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PEACE BE UNTO THEE, STRANGER

vi

FOREWORD

vii

YOURSELF

26

 

Part I: THE EVOLUTION OF MAN'S THOUGHT

 

    Instinctive Man

27

    Nature Waits on Man's Self-recognition

27

    The First Great Discovery

28

    The Inner Sense Awakens

29

    The Great Question "Why"

29

    The Greatest Discovery of All Time--MIND

30

    The Brain Does Not Think

30

    We Do Not See the Thinker

31

    The Body Unconscious Without the Thinker

31

    The Conscious and the Unconscious Thought

32

    A New Basis of Thought

33

    The Law of Mind

33

    Unconscious Mind at Work

34

    Another Great Discovery--Thought Reached Others

34

    The Discovery of Race-Thought

35

    A Universal Medium Which All Must Come to Believe In

35

    Another Question Comes Up--Why Are People Poor?

36

    Man Begins to Realize That His Conditions Are Controlled by Thought

36

    Realizes That He Must Think Correctly

37

p. x

 

 

Part II: THE LESSONS

 

LESSON ONE: INTRODUCTION

38

    Science

38

    How Laws Are Discovered

38

    Proof of Mind

39

    Where Our Thoughts Go

39

    Suggestion Becomes Memory

40

    Mental Medium Through All

40

    Reading Thought

41

    Mental Law

42

    The Word of God as Law

42

    Threefold Nature of God

42

    Trinity of Being

43

    Conscious Mind in God and Man

43

    Unity

44

    Worship of God

44

    Many Gods

45

    Belief in Duality--Its Results

45

    Duality in Theology

45

    Duality in Philosophy

46

    Duality and Science

47

    An Awakening

47

    Philosophy Leads Man's Thought

47

    A Deep Inquiry

48

    The Great Difficulty

48

    The Voice of God in Creation

48

    The Word of God

49

    Spirit Knows Itself

49

    Law, Servant of the Word

49

    Forms of Spirit or Creation

50

    Meaning of Creation

51

    The Word Alone Is Conscious

51

    The Thought of God

51

    Eternal Creation

52

    The Universe Is Alive

52

    Conclusion

53

p. xi

 


LESSON ONE: METAPHYSICAL CHART NO. I

55


LESSON ONE: METAPHYSICAL MEANING OF WORDS USED IN UNIVERSAL CHART

54

    Upper Section

54

    Middle Section

64

    Lowest Section

67


LESSON ONE: THE NATURE OF BEING

70

    Spirit

70

    Soul

70

    Two Ways of Reasoning

71

    Body

72

    The Changeless

72

    Cause and Effect

73

    Unity and Multiplicity

73

    Immortality

74

    Forms

74

    Allness of Truth

75

    Volition

75

    Only One Mind

77

    Individuality

78


LESSON ONE: RECAPITULATION

79


LESSON TWO: INTRODUCTION

82

    The World Has Learned All It Can Through Suffering

82

    What Individuality Really Means

82

    The Meaning of Freedom

83

    Sin and Punishment. Righteousness and Reward

83

    The Incarnation of Spirit

84

    Different Viewpoints

85

    The Lesson of Nature's Laws

86

    The Relation of Man to the Universe of Spirit

86

    Man's Experience

87

    Nature Waits on Man

87

    Mental and Spiritual Laws

88

    God and Man

88

    Man Reënacts the Nature of God

88

p. xii

 

    The Two Ways to Reason

89

    Nothing Happens by Chance

89

    Many Are Waking Up to the Facts

90

    The Time Has Come to Know the Truth

90

    A Wonderful Experiment

90

    What Psychology Teaches About Man's Nature

91

    The Self-knowing Mind

91

    Man's Unity with the Whole

92

    Man a Center of God-Consciousness

92

    Unity with Law

92

    The Subjective Obeys the Objective

93

    The Body

94

    Last Stages of Matter

94

    The Unity of All Body

95

    The Formless and the Formed

95

    Individuality Means Self-Choice

96

    The Greatest Discovery Ever Made

96

    A Complete Unity

96


LESSON TWO: METAPHYSICAL CHART NO. II-A

99


LESSON TWO: METAPHYSICAL CHART NO. II-B

101


LESSON TWO: METAPHYSICAL MEANING OF WORDS USED IN INDIVIDUAL CHART NO. II-B

97

    Upper Section

97

    Middle Section

98

    Lowest Section

100


LESSON TWO: THE NATURE OF MAN

103

    Spirit

104

    Soul

105

    Body

105

    Limitless Medium

106

    Christ and Antichrist

108

    Man Is Identified in Mind

109

p. xiii

 

    Treatment

110

    The Aim of Evolution

110

    Methods of Treatment

112

    Subjective Law

115

    Thought and the Creative Medium

116

    Each Is the Logical Result of His Own Thinking

116

    A Law of Belief

117

    We Are Dealing with Law

117

    The Cycle of Necessity and Karmic Law

118

    The Law of Action and Reaction

118

    We Argue in Mind

119

    Wrong Use of Mind

119

    Subjective But Not Unconscious

120

    How Habits Are Formed

120

    Law Is Mind in Action

120

    We Are Bound by Our Own Freedom

121

    Oneness with All Law

121

    Demonstration

122

    Karmic Law

123

    Thought Force

123

    Choosing Thought

124

    Inducing Thought

125

    Place No Limit on Principle

126


LESSON TWO: RECAPITULATION

128


LESSON THREE: INTRODUCTION

130

    Healing

130

    What We Understand About Healing

132

    Thoughts Are Things

132


LESSON THREE: METAPHYSICAL CHART NO III

135


LESSON THREE: METAPHYSICAL MEANING OF WORDS USED IN CHART NO. III

134


LESSON THREE: MENTAL HEALING

137

    Individuality

137

    Man Reënacts God

138

p. xiv

 

    Not Limited by Principle

139

    Mental Treatment Is Real

140

    Man Comes Through Subjectivity

141

    Born Perfect

141

    Race-Suggestion

142

    Disease Is Impersonal

142

    How to Heal

143

    Mind Is the Actor

143

    Disease Is Not Always Due to Conscious Thought

144

    We Deal with Ideas

145

    Have No Doubts

145

    Thinking in Treatment

146

    Do Not Try to Go Beyond Your Understanding

146

    What a Practitioner Must Know

147

    Healing Is Clear Thinking

147

    Only One Law

148

    No Sensation in Treatments

149

    How to Remove Doubt

149

    The Truth Demonstrates Itself

150

    Disease Is Mental

150

    The Medium of Healing

150

    Depend on Principle

151

    Definite Work in Healing

152

    Repeating Treatments

152

    Remove the Complex

152

    Healing Pain

153

    Headache

153

    What Right Thought Does

154

    How Habits Are Healed

154

    The Seed of Thought

155

    What Can Be Healed

156

    Why People Get Tired

156

    The Idea Must Take Form

157

    Resolve Things into Thoughts

158

    Healing Insanity

158

    What a Practitioner Does

158

    Back of the Appearance Is the Reality

159

p. xv

 

    Seeing Perfection

159

    Healing Lung Trouble

160

    We Do Not Send Out Thoughts

161

    Vision

162

    Healing Constipation

163

    Disease Not an Entity

163

    Throat Trouble

164

    Congestion

164

    Paralysis

164

    Growths

164

    Treating Children

165

    Power of the Word

165

    No Age

166

    Memory

166

    Guidance in Treating

166

    How to Heal

166

    Remove Doubt

167

    No Fear

168

    Psycho-analysis

169

    Deal Only with Thoughts

170

    Nervousness

170

    Stammering

170

    Argument in Treatment

170


LESSON THREE: RECAPITULATION

172


LESSON FOUR: INTRODUCTION

175

    The Law Is Infinite

175

    The Possibilities of the Law

176

    Spirit and Mental Law

176

    Demonstration, or Bringing Things to Pass

177

    Our Part

178

    Treatment

178

    Medium Between Man and His Manifestation

179


LESSON FOUR: METAPHYSICAL CHART NO. IV

181

p. xvi

 


LESSON FOUR: THE CONTROL OF CONDITIONS

180

    Law of Reflection

182

    Attracting Friends

183

    The Principle of Prosperity

183

    We Deal with Absoluteness

184

    Prayer Is Its Own Answer

184

    If You Know

185

    No Personal Responsibility

186

    Helping an Inventor

186

    Look Only at What You Want

186

    Definite Plan

187

    Attraction

188

    How to Demonstrate a Home

189

    Resist Not

189

    Healing a Misunderstanding

190

    Fate

190

    Attraction of Personality

191

    See Life Expressed

191

    Look to the Ultimate

192

    No Mistakes

193

    Causes and Conditions

194

    Perfect Action

195

    Mental Equivalents

196

    Treating for Activity

197

    Receiving Information

197

    No Failures

198

    Opportunity

198

    No Mistakes

199

    Demonstration by Proof

200

    Handling a Schoolroom

200

    The Law of Correspondence

200


LESSON FOUR: RECAPITULATION

203


LESSON FIVE: INTRODUCTION

206

    True Mysticism and the Psychic Sense

207

    What the Mystics Have Taught

208

    No Ultimate Evil

209

p. xvii

 

    Ultimate Salvation of All

209

    Freedom from Burden

209

    Unity of All

210

    Realization of Individuality

210

    Normalcy

210

    The Great Light

211

    What the Mystics Have Taught About the Individual

212

    Instinct and Intuition

212

    Illumination and Cosmic Consciousness

213

    The Highest Practice

214

    The Power of Jesus

214

    Turning Within

215


LESSON FIVE: METAPHYSICAL CHART NO. V

217


LESSON FIVE: THE PERFECT WHOLE

216

    Individuality

218

    Further Evolution

218

    The Truth Is Known

219

    The Answer Is in Man

220

    God--Infinite Personality

221

    Unity

222

    Hold to the Good

223

    The Infinite is Personal to All

224

    The Christ

224

    Realization

225

    Meditation

226


LESSON SIX: THE LAW OF PSYCHIC PHENOMENA--INTRODUCTION

229

    Psychic Phenomena and Immortality

229

    No Apologies

230


LESSON SIX: METAPHYSICAL CHART NO. VI

232


LESSON SIX: METAPHYSICAL MEANING OF WORDS USED IN CHART NO. VI

231

p. xviii

 


LESSON SIX: PSYCHIC PHENOMENA

233

    The Subjective Mind

233

    Seat of Memory

233

    Suggestion and Subjectivity

234

    Subjective Communication

234

    Subjective Mind and Inspiration

235

    Mental Atmospheres

236

    How to Create Personal Charm

237

    The Atmosphere of Places

237

    The Race-Mind 239

 

    The Mind of History

239

    Telepathy

240

    Tuning in on Thought

245

    Mental Pictures

245

    Conditions Necessary for the Best Results

242

    Deep Telepathic Messages

243

    Reading the History of the Individual

243

    Personal Readings

244

    Streams of Consciousness

244

    No Obstructions to Thought 245

 

    Entering the Stream of Thought

245

    The Vibration of a Book

246

    Why Saints Have Seen Jesus

246

    Many Mental Pictures

246

    The Human Aura

247

    Halo

247

    Unpleasant Atmospheres

247

    Habit

247

    Mania

248

    Obsession

249

    Personal Influence and Obsession

249

    Obsession of Discarnate Spirits

249

    General Theory of Obsession and Mental Influence

250

    Insanity

250

    The Psychic Power Must Be Controlled

250

    Normal State

255

    The Aim of Evolution

255

    The State of Trance

252

p. xix

 

    Normal Psychic Capacities

252

    Abnormal Psychic Powers

252

    Clairvoyance

252

    Psychometry

253

    Clairaudience

253

    Independent Voices

253

    Apparitions

254

    Ghosts and Phantasms of the Dead

254

    Ghosts Sometimes Can Speak

255

    Projecting the Mentality

255

    Crystal Gazing

255

    Black Magic

256

    The Modern Curse

256

    Automatic Writing

257

    Independent Writing

257

    Hudson's Theory

257

    Smelling Where There Is Nothing to Smell

258

    Grasping Objects Without the Hand

258

    Telekinetic Energy

258

    Table Tipping

259

    Rappings

259

    Theory of Ectoplasm

259

    Levitation

259

    Interesting Thoughts

260

    What Is the Cause?

260

    Cause for Thought

260

    Time Will Prove All Things

260

    The Spirit of Prophecy

265

    A Lesson in Subjectivity

265

    Explanation

262

    Summary

263


LESSON SIX: PSYCHIC PHENOMENA AND IMMORTALITY

266

    The Meaning of Immortality

266

    Where Did Man Come from and Why?

266

p. xx

 

    Man Awakes with a Body

267

    What Is the Body

267

    Matter

268

    The Ether of Science

268

    The Resurrection Body

269

    Conclusive Facts

269

    In What Mental State Do We Go Out?

269

    What Causes Psychic Manifestations?

270

    Telepathy Does Not Explain Everything

271

    Spirit Communication

271

    Communication Must Be Mental

272

    We Do Not Control Spirits

273

    The Psychic Power Should Not Be Forced

273


LESSON SIX: RECAPITULATION

276

    Immortality

279

 

Part III: SPECIAL ARTICLES

 

ABSOLUTENESS AND RELATIVITY

281

THE PROBLEM OF EVIL

282

THE MEANING OF THE FALL

283

THE GARDEN OF EDEN

284

SALVATION AND GRACE

284

THE PERFECT UNIVERSE

285

IMAGINATION AND WILL

286

HOW TO VISUALIZE

287

THE SEQUENCE OF THE CREATIVE ORDER

289

MAN'S CREATIVE POWER MARVELOUS

289

CONCENTRATION

289

THE MIRROR OF THE SUBJECTIVE

291

PERSONALITY

293

    Factors Necessary for a Dynamic Personality

293

p. xxi

 

REPRESSION AND SUBLIMATION

299

    The Spirit of Sex

299

    Desire

299

    The Spirit Is Expressed

299

    Man Reënacts the Divine Nature

300

    Congested Emotions

301

    Irritation, Agitation and Fear

301

    If We Were Expressed

301

    Emotion and Intellect

302

    The Conflict of Desire

302

    The Emotion of Sex

303

    The True Meaning of Love

303

    Sex Not Necessary to the Expression of Love

303

    When Sex Becomes Destructive

304

    Male and Female

304

    The Solution

305

    Psycho-analysis

306

    Self-analysis

307

    Metaphysics

307


THE ATONEMENT

307

    Man's Whole Trouble

309

    Careful Preparation

309

    The Vicarious Atonement

310

    The Givingness of Spirit

31I

    The World Has Learned All That It Should Through Suffering

311

    Our Part in the Atonement

312

THE PERSONALITY OF GOD

312

JESUS AS A SAVIOUR

313

SELF-EXISTENT LIFE

313

THE SUPREME AFFIRMATION

314

CHRIST AND ANTICHRIST

315

EVOLUTION

315

p. xxii

 

 

Part IV: DAILY MEDITATIONS FOR SELF-HELP AND HEALING

 


BODILY PERFECTION

318

    Come, and Let Me Heal You

318

    He Is Mighty Within Me to Heal

319

    I Do Not Inherit Disease

319

    No Congestion

320

    No False Growth

320

    No Weariness

320

    Perfect Hearing

321

    Perfect Vision

321

    The All-seeing Eye

322

    The Healing of the Flesh

322

    There Is No Pain

322


COMPLETENESS

323

    Happiness and Completion

323

    Here and Now

323

    Majestic Calm

323

    No Loss

324

    Oh, for a Tongue to Express

324

    O Soul of Mine, Look Out and See

324

    Seeing the Perfect

325

    The Circle Is Complete

325

    The Things That Are

326


DIVINE COMPANIONSHIP

326

    A Song of Hope

326

    Be Still and Know

327

    Cast Aside All Doubt

327

    Divine Companionship

327

    His Eye Is on the Sparrow

328

    Hope Cannot Die

328

    I Am Not Alone

328

    I Went into a Mountain

329

    The Joy of the Soul

329

p. xxiii

 


FREEDOM

330

    Freedom

330

    Freedom from Sin

330

    Free from Sensitiveness

331

    I Keep the Promise

331

    Love Gleams Through the Mist

331

    No Bondage

332

    No Condemnation

332

    No False Habit

333

    No Hypnotism Nor False Suggestion

333

    No Mistakes

333

    There Are No Responsibilities

334

    The Time. Has Come

334

    Within Thy Law Is Freedom

335


HARMONY OF LIFE

335

    Beauty

335

    Friendship of the Spirit and of Man

335

    He Wills Me to Be

336

    I Serve

336

    I Shall Not Doubt Nor Fear

336

    I Was Told to Live

337

    Law

337

    Love

337

    Love Dissolves All Fear

337

    My Affairs

338

    My Business

338

    My Profession

339

    No Delays

339

    No Misrepresentations

339

    No Obstructions

340

    No Over-action Nor Inaction

340

    One with Perfect Action

340

    Peace, Poise and Power

345

    Stillness and Receptivity

341

    Thanksgiving and Praise

341

    The Divine Promises Are Kept

342

    The Inner Light

342

p. xxiv

 

    The Night Is Filled with Peace

342

    The Seal of Approval

343

    The Secret Way

343

    The Shining Path

343

    The Things I Need Come to Me

344

    The Way Is Made Clear Before Me

344


IMMANENT POWER

344

    As Love Enters, Fear Departs

344

    He Will Keep Thee

345

    Infinite Life Within

345

    My Feet Shall Not Falter

345

    No Harm Shall Befall Thee

346

    Power to Live

346

    The Circle of Love

346

    The Circle of Protection

347

    The Power Within Blesses All

347

    The Quick Answer

347


INSPIRATION

348

    A Song of Joy

348

    Born of Eternal Day

348

    I Arise and Go Forth

349

    Inspiration

349

    The Dawn Has Come

349

    I Am Complete in Thee

350


PRESENCE OF THE ALL GOOD

351

    A Marvelous Sense

351

    Complete Confidence

351

    Drawing the Good

352

    I Fear No Evil

352

    I Have Known, Always

352

    I Meet My Good

353

    My Atmosphere

353

    My Good Is Complete

353

    My Own Shall Come to Me

354

p. xxv

 

    My Own Shall Find Me

354

    My Soul Reflects Thy Life

354

    Out of the Depths of Life

355

    Sorrow Flees from Me

355

    Substance and Supply

355

    The Ever and the All

356

    The House of Love

356


SPIRIT OF GOD WITHIN

357

    Arise, My Spirit

357

    Birthless and Deathless

357

    Command My Soul

357

    Despair Gives Way to Joy

358

    Free Spirit Within Me

358

    Fulness of Light

358

    He Who Inhabits Eternity

359

    I Listen

359

    Joy Has Come to Live with Me

359

    Knowledge and Wisdom

360

    My Thought Is in Thee 360

 

    O Love Divine

360

    Peace Steals Through the Soul

361

    Stand Forth and Speak

361

    Subtle Essence of Spirit Within Me

361

    The Christ Within

362

    The Everlasting Arms

362

    The Mantle of Love

362

    The Voice of Truth

363

    The Witness of Truth

363

    Through the Long Night Watches

363

    Thy Strength Is Sufficient

364

    Waiting on Thee

364

    Whose Right It Is to Come

365


THE POWER OF THE WORD

365

    I Control My Mental Household and Conquer All Fear and Doubt

365

p. xxvi

 

    My Word Comes Back to Me

366

    My Word Shall Bear Fruit

366

    Nothing Can Hinder

366

    O Man, Speak Forth Thy Word

367

    The Power of the Word

367

    The Word of Power

368

    The Unassailable Truth and the Irresistible Word

368

    I Behold in Thee His Image

369


UNITY

369

    I See No Evil

369

    I Shall Never Die

369

    Love to the World

370

    My Life Is One with God

370

    No Misunderstandings

371

    The Divine Plan for Me

371

    The Personality of God

371

    The Radiation of Life

372

    Unity

372

    Within Thee Is Fulness of Life

373


GLOSSARY

374


THE CALL

387


INDEX

389

 


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