As a Man Thinketh

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Man is a growth by law, and not a creation by artifice, and cause and

effet is an absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought

as in the world of visible and material things. A noble and Godlilke

character is not a thing of favour or chance but is the natural

result of continues effort in right thinking, the effect of long-

cherished association with Godlike thoughts. An ignoble and bestial

character, by the same process, is the result of the continued

harbouring of grovelling thoughts.

 

Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges

the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools

with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and

strength and peace. By the right choice and true application of

thought, man ascends to the Divine Perfection; by the abuse and wrong

application of thought, he descends below the level of the beast.

Between these two extremes are all grades of character and man is

their maker and muster.

 

Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul which hae been

restored and brought to light in this age, none is more graddening or

fruitful of divine promise and confidene than this -- that man is the

master of thought, the moulder of character, and the maker and shaper

of condition, environment and destiny.

 

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