In place of centering our thought upon the Worry, Fears, Doubts and Irresolution, which constitute man's mental poison, the proper method is to forget that these have controlled us, and put all our mental effort into the cultivation of their antidotes : Peace, Trust, Faith, Resolution, Courage. B.F. Austin - How To Make Money - 1918
Benjamin Fish Austin (1850 – 1933) was a
nineteenth-century Canadian educator, Methodist Minister, and Spiritualist.
B. F. Austin was born in Brighton,
Ontario. He
served as the principal of Alma College girl school from 1881 to 1897 during
which time that institution was regarded as one of the most prestigious centres
of female education in Canada.
B.F.
Austin - an ardent spiritualist who became popular in both his
native Canada and the United States. Today he is celebrated and honored by the United Church of Canada. In 1899 he gave a passionate speech encouraging people
to "seek the truth within themselves
even if this truth conflicts with church doctrine."
Spiritualism, the religious system that Austin supported, and under whose banner he later worked in
Rochester and Los Angeles, was a religious movement with its modern roots in
the mid-1840s. The movement continues to this day and the National Spiritualist
Association of Churches (which is the modern
continuation of an organization with which Austin had contact) lists the following as its guiding
principles .
- 1. We believe in Infinite Intelligence.
- 2. We believe that the phenomena of Nature, both physical and spiritual, are the expression of Infinite Intelligence.
- 3. We affirm that a correct understanding of such expression and living in accordance therewith, constitute true religion.
- 4. We affirm that the existence and personal identity of the individual continue after the change called death.
- 5. We affirm that communication with the so-called dead is a fact, scientifically proven by the phenomena of Spiritualism.
- 6. We believe that the highest morality is contained in the Golden Rule: "Whatsoever ye would that others should do unto you, do ye also unto them."
- 7. We affirm the moral responsibility of individuals, and that we make our own happiness or unhappiness as we obey or disobey Nature's physical and spiritual laws.
- 8. We affirm that the doorway to reformation is never closed against any human soul here or hereafter.
- 9. We affirm that the precepts of Prophecy and Healing are Divine attributes proven through Mediumship.
Just as a tailor makes over a coat, a carpenter makes over a house, a shipbuilder makes over a ship by changing the pattern or the design. We build our lives from Ideals as the carpenter builds his house from plans. If we change our ideas, our conceptions of life, its privileges and responsibilities, our thoughts of ourselves, our ideals of character, and persist in holding the new ideas and ideals, we shall develop characters in harmony with them. Whatever we want in our outward life in material expression, we must first build into our mental life, into our Ideals, Purposes and Will. Events, conditions and seeming results of chance or miracle in our outward life, are all under law and in reality are mostly genuine materialization's of forms we have built up in our thought realm. Life proceeds as a stream from the "within" to the "without," from the mental and spiritual to the physical and material expressions. We must therefore create wealth in the mind before we realize its possession in the life. This is not peculiar to the subject of money-making but applies to all life's activities, as we see that the architect first builds his house in his mind before he erects it on the material plane; the engineer constructs his tunnel mentally before he pierces the mountain or builds his underground railway; the financial magnate builds his plans of commercial conquest or aggression in the silence and secrecy of his own mind before he takes the first step toward their outward realization. B.F. Austin - How To Make Money - 1918
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