metaphysicians

 

In the 1880’s metaphysicians were metaphysical practitioner healers of the “Mind Cure” movement based on the teachings of the bible. The “Father within that doeth all the work”.

Say that you are.

When people urge you to live as they do they are really
inviting you to be as miserable as they are. VH

Think

"What is this distress or dis-ease telling me"

“If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.” ~ Sylvia Plath

According to Patricia Pearson, about fifty percent of the bereaved sense the presence of the dead. Her book is called,

ACIM and Buddhism, Yoga, meditation, and Reiki.

Q #282, Q #1186, Q #1121, Q #1194 from Question and Answer Service of FACIM

Treasure Every Moment You Have.

Read the following affirmation slowly; then read it again and again like this:

The Silence is a medium by which man comes in a closer touch with the Infinite.

God's will for you is only good and nothing can withhold your good from you.

An inspiring verse from the Book of Revelation reminds you that nothing and no one keeps your good from you.  "Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut."

Jesus said, "It is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom."

The truth that the Master taught and demonstrated blesses you, for it reassures you that no one can withhold your good.  The power to attract your good and the power to sustain your good is within you.  All good that comes to you comes by right of spirituality consciousness.

God did not create a world of loss, lack, or limitation.  Those things are humankind's invention.  God's world is prosperous and perpetually new.  As you keep your faith centered in God's truth, as you know that you live in a spiritual world of perfect ideas, negation has no power over you.  You see the good in all persons and situations and you discover that the bounty of God is omnipresent.

Even when Jesus asked a person who was requesting prayer, “Do you believe?” it is translated closer in today's language to, “Can you accept?”

Grace of God.

When peace comes at last to those who wrestle with temptation and fight against the giving in to sin; when the light comes at last into the mind given to contemplation, or when the goal is finally achieved by anyone, it ALWAYS comes with just one happy realization;“I need do nothing. ” To DO anything involves the body. And if you recognize you NEED do nothing, you have withdrawn the body’s value from your mind. To do nothing is to rest, and make a place within you where the activity of the body ceases to demand attention. Into this place the Holy Spirit comes, and there abides. He will remain when you forget, and the body’s activities return to occupy your conscious mind.

Joe Wolfe’s Prayer for All Solutions

Trust

I was talking with a friend last week. One thing we discussed was developing faith. But, like William Samuel said you have to define reality in terms that are meaningful to you.

Cady and ACIM emphasize letting go of your old beliefs. There is no guilt or sin involved we simply had erroneous beliefs. Quimby defined illness as an error due to ignorance of the Truth. How can we blame our ancestors for not passing on the truth if they most likely didn’t know it either.

GOD IS. Period!

Christ IS, the Light that saves you from a world of thought, the Life that is your True Identity, the YOU of you, the You that has always been and always will be, the Enlighten One that lights every man. Like it or not, no mental route will take you into heaven. Your trinkets, crystals, chakras, séances, incantations, positional meditations, will fall off the end of the world with you, and you will find that once again you are alone and without God in that world! These things can’t hurt you! They have no real power. There is only ONE POWER! GOD. These things are of no significance whatsoever in Truth. There is only ONE WAY in, and that is "I AM THE WAY".

Quimby, Mental Science and New Thought and the SILENCE.

If you want to understand how Quimby’s teachings evolved into the mental cure, Mental Science and to New Thought then you need to read

http://horatiodresser.wwwhubs.com/ahotntinx.htm

http://www.archive.org/details/historyofnewthou00dresuoft

When Quimby died there was no succession. No one to carry on. New Thought became more of a religion than a healing science which was never Quimby’s intention.

Dresser states:

The so-called prosperity treatment had not yet been heard of. Nothing had as yet been said about "the cause and cure of old age*." [* This type of thought was made popular by Eleanor Kirk, author of Perpetual Youth, Brooklyn, 1895.]
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The implication is this. Quimby taught healing. People became anal-ytical , they started looked at other theologies and philosophies then adding bells and whistles to the teachings. If you don’t have health, then what good is prosperity. Nothing can affect you but what importance you place upon it. You are Spirit, not a body, so what use is Perceptual Youth in that context.

I took a prosperity course and it specified doing this, this, this and this. The reality is there are no conditions on matter, only the significance you place upon material things. Someone designed the course and inadvertently put limitations on it. As Neville often said “goals are merely realizing the future NOW.”

"What we believe, that we create," so Quimby had taught. It was essential to believe that all causality was in the realm of mind. Meanwhile, the natural universe could take care of itself. It was not destroyed by the proposition that "there is no matter."Some of the beliefs passing current in the mental-science period would indeed seem absurd to those of us who try to think matters out to the end, as well as to believers in natural facts and the ability of men of science to state facts apart from theoretical prejudice. But we must remember the bondages out of which the people had come who exclaimed in their enthusiasm that they could "eat mince-pie at midnight," or anything else they liked at any time, and suffer no inconvenience; since "there is no quality in food save what the mind gives it, in the unconscious beliefs of the race." What people were trying to do was to eliminate the "false beliefs," "the errors of mind," which had held them in subjection. They did this with enthusiasm and the results were on the whole good. It was natural, having concluded that medicines and drugs have no qualities save those attributable to the suggestions which people have associated with them, that all material things and conditions should be regarded as affecting man according to his belief. The point was that, whether agreeing with [MEB’s Eddyisms] in full or not, one should at least go as far as Quimby and Evans went, showing that matter contains "no intelligence or power in itself." To take this stand was to be prepared to overcome all adversaries.
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Quimby was all about healing disease and said it was fear that caused a chemicalization that created the dis-ease.

Many of the devotees left the churches to which they belonged as disciples of the old theology, passed through a reaction against that theology, and found their religion in healing the sick. Thus in time the meeting devoted to an exposition of the new therapeutism took the place of the service in the churches. The silent treatment was akin to prayer or worship, on Its religious side, and so "the silence" as it has since been called became a part of the meeting. Such meetings used to be held Sunday evenings, so as to avoid a conflict of hours in the case of followers who still wished to attend the morning service in the established churches. The Wednesday evening experience meeting early came into vogue, everybody was invited to take part, and so the meetings became democratic. One of the early leaders in these meetings in Boston, J. W. Winkley, had been a Unitarian minister. Others had contemplated entering the ministry or were teachers. Hence there were devotees capable of directing the meetings and introducing the element of worship, or leading in regular instruction. The name given to the first of these independent societies in Boston, "Church of the Divine Unity," suggests the point of emphasis in such worship. The aim was to throw off the old theology and substitute the idea of the immanence of God in His wisdom, as the omnipresent help "in times of trouble." ~
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Establishing a church new theology was the furthest thing from his mind.

Now destroy man's belief and introduce God's truth and then we are set free from this world of error and introduced into the world of light or science where there is no death but the living God or science. This science will lead us along to that happy state where there is no sickness or sorrow or grief, where all tears are wiped away from our eyes, there to be in the presence of this great truth that will watch us and hold us in the hollow of its hand and will be to us a light that will open our eyes. We shall not then be deceived by the blind guides who say, "Peace, peace," where there is no peace. Then we shall call no one master or leader for there is only one that leads us and that is God. He puts no restrictions upon us for our lives are in His hands or science, but our happiness or misery is in our belief. For our belief is what follows a direction. So if we are misdirected and disease or misery is the result, blame not God, or the result, but blame the cause or false direction.
June 1860

A Science of Truth, maybe.

Man's belief is all matter. His religion and ideas of disease are all false beliefs, and the effects produced on his body are caused by them. Man's creator is in him, and governs him, yet he is recognized only as a principle without wisdom.
. . .
This world is man's belief. The truth is the science or true shepherd. This truth put in practice is that which takes away the sins or errors of man, and the end of error is the end of the world. The introduction of religion based on science is the commencement of the new world. The science which shall devour our errors is the teaching of this great truth. . . . To preach Christ is to put heaven in practice, to liberate the poor and sick who have been bound by the false ideas of the world. I know of no other world than that which Jesus set up in man's heart, which meant the mind. He never had any reference to this globe as a world. His two worlds were science and error. He made but one for himself, and that was science. But man has made another world from his beliefs and that was the world that he came into, in order to cast out the children of the kingdom of error into a lake of fire. That is, he enters man's belief and destroying all error, he establishes his kingdom of science so that men shall come from the east and west, north and south and sit down with wisdom. It is then that the children of error are cast out and that was the end of the world. Then a new world begins and a new religion springs up based on science. Under this religion, no man will say to another, Do what is right, for all will do right because he will feel right in so doing.
1865

Bear in mind.

When we are ill, we merely think or imagine we are sick. Disease is simply a myth. It can be banished with a thought.

That doesn’t mean you march into a hospital and tell someone lying in bed that. It’s real enough to them. (it’s happened with ACIM students) It means you do what feels right in that situation. Quimby didn’t treat advanced stages of illnesses. As David Bush said:

One person gets his healing from a Christian Scientist. Another gets his healing from a Psychologist and someone else gets his healing from another mental practitioner, but if you are healed, there can be nothing but TRUTH in that particular mental science which you have taken hold of--for you!
He didn’t mention that THAT TRUTH is Divinty/God in relation to your beliefs.

“Be still, and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10).

His great strength was in his Clairvoyance, from which he determined what his patients thought was the problem, their belief that really first caused the problem and to the patient he explained this; thus establishing his credibility. This state he entered was in the Light, emanating from the silence within. No angels, spirit guides.
Someone at church once talked about their coming out of the closet.

But you, when you pray, enter into your closet and lock your door, and pray to your father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you in public. Matthew 6:6

The Silence is from within, not from without.

One begins to realize something of the experiences of the saints and mystics down the ages, in that they found they had to become still, to meditate, which really means to become still in God’s Presence and let God do what He wants to do. To become still, in a recognition that you have become still in the Almighty Presence of the Great Father, and that because you are not preventing Him by resistance, by lack of faith, by worries and fears and tensions, He now naturally manifests His Will, His Peace, and His Perfection throughout your being, as you allow Him to take charge of your mind and soul and body.
This meditation, this being still in God, is a fundamental. And yet, even amongst Christians, there isn’t one in ten thousand who seriously practices meditation as a fundamental need of the Christian Way of Life. We talk our way to God - yes - in many prayers. We try to understand the infinite by definition. We listen to dogma and creed, and often great philosophies concerning God. But very seldom do we close down our thinking and say, "Here Lord. Here am I. Take me as I am. You know what to do with me, Father. Do it. I am here." And to be still, receptive and listening to all that God will pour forth. It can only happen when we become absolutely convinced that the Great Father will do these things in the Silence. It can only happen when we are absolutely sure that the greatest activity that can ever happen in a human being comes when we become still and stop doing ourselves.
Excerpted from "The Healing Silence by Brother Mandus

Eric Butterworth taught

“God isn't up there. He exists inside each one of us, and it's up to us to seek the divine within."

For a long time I looked outside of myself.
The Truth is within.
As I continue to study the New Thought authors I realize each one wrote of the Truth in their terms, their “map of the territory”, their frame of reference, their experience. But their experience may not be your experience. In “Lessons in Truth” Cady reduced ECH’s “five universal affirmations” to “four comprehensive affirmations”. They both were right.

As Emmet Fox said

“seek the Presence of God in your own heart, and to use books, lectures, and churches only as a means to that one end “.

My journey continues.

"I am the cause of all my distress and my dis-ease. And I am the cause of the undoing of that distress and dis-ease."

While magic (external agents:a pill, healer, psychologist, doctor) can "cure" a symptom, it cannot change the underlying thinking that led to the problem. The mind is where all the action is—that the body literally does nothing but carry out the decisions of the mind. We see through the eyes of the body not the mind which is Spirit.

All is mind. The hardest lesson is to learn to go within and take ownership rather than looking externally and blaming others or circumstances.

"I am the cause of all my distress and my dis-ease.
And I am the cause of the undoing of that distress and dis-ease."

“So many different modalities and no proof that they work.”

A reply from a friend after I shared a link to a new modality someone is using.As David V Bush wrote How to Know When You Have Truth.

God is Good. God is in everything. Everything is good.

How to Know When You Have Truth

That's easy. If you have been healed, whether of physical afflictions or mental disturbance or domestic in harmony or business perplexities, or worry, doubt, fear or anything, all is well.

One person gets his healing from a Christian Scientist. Another gets his healing from a Psychologist and someone else gets his healing from another mental practitioner, but if you are healed, there can be nothing but truth in that particular mental science which you have taken hold of--for you!

 
How To Put The Subconscious Mind To Work
By David V(an) Bush (1924)

Works by David Van Bush (1882–1959)

How to Think About Yourself

Always believe and think about things as you desire them to be.

You wish health? Then affirm health, think health, feel health, breathe health, live health.

Do you want success?

There is no doubt that our thinking raises or lowers the rate of our vibration.

We know that each word has its rate of vibration, hence every thought has its particular vibratory rate. The positive thought always has a rate of vibration higher than the negative. The health thought a rate of vibration higher than the sick. The cheerful thought a vibratory sensation higher than the discouraged.

Riches within your Reach

Published 1947 by Robert Collier.This is a collection of 4 books."The God in You" (1937),
"The Magic Word" (1940),
"The Secret of Power" (1945) and
"The Law of the Higher Potential" (1947)

He talks of the New Thought philosophy: God, the "I AM", thought vibrations, health, Ask-Believe-Receive, Praise and appreciation, Prayer, Treasure mapping, writing down our desires in the past tense as if they have already happened and being truly grateful.

He even quotes David V. Bush from "Applied Psychology and Scientific Living(1923):

"Man is subject to miscellaneous wrong thought currents if his mind is not in tune with the Infinite. or if he is not keyed up to higher vibrations than those of negation."From the P-R-A-I-S-E chapter:"When I worry, I am not trusting God. When I trust God, I have nothing to worry about".Maybe this is "The REAL Secret".
Which appears on all U.S. currency."In God I Trust"

When I walk with you

When I talk with you

Everything will be fine

When I walk with you

When I talk with you

Everything will be fine

Will be fine

Ringo Starr

Ask, believing you have already received is the “Law of Attraction”.

Amazing how many websites don't acknowledge his work.

I never watched "The Secret". Couldn't stand the introduction. Too sensational and suggestive. As Tomas Vieira says it's an ego thing. Someone at an NLP course said it appeals to people who are kinenesthetic. Someone else said there was nothing about taking action. The black and white pictures in the back of the book led me to New Thought. And was one of my paths to P.P. Quimby.