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.

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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:

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.

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 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.

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."

One Who Knows.

Ralph Moriarity de Bit(1883-1964) was born on Christmas day, 1883, in rural Kansas. Around the turn of the century, economic forces pulled him westward, to very rural Idaho. He worked in forestry and established a family. While working in the woods, he began to hear a voice that gave him instructions. This impulse led him eventually to Spokane, Washington, where he met an Indian immigrant named A.K. Mozumdar, reputedly sent to the U.S. by his guru, Arumda, to teach meditation to Americans. DeBit identified the voice he heard in the forest with Mozumdar's voice, and became his disciple. DeBit remained with Mozumdar in Spokane, living with him and working beside him essentially as an apprentice for seven years. Mozumdar gave deBit the name “Vitvan” meaning “one who knows” after an enlightenment experience, when the younger man was 34 years old. Vitvan founded the School of the Natural Order in 1946. http://www.sno.org/index.htm
He spent four years in Greenwich Village, then established himself as a semi-itinerant spiritual teacher in the American West beginning in 1921, settling for a time in Los Angeles, then during a long period from 1925 through 1942 at an ashram named Po-Ahtun near Bailey, Colorado, then with a change in his pedagogy a change of place, to a center called Eschatologia near San Diego, and finally establishing the Home Farm of the School of the Natural Order in very rural eastern Nevada in 1957.
Mozumdar, had been trained in a Hindu tradition known as Shaktism, and its characteristic teachings—a model of the human body in terms of subtle energy flowing through channels and centers (chakras), the descent of a divine energy (Shakti) and ascent of an occult force (kundalini), for starters—feature prominently in Vitvan's major works.
Vitvan read Science and Sanity by Alfred Korzybski[1]. Before his exposure to Korzybski, Vitvan's teaching were expressed primarily in theological and metaphysical terms,similar to Mozumdar. Afterward reading Korzyski, Vitvan became convinced of the need to scrap this approach and begin again in with a non-metaphysical mode of expression. He traveled to Chicago to study with Korzybski personally in 1938, then returned to the Po-Ahtun ashram and destroyed all his manuscripts and printed materials, sold the ashram, renounced metaphysical thinking entirely.
[1]http://goalhypnosis.blogspot.ca/2011/02/map-is-not-territory.html

The Only Way To Attain Liberation.

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860) was a German philosopher known for his pessimism and philosophical clarity. At age 25, he published his doctoral dissertation, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, which examined the four separate manifestations of reason in the phenomenal world.
Schopenhauer's most influential work, The World as Will and Representation, claimed that the world is fundamentally what humans recognize in themselves as their will. His analysis of will led him to the conclusion that emotional, physical, and sexual desires can never be fully satisfied. The corollary of this is an ultimately painful human condition. Consequently, he considered that a lifestyle of negating desires, similar to the ascetic teachings of Vedanta, Buddhism and the Church Fathers of early Christianity, was the only way to attain liberation.
Schopenhauer's metaphysical analysis of will, his views on human motivation and desire, and his aphoristic writing style influenced many well-known thinkers, including Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Wagner, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Otto Rank, Carl Gustav Jung, Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Mann, and Jorge Luis Borges.

Veil of Maya

Maya or Māyā, in Indian religions, has multiple meanings, usually quoted as "illusion", centered on the fact that we do not experience the environment itself but rather a projection of it, created by us. Māyā is the principal deity that manifests, perpetuates and governs the illusion and dream of duality in the phenomenal Universe. For some mystics, this manifestation is real. Each person, each physical object, from the perspective of eternity, is like a brief, disturbed drop of water from an unbounded ocean. The goal of enlightenment is to understand this—more precisely, to experience this: to see intuitively that the distinction between the self and the Universe is a false dichotomy. The distinction between consciousness and physical matter, between mind and body (refer bodymind), is the result of an unenlightened perspective.
The word origin of māyā is derived from the Sanskrit roots ma ("not") and ya, generally translated as an indicative article meaning "that". The mystic teachings in Vedanta are centered on a fundamental truth of the universe that cannot be reduced to a concept or word for the ordinary mind to manipulate due to the impossibility to create a complete, perfect and accurate semantic web. Rather, the human experience and mind are themselves a tiny fragment of this truth. In this tradition, no mind-object can be identified as absolute truth, such that one may say, "That's it." So, to keep the mind from attaching to incomplete fragments of reality, a speaker could use this term to indicate that truth is "Not that."
In Hinduism, māyā is to be seen through, like an epiphany, in order to achieve moksha (liberation of the soul from the cycle of samsara). Ahamkāra (ego-consciousness) and karma are seen as part of the binding forces of māyā. Māyā may be understood as the phenomenal Universe of perceived duality, a lesser reality-lens superimposed on the unity of Brahman. It is said to be created by the divine by the application of the Lilā (creative energy/material cycle, manifested as a veil—the basis of dualism). The sanskaras of perceived duality perpetuate samsara.
Everything you see is illusion, the Veil of Maya. Where Eastern philosophy goes wrong is in assuming that the Veil of Maya is hiding something big and important. What lies behind the illusion of a brick is the actual brick. The vast majority of the time, you can forget the Veil of Maya is even there.

Has New Age confused Māyā with the Maya of Mexico and Central America?

When American religion, dualistic, came to a fork in the road.

In 1930, Dr. Wendell Marshall Thomas's influential and objective study Hinduism Invades America was published by Beacon Press.


He chose to close the book with the following, a statement of praise he reserves for A.K. Mozumdar:

"The most rapid movement of all, however, is found in the clean-cut work of A. K. Mozumdar, an independent Christian of Hindu race and tradition, who has preached here and there in America for about twenty years. While Mozumdar's teaching is popular, it has unusual historic significance, for it shows us what happens when a thinker immersed in Hindu lore completely accepts a world-affirming position. What happens is an identification of the Hindu conception of a divine universal Self with the Hebrew conception of a divine creative Power. To Mozumdar the ultimate God is not uncreative Bliss, as in the view of Sankara, but creative Power, as in the Hebrew tradition. Yet this creative Power, he declares, is the same as the universal Self. Here the universal Self, we should note, is not a finite Ideal, as in Greek philosophy, but the infinite Substance of the world.

"Mozumdar makes this synthesis on the basis of his faith in Jesus Christ. Whether Jesus was historically influenced by Hinduism, as many Hindus contend, we cannot at present determine, but what makes him more than an ordinary Hebrew prophet in his life and teaching is precisely the Hindu-like conviction, expressed as well as possible within the limits of Jewish conceptions, that God is the universal Self, or the personal Substance of man. Elaborating the same conviction, Spinoza declares that the God of creative Power is also the thinking Substance of man and the universe. While the synthesis of Jesus is implicit and popular, the synthesis of Spinoza is explicit and technical.

"Like Spinoza, Mozumdar worships Jesus as the supreme religious genius. Like Spinoza again, he feels both Hindu and Hebrew influence. And like Spinoza in the third place, he accepts the monistic philosophy of modern science instead of the dualistic philosophy of ancient Greece. Unlike Jesus, both Spinoza and Mozumdar are explicit in their Hebrew-Hindu synthesis, but like Jesus and unlike Spinoza, Mozumdar uses a popular instead of a technical method, for he preaches, teaches and performs faith-healing. While his lectures, classes, lessons and correspondence courses subordinate the Hebrew interest in social justice to the Hindu interest in meditation and concentration, his philosophical position – as revealed in his numerous pamphlets and books on "The Messianic World Message" – is definitely Christian and opposed to many. traditional Hindu conceptions, such as the equal value of all great religious geniuses, the illusory nature of the world, and the postponement of final salvation till the end of the cosmic process.

Says he:

Jesus's teaching is the greatest and simplest revelation of God, and is different from other teachings of Truth.... He came to teach us that the human expression is not an illusion... but... a vital reality.... Instead of following a specific path to realize God, you let God direct your life.... It need not take you millions of years to dispel millions of years' accumulated darkness. It will take but a flash of light from God to light your entire mental life. [From The Conquering Man (1929) p. 58, 84, 85, 22]

"Yet his Christian teaching is unusual because it rejects the traditional Greek dualism in favor of Hindu monism.

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 It 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.... [From The Life of Man, p. 1, 3, 7, 27, and The Conquering Man, p. 41]

"American religion, with its dualistic Greek notion of an ideal God up in heaven – and an actual man down on earth, has come to a fork in the road. To the left lies a path trod by atheists, secularists, humanists and others, who seek to exalt man by getting rid of this sort of God. To the right lies a path trod by Hindus, Theosophists, Christian Scientists and others, who seek to exalt man by supporting him with a belief in his divine nature. The modern age has little use for the traditional dualism between the natural and the supernatural, and is moving towards pluralism on the one hand and monism on the other, towards the path of less religion and the path of more religion. Hinduism comes to America to point out the path of more religion."

Hinduism invades America, Wendell Marshall Thomas (1930)

It is simply a study of the amazing adventure of an Eastern faith in a Western land. An account of the serious impact on American life of Hindu philosophy & culture especially in the form of organized religion.

"I do not know of any spiritual teacher that I consider so close to the spirit of Christ as Mr. Mozumdar," wrote the late Glenn Clark, famous author, lecturer and college professor. "He has that perfect transparency that is a combination of what they say are the outstanding qualities of Gandhi, humility and confidence – humility in the outer and perfect confidence in the inner. I feel that any one who perfectly comprehends his teachings and puts them into expression in his life will possess the secret of the ages."

Don't worry about people from your past.

'To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.' When God takes something from your grasp, He's not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive something better. Concentrate on this sentence... 'The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you.'

There comes a point in your life when you realize:

Who matters,
Who never did,
Who won't anymore...
And who always will.
So, don't worry about people from your past,
there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.

Pigeonhole principle.

In mathematics and computer science, the pigeonhole principle states that if n items are put into m pigeonholes with n > m, then at least one pigeonhole must contain more than one item. This theorem is exemplified in real-life by truisms like "there must be at least two left gloves or two right gloves in a group of three gloves". It is an example of a counting argument, and despite seeming intuitive it can be used to demonstrate possibly unexpected results; for example, that two people have the same birthday(see below).

The first formalization of the idea is believed to have been made by Johann Dirichlet[1] in 1834 under the name Schubfachprinzip ("drawer principle" or "shelf principle"). For this reason it is also commonly called Dirichlet's box principle, Dirichlet's drawer principle or simply "Dirichlet principle"—a name that could also refer to the minimum principle for harmonic functions. The original "drawer" name is still in use in French ("principe des tiroirs"), Italian ("principio dei cassetti") and German ("Schubfachprinzip").

Though the most straightforward application is to finite sets (such as pigeons and boxes), it is also used with infinite sets that cannot be put into one-to-one correspondence. To do so requires the formal statement of the pigeonhole principle, which is "there does not exist an injective function on finite sets whose codomain is smaller than its domain". Advanced mathematical proofs like Siegel's lemma build upon this more general concept.
Softball team

Imagine five people who want to play softball (n = 5 items), with a limitation of only four softball teams (m = 4 holes) to choose from. A further limitation is imposed in the form of each of the five refusing to play on a team with any of the other four players. It is impossible to divide five people among four teams without putting two of the people on the same team, and since they refuse to play on the same team, by asserting the pigeonhole principle it is easily deducible that at most four of the five possible players will be able to play.

Sock-picking

Assuming that in a box there are 10 black socks and 12 blue socks, calculate the maximum number of socks needed to be drawn from the box before a pair of the same color can be made. Using the pigeonhole principle, to have at least one pair of the same color (m = 2 holes, one per colour) using one pigeonhole per color, you need only three socks (n = 3 items). In this example, if the first and second sock drawn are not of the same color, the very next sock drawn would complete at least one same-color pair (m = 2).

Hand-shaking

If there are n number of people who can shake hands with one another (where n > 1), the pigeonhole principle shows that there is always a pair of people who will shake hands with the same number of people. As the 'holes', or m, correspond to number of hands shaken, and each person can shake hands with anybody from 0 to n − 1 other people, this creates n − 1 possible holes. This is because either the '0' or the 'n − 1' hole must be empty (if one person shakes hands with everybody, it's not possible to have another person who shakes hands with nobody; likewise, if one person shakes hands with no one there cannot be a person who shakes hands with everybody). This leaves n people to be placed in at most n − 1 non-empty holes, guaranteeing duplication.

The birthday problem

The birthday problem asks that, in a set of n randomly chosen people, what is the probability that some pair of them will have the same birthday. If there are 367 people in the room, we know that there is at least one pair who share the same birthday, as there are only 366 possible birthdays to choose from.

The pigeonhole principle also arises in computer science.

[1]Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805 –1859) was a German mathematician with deep contributions to number theory (including creating the field of analytic number theory), as well as to the theory of Fourier series and other topics in mathematical analysis; he is credited with being one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.