The supreme end of all religious teaching is the culture of right
thought. It is the power that determines all social relations, all
opportunities for usefulness, and all personal achievement. The right
thought opens the right door. There is absolutely no limit to its power,
and each individual may increase and strengthen his grasp of it and
develop it to an indefinite and unforeseen degree. One actual method of
the use of thought is to use it, creatively, for the immediate future.
The time that is just before one is plastic to any impress. It has not
yet taken form in events or circumstances, and it can, therefore, be
controlled and determined. One may sit quietly and alone for a little
time at night, calling up all his thought force, and by means of it
create the next day. The events of the day will follow the impression
made by the thought. One can thus will himself, so to speak, with the
successful currents. He can create his atmosphere and environment, and
can open wide the portals of his life to beauty and happiness.
The law of telepathy is as supreme in the spiritual universe as are the
laws of gravitation and attraction in the physical universe. The law
that holds the constellations in their courses is not more in absolute
evidence than that which governs the flashes of perception between two
persons in a finer and more subtle communication than words, spoken or
written, could possibly convey. But while there is no law more
universally and impressively in evidence, there is also no law so
totally unformulated, so entirely, it would seem, outside the domain of
conscious recognition and will. One endeavors to send a telepathic
message to his friend--and no impress is made. Again, when he has made
no effort at all, nor even thought of trying, the telepathic message is
received. The magnetic sensitiveness of the spirit to thought currents
is astounding. It has long seemed to many persons that the very air
conveyed messages--and so it does. One may "call up" another, in either
this world or in the ethereal world, at any time, simply by directing to
him a strong current of thought. The thousand little things generally
ranked as coincidence are really illustrations of this law. One thinks
intently of a friend whom, perhaps, he has not met, or heard from, for
years, and, presto, a letter, or the person himself appears. One can
settle misunderstandings, convey counsel, entreaty, instruction, or
comprehension,--all by t
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