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The Ancient Lineage of New Thought - The Anti-toxin of Common Sense - Are You Doing the Best You Can? - Be Not Easily Offended - For What Are You Living? - Ignore Misfortune - The Power of Personality - Common Sense and "Goodness" - "Good Business" - The Trapeze Performer - The High Calling of Fatherhood - The High Calling of Motherhood - Thought Building for Children - The New Thought Economy - What Is a Good Woman? - The Color of Your Thoughts - "In God We Trust" - Are You Alive? - Something About Celibacy - The Old and the New Thought View of Life - The Cities Beyond - The Onward March - Common Sense Ideas in Marriage - The Shading of the Picture - Woman and the Cigarette - Sinning Against the "Holy Ghost" - New Thoughts and Beauty - Famous and Infamous Women - Enemies to Happiness - The New Year - Enthusiasm - Brace Up - Universal Need - Every Day Opportunities - The Masters - Building Kindness Cells - What Is Optimism? - What Is the Loving Thing to Do? - A New Thought Rosary - Unto the End - Keep Still and Wait - What Life Means to Me - Contents - Index

Sinning Against the "Holy Ghost"

NEVER since the beginning of history was there such a spiritual awakening in the minds of men as has taken place in the last few years. It is not a sudden emotional phase, but a growing flame of desire for greater knowledge and for freedom of thought. It affects all classes, and is to some degree felt and understood by the most ignorant as well as by the most frivolous.

While it is certain to bring humanity to a higher standard eventually, it is causing many abnormal phases to display themselves in the meantime. Most abnormal of all is the phase which strikes at the root of domestic life and destroys conjugal happiness in the name of religion.

There is a growing class of women who believe they have been "awakened" spiritually, and who are convinced by their "Teachers" first, and through their own "Higher Convictions" afterward, that love should exist only on the spiritual plane, and that men and women should live and love as disembodied spirits are supposed to live and love.

From reliable sources the astonishing and almost incredible information has come that an order of "religious" enthusiasts exists which recommends the mutilation of the body as a means of spiritualizing the mind. This is not among savage or ignorant people but among the educated and refined women of the land, mind you.

Could there be a more insulting act shown the

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