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Serving New Thought is pleased to present
Horatio W. Dresser's
The Power of Silence
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Preface to the New Edition -
The Point of View -
Immanent God -
World of Manifestation -
Nature of Existence -
Mental Life -
Meaning of Idealism -
Nature of Mind -
Meaning of Suffering -
Duality of Self -
Adjustment -
Poise -
Self-Help -
Entering the Silence -
The Outlook -
Contents -
Index
But what causes the emotional
change? Why is it that so many people who receive no benefit from medicine
are cured by forgetting self and becoming absorbed in some benevolent work?
If ignorant and superstitious people can be cured quickly because they
are credulous, is there not some deeper law which governs all cases, by
the discovery of which the intelligent man may be cured as quickly as the
superstitious?
It is clearly the changed direction
of mind, resulting in changed action, that brings about the result. Before
the sudden cure can result, there must be faith, expectant attention; and,
if the person has implicit faith, the whole being is governed by this one
powerful direction of activity. Religiously speaking, the emotional experience
unconsciously opens the soul to the Spirit, which enters into the whole
being, just as the warm sunlight penetrates the very fibre of the plant.
It is the Spirit that performs the mental part of the cure, not the personal
thought or faith. The human part consists in becoming receptive, in withdrawing
the consciousness from self and physical sensation, and becoming absorbed
in the expected cure. The personal fears and wrong thoughts have stood
in the way, and barred the door where the Spirit sought to enter. The new
direction of mind changes all this, and makes way for the Spirit. It is
a redirecting of the will; and in
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