Heavenly Healing Power – (2016) - Editor - Robert Bayer

Heavenly Healing Power Robert Bayer (Editor) (2016)

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Table of Contents THE SPHERE OF HEALTH AND HARMONY Andrew Jackson Davis [p. 8] MINISTERING TO THE SICK Mrs. Cora L.V. Richmond [p. 39] HEALTH THROUGH MUSIC Walter DeVoe [p. 44] THE SPIRIT OF HEALTH Walter DeVoe [p. 48] GERMS AND MENTAL ATTITUDE Walter DeVoe [p. 51] MASTERY OF GERM DISEASES Walter DeVoe [p. 53] HEALTH RAYS Walter DeVoe [p. 58] BATHE IN THE SUNSHINE Walter DeVoe [p. 61] HEALING THOUGHTS Walter DeVoe [p. 63] TREATMENT FOR DEAFNESS Walter DeVoe [p. 65] BATHE IN THE SUNSHINE Walter DeVoe [p. 68] 2

THE POWER TO HEAL Walter DeVoe [p. 70] TRAINING THE IMAGINATION Walter DeVoe [p. 172] HEALING THROUGH SOUL CULTURE Walter DeVoe [p. 76] HEALING HARMONY Walter DeVoe [p. 79] HEALING LESSONS FROM THE SANCTUARY Walter DeVoe [p. 82] THE HEALING RADIANCE OF NATURE Walter DeVoe [p. 91] FROM WHENCE THE HEALING CURRENTS? Walter DeVoe [p. 96] THE RESURRECTING POWER Walter DeVoe [p. 100] A HEALING TREATMENT FOR YOU Walter DeVoe [p. 105] ASK AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE Walter DeVoe [p. 109] IMPORTANT PRINCIPLES Christian D. Larson [p. 112] THE GREATER POWERS IN MAN 3

Christian D. Larson [p. 118] AURIC MAGNETISM William Walker Atkinson [p. 126] PSYCHIC AND MAGNETIC HEALING WILLIAM WALKER ATKINSON [P. 130] ENTER EACH DAY WITH CAREFUL PREPARATION Mary Bruce Wallace [p. 147] EFFECTS OF MENTAL STRESS Walter DeVoe [p. 153] HOW TO PRACTICE MENTAL HEALING Walter DeVoe [p. 157] YOU ARE ALL MIND Walter DeVoe [p. 158] A GENERAL HEALING TREATMENT Walter DeVoe [p. 170] BECOMING ATTUNED TO THE SPIRIT Walter DeVoe [p. 175] CULTIVATE YOUR WILL Walter DeVoe [p. 182] MY SOUL IS ALIVE WITH THE HEALING POWER OF THE CREATOR Walter DeVoe [p. 184]

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HEALING PEACE 1 Walter DeVoe [p. 186] A HEALING PRAYER Walter DeVoe [p. 190] HEALTH Henry Thomas Hamblin [p. 192] A BATTLE OF FORCES Richard Rowley [p. 204] IMPRISONED SPLENDOR Walter DeVoe [p. 207] LIVING WATERS Walter DeVoe [p. 215] HEALING PEACE 2 Walter DeVoe [p. 218] MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD Walter DeVoe [p. 224] HOW TO MEDITATE ON THIS LESSON Walter DeVoe [p. 230] THE TWELFTH PRINCIPLE Walter DeVoe [p. 242] THE SOUL URGE TOWARD PROGRESSION Walter DeVoe [p. 244]

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THE HEALING MISSION Silver Birch [p. 249] A MESSAGE TO AN AUSTRALIAN HEALER AND HIS WIFE Silver Birch [p. 255] MEDITATION ON HEALTH AND WELL-BEING U. S. Andersen [p. 266] THE SPIRITUAL POTENCY OF TONES The Eloists [p. 268] FIRST HEAL THYSELF The Eloists [p. 273] LETTER TO A STUDENT The Eloists [p. 276] LISTENING TO THE HEALING VOICE The Eloists [p. 281] HEALING The Eloists [p. 285] CONTEMPLATE THE HARMONY OF THE HEAVENS The Eloists [p. 291] PROBLEMS The Eloists [p. 293] DISSOLVING THE VEILS The Eloists [p. 296]

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HEALING BLESSINGS The Eloists [p. 298] THE HEALING OF NATIONS The Eloists [p. 302] SPIRITUAL HEALING National Spiritualist Association of Churches [p. 306] PRAYER FOR SPIRITUAL HEALING National Spiritualist Association of Churches [p. 308] THE VORTEX WITHIN Wayne Sturgeon

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LAW OF ATTRACTION George Nicol [p. 317] WHAT IS SPIRIT? George Nicol [p. 321] ALL ENERGY IN THE UNIVERSE IS SPIRIT ENERGY George Nicol [p. 323]

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THE SPHERE OF HEALTH AND HARMONY Andrew Jackson Davis The Great Harmonia: The Physician (1850)

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The human soul was made for a great and glorious destiny.

The constitution of the universe, the magnificence of its developments, and the immortal aspirations of the human spiritual principle, all conspire to beget and confirm this impression; and the principles of nature, the voice of intuition, and the unchanging testimonies of wisdom, demonstrate its truthfulness.

II. Inasmuch as the soul is made for high and sublime destinies, it is wrong to devote the present life, which is but the beginning of existence, to insignificant and inglorious pursuits.

It is unrighteous to acquire habits which, because of their overpowering character and expensive tendencies, ultimately become our Masters, and we their slaves.

III. Never strive to acquire riches; because the strife begets discord and deception in society, and retards the progress and 8

unfolding of the soul.

IV. Never seek, or labor for Fame; because the desire and effort deform the inward, moral beauty; and the object pursued renders the soul unhappy and unrighteous.

V. Never allow your affections to flow in narrow and unclean channels; nor your feelings to transcend or disconcert the wisdom-principle.

VI.

Let

kindness

pervade

your

whole

nature;

but

uncharitableness should never invade the inward sanctuary.

VII. The object and aim of human endeavor should not be happiness; because happiness is an Effect, not an End.

VIII. Let not the object of life be to acquire wealth or fame; but to Progress and Unfold forever! Eternal Progression and Development are the ends for which only Mankind should pray and labor.

IX. A good human constitution can not be developed unless the progenitors are quiet — naturally noble — healthy — and 9

harmonious. A mother, previous to the birth of her child, should never be disconcerted, or rendered uncomfortable or unhappy.

Her food should be solid, well masticated, and nutritious; and her affections should dwell upon the greatness and the grandeur — upon the truths and beauties — of the Infinite.

X. In health, there is no occasion for medical assistance during the period of parturition; the powers of Nature are adequate to any conceivable emergency; but nursing and spiritual sympathy are indispensable.

XI. The infant should not be transferred from individual to individual, until after it has lived and breathed one month; because the organism is then too tender and pusillanimous, and is easily disarranged and diseased. Hip-diseases often originate in this way.

XII. Never love a child unrighteously; that is to say, never permit love to blind the perceptions, nor to smother the voice, of wisdom, during your intercourse with the child: sympathy (or love) is only serviceable when wisely bestowed.

XIII. It is more easy to manage and educate a child before its 10

birth than subsequent to that event; because the individualism is moulded, and constitutionally manufactured, more or less perfect in its native womb; and because, also, birth is before thinking and acting.

XIV. Never excessively govern, or deceive a child: the former is unnatural, and the latter is wicked.

XV. Never make a child feel you to be a master, nor an Inferior, nor a Superior, but an honorable associate. You should substitute Example, Wisdom, and Association, for deception, duplicity, and the so-called family Government.

XVI. You must will and act, ere the child comes to live among you, as you would have your child will and act before the world.

XVII. The unborn child is a mirror which faithfully reflects the weaknesses and imperfections, or the goodnesses and righteousness, of its immediate progenitors. The era is nigh when even the hidden vices and secret transgressions of both the ignorant and the educated parent, will be recognised and read in the face, form, and character of their offspring.

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XVIII. As 1 have said, make your child your associate; but never cause it to bear your burthens, sleep with you, or eat your articles of food.

XIX. Learn a child to do your will ere it has power to resist, or words to contend with, your decisions. Never decide without a just foundation; or, should you hastily decide, never alter your decisions without explaining, to the comprehension of your child, your reason or reasons for so doing. But it is far better that your child should have perfect confidence in your Wisdom.

XX. It is wrong to permit a child to eat positive articles of food; animal substances, or pastries, should never be allowed to enter the human stomach until the individual has transcended its fifteenth year: It is a wise saying, “milk for babes, but strong meat for men.�

XXI. Never allow a child to sleep with an adult. There is an invisible, magnetic atmosphere of sympathy emanating from, and subsisting between, all individuals; which, if youth and Maturity are brought into close conjunction, results in a permanent injury to the youngest organism. It is a wellascertained fact, that the Aged attract vigor and youthfulness 12

from the young; and, that the Diseased draw strength and health from the healthy, should the two continue to live and sleep together.

XXII. Never sleep upon any description of Feathers; they impart no life-giving elements, but they always absorb many of the atmospherical energies which emanate from, and surround you, at all times. It is frequently observed that the dying, when reposing upon feathers, breathe forth an earnest, and sometimes impatient, request that the bed be immediately changed, or that they may be removed from it. Thousands, in dying, are caused suffering by the use of feathers in the bed and pillows; without their being able to understand or explain the cause of their uneasiness.

XXIII. Never permit a feverish person to wear the same garments, or to repose between the same sheets, twenty-four hours; because the positive exhalations of the organization, during fever, are absorbed by contiguous substances; and these

exhalations,

being

by

such

substances

greatly

condensed and highly concentrated, not only perpetuate and increase the disease, but infect and contaminate the inhaling medium. At such times, attend to your ventilation.

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XXIV. Never build a low-roofed, or a square, or a long house to live in. Nature must not be subverted or disobeyed. Her anatomical or architectural principles must not be violated. Do you not expand with nobler thoughts, and feel happier, when walking beneath the expansive dome of nature’s great cathedral — is not our terrestrial residence gloriously roofed by the azure firmament, illuminated by that great controlling orb — the Sun. There is nothing in nature which corresponds to, typifies, or justifies, the structure of those angular houses which mankind build to dwell in. Human habitations should be, interiorly, constructed upon the architectural principles which are involved in the formation of the Heart, the Head, and the Firmament. Rooms should be nearly round, very high, and enlivened by sunlight coming through a dome-like ceiling; or, when night shuts out the sun’s rays, illuminated by a high suspended

chandelier;

because

such

apartments

are

conducive to health and cheerful contemplations, and they are the most natural residences.

XXV. Never attempt to heat a house with stoves, grates, or modern cellar furnaces; they are exceedingly unnatural and unhealthy. Nature is warmed not thus partially, but by a general 14

diffusion of heat, light, and magnetic elements. Family Residences, public Institutions, School-houses, and Colleges, should be constructed with serpentine sheet-iron pipes, like arteries, proceeding from a cellar furnace, and going thence, between the several floors, upon which individuals tread throughout the establishment. The heat which circulates through these pipes, or arteries, should be modified by the vaporization or decomposition of water; the proper proportions are, two parts dry heat, and one part steam. The ventilating Syphon or avenues should, invariably, be situated near the ceiling of the apartment. It is a wise counsel — “Keep the head cool, and the feet warm.”

XXVI. Sleeping, eating, and drinking, are means by which we physically exist. In health, the standard whereby to judge of the quality and quantity of Food, Water, and the amount of Sleep to be taken, is the unexaggerated suggestions and simple demands of the constitution. But in disease, the standard must be constituted of intuition, reason, time, age, situation, occupation,

and

circumstances;

the

suggestions

and

concurring testimonies of these principles and conditions, which reside in, and pertain more or less to, all individuals, constitute the only safeguard of the diseased and suffering 15

against transgressions.

XXVII. Never educate a child to be actuated by or to depend upon the externals and superficialities of fashionable civilized society. The day is about to dawn when the “inside of the platter,” will be mainly examined. “Whitened sepulchres,” will be looked upon as the representatives of ignorance, hypocrisy, duplicity, and error. The internal must become the purest, the highest, and the holiest — it must be manifested as the Real Reality, as the most Actual and True.

XXVIII. Never send a child to school to get it out of your way; the motive is unrighteous, and produces corresponding effects upon the youthful mind. Remember, that the most powerful and influential causes, which act and move, are unseen; and know, that a child is more frequently injured or benefited, during this life, by your unexpressed feelings and sentiments concerning it than by any other cause.

XXIX. Never force, or allow another to force, the youthful intellect to commit to memory those lessons which the intuitions involuntarily repudiate — such as the names of distant lakes, rivers, mountains, &c., &c.; because these, in 16

many respects, are useless elements of learning. It is more wise to teach a child concerning the nature, use, and destiny, of its own individuality. The profoundest Philologist, the greatest Mathematician, or the most devout Theologian, is scarcely ever well acquainted with the first principles of Chemistry, Physiology, and natural Metaphysics.

XXX. Book-learning is mainly ephemeral and useless; but WISDOM, which unfolds from out of the depths of intuition, is everlasting, and more valuable than seas of diamonds. It is beautiful and elevating for mankind to know that Wisdom is the Savior of the World — the extirpator of all sin and misdirection.

The human mind will acquire information of external things, especially when such present themselves as indispensable.

Interest is the spring of human action.

XXXI. Never force a nervous-bilious, or a bilious-sanguine temperament to learn a trade, or to follow a profession which requires the individual to stand or sit still, and long; because the restraint thus placed upon the body acts correspondingly upon the spirit; and irritability, nervousness, and various nervous diseases, will be the natural consequences.

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XXXII. It is wrong, very wrong, if circumstances, occupation, or situation, compel a person to eat too fast, or sleep too little.

Never

swallow

food

partially

chewed,

or

imperfectly

masticated; nor exercise the body or mind, except with great deliberation, until thirty minutes after your first daily meal; sixty after your second; and, again, thirty after your third, or evening meal. It is good to drink two gills of cold water, and to exercise thirty minutes, after the morning’s ablutions before breakfast; also to cease from all laborious occupations, mental and physical, and rest half an hour before dinner; and to be quiet, having the body free from perspiration, before supper.

Agriculturists, and the majority of artisans, should eat a small but solid breakfast; their dinner may be more bountiful and substantial, consisting of vegetable and animal or positive substances; but their third meal, the supper; should be proportioned to the first meal, though less solid; it should be farinaceous, or made up of negative and cold preparations.

XXXIII. Those who employ their intellectual faculties almost exclusively — such as students, lawyers, physicians, and clergymen — should generally abstain from all salt food, and stimulating beverages. Their morning and evening meals should be exceedingly slight, and eaten tranquilly; dinner being 18

the principal repast.

XXXIV. It is better not to exercise the body, than to do so without an object superior, or foreign, to the mere process of walking. He who walks, or plays at gymnastic games, as it were, merely mechanically, and without interest, for the physical exercise, receives no pleasure, and sometimes much injury. The mind having nothing to accomplish cannot but exhaust itself, and also its material vehicle — the body.

XXXV. It is unrighteous to compel a youth to learn a trade, or to follow an occupation, or a profession, which is repugnant to his native desires and attractions. A child should grow up from birth with the knowledge and conviction that this life is but the beginning of an unspeakably glorious, and immortal destiny; and that every endeavor should be to develop and unfold the genius and attributes of the soul, to the end that harmony and happiness may constitute its everlasting halo and blessing.

XXXVI. If your companion or relative be prostrated, before nature’s judgment-seat, with disease — because of ignorant or involuntary violations of her laws — be thou watchful over, be kind, be gentle, and be patient with, the suffering offender, who 19

must expiate the transgression, which cannot be forgiven.

Should you be in health, and your companion disturbed with hypochondriacal or hysterical affections — insisting upon unreasonable, insignificant, extravagant, and inconsistent things — never contend or discuss any point with the patient.

The nervous or diseased mind is unnaturally firm, and involuntarily obstinate; to dispute the convictions of an insane or hypochondriacal person, is to destroy what little confidence the patient may nave reposed in the correctness of your judgment. A “man made of glass” — must be cured by being allowed to break his own convictions. Self-education is the most valuable and lasting, because it is based upon feeling and experience.

XXXVII. Never be depressed; but be cheerful — be joyful — be exceedingly glad — even though death is knocking at your door — for there is nothing to hate, to shun, to fear, or to deplore, in any department of Nature, or in the wide sanctuary of the Living, Divine Mind.

XXXVIII. The healthy cannot continue in that condition, nor can the diseased be healed, unless the Laws of Nature are properly

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comprehended and applied to every-day life. To this end, let each individual study himself, and become his own physician.

II. Causes of Diseases are-

Causes of Health are -

1. Hereditary predisposition.

1. Dress

2. Injuries or accidents of life

2. Food

3. Atmospherical changes

3. Water

4. Habit

4. Air

5. Situation

5. Light

6. Occupation

6. Electricity

7. Spiritual disturbances

7. Magnetism

XXXIX. AN ECLECTIC SYSTEM Of studying man, and healing his diseases, will soon appear, to benefit the world. An institution should be constructed, and so situated, as to make it easy for true physicians to apply the principles of Nature to the diseased and afflicted. The principles of action in Nature are:

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1. Anatomical

5. Electrical

2. Physiological

6. Magnetical

3. Mechanical

7. Spiritual

4. Chemical

These principles are especially active, and are particularly manifested, in the human organism.

XL. By self-magnetization, or by the magnetic or spiritual action of the influence of one individual upon another, (recently termed “Electrical Psychology,”) and which is always in accordance with the laws of positive and negative action, the human soul can rise superior to every species of discord, and thus subdue and expel disease.

XLI. That Will-Power with which the soul is endowed, and by which it accomplishes many great and mighty works — (the productions of a Raphael, and a Mozart — of a Fulton and a Morse) — that power is capable of repelling, overcoming, and banishing every description of discord and unhappiness from the spirit’s illimitable domain; but it is unspeakably important that this will-power be practically developed 22

from birth, and that it be caused to flow through none other than the crystalline channels of the wisdom-principle.

XLII. Physicians should combine their interests, and intellectual attainments, so that more good, and less injury, may be accomplished in the homes of the sick, the disconsolate, and the unhappy. To this end, I was moved to suggest, in connection with various industrial and mechanical associations, the following medical organization. The medical institution will be devoted to the discovery and arrest of disease, and not to the tiresome practice of curing diseases which are already contracted, as is the mode at present.

This institution must be composed of six Series, or states, or parts, the centre of which will be their Professor and Judge. Labor is to be distributed among each Series, such as they are qualified and willing to perform. Their interests, as a whole, will be the interest of the other and subordinate associations.

The labor of the first series must be to explore the physical condition and structure of every diseased individual, and to communicate their discoveries to the second Series. These are to investigate the facts and place them in a proper juxtaposition to the name of the diseased or defective individual, and the group of which he is a member. The 23

statements in this form must be given to the third; analyzed by them and given to the fourth; the proper remedies and treatment must be stated by them and given to the fifth — who will decide upon the appropriateness of the remedy to the cause and nature of the disease. The sixth, consisting of the Judge and Professors, will sanction or disapprove the proposed treatment, and dispatch the proper members to officiate in the application of their remedies to the patient.

In this way may every disease be discovered, properly understood, and most permanently cured — which never can be done under the present system of isolated investigation and practice. Then all professional discussions, anathemas, and denunciations, will be abolished, and conflicting systems of practice will not exist: for all will be combined as one true system, taught and established in the nature of things. Four hours of each day may be thus employed. Let the chief object and interest be to keep the people from violation by teaching them the constitution of their being, the necessity of obedience, and the propriety of cleanliness, exercise, and judgment, in all their individual and social relations. Each individual must learn the importance of exercising a clear and potent wisdom in his living and occupation; and the various associations must construct all the conveniences for bathing, washing, and thorough cleansing, as they 24

are directed by the physicians. They must be governed in their household relations; in their diet, in all things relating to health, according to the dictations of the physicians. Such must be the labor of the true physicians; and such must be its results.

Each industrial and artistic association will reward the medical institutions in proportion to the good they accomplish in their four hours of industry, which will be vast and appreciated. For talent will be deeply esteemed, and proportionally remunerated. Each association will disseminate the principles of justice, the blessings of health, and the knowledge of personal physiology. One will be indispensable to the other; and thus they will approve, assist, and bless, each other’s movements.

Another object of the medical institution must be to investigate the principles

of

chemistry,

physiology,

allopathy,

homeopathy,

hydropathy, magnetism, atmospheric and solar electricity, and all things appertaining to the human body, either directly or indirectly.

They will discover that each one of the various systems of medical practice at present existing contains some, but not all truth, as is claimed for each one by its respective professors. They will discover that each system recognizes some principles susceptible of the most beneficial application. They must combine all the medical discoveries 25

and sciences, and, from a searching investigation, produce ONE GRAND and unequivocal System of Medical practice. Let their superior wisdom direct the application of each discovery, principle, prescription, rule of regimen, and therapeutics. And by the conventional

sanction

of

the

judge

and

professors,

an

incontrovertible system will be established, which will arrest, overcome, and dispel, every species of organic and functional disease.

Such an eclectic institution would do more real good to mankind than all the “royal academies of medicine” that were ever established on the earth. I behold a strong combination of influences everywhere, which are tending to unite the pursuits and affections of mankind into one grand organization of Love and Wisdom. The inhabitants of the western portions of the United States, which are redolent with intelligence, opulence, and industry, begin to manifest unitary tendencies — even to the establishment of an eclectic school of physicians; and, it is very distinct to my mind, that the eternal Law of Progression is fast working out its legitimate miracles in all parts of Germany, France, and England. Great changes can be made, in industrial and professional interests and pursuits, without dislocating men from their present positions, or destroying their situations, except in a qualified degree, to which I am persuaded the good man 26

will cheerfully accede, in order to effect the general millennium.

I have said before that, should mankind act in accordance with the noiseless, unceasing, and progressive operations of Nature’s Laws, all this social harmony may be established without creating any serious conflict or disturbance in the present organization of social affairs. The cause of crime is ignorance; the cure for crime is knowledge — I mean a wisdom, a harmony, which should be born with the child — born, in its bones and muscles, in its temperament, in its phrenological endowments, in the constitution of the indwelling spiritual principle which is the internal reality. And the results thereof will be the destruction of all sorrow, and the ushering-in of joy unspeakable and blessings immense.

Reader, if you are a physician, then your interests (in the present structure of society) consist in vice and sickness, and in all manner of infractions of the physical laws; and in the prevalence of abuses in society, whereby disease is generated and your profession is rendered eminently flourishing. To be in accordance with Nature, you should be as the good physician — both to preach and practice — interested in the health of the whole world; earnestly studying the interests of others, improving their minds — unfolding the physiological and spiritual mysteries of their constitutions — and you 27

should be daily engaged in curing and particularly in preventing disease, both moral and physical. If you were situated so as to do these things, you would then breathe forth an impartial favor, and a healing influence, to all about you; and you would thus be blessed while you were blessing the existences of your brethren — the brotherhood of man.

He whose understanding is opened, and whose spiritual perceptions are enlarged by interior and truthful influences, will deeply appreciate, and gladly acknowledge, his membership of the human family. The uneducated mind only will venture to question his fraternal relationship to his species. It is the undeveloped intellect alone that views creation as chaos, discovers incongruities in Nature, and doubts the universal fraternity of men. But it is a mighty conviction — one which the unfolded mind alone can realize — that we are members of a vast brotherhood, composed of an inconceivable variety of parts; that the present sphere of existence is an aggregation of Matter and Spirit, represented and embodied in forms almost innumerable; that each of these have unmeasured capabilities, inclinations, wants, duties, missions, and eternal ends, to accomplish; and that they were made by, are laboring for, and progressing toward, an Eternal Essence — our Heavenly Father!

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Yet such is man; and the expanded intellect which can perceive this truth, will readily believe that the Omnipotent Mind instituted Eternal Laws, and that it was by their unlimited and unchangeable operations, that the Universe of Matter was subdued; that innumerable worlds were rolled forth; that their granite materials were refined, and all necessary preparations were made for the introduction of man into an individualized existence. On our earth, as upon other earths, these preparations were vast and numerous. By the perfect and incessant operations of Divine Will, which constitute the immutable Laws of the Universe, the Material World was measured,

its

form

completed,

its

position

determined,

its

movements regulated, and its pathway around the material sun was marked with precision. All things were wisely arranged. The mountain and the valley had their fixed locations, the streams their course, the lakes their beds, the ocean its restless tides, and the elements performed their mighty mission. Now plants and animals unfolded themselves upon the plains, and by the ocean’s side.

Before the introduction of man, the earth was peopled with living forms prophesying of, and heralding his approach; for they needed him to fulfil the use and balance the scale of their existence.

But the period of man’s advent arrived: the process of gestation, for which thousands of ages were required and consumed, was 29

completed, and man was born into being. In mind and experience he was an infant, in inclination a youth, in stature a giant, and in emulation a man! — At first, situated amid objects and scenes quite unfamiliar, and experiencing a consciousness of want arising from the natural requirements of his being, man moved among plants, animals, and his kind, to supply them, and went astray. But taught by experience and impelled by necessity, he learned henceforth to distinguish pain from pleasure, good from evil, and became measurably educated in the science of life. He also determined to learn the simple philosophy of human happiness. Now a ray of varied beauties and divine truth darted along the horizon of his dawning intellect, and he caught the promise of a SAVIOUR — one who would save him from social and moral evil — one who would be the Savior of the world. He perceived the truth, but did not fully comprehend it.

All conditions being favorable, man multiplied his kind, and the earth became populated. Families formed hordes, these clans, these nations, and these the world, even as it is at this day. The increase and development brought great diversity; but it was steady and constantly progressive. It is exemplified by the manner in which families form communities, these towns, these counties, these states, and these nations; for these are the progressive divisions and 30

subdivisions of the human race. Now, we who think, and feel, and act, in the present glorious era, and who stand upon the summit of the ages gone by, are included in this world of mind and matter, by the all-encircling chain of Divine Sympathy. Once appreciate this truth, and our thoughts will scan the world, our affections embrace all good, our desires be modified by those which others have, and our sympathies will radiate in every direction. It will make us sensible of the privileges of our existence, and teach us the use thereof.

But then we are individual members of a vast, widespread, and disunited family, in the circle of which exist great evils and manifest unrighteousness. As individuals, men are not unrighteous; but it is the improper relative positions occupied by the various members of the universal family, that generate evil, and give rise to the vast inequalities of human development and character. But there is evil everywhere — not absolute, but relative; and, by the contrast of the good we have, the evil is made conspicuous and absolutely hideous.

In all ages, reflecting minds have said and written much concerning evil, its nature and origin, and almost everyone has suggested means for, or enthusiastically prophesied its ultimate destruction.

Among the intelligent and purely enlightened, the final triumph of good and truth over sin and unrighteousness, is a firmly fixed 31

conviction. But the means by which this glorious triumph is to be achieved, are questions of universal comment and dissension.

There is no disguising the fact that the world abounds in wickedness.

The evils are social and moral. Socially, we have improper conjugal attachments, which lie at the basis of vast evils. The marrying of men and females with heterogeneous temperaments and dispositions, generates imperfect constitutions and consequent unhappiness. We have commercial speculations ranging over a wide field of general interests, from the exchange of soil-rights, (which in truth, are not rights,) and the withholding of sustenance for personal ends, from the indigent and suffering, to the purchasing, and selling, and servitude of human beings. In the moral world, which comprehends the social, we perceive vices of every shade and magnitude. The sanguinary dispatchment of sanguinary offenders; a recognition of the principle — “an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth;” the unbrotherly treatment of those, who, by accident of birth, or the unfortunate circumstances of life, are the victims of evil influences; the exceedingly superficial measures adopted by the rulers and chief magistrates of nations, to do away with existing evils; the aiming at their effects and not their causes; and the imperfection of our judicial proceedings, which, confessing an allegiance to the dominant theology, most effectually enslave the people — are among the evils 32

from which the world should be freed. Theologians know too little of man, his capabilities, his tendencies, and his mission, to exert a reformatory and righteous influence upon him. By them his crimes are magnified, and his punishments are made disproportionate and unnatural. They treat him, as did the Medes and Persians, the barbarians and patriarchs, by arbitrary laws considered all divine, and which consequently admit of no mitigation.

It is plain, therefore, that there are numerous and immense evils existing among men. The contrast, however, between the history of previous ages and the actual condition of the present, is distinctly obvious and startling; and it testifies of progress, and inspires the reformer with courage and hope. But without a Savior, these evils call never be extirpated from the earth: this is my settled conviction.

To some minds it may appear inconsistent, but nevertheless I am impressed to openly acknowledge my belief in the existence of a Savior; whose divine and directing power, has shone brighter and brighter, through the thoughts and deeds of men on their upward way, ever since the first man lived. I believe that he existed before the world was made; that he was, and is, co-essential and co-eternal with the Father; that he is an incarnated essence, possessing in a finite degree the attributes of the Infinite. I believe that he was promised, or rather, that his presence and spiritual influence were 33

indicated, in the morning period of human existence — in the infant or Eden stage, when Reason awoke from the long night of creation, and declared its might and power.

When I gaze abroad, over the inharmoniously situated multitudes that people the earth, and perceive the vast amount of ignorance, war, slavery, and suffering, that exists, then my belief in this Savior, is the only source of hope and consolation. Then I feel that, although I can not render my suffering brethren external assistance, I can preach the gospel of ultimate amelioration from error and discord, and reconcile them to their temporary afflictions.

It is the prevailing belief in Christendom, that the Father of Spirits predestined a Savior for our earth, that he came, and that, through his instrumentality, it is rendered possible for all men to be saved with an everlasting salvation. This is a clear statement of my intuitive belief — a belief justified by reason and sound philosophy. But the glorious Savior of which I speak, is only known by the good and intelligent, who dearly love his precepts and principles, and devoutly practise them: but the uneducated and prejudiced are skeptical concerning his ability to save and elevate. These want, or think that mankind require, something more potent — something special and supernatural — to refine their sensibilities and lead them from error 34

and discord, into harmony and happiness. But the Savior’s superior influence, when it gains an expression — his beautiful deeds and unequalled spirituality — elicit, even from the ignorant and faithless, respect, admiration, and praise. His saving power and noble spirit are manifested in the simplest invention of art, and in the awakening and reformatory movements of the age. I know that his spirit is immanent in man. In every exertion which men make to banish evil and discord from the earth — to do away with unrighteousness, and advance the general interests of mankind — I can perceive his presence and power; for such are the works which he came to perform on the earth. I believe that, by him and through him, exclusively, will men escape the evils of social disunity, and be refined and elevated into spiritual communion with higher and holier truths; and that, by the sphere of attraction constantly emanating from his interior presence, all men will be brought into immediate conjunction with the high, the pure, and the beautiful of the inner existence.

Heretofore, men have reposed confidence in the saving and preserving power of individual men, like themselves, and in images of men, which misguided minds have deified, and afterward worshipped; but it is not so with the spiritually-enlightened — that is, with those who turn within to find the righteous and the beautiful — 35

for these intuitively know who can, and will, save the people from ignorance, error, sin, and discord.

There are many, very many, evils from which we need salvation. We need to be saved from physical disease, from war, famine, pestilence,

indigence,

servitude,

injustice,

prejudice,

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uncharitableness. We need to be saved from the evils of present society, and from every obstacle that tends to retard social, scientific, and spiritual development. From all these evils I know we will be ultimately free. The life and talents of good men are devoted to the dissemination of those principles which flow up from their philanthropic spirits into speech, and thence into universal improvements. At all times I am made thoroughly conscious that some minds are free, and do inhale the sweet atmosphere of truth, which develops their native magnanimity, and enables them to manifest how good is goodness, and how true is truth. It is by such minds, only, that the gospel of the true Savior will be proclaimed and urged into practice.

The true Savior — he who is coessential and coeternal with the Creator of all things, and who is incarnated and represented more or less in every correct movement that has been made since the world began — is WISDOM, the embodiment and image of universal 36

Harmony, and the ever-blooming flower of the Divine Mind. That Wisdom which our Father exhibits in the harmonious society of universal worlds, and which preserves and distinguishes them from chaos, is, in a finite degree, the resident, and the bright and protecting angel, of the human soul; and I believe that that power which preserves the world of matter from confusion, will also save the world of mind everywhere, from evil and discord. Its exercise in all places will be inevitably followed by identical and corresponding results. The full development and application of Wisdom, will alone save the world of men from their manifold evils. Theologians should be willing to acknowledge, what the world is fast finding out, that every attempt at reformation upon other grounds has failed; that they have fought and struggled with sin, and warned the ignorant to avoid its blighting touch, and yet the people sin and sin exists. Thus, preaching has failed to perform its appropriate mission; but this can not be said of Wisdom. Wisdom, though yet in infancy, has removed and now preserves us from many evils and vicissitudes of life. Where once the forest waved, and pestilential marshes breathed forth their deadly vapor, Wisdom has created magnificent and opulent cities: thus it has saved us from inclement weather, and the privations of a forest life. Even so, Wisdom has constructed splendid vessels which ride the ocean’s wave with a noble mien and proud attire; thus we enjoy national intercourse and all the advantages thereof. Thus the 37

inventions of Wisdom save us from poverty and exilement, both of which are evils much to be dreaded. Wisdom has descended to every art and science. The soil is tilled, and labor is rendered less laborious by Wisdom’s inventions, and thousands are fed with wholesome food, from the opposites of which we are happily saved.

Everything sparkles with the heavenly spirit of Wisdom. It was breathed into man through the ten thousand avenues of material and spiritual existence, by his Maker, that by it man might be saved with an everlasting salvation; saved from all temporal evil, (for there is no other,) and from all the inharmonies which grow out of human ignorance and misdirection.

Let all be well-educated and well-circumstanced, while in this sphere, and our highest conceptions of the millennium will be fulfilled, and our dreams of a heaven on earth realized. It is beautiful to reflect that every celebrated teacher embodies in his every lesson a calm exhortation to get wisdom and knowledge. Its saving power has been felt by them all. It is well that all should know that Harmony is the form or body of Wisdom; and Wisdom, when worked, out in universal society, will be the fullest realization of the “kingdom of heaven and its righteousness,” ever prayed for or anticipated by MAN.

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MINISTERING TO THE SICK Mrs. Cora L.V. Richmond Spiritual Spheres (1886)

No prayer for individual salvation, no worship of Christ or God upon bended knee for their own soul's sake, will suffice. The prayer must be for another. The offering must be of self-forgetfulness. There must be something of love, something of kindness in the nature that shall form even the slightest link with which they are connected to the sphere above. The bruised souls, however, are received into the sphere of beneficence in its first gradations of healing at once. We mean those souls that, conscious of their imperfections, are unable to rise above them. We mean those morally and spiritually blind, who fight the battle of life, and still do not vanquish the foes that are within them.

We mean those even that sometimes go from

penitentiary, from the gallows, from criminal execution, whose lives have still at some time been penetrated by a profound abnegation, or neglect and forgetfulness of self. We mean those that, failing in one direction, still have somewhat in another of spiritual strength; who may perhaps have told a falsehood, and yet whose conscience is always aware of it; who may have committed a thousand sins in life, 39

yet all the time have been aware that something in them was above the deed that they have performed and the lives that they have lived.

We mean the struggling and unfortunate souls that go down in the conflict of life, and not the godly and self righteous that never fall before the eyes of man but are selfish in the sight of heaven.

These souls that go down in shame sometimes before the vision of man have still a redeeming trait and some point of unselfishness, some wish to rise; and the souls that minister in the sphere of healing — the first stage of the sphere of beneficence —

receive them as

you would receive soldiers from the battle field, as you would receive a man upon the street who has fallen from his horse, or who, wrecked upon the sea, is deprived for the time being of raiment and shelter.

So upon life's sea, souls passing out into eternity

shipwrecked morally and spiritually, but having something to cling to in the divine thought that aspires to something higher — they are received, and here the process of spiritual healing begins. They are not received as into judgment; they are not taken before court and jury that perhaps have sent them there; they are not treated as criminals, for the very reason that the punishment of criminals in certain stages of criminal disease aggravates instead of cures. You do not treat a patient in fever, if you are wise, by augmenting the disease. You do not stab a man that is already mortally wounded.

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You do not, when a person is in delirium, add intensity to that state, and expect to cure him. The criminal has his crime upon him. He goes out with it stamped upon his outward life. If the first thing he saw were judge and jury confronting him in the world of souls, he would be driven back to that darker sphere that we have referred to.

He is received first, and there is no sign or token given of his malady. The spirit having charge understands this. The soul appointed to receive the spirit is silent, and makes no sign. It receives him as though there was nothing in his nature to repel. He is placed in a position of ease and rest mentally. He is not confronted with his victim at first; he is not strong enough. He is not upbraided with his sin; he is not able to bear it without being rebellious. He is received, and when the kindness that is shown him shall have thawed away all the corroding lines of crime and care, and by its very persistence shall have shown the spirit that there is no judgment save that which comes from within, then the soul that is sick becomes its own more positive accuser. Even then that must be checked, or the violence of the repentance and the severity of self judgment drives the spirit to despair.

The wisdom of ministering to souls that are thus afflicted outweighs all care that you bestow on physical maladies in earthly life. These spirits must be led to repentance; must not be stung to madness or 41

despair; but by the falling of the waters of love, by the sunlight that is not too suddenly turned upon them, made to feel that there is still hope. The criminal entering spirit life may behold, after a time, an angel mother bending above — not at first; the shock would be too sudden. For how can a soul accused of men, and sent into spiritual existence because of a malady of the moral nature, meet face to face the most loved object on earth? Not at first. But after some stranger friend has ministered unto and soothed the spirit — guided the way — then the voice and mind and spirit most healing, that will bring back the childhood memories, that will uplift the spirit gradually to repentance and hope, is summoned to appear beside the soul that enters that sphere of healing. Then gradually the spirit, that grows stronger, grows stronger also for self-accusation; and when the condemnation and research assume a point that only the soul itself can bear, every other spirit withdraws, leaving that soul alone with its own meditations. Then from mother, child, sister, friend, or wise and beneficent counselor, comes the first voice of encouragement, when the spirit has purged itself of the crime, drowned its grief and crime in tears of repentance, washed away the stain of human blood or folly.

Then there comes the gradual soothing of pain. It is not simply by ministering to this soul, but it comes in another form.

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The sin sick soul that is repentant is shown another soul greater in suffering than itself — is introduced without being aware of it into the presence of some spirit in greater agony. The impulse to speak to that soul, to minister in some way to the suffering, to point out that he or she also has suffered, is the first impulse upon which the spirit rises one degree into healthfulness and strength. Then the first mentioned spirit becomes a ministrant also in the sphere of beneficence. Have you ever seen a soldier on a battle field, himself wounded, bearing off a comrade that was more nearly mortally wounded than be, because dear to him, or because engaged in the same conflict, or better still, bearing off a fallen foe? Have you ever seen in the conflict of life, when the great burden of grief and sorrow was upon one man, or more frequently (you will pardon us) one woman — have you ever seen that woman, rising up out of her own addiction and grief, to minister to someone in greater sorrow, and how the anguish has faded from her face because she could minister to another in greater suffering? Such is the sphere of healing in the sphere of beneficence.

Such is the soul work that goes on

vanquishing its own trouble by assisting others to rise.

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HEALTH THROUGH MUSIC Walter DeVoe Mystic Words of Mighty Power (1905)

Music is the language that sways the emotions and enraptures the soul with its deep mysterious message. It is the key to the deepest emotions of the soul and under its sweet compelling influence the cares and worries of life are laid aside and we become harmonized and rested.

"Out of the heart are the issues of life."

The emotions of the heart have life enriching qualities, and as music awakens soul vitalizing emotions it becomes the key to health and happiness.

As we sit in the twilight listening to the piano or to the voice, we feel a soothing element entering our mind, the discord of the busy day fades away and a divine calmness overpowers our spirit and gives us peace.

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These moments, in which we rest under the peaceful influence of music, harmonize the natural and attune as to the vitalizing spirit of life. even though it is but a street piano that plays under your window, lay aside for the time being the critical intellect, close your eyes and allow yourself to vibrate with the rhythm of the music, and you will find you have become attuned to a state of unified feeling as though all the parts of your mind that had become scattered and disunited were again merged into a unity, strong for accomplishment.

When you listen to an orchestral concert, close your eyes so as to concentrate your mind wholly upon feeling the music. You will notice that as soon as the music begins the atmosphere becomes alive with sound waves, in like manner as the earth and air become radiant with the vitality of the sun as it charges the otherwise negative atmosphere with its electric force when it emerges from behind a cloud. Then as you sink yourself into the flood of sound proceeding from the orchestra, your emotion; become harmonized and exalted, and your feelings will seem to expand to unimagined heights and depths of sound-glory. This new emotional life is even felt thrilling through your flesh, imparting a new force and energy to the body.

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A concert heard with the intellect alone is tiresome to the majority of persons, but heard in this way, and felt by the emotions, it reinvigorates the tired nature and opens up a new realm of pleasure.

In the same way, church music can become a source of healing.

Enter church with the idea of becoming attuned to the devotional spirit of the music, for this devotional spirit speaks to the soul of the things of eternity and feeds the soul with the bread of heaven, giving it a realization of its eternal life in god.

Close the eyes and the mind to the changing fashions of the time, to the vanities of the world, and with the feeling that you are in a sacred place give; yourself to devotional worship under the guidance of the deep, inspiring tones of the organ.

Rest as though in the presence of the healing glory of god and you will feel uplifted into a state of mind where all is peace. The All Pervading Spirit of Life will become a conscious possession of your spirit, imparting to you somewhat of the joyous health of the life eternal.

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The time is not far distant when the wonderful healing power of music will be so universally known that concerts and devotional services will be held for the healing of the sick, thus calling into activity by united faith and expectancy on the part of the audience all the healing forces stored in the nature of man.

When the healing power of music is recognized and co-operated with, it will immediately begin to demonstrate its great value as a therapeutic agency.

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THE SPIRIT OF HEALTH Walter DeVoe Mystic Words of Mighty Power (1905)

The Consciousness of the Soul is the Spirit of Health.

Blessed is the one who realizes the eternal life of his Soul, for such a one will cause an epidemic of spiritual health. The consciousness of health is more "catching" than any contagious disease, for it is the most positive condition, the natural expression of divine life.

Health and strength are inwrought into the very nature of the soul.

Your soul is health and strength this instant, for your soul is the image and likeness of God's nature of immortal perfection. Awaken to the wonderful truth of your soul. Lift your faith from the delusions of mortal sense to the comprehension of your immortal Self that is now one with the power of divine Perfection.

Stand on the Rock that is higher than your personal I, this I AM within that was spoken forth by the Voice of Omnipotence; stand positive in the majesty of your true Self and express the Word of health and strength that you ARE in your eternal Being with God. Cultivate the 48

Spirit of Health by expressing the consciousness that your Soul IS. Mortal thought of disease and weakness is from below, of the limitations of the natural plane, but your soul consciousness of health and strength is from above, born from the unlimited life and power of God. Cultivate a positive faith in the healing life and energy of your Soul, for thus your external mind learns to think forth into manifestation the perfection that God has stored in His Word of power within you. Deny the petty cares of mortal life. Deny every feeling that is not God like and affirm not only mentally, but by living them, the qualities of love and good-will that your soul desires to express. Your soul desires to love all with the love that will overcome the limitations of family ties, the limitations of relationship, a love so grand and deep that it will feel for all created things the same gentleness and sympathy that it feels for its best beloved. The soul is not swayed by mortal attractions, it is not limited by personal affections, it feels the same impersonal tenderness toward humanity that God feels. Thus the soul is not limited in its life, for its life is the unlimited love of God, and as it finds means of expressing this divine Consciousness, its power expands as the seed in the earth expands under the benign influence of the sun, and it radiates its blessed life and strength through its physical instrument.

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truth as it sees truth. In conversation with others, your language will need to be modified to their understanding, to their present limited view of life, in order to appear rational in their sight, but in the silence of your own mind be true to the vision of the majestic strength and perfection of your Self that now lives in God. Exercise His will that makes for perfection. Exercise His Spirit that transforms and renews the mortal form. Exercise your faith in the truth that you are a radiant, healthy son of Omnipotence and BE perfect as your Father in your Soul's sanctuary IS Perfect.

May you realize the invincible Life of God within that makes for peace and perfection. All your flesh is now filled with the glory of your immortal Soul. Your mind is pervaded with the Consciousness of life and health eternal. You now realize and are healed by the Consciousness that is always with you, your divine, immortal Self, the Son of God.

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GERMS AND MENTAL ATTITUDE Walter DeVoe Mystic Words of Mighty Power (1905)

It has been said truly that germs are the occasion for, not the cause of, disease. Disease germs are impotent, mere food for health germs while the mind and body are harmonious and happy. But fear of disease will paralyze the activity of the mighty life force in the nature.

Fear is a weakening, disintegrative thought force. Anger, hatred, jealousy, and all other low and impure states of mind are sins against the body's well-being and immediately create poisons which if increased by such habits of thought are sure to cause disease and death. On the other hand feelings of good-cheer and good-will with continuous brightness of thought are just as certain to create tonics in the system.

So what is gained by taking tonics if one's anxiety and care and meanness of disposition are creating poisons that sooner or later will show out in cancer or consumption?

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health is within us? Shall we inject the impure virus of animals into the pure blood of children to show out later in scrofula and other diseases when there is a fountain of living, healing waters within ready to spring forth with germ destroying energy when properly recognized and called forth into expression?

These are not fancies but incontrovertible facts, science of the most vital sort. A great many physicians have already incorporated these facts into their experimental science of medicine and they testify that thought will cure where medicines produce no beneficial effect. They are learning to use the silent healing force of thought while they apply the elements which the body needs for recuperation. Medical, mental and spiritual science are all in the experimental stage, but the wonderful healing results attained by schooling the mind into an optimistic and more generous attitude have revealed to those that have eyes to see that mind and soul culture will hold a most important position in the healing science of the future.

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MASTERY OF GERM DISEASES Walter DeVoe Mystic Words of Mighty Power (1905)

Colds, catarrh, diphtheria, malaria, pneumonia, consumption, appendicitis and all diseases where bacilli invade any part of the body and destroy tissue, may be conquered by the persistent use of the will in turning a mental force into the parts affected with the determination to expel and conquer the cause of the disease.

There is a physical as well as a mental side to every destructive element that enters the body and we must have an unconquerable faith in the supremacy of our will over all forms of disease, physical or mental, because, by the use of the will, we can awaken into active resistance the whole vast army of cells of which the physical body is composed. The power in all cells is intelligent and they may be shown the danger and aroused to combat the invading army of bacilli.

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because the disease is foreign to the part it occupies and the strength of the whole body can be hurled against it again and again until it is dislodged or destroyed.

Do not at any time surrender to fear, for fear weakens the will. View the condition, of no matter how long standing, as an exercise for the development of all the powers of your soul.

Do not falter in your determination to conquer. Be patient and serene in the knowledge that your will is growing in power daily. No matter how strong the disease appears you can cultivate a stronger force because 'you are a soul supported by the power of omnipotence, while the disease is but a negative condition and depends for its existence upon the strength that it absorbs from your body.

Exercise and develop the power of your will by the following affirmations.

I am master of my body.

I am conscious of a force of will which I now turn against this malaise to destroy it.

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I will not allow my flesh to be invaded by disease germs.

I now destroy these parasites of disease.

I have no fear. Fear cannot weaken my resolve to conquer.

I will get well. I am now exercising the power that will make my health manifest.

I now exterminate all disease germs.

I will that all the intelligence and power in the whole aggregation of physical cells be turned to exterminating disease germs from this part of my physical body.

My subconscious mind recognizes the cause for this disease and now proceeds to exterminate it.

I am a body of healing intelligence.

I turn the whole force of my healing intelligence into these parts.

Health and peace must now become manifest.

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There are no elements of decay in these tissues. Conscious life prevails.

All these disease germs are dissolved; they¡ are all destroyed; by the power of my will I annihilate them, everyone.

I say to them: "You shall not feed upon my flesh. I now kill you and eradicate your poison from my body."

When the mind becomes tired of this aggressive action, whist in the passive knowledge that the power of your spirit is now turned against disease and is working silently but surely to conquer.

As soon as new mental force is gained by rest the same positive assertive attitude should be resumed. The exhaustion following this exercise of the mind is evident that an actual force has been directed against the disease.

Not any disease is as powerful as this intelligent force, and no disease can withstand its action, for it will search out the hidden cause and slay it.

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It is a fact that disease germs enter the organism daily, but the army of health germs in the organism is usually so vital and strong that the enemy is conquered before it gains a foothold. Only when the vitality has been depleted and the resistance of the system is not up to normal is it that disease gains the upper hand.

This knowledge of the conquering power of the human spirit will some day be prevalent that mortals will not fear disease and talk of its insidious power, thus hypnotizing into inactivity the healing force of the body. They will know that health, peace and perfection are backed by the full power of omnipotent life and their flesh will exhibit the beauty of their true faith.

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HEALTH RAYS Walter DeVoe Mystic Words of Mighty Power (1905)

As we notice the drawn shades excluding from living rooms the vitalizing and germ-destroying rays of the sun, we wonder at human ignorance which knows not the value of sunshine.

When the sun is obscured, the atmosphere is not positively charged with the electric energy and we quickly feel the lack of vital force.

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some natures, this will react on the mind to produce a feeling of depression, which goes to prove that the state of the body affects the mind, until the mind asserts its supremacy.

The human body was formed to live close to nature, to depend on the magnetic and electric forces of nature for its more ethereal food.

Whenever I go to the outskirts of the city where the wind blows in from off the fields and prairies, I feel that that air is charged with more vitality than the air we breathe in the city. great success attends the return to nature.

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In consumptive cases,

The lone fisherman sitting in the sun is mentally soothed by the sound of the waves or the flowing current.

The complexities of his

mind unravel under the harmonizing, hypnotic chant of nature’s voice and he enters that sate of simplicity and peace where the spontaneity of life finds free access to his being.

Worn-out city workers go to the country for a few days during the summer and return to the city refreshed and refleshed.

Sunshine is nerve food, nerve force.

We should live in the sunshine as much as possible, breathing deeply of its exhilarating electro-magnetic force.

Those who exclude the ozone-producing sunshine and the fresh sun-kissed air from their homes will not find a substitute in the artificial ozone sold in bottles.

Our great benefactor and physician, the sun, gives electric treatments, white rays, blue rays, X-ray and all other ray treatments combined, without price.

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are so anxious about their health, or the annoyances of existence, that they fail to recognize and appropriate the marvelous healing virtue so abundant and so free.

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BATHE IN THE SUNSHINE Walter DeVoe Mystic Words of Mighty Power (1905) Whenever in the privacy of the home the opportunity offers to take sun baths, use the following words to consciously appropriate whatever element is needed from the sun's living rays.

Oh, Vitalizing Sun, I recognize thy beneficent radiations as life giving and disease destroying.

I welcome thy vitalizing rays into my flesh. I draw thy soothing force into my nerve.

I am a magnet for thy vitality and strength.

Thy life and power shining there in the heavens is in my nature.

I am strong with thy unlimited life.

I am inbreathing thy vitalizing radiations.

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I also am a sun of God, a soul radiant with perfect life and power.

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HEALING THOUGHTS Walter DeVoe Mystic Words of Mighty Power (1905)

Keep happy and hopeful and it will have a tonic effect on your whole nature and also prosperously affect your affairs.

Praise God even when things seem dark and your praise will create brightness and joy all about you.

AFFIRM:

The peace and prosperity of God dwells in my world and fills my life with His bounty.

I dwell in the Presence of God. I dwell NOW in the unlimited Power.

I am unlimited.

I am an organization of healing life. power to perfectly organize my physical body.

I infuse all these tissues with life and strength. shall become positive with healing substance.

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I have the

I will that this flesh The intelligence

that I infuse into this flesh reorganizes the tissues and makes health to manifest.

I am positive intelligence and strength in all these tissues.

God is my power to manifest health and perfection. All power wills my permanent health.

Omnipotence is the life and power of my soul the all-seeing spirit of Jehovih.

My soul is alive with

I am thy grace and purity; I am thy love divine, living in true sincerity I all to thee resign.

Individualized love manifests the harmony and perfection of the divine life. Be godlike! Be love! Feel love! Act love! God is love.

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TREATMENT FOR DEAFNESS Walter DeVoe Mystic Words of Mighty Power (1905)

I draw the vital currents of my life up into my ears to strengthen and restore my hearing. My inner ears are vitalized with healing intelligence.

All the healing intelligence in my nature is turned to vitalize my sense' of hearing. Perfect life and intelligence are recreating my ears. There cannot be any inertness or deadness in my ears. Every atom is alive.

The resurrecting life of God is now restoring my hearing. The limitations are all dissolved by His Spirit. Every defect is dissolved from my inner ears. Every limitation is dissolved from my mind, so that the Spirit may now enter into my ears and quicken them with perfect life. I will hear perfectly. I now listen attentively to every sound. As I listen I expect the life force to arouse the intelligence in my ears to receive every least wave of sound. As I listen all my intelligence conspires and endeavors to make every part of my hearing organs positive and receptive to every vibration of sound. My hearing is unlimited. I place all my attention in the act of hearing and force the parts to readjust themselves to perfectly receive the waves 65

of sound.

I look to the intelligent Power within my nature that originally formed my ears to revitalize and reform them in every part. My soul has the power and intelligence from God to completely heal my ears and restore perfect hearing.

I look to my soul and expect it to exercise its healing intelligence in these parts both day and night.

My hearing is daily becoming stronger and stronger.

Each day the cells are storing up new life and energy. New cells are being formed and some day the work will be complete and I shall be healed.

Exercise develops strength in the ears as in any organ or muscle of the body. The ears may be cultivated to hear sounds that are imperceptible to the normal hearing. The native Indian by placing his ear to the ground could hear the tramp of horses when they were yet a long way off. Exercise the sense of hearing daily and in this way the intelligence in the nerves and muscles will be stirred with a desire to produce a more perfect organ. Added nourishment may be 66

imparted directly to the parts affected by rubbing olive oil all about the ears before retiring.

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BATHE IN THE SUNSHINE Walter DeVoe Mystic Words of Mighty Power (1905)

Whenever in the privacy of the home the opportunity offers to take sun baths, use the following words to consciously appropriate whatever element is needed from the sun's living rays.

Oh, Vitalizing Sun, I recognize thy beneficent radiations as life giving and disease destroying.

I welcome thy vitalizing rays into my flesh. I draw thy soothing force into my nerve.

I am a magnet for thy vitality and strength.

Thy life and power shining there in the heavens is in my nature.

I am strong with thy unlimited life.

I am inbreathing thy vitalizing radiations.

I also am a sun of God, a soul radiant with perfect life and power.

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THE POWER TO HEAL Walter DeVoe Mystic Words of Mighty Power (1905)

The power to heal resides in each living cell of tissue, because the cells are forms of life that represent a certain degree of intelligence.

This power of the cell is conferred upon the whole organism.

When an injury occurs to the flesh, the nerves convey a sensation to the brain, which immediately produces a low from the nutrient arteries. Blood, filled with the life essentials, is immediately carried to the injury and the rebuilding process is begun.

It is natural to get well. It is out of the order of things in Mother Nature's laws to remain sick.

To keep well one must keep clean in mind and body by banishing all error thoughts.

Thoughts pure and holy do not produce unclean or poisonous products in the body, hence they are conducive to health, admitting, of course, that all sanitary pleasures hold a position of great 69

importance, as do also the class of foods that are used for nutriment, the life essentials for the building process in the physical body.

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TRAINING THE IMAGINATION Walter DeVoe Mystic Words of Mighty Power (1905)

A properly trained imagination is a very powerful factor in the practice of healing and in spiritual development.

We can often realize more of love and power in treating others, and feel more fervor while praying for another, than when we try to pray for or treat ourselves. Love flows strongest when directed to aid someone in need of help. Love and compassion are soul forces capable of powerful expression when self is forgotten and when there is great sympathy for the one to' whom these forces are directed.

When other methods do not avail, imagine yourself as a distinct personality, separate or apart from yourself. While you are In the Silence, Imagine yourself lying in bed, sitting at the dining table or in the midst of your friends. Then turn all the power of your soul and mind to blessing or speaking truth for this other self of you, as you would for another personality.

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Imagine you are the Angel of God’s Presence with the Holy Spirit, and given the work of redeeming and glorifying this other self. By this simple practice you will begin to feel that you are the Self of power and perfection, the real Self, endowed with angelic powers. And you will more easily generate and express through your thoughts and emotions this divine power which you have and are, for the healing, purifying and ennobling of your lower self.

Different methods will appeal to you more strongly at different times, because there are so many sides to the spiritual nature that must be exercised in the development of a full rounded character.

Suppose you desire to purify and spiritualize the subconscious mind that is active in the dream state. Proceed thus: While you are sitting in your chair, imagine your self — lying in bed asleep. You are now as it were, the guardian angel of your sleeping self, empowered of God to dissolve all mortal thoughts from his mind, and you feel a great love for your charge as you pray for him thus:

Father, in Thy name and power, I bless him (or her) with the pure thought of heaven. During his sleep the thoughts of this day shall drift away and his mind shall rest in Thy healing peace and harmony.

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By the power which Thou givest me, Almighty Father, I dissolve from his mind all lustful, angry, vengeful and fearful thoughts. I dissolve all impure desires and discordant feelings.

I am the pure thought of Thy Mind and I purify and spiritualize his mind and body. His dreams shall be filled with the beauty of truth.

While the body rests, his spirit shall grow strong in immortal purity and, truth and fill the body with its healing currents of purified thought.

I will that the powerful forces of his sub-conscious mind shall work intelligently in renewing the life and structure of the diseased parts. I will that the vital force shall be conserved and reabsorbed for the renewal of the life and intelligence in every organ.

Thy healing Spirit of Love broods over this sleeping form and charges every atom with divine life and health.

This is a very powerful way in which to treat yourself. The more of love you feel for your patient, the more of divine power you will generate and the greater will be the results. The oftener you treat your other self the more satisfactory will be your realization.

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Imagine your other self in the midst of social or business life and feel a blessing going to him as you use these thoughts:

Father Mother God, I bless him with the realization of Thy great love.

I feel Thy love surrounding and inspiring him. He is protected by Thy mighty Spirit of love and cannot be affected or influenced by the discordant thoughts of mortal minds. His spirit is so charged with Thy great love that he is a creative tone of divine harmony, giving mental peace and soul strength to all about him.

His aura is radiant with Thy beneficent Spirit, which fills his atmosphere with healing and uplifting power.

If you have to appear before the public as a speaker, or soloist, you ran overcome your nervous fears by following this practice.

Think strong thoughts to your better self as you imagine him before the public, fulfilling his engagement, as follows.

You are strong and fearless. You have nothing to fear.

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possession. Every part of your organism responds to your will. You know that you can fulfill your part perfectly. You are equal to and greater than the occasion.

You have such positive faith in yourself that you do not feel the influence of the minds of your audience.

You are filled with the inspiration of the Spirit and enchant your audience with the exaltation of your spirit. You lead their minds to see and feel as you see and feel and enjoy the rapture of joyful soul expression.

This method may be applied in a great variety of ways. After having practiced these formulas from memory, there will come to you, while, applying them, great exaltation of soul, and you will feel the inspiration of your soul formulating thoughts' and emotions suitable to the need. The thoughts generated will go forth from your mind and work in the state or place imagined, to fulfilI their mission.

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HEALING THROUGH SOUL CULTURE Walter DeVoe The Archives of The Eloists (1927)

When the body is overfed, and physical movements are sluggish through lack of exercises, and auto-intoxication has produced symptoms of disease, the practice of physical culture may restore activity and health to the physical organism.

When the mind is overfed with materialistic and intellectual thoughts, and love for humanity is sluggish, and the will to serve is paralyzed by selfishness or fear, the soul is weak and sick, and its condition may cause physical disease and even death.

Soul culture, which is the exercise of spiritual imagination, good feelings, and a dynamic will, will restore the activities of the soul and again enable it to express the healing life of the indwelling Creator.

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culture and soul culture are necessary for perfect and harmonious development of mind and body.

We have helped others attain a living, vital faith in the truth that each one is a Temple of the Living Creator, and that the Spirit of the Almighty dwells within. This faith in the Creator, as the constant, active life and healing intelligence within their bodies, has overcome paralyzing fears, poisoning hatreds, weakening self-condemnation, and the physical diseases caused by these destructive states of mind. Thus, our students have proved for themselves the scientific fact that destructive emotions produce poisonous states which cause disease, while good emotions create tonic qualities which are conducive to health

Soul Culture will change a person's attitude of mind and replace destructive with constructive emotions. It shall be developed into a scientific system which will enable humanity to express the nobility and power which are theirs as sons and daughters of the Almighty Creator.

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and development of our souls during a lifetime of service. It has resulted in the discovery of marvelous spiritual potentialities which lie asleep within every human soul, and which are waiting to awaken and express the healing and transforming love, wisdom, and power of the abiding Creator.

We want to give this Science of Soul Development to all who suffer and who seek peace of mind or health of body. The study of this message of healing hope will give you a new and living faith in the unused powers of your Immortal Self, and help you to realize that the Creator has implanted in your nature the ability to overcome or outgrow all your mental or physical limitations.

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HEALING HARMONY Walter DeVoe The Archives of The Eloists (1934)

In our long-sustained endeavor for self-expression We have gained some degree of expertise In formulating creative thoughts and feelings, And in developing qualities which belong To the sons and daughters of the Creator.

We feel the pulse of power throbbing within our souls.

We are developing the radiant energy Which is potentially within all souls.

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And convince distraught humanity That all are sons and daughters of the Most High.

As we sit here quietly thinking of you, friends, We are aware that we are immersed in a great Harmony That subdues and relaxes our minds, And makes us feel the reality of an all-pervading Peace.

Our minds have become exalted above the vibrations Of the disturbed mentality of mortals, And we enjoy the quiet serenity of that Mighty Mind That enfolds all minds in Its Infinite Presence.

It is as though our minds were radio sets And we had tuned out irritating music And tuned into the music of a sublime symphony.

As we think of you, we desire that you, too, Shall be lifted out of the mental depression Caused by the feelings of the mass-mind of the world.

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That you may feel with us the harmony and health Of the Mind of infinite perfection and peace.

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HEALING LESSONS FROM THE SANCTUARY Walter DeVoe The Archives of The Eloists (1937)

This group is a class in which we practice the Will of the Creator in the simplest way possible. The world has been sermonized until sermons mean nothing. If inventors had given us sermons about electricity instead of machines for the use of it, we should not have been able to harness and control it as we are doing today. If our religious teachers had practiced and used the Will of the Creator; instead of merely talking about it, we should not now be in mental darkness. Spiritually, the world would be illuminated with divine light; and there would be power enough to heal all the diseases of humanity. If people had expressed their divinity, this world would be filled with angelic human beings. The kingdom of heaven would have come out of the heart of humanity, as it is destined to come.

I am trying to show you how you can bless and heal from the power hidden in you, from the strength in the depths of your own being; and, with this inner potency, have as great a demonstration in your lives as I have had in mine.

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No one man is going to save the world. The world will not be saved until everyone lets the potential divinity in his soul come into expression. All that the great Teachers of the past did was to reveal the Presence of the Almighty within them, bringing it from potential into actual expression; and they had millions of Angels to help them.

People have been praying to the Almighty, as a Power outside of them, to accomplish what He created them to do. They have tried to demonstrate something from the outside instead of from within.

My research has been to find out where the Power was. While sick and depressed myself I tried to heal others, and was astonished at my success. Then I investigated psychic phenomena, and found that people did not die. I had a great fear of death, but I learned that there is no death. Every time I gained a glimpse of the kindness of the Creator and of His marvelous intelligence in all creation, I had a greater realization of eternal life and freedom.

The truth will make us free, but not without unselfish cooperation. All the Power of the Almighty is touching every one of us every moment, but we shall have to exert ourselves to use it in order to increase our capacity to wield it. It is possible for me to make you feel power today because for years I have used my mental equipment to generate it.

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People who understand the spiritual world and its inhabitants and know how to cooperate with Angelic Intelligences can, to a certain extent, alleviate physical and mental ills. They can see that a great many mental ills are due to obsession.

The condition of the world today is the result of the way people have thought, felt, and acted for ages. If we are to have a new, healthy, and prosperous world, we must begin with the individual. Then, by gathering together the most benevolent individuals, we can form a battery which will create a tremendous collective force, and have but one purpose, doing the Will of the Creator. We can bring into expression a Divine Power, and do away with all the poverty and diseases of the world. In endeavoring to heal humanity, those who work the hardest, those who love the most, those who do the Will of the Creator most intensely, will experience the greatest healing and express the greatest power.

Anyone who blesses gives out some good from his soul; and, in so doing, gives out something of the Creator. The Creator is Love. Love is divine; and if you express it, you will impart it to those you are blessing. You will be giving out something just as substantial and real 84

as the light in an electric bulb. The more you practice doing the Will of the Creator, the more you will feel of the Creator.

We will now bless the person in this chair before me. In blessing him you can affirm, “The Almighty blesses you,” — or speak any affirmation which will convey to him the love of the Creator.

Something will pass from your soul to his as a feeling of goodwill; and that feeling has more power to heal and strengthen than all the medicines in the world. I want you to open your nature and feel goodwill toward this person. Say to yourself, “I am a Blessing: Love is my power,” or, “I bless you with love.” When I make statements like these I feel them thrill through me; I feel something tremendous go out from me. I have healed people in all parts of the world with similar blessings, proving that the Creator is the same in all places. Follow my thought now as I bless this friend.

I clothe myself in the vitality of the universe, in the vital forces of this great Mothering Principle which is all about us. I am pouring this power into your nature to vitalize and strengthen you. I am a living soul, pulsating with the very life essences of the Almighty. Because I feel this life thrilling through me, your soul, mind, and body respond to these positive, healing words.

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I am generating a soul power, a living energy, and weaving it into your aura. I am calling it forth from the depths of your being; and as I bless you, everyone here begins to feel the potency of my words, the force of my faith, the intensity of my good feeling. Every soul must vibrate with this positive power I feel. The Power of the Almighty is always present, and always operates through His children as they strive to use it. Something in your nature responds and vibrates now to the potency I feel thrilling through my being. Life flows up through your feet, all through your body; it flows through your sympathetic nervous system and up into your brain. All depressing thoughts are being dissolved. I am a generator of Life, the Life of the Creator; and as It vibrates through me, every soul here vibrates to this positive realization of life; thus awakening that which slumbers; arousing all the potentialities of your beings. The words I speak are visible forms of living light. I am creating them and sowing them into your natures; and they will abide with you and strengthen you, and work through your beings to give you health and peace.

Bless as often as possible when you are alone. You may fumble at first, like a beginner at the piano; but that is the way I learned to heal, by experimenting, by proving that the Will of the Creator is in every soul, and will respond as you attempt to use it. Here is the principle to keep in mind: If you have a positive faith in yourself as a generator of 86

the Creator’s Love, the vibrations of that faith go to the one you are blessing. If you have love and sympathy in your heart, and you cultivate it for weeks and months until the feelings are deep, those feelings are a living substance to the person you bless. If you have become strong in doing the Will of the Creator, and you have confidence that the Will of the Creator works through your soul, you can speak with a certain degree of authority, and negative conditions will respond. You can harmonize minds if you have learned to cultivate harmony. It is because of what you have cultivated that you can do these things.

I WILL that you shall feel this power which is flowing from a higher to a lower potential. You are all uniting with me now in blessing this friend. Feel that your goodwill is centered here as I vibrate my goodwill in a positive manner to strengthen the spirit of our friend.

When the spirit gets tired it loses its organizing power. It is more highly organized entity than the physical body, which is only a shadow of the mental form. I have poured the strength of my spirit into weakened spiritual bodies, and saved them when they were almost ready to pass on. I could not do it if I had no strength, no love, no harmony; but having cultivated these qualities, I am able to infuse the one I bless with all that I have developed. I infuse you with 87

tremendous spiritual strength. The Will of the Almighty is the strength of your soul. It is the strength of your spiritual, organizing power which flows through the sympathetic nervous system, and affects every cell in your body. I am energizing your soul’s Will, which is your permanent organizing Will. I am infusing every cell in your body with positive forcefulness. Because I am positive, I arouse that positive center of life and vigor within you. I call upon the life of nature, of sunshine, air, water, and all elements; and arouse the life forces of your own nature, that they may build up the substance for a perfect, healthy, vigorous body, and restore permanent health. This blessing shall abide with you, and gather strength for you: it shall continue to vitalize your spiritual body, and built it up in power.

When you are alone, imagine yourself using this power with Angelic hosts around you. Your faith will polarize you, and you will have experiences that will prove that power is flowing through you, to vitalize your spirit and body, and strengthen the person you bless.

The Spirit of the Creator is flowing through you, and if you will pour it out to heal someone else you will have a demonstration which will bring health quicker than if you asked the Creator to heal you. It is what you sow, or give out, that produces beneficial results, not what you beg for. The Creator waits for you to express His Love so that He may act through you to make you a more perfect expression of His 88

Benevolence. Instead of His answering your prayers, you are to answer the needs of others, using His Wisdom and Love. Most of the modern cults tell you that you can have everything you wish without price; but the Ever-Present tells you that you have to work for everything you get.

Say to yourself: “I am radiant with the Creator’s blessings, I am mighty in His love.” It is true, even though you do not yet know it.

When I think of a person and make that affirmation, I FEEL it; and no matter what part of the world he may be in, the person often writes back and tells me that the blessing was felt; for all the powers of heaven and earth are waiting to flow through the channels we make.

You can all be radiant with the Creator’s blessings as you pour forth your feelings of goodwill for others. I am now arousing this latent power in your soul to heal and prosper you. You will have such a harvest of prosperity that there will not be room to store it away; and not merely prosperous in a material way, but on all the planes of your being: a prosperity that grows in radiance, that fills your soul and every soul you contact, and makes you beautiful in the sight of the Creator and His Angels. But this will not be brought about by praying for it: it will come only as you sow, as you do for others.

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audience of spirits. My congregation extends out into the spiritual worlds where there are millions of minds to be educated in these truths, And at the same time, I am strengthening the soul of this friend in the chair. This power rouses up healing forces in him and stimulates his intelligence. The power will grow in him as he uses it.

As he learns to practice these principles, the power that organized his mind and body will begin to express. He will know the Creator, and the truth of His inspiration. He will become a radiant center of inspiration to all souls. The influence of his personality will reach out and become a blessing to thousands, and he will have the cooperation of millions of Angelic Beings to enable him to do a greater work.

I am doing all this freely, to help you know and express the Creator. I am giving you knowledge which has taken me two thirds of a lifetime to learn. I did not have this knowledge to being with, but I healed people because the Creator wants people to know Him. The Creator is always working through human beings because that is the Way He develops them, and makes them more masterful through the years and through the ages.

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THE HEALING RADIANCE OF NATURE Walter DeVoe The Doors of Life (1909)

When one walks for the first time amid new scenes of natural beauty, and the mind is hushed and awed by the solemnity and majesty of the mysterious power revealed in stupendous crystallized masses or in active, intelligent entities, then for a while the veils of illusion with which mortal concerns wrap the mind, are brushed aside and one feels isolated, with himself, as it were, and can more clearly gauge the relative value of his motives and desires.

In the stillness of the mortal there comes a recognition of the nameless Power which slumbers in the rocky hills and is becoming active in all the sentient forms of life, and something within, call it what you will, acknowledges its relationship and oneness with all power and proclaims the truth that from Universal Power it emerged and now stands superior to the slumbering rocks and the active forces of nature as a self-conscious intelligence, capable of holding its conscious individuality amid all the violence of force and the transforming effects of time, as an immortal Witness of the workings 91

of Power in the depths and heights of Infinite Wisdom.

This "I" of us stands serene amid changing things. It can lose friends and dear ones and not be affected thereby, because deep in its constitution is the knowing that nothing can be lost. Only that small part of the mind that deals with mortal affairs, and which loves and hates in a mortal way, is disturbed by the false beliefs of loss or gain.

When the Spirit of Nature has quieted this mortal part, then is felt the comforting influence of the truth which makes free, the "I" which is with us always.

"Lo, I am with you always, Even unto the end of the world."

Then comes the blessed comfort of knowing our real self which dwells in God — in Universal Power — and which is not disturbed by the loss of mortal wealth or friends or even the physical body, because, as it has woven a destructible garment of matter for temporary use, so it has woven an indestructible garment of life from the finer substances of existence as its permanent form through which it comes in contact with all states of life and all grades of 92

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Only from the exalted state of this Universal Power in us can we know the absolute truth and find perfect comfort and rest, and only by brushing aside the veils of the mortal mind and of the subconscious mind, with its illusions of psychic fascination, can we know and rest in the Self-hood, the center and source of individual power.

This soul of you holds the key to all power, plus health, wealth and happiness. The ancient mystics were so constituted mentally that they were willing to forsake the pleasures of the world and all its activities for the joy of knowing this Divine Self, and so they left the haunts of mortals and lived in those crystal-clear solitudes of nature where nothing could disturb the awakening of the Self-hood of power. They soon realized that in their own natures were the occult doorways through which power and intelligence could come to them from any state of the Universal Mind. Like them, you can find the center of power in yourself and that exhilaration of spirit which makes work easier and health secure.

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harmonized to the songs' of the birds and to the many voices of nature's little people, and in this contemplation of the music of outdoors you will forget the cares and worries of the days of the past and feel a great and wonderful healing relaxation. Close your eyes and imagine that the warm invigorating sun above you is the vitalizing presence of the Creator. Identify the warmth which permeates your body and the harmonious vibrations of nature with His Presence. They are the outer vibrations of His Presence radiating vitality and strength to you. Breathe into every cell of your being this vitalizing vigor of infinite space. As you rest with your eyes closed, your sense of feeling will be quickened, your mind will not be distracted by the sight of external things, and you will come in touch with the perfect harmony and vitality which flows into nature from the Ever-present, and in this meditation you will feel that you are in the healing glory of His Omnipresence. You will feel that your body is saturated with His Vitalizing Life. The Creator will seem more real in this vitalizing glow which permeates your being. Then in this profound harmony hold these thoughts:

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My soul is absorbing these finer essences of life which fill the atmosphere; absorbing all the strength which my nature needs and all the elements of which there is a deficiency in my system.

I am a living soul, being clothed with the glow and glory of the Creator's Infinite Vitality.

I am intelligent soul power, searching through the depths of nature's storehouse of life for the healing essences, for the vitalizing powers, for the mystic medicines of healing with which the Creator has stored His universe.

Great Spirit, I am drawing on thee for physical power.

Infinite Creator, I thank Thee for this realization of Thy Omnipresent Life.

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FROM WHENCE THE HEALING CURRENTS? Walter DeVoe The Doors of Life (1909)

There are refined forces — healing currents — about us that it is possible to feel. They exist around us in the realm of Mind.

There are mystic words that we can use to come into mental rapport with these healing currents.

The Power of Perfection — the Divine Healing Spirit — dwells in the Realm of Ideas and is the Spirit of Ideas of Absolute Truth. This is a deep arcana of wisdom for meditation.

The Absolute Being, beyond thought, beyond the realm of knowledge, beyond mind, beyond everything, is conceived in the Mind of the Universe as myriads of celestial Images, Prototypes or Divine Ideas. These Divine Ideas embody in the higher realms the meaning of the Truth that they represent; hence they are the principles, powers and revelations of the Divine Perfection.

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The Power of Omnipotence is not material or elemental forces. The material world and its forces are but crude reflections of true Power.

The wild, erratic forces of nature cannot work in harmony with the purpose of the Creator and cannot reflect the Wisdom of Omnipotence until the mind of nature has become more wise and peaceful, and that cannot be until man, the great disturber, comes into unity with the harmony and wisdom of Omnipotence. As long as the mind of the race as a whole is disturbed by passions, pains and selfish propensities, man and the mind of nature cannot reflect the true power and wisdom of Omnipotence.

Above the realm of nature forces and behind and within the surging turbulence of mental forces, is the Divine Realm of Peace and Power. Man holds the key to that Realm when he understands that its quality is life, truth and love — all that is good, beautiful and joycreating. He can open his mind to receive of its power by thinking, feeling, speaking and acting as do the inhabitants of that immortal realm.

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feel the healing currents of the Spirit of Truth entering into his being.

This is a challenge to every soul to make visible the power that it has by divine birth-right.

Man's mind is kept in unity — with the Creator through ideas of Truth.

Man's soul is an idea of the Creator that exists in his interior nature in a passive state until his body and mind are developed to receive and express soul power.

Divine Ideas are souls — immortal souls — individualized powers of the Ever-present that exist on earth and in heaven to do the Will of Omnipotence.

You, dear fellow pilgrim, with all your conceits, your weaknesses and your sins, are a transient figure on the stage of time; but there is within your mortal nature one more ideal — an Image of Perfection — whose consciousness shall live and blend with the Consciousness of Divinity when all these earthly scenes and woes shall have become as the troubled dream of the night that is past.

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Awake, O comrade of the celestial cycles, and grasp this mighty, saving truth!

You soul is an Idea of Omnipotence. You are Power.

In your true being, you are life and health and perfection now.

How shall you realize it? By identifying your intellectual mind, and your limited feelings, with that soul power within you, which is the wisdom and image of Divine Love. You have the wrong conception of power if you think of it as aught but a mighty spontaneity of Love.

Strike this chord in your nature, and Divinity will respond and melt your pains and woes into the blissful harmony of Divine Being. If these words arouse you to see a new light, or if they strike an untouched chord, do not let them depart from you, for they are mystic words of truth that will hold you in unity with the healing currents that flow from the everlasting Fountain of Life.

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THE RESURRECTING POWER Walter DeVoe The Doors of Life (1909)

Discord and disease cannot live in heaven, because all beings who have realized that state of consciousness live in accord with the Divine Intelligence and are transformed by its gracious wisdom into a form that is perfect and peaceful. Mortals, living in this outer zone of ignorance and discord, should be taught to turn their desires for healing toward the Fountain of Eternal Life, for constant experience is proving that the marvelous Spirit of healing responds with mighty demonstrations to those who persistently turn to it for relief from pain and discord.

What is that Mysterious Power that evolves so much of beauty and intelligence from the crude forces of nature, that finds its most perfect expression in the more refined nature of the celestial realms and there transforms every mortal crudity and imperfection into exalted beauty, every sorrow and pain into joy and peace? What is that transforming Power that redeems, regenerates and transforms spirits

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until they perfectly express its goodness and wisdom, and permeates even this undeveloped world with so much of its life and organizing power that we can never cease wondering as we sound the depths of its constructive wisdom and ability shown in every particle of substance? Human language is inadequate to express what that allembracing Power is. The simple word God at once names it and does not name it, for the majesty and goodness and glory revealed to the contemplative mystic on this plane and to the angels in heaven as the sublime Reality for which that little word stands, cannot be comprehended by the intellect. But the quality that is Divinity, which heals, redeems and inspires, may be imparted from soul to soul as a ray of spiritual sunshine; as a quickening, moving tenderness, which vitalizes the nature with the very essence of Divinity. Once in a while we meet on this plane characters that live and express the purity, sweetness and strength of Divinity, and we feel that they emit a healing atmosphere, a holy aura like that of angels. We are soothed and harmonized simply by their presence, for their souls emanate a healing influence truly angelic, and we are better and happier for having come in touch with them. Heaven is populated with such souls, and their charm is the Presence of Divinity, the Spirit of spirits, the Soul of souls, that is visible in heaven as a Sun of Glory, filling all the celestial abode with blissful, healing radiance.

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And the rays of that Divine Sun permeate all space and interpenetrate every substance as the spirit that forever moves over the "face of the deep", awakening life and intelligence in all substance, and in us developing a spiritual nature that enables its eternal Consciousness to become self-conscious in individualized form. Thus have we received from the Ever-Present all the life and intelligence we have. He, as the impersonal Spirit, has led us all the way, according as our limited intelligence would allow. Now, if we will look to Him and recognize this mighty truth,

that the Creator, the mighty Former and Lover of souls, is at present a source of unlimited life, strength and intelligence in us, we shall by this true recognition and the faith and trust in Omnipotence which evolves from it, come more directly in touch with the healing life of heaven which is made manifest to all souls that live close to heaven's Heart of Love. How shall we become attuned to the Creator so as to be healed? By affirming those truths which attune the mind to the quality of the Mind of the Creator. Affirmation of Divine Truth is the mystic method that has proved powerful in healing the sick and resurrecting into new light and joy those whom bitter bereavements and cruel adversities had left crushed and broken-hearted.

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Affirmation is the mighty method that stirs up and awakens the latent potentialities of Divinity within the soul and develops that faith in the unity of the Ever-Present and the soul that is the most powerful healing force known to man or angels.

There is no limit to the healing power souls may exercise if they cultivate a living faith in the healing Spirit as ever-present and powerful to alleviate pain and reconstruct the human body subject to the perfect law of life.

Faith in the Creator and the soul is the vitalized mental force that connects the personality in this zone of mortality with the angelic realm of Divinity. We are living in a very negative and discordant mental zone, while perfected beings live in the positive mentality of the Creator, in His atmosphere, which is radiant with life and joy. By true affirmations we may make our minds more and more positive until we vibrate in unison with the positive life and joy that not only fills heaven, but interpenetrates our own atmosphere also.

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We come in contact mentally with whatever we think of. To think of the presence of power of the Creator as a merciful, healing life force is to come in actual mental contact with that presence. To continue this thought by study and affirmation of healing truth, will attune the mind to harmony with that beneficent power, lifting it out of the darkness and heaviness of mortal thinking into the brightness and joy that is the result of thinking the Creator's thoughts after Him. Then we receive of the light of heaven. He who dwells in this light is nearing perfection. If those who are ill will live and abide in this light, it will heal all their diseases and crown each life with Godly love.

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A HEALING TREATMENT FOR YOU Walter DeVoe The Doors of Life (1909)

In the depth of your being there is a power divine that can touch the stars or fathom the sea, and bring to you the essence of health. Your soul is that power which contains the germs of all possibilities, and these words are written to arouse your faith in its healing ability. You are conscious of about one per cent of your power and intelligence.

Ninety-nine per cent of power and intelligence exists in the subconscious and supra-conscious states of mind — in your soul.

You are so absorbed in the limited mortal intelligence that you have failed to realize the depths of power and the heights of intelligence that lie so close to hand. You have even doubted the existence of the immortal range of your existence.

Rest now and be still, and let me tell you the truth of your immortal Self, the real You. If you listen in the right spirit, you will feel what many individuals have felt, the stirring and awakening of the inner soul-nature.

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YOUR SOUL IS GOD-BORN. It is power, and that power responds to words of faith and appreciation. Listen with all your soul and feel the awakening power.

YOU ARE A SOUL OF JOY. The joy of birds and bees and the active life of all creation are but the overtones in the symphony of the Infinite Creator, who radiates new glories of wisdom and bliss each moment to the farthest stretches of existence. Your soul can feel these tones of light and joy and be harmonized now in accord with the music of the Divine Life which is health and peace. Be still and feel the peace and joy of the inner universe of Divine Feeling and your fears and worries will fade and all your flesh will rejoice in the realization of the healing Spirit of Life.

YOUR SOUL IS A SPIRIT OF LIGHT. Be still, know this truth and let it shine. Its light will dissolve the darkness and depression of your mortal mind and inspire you with faith, hope, confidence and power to conquer; for it feels the pulsations of power from the Central Dynamo and knows the Light which is beyond the comprehension of the mortal consciousness. You can feel the surgings of this Inner Power, and as you feel them, you will bow in humility and adoration before the majesty of the Divinity enshrined in your soul.

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If you have not felt this power of your inner Self, if you have not sensed the All Light that radiates from the Divine within, you have not begun to live in awareness of immortal things. You will feel this new birth when the animal impulses in the stable of your nature are asleep. This new child-consciousness in you will lift you up and save you from your sins and heal you of their results, for you will no longer identify yourself with the mortal, because you will know, by spiritual conviction that no mind can controvert, that you are an immortal Self, standing in the midst of eternal laws and forces, which you can wield and direct to the accomplishment of your soul's true destiny.

YOUR SOUL IS NOW POISED IN OMNIPOTENCE. It is a magnet for power, drawing to itself the wisdom, love and joy of Infinite Life.

Recognize this wonderful power of your soul and it will clothe you with its benediction of light and pervade your flesh with healing life.

Your soul is now drawing physical vitality from the physical realm of life. It is supplying you with mental force and vigor from the spiritual realm of mind, and it is penetrating into the inmost states of soul substance and drawing to you the essence of Divinity.

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Believe in the individuality of your soul. Recognize its power to search what to you is an invisible and unknowable realm, and trust it to bring to you the health and wisdom you crave. It is a mighty organizer, working most powerfully while you sleep. Have faith in its organizing power and expect it to dissolve the causes of disease from your mind and body, and reorganize your nature after the hidden pattern of Divine Perfection.

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ASK AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE Walter DeVoe The Doors of Life (1909)

Cultivate your faith and give the divine influx an opportunity to work.

Through your desire and invitation, the divine influx will enter your nature and give vital force of wondrous power in healing. The more fully the mind is opened toward Jehovih in perfect faith and devotion, the greater is the realization of healing. This is the case where healing is instantaneous, for by the intensity of faith all elements of mind and time are overcome. I know of a case where a" cancer was eliminated from the body by the great devotion and faith of a simpleminded woman who lived in a state of constant trust and expectancy until the growth gradually disappeared. There must be no wavering in the belief in the presence of the healing power. Through constant practice of affirmative prayer, the mind will be polarized to a holy, calm desire, an intense, expectant attitude, undisturbed by material thoughts.

This attitude of mind invites and attracts. The wondrous healing power flows through this open channel. Such devotees live for the 109

time being in their invisible thought world, praying, hoping and expecting that the holy healing prayer will actualize in their bodies, and in many instances the heart of the Ever-present is touched. The vacuum in their bodies is filled from the unbounded flow of the universal life essence that enters the soul with the magical thrill of its wholeness and perfection.

Use the following affirmative prayer:

MIGHTY SPIRIT! In Thy strength I am strong. In Thy healing atmosphere I 'am realizing health. From Thy vital. Spirit flows the vigor that my body needs.

I rejoice in Thy strength.

I am filled with Thy unlimited energy. I have faith now in the change that Thy Spirit is bringing about in my character and its external form.

Thy perfection is the pattern that molds my nature and satisfies my desire.

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I am satisfied as I awake in Thy likeness of' health and strength.

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IMPORTANT PRINCIPLES Christian D. Larson How to Stay Well (1912)

To secure the best results from the application of the many methods presented herewith, the following principles should be observed:

(1) Live a Natural Life.

The laws of nature, physical and mental,

should be observed with the greatest of care in all things and under all circumstances. Gain as clear an understanding as possible of what it means to be natural; then make it a point to be as natural as present conditions will permit. Become fully familiar with those laws of nature that operate in body and in mind; then live, think and act at all times in harmony with those laws. Violate no natural law, neither in action nor in thought, but aim to apply more and more of the laws of nature in everything you think or do, and you are on the way to the living of a natural life.

(2) Think Wholesome Thoughts.

Train the mind to think and

entertain only such thoughts as are conducive to health, harmony and well-being. Think of the good, the true and the perfect; think of the larger, the greater, and the better; think of the worthy, the strong 112

and the superior; think of the pure, the beautiful and the ideal. Give attention to those things that build, that elevate, that make for a richer state of existence, and create only such thoughts as have a rising, growing and expanding tendency. Give health and wholeness to every thought, by thinking health into every thought. Use the power of thought to produce health and direct every mental action to add to the quality and the measure of health.

(3) Believe Yourself Well.

If you are perfectly well, continue to

believe with all your mind and heart and soul that you always will be well. If you are not perfectly well, believe with the same absolute certainty that you are getting well; believe that the conditions you desire are being produced for you now; believe in the possibilities of your own power to produce any condition that you may desire, and make that belief as strong as the limitless strength of your own soul.

(4) Feel Yourself Well.

Aim to live and think constantly in the

consciousness of health, and enter as far as possible into the deepest feeling of health; try to feel well at all times, and try to impress that feeling upon your deepest feelings. Permit every feeling of health to sink into a deeper feeling of health until you consciously realize that perfect health that forever abides in the purity, the wholeness, the strength and the divinity of your own soul. Know that 113

perfect health is always within you, always existing in the depths of your real being; then try to feel this perfect health by training yourself to feel health at all times, and by permitting that feeling to enter at once those depths of life and consciousness where perpetual health may always be found. What we feel we express, and what we become conscious of in our deeper life we gain possession of in our external life.

(5) Imagine Yourself Well.

The imaging faculty should constantly

picture before the mind the perfect health that is desired. What we imagine we think, and as we think we become. See yourself well in your own imagination and claim the actual possession of what you have thus seen. Know that when you imagine yourself being in perfect health you cause all the powers of your system to produce perfect health. What you imagine becomes the pattern, and the mental workmen always build in the likeness of that pattern that stands out most clearly and most distinctly. Therefore, picture yourself well in your imagination and make that picture strong, positive, clear and distinct.

(6) Be Morally Clean.

Live a clean life both in thought and in action.

A clean life means a strong life, and a strong life means health, vigor, endurance and power. Entertain only such states of mind as are 114

clean, wholesome, and uplifting, and encourage only such actions of mind and body as are directly conducive to higher attainments and greater achievements. Be true to the best that you know, the best that you are and the highest that you aim to realize. Train your ambitions to seek that richer life which is found by acting in harmony with purity, and that greater greatness that he alone can reach who has mastered those finer elements that exist in the world of virtue.

(7) Maintain The Masterful Attitude.

In all things and at all times be

your own master, think your own thoughts, feel the way you want to feel and act the way you know you should act. Permit no condition in yourself or in your environment to influence your mind or determine your conduct. Know that you can control your own life your own body and your own mind; and be determined to exercise that control for the complete emancipation of every atom in your being. Master yourself for the attainment of better health, greater strength and a higher state of physical, mental and spiritual well-being. Know that you can then proceed with all the life and power that is in you, to do what you know you can do.

(8) Have Faith in All Things.

To have faith is to enter into conscious

touch with the best that exists in that in which we have faith. We can have faith only in that which is worthy of faith; therefore, to have faith 115

in all things is to live in mental contact with the worthy in all things; and when the mind comes in contact with greater work it invariably ascends, and to ascend is to gain freedom. We always become free from the lesser, or that which we do not want, when we rise into the realization of the greater, or that which we do want. Have faith in your own power to produce and maintain perfect health and you place your mind in possession of that very power. That power is already within you. To have faith in that power is to enter into its very life and action and thereby gain, personally, the possession of it for actual use. Have faith in the perfect health that is in you, and have faith in faith; thus you enter into that health, and accordingly all will be well.

(9) Depend Upon Higher Power.

Recognize at all times the

presence of higher power; know that you are surrounded with higher power; that you are filled with higher power, and that this power will work with you in everything you may wish to do. Whatever the condition of your mind or body, know that this higher power can restore all things. Depend upon that power, have faith in that power, enter into the spirit of that power, permit every atom in your being to become alive with the active presence of that power, and complete emancipation will be realized instantly.

(10) Live On The Heights.

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in the perpetual sunshine of truth, in that smile of God which has the power to change everything. Transcend the world of things and dwell constantly upon the mountain tops of supreme spiritual existence.

Learn to work with things and to master things, but live always above things. Ascend to the heights and you take mind and body out of weakness and limitations up into the freedom of greater strength and perfect health. You also refine the entire personality, thus making the personal man a more perfect instrument for the expression of the richer life and the greater powers of mind and soul. Live above conditions. Live in the real, the perfect, the true, the sublime. Live with the Infinite, in conscious unity with the Supreme and feel at all times that you are living, walking and working with God. There is immense power in such a realization a power that can never fail whatever it may be that we wish to have done.

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THE GREATER POWERS IN MAN Christian D. Larson How to Stay Well (1912)

Whatever the methods may be that we employ in any system of metaphysical, mental or spiritual healing, the power of thought is the power that heals. The great essential, therefore, in metaphysical therapeutics is to apply every conceivable process through which the power of thought may become as strong as possible, as wholesome as possible, and as conducive as possible both to the production of health and the maintenance of health.

To increase the power of thought, live in the realization of the fact that there is any amount of power within you that has never been used before; and impress, more and more deeply, upon your inner convictions the idea that you can draw upon this power for as much as you may require, no matter how great the occasion or how extensive the needs may be. To live constantly in the conviction that you have within yourself all the power that you may require for any purpose whatever, will in itself increase the power of your thought to a remarkable degree because you will constantly be thinking more 118

power, and to think more power is to charge every thought with more power.

Place the mind in the closest possible touch with this inner power; try to feel the real living expression of this power, and try to feel that every thought you think is created in the very life of this power. Live mentally in the consciousness of all the power that you can imagine as existing within you, and desire, from the very deepest depths of your being, to appropriate more and more of this power according to the ever-growing needs of your advancing life.

The more you think of the greater power within you the more power you think into your thought, provided you think with feeling, faith, and deep soul conviction. This law works on the same principle as the well-known law the more you believe in yourself, the more you develop in yourself, and the more you become accordingly. To continue to give full, conscious attention to that vast realm of life, energy and power that is within you, is therefore most important. You not only charge your every thought with more and more power in this manner, but you also enlarge perpetually your own life, you own capacity and your own permanent possession of an ever-increasing measure of power. But your thinking must have depth; you must believe in the greater power within, and live so close to the great 119

interior world of power that you can feel its supreme existence every moment.

Realize more and more that the supreme life within you is greater by far than any disease in existence, and that this life, when aroused can remove absolutely every disease that can possibly enter your system. The more this great truth is realized the stronger becomes your thought, and the more effectively you can apply the power of your thought, either in healing yourself or in building up within yourself a greater measure of health, life and energy.

When you are thoroughly convinced of the fact that the supreme life within you is greater than any disease that you can possibly meet, you charge all your thought with this supreme life; and, therefore, in like manner, the power of your thought becomes greater than any disease that you can possibly meet. That which is born in supreme life will possess the power of supreme life; and all your thoughts will be born in supreme life so long as you live in the deep soulconsciousness of such a life.

To consciously and continuously live in harmony with the Infinite will increase the power of thought to a greater degree than anything else that we can do. To learn how to connect with the life and the power of 120

the Supreme is one of the greatest of secrets, not only in the healing of disease with mental and spiritual means, but also in the living of a greater and a greater life. To establish this sublime unity between the human mind and the Infinite mind, the first essential is to continue to think, under every circumstance, that we are with the Infinite and the Infinite is with us. And as we enter more and more deeply into the inner conscious of this supreme thought, we should place ourselves in perfect harmony with the spirit of that thought; that is, we should inwardly feel that we are in harmony with the very spirit of the Supreme.

When we feel that our minds are connected with the life and the power of the Infinite, we can feel supreme power in every thought; in fact, every thought becomes the vehicle of supreme power, transmitting that power to every atom in the system. Any disease can be removed at once, or almost at once, with the power of thought, provided this power is sufficiently strong; and the power of thought always is sufficiently strong when we connect our minds with the Infinite before we begin to think. This being true, and any one can prove it to be true, we should never proceed to use mind or thought for any purpose whatever until this supreme harmony with the Infinite has first been established. Undertake nothing until you feel that you are with the Infinite and that the Infinite is with you. This is the 121

greatest secret in the world; and he who never fails to apply the principle of this secret shall never fail in anything, no matter what may be his goal in view.

To have faith in the power of thought; to have faith in the greater power within; and to have faith in the power of the Supreme working in man this is most important. In fact, there is no increase in the power of thought unless there is an increase of faith in every power that can enter into thought; and the more faith we have in every power that does enter thought, the greater becomes the power of thought. The reason why is found in the fact that faith awakens the finer and the more powerful forces of mind. Faith breaks bounds; it expands the mind in every direction, and thus gives mind the possession of a greater world of life, force and power. The more faith you have in everything that is within you, the more fully you arouse everything that is within you; and, in consequence, the larger, the stronger and the more powerful you become in every state of your being. And the more strength and power there is alive in you, the stronger becomes your thought.

The finer forces of mind those forces that are awakened through faith invariably give soul and spirit to thought, and, therefore, not only cause the power of thought to become immensely strong, but also 122

cause that power to become so penetrating in its actions that it undermines completely every physical condition that is not in harmony with the true order of things. When these finer and more penetrating forces are fully awakened, all that is necessary is to concentrate the mind upon that part of the body that is not in health, and to deeply desire health; the finer forces of thought will penetrate that part of the body and absolutely consume everything that is wrong. What you deeply desire the power of thought to do, the power of thought will do; and if you have unbounded faith in your own greater power within, and in your sublime unity with Supreme power, you will give your thought sufficient power to do whatever you may wish to have done.

The true faith is not a mere belief, but a higher order of consciousness a state of consciousness that actually connects the mind with the limitless power of the Supreme. Such a faith awakens all that is large, all that is great, all that is superior, and all that is masterful in man; and, in consequence, gives man the power to banish from his life everything that is adverse, inferior, detrimental or wrong. And such a faith any one can attain by thoroughly believing in the great truth that the power that is within things, back of things, above things, is infinitely greater than anything that can ever happen or appear in the world. To steadily grow in this faith, however, it is 123

necessary to have faith in faith; that is, to enter into the soul of faith, the spirit of faith, the hidden secret of faith, whenever we think of faith, or, in any manner, exercise the power of faith.

When you are healed by faith you are healed by the power of thought, because it is only the power of thought that does heal; but your faith has so increased the power of thought that the power has become sufficiently strong to fully banish every ill from your system.

When you have faith in the healing power of something that exists outside yourself you are, through that faith, giving more power to your thought; faith always increases the power of thought, no matter what the faith may be or the object of the faith may be; and it is the increased power of your thought that removes the ailment.

When you actually believe that you will be healed by a certain element or power, you animate your own mind with healing power; your own thought becomes charged with this greater power that is aroused by faith; and if this greater power is sufficiently strong, you will become perfectly well. To have faith in anything whatever is to increase the power of mind and thought, because the actions of faith invariably expand the mind and arouse the more powerful forces of the mind. Indirect faith, however, is limited, and does not always arouse all the power that the occasion may demand; but when we 124

express direct faith in the real, the true and the limitless that exists in all life, and have faith in faith, we shall so increase the power of thought that every ailment in the system must positively disappear the very moment our thought is directed, with the desire to heal, toward that place in the body where the ailment may happen to be.

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AURIC MAGNETISM William Walker Atkinson The Human Aura: Astral Colors and Thought Forms (1912)

THE PHENOMENON OF HUMAN MAGNETISM IS TOO WELL RECOGNIZED BY THE GENERAL PUBLIC, TO REQUIRE ARGUMENT AT THIS TIME.

LET

THE

SCIENTISTS DISPUTE ABOUT IT AS MUCH AS THEY PLEASE, DOWN IN THE HEART OF NEARLY ALL OF THE PLAIN PEOPLE OF THE RACE IS THE CONVICTION THAT THERE IS SUCH A THING.

THE

OCCULTISTS, OF

COURSE, ARE QUITE FAMILIAR WITH THE WONDERFUL　MANIFESTATIONS OF THIS GREAT NATURAL FORCE, AND WITH ITS EFFECT UPON THE MINDS AND BODIES OF MEMBERS OF THE RACE, AND CAN AFFORD TO SMILE AT THE ATTEMPTS OF SOME OF THE NARROW MINDS IN THE COLLEGES TO POOH-POOH THE MATTER.

BUT THE AVERAGE PERSON IS NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE RELATION OF THIS HUMAN MAGNETISM TO THE HUMAN AURA.

I

THINK THAT THE STUDENT

SHOULD FAMILIARIZE HIMSELF WITH THIS FUNDAMENTAL RELATION, IN ORDER TO REASON CORRECTLY ON THE SUBJECT OF HUMAN MAGNETISM.

HERE

IS THE FUNDAMENTAL FACT IN A NUTSHELL:

THE

HUMAN AURA IS

THE GREAT STOREHOUSE, OR RESERVOIR, OF HUMAN MAGNETISM, AND IS THE SOURCE OF ALL HUMAN MAGNETISM THAT IS PROJECTED BY THE

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INDIVIDUAL TOWARD OTHER INDIVIDUALS.

JUST HOW HUMAN MAGNETISM

IS GENERATED, IS, OF COURSE, A FAR DEEPER MATTER, BUT IT IS ENOUGH FOR OUR PURPOSE AT THIS TIME TO EXPLAIN THE FACT OF ITS STORAGE AND TRANSMISSION.

IN

CASES OF MAGNETIC HEALING, ETC., THE MATTER IS COMPARATIVELY

SIMPLE. IN SUCH INSTANCES THE HEALER BY AN EFFORT OF THE WILL

(SOMETIMES

UNCONSCIOUSLY APPLIED) PROJECTS A SUPPLY OF HIS

PRANIC AURA VIBRATIONS INTO THE BODY OF HIS PATIENT, BY WAY OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM OF THE PATIENT, AND ALSO BY MEANS OF WHAT MAY BE CALLED THE INDUCTION OF THE AURA ITSELF.

THE MERE PRESENCE OF A PERSON STRONGLY CHARGED WITH PRANA, IS OFTEN ENOUGH TO CAUSE AN OVERFLOW INTO THE AURA OF OTHER PERSONS, WITH A RESULTING FEELING OF NEW STRENGTH AND ENERGY.

BY

THE USE OF THE HANDS OF THE HEALER, A HEIGHTENED EFFECT IS

PRODUCED, BY REASON OF CERTAIN PROPERTIES INHERENT IN THE NERVOUS SYSTEM OF BOTH HEALER AND PATIENT.

THERE IS EVEN A FLOW OF ETHERIC SUBSTANCE FROM THE AURA OF THE HEALER TO THAT OF THE PATIENT, IN CASES WHERE THE VITALITY OF THE LATTER IS VERY LOW.

MANY

A HEALER HAS ACTUALLY, AND LITERALLY,

PUMPED HIS LIFE FORCE AND ETHERIC SUBSTANCE INTO THE BODY OF HIS

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PATIENT, WHEN THE LATTER WAS SINKING INTO THE WEAKNESS WHICH PRECEDES DEATH, AND HAS BY SO DOING BEEN ABLE TO BRING HIM BACK TO LIFE AND STRENGTH. OF BLOOD

THIS IS PRACTICALLY AKIN TO THE TRANSFUSION

— EXCEPT THAT IT IS ON THE PSYCHIC PLANE INSTEAD OF THE

PHYSICAL.

BUT

THE WORK OF THE MAGNETIC HEALER DOES NOT STOP HERE, IF HE

BE WELL INFORMED REGARDING HIS SCIENCE.

THE

EDUCATED HEALER

REALIZING THE POTENT EFFECT OF MENTAL STATES UPON PHYSICAL CONDITIONS

—

OF MENTAL VIBRATIONS UPON THE PHYSICAL NERVE

CENTERS AND ORGANS OF THE BODY

—

ENDEAVORS TO AROUSE THE

PROPER MENTAL VIBRATIONS IN THE MIND OF HIS PATIENT.

ORDINARILY,

HE DOES THIS MERELY BY HOLDING IN HIS MIND THE CORRESPONDING DESIRED MENTAL STATE, AND THUS AROUSING SIMILAR VIBRATIONS IN THE MIND OF THE PATIENT.

THIS

OF ITSELF IS A POWERFUL WEAPON OF

HEALING, AND CONSTITUTES THE ESSENCE OF MENTAL HEALING AS USUALLY PRACTICED.

BUT

THERE IS A POSSIBLE IMPROVEMENT EVEN

UPON THIS, AS WE SHALL SEE IN A MOMENT.

THE

ADVANCED OCCULTIST, REALIZING THE LAW OF ACTION AND

REACTION IN THE MATTER OF THE AURIC COLORS, TURNS THE SAME TO ACCOUNT IN HEALING WORK, AS FOLLOWS:

HE

NOT ONLY HOLDS IN HIS

MIND THE STRONG FEELING AND THOUGHT WHICH HE WISHES TO

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TRANSMIT TO THE PATIENT, BUT

(FIX

THIS IN YOUR MIND) HE ALSO

PICTURES IN HIS IMAGINATION THE PARTICULAR KIND OF COLOR WHICH CORRESPONDS WITH THE FEELING OR THOUGHT IN QUESTION.

A

MOMENT'S THOUGHT WILL SHOW YOU THAT BY THIS COURSE HE

PRACTICALLY MULTIPLIES THE EFFECT. VIBRATIONS

(1)

NOT ONLY DO HIS OWN THOUGHT

SET UP CORRESPONDING VIBRATIONS IN THE MIND OF

THE PATIENT, BY THE LAWS OF THOUGHT TRANSFERENCE, BUT

(2)

HIS

THOUGHT OF THE CERTAIN COLORS WILL SET UP CORRESPONDING VIBRATIONS NOT ONLY (A) IN HIS OWN AURA, AND THENCE (B) TO THAT OF THE PATIENT, BUT WILL ALSO

(3)

ACT DIRECTLY UPON THE AURA OF THE

PATIENT AND REPRODUCE THE COLORS THERE, WHICH

(4)

AROUSE CORRESPONDING VIBRATIONS IN THE MIND OF THE PATIENT, BY THE LAW OF REACTION.

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PSYCHIC AND MAGNETIC HEALING WILLIAM WALKER ATKINSON CLAIRVOYANCE AND OCCULT POWERS (1916)

Probably no phase of psychic influence is more familiar to the average person of the Western world than is that of the healing of physical ills and conditions by means of psychic influence under one name or another. Great healing cults and organizations have been built up upon this basis, and the interest in the subject has taken on the form of a great popular movement.

As is natural in cases of this kind, there have been hundreds of theories advanced to account for the phenomena of psychic healing, and a still greater number of methods of treatments devised to carry out the principles of the theories. Ranging from the teaching of actual divine interposition and influence arising from certain forms of belief and practice, covering many intermediate stages, the theories even include a semi-materialistic hypothesis in which mind is considered as an attribute of matter, but having a magic influence over the forms of matter when properly applied. But it is worthy of note that no matter what the general or particular theory, or what the favoured 130

method of application, these healing schools or cults, as well as the independent practitioners, meet with a very fair degree of success and perform quite a number of cures.

Many of these Western advocates and practitioners of psychic healing practically hold that the whole system is of very recent discovery, and that it has nothing whatsoever to do with ordinary occult science. The occultists however are able to smile at these ideas and beliefs, for they not only recognize the general principles involved, but they also are aware that these principles, and their application, have been known to advanced occultists for thousands of years. I do not say this in any disparagement of the moderns schools of psychic healing, for I am in full sympathy with their great work; I merely mention the matter that the student may get the right historical perspective in considering this phase of psychic phenomena and influence.

So far as the methods of application are concerned, the true occultist recognizes that most of the methods and forms of treatment are but outward cloaks or disguises for the real psychic healing principle.

The gist of the real methods is to be found in the principles of the application of psychic influence which I have presented to you in these lessons, viz: (1) Strong desire to make the cure; (2) clear 131

mental image or picture of the desired condition as actually present in the patient at this time; and (3) concentration of the attention and mind of the healer, so as to bring to a focus to two preceding mental states. Here you have the real secret of psychic healing methods — the rest are all elaborations thereof, dressed up forms and ceremonies which affect the imagination, faith, belief and confidence of the patient, and thus make the healing process much easier. In fact, with the proper degree of faith and confidence on the part of the patient, there is but little need of a healer, for the patient may treat and cure himself. However, in most cases, the presence of the healer aids materially in arousing the fate and confidence of the patient, and hastens the cure.

Again, so far as the theories underlying the cures are concerned, occultists are able to reduce them all to a single working theory or principle, which includes all the rest. Brushing aside all technical details, and all attempts to trace back the healing process to the ultimate facts of the universe, I may say that the gist of the principle of all psychic healing is that of influencing the astral foundation of the various organs and parts, cells and centres, so as to make it proceed to manifest a more perfect physical counterpart. All psychic healing is really accomplished on the astral body first — then the physical body responds to the renewed activities of its astral counterpart. To get the 132

real significance of this statement it is necessary for you to realize just what the astral body really is. This once grasped, the difficulties vanish, and you are able to form a clear conception of the entire matter and process.

The astral body is a precise counterpart of the physical body, its organs, its parts, its centres, and its cells. In fact, the astral body is the pattern upon which the physical body is materialized. The astral body is composed of an etheric substance of a very high rate of vibration. In one sense it may be considered as a very subtle form of matter — in another as a semi-materialized form of force or energy. It is finer and more subtle that the rarest vapours or gases known to science.

And, yet, it has a strong degree of tenacity and cohesiveness that enables it to resist attacks from the material side of nature. As I have said, each organ, part, centre or cell, of the physical body has its astral pattern or basis. In fact, the physical body has been built up, in whole and in all of its parts, on the pattern and base of the astral body. Moreover, in case of impaired functioning of the physical organs or parts, and impaired activity of the physical body, its limbs, etc., if we can manage to arouse the activities of the astral body we may cause it to re-materialize or re-energize the physical body, and 133

thus restore health and activity to it. If the liver, for instance, is not functioning properly, we proceed to start up the activities of the astral counterpart of that organ, to the end that the physical organ may be re-energized, and recreated in a measure. All true psychic healing work is performed on the astral plane, before it manifests on the physical.

At this point, I should also call your attention to the effect of “prana,” or life energy, in some cases of healing. This prana is what Western healers mean when they speak of “human magnetism” in their healing work. So far from being an imaginary force, as claimed by the physical scientists and materialists, it is known to all occultists as an active principle of the human body, and as of great efficacy in the psychic treatment of disease. I shall mention the details of this form of treatment as we proceed — I mention it at this place merely to call your attention to the fact of its existence.

Before passing on to the consideration of other phases of the subject before us, I would like to call your attention to the fact that from the earliest days of history there have been recorded instances of some form of psychic healing. In the earlier days the psychic healing work was left entirely in the hands of the priesthood of the various religions prevailing in the several counties of the world. Claiming to have an 134

exclusive divine sanction to perform healing work, these priests used various ceremonies, rites, incantations, etc., in order to obtain their results. In many cases these priests were ignorant of the real psychic forces invoked and set into operation; they merely practiced methods which had been found to work out effectively, and which had been handed down to them by their predecessors. In other cases, however, the priests undoubtedly were skilled occultists, and had a very full knowledge of the forces they were using; though, as the masses of the people were very ignorant it was impossible to acquaint them with these things so far above their understanding; and, consequently, the priests applied the healing forces under the disguise of their religious ceremonies and rites.

From time to time, however, as civilization progressed, there came into prominence persons who worked cures of physical ills by means of magical ceremonies and other similar methods, but who were outside of the priesthood. Some of these men undoubtedly had a very fair knowledge of the real secret of their cures, though they disguised them to suit the mental condition of their patients, and, also, probably for purposes of self glorification. In other cases, however, it is probable that these healers had merely stumbled across the fact that certain things said in a certain way tended to work cures; or that certain physical objects seemed to have 135

therapeutic virtue. They did not realize that the whole healing virtue of their systems depended upon the strong idea in their own minds, coupled with the strong faith and confidence in the mind of the patient. And so the work went on.

In some of the oldest records of the human race, the scriptures of the various peoples, we find that “laying on of hands” was the favourite method employed by the holy men and priests, and other performing healing work. From the first there seems to have been an almost instinctive recognition on the part of man of the fact that there is a healing power in the touch of the hand. Even ignorant and savage mothers instinctively apply their hands to the hurt bodies of their children — a custom that has its counterpart in civilized races, by the way. The child is taught to expect physical relief from the application of the mother’s hands, and its mind at once pictures relief. Not only is the mental picture created, but the desire and confidence is established in the minds of both persons. The same thing is true of all “laying on of hands,” and thus are the principles of all psychic influence brought into play. But this is not all there is to it. In the first place, there is an actual transference of prana from the body of the healer to that of the patient, which serves to energize and revitalize the cells and centres of the body of the latter. In the second place, there is the effect upon the astral body of the patient, which tends to 136

materialize better physical conditions. In the third place, there is that combination and union of the minds of the two persons, which gives extra force and power to psychic influence. Is it any wonder that cures take place under these circumstances?

In the modern revival of the almost lost art and science of psychic healing among the general public, there has been unusual stress laid upon the feature of “absent healing,” in which the patient and the healer are not in each other’s presence. To many this has seemed actually miraculous, and as a positive proof of divine interposition.

But a little thought will show the student that such cures are not unknown in the pages of history, as a casual examination of the sacred books of almost any religion will show. Moreover, the student will see that to the effect of certain principles of psychic influence there needs but to be added the principles of telepathic communication, or, better still, the principles of astral communication by some phases of clairvoyance, to account for the entire phenomena of “absent healing.”

Space is no barrier on the astral plane, as you have seen in the preceding chapters of this book. Once the en rapport condition is established between healer and patient, and the rest is simple — the astral body is induced to energize more actively, and as a result the 137

physical manifestation is improved and normal functioning restored.

Of course, all this is wonderful enough — all psychic phenomena is, for that matter; but, we see that we do not have to go outside of established occult laws, principles and facts in order to account for some of these modern miracles which have puzzled and perplexed so many good persons who have not known of the occult teachings, and who fear that the world is being turned upside down, and Nature’s laws overturned by these “new fangled” ideas and methods.

Perhaps the most simple method of healing by psychic influence is that which is at the same time the oldest method, i.e., the “laying on of hands.” This method was revived about twenty years ago in America and Europe by the new school of “magnetic healing” which sprung rapidly into public favour. The other schools of psychic healing, generally known as “mental healing,” “spiritual healing,” “divine healing,” etc., generally frown upon the use of the hands in psychic healing, deeming it “too material,” and too much allied to hypnotism, etc. But this view is quite bigoted and narrow, for this method has no relation to hypnotism, and, moreover, it gives the patient the benefit of the flow of prana from the healer, while at the same time producing the psychic effect on the astral body, as I have just mentioned.

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I take the liberty of quoting here something on this subject from my little book entitled “The Human Aura.” In the chapter of that book devoted to the consideration of the subject of “Auric Magnetism,” I said: “In cases of magnetic healing, etc., the healer by an effort of his will (sometimes unconsciously applied) projects a supply of his pranic aura vibrations into the body of his patient, by way of the nervous system of the patient, and also by means of what may be called the induction of the aura itself. The mere presence of a person strongly charged with prana, is often enough to cause an overflow into the aura of other persons, with a resulting feeling of new strength and energy. By the use of the hands of the healer, a heightened effect is produced, by reason of certain properties inherent in the nervous system of both healer and patient. There is even a flow of etheric substance from the aura of the healer to that of the patient, in cases in which the vitality of the latter is very low. Many a healer has actually, and literally, pumped his life force and etheric substance into the body of his patient, when the latter was sinking into the weakness which precedes death, and has by so doing been able to bring him back to strength and life. This is practically akin to the transfusion of blood — except that it is upon the psychic plane instead of the physical.”

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does not make this pranic treatment the all-in-all of his psychic treatment. On the contrary it is but the less subtle part, which leads up to the higher phases. While treating his patients by the laying on of hands, he, at the same time, strives to induce in the mind of the patient the mental image of restored health and physical strength; he pictures the diseased organ as restored to health and normal functioning; he sees the entire physiological machinery operating properly, the work of nutrition, assimilation, and excretion going on naturally

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encouragement he awakens hope and confidence in the mind of the patient, and thus obtains the co-operation of that mind in connection to his own mental efforts. The astral body responds to this treatment, and begins to energize the physical organs and cells into normal activity — and the journey toward health is begun.

[In the little book just mention, “The Human Aura,� I gave some valuable information regarding the influence of colors in psychic healing, which I do not reproduce here as it is outside the scope and field of the present lessons. Those who may feel interested in the subject are respectfully referred to the little manual itself. It is sold for a nominal price by the publishers of the present work.]

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Suggestive Therapeutics, great insistence is laid upon the verbal suggestion to the patient, on the part of the healer. The patient is told that he will get well; that his organs will function normally; etc., etc.

But the student of the present lessons will readily see that the only virtue in the spoken words consists in their power to evoke and induce the mental image of the desired condition in the mind of the patient. The mental picture thus evoked produces a corresponding effect in the astral body of the patient, and sets into operation the materialization of desired results. In addition, the words produce a strong mental picture in the mind of the healer himself, and thus give form and strength to his psychic vibrations which are being poured out toward the patient. This is really the secret of suggestive treatment.

The many cults of metaphysical healing, in America and Europe, lay great stress upon what they call “affirmations,� which are but statements of the patient of his or her faith in the healing power of God, or of Mind, or Spirit, or Principle (different names are used).

The patient naturally has confidence aroused, and as naturally begins to picture the desired condition; this in turn reacting upon the astral body, and this upon the physical body or organ. In addition, the healer’s mind is also set to work in the same way, and sets into motion the healing psychic forces in the way just mentioned. You will 141

notice that the same principle is always involved and set into operation and manifestation.

There is no particular virtue in the form of affirmation used by the healer or patient, except the important virtue of being able to arouse strong mental pictures of restored health, proper functioning, etc.

There is of course this also: certain forms of affirmations or mental statements are better suited than others to the particular wants of certain persons. For instance, a very religious person will be aroused better by affirmations and statements filled with religious sentiments and ideas; while a person of a purely scientific turn of mind will receive more benefit from affirmations in which the precise physiological functions are specifically mentioned; while the person who is fond of mystery and strange ceremonies will be better served in the affirmations or statements taken in the form of some magical incantation, etc. The difference, however, lies in the mind of the patient, rather than in the words themselves. Words are merely invokers of ideas — symbols of ideas. In themselves, words are nothing — ideas are everything.

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described. That is to say, you must first be filled with the strong desire and wish to make the cure; then you must make a strong mental image of the desired result, as actually present. (Do not think of it as “going to be;” instead say and think that it “is now!”); then concentrate the attention firmly and positively upon the idea. You may aid yourself and others by affirmations or auto-suggestions (words creating desired ideas and mental pictures) if you wish — you may get better results in this way. In this connection, let me remind you that the healing work in many cases consists largely in placing proper mental pictures in the mind of the patient, thereby displacing improper and harmful mental pictures of disease, etc., which have been given lodgement there before. Many persons are sick because of improper and harmful mental pictures that they have allowed to be placed there by the suggestions of others. Fear and dread of disease often acts to bring about the feared condition, for reasons that you can readily see.

And, now, finally for the work of “absent healing” by psychic influence. I can state this to you very simply; it is this: take what I have just told you regarding personal treatments, and combine it with what I have told you in previous lessons about “long distance psychic influence” — then you will have the whole thing. Here is a sample of an effective distant treatment; or “absent treatment,” to use the 143

popular term — it may be varied and enlarged up to fit individual cases:

Sit quietly in your own room, inducing a calm, peaceful mental attitude and state. Then (in the way already told you in this book) make a mental picture of the patient as sitting opposite to you, or lying down in front of you. If you have never seen the patient, make simply a mental image of a man, or a woman, as the case may be, and think of the figure as being the patient. The best practitioners of distant psychic healing produce such a strong mental image of the patient that they can often actually “feel” his or her presence. (This of course is the result of a simple form of clairvoyance.) Then make a strong mental picture of the condition that you wish to induce in the patient — the healthy physical condition of the organ, or part or body, as the case may be. See this condition as existing at the present time, and not as merely to come in the future. At the same time, you will do well to mentally speak to the patient, just as you would in case he or she were sitting before you in the physical body. Tell the patient just what you would in such case. Pour in the suggestions, or affirmations, or whatever you may wish to call them. In some cases in which an excellent en rapport condition is established, patients become aware of the treatment, and sometimes can almost see and feel the presence of the healer.

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A prominent Mental Scientist, of America, instructs his pupils to consider each of the organs of the patient, or of themselves, as having a separate intelligence; and, therefore, to “speak up to it” as if it really understood what was being said to its organ-mind. I would say that such form of treatment would be calculated to bring about very good results, indeed. The principle of concentration and mental picturing would be invoked very strongly in such a case, and the astral counterpart of the organ should respond to such treatment quickly and effectively. It is an occult fact that there is mind in every organ and cell of the body, and if the same is awakened in the astral counterpart, it will respond to the command, suggestion, or direction.

The writer in question evidently is well acquainted with this occult law, judging from his other writings, and has simply veiled his knowledge with this easily understood method of treatment which undoubtedly will “do the work,” to use the American term.

Finally, no matter what may be the theory, or method, given in connection with psychic healing of any or all kinds, you will find the same general principles underlying it that have been presented over and over again in this book. In fact, many purely material and physical remedies owe their success to the fact that they appeal to the imagination of the patient, and also inspire confidence in him.

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Anything that will inspire confidence, faith and hope in the mind of a patient, and will bring to his mind strong mental pictures of restored health and normal functioning of his organs — that thing will make for health for him. So, there you have the whole theory and practice in a sentence!

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ENTER EACH DAY WITH CAREFUL PREPARATION Mary Bruce Wallace The Thinning of the Veil (1919)

"Not only every day, but every hour, every moment, has its appointed task. We on this side appreciate the significance of this more than you do. You must learn to realize values from the inner rather than the outer point of view. A moment is eternal, it is elastic; it has no duration. Intensity gives it value. One second of intense feeling may do more good or more harm than an hour of shallow emotion. One strong heavenward aspiration, one deep desire, one clear thought, is more precious than a whole day, even a godly day, lived on the surface of things. We must have force to work with. Generate this force. How else may mankind, which is forever sliding on the surface of things, be raised up? You must give us a lever. Every earnest soul must learn to prize power or force and to generate it consciously. All power is drawn from the supreme Source by conscious human aspiration. Harness your desires to divine impulses. Let not little things hold you in sway. The coming age is to be a day of big things —

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"Face a wide horizon every morning by rising to a higher elevation of outlook. From the mountain of the soul must the day be viewed, rather than from the lowland. Each soul has its own inner heights and its own pathway thereto. I pray you find this pathway, and, having found it, ascend. Let this be to you a sacred daily duty. Undertake it at dawn, or when first the eyes open upon the outer world, before the rush of the day has seized you in its grip. It is on the mountain that you will realize how to seize and use the significance of the moments of which the days are full. Much would result could you appreciate the meaning of my words. Let not these precious gifts of time pass you fruitlessly. We need them all. "In calmness lies power. No strain or effort is needed, but rather the turning of the attention towards divine realities, which should be accomplished as restfully as turning to look at a beautiful view or at a child's lovely face, or at a flower.

You should turn, because it is a joy to do so. This you will realize if you persevere. In the restful aspiration of the soul lies greater power than in any amount of strenuous activity of mind. An uplifting of heart and soul is what we would have you attain, rather than an effort of the outer mind. Greater is the power of the quiet stream than the power of the whirlwind‌. Realize that these mighty forces flow through you immediately when you make yourselves receptive to them‌. By day remember the other lessons of joy, serenity, and 148

self-control. At night and at dawn, dwell upon the thought of receptivity to Divine Power, which will then be with you and will inspire the Coming moments so that you may make the utmost use of them."

"Consecrate the ideals of your souls. Let nothing deter you from fixing your gaze upon these. Dedication is the initial step on the road you are called upon to follow. This road may truly be said to lead from darkness to light — the light of spiritual understanding‌Thus you will realize the true significance of life in the body, and learn to perceive the outer from the within, instead of, as now, the inner from the without. Surely, surely shall these things be to you if you will but have the patience to persevere. Few there are who realize this ideal whilst, still in the flesh, but in the coming days many must attain to it if mankind is to ascend more quickly than heretofore. All who desire and pray for this ascent are being pressed into the service. This is the way to a deeper spiritual life. I cannot sufficiently appraise to you the value and significance of such work. The radiance of the inner life of even one soul upon the earth who has perfectly realized what I mean, contributes to illumine and clear the dark atmosphere of world-thought. More powerful is such influence for the uplift of the Race than much outward action. Thought is a greater power than spoken word or outward deed. These limit it, rather than express it 149

fully. By thought shall the world be purged. Only through a purged and purified atmosphere may the ideals of the inner realms be outwardly manifested on the earth."

"My friends, I would have you realize how easy it is to tap the wellsprings of Divine Power. You are apt to feel that these are hard to reach, or that you have not the power to do soy but in reality they lie within your own heart, at your very door, so to say. You need nothing but the faith to stretch out your hand and to take this living water.

Drink it not on rare occasions, but as your daily refreshment. Draw upon the water of life each day for your every need of soul and of mind and of body. You will accomplish this by faith, aided by imagination. The Divine Fount of healing and of inspiration is constantly

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"Dwell in thought upon those things only that are of real moment.

Pass over others as lightly as a bird touches water with its wings.

Thus shall you stand within, in the peace, rather than without in the tumult. Rule the without from the within. You can do far more than you know, simply by the power of thought, which is the greatest force in the universe.

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"Thought is the framework upon which all outward things are constructed.

Through this alone was the world created and all that

moves therein. As we rise in the scale of evolution, this becomes more and more clear to us. Realize your Divine Power. Use it with thankfulness and awe."

"To our view, the life on earth is indeed one of conflict for all earnest souls who desire to progress swiftly on the upward road. But I would have you understand that this conflict is not necessarily sorrowful. It can and should be essentially joyous, a heroic mastery over circumstances whereof the soul should always feel itself king. We will help you to achieve that which you would otherwise find impossible, showing you how to create anew the whole fabric of your thought and circumstance."

"The great fault we have to find with much of the work attempted by man is that it is not sufficiently inspired and prepared for from within‌. Prepare at length in the inner for speedy activity in the outer."

"As the body prepares for sleep each night, holy should the thoughts be. This is of vital importance to the soul. Always at night remember to lay aside all the cares of the day, all thoughts of outward matters, 151

all anxieties or fears. Cast these off as you would a garment. Lie down to sleep in perfect peace, realizing that you are beneath the Divine care, folded in the Heavenly love and beauty. Blessed is the soul that can thus trust itself to the Infinite Power each night. This preparation will surround you with light and inspiration during the hours of sleep. More readily shall we be able to influence and prepare you for the coming day."

"Make a firmer spiritual preparation for the day, both whilst robing and whilst taking the first meal. Sacred and wonderful, pregnant with power are these first hours of the day, when the soul, refreshed by bodily sleep and by its increase of vital energy from the Unseen, starts once again upon its daily journey. Go forward, serenely conscious of Divine Power sustaining you at all times. Then the light will shine through every cloud that crosses your pathway. Children of light are troubled by no outward storm. Swiftly does it recede before them. No outward agitation need alarm the soul that is centred in serenity. The soul createth her own atmosphere, therefore her sky need never be grey."

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EFFECTS OF MENTAL STRESS Healing Currents from the Battery of Life Walter DeVoe (1919)

We are mental creatures, and our life is in our mind. Our happiness depends upon our state of mind. Our physical conditions exhibit our frame of mind, and we can progress in life and create a proper destiny only as we cultivate the thinking which is common to the Mind of the Creator.

Mind is positive and negative. Mortal mind is negative-undeveloped.

The Supreme Mind is positive-developed in wisdom.

Whatever thoughts we listen to or speak, or whatever thoughts we allow to remain in our minds, will bear fruit. Condemnation, envy, prejudice, and all the thoughts and words of mortal mind, are negative. They are nothing and lead to nothing, which is dissolution.

The words of truth will gain the mastery over all the beliefs and expressions of error, for these are negative conditions which the positive thoughts of truth overcome.

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ourselves from these thoughts by denial of them, and we can place our minds in unity with the positive pole of life and peace by the affirmation of truth. We are one with the almighty goodness of the Creator now. Our minds live in and draw their life from the Mind of the Creator, and we can and will grow out of our negative beliefs and conditions by the recognition that we are manifestations of the EverPresent Life. We can think the thoughts of the Creator, and thus grow into a conscious knowledge and realization of an Infinite Presence and Power.

While we are thinking the thoughts of the world, we are living in mental and spiritual darkness, and in this state of mind we cannot hope to enjoy life or peace or prosperity from the Creator, for all real enjoyment is in the Light of Truth. An abiding satisfaction flows into our minds as we charge them with thoughts based on the truth of infinite goodness and love.

We have no power or substance or intelligence except through the Ever-Present Life within us, and this is true of all beings and all things. This is the saving truth that frees and heals. All life is good and full of healing power.

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are good, and will reveal more and more that they are intelligent, as the truth about them is recognized.

Energize these thoughts in your mind by repetition:

I am living the life of eternal peace, for my life is one with the life of the Creator, which is peace. I desire to think only the thoughts that tend to life and peace, thus uniting myself with the divine Source of all wisdom and love.

I know that I am the Mind of Truth expressing, and I think and feel that Almighty Goodness now dominates all my world.

The Spirit of Goodness is omnipresent. It includes all that I need or want.

I do not place any thoughts or conditions between myself and the Creator.

Every claim that I make which is opposite to the Spirit of Goodness is a negation of my eternal life with the Creator, and hides the Creator from me. The Creator can do all things for me if I am true to the EverPresent’s Inspiration, and have unwavering faith. An all-abiding faith 155

is the affirmation of the Power of the All-Good.

I am Life. I am Health. I am Joy. I am Prosperity. My love is of the Creator and for the truth, and I constantly fill my mind with positive thoughts of truth, which create good and harmonious conditions for me.

There is only One Mind, the Mind of the Creator, full of divine life and intelligence for all, overflowing with healing love and uplifting light.

I lift my mind from all appearances of limitation to the consciousness of the one Omnipotent Power, and affirm that I am the recipient of all Its goodness and love.

I negate from my being all the feelings and thoughts of the world, and individualize the thoughts based on my unity with the I AM, for I am the spoken word of the Creator, and I manifest the Ever-Present’s intelligent goodness, now and forever.

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HOW TO PRACTICE MENTAL HEALING Healing Currents from the Battery of Life Walter DeVoe (1919)

The central attraction of these concepts has been the great fact of its healing power. Into the mind of humanity has come a mighty wave of awareness, bringing with it a merciful vitality for the strengthening of the weak, the healing of the sick and the soothing of all pain. The Angels of Goodness are stirring the pool of life and all who will it may have health and peace in overflowing abundance.

If you are seeking health (physical, mental, or spiritual), it is essential first of all that you thoroughly grasp this fact:

You are all mind, through and through, from soul to physical atoms.

You believe that you are part mind and part matter; that part of your nature is intelligent and the rest is inert and unresponsive, except to powerful drugs and stimulants. But the fact of the matter is, every nerve and muscle and atom is responsive to the action of your mind.

You are organized intelligence.

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YOU ARE ALL MIND Healing Currents from the Battery of Life Walter DeVoe (1919)

You have been in the habit of thinking that all the mind you have is situated in your brain. To be sure, your brain is the most positive center of mental action, and from its substance you generate the conscious thought that inspires and affects every negative center in your body. If you but stop to think, you will acknowledge that there is an instinctive intelligence operative in the involuntary action of your heart and lungs, and in every organ of your body. There is wisdom expressed in the adaptation of every bone and muscle and organ to its proper uses. And this wisdom is a creative intelligence constantly operative in your physical organization. You know your will has dominion over matter; for your will, operating through your arm, can move an inert object. Now, that same mental force which acts through your will to lift a heavy weight into the air, or walk your one or two hundred pounds of flesh the distance of a mile or more, is the same mind that is organizing and reorganizing every part of your body, and it is this mental force that can be educated to heal your body and keep you in health. You may have misdirected this wonderful force and, if so, it has caused you sickness and pain.

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If you have been fearful, for example, you have congealed internal secretions, and by your thoughts of fear, retarded the action of some physical function. You should learn of the Love that overcomes all fear. Heavy charges of electricity will burn out the wires and connections in an electric battery, and if you consider that your organization is a mental battery, you will not be surprised that heavy charges of anger paralyze the delicate nerve wires and “burn out� brain cells in such abundance that mental action is no longer possible. Passion will poison the blood and destroy digestion. Fright has been known to turn the hair white in a single night, and excessive emotion has so affected the whole organism as to cause sudden death.

Woven into your mind are all the false beliefs and feelings that you have inherited from the generations before you, and they are a basic cause for mental and physical tribulations. A philosophy of life based on truth will correct these causes and unite you to the fountain of everlasting life and love, from which will bubble forth a joyous life and strength sufficient for every need.

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you will, in your body or in the body of a friend. As angels of mercy and love are sent out from the Almighty Presence to carry blessings to humanity, so from your mind are sent out thoughts endowed with your quality of intelligence, which go forth to cause peace or pain wherever they may be sent. You have probably not realized the importance of the truth that the Creator gave human beings dominion over everything less positive than themselves. You have been endowed by the Almighty with dominion over every negative state of your body and mind. The will power which you have received from the Ever-Present is creative in potency, and you can create health and happiness by working in unity with the love and wisdom of the All One.

Disease and pain are the results of a lack of strength or intelligence in an inharmonious organ. You can consciously increase the force and intelligence in every organ of your body by thinking of the organ as an intelligent thing and blessing it with your power of thought.

Take the heart, for instance. You know that mental excitement or fear will increase or disturb the heart’s action. If the heart is weak in action, speak strength to it in this way: (It is not necessary to repeat the words aloud, or even to use the same words, though a carefully phrased affirmation may carry more power.)

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I am strong and courageous, and I fill you with my strength and courage.

You are organized life and intelligence.

You are active with the life of the Creator, and there is nothing to limit your strength and power.

Repeating such words constantly will develop strength and can have a beneficial effect on organ function. The bodily organs are like children; they appreciate love and attention. We are thinking so much of external things that all our thought force is spent outside of the body, and when we do think of any particular organ it is with a fear that it will not do its duty. Such thoughts go into the organ thought of and work to limit its action. Every time we think or speak of our weakness, or limit in thought the action of any bodily function, we are actually tearing down the strength and power of our organism. We must understand that, as children of the Almighty we are endowed with power and intelligence, and that we limit or expand our powers by the action of our own minds. If we build a mind of faith in the Presence and Power of the Creator in our midst, our faith lays hold of and brings into operation the Divine Life and Intelligence. Likewise, if we place any limit upon our own abilities, whether in the ability to 161

manifest health or success in any department of life, we limit the action of the Almighty on our behalf. The Creator is glorified in glorifying all souls; in making them like gods in the Ever-Present’s own image and likeness of health, perfection and success. “Be ye perfect even as your Creator in heaven is perfect,” is the command.

The mind can construct or destroy. Good, harmonious thoughts full of love and praise are constructive.

Vindictive, pessimistic, angry and critical thoughts are destructive.

An organ in pain can be soothed as you would comfort and harmonize an unhappy child. Do not forget that the organ contains an intelligence that is part of the Mind that you are, and is responsive to a harsh or pleasant word.

I bless you with the love of my soul, which harmonizes all your nerves and atoms.

Such blessings will create harmonious conditions.

If your blood is impure, think in this manner:

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I am a pure spring flowing from the Fountain of Divine Life.

My blood is cleansed and purified by the Ever-Present Power that glorifies all my life.

My heart is cleansed of all impure thoughts and feelings, and I am at peace.

Dormant activities can be aroused by persistently thinking toward the organ or organs:

You are the Spirit of Life in action.

You are filled with joyous, active life, and you love to fulfill the will of my soul in making life manifest.

Many have overcome indigestion of long standing by repeating over and over:

I have within me the power from the Creator which is able to digest and assimilate anything that I may choose to put into my stomach.

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My stomach is a living dynamo of life and energy Capable of doing its perfect duty.

My stomach enjoys its work and loves to assimilate the good life in all things.

These are but a few of the many processes that may be used. Each case requires thoughtful attention and much confidence on the part of the one using the healing thought. If confidence is not aroused after a few trials, you should not lose faith in the method, but should seek a teacher who can help you attain a state of confidence in your own powers which are latent and inactive from lack of recognition and exercise.

That part of mental or spiritual healing which seems to border on the realm of the miraculous is the power of one mind over another mind and body situated at a distance. This is based upon the truth that minds are not distinct or separate, but are surrounded by and united in One Universal Mind, of which each one is an organized part. We are living in an invisible ocean of Mind, and through this ocean our thought waves proceed to the one to whom they are directed. As it is possible to send impulses through space without wires, so may we send the more highly refined thought impulses from one human 164

battery to another, no matter how far apart they may be. In treating patients living at a distance, the same process may be used as in treating oneself, except that the name of the patient should be repeated mentally about seven times before talking to the part of the body to be healed.

It should be remembered that the physical body is organized by the constructive force of thought and feeling. Our invisible character is a real form of force independent of its physical envelope. The character is the positive organizing mind, the body is the negative mind, obedient and responsive to the action of the more positive entity. It is through your character that all life and action express in your physical body, and your character determines the quantity and quality of your life, as well as how successful you will be. Character forms or limits life. So the real basis of all true mental or physical healing is character building.

Now this invisible character, this invisible part of you, which is so potent in weaving physical substance into grotesque or beautiful physical forms, into diseased or healthy forms of life, is a bundle of thoughts and feelings crystallized. As you have organized your character by your habitual thinking patterns, and thus created the cause for your present physical condition, so by your thinking you 165

can recreate and transform your character, and change all the expressions of your body into a new and more beautiful texture. If you have piled false thoughts and impure desires one upon the other to cause an unhealthy mind and body, you can begin now to use your thoughts to dissolve the mental building of the past, and work your mind just as persistently to form a character that will be composed of pure emotions and true, generous thoughts. A mind that is in the consciousness of the Almighty Goodness and Love of the Ever-Present, having naught but blessings for every soul as a child of the Creator, feeling only kindness and goodwill toward even the meanest criminal, will glorify its earthly temple with the very Spirit of the Creator. It will be transformed into an image of greater divine Perfection, with perception open to the living Truth, beholding the divine Love, by the Power of the Ever-Present within us.

We must open our eyes to see that the physical universe is the body of the infinite and eternal Creator, and if we comprehend how our mind pervades and affects every part of our body, we will grasp the truth that the omnipotent Mind of Jehovih is present in every part of this Grand Body.

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Creator. We are organized from Infinite Mind and Substance, and as quickly as we recognize that we can have all of the Good we can accept and make manifest, we will begin to draw upon this inexhaustible Source for all the life, health, prosperity, and satisfaction we need. We should build our faith strong in the truth that the Almighty is for us, and nothing of evil can overcome us or make us forget that there is only omnipotent Goodness in us and all about us.

It is also in those who are apparently evil, since they have not been taught of the Divine Presence, and the condemnations of mortals help to keep hidden the germ of divinity that slumbers within them.

They are misdirecting the good life and energy with which the Creator so bountifully supplies them, because they lack knowledge of how to use and apply these forces. Nothing will save them from their ignorance and sin but the knowledge of the truth of their own oneness with the Creator.

It is very important for us to know that we grow like that which we study. If we keep before our minds the beauty and perfection which the Ever-Present Great Spirit has bestowed upon all of creation, we will find our souls attracted more and more to that divine ideal, until the same love which our Creator has for all creation will be kindled 167

within us, and we shall know that we are all brothers and sisters in oneness with the same Ever-Presence. The most perfect and permanent healing is attained only by the perception of this grand truth and the awakening of the soul to the realization of the mighty love of the I AM. This Love must endow us with a feeling of universal fellowship with all souls as children of the one Creator; we must feel toward all just as the Great Spirit feels toward us, if we would be healed by this transforming love. The Ever-Present Intelligence yearns to heal and prosper all souls, but unless It can find entrance and expression through our souls as love, Its power is limited so far as we are concerned.

I have studied all the modern theories promulgated for the healing of the sick, and for years I have taught and practiced the healing Truth.

I wish to give a word of guidance to those who may be seeking healing power, either for self-benefit or for the healing of others: that the living Ever-Present Creator is the repository of all wisdom and all healing love. The one who will look to the Great Spirit constantly and draw upon that Presence continually for the healing influx, will find an exaltation of the spiritual nature and an indwelling, heavenly bliss which will bring about the culmination of all desires, and satisfy the mind with the consciousness of an immortal heritage that even death cannot overcome.

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Study to gain an understanding of divine thoughts, that your mind may expand to embrace the freeing, healing truth. You can outgrow your limiting ideas of God and humanity, and enter through true ideas into conscious communion with the Spirit of Truth.

While you are educating your intellect in the principles of truth, keep your heart very close to the loving consciousness of the EverPresent. Let the immanent All Power in you be fed and strengthened daily and hourly by communion and cooperation with the transcendent I AM within, that you may embody the Power of this enlightening Presence for all humanity. Let your mortal spirit be bathed in the healing stream of Divine Thought, that you may become transformed into the health and perfection of an immortal soul of the Ever-Present’s inspiration.

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A GENERAL HEALING TREATMENT Healing Currents from the Battery of Life Walter DeVoe (1919)

Retire by yourself and study and meditate upon these thoughts.

When the mind is filled with them, lie down and relax the body and mind so that the healing power may operate freely. Practice daily an hour or more.

O Thou omnipresent Creator of all forms of life, I am one with Thee; I am Thee embodied and expressed, and Thee I praise for my life and all of life’s blessings.

My soul is a living, radiant form of life; a glorious, intelligent individualization of the universal Life and Spirit of the Ever-Present.

My soul, my real, everlasting self, is alive in the Creator, and every cell and organ and function of my body is infused with the living, intelligent power of my soul. I am alive with the life of the Creator.

I am filled with the invigorating vitality of everlasting Life.

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and my recognition that I am Life itself thrills my whole nature with divine healing energy.

I am invigorated and healed by the everlasting Presence of the living Creator.

Pain cannot exist in any part of my nature, because the merciful, soothing power of Life is now satisfying every cell with the oil of joy.

The joyous sunshine of Life penetrates into every part of my being, and with glad understanding I affirm:

I am life, joyous life; I am peaceful, perfect life.

I feel that I am united with the universal life and power of the Creator, and all that joyous strength is focused in my nature, making me so positive with the All One’s perfect energy that all disease and pain are overcome and transformed into harmony and perfection.

I am in tune with Infinite Life and peace.

My brain polarizes the intelligence and wisdom of life.

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substance of my brain.

My sex nature is pure, holy life, free from all condemnations of sin or impurity. These organs generate unlimited vitality and strength, sufficient for all my needs.

My heart is filled with the peace and love of the Ever-Present life, and I am satisfied. My heart cannot be overcome by fear or any oppressive feeling, for it is strong with the love of life. My blood is enriched and vitalized with the goodness and purity of life.

All is life. There is no lack of happy, healing life. I inspire life with every breath, and my lungs appropriate the ozone of life, which feeds my blood with the exhilarating manna of sun-blessed atmosphere.

My stomach is a battery of digestive force and energy, constantly assimilating food; it rejoices in the task, for it is an intelligent digestive magnet for all the elements that the body requires. I am the digestive energy of Almighty Life.

I recognize that all my organs are infused with my soul intelligence, and all are conscious of their duties and work together for the health and harmony of my organism.

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The cleansing Spirit of Life flows freely through my bowels, and their functions are not hindered by any restrictive thoughts, for I do not withhold the free mercy of the Creator from any creature.

My liver is the activity of life, energized with positive intelligence.

I recognize that every atom of my spleen is intelligent, living substance, obeying the soul’s purpose in my physical economy.

I praise the power of endless life and activity in my kidneys, and know that they are the peaceful, perfect substance of life, ever active in cleansing my nature of all impurities.

I can outgrow and overcome every weakness, for I am a magnet for the Vitality that fills all space. I am constantly drawing in the vitality from the all-pervading life of the Creator in nature. I praise Thee, O Thou all-wise and all-loving Presence, that Thou art imparting to me the power of Thy mighty Life which enables me to outgrow every defective and inharmonious condition, and I realize the power and happiness imparted from Thy indwelling Presence in my soul.

Glory to the Creator for the healing, perfecting power of Life.

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All is Life.

These words may not seem true when they are first read, but by constant repetition they will create a strong faith in the power and presence of Life, which will allow the Spirit of Life to come into expression.

Faith can be created by the wonderful power of the word of truth, and through faith the healing power of the Creator can come into manifestation.

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BECOMING ATTUNED TO THE SPIRIT Healing Currents from the Battery of Life Walter DeVoe (1919)

Purity in thought, word, and deed is absolutely essential to any degree of health or spiritual power.

Do you desire health from the Creator, permanent health, which will bring to you the ever-increasing joy of conscious growth in spiritual dominion? Then you must develop the conditions of mind that will facilitate the influx of the Vitality of Eternity. The Creator’s universal Mind is the life and mind of all things, but this power within you, which brings health and peace in its tender ministrations, abides in the more refined states of the universal Mind. Only those who purify and refine their thoughts and feelings will enjoy the blessed realization of the All Perfect Ever-Presence.

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sympathy that their curative potency is enhanced thereby. The EverPresence is organized in the angelic souls of Heaven, and through these angels, who once lived and suffered as mortals, this beneficent Spirit is directed in sympathy and compassion to the healing and uplifting of mortals, wherever they can find an open door.

We might desire, with all the intensity of our natures, to do something to save a person who was unconscious down amid the noxious gases of a mine, but the conditions would not allow us to enter. To the angelic overshadowing, accustomed to life in the most harmonious states of the Higher Realms, the lust and discordant feelings of human life are as disturbing and bewildering as the gases of the mine would be to us. The magnetic and mental emanations from mortals who are living in the enjoyment of the ordinary pleasures of life, without aspiration for heavenly truth, fill the mental atmosphere with odors and vibrations so strong and disagreeable that only unregenerate spirits, not long departed from the earth plane, can remain in close association with friends still incarnate. The high and holy ministers of the Creator who inhabit Eternity cannot breathe and hold their consciousness amid such dense vapors to the best effect. The Creator longs with infinite Love to bring each and every one to the conscious realization of a greater peace and perfection, and it is the perpetual operation of Divine Love that is 176

gradually lifting humanity from darkness to Divinity.

Locked up in the chemical elements of the earth one can find far greater power than dynamite or electricity, and by concentration of thought, humanity may discover, and by mechanical skill operate, this power. Stored in the mental spaces all about and within the mind of humanity is a greater power, and this power is being discovered and applied in suggestion, thought transference, and through the mediumistic phenomena where invisible minds or mental forces become clothed for a time in the trappings of matter and seem to overcome all known laws of physics by levitating material objects.

This same mental power is being used to heal disease and create lives of positive fulfillment.

There is a power in the Creator much greater and more satisfying in its operation than either material or mental power. Behind and within the purest degrees of all the universal forces of existence abides the Supreme Controller, the Spirit of the Ever-Present, Who is forever evolving and transforming all energies and forces to subserve Its purpose of wisdom and love. It was this transforming power of the Creator’s Love that the prophets of old discovered and revealed to mortals; and it is this Spirit of universal Love which each of us must realize if we would know the Creator.

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By purity of life we prepare the physical temple, and by deep devotion and holy aspiration we stir the depths of the soul into intense activity, and become a magnet for the indwelling Spirit. The soul is of the Creator; it came from that Infinite Source, and through it the spirit will express to the mind and body.

The soul in its incarnation into a form of flesh is like a seed that has been sown in the earth. It must be watered by our thoughts of recognition and quickened by our deep feelings of love for the Creator. It has an affinity only for the truth of the Creator’s love; the thoughts and feelings generated by earthly things becloud its faculties and hinder it from receiving its daily sustenance from the I AM within. If the mind of a person is centered wholly upon material things, the soul becomes isolated from the Creator. If the soul is strong and has had some degree of awakening, it will tire of the dreariness and darkness of mortal vibrations, and when an occasion offers itself by way of sickness or weakness of the body, it will sever its connections with the flesh and return to the freer state of spiritual life, causing death to the body. But it will still be burdened by its personal mind, which it must regenerate. The work of regeneration would have been much easier had the personal mind received and accepted the knowledge of spiritual truths before death, because 178

truth received from the mortal plane of understanding produces a deeper impression on the mind accustomed to dealing with material things.

If the soul is not awakened, it cannot gain much realization of its oneness with the life and wisdom of the Creator, and consequently will not be able to recreate and hold the flesh in harmony and health.

We very often find that it is sufficient to educate the soul to a realization of its oneness with the Creator in order to bring health to the flesh.

There is no permanent health or happiness outside the realization of the heavenly Presence. Many seek for health, as they have sought for happiness, in material things, and find it not; while if they would but cultivate conditions for the expression of the healing Love of the Creator, much disease and suffering would be eliminated from their lives.

Some reply that they have known pure and devoted seekers of light and truth who have been the greatest sufferers. We know that they were not living in the knowledge of the omnipotence of the Creator’s love and goodness; in other words, they believed in the power of evil to frustrate the Creator’s omnipotent Goodness, and according to the 179

laws of thought, their beliefs in the powers of darkness hindered the manifestation of the spirit of Love in their lives. Their fears and mistaken beliefs made them negative and receptive to inharmonious conditions. Their minds were not bright, hopeful and joyous with positive thoughts derived from a divine faith, and so the Spirit could not enter.

We have known of those who have been deeply interested in all that tended to help humanity. They were faithful in doing church work, active in works of charity, giving most of their time and energy to others; and then as they found their strength diminishing, and had many disturbances in their financial conditions, they began to doubt God. They had done much for God, and what was God doing for them? God did not seem to care how much they suffered or how poor they became. Was God just?

Did God love them? Was there any God of love and wisdom at all?

They fulfilled the second part of the commandment to love their neighbor as themselves, but failed to see the depth and breadth of the first part of the injunction: “Thou shalt love thy God with all thy heart, mind, soul and strength.� They used their own strength and not the strength of the Ever-Present within them. If they had lived in the 180

constant inspiration of the Creator’s Presence, their souls would have gained new power daily; wisdom and vitality and a living spontaneity of joy would have filled their lives with gladness and health. They would disease from themselves and others. I know these things to be true, for I have lived in the old way and reaped pain and discouragement, and I have lived in the new way and reaped joyous health and spiritual prosperity. I find that the Spirit of Love makes of us magnets for all things that we may desire when we live with it and allow its power to express through us. But if we do not spend some time daily in devotion to the All One, it may be readily seen that the Creator’s Presence will not be so strong in us for the manifestation of either Divine Wisdom, Divine Health or Divine Prosperity.

We know that if we seek first the Ever-Present Power within us, and not our own power, all things will be possible.

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CULTIVATE YOUR WILL Healing Currents from the Battery of Life Walter DeVoe (1919)

The omnipotent Will of the Creator is holding worlds and solar systems in obedience to a harmonious order. You stand in the highest order of created beings, and you have the ability to come in direct contact with the divine Will, to the end that It may express Its purpose of perfection through your whole nature. Develop the divine Will within you by expressing It. You can cultivate such a mighty force of will by the constant assertion, “I am, I will,” that every temptation will be overcome and every bad habit transformed into good by the awakening of this mighty attribute of your divinity. These affirmations will give you the godlike power of dominion:

I am a living Soul of Jehovih’s Ever-Presence.

I will realize the majesty and glory of my divine Soul.

I will feel constantly that I am an angel of Light and Love.

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and affairs. I will conquer all evil.

I will resist all temptations.

I will fill every organ of my nature with healing life.

I will express the perfect life and health that exist in my soul.

I will become such a magnet of love that harmony and prosperity will surround me on all sides.

I praise the Creator for this mighty power that is now mine.

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MY SOUL IS ALIVE WITH THE HEALING POWER OF THE CREATOR Healing Currents from the Battery of Life Walter DeVoe (1919)

Assume a restful attitude and let the above thought occupy your mind. Picture in your imagination the reality of the living, healing Presence of your Creator. As you hold this thought in mind, know that your soul and body are being illuminated, spiritualized and harmonized by the living power of the Ever-Present. Cultivate by love and devotion this heavenly Presence. Your soul will awaken under the influx of that divine pervasive Presence, and new and holy aspirations will be born. You will feel your soul and mind and body being transformed into the harmony and perfection that are your real, eternal character.

After you have continued this practice for a time you will begin to realize as never before that your soul is an actual, intelligent power, superior to your conscious mind, created in the image and character of the Creator. Your divine nature will grow in strength and power daily, and you will praise and glorify the Creator as the regenerator and energizer of your soul. Then you will love to give time to silence 184

and meditation, so your soul may be fed by the influx of Divine inspiration.

From this awakening of the soul, there will come to you a new and more potent vitality that will heal and harmonize all your nature. Your soul will begin to realize its god-like dominion over negativity, sickness and death. It will become a potent magnet of love to draw to itself all that is required of wisdom and wealth to promote its spiritual welfare.

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HEALING PEACE 1 Healing Currents from the Battery of Life Walter DeVoe (1919)

This treatment will place you in touch with the healing streams which flow from the Celestial Presence of the Creator.

Sacred names each have a spiritual quality and a relationship with a center of consciousness, and the name Jehovih, which means the Ever-Present Great Spirit, relates the mind to the holiest state of the Divine Mind. The mind becomes united through this name with the state of infinite peace wherein abide the holiest and wisest angels of the Ever-Present, and through this telepathic sympathy, receptive minds receive vibrations of holy, peaceful, healing emanations, which harmonize all mental disturbances and bring the peace that passeth mortal understanding. This name may be used effectively whenever and wherever peace is desired, for self or for others.

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meekness and humility of mind, bow down before the Majesty of that Mysterious Power which resides within all the angelic spheres and also within the inmost recesses of your soul, and your spiritual poverty will be supplanted by the unlimited fullness and boundless love of the Creator. Praise be to Thee, Jehovih!

From the meek and subtle chamber of your soul there bubbles forth the ethereal waters of peace. There is a region within you akin to that essential realm of Jehovih, where the crystal Sea of Truth is stirred by the vital breath of the Infinite One, and the murmuring waves whisper words of peace and everlasting serenity.

Your soul now listens to the voice of omnipotent Peace, and the ethereal peace of the Spirit infuses your whole nature with the harmony of heaven.

The crystal Sea at the root of your soul finds your mind meek, responsive, and receptive to its waters of peace which gently flow into your mind and harmonize your thoughts with heavenly rest.

The ethereal potency of the peaceful Ever-Presence is now permeating your whole being, and all the atoms of your body obey this law of peace and harmony.

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Healing, soothing peace is the only Presence and the only Power.

You are saturated with the healing glory of Jehovih, and there is no cause for mental or physical friction in the midst of that Presence.

You are now in the peaceful glory of this Infinite Presence, and there cannot be anything in you or around you but boundless peace and love and harmony.

In this Presence: There are no mortal minds at war. All is infinite Peace.

There is no bondage to lust or love. All is eternal Harmony.

There is no vanity or pride, for the essential Meekness reigns supreme in all.

All the cells of your nature rejoice in the free light of boundless Peace, and inbreathe the peaceful vitality of Eternity.

Glory to Jehovih for the healing Peace from the exalted spheres of heavenly, harmonious Love.

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Living Creator!

I recognize that my life is one with Thy unlimited life and power.

Thy constructive Mind is within me, building my mind and body in strength and perfection.

I open my mind to the influx of Thy mighty Presence of health and peace.

Thou art within me a fountain of vitality flowing into every faculty and organ of my being.

Thou art the Power within my nature, and Thy life and health have all power to regenerate and heal my body.

I am organizing Thy life and strength into a mind and body of health and perfection.

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Thy substance is feeding and restoring every part of my body to positive health.

I praise Thy healing life and intelligence in every organ, in every nerve, in every atom of my flesh.

I praise Thy glorious wisdom which is illuminating my soul and purifying my mind of every limiting thought.

I praise Thy tender, healing Love which invigorates and upholds me and dissolves away all fear.

O Living Creator, this is Thy holy temple; make it a perfect dwelling place from which shall radiate Thy healing love and wisdom to all Thy children.

O Creator, glorify me with Thy healing power, that I also may glorify Thee.

Read this prayer over several times, strive to assimilate every word within your being, and then sit quietly with eyes closed while the Spirit of the Creator flows through your nature, fulfilling your desire.

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HEALTH Henry Thomas Hamblin Within You is The Power (1920)

It is impossible, in a little work of this description to explain why it is that one person inherits a weak and ailing body and another enjoys a strong and robust constitution. Sufficient for us here to notice that the days of rude, rugged health are passing, and that man is becoming more highly strung, nervous and psychic in his make-up. The old type of rude, unconscious health was due to the animal-like nature of man, which caused his body to be governed more completely by the instinctive mind. Less evolved humans are not affected, apparently, by the mental storms, psychic changes, and spiritual disharmonies that disturb the health of the more evolved types. We have an illustration of this in the case of some forms of insanity. The patient "goes out of his mind," with the result that his bodily health becomes wonderfully good. The instinctive mind takes control of things, and rude, robust animal health is the result. When the patient was sane and his mind filled with worry, ambitions, plans, cares, lusts, hates and griefs, he was probably very far from well. This would be due to the disturbing effects of his thoughts and uncontrolled emotions.

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happy in an imbecile way, he ceased to think of these disturbing things, with the result that the instinctive, animal mind was able to work undisturbed.

It is of no use sighing for "the good old times," when people were rugged and strong in the way that savages are rugged and strong, for evolution has decreed that man shall change into a higher and more nervous and sensitive type. In this sensitive type wrong thoughts and emotions quickly produce pain and suffering. The majority of people do not know what good health is. Not only do they suffer from minor ailments, such as headaches, indigestion, rheumatism, neuritis, but they also never feel hearty or completely well. They are strangers to the joy of living. Life does not thrill them: nothing quickens their blood: they have no moments of vivid ecstasy — in other words, they do not live, they merely exist at a poor dying rate.

Again, the majority of people are susceptible to infectious diseases and epidemics, yet, if they were really well, they would be immune.

Instead, however, of seeking immunity through health, they are seeing it through the use of vaccines and serums, thus adding to the burdens

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end in failure, for, as fast as one disease is suppressed another one will appear.

Many people look upon disease and sickness as inevitable, yet the truth is that health is the normal state and ill-health an abnormality. In tracing back ill-health to its source, we find, first of all, that it is due to disobedience of natural law. Large numbers of people break nearly every known natural law of health, and are surprised that they become ill. Yet the wonder is that they are as well as they are. Yet, while obedience to nature's laws and the use of nature-cure methods will carry us a certain part of the way, we find that there must be causes even deeper than those which are physical. We are confronted by the fact that there are many people who obey every known physical law of health, who bathe, exercise, breathe, eat and drink scientifically, who adopt nature-cure methods instead of drugs and serums, who yet cannot find health. Therefore we must search deeper and go to the mind in order to discover the cause of ill-health.

When we look to the mind we find a prolific cause of sickness. Man thinks himself into ill-health and disease. It is well known that thinking about disease and sickness produces them in the body. People who are forever thinking about disease, illness, operations and other morbid subjects, become a prey to these things. Those who believe 194

that sickness is inevitable, manifest it in their life. Morbid thinking produces a morbid state of the body, causing it either to fall an easy prey to infection or to break down into chronic ill-health, or even disease. Allowing the thoughts to dwell upon morbid things is a sure way to sickness and invalidism.

Man is not only made ill by his own negative thoughts and emotions, he is also under the hypnotic spell of the race mind. "The God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not." We are all under the spell, more or less, of a huge illusion. The evil, disease, sickness and other imperfections that we see and experience, have no reality, in reality, but have an existence in unreality.

Although they are not real in a real sense, yet they are terribly real to this present limited consciousness.1

By realizing the truth, and by

thinking and living in its light and power, the hypnotic spell becomes broken, not completely, else we should not grow old, but to such an extent that a state of greatly improved health can be enjoyed.

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We are also hypnotically affected by suggestion, which reaches us from a thousand different sources. The conversations of friends and acquaintances, affect us adversely. Their belief in disease and sickness as realities, and in its inevitableness, colors all their conversation, and, unless we guard against it, this unconsciously affects us. Newspapers, magazines, books, all steeped in the same error, also influence us unless we have become too positive to be affected. From innumerable sources it is subtly suggested to us that disease, sickness, infection are realities that cannot be evaded, and to which we are prone. The effect of all this, putting it in simple and elementary language, is to divert the life power into wrong channels, thus producing disease and ill-health in place of perfection. The normal state of health has to give place to an abnormal state of disease or sickness. The normal health-state is, however, restored when Truth is realized, and the life lived in Its light and power.

Absolute Truth and Perfection stand behind all the illusion and imperfection of the sense life. It is by realizing the Truth and the perfection of the Reality, and by establishing the thought-life in Truth, so that our thoughts cease to be negative and based on error and illusion, that health is to be found.

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one of the greatest of sins. The way of life is to walk (think and act) after the Spirit (which is perfect, whole, immortal and incorruptible) and not after the flesh (corruption, disease, sickness, death). By thinking "after the flesh" we dishonor God who is absolute Wholeness and Perfection, and cut ourselves off from the Divine Life and Power.

But there are other ways by which wrong thinking destroys the health. Thinking thoughts of lust is a prolific cause of unhappiness, sickness and nervous disease. The divine forces of life are directed into a wrong channel, resulting either in indulgence and inevitable weakening of body, brain and will, or in repression and its consequent nervous diseases. If the thoughts are allowed to dwell upon impurity, evil results must follow in some form, either in action or ill-health, or both. Thought must be controlled and reversed continually. Not repressed, but reversed, be it noted, for there is a tremendous difference between the two. Repression creates nervous trouble, but by reversing or transmuting the thoughts the life becomes transformed, and the bodily health greatly improved.

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that the state of the mind and the character of the thoughts are important factors which cannot be ignored. It is useless to treat either ill-health or disease if they are merely the external effects of hidden causes of the mind. In order to effect a cure we have to get back to the cause of the trouble.

Thought control is a great assistance.2

Substituting a right or

positive thought for a wrong one, will, in course of time, work wonders in the life. In the sub-conscious we have an illimitable power of extraordinary intelligence. According to our thoughts this wonderful power either builds up health, harmony and beauty in our life and body, or just the reverse. The power is good, the intelligence is apparently infinite, but it goes where-ever our thoughts direct it. By our thinking, therefore, we either create or destroy, produce either good or evil. If, therefore, all our thoughts are good, positive and constructive, it follows that both our body and our life must become built up in harmony and perfection. The question is, can this be done? It can be done if we have the desire, and are willing to discipline ourselves and persevere in the face, often, of seeming

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failure. Some readers may say, at this point, that they have no desire to be so frightfully good, that they are not prepared to give up lust, impurity, hate, anger, malice and thoughts and emotions of this kind.

Very well, if this is so, they must go on and learn, through suffering, the lesson which they refuse to learn willingly. Others may say: "Yes, I want to control my thoughts, but how can I cease to worry when I have so much about which to worry, and how can I cease to hate when I have been so deeply wronged?" This brings us to an even deeper cause of ill-health than that of mind, viz., the attitude of the heart. Our scriptures tell us that "as a man thinketh in his heart so is he." By "heart" is meant the soul or feeling, desiring part of man. It is here where the conflict between the self-will and the Divine Will, between the desires of the flesh and the longings of the Spirit take place. The real root cause of all unhappiness, disharmony and illhealth is spiritual, and not merely mental or physical. The latter are contributory causes, but the former is the fundamental cause.

Spiritual disharmony is, in reality, the cause of all ill-health and disease. Until spiritual harmony is restored, man is a kingdom divided against itself, which, as our Lord said, cannot stand. Healing, then, must be of a spiritual character. Until this harmony exists there can be no overcoming of hate thoughts, fear thoughts or worry thoughts, and until these are overcome there can be no true healing.

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inward harmony by forgiving sin, by changing the heart's desires, by bringing the will of the subject into harmony with the Divine Will of the Whole. Our Lord's healing was not accomplished by means of suggestion, neither was it achieved by human will power; it was done by a bringing into harmony of the heart and desires and will with the Divine Will. At the same time there must have been a revelation of the truth that the Will of God is love, wholeness, joy and perfection, and not disease, sickness and misery.

Mental healing does not become possible until we have made our peace with God. Until we have surrendered entirely to the love principle, we cannot overcome our hate thoughts and malice thoughts or resentment thoughts, by transmuting them into thoughts of love. Until we surrender to the Divine Will and leave all our problems to the Infinite Mind, we cannot cease to worry and fear.

Mental discipline and thought-control are necessary after this inward change has taken place, for we all have to work out our own salvation, but the essential thing is the inward heart surrender in love and trust. So long as we hate our brother, or fear what the morrow may bring forth, or worry about the things of this life, we can never be well. When, however, we have become attuned to the Divine Harmony, and have learnt to control our thoughts and emotions and to transmute fleshly and material desires into loving service, a state 200

of wholeness is the inevitable result. Old, deeply-seated disorders die away, and a steady improvement in the state of health takes its place.

In order to regain health it is necessary to raise oneself up continually to the Divine Ideal of health, harmony and perfection. But this is useless if there still remains a clashing of the personal will with the Divine Will, or if there is any hate, malice, envy, or fear in the heart.

The will must be surrendered to the greater Will (this, in reality, is our highest good, for the fulfillment of the Divine Will is the happy destiny of man): the heart must forgive and be filled with love; fear must be cast out, and replaced by confidence and complete trust, before we can enter into that happy, care-free, restful state which is necessary for healing. Health is harmony — a delicate balance and adjustment between spirit, soul, mind and body. This harmony is dependent entirely upon the greater harmony between ourselves and God. So long as there is a conflict of will, so long as there is hate or resentment, so long as there is selfishness or while there is fear, this harmony cannot exist.

Therefore, the bed-rock cause of health is spiritual harmony, all healing being a restoration of harmony between man and his Divine Source. When this harmony is restored, man is no longer a kingdom 201

divided against itself, for he becomes established in unity: he works with the Universe and the Divine Laws of his being, instead of against them. The Divine Life and Power flow through him unimpeded, promoting perfect sub-conscious functioning. His thoughts become cleansed at their source ("Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me," "Cleanse Thou me from secret faults"). He becomes free from the hypnotic spell of the race mind: his eyes, through the influence of the Divine Spirit, become opened to the Truth; therefore he is no longer blinded by the Prince of this world. In the Divine Union he becomes free. (In Christ all are made alive).

The subject of grief and its effect upon health has purposely been left to the last. No amount of right thinking will prevent bereavements in this life. These form part of the necessary discipline of life, and it depends entirely upon how we meet our trials whether they shall be hurtful or the greatest possible blessing. By rebelling against life's discipline, griefs become hurtful, but the hurt is not in the bereavement itself, but in the attitude of the mind and heart. Until the soul is able to drink the cup of sorrow willingly, and say "Thy Will be done," bereavement is hurtful, destroying both health and happiness.

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The cause of the hurt is, however, in the hardness of heart, and not in the bereavement itself. There must, therefore, be submission and an acknowledgment that the discipline is necessary. This does not imply, however, a weak giving-in to grief and mourning. One who has been bereaved can never, it is true, be the same again, for he or she becomes more chastened, more loving, more sympathetic, richer and more mellow in character. The loved one can never be forgotten, but that is no reason why the heart should be bowed down by grief and the life made desolate by sorrow. In such cases true religion, not religiousness, is the only thing that can satisfy the soul, harmonize the mind, and heal the body.

To be established in Truth, knowing that all is well: that God makes no mistakes and that there is, in reality, no death but only change, is the only way by which bereavement can be made to be a blessing in disguise. When this stage is reached, grief is overcome, death being swallowed up in victory. The only panacea for all life's troubles is conscious harmony with our Divine Source and the Divine Will and Purpose which desire only our highest good.

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A BATTLE OF FORCES Richard Rowley Rescue Circles October - December (1930)

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I went to see a battle of forces of minds which didn't

want to be in God, and they sent out angry waves like a beginning of a storm and wanted I, I, I, just themselves like that. They didn't see love of everybody else, and God just said peace to them, but they couldn't understand, so they were very miserable and I wanted so to help them. But my teacher said I couldn't till their fighting time was over. So I came away because they were making me feel so bad about it. Oh, Mum, why can't all minds be good ones?

I went to a school for babies and found they were teaching them awful things. I was very upset over it, and they told them to be uppish and selfish and to get on and be rich and "down with" all sorts of things.

I didn't understand but I saw their minds getting full of

wrong thoughts and I was very bothered as to what to do. But I told some of them different things and they heard me in their hearts so I was happier, but it isn't right to tell babies to be down with things they don't know anything about. I wish they'd stop that sort of thing. [The 204

Hitler youth shortly to emerge in the 1930s, and now, the suicide bombers?] I've been getting deeper into tangled minds now I'm getting bigger. I wasn't allowed to go where things were all wrong at first, when I was little, but now I've got to see it all, and help, and Mum, I DO WANT TO HELP.

I want to talk about music. There is a sort of exercise of spirits to make beauty come out of sounds which you can't hear at all but they are going on all round in space. The vibrations are all just booming till spirits come and change them into music. It's like exercising your body to make music.

I can't stop tonight because my work is rather a big case tonight, of a boy who is frightened in the dark. So I must go to him at once.

I've been to a different sort of world altogether, not just round a sun, but curly ways like a corkscrew, in a spiral. It went ever so fast like smoke but it was a small one, only big enough for life to be all over it, only such a different sort of life. It's no good me trying to tell you. But Mum, it was funny to see a corkscrew-moving world. [Did he see the DNA helix?] It had a shape all drawn out long, not round like most, and it was flattened too, but it had got like that from the way it 205

moved. It had started in a different way to most, and was much too hot for any kind of life like we can think of. I didn't suppose it had anything on it till I came close and saw thoughts all buzzing on it, so I knew there was some sort of life there. They seemed to be thinking hard of some funny things of their own which I couldn't know about because they were so different to people. But they had thoughts, but no sort of body life like ours. They weren't high up spirits but only beginnings. I’m coming back now, Mum. I had to go in a hurry to see to one of my boys who was going to a wrong place. They want me, Mum, so I must say goodnight. I'll come again soon.

I'm a qualified teacher of ray healing now and am going ahead like steam. There is ever so much to learn. I can't tell you much because it's all so different from your life now, but I'm able to help lots of people in their bodies now and when they open their minds by prayer I can give them such big help, which is how people find faith.

Healing cures them because some of us are there with healing light rays to help them. When they say "Yes, come!" like that then we do more than we can with people with closed minds.

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"The Light shineth in the darkness,

And the darkness comprehendeth it not."

The light of the human soul is limited in its expression through the mind by the enfolding darkness of negative thoughts and feelings.

The Light is the Creator's Presence in the human soul. This Soul-Self of you is the infant "image of the Creator" which the Angels will awaken and help to gain dominion over the negative thoughts and feelings which constitute the darkness of the mortal mind.

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Creator.

Through the years you have been creating thoughts and feelings unlike the Godlike thoughts and feelings which your soul would vibrate as light and love through your mind. As a result your soul-light cannot vibrate its healing life and intelligence through your mind and body.

In these lessons you are learning how to think and feel as the Creator would think and feel through your soul, mind and body.

Through this practice you will be "transformed by the renewing of your mind" from within. You will develop the character of thoughts and feelings which can make you perfect, as your Creator is perfect.

Tread these aisles of light with us, and enter into our understanding of our ways of loving ministration.

Your spirit will be soothed and healed by contemplating the beauty of our ministrations, and into all your mortal ways there shall shine something of the sweetness and harmony which your mind reflects into earth from the Realm of Reality.

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In this atmosphere of Light your spirit realizes the rest and security of the mighty enfolding Presence of the Creator. You are inbreathing the Spirit of Health.

You have prayed earnestly to the Ever-Present for healing, and the Angels are now answering your prayer, by lifting your thought and faith into the Place of Power where live those Immortals whose natures reveal the beautiful life and health of the Spirit.

The Voice of the Ever-Present has thundered down the ages:

I am the Eternal Being that healeth thee.

And your faith has prayed to realize that vitality of soul which should enable you to be vigorous, healthy and efficient. The speechless, unuttered longing of your soul has been to outgrow and overcome your limitations.

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out for that heavenly light and power which would enable it to express its latent health and harmony.

We who dwell in the Temple of Angels have become conscious of the indwelling, immortal vigor which is everlasting health and harmony. We have outgrown the thought and the condition of disease and sin. We have become happy Immortals, fearless and dauntless in spirit, through learning how to express the healing vitality of the Creator through our spiritual forms. And it will be our joy to help you to this same great blessing of everlasting life and health.

We would have you know what we know and feel of the Creator's Love. But in order to do this we must lift you out of your depressing state of mind into our exalted state of vigorous life and strength.

Therefore, we ask you to neglect your physical symptoms, and instead of watching for physical results give all your attention to watching and fulfilling the activities of this realm of beauty and perfection from which all healing flows.

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Do this by devoting your thought with us to affirming, singing, and blessing that you may become one with us in spirit, and actually feel the healing life which is created by our united ministrations.

With our visions as Immortal souls we behold within your nature an infant Divinity. We see within this Soul-Self of you the intensely active Intelligence which built up your body from the original cells.

Within your soul is the vital impulse which is able to revitalize, renew, and heal every part of your physical nature.

We see surrounding your soul a sphere of darkness which is keeping the light, health and beauty of your soul from, expressing. This dark sphere is composed of heavy mortal thoughts and feelings which you have created through the years of your earthly experience.

The mental qualities crystallized within this sphere about the soul are the causes for all physical life.

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think and feel within the Temple of Angels. Thus you may enjoy with us the spiritual life which we have gained by living in the consciousness of our immortal souls.

Ignore your physical symptoms and the conditions which you wish to outgrow or overcome, and keep your faith and hope centered upon the Angels of wisdom and power within the Temple of Angels.

Do not let any outward appearances discourage you or cause you to cease your efforts to live in thought in the Realm of Reality. Pledge yourself to walk and work with us, not for a day, a month, or a year, but for eternity. Then your, efforts will cease to be an experiment.

They will become the endless activity of the Eternal Energy which knows no time and no failure in accomplishment.

Enter with enthusiasm into the practice which we are revealing as the only means of developing new habits of thought and feeling. As you forget yourself and your conditions, and become uplifted by the beauty and power of your creative affirmations, your awakening soul is certain to express its new vitality as healing energy in every part of your nature.

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Healing through Soul Culture means more than hypnotizing yourself with a suggestion that you feel better. It means that you will become a joyous radiant soul, using your mind so creatively from hour to hour that you will renew your soul's vigor, and express its beauty and power through every cell of your physical organism.

We, the Angels of Ministration, are blessing you with the light and love of our exalted state of consciousness. Open the mental channels for the inflow of our healing power, and we will enfold you in our love, and gradually dissolve from about your soul the mental debris and the binding thoughts which have kept it from filling your conscious mind with light and peace.

We have become as suns in the kingdom of the Ever-Present by letting our light shine, and we will resurrect you from glory to glory as you with an open and exalted mind behold the glory in which you shall live with us forever.

You have many personal and hereditary limitations to outgrow, but you are now becoming one with the Creator in your soul and in our 213

souls. From Him we have the wisdom and strength to sustain you within the Light of His Presence while we help you to overcome.

Walk with us and minister with us in the Light and Peace of the EverPresent, and we will surround your soul with our realized power, and inspire your every effort to grow in grace of soul and beauty of character, that you may prove to yourself and to others that:

The Father's will in me is strong: I am a joyous, radiant soul.

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Your soul is a deep spring of living waters. Its source is the EverPresent. But this spring has been clogged with debris. Your dark, heavy, unaspiring thoughts, and the selfish hereditary feelings have stopped the flow of this spring.

Now we come from the Creator to do what you cannot do for yourself; to clear out the heavy stones and the slimy mud from this spring of your soul's life tell its living waters may flow with refreshing sweetness through your conscious mind.

Therefore, we call to you to open channels through your mind from the inflow of the living waters of soul life and joy. Waters can flow only through open channels. The more you give forth the more you will receive.

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faith which will arouse you to renewed effort when your way seems discouraging. Each lesson of instruction will renew your faith and courage and move you to greater creative thought, which will open the channels through which the waters of life will flow for the renewing of your soul, mind and body.

Rejoice, and give the Creator praise for this opportunity to receive the wisdom of Heaven. Rejoice that the way has been opened up for you to learn how to live under the inspiration of the Angels.

Consecrate your life to this study, which will open the inner door of inspiration, and cleanse your soul of many causes for disaster, disease, sorrow and pain.

Study these lessons morning and evening, and recall the thoughts from hour to hour, that all through the day you may live above earthly thoughts and cares with us in our heaven of creative joy and love.

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Ministration, will gladly do our part, cleansing your subconscious mind of the debris of limiting conditions, which we see, and the effects of which you feel.

We will feed and strengthen your soul with our love, and its living inspiration, born of the Creator, will flow with healing potency into all the channels of love and blessings which you create.

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HEALING PEACE 2 Walter DeVoe The Pathway of Light (1936)

These thoughts will bring your mind into touch with the healing streams which flow from the celestial presences in the Temple of Angels.

By exercising your imagination in contemplation of the vision presented in this lesson your mind will enter into the peace of the Infinite One in which abide the holy and wise Angels of the Creator.

Through telepathic sympathy you will receive the vibrations of the holy, peaceful emanations which will harmonize your mental disturbances and give you that peace which passes understanding.

When you desire to realize peace for yourself or for another, retire from the worldly state of mind, and enter in thought into the Temple of Angels. Inbreathe into your 'soul the emanations of peace which the celestial Angels know, and in utter humility of mind worship the 218

majesty of that mysterious Power in which the Angels live, and which lives in your soul. Hold the souls you wish to bless in the harmonious atmosphere of heavenly peace.

Abide with the Angels in the Presence of the Creator and your spiritual poverty will be filled from the illimitable fullness and boundless love of the Creator. Praise be to Thee, O Creator!

From an interior chamber of your soul flows forth the ethereal waters of peace. In a region within your soul, akin to the essential realm of spirit, there is contact with that crystal sea of Truth where the vital breath of the Infinite One inspires the sense of peace and everlasting serenity.

As you rest in imagination within the Temple of Angels, your soul will respond to the voice of omnipotent peace. You will feel the eternal peace of the Spirit infusing your whole nature with the harmony of heaven.

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mind and harmonize your thoughts with heavenly rest.

While you abide in thought with the Angels, the potency of the peaceful Presence of the Eternal Being permeates your entire being, and all the cells of your body obey this law of peace and harmony.

Healing, soothing peace is the only power within the Temple of Angels. Your mind is saturated with its healing glory. All causes for mental friction or physical pain are forgotten in the Holy Presences which the Angels are making manifest.

Every quality of mortal discord is subdued and overcome. As you rest in the sense of the power of the Angels you become attuned to the peaceful glory of the Infinite One, and know only His boundless love and harmony.

All the cells of your nature rejoice in the free light of boundless peace, and you inbreathe the peaceful vitality of eternity.

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now bringing from the exalted spheres of heavenly, harmonious love.

In the midst of this shining host of benevolent Beings:

There are no mortal minds at war. All is Peace.

There are no discordant or inharmonious minds. All is eternal harmony.

There is no vanity or pride.

The meekness of the Eternal One reigns supreme in all.

We abide together in the Temple of Angels where ALL IS PEACE.

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Hosts of mighty Angels Bless your soul with peace.

The strength of our united wills Upholds you with almighty love.

You are blessed with life eternal; You are healed by love divine.

You have been associating with the mortals and thinking and feeling as they think and feel, and the consequences have been less than satisfactory. Now you are associating in thought with the Angels, and thinking and feeling as they think and feel, and the consequences will be glorious.

You are a diamond encased in clay. The clay must be removed, and the diamond polished, so that its beauty may be revealed.

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Your soul is a celestial form of the Infinite Light, and the Creator lives in and acts through your soul. You do not need to ask the Creator for anything. He has given you Himself, and you are now beginning to realize this tremendous truth.

You are losing that which hides the light and power of your soul from your mind. The path of peace is one of purification.

You already have all that the Creator can give you. The angels will cleanse away the gross shell of mortal mind, so that you may know and express more and more of the Divine Presence.

By giving forth what you have, you empty yourself of selfish limitations and increase your power to give. You grow great by giving.

In the coming lessons you will learn about the process of purification which the Angels are practicing to free your mind of the hidden hereditary and psychical causes for limitation and suffering.

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MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD Walter DeVoe The Pathway of Light (1936)

On a morning when the grass was covered with dew, you have seen the sun shining in every tiny dew-drop. Than t was but a symbol of the truth, that the Soul of Splendor, which we call the Creator, shines within every human nature. It is the "light that lighteth everyone that cometh into the world."

But your soul is more than a reflection of the Soul and Nature of the Creator; it is an actual organized form of the wisdom, love and will of His beneficent Being.

If you have not already said it, before you have finished reading this lesson, you may feel like saying, "Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high. I cannot attain unto it."

You will certainly feel that this is the highest and most sublime teaching you have ever read. And I urge you to keep an open and 224

unprejudiced mind as to its truth.

You may think it is too good to be true, but can there be anything too good for immortal souls who are sons and daughters of the Creator of the universe?

Let the seeds of spiritual truth which this and past lessons contain abide in the soil of your mind; water and cultivate them in deep meditation, and they will bring forth a fruitage of divine blessings much greater than the fruitage of your past materialistic thoughts, as the Soul of Things is greater than its material Nature.

Your soul is a highly organized spiritual brain expressing through your physical brain. It is a most complex spiritual structure through which the will, wisdom and love of the Creator expresses in your personal life as volition, thought and feeling. It has a vast capacity for expression which is as yet undeveloped.

Your physical brain expresses only what your spiritual brain has developed of its latent capacities and powers.

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When we compare the brain of primitive man with the brain of modern man, we see that ages of experience have expanded and rounded out the physical brain, and have developed what was potential within the soul of the early man.

Another ten thousand years will see man possessing a brain development vastly greater than that of today, and a greater advance in intelligence than has occurred in all his previous experience.

What man now expresses of knowledge, emotion and will was latent within the soul of primitive man; and what man will learn to express in ten thousand years is slumbering within the soul of every human being today.

Your soul is a form of will, understanding and feeling through which the power, wisdom and love of your Creator is expressing.

These attributes of Divine Mind are organized wig thin your individual soul; therefore man was made in the Image of the Creator.

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These attributes of the Mind of the Creator give your brain the capacity to think, feel and act. However, it is not the physical brain, but the spiritual brain that is alive and active.

You can develop your will to express more and more of the power of the Creator's goodwill.

You can learn to think so wisely that your thoughts will express the wisdom of your Creator.

You can cultivate so great a love for humanity that you will express the Creator's love to His children to a transcendent degree.

By daily cultivating these noble qualities of your spiritual nature, you will become conscious of the indwelling Intelligence of Jehovih.

The potential wisdom and power of the Creator are now within your soul awaiting growth and expression, as the beauty and fragrance of the lily are potential within the bulb. Therefore, your soul is a seed of Divinity.

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Within your soul is the design of a perfect, godlike being. This godlike being is not now fully awake, therefore you are as yet but a slumbering god or goddess.

Your soul is your immortal Self. It will live and increase in wisdom and power forever.

The Divine Form of the Creator within the depths of your nature is awaiting the quickening words and stirring experiences that will call its mighty consciousness into activity and usefulness.

In the heights of spiritual light and bliss, the sons and daughters of Jehovih, the souls of just men made perfect, "shine forth as suns in the kingdom of the Father." All the wisdom, and power they have gained in tens of thousands of years of experience as immortals were slumbering within their souls when they roamed this earth as the most primitive people of most ancient times. And all the wisdom, beauty, power and perfection of personality they have realized, are now within your soul.

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"Awake, thou that sleepest, And arise from the dead, And the glory of the Eternal Shall shine through thee."

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HOW TO MEDITATE ON THIS LESSON Walter DeVoe The Pathway of Light (1936)

When you can be quietly alone, sit with this lesson before you, and after you read each statement, close your eyes and let your soul respond with its deep feelings to the truth expressed in these words.

If these words are true, they will prove themselves true in your life, even as flower seeds sown in your garden prove their spirit by filling your garden with their sweetness and beauty.

While your mind is quiet and receptive, every word of truth you read sinks down through the subconscious even into the greater consciousness which is your soul. It stirs depths of feeling which will flow through your mind as spiritual life and beauty, healing and restoring your mind and body into unity and agreement with the perfection of your soul.

I urge you to meditate in unity of thought with others of like mind, because long experience has proved that this practice will most quickly lift you out of your present limited mental conditions into the 230

freedom and harmony of spirit that prevail in the higher heavens.

Thus you will gain the faith and force of your friends and of all the angels to help you solve your problems and outgrow and overcome your difficulties. In unity of spirit there is strength.

As individual souls in physical form, you are the highest expression of the Creator. Most of your powers are still potential, however.

As you gain an understanding of what is true of your soul, you realize that you are the intelligence of the Ever-Present from soul to physical atoms. You are personifying as much of the Creator as you realize.

You are this moment drawing all your life and intelligence from the universal life of your Creator.

You are realizing that you are the temple of the Creator, and you feel that the Creator is living in and glorifying your entire nature.

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the very life and substance of your Creator.

You are attaining the degree of divine consciousness where you can truly know and affirm,

"I and my Creator are one."

You can polarize so much of the infinite Intelligence into your soul, and express so much through your brain and physical cells, that you will be a personality of power.

As the intelligence of your soul becomes masterful in its expression through your physical cells, life and health will replace disease and decay in your organism.

The latent healing power resident within each living cell of your body will respond to the will of your soul and express the wisdom and beauty of the divine image of health and perfection. Your soul is awakening to know the bliss of eternal Being.

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You are beginning to feel that you are an organized expression of both the masculine and feminine elements of the Creator. You are a complete whole, formed in the image of the physical and spiritual nature of the Creator as the Whole.

You are exalting your sense-mind and becoming attuned to the will of your soul. You realize the completeness and joy of self-expression.

Your soul is gaining the power to hold the physical and spiritual forces of your nature in equilibrium, and to satisfy your mind with its sense of divine peace and harmony.

'The Divine Will is the mighty keynote of your spiritualized nature, the vital tone to which every atom of your body is attuned.

Your life is radiant with the celestial melody that your soul sings through the tiny cell-spheres of your physical temple. You now live in the opulence of infinite Love.

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In your retirement from the world for divine communion, Love transfigures your soul and holds it in the ecstasy of immortality.

Your soul is Love individualized. It is alive with this eternal Energy. It is forever receiving and giving of Love.

Your soul is a perpetual spring of inspiration.

It emanates the blessings of Love to all humanity. It fills your mind with illumined thoughts of truth, radiant with healing grace and beauty.

Your lips speak forth words of everlasting life and joy, and your body is all aglow with healing fire.

Through your acquired knowledge and the intuition of your soul, you can impart the wisdom of eternal life to seekers for truth.

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of your voice, so that your words interest and impress those to whom you speak. Verily the Spirit of Truth is finding beautiful expression through your personality.

You are constantly receiving and giving forth to your friends from the infinite Source of all-good whose Presence is everywhere.

Knowing truly how to receive and how to give, how to attract and how to express, you are living in Opulence.

You are complying with the law of divine circulation that fills your emptiness from its limitless resources.

You live in conscious union with the inexhaustible Source, the limitless Productiveness, the beneficent Love which is all-sufficient in all places and at all times.

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Because your will is the Will of the Creator, all forces in the universe conspire to carry out your will, and success crowns your efforts with perfect accomplishment.

The limitation of matter will disappear as you cultivate the consciousness of your soul. With pure soul-penetration you will see into the essence of things and know their spirit or meaning.

You will see that the Omnipotent Will of the Creator is sustaining and moving all things from within.

The responsive spiritual nature of all living things will obey your will, because you have entered into the Consciousness which is Omnipotence.

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the Creator's mighty Purpose.

As you attain to this consciousness of the real and true, you will see all things as they are to the Creator and His Angels, and you will no longer be deluded by the evidence of the senses.

Before your exalted vision the universe will spread its limitless sea of organized mental powers, and you will behold a vibrating ocean of light and life, glistening in every atom with the effulgence of infinite Intelligence, and comprehending in its boundless Love all the beings who have evolved from and who dwell in the breadth, depth, and height of its immense activity.

You will then know that All is Mind, All is Good, because All is Jehovih. You will be one with the Creator and all His expressions.

There will be no limitation to your vision or your knowledge, because you will be divine in every faculty of your being.

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most ancient Intelligences. You will blend with the Mind in which all space is but a Thought, and partake of its Omniscience.

Realizing that the only law is the Will of the Creator, and being aware that you are that Will, the wisdom of His Will will manifest throughout your nature.

You will exert a most powerful and beneficent sway over every nature influenced by your positive will of goodness and peace.

You will quicken souls with the vitality of your eternal Being, and satisfy their spiritual natures with the bread of everlasting life.

All glory to your perfected soul for it has become the personality of the Absolute and Eternal Being.

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The Angels of the Almighty are blessing and ministering with us.

We are clothing their inspiring thoughts and feelings with mental and physical energy, and broadcasting them to all the world.

We are vibrating the blessings of the interior soul realm of love into the outer mental realm in which mortals live, think and act.

We are making the dynamics of Divinity real and powerful to bring order out of the chaos created by discordant mortal thoughts and feelings.

We are becoming the Creator's mediators to the minds of mortals, revealing the wisdom and power of His Love.

Millions of minds in the world around us are feeling and responding to the healing, illuminating influence of our blessings.

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We rejoice in our power to broadcast the blessings of our Creator's Love.

By our united effort to broadcast blessings, we are creating a healing atmosphere of love and harmony.

We are creating an atmosphere of light in which the beauty of divine beings becomes visible to our spiritual sight.

Our souls are blending and blessing with benign beings of wisdom and power.

They create with us an aura of pure, white light which is illumination and strength for our souls.

We feel the invigorating soul-warmth of this glory presence of heavenly splendor.

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harmony which pervades this atmosphere.

We joyously radiate this healing influence as a divine benediction to all souls attuned to our blessings.

We are consciously enveloped in the soul-world of everlasting life.

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THE TWELFTH PRINCIPLE Walter DeVoe The Pathway of Light (1936)

THE GREAT WORK FOR HUMAN ACCOMPLISHMENT IS THE REGENERATION OF HUMANITY ― THE HEALING OF THE NATIONS.

The ill will among the nations that breeds strife, warfare and poverty can be cured by the cultivation of universal Goodwill.

The healing of the strife, inharmony, pain, disease and disaster in our lives will come by the cultivation of Goodwill.

Goodwill can be most quickly developed by working together to accomplish the Great Work, the Divine Ideal, an association of Goodwill which exists in Heaven, and will exist through our efforts in all parts of the world.

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Our purpose is, therefore, to practice Goodwill together. We will devote our lives, our talents, and our means to building an association of Goodwill which shall grow as a seed grows and extend its influence to all the world.

We will work together with the Creator and His Angels to establish His Government of Peace and Goodwill among mankind.

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THE SOUL URGE TOWARD PROGRESSION Walter DeVoe The Pathway of Light (1936)

Oh, for a change from the monotonous routine of every day living.

How shall we escape this death in life, the tedious tendency of our own thinking from day to day? How shall we "escape reality"?

People swarm to the moving pictures, they listen to the radio, and feed their minds of sensational fiction, trying to forget themselves and their humdrum existence.

But we cannot escape ourselves for very long in this world or the next. Even death, upon which many depend for release from their minds, will fail to give us new minds. Our life is in our minds. The world we live in is attracted to us by what is in our minds.

We do not see Reality: we see life as our own thinking colors it. If we are not happy, the cause is in our minds, and neither the Creator, Angels, friends nor lovers can make us happy.

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Therefore, our quest for peace and happiness must not be in the direction of the outer world, for we cannot expect to realize what we long for from people or things. Our quest must be toward the source of our being, the Creator, who made us and formed us to experience peace and happiness.

Our search for that change which will satisfy us must be for a new heart, a new mind, a new way of recreation, mental recreation, which will recreate our minds and open the door to the Eternal State of Mind.

How can these parched, arid, dusty lives of ours be refreshed with the living waters of eternal life and joy?

For long, scientists could not understand how it is that even in the longest droughts of tropical lands, when all the green things are burned up and the watercourses are dry and dusty, the ants managed to keep their huge heaps always moist with that wet steamy heat they love.

Only lately was it discovered, in one heap

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shaft no less than sixty-five feet long, down to a perennial spring that no drought ever touches, and that at night the whole busy little population was detailed to hurry down and up again time after time, beating the precious water with which to keep alive their little fields of fungus crops and spread abroad that wetness which they need for health.

These tiny creatures overcome a stupendous limitation to their health and happiness by united activity. wisdom?

Shall we not exercise an equal

Shall we not unitedly dig down into the interior of human

nature and bring forth the living waters of love which will revive and heal us and enable us to bring peace and refreshment to other lives suffering from the drought and devastation?

As we touch the lives of people in all parts of the world, thousands of them, we see how terribly they are suffering because of a lack of the living waters of love.

We see that the torrid heat of selfishness has

parched the earth in which they live.

All the refreshing green things

are burned up, and the watercourses are dry and dusty because there is a spiritual drought in the land.

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Because we, like the ants, have devoted all our time and energies to digging down deep into the soul of things, and to bring forth the healing waters of eternal life, our lives are full of joy and enthusiasm.

We are refreshed and strengthened in spirit by the waters we bring forth for others.

Humanity has suffered from a spiritual drought for so many ages they do not believe the spring of life is so close that man can enjoy the constant vitalization and refreshment of his soul. They are still slower to see that their lives will be renewed and their souls made secure in Thy eternal life and strength accordingly, as they unite to serve with Thee for the alleviation of all human suffering and the ultimate healing of the nations.

How shall we get them to feel, know and enjoy the mighty Reality of Thy Presence?

How shall we lead them out of their dry and arid lives of materiality into the flowery gardens or fruitful vineyards where the air is balmy with the dews of Thy grace, and the music of fountains and flowing streams is satisfying harmony to their souls?

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We will sustain the questioning attitude toward Thy Infinite Intelligence, so that our own capacity to understand may develop.

We desire to see more clearly how to do Thy Will in helping Thy children into the Way of Progression. In so doing we shall progress ourselves to greater influence and power in Thy service of educating, healing and liberating immortal souls.

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The Healing Mission The Teachings of Silver Birch Silver Birch (1938)

A healer’s life, though spiritually rewarding, is never easy. Silver Birch always encourages those who use their gifts to help others:

I love all those who try to serve, whether it be with healing or in any other form of mediumship. I love them all, for I know the difficulties they will encounter because that is an integral part of their mission. In the case of a healer, you have to suffer in order to have the essential compassion for sufferers to come to you. It is only when you have plumbed the depths yourself that you have the rightful feeling for others who turn to you when there is nowhere else to go.

You are richly blessed. I cannot say to instruments of the spirit that their lives will be beds of roses. That is not the way spiritual mastery is obtained. The higher you seek to rise, the more difficult it must become. In that road you tread it becomes lonelier as gradually the familiar landmarks must be left behind.

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If the prizes of the spirit were easily gained, they would not be worth the having. Achievement, attainment, these mean sacrifices. But there is a law of compensation. Whatever you have lost materially will be restored and replenished with far more than has been lost. We will always ensure that your material necessities will be forthcoming.

We cannot promise you so called luxuries of earth-life; many of them are far from luxurious in the effect that they have. What we can promise is that as you serve, so will you be served.

It is not the curing of the physical body that is the most important. It is touching the soul of the sufferer to increase the divine spark, thus ensuring, as far as you can, that the result of the healing will bring awareness and understanding of eternal spiritual realities for the one who has had the illness, so that it becomes a catalyst. That is what matters.

If you heal a body and do not touch the soul, then from our viewpoint the healing is a failure. If you touch the soul, you help to fan the divine spark. You help to achieve a closer unity between the individual and the great sublime supreme power that endowed that person with life. That is important.

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with the gifts of the spirit. It cannot be easy, it must be difficult; but you will not be presented with any obstacle or hurdle for which the power will not be provided so that you will overcome it. Once you consent to serve, the way is shown. There is nothing to fear for what the morrow will bring forth.

You cannot help all who come to you, but your availability is a means by which they can find their true self. If you succeed, then express your gratitude to the Great Spirit. If you fail, the failure is not yours.

The patient has had an opportunity and has not taken it. You are the recipient of a divine power. Expressing it brings a great responsibility to do the best you can.

The laying on of hands is merely playing with the toys. What is important is to bring awareness, realization, to touch the soul, I cannot put it clearer than that. Every individual in your world is a combination of physical body, mind and spirit. These are the three aspects of the one total self. They are not divisible, but essential parts of the one whole.

If you touch the soul, then you help the other components of body and mind to achieve the wholeness that brings health. So let them play their respective parts and bring health, certainty, confidence, 251

inner well-being, awareness, so that they are at peace with themselves and with everybody else they encounter.

We are concerned with touching souls so that the spark of the divine spirit which is embedded within every human being can be fanned and become a beauteous flame. Thus the divinity within finds a fuller, richer, more majestic expression.

Your world is full of millions of people who do not know what they are there for, who they are, what it is that they must achieve whilst they are incarnate on earth. You can help them to realize that they are spirits with bodies, that the real individual is the deathless spirit, that the spirit is there to gain the experience to equip it for its larger life in our world. That is the most important thing that you can do.

You demonstrate that the Great Spirit, the apex of love and wisdom and compassion, provides everyone with the opportunity to find himself or herself and begin to live, as all people in your world should live, not in superstition, ignorance or darkness, but in the full light of knowledge, with serenity and confidence as their constant companions.

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responsible only for what you do or say. Do not concern yourself with the opinions or actions of others.

If you are hurt, it seems that there is still some room for development.

Do not allow any thoughts of any kind from any source to hinder, mar or delay the service that you can render. You have been endowed with a gift. Use it wherever you can.

You have heard about the angels weeping? They weep often when they see those who are not behaving in a fashion that is consistent with their knowledge and understanding. But we realize they are not perfect because they are human. You will all make mistakes. There is a divine purpose and plan for all of us.

You feel lonely. Every soul treading the path of attainment must experience loneliness. But you have the companionship of evolved beings who will never desert you. Your strength comes not from your world but from ours. The source of all your inspirations is in our realm.

We will not forget you. We will not leave you. We will not let you down. We will always encourage you to do the best you can.

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Help wherever opportunity arises, and know that you are fulfilling yourself, which is the purpose of your being on earth.

It is only human to have doubts. Do not worry. Worry disturbs the conditions and makes it even more difficult. Have faith, founded on the priceless knowledge which is yours. That knowledge is incontrovertible. It provides the solid, enduring foundation on which to build the whole of your life.

If doubt enters your mind, as it will do, then think back to the past, to the days of darkness and difficulty when there seemed no road to tread, where none was able to offer help, when it seemed that you had come to the end of everything that life could offer.

Then in the darkness and gloom the little light of the spirit began to show its way to bring you where you are today.

You have many more pages of your earthly book to be turned. Thank the Great Spirit for the opportunities of service provided for you.

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A MESSAGE TO AN AUSTRALIAN HEALER AND HIS WIFE The Teachings of Silver Birch Silver Birch (1938)

Not only have you travelled a long way physically, but similarly it has been a long journey spiritually to bring you where you now are.

Like all those who are instruments of the spirit it has not been an easy road for you.

In order to become ambassadors for the Great Spirit, the human channels have to be tried and tested so that their latent strength can rise to the surface. They are then ready to meet the challenges that their mission will inevitably make them encounter.

It is not possible to achieve even the first steps in spiritual mastery unless you are ready to do so by a process which means that you must suffer.

Suffering is the crucible. Those on whom the Great Spirit with infinite wisdom has bestowed the gift of healing must experience difficulty, sorrow, crisis and trial so that they can have compassion for the ones 255

who will come to them in their suffering and ask for healing.

But there is a law of compensation. As low as you sink materially, so correspondingly can you rise spiritually.

The story of every potential healer and medium follows a similar pattern. They reach that stage when they feel that nothing materially offers any hope. It is then that the soul becomes ready to receive the influx of power and inspiration which will enable the owner to begin to fulfill himself or herself.

Spiritual growth is not achieved when the sun is shining and the sky is cloudless. It is when the storm is blowing, the wind raging and all looks dark, gloomy and depressing, that the soul begins to come into its own and the way is shown for what lies ahead.

The law of compensation is automatic in its operation. No matter how much your soul has cried out for help and guidance when none seemed possible, you get the richness of the reward in being able to serve others as you were served and the way was shown to you.

That is what I tell all healers and mediums.

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should rejoice at the opportunities to fulfill yourselves and also show that the Great Spirit provides every one of His children with a second chance. When doctors, despite their skills, learning and experience, say they can do no more, the power of the spirit can often produce results which bring health where it was absent.

You will not be able to do this for everybody who comes to you. It is not possible to cure every sufferer who knocks on your door. Some are not ready; others have to endure their illness because it is a karmic condition which has its part to play in their lives.

Silver Birch then asked the healer:

What made you decide to practice healing?

A need within to see if I could be an instrument for the spirit world to bring about improvement in people’s physical and spiritual condition.

Did you find that it worked?

Yes

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as I have said to others, that to your knowledge you must add faith.

The difference is quite simple. It is not a play on words. When you have no knowledge it is good to have faith; not blind, credulous, unreasonable faith.

Because you are human beings in an imperfect world, it is impossible for you to have all the knowledge that there is, because knowledge, like the Great Spirit, is infinite. As you become more receptive you are able to receive greater knowledge. As you develop, more spirit power can flow through you.

So, because of the knowledge you have, treat that as the foundation on which to order your lives, and have faith that the way will be shown what it is you have to do. To this I will add something else.

Before you came into your world this is what you chose to do. It took some time before awareness came. The whole plan was revealed to you before you incarnated. That plan, if you co-operate and are patient, will fulfill itself.

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process that is achieved only one step at a time. I marvel at the perfection of the natural laws and the way in which they operate.

I have asked you one question and will ask you another. Why did you want to come to this gathering tonight?

Because we have read of your teachings. When newcomers are brought into our environment we suggest that to the many questions they have they will find the answers if they read the books that contain your teaching. Because we were coming over from Australia we thought it would be a privilege to meet you.

Turning to the stenographer the guide calls his scribe, Silver Birch said: Do you hear that? Without her you would not have these books containing the teaching given to me so that I can transmit to you.

It is always a great joy to welcome here any channel of the spirit. If there is anything I can do to help them in their ministry, it is a privilege. It is one of the reasons why I have returned to your world to help wherever I can.

Here the healer’s wife said: At the present time I am trying to spread spirit teachings. I seem to have been going through a schooling 259

process, but not specializing in any particular aspect. Is it possible for the spirit world to inform me into which channel I will be directed?

Do not worry, the way will be shown. Just follow your intuition and the inspiration that comes. If there are any doubts at any time, withdraw into the silence, meditate, and you will find the answers come to you.

You are doing very, very well. You are making your mark in a vast continent where these truths are sorely needed.

People are coming to you. Do not go looking for them. Just be available. They will continue to come to you because they will have heard what the power of the spirit has done for others. If you help them, rejoice. If you cannot help them, shed a silent tear that they had their chance and could not take it.

If a person is in poor health should he or she stop healing for the moment?

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because they are transmitters; as long as they have the ability to transmit they will have the power flow through them.

Welcoming a healer and his wife, Silver Birch said to the husband:

The last time we met you had many grounds for criticism about the problems, difficulties, hindrances and frustrations which seemed to be troubling you. I hope that position has been changed.

There is an improvement. I am learning to live with it.

The whole of earthly life consists of learning to live with it, facing up to the problems that come your way, overcoming them as best you can, and awaiting the next one. They are challenges you have to meet so that the real you, the spirit, can evolve, develop and unfold as a result, and emerge better and stronger because of what you have achieved.

It would be folly to tell any disciple who seeks greater truth and understanding that the path will be an easy one. Spiritual mastery is slowly attained. The prizes of the spirit are not quickly earned. But once they are in your possession they are there for all time. They will never be lost, which is something that can never be said for your 261

material possessions.

You both are the recipients of more guidance than you can appreciate. If you were clairvoyant you would be aware of the great love that surrounds you and ensures that no real harm can ever befall you. So every morning await with eager anticipation the spiritual adventures that will unfold for you. And, as I often tell my friends, look back and see how the signposts of the spirit pointed the way for you, and guidance came even when it appeared you were in the blackness of despair. Is that right?

The answer was, Yes. It has given me strength.

To endure the suffering?

Yes.

There is no suffering so strong that you do not possess the inner strength and can call upon an outer power to enable you to overcome it. The burden is never heavier than can be borne. If you strive to live in harmony with the natural laws you will find an inner peace, tranquility and resolve which will ensure that you always

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To a healer who survived the horrors of a concentration camp, the guide said: It is not possible while you are in your world to have the answers to all the questions that arise in your minds. It is impossible for you to have the fullness of knowledge because you are circumstanced in a world of three dimensions, and occasionally the problems that beset you can be appreciated only when you are able to manifest outside these limited dimensions.

These problems involve considerations of a spiritual nature that you cannot solve, because perforce you can look at them only from the viewpoint of earthly life. You cannot measure them in relationship to the infinity of living which is compulsory for every human being.

So this is where the element of faith arises.

You begin by adding knowledge to faith. Then you arrive at the stage when you must add faith to knowledge. You are in the realm of what is speculation, because you cannot get the answers that would appeal to your reason.

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faith that is founded on knowledge, a faith founded on that sure base of incontrovertible evidence that cannot be gainsaid, and leaves you in no doubt about the spiritual realities which are the basis of all being.

I cannot promise even those I love that they will be exempt from problems. By the very nature of earthly life you must endure these problems. You must grapple with them. You must call on latent, divine power within yourself to help you. If that is insufficient, go one step higher and call on the greater wisdom that streams from the infinite storehouse.

If you have had no problems, you would be akin to spineless automatons, puppets, marionettes. You have infinite possibilities that have to be developed to their fullest extent whilst you are on earth.

The only way this can happen is not when the sun is shining, not if you are living in a bed of roses, not when all is quiet and peaceful and tranquil, but when the storm is raging. It is then that the challenge calls forth this latent power, and you develop. You unfold the spiritual nature within.

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by which you find yourself. Therefore, paradoxically though it may seem, you must welcome troubles when they arise, and realize that in reality they wear the mask of friendship for you.

I always say, Look back when crisis comes, and see how the signposts of the spirit have always pointed the way, even in the darkest hours when it seemed that no answer could be forthcoming.

Look back in your own life, the tragedies that embroiled you, the situations that seemed impossible of relief or even escape, the difficulties that posed their greatest challenges.

Even in the worst of your earthly experiences you were led unfailingly to where you are today, and that guidance will never desert you.

There is a pattern in all human life, and it repeats itself. Especially is this the case in the lives of those who have service to render. There are no chances, no coincidences, no miracles. The supreme fact about the whole of life in its infinite variations is that the law runs throughout the vast universe, and nothing and nobody is outside the operation of natural law.

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MEDITATION ON HEALTH AND WELL-BEING U. S. Andersen The Secret of Secrets (1958)

Think upon this as a hidden key To the vault where all secrets lie sealed Pray for thy neighbor and thou wilt soon see That the healer when healing is healed

I accept my body as a manifestation of spirit. Spirit created it, spirit moves it, spirit sustains it. I know this spirit to be greater than myself, to be an

all-encompassing, divine Presence that inhabits all

creatures, that pervades the universe. My heart beats, my tissue lives in response to some perfect order, some supreme harmony, some absolute power. I need not command the organs of my body to function. Health is mine, perfect function is mine by the simple surrender of my will to the Divine. Yet I recognize that the power of decision remains with me, that I may take a stand, choose a way, and that universal spiritual power will then lead me on the path that I have chosen. I therefore assert that I retain no hidden memories of pain in my subconscious. I bring up from the dimly remembered 266

depths of mind all those memories that prompt in my consciousness feelings of hate, bitterness, anger, and fear. These negative emotions I cast out of my life forever. By aligning myself with God, by identifying my being with His, by becoming one-souled with all things and all beings, I depose all negative emotions and enshrine reason in their stead. Reason and attunement lead me down life's most hazardous paths with perfect composure and absolute surety.

Because of attunement my body functions in harmony with all nature, there is perfect assimilation, for there is perfect integration. There is perfect circulation, for there is complete freedom. There is perfect elimination for there is absolute utility. I follow the path of joy, for that is the road to attunement. I seek laughter, for in laughter all bonds disappear. I believe in the great and good ends of life and of man, and this optimism rules my existence, leading me into inner peace, perfect attunement, strength, health, and vigor.

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THE SPIRITUAL POTENCY OF TONES The Eloists Radiance (1984)

There is a magic power in music, and musicians should recognize the healing and soul-awakening powers in all musical tones whether produced by voice or instrument. The Intelligence of the Omnipresent One can express healing power through musical tones, and a recognition of this truth will enable this potency of tones to spring forth to meet the need.

Few there be who have not had their emotions played upon by the spirit of music and felt its uplifting power, as in praise and devotional singing; its inspiration to action, as in the march and dance; or its quieting, soothing influence when embodying the deeper emotions of the soul.

Music is the most living and potent of the arts. It is alive with the Breath of Divine inspiration and awaits the recognition of man to reveal to him the magic mystery of tone.

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Every created thing has a key-note or basic tone, which, when sounded, will move its every atom into vibrant accord. The church windows rattle to their tone when it is sounded on the organ, and the strings of a piano vibrate in sympathy with the voice of a singer.

Everything sympathizes with and responds to its own key-note, and if one would unlock the dormant power in anything, one must sound the key-note.

Every human being is keyed to a certain physical tone which is the basis of all the cell vibrations. Every faculty of the mind sounds a mental tone, and the basic desire of all the faculties is the mind's keynote. The spiritual nature is also a combination of substantial vibrations, whose key-note is Love, and he who realizes Divine Love will move and awaken all souls, whether the mind and body are affected or not. Spiritual, mental and physical healing may be accomplished by the occult power of tones, but in order to heal, one must understand the potencies of tones on all three planes of being.

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discord, with the result that disease and pain exist instead of harmony and health. To attune souls to Divine Love, to fill minds with the wisdom of love and to restore bodies to a realization of joyous vitality, is the work of the true healer; and to accomplish this divine mission he or she must recognize the value and power of the mind and soul, and understand the potency of words and of mental, soul, and audible tones which bring about these results.

As you learn that the tones of your voice or instrument are living, vibrant forms, endowed with the intelligence of your thought force, your recognition of this truth will strengthen their spiritual nature, adding to their quality, intensity and power as they go forth into space.

When you produce an audible tone, it has a body of sound vibrations, and also a spiritual form of living light, colored according to its quality, and after the physical waves have become inaudible, the finer vibrations still live in spiritual space and travel forth until, by the law of attraction, they find lodgment in the spiritual nature of some one of God's children as a quickening seed of new life.

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These emanations of musical tones are often seen by clairvoyants whose spiritual eyes are open, and they can follow them through the bright or gloomy spaces of spirit life. They are seen to proceed out from the immediate sphere of production in the form of rays or flowers of every form and color, separating as their various qualities are attracted to souls in need of that quality. They carry uplifting light and healing love to the sick and sorrowing souls of mortals.

You, who are a student of music, should realize the good that is being affected by the tones you produce. Recognize the Divine Intelligence in every tone and you will realize a new inspiration in your studies. Even the scales and exercises will become alive and interesting to you. You will enjoy the expression of every detail of musical thought, and you will throw your whole soul into your art as a means of praise to the Great Emotion of Divine Love, which seeks to reveal its joyous life in all beings.

Remember, as you play or sing, that you are sending out your joyous feelings and brightening thoughts to an invisible multitude of weary, darkened, sin-sick souls, some of whom will feel the interior quickening of your tones. Some of the sorrow will be lifted so that the

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Angel of Hope can enter their lives and lead them into the understanding whence your illumined tone proceeded.

You know that the Creator reigns in all the universe, and all cause for evil is disappearing as the truth becomes known and manifest. You know the truth. Sing it, speak it, and play it in musical tones until you become radiant with the joy-giving knowledge, until your thoughts and feelings are attuned to the living truth. The Ever-Present is at the center of all life, reaching out through rays of love to uplift and comfort. His Presence is here, dissolving all fear, condemnation, sin, disease and poverty, as His children become conscious, by faith, of His power. Intone the "glad tidings of great joy" until, in the fervor of your devotion, you feel that the Spirit of the Ever-Present is upon you, and you have become a joyous tone of everlasting life and light to all your world, visible and invisible.

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FIRST HEAL THYSELF The Eloists Radiance (1996)

We want you to become a mighty center of healing power. You already have begun to feel something of the potency of your soul, of your own individuality. We are strengthening your soul, making it more potent by our creative efforts with you. The spirit of this focus will work through you whenever you endeavor to heal; and as you use it, it will grow stronger and stronger.

All the growth that has come to us through years of service has resulted from our efforts to help others. We have lost some of our egotism, and some of our selfish desires.

Selfishness is death. It is the only death there is anywhere for human beings; and we shall be dead as long as we are selfish. Life everlasting is Love, and Love is unselfish Power.

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In starting out to heal, forget yourself. Try to forget every personal element, and think only of the soul-need of the person you are endeavoring to help. Think of the desire of the Divine Will to express through you; and desire to feel that Divine Power burning out all personal longings from your nature. We must rid ourselves of every selfish desire, every self-serving feeling, everything that clothes the soul with limitations. That dying process can begin here, so that here we shall find eternal life. Those who fulfill this law cannot die. Once we know the Creator's Love we cannot die because it is the consciousness of eternal life. So we must cleanse ourselves, and pour ourselves out to others; and in doing that, we become God-like.

The angel in us grows in beauty, sweetness, and power, until we are radiant with the sunlight of heaven.

We rejoice that you are here. There is new life shining in your spirit.

You are going forward into a new life because you desire to lose your limitations of the past. But you do not have to condemn yourself for anything, nor ask Jehovih's forgiveness of the past. Love does not know anything about it. All past limitations are dreams of the outer personality which you are outgrowing. Let love vibrate through your soul, and this outer mask, which limits and hides your soul-glory, will get finer and finer until it fades away. For every petty pleasure you give up, you will gain a new soul pleasure. You will go forward from 274

glory to glory, and have all the limitations of your personality burned away. You will be successful, and attain in this life the consciousness of the sons and daughters of the Creator.

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LETTER TO A STUDENT The Eloists Radiance (1996)

There are both physical and spiritual causes for disease. Spiritual causes are primary. Physical causes are secondary. Among the many physical causes for disease are overindulgence in food, sensual gratification, drugs, overwork, impure air, overuse of stimulants and narcotics.

Is a cold caused by a draft, by an aspect of Saturn, or by nature's effort to throw poisons out of the body, or by germs?

The biologist studying physical causes attributes the cold to germs.

The nature-curists state that germs are symptoms of the breakdown of morbid matter, and not the cause of the disease. They attribute a cold to nature's efforts to clean house, precipitated by something enervating, such as a draft or some other stirring vibration.

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We believe diseases have spiritual causes. There are areas in the spiritual body and the spiritual brain (that is, the soul of the physical brain) which contain spiritual disturbances. Under certain conditions, one or more of these areas can be stirred up, as mud is stirred from the bottom of a pail of water, and the whole brain can become cloudy with this poison until it is all cleared away. A spiritual poison can irritate the mucous membranes of the nose and throat and cause profuse elimination by physical secretion. We have seen that the stirring up of spiritual poisons stored in the subconscious parts of the brain can be the primary cause of mental and physical diseases.

People suffering from mental depression display a heavy black spiritual emanation from certain centers in the spiritual brain, which are visible to clairvoyants.

Further, the destructive and morbid thoughts and desires

of parents

can fill the spiritual brain of their children with spiritual disturbances and give a hereditary tendency toward a particular type of disease.

Not only are people affected by the spiritual poisons they themselves create, but they are also affected by what they take on from spirits associated with them on the unseen side of life. This should be

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psychical

impingements.

Since we discovered spiritual causes for disease, our students have been schooled in Soul Culture. In an atmosphere of spiritual harmony and power, they learn to undergo the successive processes of regeneration that displace detrimental spiritual influences.

Students who have come to our Ministry have had

conclusive proof

in their own experience of the spiritual causes, and have felt the wonderful healing and upliftment resulting from the gradual purification of their natures. Soul Culture helps people outgrow the mental causes of all their ills and removes the psychical impingements.

The removal of the psychical causes affecting the spiritual

brain

enables the soul to more readily heal any part of the body which has become diseased due to soul weak- ness or interference with its activities by destructive thoughts and feelings, and by undeveloped spirits. partners working with us, we will be there for you. The next few decades will be busy for you, and perhaps even difficult from a 278

worldwide point of view, for there will be some fast and unsettling events on the planetary level. Yet, you will all pass through them intact as will the general population of this country as a whole.

Just hold to the Light, follow your principles and keep all things within an angelic perspective, and we will be with you in all your efforts.

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PARTNERSHIP IN HEALING The Eloists Radiance (1996)

Good strength and heeding power vibrate through you every hour; every hour, even when you are down and you don't think things are going well. The Creator is within you, tending to the life force which you express, day by day. The inherent quality of your thoughts does make a difference, though, in the speed and quality of your healing process. You must attune yourself to the pulsing energy which seeks to cleanse and nourish every cell. You will gain momentum, and courage, if you call upon the Creator to augment whatever good you can do for yourself. Finally, do thank the Ever-Present for being with you in

ever-unfolding reality as you live each day

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LISTENING TO THE HEALING VOICE The Eloists Radiance (1996)

Meditate upon these thoughts, then lie down and relax your mind and body, and imagine that the thoughts are spoken for you by the Creator in your soul.

This attitude of mind will develop a living faith in the power and presence of healing life, and convince you that the words of Inspiration are Spirit, and are charged with the dynamics of the Life which heal.

My Child: You are one with Me your Creator. I live in your nature.

You are an embodiment of Me. I am the source of your life and of life's blessings.

Your soul is a living, radiant form of My presence, a glorious, intelligent individualization of My universal life and Spirit.

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Your soul, and your real Self, is alive with My life, and every cell, organ and function of your nature is infused with My living, intelligent power.

You are alive with the life of the Creator. Your nature is charged with the invigorating vitality of My everlasting life.

You are an expression of the most positive healing potency in the universe, and the recognition of this truth thrills your nature with divine, healing energy.

You are invigorated and healed by the Presence of the Living Creator.

Pain cannot abide in any part of your nature, because the merciful, soothing power of My Presence is now satisfying every cell with joy.

The joy-giving sunshine of My Presence penetrates into every part of 282

your being and gives you the glad understanding that:

You are life, joyous life; you are peaceful, perfect life.

You feel that you are now united to the universal life and power which you have worshipped as the Creator, and that My joyous life and strength is organized in your nature, making you so positive with healing energy that disease and pain are transformed into My harmony and perfection.

You are in tune with My infinite life and peace.

Your spiritual brain

polarizes the intelligence and wisdom of My mind.

All the faculties

of your soul find free expression through the sensitive substance of your brain.

All space is filled with My joyous healing life. You inspire My life with every breath, and your lungs in draw the ozone of life which feeds your blood with the exhilarating manna of the sun-blessed atmosphere. As your lungs inbreathe the physical elements, so your spirit inbreathes the spiritual elements of life.

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You recognize that all the organs of your body are infused with the intelligent power of My Presence in your soul. All your organs are obedient and responsive to My organizing intelligence, and all work together for the health and harmony of your nature.

I AM the all-wise, all-loving Presence which constantly imparts power to enable your nature to outgrow every defective and inharmonious condition. You are realizing the dominion and happiness imparted from My indwelling Presence in your soul. I AM the healing and perfecting power of your life forever.

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HEALING The Eloists Radiance (1984)

The divine energy and intelligence which created your body is still within it, carrying on its functions, healing and repairing, and energizing all its activities. But it needs some recognition and encouragement, some love and faith, in order to successfully combat certain difficulties and limitations.

When a mind is full of gloom and negativity, the effect upon the creative energy of the body is inhibitive and suppressive. But when a mind is full of joy and hope and love, the effect is beneficial. The creative energy responds and is able to accomplish more successfully the healing and improvement of all bodily functions.

The secret of healing, then, is in learning how to reorder and properly govern our mental activity. We must become spiritual alchemists, and change the lead of gloom into the gold of joy. What a challenge 285

for the soul of man!

As a beginning lesson, we must recognize that pain and suffering are a sort of crucible in which set thought habits and ancient crystallizations are melted down. Among the first refuse to be skimmed from the molten mass may be found self-blame and selfÂŹcondemnation. We are all the heirs of age-long darkness. So, cast out this dross.

It is not an individual, but a mass, condition. As

various forms of sediment rise to the surface, skim them off and cast them aside. Surrender them to the ladle of the Master Craftsman.

You are an immortal. You are a potential god or goddess. You are an heir to all the glories of the kingdoms of heaven, indescribable in their beauty and in the scope of their creative activities.

Where hope, faith, love and joy exist, there can be no disease. Start practicing, and never give up. Affirm the beauty and goodness of life.

Love the Creator, and express your thanks in words of appreciation.

Rejoice in being!

I rejoice that the Creator created me alive, and made me a co-creator with Him.

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I be separate and alone.

I rejoice in the marvelous potentialities of my nature which He has given me to develop throughout eternity.

I rejoice in the mastery He has given me over my own destiny.

I rejoice in my ability to think clearly, to create beautiful thoughts and generate divine feelings.

I rejoice that I have problems to solve; and that thereby I can exercise my faculties and develop my talents.

I rejoice that I have the help of others, mortals and angels, who are giving me their love and encouragement, and sharing their wisdom and strength.

I rejoice in the creative energy of my body, the Divine Intelligence before which I stand in awe.

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I rejoice that I can give this marvelous Presence the force of recognition, of love, of faith, of thankfulness, and of joy.

I rejoice that my every constructive expression benefits all others in my world, and adds to the good of the whole.

I see my own healing as a contribution to the welfare of all.

Henceforth, I live for all.

I rejoice in the marvelous potentialities of

my nature which He has given me to develop throughout eternity.

I rejoice in the mastery He has given me over my own destiny.

I rejoice in my ability to think clearly, to create beautiful thoughts and generate divine feelings.

I rejoice that I have problems to solve; and that thereby I can exercise my faculties and develop my talents.

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I rejoice that I have the help of others, mortals and angels, who are giving me their love and encouragement, and sharing their wisdom and strength.

I rejoice in the creative energy of my body, the Divine Intelligence before which I stand in awe.

I rejoice that I can give this marvelous Presence the force of recognition, of love, of faith, of thankfulness, and of joy.

I rejoice that my every constructive expression benefits all others in my world, and adds to the good of the whole.

I see my own healing as a contribution to the welfare of all.

Henceforth, I live for all.

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that I am is His. In everything I do, I am one with Him. I shall never lose sight of His Hand, His Purpose, His Light, His Meaning, His Presence in everything and every person.

All praise to the All Highest! The One Person in Whom all persons have their being! The One Life and Intelligence which exists in every living thing! Whose Substance is the substance of corpor, of atmospherea, of etherea, uniting all the universe! Forming all parts into One Magnificent Whole!

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CONTEMPLATE THE HARMONY OF THE HEAVENS The Eloists Radiance (1989)

Go out on a clear night and contemplate the serene beauty of starstrewn space. How majestic is the march of those myriads of suns across the immensity of the empyrean. How meekly suns, planets, comets, and asteroids obey that invisible Power which determines their order.

As you contemplate the harmony and wisdom displayed in the visible heavens, remember that the Mover of this majestic march of solar systems is also within your own being. The same intelligent Power is keeping in order the vast number of cells in your brain and body.

That Being abides at the center of your intelligence, sustaining, strengthening, harmonizing and healing your entire nature.

Contemplate this truth often in your quiet moments and from this contemplation there will be born a serene and tranquil faith in Omnipotence. This will quiet many of your fears, dissolve many of your cares, and develop a confidence in the great harmonizing 291

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PROBLEMS The Eloists Radiance (1989)

In the beginning, in the middle, at the end and all along the way, life has, and does, and will present problems, but no individual is given a problem so great that he is not endowed with the power to solve it.

Through the exercise of his divine will he strengthens the sinews of his soul. No one can then sit smugly back and say: "I have solved this problem that has been given to me. Now I shall take a siesta in the sun.

For there are always new and greater problems to be

solved.

Because each of you has willingly dedicated yourself to the great work of bringing Benevolence into being on this planet, you are called Builders. Each of you has a specific and essential piece of work that only you can handle, but always there is the recognition that your fellow Builders have a work to do, too. This can be the most exhilarating and joyful experience that anyone has ever known, or it can be a bit of dreary drudgery for those who plod wearily counting each step forward with a tedious 1, 2, 3. What a way to face life! Can 293

you imagine a bird flying in such a methodical manner? To be sure, you have a load to lift. Isn’t that wonderful? Of course it is heavy.

Doesn't that make you feel strong? And there are days when you are not sure that you are on the right path at all. What a glorious opportunity that is to blaze a new trail.

Whatever differences you have had, and there are many, we salute each Builder of Benevolence, for the ties that have held you to this great work are stronger than any ties that have bound souls who are not yet strong enough to shoulder the work which each of you has been willing and ready to assume. Your loyalty to the group is greater than any family tie, greater than the many luring voices of self that would entice you if there was not that at the center of your being which stood up and said: "No!" For this we salute you, not by pinning any medals on your garments, nor by adding to the weight you carry by harnessing you with gifts of gold. We salute you with a wave of a hand, a smile and a certain camaraderie that says, "No problem that is given you is too great for you to solve, not as an individual, but as a unit. You are a Builder of Benevolence. So are we all." The strength of the Hosts is yours to command as long as you use this mighty force in a constructive, creative way, letting light pass through you unimpeded by any selfish whim. We salute you as fellow workers.

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purpose and all things shall come to you that are needful in the building of a world wherein people and angels shall walk and talk and work and sing paens of praise to glorify the Father of us all and the Mother whose love lifts us in to Her arms.

The diseased part may be rubbed and pinched and magnetized and electrified and exercised if it will help to bring back the circulation of life, but, above all, it must be blessed and talked to and infused with soul force before the healing and saving power will manifest perfectly. It matters not how badly paralyzed a limb may be, if you can call the soul to live in the weakened parts, there will be a return of health and satisfying vitality, for lo! the soul is the resurrection and the life everlasting.

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DISSOLVING THE VEILS The Eloists Radiance (1998)

We are sustaining your soul in an atmosphere of angelic radiance.

We are uniting with the Angel Hosts to purify your aura and melt away the deep-seated causes of physical disturbance. There are many veils that cloud the beauty and health of the inner Self, and only as these are dissolved away by the concentrated love of the Angel Hosts can you express in your outer life the perfection of your soul. The radiance of Angelic Love now vibrates through you with mighty healing power. Through your unity with the Immortals you are making possible a great regeneration in your life, and though the immediate results may not be as miraculous as you might wish, the ultimate results are of enduring benefit.

You are unfolding the angelic qualities of your nature, and rejoicing in the process. There is no greater joy in the world. Your soul will unfold in beauty and radiance, and become as a sun in warmth of love to everyone in your world.

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physical nature and thus do away with physical limitations.

The Angel Hosts are with you every day creating mighty healing thoughts. The purifying power of the Creator pervades your body; realize this for only then can It manifest as health through all the cells and tissues!

Divine Love streams from the Angel Hosts through our souls to heal and strengthen you. The peace and serenity of the celestial life is permeating your souls and harmonizing all disturbing conditions.

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HEALING BLESSINGS The Eloists Radiance (1996)

We are blessing you. As we sit here in our Place of Radiance blessing you, we are aware that we are also a center of blessings which the human language cannot adequately describe. A shaft of divine light centers in our souls, and we feel the invigorating warmth of this love ray inspiring our blessings with spiritual power to quicken your soul and envelop your body.

We are consciously enveloped in the light and warmth of the soul world of everlasting life. This spiritual force is of so intense a vibration that the vital heat of our physical bodies is increased and we are. suffused with a glow of invigorating vitality. Our spirits are exalted, and we feel that our words of blessing reach your spirit and impart something of the love and vitality which we realize.

As we bless, this exalting benediction of the Angel Hosts causes us to feel that we are immortal individuals working consciously with the Immortal Angels of the Creator.

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During this period devoted to blessings, we lose the sense of mortal limitations, and feel divinely powerful.

We feel radiant with the blessings of divine love and capable of making you feel your divine birthright as an immortal child of the Ever Present. Because of this birthright, you can now tune yourself with the Creator and learn to live forever in the blissful state of Infinite Love. You can partake of this everlasting life and vitality.

In this exalted state of consciousness, we feel that we are voices of the Creator speaking exalted thoughts, and expressing Infinite tenderness and power to you and to all souls enveloped in the shadows of mortal thought, that you and they may be quickened in spirit and restored to spiritual and physical health.

As you practice blessing others, you will become aware of the warm, vitalizing power which is transmitted to you through our blessings.

Then, the gradual renewal of your vitality and courage, and the illumination of your soul feelings, will convince you that you are being helped to progress in the way of divine health and peace.

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The power focused upon you during the time that we bless you is like a ray of divine sunshine. Those who are clairvoyant see it as such.

But you need not see this light spiritually in order to be benefitted by its uplifting, healing force.

This ray of divine sunshine beaming through our souls from the Angelic Hosts quickens and vitalizes the divine image which the Creator has formed within your earthly nature. As this latent image of power and perfection is vitalized by our daily blessings, it will be aroused to action. It will be trained to use its own power to overcome the mental traits which are the causes of distress. You will become a more vigorous personality with a divinely inspired character and destiny.

Physical healing is not the primary objective of these endeavors. We would awaken souls from materiality to spirituality, from false standards of material values which are of short duration to a true sense of spiritual values which are of eternal duration.

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wills for you, and which you can begin to enjoy as you exalt your thoughts and desires above the physical senses and live in the thoughts and feelings of your eternal nature. We would lead you into the way of eternal progress which is the way of everlasting life and peace.

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THE HEALING OF NATIONS The Eloists Radiance (1992)

"Eloists on the Plateau send their love and blessings to their family below. They hold the focus with you this evening, as they do on all evenings, and in one way or another you receive their backing and spiritual support at every hour of the day. This was the message Walter asked us to convey as we left the library to join with you this evening.

As you concentrate in focus, our minds are drawn together and we are able to convey to you the sense of what we hold in our minds regardless of what spoken language we used earlier in life. Were we to talk with you on your plane in person you would understand little because our language was of an early form used by the so-called mound builders. Even many of the Native Americans of later generations who have worked with you would not understand. But in the realm of thought there is no language barrier.

Our people are dismayed by the awe inspiring f changes that have 302

swept over this nation since we last walked the earth. Many are good, but many have separated your people from the world of spirit.

Your culture and your ways of living have erected a wall between yourselves and the Great Spirit. You live your lives within those grey boxes and seldom see the world that we knew so well and revered as the Voice of Creation. The four-leggeds were all of one family with the two-Ieggeds, and we dwelled together in peace under one sky.

But now things have all changed. Our objective is to see that the Great Spirit again becomes central in the lives of the people, for a great cloud of darkness has covered their eyes and filled their hearts un til they see but dimly, and feel but coldly. Their lives need fixing, but only Jehovih can do this for them. We cannot do it for them because this is a new age in which humanity must now stand on its own, like angels while yet in the flesh.

This is the start and we are here to help, for the Great Spirit has ordained that we shall do this. And so we will, with your help now as "anchors" in corpor and your help later as co-workers here with us in spirit, and with all the others who have united in this one Great Purpose. This is the purpose that you and your family call Kosmon and we call the time when the Nation shall be healed to become whole once again; the time when the Sacred Hoop that was broken shall be whole once again.

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Dawn of Light Dancers so pure All veils assembled So they can be thrown To the wind.

No more obscuring The rainbow that holds The bridge to the future.

Let us be partners In this dance to the sun With ribbons of laughter And the beat of a drum.

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To dance with the angels And release the past.

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SPIRITUAL HEALING National Spiritualist Association of Churches From The Spirit World (1999)

Spiritual healing, recognized in many ancient religions, has been a principle of Spiritualism since its beginning. Today, on a national basis, evidence is growing in the medical community of the importance

of spiritual healing to the cure of the individual in need. Evidence is growing that the whole person needs treatment, not just the illness.

A Spiritualist Healer is one who, either through his or her own inborn power or through mediumship, is able to transmit curative energies to physical conditions. The results of Spiritual Healing are produced in several ways:

1. By spiritual influences working through the body of the medium to transmit curative energies to the diseased parts of the recipient's body.

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2. By spiritual influences enlightening the mind of the medium so that the cause, nature and seat of the disease in the recipient is made known to the medium.

3. Through the application of absent healing treatments whereby spiritual beings combine their own healing energies with the energies of the medium and cause them to be absorbed by the system of the recipient.

A Spiritualist Healer works with the spirit, mind, emotions, and the body of the recipient. A Spiritualist Healer is aware that once stress is removed from the mind and emotions, the body will respond naturally. This brings about holistic healing in the patient. Spiritualist Healers acknowledge the importance of the medical community and work in cooperation with it at all times. Spiritualism recognizes that the medical community is an instrument of healing of the Infinite.

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PRAYER FOR SPIRITUAL HEALING National Spiritualist Association of Churches From The Spirit World (1999)

I ask the great unseen healing force to remove all obstructions from my mind and body and to restore me to perfect health.

I ask this in all sincerity and honesty and I will do my part.

I ask this great unseen healing force to help both present and absent ones who are in need of help and to restore them to perfect health.

I put my trust in the love and power of God.

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THE VORTEX WITHIN Wayne Sturgeon Trance Sessions (2003)

Greetings from our space to yours.

Many areas of development now are on the horizon of the Society. It is time to expand some ideas now into realization. The seeds of growth are now growing and in a very rapid manner. Being on top of the society’s plan for the growth planed is of primary importance. The numbers ever increasing now for manifold growth to many sections of the tree of the Society.

As mortals and Angels we admire the universe and the distance in which it goes. From the grass you stand on, to the bridge of Chin vat is where the end of perspective as mortals lay. It is beyond this great divide, in and bridging, from atmospherea to realms of spirit ENERGY, that we are deficient in the pattern of the past. It is at a turning place for your inquiry to probe the depths that are from within, as well as those beyond, into energy from the other perspective.

Dwelling in one area for knowledge is of little value unless all areas 309

are explored and by this we mean to turn to the inner self. As this has been but mere words to some, it is of utmost importance to the creative process that we have inherited and now are responsible for.

The vortex that is within is very seldom explored to any great depth.

It is like a bridge into the realms of unexplored heavens. Through the exploration of the inner vortex the keys to the heavens emancipated are in grasp. Those that are familiar with the principle of vortex and the power it contains will now be able to see, from within, the manifestations of matter development to their fullest form. It is a matter of seeing, in the simplest terms, the way of creation and to complicate it with the power, and the mathematics, involved will hold no significant purpose. Thus in simplicity the method can be revealed better than in the scientific method.

The words “seek from within� have been written, from the beginning, in all the creations apparent to mankind, in visible manifestation. Also through the written words of those that have sought for more knowledge in an undaunted manner will now be within our grasp. To continue with growth is to let the past be as example but not for truth as this can create dormancy of your being both spiritual and physical.

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us to the power that lay within the vortex within. To be builders, by thought, the most powerful of any matter and to be understood as we enter the realm within.

As with any circumstance there are two sides, therefore that which lies beyond Chinvat bridge can be explained by that which happen within the vortex within.

The power of thought gathers like the

galaxies of the heavens on a clear night to bring into being the material of thought. Gaining in density and in mass the thoughts of one bear fruit on the outer vortex because of the formation of a mature thought from within the inner vortex. It is the realm of detail in which thought matter, by attraction, manifests itself in the form of ideas born and into real objects emitted by forces and by the nature of organization.

Be aware of that placid garden of prayer and thought and that indeed it will carry forth over the inner Chin vat bridge into the vortex of inner matter. So what you think of today is already in full manifestation and, in due course, will inhabit your area, street, community, town, or village. The reigns of direction remain within the vortex of the innermost being of self. You are the custodian of such a wonderful power that lies within your ability to create. It is you that can harness this force or better-termed power of light.

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Consider that you are but a letter in a word and the word is but a particle of a sentence and the complete sentence becomes manifest as a phrase. This is the direction given to you today to harness the reigns of the inner vortex to master realities of the greatest and not to harbour anything less than this divine principle to enhance the people of the world. It is by our thoughts, and thoughts in unison, that we proceed through this edge of the new era, and proceeding as light bringers to darkness. To question every conceivable situation, institution and written word is the challenge. To dispense with the articles that have been used to undermine the divine within each person and each angel. Being foremost and always in our thoughts to bring truth within our midst. To cast away the principle, but not the persons, that wedges their once magnificent philosophies into the inner mindset and the vortex. It is like a healing crisis that happens within an organism that can and will repair from within that which is of no more use. The disease is Religion and the encompassing theories that have blackened the earth by what is called doctrine. The injuries to the souls of mortals and angels now will be eased both from before and after the bridge. That healing to the planet, now much overdue, is on course again with truth being a light bringer to the world. It is within that we can seek for truth and from without see the display of false messages of blood. Prove it, now being the master 312

key to truth, is what we have created and in due time the rewards of truth will shine as light.

As these words now unfolding before you will need to be proven, as all works presented for personal guidance, should come under the scrutiny of the unbiased and uncluttered mind. Become more familiar as humans ăƒť being of a divine descent and not ever to be under the law as such happens within the animal, vegetable kingdom. Organic, and being disciplined like what was intended for the animals, at this time are not a positive attribute. To become engrossed with progress through the animals law is acting in violation of basic rights and freedoms. Mortals shall not perform and answer to a bell as they were given freedom from their transplanted beginnings from divinity.

To be as gods now has been hampered by the many words of man which, through the assemblies of Religion, have made man less than animal or vegetable. To unwind this thread of knots and tangles cannot be done with any perfection only with the powers bestowed to humans and angels from divine realms. We have reached the second turning place for Mortals now being within our grasp, responsibility and because of the inherited power. The provisions of the great mother the earth now is in need of a complete inventory of both product of man and of product of thought.

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No longer is needed the destruction of the planet mother by the powers now in control as the plentiful now becomes the needed. The basics now are dependent upon the ability to live without plunder and to love without passion. To be of giving rather than to be of taking, the community will develop in small steps to large leaps as the illness now identified can be healed. The vortex now becomes another needed key for the development of the Race gifted from divinity. Be wise and be one of a questioning manner of that which is called law for the time of law is at an end, the use of such controlling forces has blackened the light of mortals to be less than an animal. Think and think it out thoroughly before your agreement binds you to more darkness. Let the ties of

“bound by scripture, rituals, rites, and

ceremonies� be first loosened by truth of thought. The ceremonies made for animals are now in the place of decline as impotent for the new mortal and may your own thoughts manifest quickly upon the earth our mother. Be not afraid to let go because healing is of the society and no injury can become more than a small bruise which is the healing from within. Some have done this and the numbers continue to gather momentum. The light of the society now is a beacon to those somewhat lost in the snarl of belief systems.

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manifestations are within sight. As pioneers explore into the realms of divinity, which was till this time forbidden for mortals and that has had its day and will flow back to darkness from which it came.

Take charge of your destiny and prove these words by planting thoughts in the vortex that works from within. The ability to create is in direct proportion to the amount of individual thought that enters into the vortex. Thoughts that are for growth of the society will attract like and similar thoughts from the ever-plentiful garden placid. There is no shortage of material if there is no shortage of determination. It is the storehouse of the gods and the mechanism used for the new direction that mortals now are choosing.

It is for our understanding that the vortex of inner most thought is but a doorway to the vastness of creation. This doorway is in our hands and the hands of mortals and angels. It is a key to freedom to be used wisely. May you find it now and prove that our light will overpower that which is “greed, power, wealth and self of the masters and leaders.� Many have used this same vast storehouse of power to manipulate the ignorant into a doctrine of deceit thereby holding mortals as hostage and in bondage for many, many years too long.

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May you find the door and plant the seeds of thought. Be keepers of the divine power that is the inheritance of mortals and angels. Never underestimate the power of organized thoughts. Be wise in knowledge and distribute love freely. Think carefully and in our highest light create our thoughts for the betterment of the world.

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LAW OF ATTRACTION George Nicol About Spirit (2008)

Is the Law of Attraction involved in spiritual healing in any way?

Yes, The Law of Attraction is involved in spiritual healing and is extremely important in the spiritual healing process.

Indeed, I would say that the Law of Attraction is all important in the spiritual healing process. The preparation of the spiritual healer for the practice of spiritual healing is about them utilizing the Law of Attraction in the best possible way.

Spiritual healers who utilize the Law of Attraction in the best possible way are the ones who obtain the best healing results.

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healing is all about the spiritual healer attuning to, attracting and channelling the highest and the best quality spiritual healing vibrations and it is the standard of the spiritual vibrations that determine the standard of the spiritual healing results. The spiritual 317

healer can only achieve that by utilizing the Law of Attraction in the best possible way. The healing results that can be achieved through a spiritual healer correlate to the state of the vibrations created and how well the healer can utilize the Law of Attraction.

In order for the healer to attune to, attract and channel the highest and the best quality spiritual vibrations, they must prepare themself appropriately physically, mentally and spiritually. By that I mean they need to prepare themselves appropriately vibrationally so that their personal spiritual vibrations are as high as possible. What the spiritual healer must be aware of is that they will not be able to that unless they properly prepare the physical, the mental and the spiritual.

You may wonder why we must pay attention to the physical and the mental when we talk about promoting the spiritual vibrations and it is because the physical and the mental are also spiritual vibrations.

You must not forget that all things in the universe are spirit and that in spirit there is nor can be no separation. The physical and the mental are different manifestations of spiritual vibrations.

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Thus, by neglecting the quality and standard of the physical and/or the mental we must reduce the quality and standard of the spiritual.

The spiritual vibrational state of the healer at the time of practicing spiritual healing is all important because it is the state of the spiritual healing vibrations that determine what can be attuned to and channelled. The Law of Attraction is the Law of Like Attracting Like, or rather it is the Law of Like Vibrations Attracting Like Vibrations.

This means if the healer wants to attract high spiritual vibrations they must be in a similarly high spiritual vibrational state. If the healer seeks to attract high spiritual vibrations and obtain the best spiritual healing results they can that is what they must do — and to do that they must prepare themselves appropriately vibration-wise.

Let me tell you that a spiritual healer can only ever attract and channel the quality of spiritual healing vibrations that they themselves radiate. They can only ever ‘plug’ into spiritual vibrations whose radiations are similar to their own. Therefore, if their personal spiritual vibrational state is high they will be capable of attuning to, attracting, channeling or plugging into similarly high spiritual healing vibrations. If, however, their personal spiritual vibrational state is low they will not be capable of attracting and channelling that standard of 319

spiritual healing vibrations. They cannot do that because the Law of Attraction will not allow it. They can only attune to, attract and channel vibrations and vibrational energy that is like their personal energy state.

To do otherwise would contravene natural law and that is not possible. They will obviously also not be capable of achieving a high standard of healing results because the results relate to the standard of the existing spiritual vibrations.

No spiritual healer should ever

think that they can channel the highest quality spiritual vibrations and obtain the best possible healing results just by preparing their spiritual vibrations immediately prior to and during a spiritual healing session. That is not what will allow them to utilize the Law of Attraction in their healing in the best possible way.

If a spiritual healer wants to do that they will have to prepare appropriately before and during a healing session but what they must also do if they want to achieve the highest healing standard is to additionally prepare by living their lives spiritually at all times. This is what allows them to make best personal use of the Law of Attraction in their spiritual healing.

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WHAT IS SPIRIT? George Nicol About Spirit (2008)

What is spirit, and how does spirit relate to spiritual healing, mediumship, meditation, and health?

Spirit is the infinite, perfect, all-knowing all-feeling, all-seeing, allpowerful ubiquitous universal intelligence that possesses perfect intelligence and knowledge about the universe and all physical and non-physical animate and non-animate objects in the universe.

The universal intelligence that is spirit is a non-material spiritual essence. Spirit is very similar to the concept of God and includes all those and all that which is involved in the spiritual organization and structure. Spirit is not a deified man or a deified being. Nor is spirit/Great Spirit, the power that creates and maintains the universe, a spirit being — although it is said, perhaps confusingly, that those spirit beings who help and assist in the production of spiritual healing and other spiritual and natural phenomena are spirit. Spirit does not 321

have human form or human appearance — rather the whole universe and everything in it is its form.

While it is true that spirit does not have human form or human appearance; human form, human appearance and even human health are determined by spirit and the state of one’s spirit. You may say: “But what about the physical? What about the mind? What about free will? What about evolution? You forgot about these and the effect they have on human form, human appearance and health.”

It is true that these things all have an impact, but these things — indeed all things, as we shall see — derive from spirit and the state of the spirit.

Therefore, all human beings — and indeed all animals and all living things — are a product and a consequence of spirit and the state of the spirit. We can say that man and the state and condition of man are a reflection of spirit and the state of the spirit. What we can also say is that man is made in the image of spirit. In spiritual healing what we seek to do is to use spirit — or rather the healing power of the spirit — to change and re-shape the imperfect image of man to more closely resemble the perfect image of spirit or God.

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ALL ENERGY IN THE UNIVERSE IS SPIRIT ENERGY George Nicol About Spirit (2008)

All Energy in the Universe is Spirit Energy

Because spirit is

everything and everything is spirit, all power and energy in the universe is spirit power and spirit energy, and all power and energy in the universe derive from, are created by, and exist because of spirit power and spirit energy.

Thus everything in the universe is really just spirit energy.

This is akin to yin-yang theory in Traditional Chinese Medicine which states that everything in the universe is different combinations and manifestations of yin and yang energy.

In my opinion, this is true of all planes and worlds and of all animate and inanimate objects in these planes and worlds.

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Spirit is Everything / In Spirit There is and can be no Separation Spirit, is the universe. Spirit is all physical and non-physical animate and non-animate objects in the universe. Therefore, although we talk about the physical, mental, psychical, and spiritual worlds and planes, each — and all things pertaining to these worlds and planes — are really only different manifestations and ranges of spirit, spirit energy and spiritual vibrations.

Because spirit is the universe and all things in the universe this means that all beings and all living things, no matter whether they reside on the physical plane or on other spiritual planes, are all spirit beings. It also means that all physical, psychical and spiritual worlds and planes are all spiritual worlds and planes.

They are all really just different manifestations and ranges of spiritual energy and spiritual vibrations. It is this commonality of and connection by spirit that make possible spiritual healing, spiritual communication and all spiritual phenomena.

Spirit law decrees that this commonality of, and connection by spirit cannot be sundered and this means that there is no, and can be no 324

spiritual isolation and separation between spirit beings, inanimate objects and spirit worlds. If there were spiritual separation and spiritual disconnection between and within the animate and inanimate objects of this earth plane and other spiritual planes and other spiritual vibrations, spirit could not exert perfect control over the universe and all things in the universe. Obviously, spirit must be able to link and communicate perfectly in a spiritual way with things for it to have perfect intelligence about them and for it to exert perfect spiritual control over them.

If there were spiritual separation and spiritual disconnection, the spiritual healing that occurs through spiritual healers would not be possible because spiritual healing through spiritual healing mediums is an entirely spiritual process requiring the channeling of spiritual healing power: from spirit, through spirit, to spirit — i.e. from the higher spiritual vibrations through the spirit of the healer to the spirit of the patient.

For spirit power to reach the patient in a spiritual way, a three-way spiritual connection and communication must exist. Likewise, all other kinds of spiritual mediumship are also entirely spiritual processes involving the channeling of spirit power from the higher 325

spiritual vibrations through the spirit of the medium. Therefore, if there were spiritual separation and spiritual disconnection, no spiritual mediumship of any kind would be possible.

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