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WHAT IS THOUGHT?

TO THIS 15DIT0R Or THE .TRISS. Sir, —The two letters in "The Press" this morning on "Thought" are excellent, and are clearly written'by people who know something of the mighty power within us. I know how hard it is to believe that we may possess this power, but is it strange if what the Bible teaches is true? That very few of our "spiritual advisers" know this truth themselves, I admit. If they knew it they would never teach that sickness and poverty are the will of Qod. Archbishop Julius spoke of communication with God through this power within us in his Armistice Day sermon. He certainly knows the truth. All through the- Bible we are told of the power within us—faith is the key v/hich opens the door, and brings to us all things desired. Should we break any of the Commandments m bringing the desired things to us, the result is manifest; we quickly reap what we sow. We can go further back for facts of inspiration than those of men and women of to-day. Read Exodus 4.12: "Now therefore go and I will be with thy mouth and teach thee what thou shalt say." As for evidence of the power of the mind, it is abuni dant. Prcv. 23.7: "For as he thinketh in his heart so is he." Romans 12.2: '"Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind." Phil. 2.5: "Let this mind be in you which was also in Jesus Christ." Socrates, when in prison awaiting the poisoned cup, was able to tell Crito that his death would be on the expected day, as a woman "clothed in white raiment" came to him and "The third day hence to Phthia shalt thou go." He told that all through his ljfe he had been guided in this way. • That we have mighty powers witnin us and that by thought we can confact the mind of God is a fact, and by using our latent faculties this can be accomplished by any earnest seeker after truth. First, we must realise God's activity; second, we must make the perfect mind triumph over the lower sense mind; and third, we must learn to affirm the condition we wish to see manifest. How can we do this? The Sermon on the Mount gives the clues. Knowledge of the mind must be made known to humanity, and God is giving it widely today through appointed messengers. The time will come when we shall oe ashamed to live in hovels, ashamed to be ill; all will denote ignorance. People who cannot grasp and apply the power of the mind by i*eading the Bible should take a course of lessons in psychology. Given by a teacher | with a knowledge of spiritual laws it is invaluable. —Yours, etc., M.G.D. November 16, 1934. to ths mmTojt or m muss. Sir, —I expect many besides "E.B.R" and myself pleased with some of the patches in some of the letters that I appeared on the Thursday page. The Christian mystic will say that it is the

science of prayer—the knowing how to pray is the all-important knowledge. It is no use praying as the faithless old lady did, who prayed that the clay bank at her back door be moved further back by the power oi prayer. "I thought as much," was her "emark on looking out in the mbrning. The universities. I suppose, are for students to be trained to think. It is a good sign when a professor like Dr. Angus, say, can raise such ire by teaching the opinions he holds on debatable subjects. He gives them out for us to chew over, or eschew as poison gas, shall I say. We are not all as brave as Robert Blatchford was when he told his 1,000,000 "Clarion"; readers that'the materialistic doctrine he had been preaching all his life was all wrong. Some Christian Fathers at one time were doubtful whether women had souls to be saved. To-day, if men like Mr Bell could get schools or convents started to train all the girls to become agapeists, the emotion of the ideal will have arrived, and the women will then accomplish any project they have set their minds on.—Yours, etc., PETER TROLOVE. November 13, 1934. TO THE EDITOB O* THE PRBSS. Sir, —One of the greatest teachings of our age is psychology, dealing so extensively with the science of mind, particularly the subconscious, and the power of thought, that great force we call inspiration, directed by an unseen. universal power, called Jehovah, or God. These great lessons in the Bible are entirely due to this, from Abraham to Jesus, so universal is the power that all our spiritual teachers come under its aegis, being theocratic rather than theological, or schismatical. It is the power that controls the poet, the student of nature, the idealist and visionary. In the dark ages of autocracy in the church, thinking was categorically expurgated. But the time is coming when we shall have to adapt our lives in keeping with the directions of an all pervading mind, the ultimate being a religion, dominated and inspired by right thinking. As Whittier the poet wrote: "Man is the masterpiece that moulds and. makes, and man is mind, and ever, and anon he takes that tool called; thought, which wielding as he wills, brings forth a thousand goods or thou-; sand ills, he thinks in silence, but it' comes to pass. Environment is but his looking-glass."—Yours, etc., GEORGE McCORMICK. Belfast, November 16, 1934. TO Tat; EDITOR OF THIS MISS. sir—lt is perhaps somewhat difficult to convey to the human mind the greatness of the subject under discussion. Therefore it requires to be handled with care and understanding. The idea of passing thought from mind to mind in the human sense is dangerous to mental development, as the process implies a form of suggestion or mesmerism, which is a deterrent to true consciousness. Only God is expressed in the consciousness of true thought since he created all things. It is the birthright of every man to become the flow, or full representation, of spiritual consciousness jn thought. It is necessary for him to claim it; it is his for the recognition and desire to possess it. It is that which no man can take from him.— Yours, etc., SAMUEL CRAIGHEAD. November 16, 1934.

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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21324, 17 November 1934, Page 20

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WHAT IS THOUGHT? Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21324, 17 November 1934, Page 20

WHAT IS THOUGHT? Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21324, 17 November 1934, Page 20