The difference between my belief and that of
others who have written upon the philosophy of the mind is
this. Every philosopher aims at happiness as the greatest object to be obtained
and they believe that goodness is one of the means by which
to secure the prize. All these thoughts are meant to arrive at this one object,
happiness, thinking it is somewhere in the future and that they may, by hard labor, obtain it. That was the study of the great
philosophers. Now I profess to study the philosophy of the mind and have done
so for the last twenty- five years and I have arrived at the
following conclusion: that happiness is the light and that misery is darkness
and man being in darkness chooses darkness rather than light
because of his ignorance. All philosophies teach man how to find this light by
prescribing certain rules and regulations as to what he shall eat, drink, and wherewith he shall be clothed, imposing all kinds of
restrictions on him which, if he observes, he may at last find the light. Now
all such rules and restrictions lead him into darkness,
death, disease or misery. I differ from all such philosophy and call light
happiness and darkness misery and instead of trying to find
the light, I labor to destroy the darkness.
I will give you an illustration of what I
mean. Disease is the effect of
darkness or a belief, for a belief has no light or wisdom,
for wisdom is light and opinion is darkness. When man is in opinion, he is in
darkness and to get out of his opinion is to get into the
light. Therefore, I commence to correct the error which troubles him, for his
trouble is his darkness. If I convince him of the truth, the light springs up and his light is his happiness. For the Bible says that the
people which sat in the darkness saw a great light and to them which sat in the
region and shadow of death light is sprung up. (Matt. 4: 16)
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