Man, The Master

Man is essentially free. He always has freedom of choice and the power of initiative. He can always neutralize a condition or circumstance. Or he can intensify it. Or he may let it work itself out as it will. He is as free to permit himself to be dictated to as he is free to dictate. He can stand secure and erect on his own feet, or stumble on another’s. He can stand straight and strong, or he can lean crooked and weak. Man is free to be master or slave, and that which he manifests indicates the choice he has made.

Man, claim your divinity. Know thyself; and know that all that is, and ever will be, is dormant within you, ready and willing to be awakened by your magic touch. With thought definite and exalted, emotion controlled and refined, and energy conserved and responsive to command, man is prepared to meet and to overcome, assimilate, or harmonize with whatever may meet him on the path of life. He has been furnished with the equip­ment of a conqueror!

Man, The Master by Eugene Del Mar

Eugene del Mar was for many years the effective leader of the League for a Higher Life, A New Thought organization in New York City.

One of the most significant revelations of mental and spiritual healing has been the correspondence of mental states and physical conditions, disclosing the fact that the two are really one and identical, that the mental is the realm of cause and the physical that of effect, and that physical healing is essentially mental. More than this : these correspondences have been observed carefully by many healers and their results compared, so that there is already a considerable body of such knowledge that is available for use in the mental healing of physical disease.

Disease is a racial habit that persists largely because of its immemorial traditions. Were Truth to have the general acceptance that is now accorded to false beliefs, health would be as prevalent as disease now is. Man has been slow to lay claim to his spiritual heritage of harmony and health, while he has accepted readily his mental inheritance of discord and disease. It has been easier for him thus to adopt the beliefs that necessitate physical disease. In view of present day knowledge, it is surprising that people are willing to remain sick when this is largely unnecessary and altogether demoralising.

Mental or spiritual healing is not universally applicable at the present time, because humanity generally is unprepared to abandon its materialistic conceptions. Believing in the physical as the realm of cause, it is living in illusion and delusion, discord and disease.

The general recognition of the mental as the realm of physical cause would bring to the race a New Era, wherein humanity would enjoy an unprecedented degree of mental wholeness and physical health.

The basis of both health and disease is in the mental realm, which may be controlled consciously and guided subconsciously along affirmative and constructive paths. The healing power is inherent in Life itself, and not in material remedies, and it may be explained in terms acceptable to the rational and reasoning mind. Its processes are subject to Eternal Principles, which may be formulated simply, so that they may be understood easily.

Mental or spiritual healing accepts modern applied psychology as a basis. At the same time, it is essentially spiritual and fundamentally religious. If one will look deep enough into anything that concerns Life, it is inevitable that he will penetrate to its religious foundation. It is only as one reaches to the centre of Life that he may understand its circumference, and physical health is the visible appearance of the spiritual perfection that one may realise. It is the outer aspect of the inner vision. It is Truth manifested in physical form.
Eugene Del Mar.
New York City,
September, 1922.
Conquest of Disease, The Psychology of Mental & Spiritual Healing, by Eugene Del Mar [1922]
This book demonstrates that disease is an inherited habit, the product of false thinking, that it is unnecessary, and may be conquered by thoughts of truth.