ess
of Christian Science Diagnosis--The
Power of Mental Environment--Christian
Science Definition of Disease--Has a Rich
Field to Work--A Strongly-Drawn System
of Psycho-therapy--A System of Suggestion--Affected
by Our Growing Understanding
of the Range of Suggestion--Strongest in
Teaching That God Has Meaning for the
Whole of Life--Exalts the Power of Mind;
the Processes--Is Not Big Enough for the
Whole of Experience.

VIII. NEW THOUGHT 210

New Thought Difficult to Define--"The Rediscovery
of the Inner Life"--Spinoza's Quest--Kant
Reaffirms the Creative Power of Mind--Utilitarianism,
Deism and Individualism--The
Reactions Against Them--New England
Transcendentalism--New Thought Takes
Form--Its Creeds--The Range of the Movement--The
Key-Words of New Thought--Its
Field of Real Usefulness--Its Gospel of Getting
On--The Limitations and Dangers of Its
Positions--Tends to Become a Universal and
Loosely-Defined Religion.

IX. THE RETURN OF THE EAST UPON WEST.
THEOSOPHY AND KINDRED CULTS 245

Historic Forces Carried Early Christianity
West and Not East--The West Rediscovers
the East; the East Returns Upon the West--Chesterton's
Two Saints--Why the West
Questions the East--Pantheism and Its Problems--How
the One Becomes the Many--Evolution
and Involution--Theosophy Undertakes
to Offer Deliverance--But Becomes
Deeply Entangled Itself--The West Looks to
Personal Immortality--The East Balances the
Accounts of Life in a Series of Reincarnations--Theosophy
Produces a Distinct Type of Character--A "Tour de Force"
of the Imagination--A Bridge of Clouds--The Difficulties
of Reincarnation--Immortality Nobler, Juster and
Simpler--Pantheism at Its Best--and Its Worst.

X. SPIRITUALISM 284

The Genesis of Modern Spiritualism--It
Crosses to Europe--The Beginnings of Trance-Mediumship--The
Society for Psychical Research Begins Its Work--Confronts
Difficulties--William James Enters the Field--The
Limitations of Psychical Investigation--The Society
for Psychical Research Gives Intellectual Standing to
Spiritism--The Very Small Number of Dependable
Mediums--Spiritism a Question of Testimony and
Interpretation--Possible Explanations of Spiritistic
Phenomena--Myers' Theory of Mediumship--Telepathy--Controls--The
Dilemma of Spiritism--The Influence of Spiritism--The Real
Alterna