"Be sure you are right, then keep it to yourself."

The actor cannot pretend. He must enter and become the part he has agreed to play. He cannot step upon the stage knowing he is a great actor who everyone recognizes. He must lose himself in the character by leaving his personality in the dressing room and entering the stage as the character he is to portray.” – Neville Goddard

From the first page of Esoteric Philosophy ~ Emma Curtis Hopkins

There    are    three    interpretations    given    to    Scripture   writings. These interpretations constitute the three great doctrines of men:

(1)    Literal

(2)    Mental [or Idea]

(3)    God [or Spiritual]

Take the words "bottomless pit" as an example.  

i.        The literalists see and feel according to common sense that there must be a bottomless hole to contain all  the billions of existences that have been inhabitants of the universe and will  be dwellers  here  in  the   future  who have  trespassed  and  erred.

ii.       The mentalists, or those who resolve everything into mind declare that there is no bottomless pit except in the desire of the mind. Nothing, they explain, can satisfy the mental desire. Give a man everything he asks for, and he is still a sandy plain ready to suck   in something else. Desire is bottomless vacuum.

iii.     God, being the only One, those who take the passages of Scripture spiritually are found declaring that the God in man swallows all that has being and all that has existence. The unlimited One is the consuming fire which swallows death and hell, heaven and paradise, being and not being. Is it not written that death and hell are swallowed up in victory? Is it not written that Jesus Christ is the victory that swallows death and hell?

The beginning of freedom lies in facing our own responsibility for what happens in our lives. It must then logically follow that since we are responsible for both the good and the bad in our lives, we cannot attribute it to other people and outside circumstances. People and circumstances that have hurt us are the instruments used by the Law which we have consciously or unconsciously invoked. It is the great Cosmic Law, and it is summed up simply in the words, “Like attracts like.” It brings back to us that which we have put forth. Once we understand this, we are free from all resentments. And we know by now that resentments are the cancers of the soul. Their inception and growth is due to our emotional reactions to people and incidents in our lives. HOW TO FIND YOUR REAL SELF MILDRED MANN 1952

William Law (1686 – 9 April 1761) was a Church of England priest who lost his position at Emmanuel College, Cambridge when his conscience would not allow him to take the required oath of allegiance to the first Hanoverian monarch, George I. Thereafter, Law first continued as a simple priest (curate) and when that too became impossible without the required oath, Law taught privately, as well as wrote extensively. His personal integrity, as well as mystic and theological writing greatly influenced the evangelical movement of his day as well as Enlightenment thinkers such as the writer Dr Samuel Johnson and the historian Edward Gibbon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Law

Granted that the ground of the individual soul is akin to...the divine Ground of all existence...what is the ultimate nature of good and evil, and what the true purpose and end of life? The answers to these questions will be given to a great extent in the words of that most surprising product of the English eighteenth century, William Law...a man who was not only a master of English prose, but also one of the most interesting thinkers of his period and one of the most endearingly saintly figures in the whole history of Anglicanism. Aldous Huxley

"William Law made a lasting impact upon 18th-century England with his book, 'A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life'. In it Law urges that every day should be viewed as a day of humility. And how does he suggest that we do this? By learning to serve others." Foster, Richard J. Celebration Of Discipline, p. 131.

Joseph Lowrey Fendrich Jr. (1897 - 1951 )  was licensed to preach May 1921 by the Presbytery of Philadelphia and ordained by the Presbytery of Philadelphia (North) on May 10, 1922. His first call was as Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church; Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, PA. His next call was to the Pulpit of the Second Presbyterian Church in Elizabeth, NJ.

In 1928 he received a Doctor of Divinity Degree from Dubuque Seminary and was called as Pastor of the largest Presbyterian Congregation East of the Mississippi River(the Central Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, NY).  While Pastor in Brooklyn he became acquainted with Norman Vincent Peale (Pastor of the Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan and author of “The Power of Positive Thinking”).  In October 1931 Dr. Fendrich moved again to become Pastor of the Wilshire Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles, CA.  In Los Angeles he met and was influenced by Ernest Holmes, the founder of the “Religious Science Movement” and author of the magazine “Science of Mind”.

Dr. Fendrich left to take up a position at the City Temple of New Thought in Cincinnati, OH, in 1944, but by 1950 Dr. Fendrich had returned to Los Angeles as Pastor of the “Science of Mind Church.”  Their church services were held in the Fox-Wilshire Theater and subsequently at the “Uptown Theater.”

What the Blind Man Saw (1927);
So This Is Religion (1939);
Mental Hygiene (1941);
Creative Thinking (1941);
How to Change Your Life (1942); 
Remake Your World (1943);
Rediscovery of Christ (1946);
How to Collect Life’s Dividends (1948); and
Science Discovers God (1949).

http://capitolhillpreschurch150.org/history/april-29-2012-second-sesquicentennial-program/rev-j-lowrey-frendrich

Thomas Lansing Masson (1866–1934) was an American anthropologist, editor and author.

"Be sure you are right, then keep it to yourself."

Works by Thomas Lansing Masson, at Internet Archive