Dis-ease

There is nothing but God and His manifestation; the only wisdom, the only power, the only activity, the only consciousness, the only movement, is that of God. The material man is a mere dream man, and is best expressed as a series of mechanical cinematographic pictures, having no life or intelligence, flashing by and hiding heaven from us. It looks as if an effect was always preceded by a cause, but this is only because nearly always the cinema pictures were fixed in this way at the so-called beginning of the material world, and so fixed without rhyme or reason. The same cause is not always, or even often, followed by the same effect, as it would be if there were true cause and effect.

Professor James, of Harvard University, has said : “All mental states lead to inconspicuous changes in breathing, circulation, general muscular tension, and glandular or other visceral activity, even if they do not lead to conspicuous movements of the muscles of voluntary life . . . all states of mind, even mere thoughts and feelings, are motor in their consequences."

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with a sleep" (Shakespeare).

"And surely it is not a melancholy conceit to think we are all asleep in this world, and that the conceits of this life are as mere dreams" (Sir Thomas Browne[1]).

“Wrong thinking, belief in a power other than that of God, is the primary cause of all disease and sin. This wrong thinking is clue to ignorance. Hence all disease is mental.
While the whole effect can be spoken of as ‘mental’, so it can also be
expressed as "material," and still better as "ethereal," for, as has been pointed out, these are merely different names for the same thing. All are purely illusory, and have no real existence and no reality, for they are not of God.”

In the nineteenth century Prince Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillensfürst[http://pvrguymale.blogspot.ca/2012/03/miracle-cure.html], Canon of Grosswardein, was a healer of world renown. In one year, 1848-9, over 18,000 came from all over the world for treatment.

Professor James, one of the leading psychologists of modern times, writes in Psychology as follows: "Psychology is but a string of raw facts, a little gossip and a wrangle about opinions, a little classification and generalisation on the mere descriptive level, a strong prejudice that we have states of mind, and that our brain conditions them, but not a single law in the sense in which physics shows us laws. At present psychology is in the condition of physics before Galileo and the laws of motion, or of chemistry before Lavoisier[2]."

"For that which troubled thee, whatsoever it was, was not without anywhere, but within, in thine own opinions, from whence it must be cast out before thou canst truly and constantly be at ease" Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)

"Human life is a dream and a journey in a strange land" (Marcus Aurelius)

"Matter, motion, and force, are not the reality, but the symbols of reality" (Herbert Spencer)

LIFE UNDERSTOOD

FROM A SCIENTIFIC AND RELIGIOUS POINT OF VIEW

AND

THE PRACTICAL METHOD OF DESTROYING SIN, DISEASE, AND DEATH
By F. L. RAWSON
1947

Dedicated to MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS THE MASS OF MANKIND WRITHING UNDER THE LASH OF FALSE LAWS THROUGH IGNORANCE OF TRUTH
FIRST PUBLISHED 1912

The Society for Spreading the Knowledge of True Prayer (SSKTP) was formed with the object of helping people to understand the difference between prayer by supplication to God regarded as a. person or distant potentate to do something which would often be harmful if brought about, and prayer by the realisation of the perfection of God and man.

One of the most original writers in the English language.
[1]Sir Thomas Browne (1605 – 1682) was an English author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including medicine, religion, science and the esoteric.
Browne's writings display a deep curiosity towards the natural world, influenced by the scientific revolution of Baconian enquiry, while his Christian faith exuded tolerance and goodwill towards humanity in an often intolerant era.
Browne is widely considered one of the most original writers in the English language.

The Father of Modern Chemistry.
[2]Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (1743 – 1794), the "father of modern chemistry", was a French nobleman prominent in the histories of chemistry and biology. He named both oxygen (1778) and hydrogen (1783) and helped construct the metric system, put together the first extensive list of elements, and helped to reform chemical nomenclature. He was also the first to establish that sulfur was an element (1777) rather than a compound. Overall, his contributions are considered the most important in advancing chemistry to the level reached in physics and mathematics during the 18th century.

the Healer.

Francis Schlatter (1856–c. 1896) was an Alsatian cobbler who, because of miraculous cures attributed to him, became known as the Healer.
In 1884 he emigrated to the United States, where he worked at his trade in various cities, arriving in Denver, Colorado, in 1892. There, a few months later, he experienced a vision at his cobbler's bench in which he heard the voice of the Father commanding him to sell his business, give the money to the poor, and devote his life to healing the sick.
In July 1895 he emerged from his pilgrimage across the Mohave Desert as a Christlike healer in the Rio Grande villages south of Albuquerque. There, while treating hundreds of sick, suffering, and disabled people who flocked to Albuquerque's Old Town, he became famous. Crowds gathered about him daily, hoping to be cured of their diseases simply by clasping his hands. The following month he returned to Denver, but did not resume his healings until mid-September. During the next few weeks, his ministry drew tens of thousands of pilgrims to a small home in North Denver. Schlatter is said to have refused all rewards for his services. His manner of living was of the simplest, and he taught no new doctrine. He said only that he obeyed a power which he called Father, and from this power he received his healing virtue.
On the night of November 13, 1895, he suddenly disappeared, leaving behind him a note in which he said that his mission was ended.

Miracle Cure.

Prince Alexander Leopold Franz Emmerich of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (1794 – 1849) was a German priest and reputed miracle-worker.
On 1 February, 1821, he was suddenly cured at Hassfurt of a severe pain in the throat in consequence of the prayers of a devout peasant named Martin Michel. His belief in the efficacy of prayer was greatly strengthened by this cure, and on 21 June, 1821, he succeeded in curing the Princess Mathilda von Schwarzenberg, who had been a paralytic for eight years, by his prayers which he joined with those of Martin Michel. Having asked the pope whether he was permitted to attempt similar cures in the future, he was told not to attempt any more public cures, but he continued them in private. He acquired such fame as a performer of miraculous cures that crowds from several countries flocked to partake of the beneficial influence of his supposed supernatural gifts. He would specify a time during which he would pray for those that applied to him, and in this manner he effected numerous cures not only on the Continent, but also in England, Ireland, and the United States.
Immediately Worthy of mention is the case of Mrs. Ann Mattingly of Washington, D. C., who was said to have been cured of a tumour through his prayers on 10 March, 1824.
Her ailment began in 1817, when she began to feel pain in her left side. Her left breast gradually became more and more painful, until “she could distinctly feel a small lump at that spot, about the size of a pigeon’s egg.” Doctors failed at relieving the pain, and in 1818 Mattingly “was seized with a violent puking” which continued for days. After this, she was unable to leave her bed for months, though she was visited consistently by doctors.
After months of pain, she followed the directions of Prince Hohenlohe, a Catholic Priest in Germany who she communicated with through Reverend Dubuisson, of St. Patrick’s Church in Washington DC. At his advice, she performed nine days of devotional acts. On the final day, Mr. Dubuisson gave her the Holy Eucharist. Right after she completed swallowing it, she was immediately relieved of all pain. She was able to get out of her bed unassisted and knelt to pray to God for thanks. Since that time, she had no more pain, gained strength, and was left with a sweet taste in her mouth, “resembling that of loaf sugar.”
[ http://www.pahrc.net/index.php/ann-mattinglys-miracle-cure/]
Rome did not pass judgment on these supposed miracles and Catholics were divided in their opinion.

115 different countries have visited this site.

176 flags collected (including regions)

115th Country Namibia Visited March 27, 2012

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March 1990, following the Namibian War of Independence. Its capital and largest city is Windhoek. Namibia is a member state of the United Nations (UN), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union (AU), and the Commonwealth of Nations.
The Christian community makes up 80%-90% of the population of Namibia, with at least 50% of these Lutheran. 10%-20% of the population hold indigenous beliefs. The official language is English. While the official language is English, most of the white population speaks either German or Afrikaans. The northern majority of Namibians speak Oshiwambo as their first language, whereas the most widely understood and spoken language is Afrikaans. Among the younger generation, the most widely understood languages are English and Afrikaans.
The Kalahari Desert is perhaps Namibia’s best known geographical feature. Shared with South Africa and Botswana, it has a variety of localized environments ranging from hyper-arid sandy desert, to areas that seem to defy the common definition of desert.

What you SEE is what you GET.

You probably know the old story of a stranger who settled in a town and asked his neighbor:

"What are the people like here?"

The neighbor, a Quaker, replied quietly with a question,

"What were the people like where thee came from?"

The newcomer answered,

"I have come from ______. The people there were very mean and dishonest."

The Quaker answered,

"I'm afraid thee will find them all here."

A third person who had overheard the conversation, joined in by remarking:

"This surprises me because I have come from the same town, and I found them a very kind and friendly lot of people."

And the old Quaker turning to him said:

"Thee will find them all here too."

Emmet Fox
Alter Tour LIfe
1931

YOU must open yourself, your mind, to ME.

Any time I run across something by Alan Anderson or Deborah G. Whitehouse ( Who We Are ) it’s always a treat (And the fact they write, work and play together is, for me, awesome see-> PROCESS NEW THOUGHT ) .This article is no different:Lost Threads in New Thought: Influence of Other Metaphysical (and Non-Metaphysical) Groups Carrying New Thought Off Course

“It is ironic that as other religions begin to take note of the teachings of Jesus, New Thoughters increasingly neglect them in their zeal to distance themselves from all forms of Christianity.”

So, basically, “the New Thought” became “New Thought” which replaced “Mental Science” or the “Mental Cure” without a doubt. And the “New Age”, although it may use some similar themes, is definitely not “the New Thought”.
At the turn of Y1K (Deb’s cool term), Divine Science, and Unity, along with other branches of New Thought that have since disappeared(i.e. Home of Truth, The New Church ), were in full swing. Religious Science would wait until 1927. Holmes being the last student of Hopkins and a devotee of Troward.
Horatio W. Dresser was concerned whether the New Thought churches would stand the tests of time.
Deb pointed out:

“Myrtle Fillmore's staunch Methodist background kept Unity on reasonably sound ground most of the time and preserved the bridge over which traditional Christians could cross with ease into the freedom of New Thought, but even she succumbed to pantheistic(the idea that "God" is best seen as a process of relating to the Universe) statements on occasion as she struggled to free herself from the tangles of anthropomorphism(anthropomorphism refers to the perception of a divine being or beings in human form). Fenwicke Holmes, trained as a Congregationalist minister, sought to distance himself and Ernest from pantheism, but they eventually succumbed.”

But, NOW is the ONLY time.
Emmet Fox wrote of the Impersonal Christ Truth, the Indwelling Christ (the Inner Light of the Quakers)[1]
He also wrote:

If you have a radio and you want to get the program WJZ , you tune in for WJZ. You do not expect to get that on WABC. [1]

Wayne Dyer used a similar analogy. But Trine said it first. Ralph Waldo Trine wrote “In Tune With the Infinite” [1897]
[1] Alter Your Life[1931]
People overlook the fact it was in the silence that Quimby became clairvoyant. That Quimby discovered each disease had a unique smell. That Quimby ascertained when his client made the determination to get sick, the circumstances behind it. These things people overlook. Quimby was only interested in healing the sick. Not starting a new religion. But, because of Quimby people found God.It was Quimby that first wrote of both the ego and the spiritual side of us.
Also, remember that Horatio Dresser started with the Swedenborg church and ended his years with Unitarian. His brother, J. Paul Dresser, was with the New Church.
The “New Thought” has led to the Truth.

“Man was never born and he will never die. There is no death. Death is an idea that exists in the minds of men. As long as man believes in death, he must witness and experience it. Man has no beginning and no end; he always was, just as God always was, is and shall be. “God and man are one.” “I am my Father are one.”
The man who is always quoting so-called authorities to prove the modern theories of reincarnation is himself without authority. He is still crying in the wilderness and calling other men masters and adepts. Call no man master. “Salute no man on the highway.” Salute the God within. The Kingdom of God is within, and if someone tells you it is “Lo here; lo there,” believe him not. The Kingdom of Heaven is within man.
Where is the Truth? It is within yourself.”
Rev. Joseph Murphy
THIS IS IT: The Art of Metaphysical Demonstration [1948]

“. . .it will be seen that the so-called "ego" does not return to this material world, as it never has been in it, but always is in heaven.” ~ Life Understood From A Scientific And Religious Point Of View And The Practical Method Of Destroying Sin Disease And Death (1947) by F. L. Rawson

In my view “New Age” remains a conglomerate of Theosophy, spiritualism, occult, tarot, astrology, crystals, chakras, séances, incantations, positional meditations, spiritism, pyramids, astrology etc. It has little to do with “New Thought”.

During Y1K the world didn’t change or end because of New Thought.
The world didn’t change or end because of Y2K.
And the world won’t change change or end because of 2012.
Only, YOU can change.

Rawson on the dream of unreality.

The first and most important fact is that there is nothing but God and His manifestation; the only wisdom, the only power, the only activity, the only consciousness, the only movement, is that of God. The material man is a mere dream man, and is best expressed as a series of mechanical cinematographic pictures, having no life or intelligence, flashing by and hiding heaven from us. It looks as if an effect was always preceded by a cause, but this is only because nearly always the cinema pictures were fixed in this way at the so-called beginning of the material world, and so fixed without rhyme or reason. The same cause is not always, or even often, followed by the same effect, as it would be if there were true cause and effect.

The only reality is God and His mental or spiritual manifestation, perfect man and universe, a perfect state of consciousness, called heaven. Having a false sense of existence, viewed from a false standpoint, a belief of life in matter, the material so-called man has an equally false sense of substance, and sees this perfect world only through a false material sense of it. He has been fooled, self-hypnotised, into believing his material self and the ether- world to be real and true ; whereas the material part of it is simply a temporary misconception of the real man and universe, a false belief of substance in matter, an illusionary effect, cinematographic pictures hiding heaven, the real world, from us. We must voice the truth and "make all men see what is the fellowship [R.V., ' dispensation '] of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God" (Eph. 3 : 9).

Matter is simply a series of cinematographic pictures.

Cinematographic Pictures. The whole of this material world is simply a series of cinematographic pictures, the men, animals, trees, in fact, all so-called life, being merely ethereal counterfeits. These forms have no more life or intelligence in them than the pictures on a cinematographic screen. They are merely shifting appearances. Such so-called material beings have apparently powers of thinking, reasoning, deducing and acting upon such deductions ; whereas, as a matter of fact, these so-called material personalities are merely individualisations of illusory, basic false mentality, and counterfeits of the spiritual perfect beings.

So-called Thinking Merely "Picturing." One cannot correctly speak of a so-called human being as "thinking.'' "Picturing" would be a more accurate expression. The true people are perfect spiritual beings in a perfect world, governed by a perfect God, eternally manifesting divine wisdom.

Human "Thoughts" Merely External Beliefs. A mortal does not create " his thoughts." Every so-called thought that ever made a man apparently think, say, or do anything, existed,, as far as it could be said to exist, only as an illusive, "non-mental," contradictory opposite to true thoughts, ages (to use the human phraseology) before there was any material sign of human being, or even of what is called the material world. Because of false concepts of time and space, these false beliefs appear as though spread out over seons of time, cinematographic pictures * apparently passing in rapid review as mere mechanical automata. Professor Clifford truly said all unconscious action must be " mechanical and automatic. The human personality is a mere mechanical machine, void of any life or intelligence, and the so-called "mind" is merely a "harp of many strings."

* 'Thoughts" Intensify Themselves. When a person is said to be "thinking," that which theoretically happens is, that thought is intensifying itself on the so-called "mind" of the person who is admitting the thought into his consciousness. When a hypnotist, for instance, is hypnotising a person, the thought hypnotises the one who is hypnotising just as much as the one hypnotised. The so-called " mind " of the hypnotiser being a series of closed electrical circuits, the thoughts, sweeping along, intensify themselves by means of this human electrical instrument, and so Harm him as much as, or more than, the person who is being directly influenced.


When you really understand what the material world pretends to be, you will recognize that the only things that can harm you are these "thoughts," or false, "non-mental" impressions, which, until they are destroyed, come sweeping over the "stringed" instrument called the human "mind." When you understand this, fear is a thing of the past. How can you possibly be afraid of being harmed by these thoughts when you really understand that they are merely high-tension electrical currents, absolutely powerless when you know how to. deal with them! All that a human being can do is to intensify them and to make them seem a little more powerful at the moment. He cannot thereby harm you if your mental work is properly done.

These cinematographic pictures are the mist that went up from the earth (Gen. 2: 6), and they hide the beauties of heaven from us. As time goes on these pictures pass in review before us, each group of pictures being a repetition of the same events, false views of the real world, seen as what is called successive periods of history, and recognized by students of the past. Whilst these periods are more or less different, they coincide in their main features, a steady improvement for the better in the cinematographic pictures taking place as time goes on, and each period steadily reducing in length of time.

Each of us is an individualization of that consciousness, an individualisation of the Christ.
" In him is no sin " (I John 3 : 5).
All the spiritual beings together are the Christ,
"We, being many, are one body in Christ"(Rom. 12:5);
"we are in . . . Jesus Christ"(I John 5:20);
"Your bodies are the members of Christ" (I Cor. 6:15);
"In Christ shall all be made alive" (I Cor. 15:22);
"Your life is hid with Christ in God" (Col. 3:3);
"the church, which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all" (Eph. 1:22, 23).
Remember that "church" means originally, "an assembly."
It is held together by the power of Love alone.

"Union with Christ must be something real and substantial, and not merely a metaphor and a flower of rhetoric" (Rev. Charles Kingsley(1819 – 1875) an English priest of the Church of England, university professor, historian and novelist).

St. Augustine says: "Let us rejoice and return thanks that we have been made, not only Christians, but Christ."

" Illumination is not granted to the mere thinker, but to him who acts while he thinks, and thinks while he acts. . . No one can try to purify himself, even as God is pure, without knowing the meaning ... of sin."[ Personal Idealism and Mysticism - William Ralph Inge]

" Even to this day, I doubt whether anyone can be an orthodox theologian without being a Platonist." [Paddock Lectures for 1906- William Ralph Inge]

" Our Lord's teaching is very severe and exacting, but fundamentally happy and joyous. . . . No war is declared against the ordinary sources of human happiness."[The Paddock Lectures, for 1906- William Ralph Inge]

FROM
Life Understood From A Scientific And Religious Point Of View And The Practical Method Of Destroying Sin Disease And Death (1947)
by F. L. Rawson

Rawson on reincarnation.

There is a good deal of difference of opinion with regard to details of reincarnation. Schopenhauer, Fichte the younger, Herder, Lessing, Hegel, Leibnitz, Paracelsus, Boehme, and Hume, all were in favour of the theory of reincarnation. The reason for this is that reincarnation is a little nearer the truth than the belief that when man dies he goes to hell or to heaven.

. . .it will be seen that the so-called "ego" does not
return to this material world, as it never has been in it, but always is in heaven.

Man is now and always has been a perfect spiritual being in heaven. He is seen falsely in this world, this state of consciousness, as a material man. When this material misrepresentation what is called dies, its human or carnal mind passes into another state of consciousness, another material world, and the material body decays in this state of consciousness. When the so-called man wakes up to find himself in another material world, he has another material body, because his mind is not changed; it still is material, and he has to work out his salvation, purifying his so-called mind by turning in thought to God, which he continues to do.

When the material thing called a man has what is called died, and has passed on into another material state of consciousness, the real spiritual man does not leave heaven, for heaven is still here then, as much as it ever was. The real spiritual man is therefore seen again here, that is, in this state of consciousness or material world, as another material being, another cinematographic-picture man; only in this case he is seen again as a little child, which grows and grows, becoming more and more like the real man, until this new misrepresentation in its turn again dies, its place to be taken by another child. This goes on until the so-called end of the world. Each so-called man passes from one state of consciousness to the next, from one material world to another, until ultimately he has sufficiently purified his so-called mind to dematerialise. That is to say, he ultimately ceases his material dream existence, and appears, to wake up and find himself in heaven; that is to say, to find that in reality instead of being a material man liable to sin, disease, and death, he is a perfect being in a perfect world, governed by a perfect God. [“As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.” Psalms 17, verse 15]

There may be a hundred or more different states of consciousness, with a hundred or more different misrepresentations of your real self, all apparently struggling through various material worlds, and gradually improving. These worlds are all here, probably interpenetrating each other. When the final end of matter comes all these fictitious worlds cease to exist at the same moment, and all these so-called human beings, these misrepresentations of your real selfhood, appear to wake up to find themselves in the one spiritual world, the world of reality, and all of them appear to merge into the same perfect spiritual being, your real selfhood, of which they have been the misrepresentation in the different material worlds. In other words, all false sense disappears.

It will be seen from the above that, unlike reincarnation, the so-called ego does not pass on from world to world, and then ultimately return and be re-born as a little child into this material world, with a future dependent upon its past; but the spiritual man always has existed perfect, in a perfect state of consciousness, and the material misrepresentation passes on from world to world, gradually improving his so-called mind through the action of God, until he ceases his dream life and appears to wake up and find his true self.

The theosophists, In reading the " Akashic Records," as they call these cinematographic pictures of the past, have found that over and over again a somewhat similar chain of events occurs, Mrs. Besant speaks of these successive periods as "recurrent cycles in history," and states that reincarnation "affords the only sufficient explanation." Now we understand what they really are, and why reincarnation Is as incorrect as the theory that at death we go either to heaven or to hell.

" When Bishop Berkeley said there was no matter and proved it, it was no matter what he meant " (Byron).

Berkeley, 1685-1753, Bishop of Cloyne, whilst putting forward a metaphysical view of the world, and stating that there exists nothing but man's thoughts of things, was, as Huxley called him, a "mixed logician." Mr. Oldroyd has said that " Christian Science is Berkeleyism run mad but his system was only semi-metaphysical, practically pantheism. Berkeley wrote: "Although our sensations are wholly subjective, we do not deny an independent reality of things." He also said that there was "no substance of matter, but only a substance of mind termed spirit; that there are two kinds of spiritual substance, the one eternal and uncreated, the substance of Deity; the other created, and, once created, naturally eternal." He fell from the sublime to the ridiculous by recommending tar water as a panacea for all human ills. He had not seen the fundamental Principle, that all was divine Mind, God, and not the limited human sense wrongly called mind; consequently he could not keep his practice on a level with his theory.

Bits and Bites from
Life Understood From A Scientific And Religious Point Of View And The Practical Method Of Destroying Sin Disease And Death (1947)
by F. L. Rawson

How to Reverse Wrong Thoughts.

By FL Rawson
The following copy of a letter written to a patient, to show him how to reverse throughout the day any wrong thoughts that came into his so-called mind, is not only the basis of right thinking, but forms a good basis of treatment, showing how to deal with the various forms of evil that have to be destroyed :

DEAR ____,
We have to watch our thoughts continually. "Watch and pray," and" pray without ceasing," and directly we think a wrong thought, that is, even any thought that is not harmonious, we have to drive it out of our mind, and cease thinking of things material, raising the level of our thoughts until we are thinking of God and things spiritual or truly mental. This is true prayer, conscious communion with God.
One method of doing this is to group our thoughts under three headings:--
1. Turn in thought to God and heaven, which is a perfect condition of consciousness or "divine state of mind." This is essential.
2. Deny the existence in heaven of the wrong thing thought of, seen, or felt. When, for instance, you see an angry man, or feel angry, or think of anger in any way, realize with all the power, earnestness, and conviction at your command, that there is no anger in the spiritual kingdom, the kingdom of heaven, the reality. This is called the denial.
3. Realize the existence of the opposite; namely, in reversing the thought of anger, realize that in heaven, the world of reality, all is perfect peace and infinite love. Dwell on this realization, and get it as clear as possible. This is called the affirmation. I think that, if there is then time, it is advisable to split up one's thoughts into two more headings, namely:
4. Realize why this is so; namely, because God, the Principle of good, rules and governs, and heaven is the manifestation of His government. This heaven is everywhere, for there is nothing but God and His manifestation.
5. Try to form as clear an idea as you can of God and His manifestation, heaven.
Reversing our thoughts in this way all day long is prayer without ceasing, and is not only leading us "Continually to "abide in the secret place of the Most High," but is teaching us to recognize, clearly and persistently, that all sin, disease, worry, limitations, and all other effects of wrong so-called thoughts, are non-realities, i.e., have no permanence about them. It is also teaching us to realize the truth continually, namely, that God and His manifestation are spiritual, perfect, and omnipresent. Your progress depends solely upon the number of seconds during the twenty-four hours that you are thinking of this reality.
Do not take this as a hard-and-fast rule for working; it is only the way that I have found the most helpful. Let God teach you the way to work, not man. "Prove all things: hold fast that which is good." If you constantly realize that God is Truth, and that you know Truth, being the knowledge or consciousness of God, you will be led, step by step, absolutely correctly, as though by a loving father and mother. You will never have to retrace your steps, but will look back with rejoicing along the straight and narrow path by which you have come, recognizing the pitfalls and morasses from which you have been tenderly guarded.
You may have troubles, and find the pathway sometimes rugged, but if you keep your gaze continually fixed on the goal of reality, you will find that these troubles merely spur you on to still higher attainments, and you thereby gain the uplifting joy of relieving suffering, humanity, teaching them the continuous availability of God and the meaning of "the peace of God which passeth all understanding."
Yours sincerely,
F. L. RAWSON.

Spreading the Knowledge of True Prayer.

Frederick Lawrence Rawson, (1859-1923) was an Influential English New Thought Leader.
Frederick L. Rawson took 100 men into world war one. They all returned without a scratch on any of them. "There is nothing but God." was his statement to that miracle. "There is nothing but God in God's perfect world. Man is the image, the likeness, passing on God's ideas to his fellow man with perfect regularity and ease."
F. L. Rawson, was not a clergyman, he was an engineer and businessman. Born in England, he became a distinguished practicing engineer, had achieved much success in his profession as consultant and as businessman, and had retired before he founded the Society for Spreading the Knowledge of True Prayer(SSKTP).
He was a pioneer in the field of the practical use of electricity and engineer of the first company in the field of electric lighting. He laid the first electric railway in England. He drew up plans for the first gas-driven automobile and was consulting engineer for the first airship built in Britain. He had the respect of serious minded scientists of his day. He also excelled at various sports and was first violinist in an orchestra for more than a dozen years.
He was widely read in the fields of science and philosophy, and it was through his scientific interest in the remarkable claims made in the area of religion and the occult which led to him studying them to discover for himself whether or not the claims were true, and if they were, what scientific basis there was for them.
Christian Science had arrived in Britain in the late 1880's with considerable success, and its claims of ability to heal the most stubborn of diseases could not fail to attract the attention of thoughtful people. The London Daily Mail decided to find out the facts concerning these claims and publish them. The paper commissioned Rawson to make a study of the new cult and write a series of articles on it. Rawson accepted the assignment and began a study of Christian Science, with the result that far from exposing its errors, he was convinced of its truth and became an ardent Christian Scientist.
Rawson parted ways with Christian Science due to it’s rigid, authoritarian organization. In his brilliant mind he had connected the body to the Spirit, demonstrating its spiritual reality as a direct manifestation of GOD. Divested of the mortal concept, the Adamic, the body, in all purity materializes the Perfect Image and Likeness which is Angelic for it becomes the outward expression of the mind of GOD.
In 1912 he wrote a book entitled Life Understood, which has been revised and edited over and over again, while used as the textbook for the movement he founded, and studied far beyond the limits of his own groups of metaphysical healers the world over. He attended the first meeting of the International New Thought Alliance, held in London in 1914. Rawson was personally acquainted with another very influential English New Thought teacher, Thomas Troward.
During the first war his groups took to adopting "absent treatment"[1] for the protection of soldiers, and some remarkable results began to appear with testimonies coming to him from persons benefited by the treatments, and in 1916 he began a weekly publication called Active Service where he published these testimonies. At the masthead of the first were the words: "

A weekly paper devoted to the spreading of the knowledge of the truth.
YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE."

In 1917 he set up an organization called the Society for Spreading the Knowledge of True Prayer (SSKTP); the method of prayer was to be that of the realization of and conscious communion with God. He lectured to large audiences throughout the British Isles and in 1920 made an extended tour of the USA and Canada, lecturing and giving class instruction and treatments, with the result that a goodly number of SSKTP centers were established in American and Canadian cities. Rawson was arrested in St. Louis in 1920 near the end of his tour of teaching and healing. He was charged with practicing medicine without a license and was released and the charges were dropped when he promised to do nor more healings.
Although Rawson was distinctly Christian Science in his basic outlook, he co-operated enthusiastically with the New Thought groups. Great scientist that he was, Rawson entertained a number of ideas that found no acceptance among the majority of scholars. One of these was that the British and the Americans were the true Israel--that is, he held the expounded Anglo-Israel theory, which commended itself to a good many within New Thought and the metaphysical field in general, as for example MBE.
Rawson died in 1923, but the SSKTP movement went on and Active Service continued publication weekly up until August 1940 when it became a monthly, and was still in publication in the 1960's.
[1]Mrs. Suzanne Ketels- Vershoore became at nineteen the personal Secretary of Frederic Lawrence Rawson. Mrs. Ketels within her own understanding and on an individual basis, could effortlessly duplicate what Rawson was doing at the turn of the Century on a large scale, bringing at times effective help and healing at distance, from his office in London to soldiers on the front lines in France and Germany,- GOD being Ever Present. Mrs Ketels showed no pretense, she was an educator, and all this was matter of fact to her. Never did we see her accept any money for her service to humanity. The results that came in her life were from her compassion and implicit trust in her GOD. She was totally independent and had a home in St Raphael, on the coast, and one in Nice.

Treatment, or Healing by True Prayer [1922] by F. L. Rawson
Life Understood From A Scientific And Religious Point Of View[1912]
The Practical Method of Destroying, Sin, Disease and Death.
by F. L. Rawson
Life Understood From A Scientific And Religious Point Of View And The Practical Method Of Destroying Sin Disease And Death (1947) View it here

A History of the New Thought Movement and FL Rawson.

Among others recently to do a large work in the British Isles, is Mr. F. L. Rawson of London, whose teaching is almost identical with Christian Science without the claims ordinarily made in behalf of Mrs. Eddy. Formerly a consulting engineer, Mr. Rawson was retained by the Daily Express to make a professional examination into mental healing. The result was the discovery that such healing was practised all over the world, and Mr. Rawson became an ardent therapeutist. During the war he turned to the care of soldiers, and in a pamphlet entitled How to Protect our Soldiers, he gives what he calls the "secret of divine protection."
In this pamphlet Mr. Rawson says,

"Today there are many millions of mental workers, containing some fifty or sixty schools. Only four or five of these work on the basis that Jesus did, namely, by turning in thought to God. The remainder work in the same way as the sorcerers and witches of the past and the black magic workers and hypnotists today, namely, with the human mind. This means that they use one or other of the five different forms of hypnotism, all of which are more or less harmful, not only to the patient, but to the practitioner.
"The real value of my investigation for the Daily Express and of Life Understood, which contains the results of my work, does not lie in proving that all disease is mental. . . . Nor to prove that matter is mental phenomena. The real value lies in proving the difference between the right and wrong method of mental working. . . . The right method of healing [is] by the realization of the divine mind . . . the scientific method of right thinking which was taught and demonstrated by Jesus the Christ, the most perfect and the most scientific man that ever lived.
"There is a hard and fast line drawn between the two methods of mental working, and between the right and the wrong method of prayer. Jesus pointed out the difference more than once. If, when you are mentally working, you are thinking of reality, that is, of God, of heaven, the real world, of the Christ, or of the spiritual man, you are helping your patient, yourself, and the world. If, on tile contrary, you are thinking of the material man or the mental world, whatever you are thinking about them, unless you are denying their reality, you are harming your patient, harming yourself, and doing no good to the world. Even by strong, determined thinking, or will-power, trying to bring about what you think is good, you can neither destroy the evil thoughts nor purify the so-called human mind. Truth and Love, that is, God, alone heals. The healing, then, is perfect and permanent, whether of disease, sin, or any of the many troubles that make this world a veritable hell to so many. . . . Jesus relied on his knowledge of God, not on strong thinking and will-power. There is no limit to this apparent effect of thought. If you are certain enough that you are dead, you are dead instantly. . . . If, on the contrary, you turn to heaven and think clearly enough of God, then the action of God takes place, and good for all must ensue. . . . You have to think of absolute good, the world of reality. You have to think of an ideal world, the highest good that you can possibly imagine. You have to think of God and heaven; heaven being a perfect state of consciousness, a mental world, in which all is perfect, because all is governed by a perfect God, by the Principle of absolute good.
"When I found that every thought a man thinks has an effect, I came to the conclusion that the highest thought I could think ought to give me the best result. The highest thought I could think was to turn in thought to heaven and realize the absolute love of God, getting away from all recognition of the material world . . . God became a living fact to me. . . . Rest on God. It is God's business to look after you. . . . The realization 'There is nothing but God,' I have found the most effective against accidents. 'It is a lie; all is spiritual,' is perhaps easier for some to realize. . . . When you see someone in pain, instead of thinking of him as in pain and so increasing it, turn in thought to heaven and realize that there is no such thing as pain there, and then think of the absolute joy, bliss, and happiness in that perfect world."

A History of the New Thought Movement
by Horatio W. Dresser
First published by Thomas Y. Crowell Co., New York, 1919

TWO METHODS OF MENTAL WORKING.

By FL Rawson
The value of my professional investigation into mental healing is not to prove that all disease is mental - the leading medical authorities are now coming to that conclusion; nor is it to prove that matter appears and disappears in accordance with one's thoughts - the scientific reasons for this are given in my book, Life Understood from a Scientific and Religious Point of View, which is practically my report. Its principal value lies in proving the difference between the right and wrong methods of mental working, as before long all intelligent, open-minded people will be mental workers.
There is a hard-and-fast line drawn between the two methods of mental working, between the right and the wrong method of prayer. Jesus pointed out the difference more than once.

THE RIGHT METHOD
If, when you are mentally working, you are thinking of reality, that is, of God, of heaven - the real world - of the Christ or of the spiritual man, you are helping your patient, yourself and the world. This is "Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ" **(2 Corinthians 10: 5). No one can tell beforehand what will happen, but, unquestionably, good for everyone concerned always takes place, more or less, according to the clearness and persistence of your thought.

THE WRONG METHOD
If, on the contrary, you are thinking of the material man or the material world - whatever you are thinking about them, unless you are denying their reality, which means denying their permanence - you are harming your patient, harming yourself, and doing no good to the world. Of course, anyone who wills strongly enough, can apparently bring about changes in the material world, but this is not true healing, for when by strong, determined thinking, or will-power, you try to bring about what you think is good, you can neither destroy the evil thoughts nor purify the so-called human mind. The result is that trouble of some kind always returns about three months afterwards. Reliance on Truth and Love, that is, God, alone results in health being manifest, through the mist of matter thinning. The healing then is perfect and permanent, whether of disease, sin, or any of the many troubles that make this world a veritable Hell to so many.

How to Gain a Working Knowledge of God.
When I started my investigation I came to the conclusion that I ought, whenever I had a moment or two to spare, to have something definite to realize, and I made up my mind on these occasions to think of God as Love. Then, when my love towards my fellowman seemed to have advanced more than my knowledge of Truth, I changed this realization to that of God as Truth. Later on, every day I used to think of God in all the main views as Life, Truth, Love, Mind, Soul, Spirit, cause, intelligence, substance, and Principle, the Principle of good, which includes its idea. I now know that Cause ought not to have been included, as it is a synonym of God, not an aspect, or quality, as the other names are.

Later, I put each of these headings on a separate piece of paper, and then tried to find all the qualities and attributes of God that I could, putting each of them down under what I thought was the proper heading. Each day I went through these, starting by thinking of heaven, and then trying to realize what each one of them meant. At one time I had on a blank bit of paper about forty qualities and attributes that I could not place under the proper heading, and not more than twenty under anyone heading; but, as my knowledge of God grew, so I was able gradually to place each of these qualities and attributes under its proper heading.

I did this every day for over three years. By that time I had over two hundred and twenty qualities and attributes, and it took me about three quarters of an hour each day to go through them. Not only had I then been able to place the whole of the forty qualities and attributes under their proper headings, but whenever I found a new one I could at once place it in its proper place. Finding no new attribute or quality for three months, I took this as the sign that I had worked in this way long enough, and ceased.

I was once told that in treatment I would find the realization of God as Principle most effective. Trying this, so as to see whether the statement was correct, the next day an instantaneous result was obtained by merely losing all thought of the material trouble and simply trying to realize God as Principle as clearly as possible. Proving in this way that God was Principle, the love for God that I had seemed instantly to vanish. As I went on, however, obtaining a better understanding of God, my love for God gradually returned, until, in about three months, I had a far greater love for God than I had ever had before.

Being trained as a scientific man, my method of treatment is what may be called" cut and dried"; that is to say, I rely upon the flat denial of the existence of the evil, with all the insistence at my command, followed by as clear a realization as possible of the exact opposite.

An Exposition of the Involuntary Powers and Instincts of the HUMAN MIND.

John Bovee Dods (1795-1872) was a writer, philosopher, spiritualist, mesmerist, and early psychologist. He was born in New York City and died in Brooklyn (on 21 March 1872), but much of his productive life was spent in Maine. He published "Thirty Sermons", "Philosophy of Mesmerism" (New York, 1847), "Philosophy of Electrical Psychology" (1849), "Immortality Triumphant" (1852), and " Spirit Manifestations Examined and Explained" (1854)[1].

“The Rev. Mr. [John Bovee] Dodds [Dods] of Boston, Mass., we believe, deals more extensively in the Magnetic Fluid than any other magnetizer. We have examined his work upon the subject of Mesmerism and can but smile at proofs so conclusively drawn in support of his theory. . . . If we were to take up all the points in his theory and discuss them, we fear our pages would be too voluminous for ordinary purposes and that few would be inclined to pursue the investigation. Dods, like all others who believe in the fluid theory, supposed that something must be the medium of communication between mind and mind and between mind and matter separate from the bodily senses, and he has at once brought in the aid of a subtle fluid which pervades all nature.”

Phineas P. Quimby

Rev. John Bovee Dods was one of the few religious trained practitioners who helped to define the popular culture taught along the east coast lecture circuit making its way from the Washington, D.C. are to Philadelphia and new York City, to Hudson, Troy, Albany, and then across to Boston. Reverend Dods resided in Boston, but frequented the various lecture halls along the east coast trying to promote his own take on the philosophy of Franz Anton Mesmer published more than 50 years earlier. Since the Hudson Valley had well-defined economic or commercial routes, and Dods made good use of the ships, stage coaches and on occasion trains following these routes, he was able to rise in popularity fairly quickly due to his own unique philosophy of magnetism and hypnotism.
Dods wasn’t the first to introduce hypnotism in its earlier period of history to the valley. The knowledge of this earlier form known a mesmerism came to the valley as a part of traditional Hudson Valley. Mesmer’s philosophy first made its way into the Hudson Valley and permanently planted itself in the region sometime between 1815 and 1829, when French Professor Joseph du Commun began to share his review of Mesmer’s writings with his students at West Point. Another was Charles Poyen who came to American as a fresh graduate of his medical school in France around 1839, and was a major influence on Quimby. Another visitor to the area was Dr. Robert H. Collyer.
One writing about Dods which appeared in the Saratoga Republican, the birth place of one of the more famous mineral springs, noted that a former Congressional member nearby had judged Dods to be the discoverer of a new science, which he described as Dods’s ability to perform a unique series of hypnotic suggestions:

“…he professes to able to perform the most startling and cunning experiments, upon person fully awake, and in the most perfect possession of all their faculties. Controlling their motions–standing up, they find it impossible to sit down; if in a sitting posture, they are unable to rise till the operator allows them to do so. He claims to have the power to take away the powers of hearing, speech, sight, and the memory, etc., whenever he pleases, and to return again these faculties instantly; that he can change the personal identity of certain individuals, making them imagine for the time being that they are persons of color, that they belong to the opposite sex, or that they are some renowned general orator, statesman, or what-not.”

Dods made his participants drink water and think it was honey, lemonade, coffee, or even brandy. He could make them imagine the “threatening thundercloud,” leading them to flee to find a place of shelter. All along, Dods claimed he could accomplish this while they appeared awake and “in possession of their faculties.” To further convince any skeptical audience member of this claim, he recollected statements of support provided to him by others laboring in this spiritual healing world. One of these was Hiram Bostwick, an Esquire residing in Auburn County, New York (alongside Syracuse), who witnessed Dr. Dods’s heal his inability to walk and blindness to the differences between light and dark due to “a stroke of palsy” he had. He was cured less than a week after meeting with Dods .
Reverend John Bovee Dods began preaching his healing faith in New York about 1830.
In his published lectures he gave twelve lectures entitled:

I. Electrical Psychology–its definition, and importance in curing diseases
II. Beauty of Independent Thought and Fearless Expression
III. Connecting Link between Mind and Matter and Circulation of the Blood
IV. Philosophy of Disease and Nervous Force
V. Cure of Disease and being acclimated
VI. Existence of Deity proved from Motion
VII. Subject of Creation Considered
VIII. Doctrine of Impressions
IX. Connection between the Voluntary and Involuntary Nerves
X. Electro-Curapathy is the best medical system in being, as it onvolves the excellences of all other systems.
XI. The Secret Revealed, so that all may know how to experiment without an Instructor
XII. Genetology, of Human Beauty Philosophically Considered

The following set of instructions on how to perform hypnosis was pasted in his book:

“When you wish to magnetize persons, let them sit down in an easy position and place the thumb of the right hand on the pulse and wrist of the left hand. Let them close their eyes and count their pulse fifteen minutes. Then ask them to rise. Take hold of their hand, place your other hand on the top of their head and your thumb between the eyebrows. Have them close the eyes, and say in a firm tone, “Open them, if you can,” or, “You cannot open them!” To wake them up say “All right, wide awake!” The theory of magnetism is that you use the word or an assertion with the will power to control their thoughts, and a touch to control the body. The ulnar nerves lie on the outside of the hand, and the median nerve on the inside of the hand near the roots of the thumb. To put them to sleep say “Deep asleep!” To wake them touch the forehead and say “Wide awake! Leave them bold and strong.”

Additional works:

THE PHILOSOPHY of ELECTRICAL PSYCHOLOGY:

IN A COURSE OF TWELVE LECTURES,

BY JOHN BOVEE DODS

1876

SIX LECTURES On the PHILOSOPHY OF MESMERISM.

DELIVERED IN THE

Marlboro Chapel Boston

By JOHN BOVEE DODS.

1876

[1] Spirit manifestations examined and explained: Judge Edmonds refuted; or, An Exposition of the Involuntary Powers and Instincts of the HUMAN MIND.
[see
• http://pvrguymale.blogspot.ca/2012/02/john-worth-edmonds.html
• http://pvrguymale.blogspot.ca/2012/03/ouija-board-planchette-table-tipping.html
• http://goalhypnosis.blogspot.ca/2012/03/illusions-for-realities-fantasy.html]

The Gospel of Jesus

A curiosity.
The Gospel of Jesus [1858] By Rev. Gibson Smith
[http://books.google.ca/books?id=c2ANAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Gibson+Smith%22+%22Jesus%22&pg=PP5&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Gibson%20Smith%22%20%22Jesus%22&f=false].

Was it a hoax or legitimate.
In any case John Bovee Dods wrote a letter which was included in the preface.

The Christian examiner, Volume 65, Sept. 1858(edited by Edward Everett Hale) suggests that if it was a practical satire on the credulity of our time and people it was most bunglingly done. And goes on to say if Gibson thought he could make the public receive it as a genuine series of Scriptural fragments, then he deserved a straight jacket and a lunatic’s cell.
[ http://books.google.ca/books?id=5Q4ZAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA291&ots=B-TLYDOTsO&dq=%22Gibson+Smith%22+%22Roman+catacombs%22&pg=PA291&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Gibson%20Smith%22%20%22Roman%20catacombs%22&f=false]

I've read the hype about hidden knowledge and the Bible. Actually it's just that: hype. Call it "a carrot on a stick", ego stuff or a cop out. It didn't deter Emma Curtis Hopkins, Neville Goddard nor Jane Woodward and others from the "I AM".

Unaccredited institutions such Greenwich University(Hawaii), Columbia Pacific University(California), Clarkson University in Southern California and Maharishi European Research University (MERU) in Switzerland have been associated with certain individuals from either the New Age or self-help movements in the past.

For instance, at CPU "A Ph.D. dissertation written in Spanish was approved by four faculty who cannot speak the language.". “And another dissertation had no hypothesis, no data collection, and no statistical analysis. The dissertation, The Complete Guide to Glass Collecting, was 61 pages long."
Greenwich University(Hawaii) afforded a degree in Energy Medicine from a department that didn’t even exist.

Can you trust who you read?
Lack of tangible evidence, hearsay testimonials, anecdotal evidence and unproven abilities, for example, are often the case.

Today if the author hasn’t got a title themselves, they can get a forward written by someone who has and that title will appear in big letters. William Samuel didn't walk around in bare feet. He looked like a normal elderly gentleman, not a guru.

Actually, you can be a nutritional ‘expert’ with a PhD in geology. Until someone checks what the PhD was for. Would you want to?

"BE STILL and KNOW I AM GOD"

Peace Be Unto You.

Akhoy Kumar (A.K.) Mozumdar (1864–1953) was an Indian-born lecturer and writer of the New Thought Movement during the first half of 20th-century United States. He had enjoyed a large following of students and regular readers of his books and pamphlets until he was denaturalized in a decision on American immigration law which reached the United States Supreme Court in 1924.

"If man thinks and acts, is not the thinker and actor God? If God is all life, then all lives are God. The creative power is the very nature of the being of the Creator; hence the creative power is God. Life is the Creator, and will never be reduced to the level of its own creation. The creature will forever be ensouled with the creative activity, and move and act according to the inner impulse of the Creator. By thinking with the mind of the one life, you become conscious of being the thinker. At the back of your every action you should find yourself. You are spirit and therefore spiritual. The permanent substance is underneath all forms. The forms are made of the everlasting substance. This knowledge sets a man free."