Atom-Smashing Power of Mind, by Charles Fillmore, [1949]
Aaron, 83
Adam, vs. Christ, 116, 119, 142
affirmation, 71, 74; benefits received through, 101; body "thrill" ("the Spirit") induced by, 24, 25; formation of Christ Mind in man accelerated by use of, 103, 104; judgment and, 45, 47; mastering worry, disease, and inharmony by denial and, 71, 72; strength of, 50
age, dawn of new, 163-166; end of, 130, 131, 162; man's, same as earth's, 70
air, man's home in, as well as in earth, 68
Angels (ideas), 45, 46 (see ideas)
Antigonus, in "Winter's Tale," 112
Assyria (psychic realm), 54, 55
astrology, and Shakespeare, 113, 114
atom, and its law of expression, 9, 10; faith center in each, 40; wisdom at center of, 92
atomic bomb, effects of, on Japanese cities in 1945, 65, 66; spiritual or mental character of, 12, 13
Babylon, king of, 19
Bacon, Lord Francis, 108
baptism, 28; prayer treatment as a spiritual, 67; Spirit, 130 (see Holy Spirit)
being, invisible and visible aspects of, 134
"Behold the Angel!" (Morgan), 23, 24
Bellamy, Edward ("Looking Backward"), 31, 32
Bible, and miracles, 83, 84; as allegorical record of man, 116; as textbook of absolute Truth, 162, 163; as textbook on redemption of man, 103; man and his states of mind represented in, 80; on death, 142
blessing, as releaser of substance, 102
blood, of Jesus, as life of God, 77, 78, 169
body, arresting death through man's realization of perfect, 121, 122; as instrument of mind, 20; as record of man's thoughts, 118, 119, 121, 122; as temple of living God, 81, 94, 117, 118, 131, 144, 145; "body of Christ" as man's spiritual, 78; establishing the spiritual, 34; forces in, directed constructively or destructively by thought, 43, 44; glorifying God in one's, 80, 123; made up of centers of consciousness, 49; man's, as meeting place of man and Jehovah, 80; new, 24, 25, 43, 119, 157, 158; pent-up energy in atoms of, 11; radiant, 22, 23; refining, 66, 67; renewing and spiritualizing, 142, 143; resurrected body of Jesus vs. astral, 146, 147; various conceptions of man's, 116-118 (see Christ)
"body of Christ" (see church of Christ)
brain, evolved by mind, 34; faith and man's, 125 (see mind)
bread, and wine, 77
Browning, Robert (quoted), 18
Brutus, in "Julius Caesar," 114
Caesar, in "Julius Caesar," 109, 110, 114
Caesars, supermind and ephemeral, 128
Calpurnia, in "Julius Caesar," 109-111
Carlyle, Thomas (quoted), 156
Cassius, in "Julius Caesar," 114
cause and effect, 134, 135, 160
cells, brain, 14, 15, 84; electronic energy imprisoned in body, 41; of body of Jesus, 169; transformation of body, 24, 25, 157, 158
Chaldea, and higher astronomy, 161
Christ, 80; and prayer, 30; and the soul (consciousness),
151; as one's wisdom, 75, 76; as source of life force, 24, 25; as spiritual mind in every individual, 100, 101; as the image and likeness, 100, 101; as the Word of God, 135; as true pattern for man, 122; contacting mind of, 101; man's identity with, 23; 103, 104; new body in, 24, 25, 43; Paul as disseminator of doctrine of, 27; putting on, 36, 37, 70; risen, 170, 171; rising out of negative states of mind by calling upon name of, 82; threefold significance of body of, 77-79; universal incarnation of body of, 122 (see Jesus)
Christ consciousness, 44, 150, 151, 171
Christ Mind, as supermind, 56
Christianity, as demonstrable science of mind, 31; renaissance of, 33, 34
Church Fathers, and Shakespeare, 107, 108; and the Bible, 129
church of Christ, based on unity of Spirit, not on creeds, 78, 79 communion (see prayer; silence)
conscious mind, and cellular life, 147; as director of subconscious mind, 76, 77; off guard during sleep, 109
consciousness, as soul, 151; establishing spiritual body in, through divine ideas, 34; evolution of Jesus from sense consciousness to God, 37, 38; heaven and hell within man's own, 97; making superconsciousness an abiding state of, 36; manifesting that which is held in, 72; man's perfected, as God's house or temple, 94; of I AM power, 48, 49; prayer awakens spiritual, 32, 33; separating the erroneous from the true in, 49; shattering men's fixed states of, by the spoken word, 54, 55; thoughts manifested as states of, 94, 95 (see Christ)
creation, man as co-operator in God's plan of, 95-97;
no evidence anywhere of a miraculous, 139; science and theological explanation of, 85
Crucifixion, 42, 144, 145; of error, 155
Crusades, 59
Daniel, and king of Babylon, 19; and the king's dainties, 20, 21
David, not forebear of the Lord or Christ but of Jesus, 100 "
day of judgment," 45, 46, 48, 49, 155
death, as result of transgression of law (called sin), 131, 142; life or, 53, 54; overcoming, 24, 25, 124, 143-149, 151; Paul on, 120, 121
Decius, in "Julius Caesar," 110
decreeing (see affirmation; word)
demonstration, mental resurrection and body, 120; of supermind, 127, 130; others helped in every individual, 42, 43
denial, 71, 72; judgment and, 45-47; of past and future, 157
disciples, resurrection and skepticism of, 145, 146
discrimination, 57
disease germs, 104
dreams, and the vital forces, 158; Daniel's interpretation of, 19, 20; Shakespeare and, 109, 111; the I AM and the subconscious mind in, 109
earth, forming of new, 51
earthquake, and race mind, 29
Easter, lesson of, 143
eating, Paul's views on, 20, 21; relation between thinking and, 72, 73 (see diet)
economy, new, 35
Edmund, in "King Lear," 113
egotism, as destroyer of spirituality, 103; repressing, 102, 103
Egypt, and higher astronomy, 161; (materialism), 54, 55
electricity, and faith, 14, 15, 125
elements, and mind, 29
Elijah, 9, 10, 127; (fulfillment), 156, 157
El Shaddai ("Nourisher" or "Strength-giver"), 98
Emerson (quoted), 33, 34, 137, 138
Emphatic Diaglott (quoted), 162, 170
energy, and prayer, 40; atomic, 50, 51, 65; divine wisdom and universal, 91; electronic, 14, 15; ether, 10; Holy Spirit as dynamic 66, 67; pent-up, in body, 11; spiritual, 9, 10
Environment, thought and, 48
ether, cosmic (spiritual), as "kingdom of the heavens," 10, 11, 40, 58; effect of sending our word into, 54, 55; faith and spiritual, 125; hearing capacity extended into spiritual, 56, 57; signs of "second coming" in cosmic, 169, 170
Europe, 59; better foods following meat shortage in, 51, 52
evolution, age of man and this, 70; sloughing off of parts of consciousness necessary to, 154
Exodus, 80
experiences, spiritual vs. psychic, 23
failure, 105; as way to larger life, 75, 76
faith, 10, 11, 104; center of, 40; electricity and, 14, 125; fulfillment as result of, 74, 75; represented by
Peter, 152, 153; spiritual healing dependent on, 76
Father, cultivating communion with, 21; Jesus' recognition of mind as, 40; oneness with, 71, 104
food, blessing one's, 72, 73; effect of, on receptivity to Spirit, 20, 21
forces, utilizing and controlling atomic, 66
fourth dimension (kingdom of God), 62
Fox sisters, Margaret, Catharine, Leah (spiritualists), 111
free will, and creation, 96, 97
fulfillment, and faith, 74, 75; represented by Elijah, 156, 157
future, body renewal and denial of, 157
Galton, Sir Francis (quoted), 33, 34
generation, meaning of, 31, 32
Genesis, seven-day creation in, 12
Gideon, 54
God, and man as the "image" and "likeness," 18, 53, 117; as impartial and just, 60; as man's provider, 102; as one and only mind, 93; as personality vs. God as law, 127, 128; as Spirit, 34, 59-62, 78, 79, 135, 136; as the source of all creation, 59; as unitary and as diverse, 19; as wisdom, 92; due to character of, in man's mind, 97; daily communion with, 30, 31; El Shaddai as feminine name for, 98; hearing voice of, 56, 57; importance of man's willing cooperation with, 93-96; man's lost contact with, 68; recognition of, in idea and manifestation, 68, 69; redeeming the subconsciousness through communion with, 76, 77; responsibility of, toward His creation, 63
Godliness, 22
Golden Rule, practicing, 75
growth, law of: and growth from minute generative centers, 134; in mind as well as earth, 139, 140
guidance, of Spirit of truth, 103; seeking Father's, 21, 94, 95
"Hamlet" (Shakespeare), 111, 112, 114
hands, laying on of, 67
harmony, 72
healing, agents of, 67; and Shakespeare, 113; faith and, 11, 131
health, affirming, 99-101; and diet, 51, 52; as God's will;
76; states of mind and, 104; thinking and speaking, 71, 72
hearing, cellular, 56, 57; spiritual, 57
hell, 97
heredity, inheritance from God vs. flesh, 76, 77
Hindus, and astronomy, 161
Hitlers, still alive and to come, 53
Holy Spirit, as executive power of Father (mind) and Son (idea), 38, 39; baptism of, 28, 66, 67; cooperating with, 99, 100; various conceptions of, 98, 99
home, establishing harmony in, 72
housing, and man's inventive genius, 52
Hydesville, New York, 111 (see Fox sisters)
I AM, 80; as center of consciousness, 47; as eternal, 151, 152; as separator of the sheep from the goats, 49; as spiritual ego, 43; in contact with subconscious mind during sleep, 109; power of, 47-49; represented by Jesus, 156, 157; solving one's problems by use of, 70, 71 (see Jehovah; Jesus)
ideas, and laws governing their manifestation, 99, 100, 153, 154; (angels), 45, 46; as seeds, 139, 140; man's dominion over spiritual, 34; mind as source of, 87, 94; thinking faculty of man as formative
vehicle of God's, 93, 94 (see Angels)
identity, body as means of, 118; divine, of spirit in man, 127, 128; establishing one's, with Christ, 23; I AM, 123; man's spiritual, 32, 102-104, 122 (see Christ)
illumination, secret of Paul's, 28, 29
"image" and "likeness" (see Christ; God; man)
immortality, 13, 116, 130, 131 (see life)
incarnation, body of Christ as universal, 122 (see reincarnation)
intellect, vs. pure mind, 89
intelligence, as another name for God, 77; mind as fount of, 90
intuition, and mind, 89
Jeans, Sir James ("The Mysterious Universe") (quoted), 14, 15, 169, 170
Jehovah, as I AM, Christ, or supermind, 80; effect of thoughts opposed to commandments of, 81, 82; relation between the Christ (personal) mind and mind of, 100, 101; temple of, 120, 121
Jericho, walls of, 54
Jerusalem, 26, 66, 67, 83, 84, 120, 121, 144, 145; (spirituality), 54, 59
Jesus, alive in body of electricity, 22-24; and body redemption, 131; and higher astronomy, 162; and His demonstration over death, 143, 145; and His warning against the idea of personal appearance of Christ, 171; and man's specific work in world, 95, 96; and salvation, 157; and Shakespeare, 108, 109; and substance, 30, 31, 101, 102; and the abundant
life, 66, 67; and the "kingdom of the heavens," 56, 58, 170; and the parable of the loaves and fishes, 102; and the parable of the seed, 59; and the power of the word, 148, 149; and the will of God, 76; as advanced soul, 22, 23; as center of faith, 10, 11; as demonstrator of highest type of embodiment, 122; as first "fruit" of earth's first age, 130, 131; as god vs. Jesus as man, 167, 168; as I AM, 156, 157; as master mason, 120, 121; as Saviour, 62; as Son of God, 36, 37, 42, 129; as successful demonstrator of prayer, 126, 127; as the Messiah, 166; as transcendent soul, 24; as type of new race, 33, 34, 168, 169; differed from other men by proving His works, 40-42; evolution of, from sense to God consciousness, 37, 38; glorifying God in one's body according to, 80; importance of superman as a thinking power realized by, 61, 62; lack of scholastic advantages of 89, 90; man's joint heirship with, 123; mental sc???nce vs. teaching of, 73; miracles of, 9, 10; on 'he that hath to him shall be given," 57; on the greater works expected of man, 58; on unity with the Father, 71, 104; symbology of body and blood of, 77, 78; taking literally promises of, 82; transfiguration of, 22, 23, 40, 150, 152-154; unfolded consciousness of Absolute, 44 (see Christ)
Job, and the Zodiac, 163
John, 22, 23, 44, 163; (love), 152, 153
John, the Baptist, 122
Joseph, 20
Joseph (husband of Mary), 143, 144
judgment, passing, by affirmation and denial, 45-47; relation of our thought creations to, 48, 49; represented by James, 152, 153; today as day of, 46
"Julius Caesar" (Shakespeare), 109, 110, 114, 128
"King Lear" (Shakespeare), 113
kingdom of God, and right thinking, 67, 68, 70, 71; way into, 136 (see fourth dimension; "kingdom of
the heavens"
"kingdom of the heavens," 22, 23, 56, 85, 170, 171; as a state of mind and not a place, 58; as cosmic ether or energy, 10, 11, 40; science's key to physical realm in, 16, 17
language, and mind, 88
law, represented by Moses, 156, 157
Lazarus, Jesus and the raising of, 148, 149
life, attaining eternal, 53, 54, 101, 151, 152; mind as
source of, 90
London Times, contest on Shakespeare, 114, 115
"Looking Backward" (Bellamy), 31, 32
Lord's body, 120, 121, 157, 158 (see Jehovah)
Lord's Supper, symbolic rite of, 77, 78
Lorenzo, in "Merchant of Venice," 115
Lot's wife, and past conditions, 71, 72
love, and health of body, 149; as a solvent of inharmony, 72, 75; represented by John, 152, 153; vs. hate, 148
Luther, Martin, and the Protestant Reformation, 129, 130
"Macbeth" (Shakespeare), 113
Magi, 161
man, a molder and not a creator, 93, 94; and his lost contact with God, 68; and his many masks (bodies), 116; as builder of flesh and blood, 120, 121; as expression of mind, 58, 88; as gardener, 141; as king, 19, 47; as offspring of God, 148, 149; as seed or word of God, 135, 136; as son of God, 36, 37; as spirit, 28; as the ears, mouth, and eyes of God, 58, 59; as the "image" and "likeness," 18, 53, 117, 122; development and expression of superconsciousness in, 60; Holy Spirit and creation of,
99; importance of, in scheme of life, 60-62; in midst of a race transition, 70, 71; inventive genius of, 52; Jesus as god vs. Jesus as, 167, 168; makes himself, 139; mental dominion of, over nature, 61, 63; recognition by, of his specific work in creation, 95-97; significance of, 42, 43; spiritualizing the whole, 44, 153, 154; type of body determined by mind of, 117, 120
Manchester, Harland ("microwaves" article quoted), 64, 65 manifestation, and mind, 90, 91; co-operation of man and God in producing, 67, 68
masks (bodies), man and his many, 116
matter, hidden energy in, 9; intelligence in, 92; power of mind over, 30; replaced by atomic energy, 51, 52 (see energy)
meditation, building the Christ body through, 78 (see prayer)
mental science, Jesus' teaching more than, 73
"Merchant of Venice" (Shakespeare), 115
Messiah, 166
Michelangelo, and statue of Moses, 83
Midianites, 54
"Midsummer Night's Dream" (Shakespeare), 106
millennium, 53
Millikan, Prof. Robert Andrews (quoted), 164, 165
mind, as builder and restorer of body, 133; as center of man's world, 29; as invisible source of good, 90, 91; as producer of destructive force, 15; as storehouse of ideas, 97; body as executor of mandates of, 119; brain as efficient instrument of, 34; communion of mind with, 89, 90, 92, 93; condition as image in, 47; crucifying carnal, 148; establishing one's I AM identity with Divine, 123; "Father" as, 40; hearing and seeing with, 56, 57; importance of development
of man's spiritual, 68, 69; importance of knowing laws of, 87, 88, 91; kingdom of, 49, 82, 87; man's inheritance of infinite and creative, 58; necessity for unity between mind of man and Divine, 43; Paul on importance of, 29; perfect-man body and creative, 120, 121; permanency of good thoughts in, 48; power of man's, in meeting adverse situations, 52; root of man's mastery in own, 63, 64; scholastic culture and, 88, shadow of a "clouded," 81; various phases of, and their function in body, 42 (see brain; ideas)
miracles, 9, 10, 13, 30, 83, 126, 127, 130; modern analysis of Bible, 84; of modern science, 65; rationally explained, 38
Morgan, Angela ("Behold the Angel!"), 23, 24
Moses, 54, 81, 83, 85; (law), 156, 157
Moslem rule, 59
"Mysterious Universe" (Jesus), 169, 170
nature, man's dominion over, 61, 63
New Jerusalem, 166
"old man," vs. "new man," 124
omnipresence, time and, 157
Palestine, 59
past, body renewal and denial of, 157
Patmos, island of, 83
Paul, 11, 13, 15, 20, 21, 59, 100, 120, 121, 156, 168, 169, 171; conversion of, 26-29; on dying daily, 43; on glorifying God in one's body, 80, 123; on temple of living God, 81; teaching about unity ascribed to, 29; the zealot, 26, 27
perception, necessity of death of material, 153, 154
Peter, 145; (faith), 152, 156, 157
Peter the Hermit, and the Crusades, 59
Pharisees, 145
plenty, importance of thanksgiving in demonstrating, 102
power, asserting one's, 47
prayer, 28, 29; and energy, 40; and facial radiance, 83, 84; and the spiritualization of the body, 81; audible and silent, 12; believing and receiving in, 104; dynamic character of atom and, 11, 12; gives spiritual poise, 30; lowest vs. highest form of, 67; power of group, 30; scientific, 29; value of persistence in, 32, 33, 126, 127 (see treatment)
Prince of Peace, 172
principle, and kingdom of mind, 49
problems, way to solve one's, 70, 71
Promised Land, 143
prosperity, 35; affirming, 99; recipe for, 105
Protestant Reformation, 129, 130
psychoanalysis, and Shakespeare, 108
psychology, and Shakespeare, 107, 108
Pythagoras, 115
race, destiny of, in hands of man, 52, 53; new, 28, 29, 32-34, 168, 169
race consciousness, 29; and death, 142; establishing a new, 39 radiance, bodily, 81; facial, 83, 84, 150, 151
Reader's Digest (periodical), 64
realization, 28, 29, 32, 33; spiritual, 29
redemption, body, 44, 124, 131; of man, 102, 103
regeneration, 66, 67; body, 43, 119; following Jesus in, 42
reincarnation, 28; and Shakespeare, 107-109, 111; of Hitlers, 53, 54
rejuvenation, 101 (see youth)
religion, applied to development of cosmic mind for human family, 60, 61; as way out of present chaos,
68, 69; spiritual vs. psychical world in, 112; value of science to, 40 (see science)
resurrection, 37, 38, 40, 41, 145, 146; body, 116, 119, 120, 123, 124, 147-149; in the living, 44; mental, 120, 121
Revelation, 159
revolution, mental and spiritual, 60, 61
Saul (see Paul)
Saul, king of Israel, 103
science, parallel between teaching of Jesus and modern, 56; vs. religion, 85, 86
Scientific American (periodical), 64
Scofield, Rev. C. I., 98
Scriptures (see Bible)
second coming, 170, 171; signs of, 169, 170
secret place of the Most High, stillness in, 74
Shakespeare, 50, 128, 167; like Jesus, an old soul, 108, 109; metaphysics and, 106-115
silence, 75-77; and the still small voice, 148
sin, 142; as related to disease and death, 131, 147
Sinai (mount), 83
Solomon, 81
Son of God, crucifixion of Jesus due to His claim of
being, 42
Son of man, 170, 171; as spiritual man, 45, 46; lifting up, 166
soul, as consciousness, 151; consciousness of eternity or death of, 151, 152; Holy Spirit and evolution of, 99; transfiguration in evolution of, 152, 153
Spirit, as eternal, 151, 152; character and location of, 9;
dynamic power of, 30, 31; healing agents and the energy of, 67; learning workings of, 89; obedience to, 28; soul and body, 153-155; trusting guidance of, 75, 76
Spirit of truth, 103
spiritualism, and Shakespeare, 111, 112 (see Fox sisters)
Stratford on Avon, England, 107, 108
subconscious mind (subconsciousness), attainment of dormant ideals in, 52; and the new race, 28, 29; as storehouse and reproducer of past thoughts, 76, 77; releasing energy stored up in, 101; untapped mine of knowledge in, 109
substance, as supply, 101, 102; divine, 30-32, 101, 102
success, vs. failure, 105
superman, as a thinking power, 61, 62
superconscious mind (superconsciousness, supermind), 56, 57, 80; and demonstration, 127, 130; and Shakespeare, 106; and the new race, 28, 29; exploiting qualities of, 127, 128; externalizing, 41; man's grasp of ideas of, 64; mysteries of, now taught to masses, 60
supply, world of God and, 136, 137
Tabernacle of the Israelites, as symbol of man's body, 80, 81 Tarsus, Asia Minor, 26
temple, man's perfected consciousness as God's, 94
Temple of Solomon, as symbol of man's body, 80, 81
Ten Commandments, 83
thought, and consciousness, 94, 95; and effect, 139, 140; as transformer of man's body and world, 51, 52; every ill traced to sinning, 148; man related to God through, 29; power of, 10; radiation of, 83
thoughts, good thoughts vs. evil, 45; impermanency of error, 49; inheriting kingdom of good, 47; mind,
body, and affairs as expression of one's, 75; ministry of good, 48; effect of opposing, 81, 82; sheep thoughts vs. goat, 46, 47, 49
time, powerlessness of, over those who dwell in mind of God, 157
transfiguration, 22, 40, 152; as essential step in forward movement of men and nations, 156; meaning of, 150; mount of, 153-155
treatment, prayer, 67
Troward, Judge Thomas (quoted), 73
Truth, and the masses, 84, 85; demonstration, 75, 155; no copyright on principles of, 38; partaking of body and blood of Jesus Christ by appropriating ("eating") words of, 78, 169; relative vs. absolute, 88
understanding, measuring up to one's, 77
Unity, spiritual work of, 54, 55
unity, of man and his world, 29; with God, 68, 69
vibrations, change in race, 165, 166; destructive, of atomic forces, 65, 66; sound, 57; trumpet and voice, 54, 55
visions (see dreams)
voices, deceptive, 57
voltage, machines for measuring brain, 14, 15, 30
wine, Paul's advice about drinking, 20, 21
"Winter's Tale" (Shakespeare), 112
wisdom, 89-92; responsibility accompanying our consciousness of, 77 woman, and intuition, 89
Word, as man's I AM, 38, 39; power of spoken, 50, 54, 55; two activities of, 148, 149
Word of God, seed as symbol of, 135
Worry, vs. confidence, 71
youth, affirmation and renewal of one's, 101
zeal, 26, 27; tempered with wisdom, 27