
 is to be revealed in our lives, but the full vision 
 may come sooner than we think. The World- 
 Illusion is holding our eyes that we cannot see, 
 holding our feet that we cannot walk, holding 
 our hands that we cannot do. We are self- 
 hypnotized by this Illusion, but the Truth stands 
 waiting to set us free. 
 
 Let us then bend all our powers to the reali- 
 
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 zation of the one great truth that God flows from 
 His Centre of Being to the Circumference, and 
 therefore All is God. 
 
 Man, if you will, is the Circumference of God, 
 but Man's true being reaches back to the Centre. 
 
 Poverty, disease and unhappiness are not in 
 God's Being; therefore they are unreal, evanes- 
 cent, fleeting clouds hanging over the life of Man 
 for a purpose not yet revealed, and going when 
 their work is done. Then shall we know 
 
 THE BLESSED LIFE. 
 
CHAPTER XIII 
 AFFIRMATIONS FOR ACHIEVEMENT 
 
 IN walking the path to achievement you must 
 be equipped, and the equipment must be 
 mental. You will not undertake the journey 
 unless you are spurred on by courage and hope, 
 and that courage and hope can only come to you 
 through a knowledge of your one-ness with the 
 Unconquerable World Energy, which in other 
 phrase is God. 
 
 If you lack courage and hope, I would advise 
 you to go in training by use of the following 
 formulae: 
 
 Part One 
 
 I am open on my inner or spiritual side to the 
 inexhaustible ocean of Divine Power. I flow 
 from it and am one with it as a bay is one with 
 the ocean or a ray of light is one with the sun. 
 All achievement is mine through the working of 
 this Power. I shall succeed in all my under- 
 takings. 
 
 Part Two 
 
 They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their 
 strength; they shall mount up with wings as 
 
140 NEW THOUGHT HEALING 
 
 eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they 
 shall walk and not faint. 
 
 Part Three 
 
 Power is within. I am a generating center of 
 Power, therefore my Power is within myself and 
 not outside of me. I need not wait for circum- 
 stances to improve through some outside influence, 
 for I can change them myself by the Power that 
 is within me. Power is within. 
 
 Part Four 
 
 Having learned that I am one with God, the 
 Infinite and Eternal Energy, and having also 
 learned to look for a radiating center of that 
 Energy within my own spiritual being, I now 
 declare that I will radiate Power, even to the ends 
 of the earth, if need be, TO BRING TO ME 
 MY OWN, by which I mean that which is related 
 to me, that which will help me to express my 
 higher self, to do the most good in the world and 
 ensure my greatest happiness. With concentra- 
 tion of all my being: 
 
 I NOW CALL TO ME MY OWN 
 
 AND 
 
 IT SHALL COME TO ME. 
 
 Part Five 
 
 Faith steps out on seeming void and finds the 
 solid rock. 
 
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 Part Six 
 
 The World is my Keyboard and I can play upon 
 it now. 
 
 Part Seven 
 I drink at the Fountain of Eternal Joy. 
 
 Commit the above to memory, part by part, 
 and meditate upon it at night, just before you 
 sleep. It is during sleep that the Subconscious 
 Mind is most receptive to suggestions from the 
 Conscious, and is ready to act upon them in order 
 to bring to you your own in various forms. 
 
 The foregoing formula for achievement is an 
 outcome of my own life and experience and leads 
 to success in any line of endeavor. If you under- 
 stand and use it aright it will help you to heal 
 yourself and others and succeed in anything you 
 undertake. It gives the principles by which 
 health is attained, happiness established, and 
 financial abundance secured. 
 
 SELAH 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 
 
 My current of thought has been fed and en- 
 larged by the intake of ideas from such minds 
 as the following: Schopenhauer, Spinoza, Fene- 
 lon, Herbert Spencer, The Swami Abhedananda, 
 Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir William Crookes, Alfred 
 Russell Wallace, Madame Annie Besant, Pro- 
 fessor Bose of the Institute of Calcutta, Profes- 
 sors William James and Josiah Royce of Harvard, 
 Dr. Gibier of the Pasteur Institute, Dr. Carrel 
 of the Rockefeller Institute and Sir William 
 Gull, a noted surgeon of England, who said, 
 *'What shall the doctors do? Rest and be still. 
 He who made the machine (the body) can repair 
 it." 
 
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