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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


The Masters

WHO and what was Buddha --- is a question often asked by orthodox Christians.

Owing to the highly intellectual stratum which has always been the underlying force in India, the story of Buddha's life is much more authentic than the early life of our own Great Master, Jesus Christ, although he lived six hundred years earlier. Gautama Buddha was the son of a high caste Rajah, and therefore a prince. He was the only child of his parents, and his mother died shortly after giving him birth.

The ancient literature of his land contains the story of his mother having been told by an angel that she was to give birth to a godchild, and in the main the tale is almost identical with that of the immaculate conception of Christ. In fact, these supernatural stories have attended the birth of all the great masters and spiritual leaders. However, the young lad was reared by his father as a prince, and it was not until wealth, power and all earthly happiness had been laid at his feet that he began to develop his insatiable longing for God's truth.

He gave up home, family, power and wealth and went into the desert places to pray and meditate. India had degenerated from the pure religion taught by those most wonderful of all books, the Vedas, and idol worship and sacrifices and mortification of the body were the prevailing customs when Gautama began his studies.

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