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Lesson 11 - The Adductive Quality of Thought - p. 57

Prentice Mulford's theory - Thoughts are Things - Thought a dynamic force - Mind and matter identical - Miracles of Nature - Professor Gray's experiments with vibrations -Wonderful results - Professor Williams' significant statement - Food for thought - Character of thought vibrations - Murky thought waves and fleecy thought waves - Your thought retains a connection with you and affects you - Thought auras - Like attracts like A wonderful manifestation of psychic phenomena - Results of fear or worry thought - Advantage of confident thinking - Successful men the result of proper thought - Realized their ideal - Requisites for success - "I can and I will" - Others attracted toward you - Anything is yours if you only want it hard enough - Helen Wilman's theory.

That great writer on the power of the mind - Prentice Mulford, has summed up much of his philosophy in the statement: "Thoughts are Things." In these words he gave expression to a mighty truth, which, if fully apprehended by mankind, would revolutionize the world. Thought is not only a dynamic force, it is a real thing, just as is any other material object. Thought is merely a finer form of matter, or grosser form of spirit - you may call it either with equal correctness. Matter is but a grosser form of mind, mind but a finer form of matter. There is but one substance in nature, but that substance has many forms, ranging from the most material (so-called) forms, to the highest form -Spirit.

When we think, we send out vibrations of a fine ethereal substance, which is as real as the finer vapors or gasses, the liquids, the solids. We do not see thought - neither do we see the finer vapors or gasses. We cannot smell or taste thought - neither do we smell or taste the pure air. We can feel it however, as many