Thoughts Are Things

I am no longer like Lot's wife, preserving
evil in mind and body by remembering it. I
relax and willingly let go of all effete sub-
stance, that the new, pure radiance of God
may be made manifest in me.

My mind no longer clings to the complexity
of mortal finances. I am open to the splendor
of the kingdom of God within, and a flood
of plenty follows.

0NE OF the axiomatic truths of metaphysics is that "thoughts are things." That the mind of man marshals its faculties and literally makes into living entities the ideas that it entertains is also a foregone conclusion.

The word "things" expresses poorly the active and very vital character of the thoughts to which the mind gives life, substance, and intelligence.

We see so many inanimate "things" around us in the material world, and we compare our creative thoughts with them and thereby get a very inferior

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