Every student who takes up the study of the laws of mind, will find that many of his lifelong
views and ideas must give place to the truths we find in the new dispensation.
This will not be hard to do when you remember that no practical help or comfort has ever
come to you from the old way of thinking and doing, and we know that great help and comfort do
come from the new way. A willingness to give up the false way is in the highest degree essential
to one who takes up the study with honest, sincere desire to grasp an understanding of its
principles.
Prejudice gives a false coloring to all things, thus binding us to their true character.
One who reads with prejudice against any theme will not get the right coloring, because
the bias of such minds closes every avenue through which the truth might otherwise find
entrance.
To read with honest candor and sincere desire for truth regardless of what the world may
say or think, will open your mind to what otherwise would not appeal to your judgment at all.
It is universally admitted by all people of judgment and candor that former ways of
thinking, believing and doing, have always been more or less disappointing, and have not brought
the comfort and happiness the race has always hungered for.
The plans and aims men set out with are acknowledged to be more or less a failure.
Each year of a man’s life is an experiment, and every new scheme has its doubtful side.
Men go on in life beset with fear and uncertainty enough to weaken their efforts to a great extent,
all because true principles are not understood and brought to bear upon their undertakings.
Each year brings an increase of restlessness and dissatisfaction, all of which reflects upon
the physical. Nervous prostration has become almost as common as less serious maladies, and
may be said to originate from the same cause, viz., Ignorance of truth.
The numerous forms of disease that show forth upon the human race are all due to man’s
transgression of the righteous law, or law of right; and man transgresses the righteous law
because he has a false conception regarding that law.
He falsely believes he is doing what will best satisfy his desires and aspirations.
His false beliefs are the result of false education; and false impressions are often inherited
from ancestors many generations back, according to mortality's ways.
The prophet declares “They taught their tongue to speak lies, and their children have
inherited lies.”
These false ways are now showing forth in the wretchedness and misery we see about us
in the form of disease, discord, insanity and crime.
In no age of the world has there ever been so much insanity (so-called) as now. Each year
there is a demand for enlarged accommodations for these victims of false education.
Such facts are cited only as proof that there is somewhere a monstrous flaw in the ways
and methods of men.
Some great mistake in the problem of life has set the whole machinery into confusion.
Harmony is the law of the universe, and it should be the business of every man, woman
and child to seek a knowledge of that law.
“Man was created upright, but he sought out many inventions.”
He was also created with dominion over all things, and his false and foolish inventions
destroyed his consciousness of that dominion.
As long as man maintains a consciousness of his divine nature, he will think and act in line
with that divine harmony which gives dominion; otherwise the mortal gains supremacy and he
loses his dominion. In other words, when he allows the carnal mind to rule he is out of harmony
with Divine Law.
“The carnal mind is enmity against God,” not subject to Divine Law at all; and while the
carnal mind rules, the life problem will be full of mistakes.
The carnal nature has held the reins over mankind for so many centuries that the children
of earth have scarcely any conception of true principles in relation to life, and it remained for the
few earnest, self-sacrificing seekers for truth of this 19th century to discover a way to solve this
great problem of life.
It is the sole aim of this science of all sciences, to correct the false ways and mistakes of
human judgment that have brought discord and confusion to the children of men, and when we
prove by demonstration that a knowledge of these principles will bring harmony out of discord,
and give health for sickness, and strength for weakness, by correcting the false ways, every one
must admit that we have reached a step far in advance of any previous reasoning, and yet we
have only begun to know the power of understanding truth.
To be able to secure and maintain a perfect state of health and harmony of mind and
body, is the first step, and all have to take this first step before they are qualified for the higher
ones; at the same time the principles by which you heal your body and regulate your temper are
the same; and the earnest student will soon learn to control circumstances, and regulate all the
affairs of life.
A careful study of the principles herein explained, will enable any honest, earnest student
to heal all so-called diseased conditions of their own bodies, or those of their friends and
neighbors, and also to remove ill tempers and correct all immoral tendencies.
By the knowledge and faithful practice of these principles, life may be made one continual
blessing to yourself and every one about you, because the very nature of the law is harmony.
- J. W. Y.
Advice to Reader.
INASMUCH as many who read these lessons will not have access to oral instruction, we
feel called upon to advise them not only to read the lessons, but study every statement over and
over till its meaning is perfectly clear.
The full meaning very seldom dawns upon the conscious mind with the first reading, and
often not with the second or third; but with earnest concentration and perseverance, the light will
shine upon every statement, and the principles will become so fixed in the mind that you will
become one with them, and they will spring to your aid in every emergency.
The discipline given at the end of the third lesson is most essential to all students who
want to make these principles practical in their lives, and the more thoroughly you familiarize
your thoughts with the statements, and train your mind to reason in harmony with them at all
times, the better results will follow your efforts in the study.
Repetition brings concentration; and when you have mastered every statement, and feel at
one with the principles laid down, you will have no difficulty in healing, either yourself or others,
and you will be able to demonstrate over all seeming difficulties, and finally you will live exempt
from the need of healing, because you will know better than to be sick.
- J. W. Y.
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