Elementary text book of mental therapeutics / by W.J. Colville.

  • W. J. Colville
Date:
[1900]
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Credit: Elementary text book of mental therapeutics / by W.J. Colville. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and wise. God is power, I am powerful. God is strength, I am strong. God is truth, I am truthful. God is purity, I am pure. God is perfection, I am perfect. These statements are absolutely true, but must be uttered again and again that they may be proved, as the rule in mathematics must be constantly applied to solve a problem. Let the scientist reason from atoms, and the theologian from God, and from both standpoints the allness of Good and the consequent nothingness of alleged evil must appear. If it bo thought necessary to account for the appearance of evil, explain the law of contradic- tories, and argue from the premise that as good is positive, the great reality, that which is less than a complete manifestation of good, is negative. Man Know Thyself. Anthropology and theology are one. Science is knowledge; philosophy is only speculative. Study the natural sciences, and they will show you spiritual truth inverted as a reflection in a mirror. Health is harmony. All is good, but every atom in the universe has its rightful place, and can only demonstrate its goodness when in order. When vre feel ill at ease we are ignorantly opposing right; therefore, all suffering is a sign of inharmony. I affirm concerning my body, that it is good, yes, very good. I affirm for my body order which is according to divine law. I have a body, but I am its master, and I will exercise my lav'ful magisterial claim over all its parts and functions. My body is the expression of my idea, as I am the expression of God's idea. I am an idea in the infinite mind, my body is that idea expressed in form. God is the only absolute thinker, but man receives life into himself as the fishes in the ocean drink the water in which they swim, or as the birds flying through the air breathe that air. These illustrations, carefully followed to their logical conclusion, will give every student a clear, concise, com- municable conception of man’s oneness with God. Good being the essential, primal and ultimate condition of every atom, we pronounce all atoms divine, and then we proceed to treat for harmony, as follows : I acknowledge the one sole God as infinite and eternal, as omniscient and omnipresent. Every atom is in God. Man is the word of God, the spoken logos. The Word is the life and light, and all men share it equally, as all men are included in the Grand Man. Love is expressed as will, wisdom as understanding. There is but one will, and that will is perfect love. Love is father, wisdom is mother. Love acts first in desire, Avhich is will seeking expression. Wisdom is love’s co-operating counterpart. In Man, will and understanding must go together to produce harmonious results. I declare myself subject only to infinite lovo and wisdom, whose child I am. I deny the possibility of my ever being in any other powrer, for there is no other. I declare myself the portential possessor of all knowledge, and my conscious effort shall make this manifest. “ I will be that I will to be.” My
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