themselves, only as they are emphasized. Some metaphysicians have so enlarged upon the power of evil thinking that they have made a new devil. I have heard many people say that they would rather believe in the old-fashioned kind of a devil than this kind, known as

“m. a. m.”--- or "malicious animal magnetism.”

It is for us to prove that such influence has no real power, no real place.

Emptiness of Error-Thoughts

Let us take up these things in the right way as nothingness; worriment is negation, fear is a kind of emptiness. Fill in the place of these negatives (worriment or fear) the opposite thoughts which are positive. Here you will need to use discretion and discernment to select your opposite thought, but the mere act of feeling after God, the seeking of the Word, is itself beneficial. The very attempt to find the opposite sometimes will do the work--- just the attempt.

Perhaps, whenever you have thought of a certain person you have had a sweep of hatred go over you, and you have justified it. You felt you had done right to hate that person for he had been the embodiment of wickedness and vice; there was no good in him. You had made up your mind that he didn’t even have a soul and there was nothing to save about him, and he might as well be out of the world as in it. I am describing something. that may not apply to any of you, but there are a great many people who think that way. They dwell upon the thing so long