September Thoughts: James Allen.

To make a useful and happy life dependent upon health is to put matter before mind, is to subordinate spirit to body.

Moral principles are the soundest foundations for health, as well as for happiness.

Men are not made unhappy by poverty, but by the thirst for riches.

A miser may be a millionaire, but he is as poor as when he was penniless.

A man is great in knowledge, great in himself, and great in his influence in the world, in the measure that he is great in self-control.

“Awareness is awareness itself”

as William Samuel wrote. I AM aware of the chair underneath me. My consciousness is aware of this chair. I can appreciate this chair.

I AM aware of the room I AM in. Is the room aware of me? 

The Radiant I AM

In 1887, encouraged by her sister, Alethea B(rooks) Small, Nona Brooks attended classes taught by Katherine (Kate) Quiner Bingham (1849 - 1913), a student of Emma Curtis Hopkins. This was the same year that Malinda Cramer started taking classes with Emma Curtis Hopkins. While attending these classes, Brooks "found herself healed of a persistent throat infection" and shortly thereafter Brooks and Small began to heal others.  Bingham had gone to Chicago to seek help for an illness and had been cured by Mabel MacCoy, another student of Emma Curtis Hopkins. The third sister, Fannie B(rooks) James, also studied under Mabel MacCoy. It was in 1898 that Nona Brooks first studied with Cramer.

There is good for me, and I ought to have it.

This is the basic principle upon which all prosperity rests. Satisfaction along every line rests upon whether you have spoken this truth. ECH 1902 http://www.original-unity.com/2011/09/03/how-to-attain-your-good/

The importance of forgiveness is a recurring theme in all spiritual literature. This is what H. Emilie Cady had to say about it in “Bondage or Liberty, Which?”, Lesson 12 of her Lessons in Truth, published originally in Unity, September, 1895 (Vol. VI No. 4.). This text is taken from pp. 159-160 of the 1919 …

Original Unity

I daily praise the Invisible Good that is bringing the ships of prosperity into my harbor.—Cora Dedrick [Cora G. Dedrick Fillmore]

 “There is good for me, and I ought to have it, is the very first conscious statement you ought to make. “Emma Curtis Hopkins

Fillmore 1901

 I AM NOW in the presence of pure Being and immersed in the Holy Spirit of life, love, and wisdom. ~ Charles Fillmore