What we believe, that we create,

One night a father overheard his son pray:

"Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is."

Later that night, the Father prayed,

"Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be."

- Unknown

Mitchell's Fold Stone Circle in Shropshire. Is this where the Sword and Stone legend began?

http://www.grahamphillips.net/trail/arthur_trail4.html

At Petra (The Moses Legacy, Tutankhamun: The Exodus Conspiracy. The Truth Behind Archaeology's Greatest Mystery, Connecting a few dots., The Holy Grail Stone? ) in Jordan a tomb was discovered that archaeologists believed could have been the tomb of the biblical Moses. Although the body was no longer there, a 3500-year-old staff was found inscribed with hieroglyphics identifying its owner, an Egyptian court official called Tuthmosis. Staff of Moses 'found' in Birmingham http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/1924067.stm

Petra: Lost City of Stone

What on earth was happening around 1500 BC? http://www.grahamphillips.net/news/news.html

Guy Finley: The True Nature of Greatness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyo2Z4jlZbc

"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.
Chapter 6 - THE MENTAL SCIENCE PERIOD

One of the basic New Thought techniques is to give thanks in advance. If you are new to New Thought, perhaps that sounds a bit strange, but we didn’t think it up. … None of those explicitly mention giving thanks in advance of having received some blessing, but in our everyday world, we do this as a matter of course, as good manners. "Thanking you in advance, I remain Sincerely yours,". It’s part of faith in the workaday world. You are trusting the other person to crash through with whatever has been promised. You just went over to the car dealer and ordered a new car to be built for you at the factory. You think nothing of thanking the dealer in advance, in the firm belief that he and the factory will actually built your car to your specifications and deliver it to you in due course. You can absolutely picture that car; you may even have a photograph of a similar model, perhaps even in the same color. Every time you order something over the Internet you are expecting it to turn up in due course, as promised, whether it is something as large as a new car or something more mundane.
Before or after, we give thanks because we are grateful for some good received or about to be received. We feel that attitude of gratitude. If like attracts like, it is easy to see why that’s a good attitude to have, and why giving thanks in advance is a valuable practice. We are opening channels that make it easier for God to answer prayers. Giving thanks in a special, celebratory way, as we do as a nation on Thanksgiving Day, reminds us of the importance of giving thanks at all times. When we are able to get together in families and eat wonderful meals, it is easy to feel grateful and give thanks. Those memories in turn remind us of the importance of giving thanks for whatever our present conditions may be, because that in turn paves the way for new blessings. Thanks for shortages, thanks for exhaustion, thanks for pain-in-the-neck relatives? Yes, because that’s how you transmute them into what you really want. Giving thanks for them blesses them, which is exactly what they need in order to improve, whether they be persons or conditions. Or maybe that attitude of gratitude just improves us, which changes the whole picture. http://www.neweverymoment.com/newsletter.html C. Alan Anderson Deborah G. Whitehouse