Sunday, August 4, 2013

God the Good is All-in-all.

"Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."
"Receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God."
There is probably no statement that Divine Scientists, as a body, love to make more frequently than the declaration that "all is good." This statement is broad, generous, and all inclusive --- one that stands the close inspection of divine perception and the true analysis of divine reasoning. However, not all attempts to analyze the nature of the declaration are based in unity; neither are they uniformly free from the traditional belief of duality. [... more ...] The Unity Of Good By Mrs. M. E. Cramer First International New Thought Metaphysical Congress 1899



You think life a vale of tears, where only misery and trouble reign; change your thinking and you will know it to be the kingdom of heaven, where love, peace, and joy abound. This is what the phrase New Thought means. It is simply putting ourselves in new relation to the world about us by changing our thought concerning it. The moment that we begin to conceive of the creative power of thought, the abundant Life has consciously begun in us. It was always there, for it is the only Life; but while we were unconscious of it we missed its joy. Now we know that we alone are responsible for our environment, our attitude of mind, our misery or peace. We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators, "heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ." In this moment of revelation our relation to Him changes. Hitherto we have followed Him afar off, worshiping Him with a blind faith that sometimes carried us to mountain-tops of revelation and sometimes left us in valleys of despair. [... more ...] The Abundant Life By Sarah J. Farmer First International New Thought Metaphysical Congress 1899

Horatio Dresser spoke of "THE SPIRIT OF THE NEW THOUGHT."  at this conference in 1899. 
Note: His brother David Seabury the famed author and New York psychologist was born in 1885.

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