{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_13136/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_13136","id":"gutenberg_13136","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13136","summary":null,"tags":["Category: Health & Medicine","Category: How To ...","Category: Psychiatry/Psychology","Category: Religion/Spirituality","New Thought","Psychology, Applied"],"text":"THE SILENCE: WHAT IT IS AND HOW TO USE IT\n\nby\n\nDAVID V. BUSH\n\nAuthor of \"The Fundamentals of Applied Psychology\", \"Applied Psychology\nand Scientific Living\", \"Practical Psychology and Sex Life\", \"The\nUniversality of the Master Mind\", \"Will Power and Success\"\n\nEditor, \"Mind Power Plus\"\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBELOW IS A SERIES OF SIX 25c BOOKLETS\n\nBy David V. Bush\n\nEntitled\n\n     1. \"How to Demonstrate Prosperity\"\n\n     2. \"Why Some People Fail in Visualizing--Rules for Visualization\"\n\n     3. \"The Influence of Suggestion and Auto-Suggestion\"\n\n     4. \"The Silence, What It Is and How to Use It\"\n\n     5. \"What to Eat--Scientific Feeding\"\n\n     6. \"What Is God?\"[1]\n\nThese sell at 25c each--Four for one dollar. Order a set now and get as\npremiums two Wall Motto Poems, artistically printed on beautiful\ncardboard, for Home, Office or Business. Check your choice for two Wall\nMotto Poems from the list below:\n\n     Pep.\n     Old Glory.\n     Where is Success?\n     Misfits Can Win.\n     Pass It Along.\n     Lift Your Head.\n     Where God is Found.\n     The Boss is Watching You.\n     What is God?\n     Stick To It.\n     Charity.\n     Think Right.\n     Opportunity.\n     The Real Success.\n     The Bull Dog Grip.\n     It's Better to Smile.\n     Troubles That Never Came.\n     If You Would Be a Friend to Man.\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE SILENCE: What It Is, How To Use It\n\n\n\nApproach to the Silence\n\n\nWrong thinking produces inharmony in our body, which in turn produces\nsickness. Our bodies sometimes are instantly re-harmonized while in the\nSilence. In the Silence our minds become passive, open, free and\nloving, at which time the Infinite Master of harmony touches the mental\nchords of our being and we are well.\n\nJust as the piano can be tuned, so can the mind. Man's body is made up\nof twelve octaves the same as in music. All matter is music. All matter\nis composed of twelve octaves. Wrong thinking brings inharmony in some\nof the octaves of our body. Right thinking tunes these organs, puts\nthem back into their normal condition.\n\nBoys have their little steel magnets by which they pick up small pieces\nof steel, pins and so forth. When overworked, these magnets no longer\nattract. Then the boys take their magnets, have them rubbed against\nstrong magnets or remagnetized with an electric current and their power\nis quickly restored--so with our bodies. Mind is the re-electrifier and\nre-harmonizer of the octaves into all harmony.\n\nRight thinking, therefore, is the most important thing in life. As a\nman thinketh in his heart so is he. Just as a tuning fork near a piano\nwill respond with a vibration when a key of the same pitch is struck on\nthe piano nearby, so likewise do the bodies of men respond to proper\nstimulus and become in tune. By right thinking man can re-harmonize\nhimself, can achieve health, success and prosperity.\n\nTo enter the Silence one must first establish perfect relaxation in\nmind and body. Then as the consciousness is brought from one part of\nthe body to another the tuning takes place.\n\nIf the leader in the Silence should be intoning, there will be many in\nthe audience who will feel tinkling sensations--vibrations--and often\nare instantly healed. They have been instantly re-harmonized. Sometimes\nit may take several intonings in the Silence for a complete healing.\nShould you have a violent vibration, feel no fear, but thank God for\nyour healing because the more violent the vibration perhaps the worse\nhas been your condition and the more surely has the re-harmony begun.\nSome people will feel this vibration for hours, even days, throughout\nwhich there is always healing.\n\nOthers may not feel the vibration at all, yet if there has been any\ninharmony in the bodily organs, these organs are unconscious to the\nconscious intoning re-harmonization. Many people who have been healed\nof divers and many malignant diseases were at no time conscious of any\nvibration. Never be discouraged if you feel no sensation. If you do\nfeel a vibration, know that you are susceptible and on the high road to\na healing demonstration.\n\nThe one intoning may or may not be feeling vibrations.  Religion is the\nlife of God in the soul of Man. The Silence is the medium by which the\nlife of God and the soul of man are brought into At-one-ment.\n\nThe Silence is a medium by which man comes in a closer touch with the\nInfinite; a medium by which man becomes conscious of his nearness to\nthe Infinite. The Silence is the meeting place where man's spirit links\nwith God's spirit; where spirit meets spirit and the marvel of His\ngrace never ceases.\n\nThe Silence is another way of praying, which is another way of\nconcentration. It is another way of visualization.\n\n\"As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.\" In the Silence a man can by\nhis thoughts change his life, his conditions, his environment, his all.\nBy right thinking man becomes harmonious. A harmonious man--in tune\nwith the Infinite--is on the King's highway to health, success,\nabundance, prosperity, happiness, love and peace.\n\nBy means of wrong thinking our minds are put out of harmony with the\ngreat Infinite spirit of God. \"As a man thinketh in his heart so is\nhe.\" When wrong thinking becomes right thinking, then man's right\nrelationship to God is restored. He becomes an open channel for the\ninflux of the spirit so that whatever demonstration he may desire he\nmay have.\n\nIn the Silence a man may change his thinking as in no other way,\ntherefore, may change his heart, change his whole being, change his\nenvironment, change every condition to which he was subject.\n\nThe human body may be likened to a harp. When man thinks rightly his\nbody is in tune; but wrong thinking creates inharmony in the body and\nproduces sickness. Wrong thinking produces inharmony in the mind,\nwhich, of course, disconnects man from rightful association with the\nDivine. A man must, therefore, think right. Yet, because of centuries\nof erroneous conception of God and of the world, man has been a\nnegative instead of a positive being, and his unwisdom has reacted upon\nthe present generation.\n\nWe are mental sending and receiving stations. What we receive depends\nupon how we are thinking Now. For success, health and happiness we must\nin the silent chambers of the soul change our thinking if we are\nholding negative or inharmonious thoughts. In the Silence there is\npresented to man his greatest opportunity to change his thinking. Wrong\nthinking produces inharmony of the body which in turn produces\nsickness. If we change to right thinking we have health, success and\nhappiness. Therefore the Silence when properly used re-harmonizes our\nbodies and minds through the simple agency of right thinking.\n\n\"There are steps of approach to the Silence. Stillness is one thing and\nthe Silence is another. One may quiet himself physically and not be\nstill, and he may be still without entering the Silence. When one\nbecomes physically and mentally at rest, he is apt to become receptive\nto psychic influences; and when these are not desired it is advisable\nto protect oneself while mentally negative. One may affirm his Oneness\nwith God, his being surrounded and protected by the divine Goodness,\nand may symbolize this by enveloping himself in thought with the white\nlight of love or the mellowed tints of sunshine.\n\n\"With the senses calmed and unresponsive to the slower vibrations, but\nresponsive to the quicker ones, a peace and calm pervade one's mind,\nand it becomes consciously receptive to higher vibrations of vital\nenergy. Immune from the lesser harmonies, one opens himself to the\ngreater ones, which are always seeking avenues of expression. With the\ngreater influx of the One Life, a sense of power steals over one and he\nbecomes conscious of increased vigor and vitality.\n\n\"In relinquishing specific thoughts, one opens inwardly rather than\noutwardly, and becomes receptive to subconscious impressions that are\ndirected by his conscious affirmation of fundamental Truth. The\nsubconscious responds by returning to the conscious the logical\nsequences of the Truths that have been consciously impressed upon it.\nThe subconscious follows the lead given to it by the conscious\naffirmations of Truth, and it brings back the consciousness of those\nTruths in their various ramifications.\"\n\n\n\n\nHealth Silence\n\nSelect one or more of the affirmations or formulas below to hold in\nthought while in the Silence. You may change or vary these as you\nchoose:\n\n     Soul is health, spirit is health, God is health, I am\n     health. Since there is but one mind, there is but one\n     mentality. This mind and mentality is God; God is health. I\n     am health.\n\n     \"I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious\n     and happy and what I am myself I desire for everyone else.\"\n\n     \"I am filled with the abundant, intelligent, ever-present life of\n     Spirit. It flows through me freely, cleansing, healing, purifying\n     and vitalizing every part. I am one with this life and in it I am\n     every whit whole.\"\n\n     \"The all-powerful Christ Mind in me dissolves and dissipates\n     every adverse thought. My body is the pure and Holy Temple of\n     the Living God, and every organ and every function is now\n     in Divine Order and Harmony.\"\n\n     All the organs of my body are functioning normally and I am\n     well, whole and complete.\n\n     All is mind, all is God, all is universal energy. I am part\n     of creative force and I am health, abundance, joy and peace.\n\n     I am filled, I am thrilled with Life Eternal and I radiate\n     that life within to me and without to all.\n\n     Every experience of my life has been for my good and I am\n     happy in living.\n\n     God is Spirit. I (use your own name) am life. Life Spirit is\n     now flowing through me freely and I am well, whole and\n     complete.\n\n     \"Be still and know that I am God.\"\n\nUSE THE FOLLOWING AS A BASIS FOR YOUR MEDITATION AS YOU DEMONSTRATE\nHEALTH. OF COURSE, YOU MAY USE OTHER THOUGHTS PROVIDED THEY ARE\nCONSTRUCTIVE HEALTH THOUGHTS.\n\nYou may practice the Silence sitting, reclining, or in bed.\n\nThere is no better way to learn how to relax than by going into the\nSilence. Are you tense? Let go. Relax.\n\nThen direct the mind to go from one part of the body to another. Take a\ndeep breath between each change of your consciousness. Be sure to use\nthe diaphragmatic or abdominal breathing--breathing through the\nnostrils, mouth closed until the muscles of the abdomen expand.\n\nThe best time to hold the Silence is as you retire at night, and just\nas you awaken in the morning.[2] But you should hold your thought at\nleast three times a day, without stress or strain, without doubt or\nworry, passive in mind and body--perfectly relaxed.\n\nHold the Silence or thought upon retiring at night, awakening in the\nmorning, and at noon day. Of course, you may take any other time that\nis convenient. You may concentrate on the roadway, street car, home or\noffice, but it is well, if possible, to have one room for your Silence.\nMost people in that way will build up stronger vibrations. At noon now\nthere are all over the world thousands of others holding Silence so\nthat there is a great combined mental force working together at one\ntime for success, health, prosperity and happiness, and we therefore\nget the benefit of this great vibration.\n\nThe more often you hold the Silence without stress or strain, as a\nrule, the quicker may be the demonstration.\n\nThe real part of me is Spirit, not matter. I believe that this body of\nmine is a Tabernacle for the Spirit. The real \"I am\" within me is\ntherefore Spirit. The real \"me\" is Spirit.\n\nThis Spirit is the God Spirit. This is what Jesus meant when in the\nfourteenth chapter of John and again in the seventeenth chapter of the\nsame Gospel, speaking to His Disciples He referred to \"I in you, you in\nMe and We in God.\"\n\nMy Spirit is a part of the God Spirit. God is health, God is\nperfection, God is abundance, God is harmonious. Therefore, the real \"I\nam\" is God; the real \"I am\" is health, perfection, abundance and\nharmony.\n\nWhen I am sick I know that it is the material of me that is sick, not\nthe God Spirit; it is my _physical_ being which is out of harmony, it\nis this Tabernacle of which Paul speaks, housing my spirit, which gives\nme pain and suffering. The real \"me\" is not sick, it is _my body_.\n\nFor centuries we have held to a wrong idea of life. We have thought\nthat life is material; but life is spiritual, it is the invisible\nwithin me which is eternal, which is God. Many still believe that life\nis material and matter, instead of mind and spirit. I no longer hold\nthat conception. I believe that all is mind and Spirit.\n\nJust here is where the healing methods of drugs and the scientist's\nexplanation of life is so limited. Not until we recognize that life is\nreally a thing of spirit--not matter but mind--not material but\nspiritual--do we come into an understanding of Truth.\n\nJesus said, \"God is Spirit,\" and on different occasions told His\nDisciples that this Spirit was within them as well as within Himself.\nTherefore, this same Spirit is within me and this same Spirit is the\nGod Spirit of health, abundance, happiness, harmony and perfection.\n\nGod is all health, all abundance, all harmony, peace and perfection.\nTherefore the God Spirit within me is the same. I am sick in body; not\nin mind, not in Spirit.\n\nInasmuch as I cannot conceive of God being sick neither can I conceive\nof my Spirit being sick. My spirit is health, perfection and harmony.\nMy body may not be well, but since mind is all, since this material is\nsubject to the spiritual, since matter is subject to mind, I believe\nand affirm that my  health does not depend upon matter but upon the God\nSpirit within me. It depends not upon the material but the spiritual,\nupon the God mind within.\n\nJust as wood when made into a violin and properly tuned, will give\nforth harmony, so my body, though made in the material, when properly\ntuned by mind will give forth harmonious living, perfect health.\n\nAs the tree standing in the forest may be made into the violin music\nbox of harmony, so my body, the material in the forest of matter, may\nbe put in tune, become harmonious and be raised to perfection by the\nMaster Musician, God--His mind within me.\n\nGod is all health. No one could conceive of God as being sick. I can\nvisualize only the eternal spirit of the Infinite Father. Perfection\nexisting in everything and I being a child in Spirit, am well, whole\nand complete in Spirit. My real \"I am\" is well.\n\nScience now asserts that matter is composed of twelve octaves, just as\nin music. My body is the composite of these twelve octaves. Science\nalso says that every cell atom, every electron in my body is\nintelligent.\n\nThis spirit of mine is housed in the Tabernacle of the body which is\ncomposed of millions and millions of cells, all of which having\nintelligence respond in my body according to the way I think. Every\nword I entertain, every thought I hold, influences everyone of the\nmillions of cells making up this Tabernacle.\n\nMy body is made whole and complete physically. That is, all the cells\nof my body are made over new every eleven months. The body I have today\nis not the body I had eleven months ago. I get a new body every eleven\nmonths and my body is today what my thinking was yesterday, the day\nbefore that and the months before that. My body in the future depends\nupon my thinking in the future. I am what I think I am.\n\nWhen I affirm that I am well, whole and complete; that I am perfect,\nharmonious and strong, I am suggesting to every atom in my body\nperfection and every atom in turn begins to make my body over, new in\nhealth and and in perfection.\n\nI may or I may not have to wait for the element of time to make over\nevery cell. That may be done spontaneously and instantly. There is no\nlimitation to the power of God so I shall not set a time limit for my\nhealing, knowing that all things are possible with the Father. I affirm\nthat now I have that which I desire. I know that now the Spirit of\ndivine health is surging through me, touching and reaching every atom\nof my body and that now the God Spirit within me is perfect and that\nSpirit makes my body perfect.\n\n\"Man is a Spiritual Being. Man expresses himself mentally and manifests\nhimself physically. The One Life animates all that exists. Harmony of\nexistence depends upon the polarities of the three aspects of life. The\nmind is at ease when open to the inflow of the Spirit. It is discordant\nwhen it follows sensory impressions. The body is healthy when\nresponsive to the direction of the spiritualized mind. It becomes\ndiseased when it accepts the physical as its guide. One achieves mental\nease and physical health through his mental polarity. If open to the\nphysical and closed to the spiritual, discord will prevail. If open to\nthe spiritual and closed to the physical, he lives the One Life, in\nmental ease and physical health. I open my mind to the inflow of the\nSpirit. I place my body under the control of my spiritualized mind. I\nfeel the One Life animate my mind and my body. I AM a Spiritual Being.\nI AM Perfect Health!\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\nMiscellaneous Silence[3]\n\nTHOUGHT TO HOLD IN THE SILENCE FOR ABUNDANCE\n\n(See also Abundance, page 23)\n\n\"The Universal Abundant Spirit Supplies All My Needs.\"\n\nThere is no want or limitation in the law. If, perchance, there should\nappear to be lack of, or need of, abundance in our lives, it is because\nof wrong thinking--not because there is a lack of abundance. Therefore,\nwe should enter the Silence with the profound faith and conviction that\nthe world is filled with plenty, and that all our needs are most\nbountifully supplied.\n\nThe mind should be saturated with the conviction that all life is\nfilled with abundance--all space is overflowing with abundance--all\nliving comes from an abundant source of supply.\n\nIn a Universe where this is true, there can be no want, no lack for you\nor yours (for me or mine).\n\nAs you take your exercises this month, take the affirmation above. As\nyou walk on the street to your office, or place of business, continue\nthis thought. As you go about your daily duties in the home or\nworkshop, let the mind be saturated with a spirit, a feeling and\nthinking of abundance--\"The opulence of the Universal Source of Supply\nnow meets all my needs,\" \"The Abundant Life Giving Spirit of Prosperity\nnow leads and guides me into the paths of plenty, peace and power,\" \"My\nmind is filled with prosperous thoughts, my being is pulsating in\nabundant rhythm, my soul is uplifted and sustained by a thousand\nthoughts of ever-present abundance, prosperity and opulence.\"\n\nAs these thoughts are maintained and repeated again and again, absorbed\nand sunk deep into the subconscious mind, know that all of your needs\nare this minute supplied. Know that you could not ask for anything from\nthe Universal Spirit--Father, God--without that Spirit being most\nwilling to supply, instantly, all your needs. The spirit and body are\nwell, but the flesh is weak. Allow your flesh to be stimulated, and\nyour body to respond by thoughts of abundance, prosperity and opulence.\n\n\"I am now rich in thought, rich in body and rich in spirit. I am now\npart of the abundant ever-present spirit of prosperity and opulence.\nAll that I need is now mine, mine, mine.\"\n\nThe Universal Abundant Spirit supplies all my needs.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\nTHOUGHT TO HOLD IN MEDITATION IN THE SILENCE\n\nFOR MISFORTUNES, GRIEF, MISTAKES, REVERSES, FAILURE, SORROW, LOSS AND\nDISAPPOINTMENT\n\n\"All is Good.\"\n\nWe are entering upon a new consciousness for the human race, a higher\nplane of mentality, and a greater development of the spiritual life.\n\nIn spirit, of course, there is no wrong, no sorrow, no grief, no\nmisfortune, no losses, no reverses. In short all is perfection.\n\nThe age in which we are living has not yet developed this spiritual\nunderstanding. We are still of the earth--earthly--and we are still in\nthat consciousness where the physical is affected by seeming\nmisfortunes, reverses, sorrows, griefs, trouble, sickness, etc. We may\nbe wise in not expecting that suddenly this generation of man will\nreach that spiritual plane where there will be no recognition of\nanything except good.\n\nWe are a part of the Infinite Spirit ourselves and, of course, in\nspirit, we are perfection. But this physical body of ours manifests\nimperfection from time to time, because of our past training and past\nthinking, because of our own consciousness. In time there is no doubt\nin my mind but that the spirit within will make a perfect body without.\nThis perfection will be recognized in health and in peace of mind. It\nwill be recognized so that there will be no such thing as misfortunes,\nsorrows, reverses, failures, griefs, disappointments or losses being\nable to affect our mentality or our body. In this state of\nconsciousness, as we are emerging from the chrysalis, material stage of\nman into the greater life, into the deeper spiritual understanding, we\nare subject to certain conditions not conducive to peace of mind\nwithout an effort. In other words, we recognize, or feel the effects of\nlosses, misfortunes, disappointments, sorrows, griefs, etc. We\nrecognize now, that the time is coming when the spirit will be so\ncompletely in control of matter in the body, that we will not recognize\nany inharmony. To reach that Great Spirit is one of the big forward\nsteps in this generation. To reach that spiritual plane also means the\nright kind of thinking now. We plan, today, for tomorrow. This is true\nin every walk of life.\n\nWe plan our home today--and build it tomorrow. We make our merchandise\ntoday and market it tomorrow. We sow our seed today and we reap the\nharvest tomorrow. We build our career today, little by little, and we\nreach the outcome tomorrow. Therefore, our thinking today will change\nour tomorrow. The thinking of this generation will change the condition\nof tomorrow's generation. If tomorrow's generation is going to be free\nfrom the recognition of sorrows, misfortunes, griefs, fears, pain,\nlosses, failures, reverses, inharmony, discord, etc., it depends upon\nour seed sowing.\n\nOur seed sowing today should be \"All is Good.\" All is Good in spirit.\nYou can say that and be honest with yourself. All is perfection in\nspirit. All is good for us in spirit. All is good for our lives here.\nSpirit transcends matter. When we recognize, affirm, and continue to\nhold the constructive thought that All is Good in spirit, we are\nchanging our own mental attitude, our own bodies, all matter in\ngeneral--getting ready for the greater realization of the spiritual\nmanifestation in the next generation.\n\nTherefore, for your own good here today in success, prosperity and\nhappiness as well as in health, peace and harmony, begin to pronounce\nover everything in life, _All is Good_. If you have any\nmisunderstandings, _All is Good_. If you have any losses, _All is\nGood_, any reverses, _All is Good_, any sorrow, _All is Good_, any\ninharmony, _All is Good_. In everything at all that is out of\nperfection you must recognize only the good. ALL IS GOOD.\n\nSending your thought energy by repeating _All is Good_, and thinking\n_All is Good_, and living _All is Good_, you will actually, in this\nday, overcome your difficulty, and turn all of your mistakes, blunders\nand misfortunes into stepping stones for your own success, health and\nhappiness.\n\nI enter the Silence this month, this day, this hour and this minute. My\nmind is obsessed and under control of the Divine Spirit, I recognize\nhere and now only good. I see in my fellowmen only perfection and good.\nI see in nature all around me only perfection and good. I see in every\ntransaction of life only the perfect good. I see in every activity of\nmy experience, and in every form, color and thought, good. _All is\nGood_ for me now, today and forever.\n\nGod is spirit; spirit is love; love is perfection; God's spirit is\nharmonious, I am perfect, I am love, perfection and harmonious.\n\nALL IS GOOD.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\nFOR HARMONY, PEACE, COMFORT\n\n\nBase your thought for this Silence upon the following. You may add any\nconstructive thought you choose.\n\n\"My Subconscious Mind, I Desire and Command You to Have Peace, Harmony\nand Justice Reign in the Hearts of Men Everywhere.\"\n\nI realize that there can be no negative thinking for my destruction,\ndownfall or harm sent out by anyone else that can reach my\nconsciousness, or do me ill, unless I am afraid that such negative\nthinking will produce the evil effects others are planning.\n\nI know that Thought is Energy. This is scientifically demonstrated, and\nI realize that a constructive thought has much more energy than a\ndestructive thought. I know, because it has been conclusively proven,\nthat constructive thinking will blast away every negative\nthought-current sent out by one person, or by a thousand.\n\nTherefore, if there should be any inharmonious thoughts anywhere in the\nworld--any discordant thought-current by those who seek my downfall, or\nblock my progress, or by those who would endeavor to hurt my\nreputation--I know that by holding a harmonious attitude of peace,\nlove, joy and success for everyone, including those who would do me\nwrong that such constructive thought-currents will blast away all of\nthe discordant and inharmonious mental currents of evil so that they\nwill not even reach my conscious mind.\n\nI also realize, when I hold my silent thought, \"_my subconscious mind I\ndesire and command you to have peace and harmony and justice reign_,\"\nthat I am sending out the energy of construction which is bound to turn\nall of the efforts for my embarrassment and destruction into a higher\ncurrent for my greater achievement.\n\nTherefore, I send out blessings and thanksgiving to the very ones who\nwould work my downfall. I charge my subconscious mind to let peace,\nharmony and justice reign so that all things will work together for the\ngood for me and for those who are thinking evil.\n\nIf I should think it hard to send out blessings to my enemies, I\nremember the affirmation of the Greatest Teacher of all ages Who said,\n\"Forgive until seventy times seven.\" I remember that when He, Himself,\nwas reviled, reviled not in turn. I remember that when His merciless\nenemies had nailed Him to the cross, had apparently crushed His fondest\nambition, had scorned and reviled the Kingdom of which He had spoken,\nand had tortured Him as He hung on the cross, He uttered the immortal,\nlovable, constructive words which have rung throughout the centuries,\nand will continue to bless all mankind throughout eternity: \"Father,\nforgive them, for they know not what they do.\"\n\nSo those who would try to block my way, curb my progress or put thorns\nin my crown are doing so \"not knowing what they are doing.\" \"Whatsoever\na man soweth, that shall he also reap.\" Instead of hurting me, they are\nsowing weed seeds, which shall bring forth a harvest of weeds and tares\nin their own lives, and not in mine.\n\nI, therefore, do not wish them harm, nor think that they should feel\nthe reaction. I do not have to concern myself about the negative people\nin the world--for the law takes care of them.\n\nI shall always think constructive thoughts, harmonious thoughts and\nloving thoughts. \"My Subconscious Mind, I desire and command you to\nhave peace, harmony and justice reign, and know that all things are now\nworking together for the good of my would-be enemies and for myself.\"\n\nI relax (here pause and wait), take time for meditation (here pause and\nrest relaxed) and I become happy in the silence--holding my thought of\npeace, harmony and justice reigning in the hearts of men\neverywhere--and, as I relax and wait, I feel my vibrations rise. I am\nresting at ease, in faith. (Pause.) I am perfectly calm and contented.\n(Pause.) I am sending out love, peace and harmonious thoughts, and, as\nthey go, love, peace and harmony will come to me. These are now\nreturning. They enter my being and uplift my soul.\n\nI am, therefore, sending out a strong current of spiritual blessings,\nwith such a spirit of helpfulness, that I am getting back the same\nwhich I send out. My harvest shall be peace, love, joy, harmony,\njustice and contentment, because I am _sowing_ the seed of love, peace,\nharmony, joy, contentment and justice into the great subconscious soil\nof the universe.\n\n\"My Subconscious Mind, I desire and command you to have peace, harmony\nand justice reign everywhere throughout the world.\"\n\nI wait--I rest--I am relaxed--I am at ease and filled with the spirit\nof harmony. I wait. I listen for the spirit within. I feel and hear the\nvoice of infinite love sending back into my consciousness these\nthoughts which I send out.\n\nI know that my every constructive thought blasts away a thousand\ndestructive ones. Therefore, I think peace, joy, love, harmony and\njustice, and, as I utter these words slowly and prayerfully, I feel my\nvibration rising--I experience ease of mind and peace of soul. Harmony\nis now within and without.\n\nI realize that I cannot send out my affirmation of peace, love, joy and\nharmony without peace, love, joy and harmony coming back to me. I,\ntherefore, send out my affirmation: \"My Subconscious Mind, I desire and\ncommand you to have peace, harmony and justice reign-in the hearts of\nmen wherever they may be.\" I wait and listen--perfectly relaxed and at\nease--and I feel the vibrations which I sent out coming back to me.\n\nI, therefore, know that no harm can befall my dwelling place. I know\nthat whatever evil thoughts have been sent out for my destruction have\nbeen counter-blasted, and that now everything is working for my good.\n\nAs I recognize, and realize, that all things work together for my good,\nI am sending out love-thoughts that all things are working together for\nthe good of those who would do me wrong. \"They know not what they do.\"\nThey alone will have to reap the harvest of the weeds they are sowing.\nMy wish for them is that they may learn their lesson easily and early.\nMy blessings I send out to them.\n\nAgain I wait. Again I listen. Again I am at ease, happy, and at rest.\nLove and blessings, peace and harmony, I send out--love and blessings,\npeace and harmony, come back. \"My Subconscious Mind, I desire and\ncommand you to have peace, harmony and justice reign. My blessings upon\nall mankind--my love to everyone!\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\nTHOUGHT TO HOLD AS A BASIS FOR THIS SILENCE\n\nFOR SUCCESS\n\n\"I Have Faith and Conviction in My Ultimate Success.\"\n\nI believe the Scripture: \"My ways are not your ways, saith the Lord;\nneither are my thoughts your thoughts, for as the heavens are higher\nthan the earth, so are my thoughts higher than your thoughts.\"\n\nI understand by this Scripture that the thoughts of the Infinite God\nare far above the understanding of finite me; that God's ways are\nhigher than my ways. \"God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to\nperform.\"\n\nI also have faith and conviction in my ultimate success because I am a\npart of the Infinite Spirit, and in the Infinite Spirit, there can be\nno failure. I am harmonious, complete and successful in Spirit--in God.\n\nI may not see my success today, or I may feel as though I have\naccomplished little, but I know that all my efforts and energies, in\nthe past, present and future, are working together for my good.\n\nTherefore, I shall hold the thought that my success has already been\nachieved. I am Success, I have success now and forever! Therefore, I\nthink only success; I talk only success; I believe only in success; I\nam demonstrating success, and I know that success is mine.\n\nThe needed lessons I am having now, have had in the past, and may\nrequire in the future, are but necessary stepping stones to my greater\nsuccess. The apparent delay of my greater success means that I am now\ndemonstrating more success than I could otherwise have. Dreams that I\nhave dreamed, visions that I have visualized, and the goal that I have\nmapped out, are all a part of my ultimate greater success. I have that\nnow! I am successful now!\n\nAs Moses went into the land of Midian, and spent forty years of his\nlife as a shepherd in the wilderness--(apparently with no future before\nhim--which, however, was the great schooling necessary for his greater\ntriumphant success in the future)--so I may be, in _my_ land of Midian,\napparently, only a sheep herder, but in reality getting the necessary\ntraining for my greater and ultimate success.\n\nTherefore, I now rejoice in every experience I have--giving thanks for\nevery apparent set back, and for every \"seeming\" blocking of my\npurposes and aspirations.\n\nI believe that my past experiences, as well as present happenings, are\nfor my benefit, and that I could not have been the great success I am,\nand shall be, had not the discouragements of yesterday, the\nperplexities of today and the drawbacks of tomorrow come into my life.\nI realize that I need to go into the land of Midian; that it is as\nnecessary for me, as it was for Moses, to spend a few years in the\nwilderness of Life's experience. I am happy to know that I am in such\ncompany as that of the Great Leader of his people, and rejoice in the\nthought that the Lord has called me to spend my time in the land of\nMidian, getting the necessary training for the greater things the Lord\nhas in store for me.\n\nThere is no place in the world where clouds do not gather, and storms\ndo not rage; but when the storms abate, and the skies clear, then do we\nappreciate more fully the glories and beauties of God, the Universe and\nits natural laws, and Infinite Love.\n\nHowever, I know by experience in the land of Midian, where clouds hover\nlow, and where storms try the soul and body, that the dawn of a new day\nshall make life all the sweeter for me and mine.\n\nMoses could not have enjoyed leading his people into the promised land,\nhad he not been in the land of Midian. If he had stayed forever in the\nCourt of Pharaoh, with its attendant luxuries, life would have taken on\na dull, monotonous hue, and his experience would have seemed drab,\nwearisome and pale.\n\nI am glad for the privilege accorded me to be in the land of Midian for\na short time! I know that, as did Moses, I shall enjoy my promised land\nall the more when my greater success shall have been well worked out by\nthe hand of Divinity.\n\nFaith and conviction in my ultimate greater success is stronger today\nthan ever! I hold such a strong thought, and such a deep and courageous\nfaith in the workings of God's plan, that I know I now have that which\nhas been intended for me, and nothing can take from me that which the\nLord hath prepared for my success, health and happiness. I know, too,\nthat I shall learn daily to enjoy, appreciate, and make better use of\nthe success I now possess; that I shall unfold day by day into greater\nopportunities for more influence, power, friendship, charity, love,\ncomradeship and service. I know that my present success is but a part\nof the greater success which the Lord has waiting for me--\"just around\nthe corner\".\n\nTherefore, I shall offer up prayers of thanksgiving and gratitude; I\nshall work harder, being more particular in the preparation for my\ngreater work, than I have been in the past--never doubting but that\nevery moment spent in this greater preparation will bring added\ninterests, and a greater success in the future.\n\nEven as Moses did not doubt the wisdom of the Lord for a greater future\n(when in the land of Midian for forty years), so shall I not doubt His\nways today.\n\nI claim, with a joyful heart and an attitude of thanksgiving, that my\nlife could not have been as great in the future had I been denied my\npresent experience. I know that greater things are in store for me,\nbecause God's thoughts are greater than my thoughts; because He is\ngiving me that training now, in my land of Midian, which I most need. I\ntrust the guiding Spirit of Infinite Love to lead me, at the right\ntime, into my life's Promised Land.\n\nThe success today, in my land of Midian, is attracting unto me the\ngreater influence and power in my Court of Pharaoh, and in my\nleadership, as I lead others into that promised land which the Lord has\nprepared for me and mine.\n\nI smile--I sing--I rejoice, and offer thanksgiving and gratitude for my\nsuccess now and forever. Surely I believe more and more: \"My thoughts\nare not your thoughts, neither are my ways your ways, saith the Lord,\"\nand all things are now working together for my good.\n\nTherefore, I have faith and conviction in my ultimate success--in my\ngreater success--in my greatest success!\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\nABUNDANCE\n\n(See also Abundance, page 11)\n\n\"There is abundance in the world for me given by the bountiful hand of\nOmnipotence. I gratefully claim and accept all the supply for my\nneeds.\"\n\nThe old idea of orthodox prayer was that of supplication and begging. I\nhave spent a whole night at a time begging for a few pennies and\nsupplicating for the salvation of others. What waste of energy. Each\ntime that we send up such a weak supplication as the attitude of a\nbeggar, with the timid, frightful thoughts that only a beggar's mind\ncan have--this condition of mind, cross circuits the power to bring\ninto our lives the very things we most desire.\n\nWhen the beggar extends his hand for a copper, he knows that not\neveryone who passes is going to give him a coin. He, therefore,\nsolicits more or less mechanically, with a mind not positive or sure.\nHis hand is extended in timidity and weakness. Now and then he gets a\ncoin from a sympathetic passer-by. The same principle holds true for\nthe man who prays in the old orthodox fashion. He utters his petitions\nwith doubts and misgivings, with timidity and wonderings. Some of his\nprayers are answered--just as the occasional coin is cast to the\nbeggar. But most of the orthodox prayers sent up in the fashion of\nbegging and supplicating are never answered. Of necessity, they cannot\nbe, because the concentration is filled with fear and trembling.\n\nOnly by positive and courageous thinking do we attract to ourselves the\nanswers to our prayers. When we are permeated with the spirit of doubt,\nour petitions are cross-circuited.\n\nTherefore, in making your affirmation this time, rest assured that the\nabundant spirit of the Universal Supply has everything you need, and\nhas it now. You have only to put your mind in a condition to receive.\n\nYou do not have to beg the sun for its rays, nor God for His love. It\nis there for the taking. Many of us keep the sunshine of abundance out\nof our lives by pulling down the curtain of doubt--just as we may go\ninto a room, pull down a shade and keep out the sun. James Russell\nLowell, seventy-five years ago, told us the same story in \"The Vision\nof Sir Launfal,\" when he said that \"Heaven is given away and God may be\nhad for the asking\".\n\nBy gratefully accepting all of the supply for your needs, you are\nrunning up the shade of positive faith and letting the sunlight of\nabundance in.\n\nSend out the desire for your supply to the Universal Mind and then\nrest--feeling that it has been acquired. Of course, the stronger you\nconcentrate, without stress and strain (as outlined in \"Practical\nPsychology and Sex Life,\" by the author, under the chapter \"How to get\nwhat you want,\" and chapters on \"Concentration\"), and the more positive\nand courageous your concentration, the stronger will be your mental\nthought currents and consequently the quicker your demonstration.\n\n_Omnipotence has provided for me and mine_, I raise the shade of my\nfaith and let in the Sunlight of Abundance. I know I do not have to beg\nfor this, for it is mine now. When first I saw the light of day, the\nbountiful spirit of the Father made all preparations for my life's\nnecessities and pleasures. They have been in the world since I was\nborn. I now claim and accept my supply.\n\nFrom now on the spirit goes before me--making easy and prosperous all\nmy ways--and I have abundance for every need. From the bountiful hand\nof Omnipotence I have abundant health--I have abundant love--I have\nabundant prosperity--I have abundant peace. My Father careth for the\ngrass of the field and the birds of the air--and He careth for me. I\nrealize it.\n\nThink it and live it now.\n\nAbundance for all my needs is mine, now and forever.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\nHEALTH, SUCCESS, PROSPERITY, UNIVERSAL PEACE AND BROTHERHOOD\n\n\"God Made From One Blood All the Nations of the World.\"\n\nAs I enter the Silence this time, expecting to get health, success,\nprosperity and happiness, I am going to have my mind filled with the\nSpirit of Divine Unity. Unity among the nations of the world, unity in\nabundance, unity in love, unity in prosperity, unity in health and\nunity in spirit.\n\nThere can be no separation in Spirit. All is Mind, all is God, all is\nUniversal Energy. I am part of the creative force. I am a part and\nparcel of the Unity of Love, Nature and God. Therefore, where God is, I\nrecognize a completeness. And I, being a part of God, a part of this\nspirit, a part of the power with Him, am, therefore, at one with God\nand all thought.\n\nI am therefore at one with God and all spirit. Nothing can separate me\nfrom the love of God, but my own mental attitude. Nothing can separate\nme from abundance, happiness, success, prosperity and love, but my own\nwrong thinking. Love is dealt in the world in the spirit of God and,\ntherefore, recognizing this unity of love, I am a part of it and have\nperfect love, success, prosperity, abundance and health.\n\nThe ocean is composed of water. If I take a bucket of water from the\nocean, it still is the water of the ocean. I may take this water to an\nisland in the sea. Though I have separated this water from the main\nbody of the ocean, it still is the water from the sea. But, as the\nwater is separated from the main body of the ocean, it loses its power,\nits strength and many of its cardinal properties. I am the same as the\nsea water when I, by wrong thinking:--whether it be jealousy, envy,\nhatred, misunderstanding, worry or fear--separate myself from the\nspirit of God. I am as one going upon an island of humanity. I am still\nof that same spirit; but it has been separated, so that within me, it\nhas lost many of its cardinal virtues. These virtues are there, but I\ndo not recognize them. Separation has lessened my strength, my\nvitality, my power, my health, my happiness, my prosperity and my joy.\n\nJust as it is necessary for the bucket of water to remain in the ocean\nin order to contain all of its original power and to retain all of its\noriginal strength, to be intact, so is it necessary for man to keep in\nthe spirit of at-one-ment with the Father, that we may manifest daily\nGod's principle of Unity with God, man and nature.\n\nWhen we have maintained that attitude of one-ness with the Father in\nall respects, we are then recognizing and expecting, in this act, the\nfullness of our spirit. This fullness of our spirit will, therefore,\ngive us health, prosperity and happiness.\n\nWhen I have a mind that is filled with negative, discordant or\ninharmonious thoughts, I am separating myself from the full expression\nof the Divine within me. I am the bucket of water going stale on a\nhuman island; but, when I make my spirit at one with the Father by\nharmonious thinking, by love, kindness, good will, fellowship and\nco-operation, I am not only maintaining all of my original properties,\nbut I am in correspondence with the Infinite Spirit so that I can\nmanifest and express His original spirit in every particular.\n\nWhere there is a unity of spirit, there is unity of all the good things\nof life. Perhaps I am not drawing from the bank of life's experience\neverything that I ought to have--because I have separated myself from\nthe spiritual board of directors in this bank of life, and am not\ngetting my dividends on time. My mental attitude is the cause;\ntherefore, as I enter the Silence this time, I am going to maintain the\nfaith and the love-spirit of my unity with all things. I maintain,\ntherefore, my at-one-ment with God, with man and nature. I maintain\nthat all of the original strength of spirit is mine. I hold that the\nmanifestations of this original spirit will produce everything in my\nlife for my ultimate good, because I am at one with the Father. All\nthings are mine.\n\nThe Silence, this day, finds me at one with all. The Silence, this day,\nfinds me at peace with God, Man and Nature. The Silence, this day,\nfinds me in at-one-ment with God and all, in unity with every\nconceivable thing in the universe. Therefore, my unity, my at-one-ment\nwith the Father, my wholeness of spirit with God brings into my life\neverything for my good.\n\nAll things work together for my good in my at-one-ment with Man, God\nand Nature--in my unity with all.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\nHOW TO HAVE MORE\n\n\"I Am Unselfish in Action, Being and Motive.\"\n\nThe science of psychology as applied to everyday life is, strictly\nspeaking, a new science. It is a matter of thousands of people in the\nworld all of a sudden coming in contact with certain laws, which make\nthem successful, healthy and prosperous.\n\nIt is quite natural, because man is interested more in himself than in\nany one else, that, when he finds these laws may be applied to give him\nmore abundance, the tendency may be to use these laws for selfish\npurposes.\n\nNothing could be more unpsychological. The laws should be used for the\nindividual, but should not stop there. Each individual who is profiting\nby the operation of the laws, or understanding of psychology, ought not\nonly to get everything himself that psychology can give him, but he\nshould pass these on to others; he should tell others about it; he\nshould cry it from the housetops and megaphone it from the street\ncorners. He should not want to get everything himself, but wish the\nsame that he has to everyone else. By doing this, the law will rebound,\nand, instead of having less, he will have still more than he would have\nwere he thinking about the laws for himself alone.\n\nThe human race is made up of a whole lot of selfishness, and the man,\nor the woman, who hopes to get the most out of life and out of\npsychology, must learn at the very beginning of his or her\nunderstanding of the laws. Then, only, will the best come to those who\nare absolutely unselfish.\n\nIf there is any selfish motive or selfish desire in your heart, you may\noperate the law and get a certain amount of benefit, nay, you may even\nbecome rich by it and have great power, but it should not end there.\nYour riches are for the use of others, as well as for yourselves, and\nthe real psychologist, in getting his riches, will pass on to others\nthat which he has. The real psychologist, in getting more power, will\nshare it with others and will use it for the good of others, as well as\nfor his own personal aggrandizement.\n\nTherefore hold the thought: \"I am unselfish in action, being and\nmotive.\"\n\nMany a person never will get the demonstrations he wants, because the\nchannel of abundance and prosperity, happiness and joy, is clogged up\nwith his own selfish attitude. The selfish person who does operate the\nlaws, does so by overbalancing his selfishness with some other great\nvirtue. But when he is extremely selfish, he may never have\ndemonstrations as he wants; he may not have enough other virtues to\noutweigh his selfishness. He may live for years, and know what the laws\nare, and yet lack this one little thing, _unselfishness_, in operating\nthe laws for his own abundance, prosperity or happiness.\n\nIf you are not having the demonstrations you want, it is because there\nis a kink in the mind somewhere. The kink may be selfishness, or it may\nbe pride, haughtiness, duplicity, dishonesty, hatred, envy or jealousy.\n\nThis time we are going to hold the thought: \"I am unselfish in action,\nbeing and motive,\" and each time we go into the Silence, this unselfish\nspirit shall be the guiding-star of our thoughts. It will be the\npersonal touch with the Infinite Spirit itself.\n\nThe beginning of life's happiness, as well as the end thereof, is the\nspirit of unselfishness.\n\n\"I am unselfish in action, being and motive.\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\nALL THINGS ARE IN DIVINE ORDER\n\n\"Divine Harmony and Peace Actuate Every Thought and Action of My\nBeing.\"\n\nI realize that all things are in Divine order for me and mine. There\ncan be no disturbance in the world without or the world within my being\nbut that is in perfect harmony with the Infinite.\n\nThe circumstances outside of my life are all for my good. My\nenvironment where I am now and the conditions in which I am living, I\nmake harmonize for me by my attitude of mind. I think only peace, I\nbreathe only love, I speak only harmony. My conditions and my\nenvironment, although outwardly inharmonious to my likes and\ntendencies, are changed by the alchemy of my thinking into a perfect\nsymphony of happiness for me now.\n\n\"Divine Harmony and Peace actuate every thought and action of my\nbeing.\" This thought is energy, this thought is life, this thought is\npower. The energy, life and power of this thought weaves all of my\ndiversified Life's experiences into a Divine pattern of perfection for\nme. There can be no trouble, disappointments, sorrow, reverses, loss or\ndiscord but that shall be changed for my good when I think Spirit and\nlive the affirmation of today, namely, \"Divine Harmony and Peace\nactuate every thought and action of my being.\" All things are in Divine\norder.\n\nThe Spirit of Divinity prompts my thinking. The Divine within me\nactuates my actions. The God Powers within, this minute are working all\nthings together for my good. There can be no danger come nigh my\ndwelling for my body is the temple of the living God. Therefore, the\nGod Spirit within me protects me from all harm, inspires me to high\nideals, lifts me to heights of righteousness and fills my soul with\nlove. Love for my circumstances, love for my present conditions, love\nfor my environment, love for every one in the world, love for all of\nthe creation of God.\n\nTherefore I have no enemies, for I love all. I recognize no\nmisfortunes, for the love energy within turns all misfortunes and\nsorrows into stepping stones for my greater advancement and\nachievement. The God energy within transforms all inharmonious\nconditions without into a perfect harmony within. The Kingdom of God\nnow reigns within me and I am at ease, at peace and at-one-ment with\nall nature and God. The harmony therefore within me in nature and in\nGod gives me perfect peace within and perfect peace without. Divine\nthought and energy, love and blessing actuate every action of my being.\n\nWhere Divine Love reigns there can be no trouble, no discord, no\ninharmony, no lack, no limitation, no sorrow, no grief, no sickness, no\nfailure. The energy of Divine Love transforms all things into my Good.\nThe Love and Peace of the Father abideth within me and is manifested\nwithout so that my life is one harmonious whole touching the lives of\nall others who come in contact with me so that they, too, feel my\nvibrations of at-one-ment with the Father and they in turn become\nharmonious and complete in Spirit with man and God.\n\nDivine Harmony and Peace actuate every thought and action of my being.\nAll things are in Divine order.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\nTHOUGHT TO HOLD IN SILENCE AND TO MEDITATE UPON DURING THE DAY\n\nFOR JUSTICE\n\n\"There's a Spirit of Justice that Secures me in Which is My Own.\"\n\nIf we reach a consciousness of justice, we need have no doubts as to\nour care in every particular while journeying between the two peaks of\neternity--from birth to the Great Divide.\n\nThere is nothing that can defeat justice; and the person who has a\nconsciousness of justice will attract to himself every conceivable\nthing needed for this life, because it will be the logical objective of\njustice to supply to each individual that justice for which he thinks.\n\nThat is the reason why this affirmation is so complete in itself;\nnamely, \"There is a spirit of JUSTICE that secures me in which is my\nown, and this security is provided already for us by the Spirit of\nJustice.\"\n\nIt would be a psychological paradox to think that Justice could be\ndefeated. That could not be. Perhaps it appears to you that your own\nhas not yet been secured to you, but, remember that life is\nfleeting--that a year is as a tale that is told--and that a decade is\nbut as \"Ships that pass in the night\"--when the years have vanished in\nthe distance.\n\nIf you have lived a life of justice, and it appears now that your own\nis not coming to you, that someone else is having more of the good\nthings of life than you, and that someone seems to have used the art of\nthe man of injustice, be not deceived, God is not mocked, for\n\"whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap.\" If you have sowed\nequity and justice in the days that are gone, be sure that the same\nequity and justice will be secured to you.\n\nThe Scriptures tell us not to think too much of the man who is\nnourishing like a green bay tree, for his efforts are soon cut off and\nhe vanisheth away.\n\nOne who is astride the scales of justice, and who thinks that he can\nhold the balance, is gravely mistaken. He may have occupied his present\nposition for many years, first putting his weight on one side and then\non the other in an effort to keep his equilibrium. Perhaps today it\nappears that the scales of justice are being well manipulated by his\ninsincerity, duplicity or trickery--but it is like the green bay tree.\nIt will soon pass away.\n\nJustice is as eternal as God Himself, and there is no more possibility\nof defeating it in the individual's life, in your own life, in the life\nof a nation or in the history of mankind, than there is likelihood that\nthe sun can get away from its own rays. The justice of God is eternal,\nor, in other words, God always is Justice, personified. Where God\nrules, and where His laws and mandates have been given by His own fiat,\n\"man, neither flesh nor the devil\" can defeat the ultimate outcome of\njustice. Your own is secured to you.\n\nMan himself is fashioned by the finger of Divinity. The crown of\njustice is placed upon his brow and no ruthless hand of greed,\nduplicity or evil dexterity can ever tear it away. It is there to stay,\nand the man who has been thus crowned because he has lived in this\nconsciousness of justice--in the consciousness of God Himself--is bound\nto have come back to him that which he has thought, that which he has\nsowed--Justice. You are secured by this spirit of justice.\n\nPerhaps already your life has had the law of compensation bring to you\nmore than to others of whom you may think, and who, because of their\nbank account, get more out of life than you. A man may have a million\ndollars, and yet not be as happy as the laborer living in a thatched\ncottage. _Perhaps Justice has tipped the scales in your favor\nalready--and you have failed to recognize it. Perhaps you have\nchildren, loved ones, family and fireside which bring more comfort to\nyou than the land owner gets who lives in his palace on the hill_.\n\nHalf of Life, or the joys of Life, depend upon our ability to recognize\nand appreciate the blessings we already have. Therefore, in counting\nyour blessings, or discounting your blessings, be sure that you use a\nmoral standard, instead of a material standard, in gauging whether\njustice has been meted out to you or not.\n\nThe Justice of the Eternal secures me, the Spirit of Justice secures me\nin which is mine own. Believe it, think it, live it, claim it and\nJustice shall be yours.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\nQuestion--In practicing the Silence, the mind seems to flutter all\nabout and there is great nervous tension. What is wrong?\n\nAnswer--Lack of concentration. This person ought to follow some\nsimple exercise of concentration, such as given below, until the mind\nhas control over the body. By practicing a few of the simple exercises\ngiven below, fifteen minutes a day, and then taking the Silence a few\nhours after these exercises have been practiced, the mind will begin to\nbe under control.\n\nThe nervous tension is caused because of this lack of control, and in\nthe effort to bring the scattering mind into one focus the reaction\ncomes upon the nervous system which, in turn, reacts upon the body.\n\nPractice and exercises for lack of concentration follow.\n\n\n\n\nEXERCISES\n\nBy Thos. Parker Boyd\n\n\n     (1) Select some part of the body, a foot or hand, with the\n     idea of HEAT. While holding the mind in this attitude,\n     breathe deeply and steadily, and, in from one to four\n     minutes, you will feel the warm glow coming to the foot. In\n     this way, you can soon master the entire body. Begin with the\n     sense of feeling. If there is an itching of the body, make it\n     stop by the force of your will. In from three days to three\n     weeks, you can stop the itching sensation at will. Then try\n     the habit of sneezing; stubbornly resist the inclination to\n     sneeze, and you will soon have the mastery. Now try your will\n     on coughing. When the tickling sensation comes, stop it by\n     the exercise of your will. You can soon master it. Next try\n     it on pain. When you feel a pain in the body, instead of\n     rubbing on liniment, rub in a little will power; soon it will\n     ease your pain as if by magic. With the fingers of one hand\n     rub the skin on the back of the other hand, stroking toward\n     the elbow, and will that all feeling shall disappear. In from\n     one to three minutes, take a needle, and you can stick it\n     through the skin on the back of the hand without pain. You\n     may have to try it a dozen times, but persistence will bring\n     success. Having mastered the sense of feeling, take up that\n     of hearing.\n\n     (2) It may seem impossible at first thought, but you have\n     seen people so absorbed in what they were reading or thinking\n     that they heard nothing, although you addressed them\n     directly. They are simply abstracted from all else, and are\n     thinking of one thing--to the exclusion of everything else.\n     They entered this state of abstractedness unconsciously. To\n     do so intentionally, you go by the law of indirectness. For\n     instance, take sight; concentrate your vision and your whole\n     attention upon some object, real or imaginary, until soon the\n     sense of HEARING becomes dormant. A little practice will\n     enable you to study, think or sleep, regardless of noise.\n\n     (3) Having mastered hearing, begin on SIGHT. You have known\n     people who walked on the street, looked at you and passed by\n     without recognition, although they knew you well. A person\n     deeply thinking on some subject, neither sees nor hears, but\n     uses the mental sense entirely. The method is to let the eyes\n     be open, but concentrate the thoughts on hearing or feeling.\n\n     (4) After getting control of your sight, take up the TASTE.\n     Take some tasteless thing on the tongue, abstract the mind to\n     something else until the taste becomes dormant. Then take\n     something with more taste to it, abstracting the taste, until\n     by this gradual process you can make the sourest pickle\n     sweet.\n\n     (5) Finally take some light odor, and hold it before the\n     nostrils, abstracting the attention from the sense of smell,\n     by hearing or seeing, etc., until by practice you can pass\n     through the foulest odor without inconvenience or notice.\n\nSit or stand absolutely motionless, except your breathing, for one to\nfive minutes at a time. Do this often.\n\nPractice closing each finger in rotation; then, when all are closed,\nopen one at a time very slowly, keeping the attention fixed on what you\nare doing. Keep all the other fingers still, save the one you are\nexercising with.\n\nInhale gradually for ten seconds, then exhale in the same way and time.\n\nLook steadily at some point or object for a minute without winking the\neye, keeping your attention fixed on the object.\n\nLook at a picture critically, then close your eyes and mentally\nreconstruct it.\n\nClose your eyes and construct the face of a friend, feature by feature.\n\nFix your attention on a hand or foot, hold on it the idea of heat and\ncontinue until the hand or foot feels warm. Then try cold; then try\npain.\n\nWill that the person in front of you shall turn around or put his hand\non his head or neck.\n\nHold your hand on some one in pain and say, \"I will the pain to\ndepart.\" Repeat till the pain goes.\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nNote.--For a scientific understanding of positive and negative\nconcentration, see \"Practical Psychology and Sex Life,\" by the author.\n\n\n\n\nSILENT TREATMENT\n\nThose at a distance or those who cannot attend my classes may have\nsilent treatments--distance is no barrier--race or creed no bar to\nthose who earnestly want to benefit from the Silent Treatment.\n\nMany marvelous cures have been reported through Silent Treatment.\nBusiness has been increased, positions secured, bad habits broken,\nprosperity demonstrated, peace and harmony restored in home and\nbusiness.\n\nThis is one of the strongest of Dr. Bush's study features. Use blank on\nopposite page for yourself, your friends or those whom you desire to\nhelp. You may begin it at any time.\n\nYou will get the vibration of the campaign and the power of thousands\nof minds working for you and with you for your health and happiness.\n\nThese silent treatments will help the sick rise above disease, overcome\ndespair, and bring to themselves the positive healing vibration of Dr.\nBush and his class.\n\nUSE BLANK ON NEXT PAGE AND BOLD THE THOUGHT OF THE DEMONSTRATION YOU\nDESIRE--THERE IS NO FEE. GIVE IN PROPORTION AS YOU HOPE TO SECURE.\n\"FREELY YE HAVE RECEIVED, FREELY GIVE.\" THE LAW OF COMPENSATION\nDEMONSTRATES THIS TRUTH.\n\n\n\n\n\nPLEASE USE THIS BLANK\n\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nIn order that we may mentally treat your particular case more\nspecifically, please answer the following questions and return this\nblank:\n\nDate...............................................................\n\nWhat is the nature of your ailment?................................\n\n...................................................................\n\nHow long so affected?..............................................\n\nEver taken Silent Treatment?.......................................\n\nEver had a severe accident, shock, great sorrow or disappointment?\nPlease give particulars.\n\n...................................................................\n\n...................................................................\n\nAre you subject to moods; high tempered; erratic?..................\n\nAre you reading Dr. Bush's books?..................................\n\nWhich ones?........................................................\n\nAre you willing to earnestly work in harmony with the treatment when\n\n  sent out?........................................................\n\nName...............................................................\n\nAddress, Street and No.............................................\n\n...................................................................\n\nCity.................................State.........................\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------\n\nEnclosed find $..................as my love offering.\n\nSend to DAVID V. BUSH\n---- Franklin Avenue\nSt. Louis, Mo.\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. David V. Bush's Famous\n\nSILENCE RECORDS\n\nNew--Different--Startling\n\nMADE BY DR. DAVID V. BUSH IN PERSON\n\nThis famous \"Silence Record\" is unlike anything else ever produced.\n\nIt brings right to the privacy of your own room the actual words,\naffirmations and intonations of Dr. Bush as he leads thousands in the\nSilence.\n\nThose who cannot be present at Dr. Bush's famous \"Silence Classes\" will\nfind the use of these \"Silence Records\" interesting, helpful and\nstimulating.\n\nThey teach you how to enter the \"Silence\" and how to intone and use it\nconstructively for your good and that of others.\n\nCan be used on any phonograph that uses a needle. It is the largest\nsize that can be made.\n\nThere is no other record like this made and it can only be bought\ndirect from \"The Universal Fellowship.\" Order this famous \"Silence\"\nrecord today and begin at once to get in harmony with Dr. Bush's\nhealing and inspirational \"Silence.\"\n\nPrice, each..........................................$2.00\n\n\n\n\nKINKS IN THE MIND--THE CAUSE AND CURE OF SICKNESS\n\n\nBY DAVID V. BUSH\n\nWhat is the kink in your mind? Does your subconscious mind entertain\nthoughts of fear, sickness, poverty, unhappiness--do you lack\ncourage--have you been hampered in reaching your success goal--do you\nwant to be master of self and your own destiny? Do you wish to conquer\ndisease--strengthen your personality--be more and do more?\n\nHere then is a way to overcome all these mental handicaps and develop\nwithin yourself constructive action. Dr. Bush, through his vast\nexperience in handling thousands of cases, has proven beyond a doubt\nthat all sickness, poverty and unhappiness is caused by \"KINKS\" in the\nmind. When the store house of the intellect, the subconscious mind,\nbecomes clogged up with morbid thoughts and destructive suggestions the\nphysical being refuses to work in harmony.\n\nDr. Bush tells you how to train your subconscious mind along the path\nof creative thinking. He points out the means of attaining the very\nthings in life that your better self has longed for. He explains how\nyou make your \"Dreams of success come true\" and he gives you actual\nexamples.\n\nThe secret of success, health and prosperity will no longer remain a\nsecret for you, if you will read and follow the instructions of this\nwonderful teacher.\n\nIf you are sick this book tells you why you are sick--it explains the\nmental processes that react on your physical nature--it places within\nyour reach the means of curing yourself and others. After reading it\nyou will understand better the process of positive thinking--and you\nwill be able to attune your physical nature so that it will work in\nharmony with your mental nature--you will understand how to take the\n\"KINKS\" out of the mind.\n\nA book that may mean the turning point in your life--one that you\nshould get and read now--without a day's delay.\n\nPRICE, PER COPY.....................................50C\n\n\n\n\nHOW TO DEMONSTRATE PROSPERITY\n\nMost people fail to become prosperous because they lack a definite\nworking plan. Dr. David V. Bush has prepared a simple chart so that you\nmay analyze your failings and conquer them. With it you may demonstrate\nprosperity--it will point out your weak points and show the way to\nactual accomplishment.\n\nWhatever your walk in life--no matter how many failures you have\nhad--no matter how discouraged and despondent you may feel--you need\nthis self-analysis chart right now. Send for it today. Just 25c, money\norder or stamps.\n\n\n\n\nWHY SOME PEOPLE FAIL IN VISUALIZING\n\n\nRULES FOR VISUALIZATION\n\nTo visualize and concentrate successfully, certain definite principles\nunderlying the laws that control the functions of the mind must be\nunderstood and applied. My experience in thousands of cases shows that\nfailure is often due to the wrong application of these laws--to a\nmisunderstanding of the mental processes necessary to properly focus\nthe thought waves upon some definite desire and the urge of the\nconscious mind for too hasty action.\n\nThe laws of visualization and concentration are well defined and when\nproperly exercised are without limitation as to success, but to\naccomplish results one must understand and use these laws properly.\n\nYou will more readily grasp the principle that governs the laws of\nvisualization and concentration after reading this little booklet.\n\nIn it Dr. David Bush has gone right down to bed rock--he thoroughly\nexplains these necessary laws--he puts you right and shows you your\nmistakes--he starts you off on the right foot so that you may apply\nthese laws for your benefit and profit.\n\nDr. Bush believes, from his own vast experience, that more people fail\non concentration and visualization than on any other operation of the\nlaws of mind now being studied or applied, because they only partly\nunderstand these laws. In this pamphlet he shows _why_ the vast\nmajority of people fail in visualizing. There are natural laws which\nare very often cross-circuited by well intentioned people trying to\noperate them for their good, all because they fail to understand the\nright way. You will understand visualization after you read \"Why Some\nPeople Fail in Visualization.\"\n\nSend for this book today--you will understand this subject after\nreading it--you need it now---send 25c in stamps or coin.\n\n\n\n\nTHE INFLUENCE OF SUGGESTION AND AUTO-SUGGESTION\n\nIn this little booklet Dr. David V. Bush discusses Suggestion and\nAuto-Suggestion from a different angle than that in \"Practical\nPsychology and Sex Life\" and \"Applied Psychology and Scientific\nLiving.\" He takes the practical side of Suggestion and points out its\nvalue and usefulness. He explains the limitations of Suggestion and\ndeals in a different way with the mental laws that control this\npowerful factor for your success. No matter what thought you have given\nto this interesting subject--no matter how much you studied Suggestion,\nyou will be surprised and delighted with the plain everyday way in\nwhich Dr. Bush explains this mental phenomena.\n\nThis is a different angle of Suggestion than in either \"Applied\nPsychology and Scientific Living\" or \"Practical Psychology and Sex\nLife.\" Also a different angle than has been printed in the fifty-cent\nseries by the same author under \"The Subconscious Mind.\" This pamphlet\nnot only deals differently with the law of Suggestion as mentioned\nabove, but it is most entertaining, readable and likeable from the\npractical side of suggestion. There will be stimulation, inspiration\nand mental cerebration in reading this pamphlet--\"The Influence of\nSuggestion.\"\n\nYou will welcome this little booklet as a new avenue for increasing\nyour knowledge of this fascinating study and you will acquire a newer\nand different understanding of its usefulness.\n\nBy all means secure this little booklet without delay. Your copy is\nready. Just 25 cents, coin or stamps, will start it by first mall.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT TO EAT\n\nYour capacity for constructive thinking is in exact ratio to the kind\nof food you put in your stomach. Your physical being and cellular\ndevelopment is retarded or improved by the food you eat. Sickness is,\nin many instances, the result of wrong diet.\n\nWhat you eat determines your fitness to fight and conquer in life's\nbattles.\n\n\"What to Eat\" is a book that you must read. It shows you the value of\neating right--it explains the cause of disease from wrong eating--it\ngives you the proper diet and explains why.\n\nTo succeed--to have poise and courage--to be immune from sickness--to\nbe strong and sturdy--to think fast and act quickly--to be married\nhappily--consider your diet.\n\nWhen you read this book you will be able to choose a combined diet that\nwill nourish your body and build mentality.\n\nAll life is a battle for place--the fittest only survive--stop putting\npoison into your stomach--learn the secret of vigorous health and long\nlife.\n\nWritten by a dietitian of long experience in collaboration with Dr.\nBush himself.\n\nYou will want this book now. Only a limited number will be printed.\nHeavy cardboard cover--price, only 25 cents per copy.\n\n\n\n\nWILL POWER AND SUCCESS\n\n\nBY DAVID V. BUSH\n\nYou want to know how to get the maximum amount of success--this book\nwill unlock the hidden treasure.\n\nYou do not have to live in lack and limitation when there are natural\nlaws to give you abundance, success and happiness.\n\nThis book makes plain the great laws for success, health and abundance.\n\nYou cannot fail to understand or operate those fundamental laws for\nyour success, as Dr. Bush outlines them here.\n\nYou will find it different from any other work ever written on Will\nPower. The culmination of over twenty years of research and study, it\ndeals in simple language with the possibilities of every man--how you\nand everyone else may rise from the slough of mediocrity to the\npinnacle of wealth and fame.\n\nIt teaches the great laws of success, health and abundance.\n\nIt teaches the simple, easy, everyday, workaday rules which will bring\nto you abundance--success--happiness--love.\n\nThis book has been a guide-post which has steered many a traveler out\nof the ruts and mire of dismal struggle on to the smooth, oiled\nturnpike of a successful, happy, useful life.\n\nThere is nothing mysterious, mystical, or supernatural in the elements\nof success and happiness. There is nothing in this book which the\nhumblest among us cannot understand and yet it appeals to those who are\nversed in literature and science as well. In the simple everyday\nlanguage of the people it tells in an interesting, fascinating way, the\nrules easily applicable to everyday life.\n\n\n\n\nPRICE:\n\n     In Uniform Bed Cloth Binding............................. $2.50\n\n     In Novelette Binding (leather)............................ 3.50\n\n\n\n\nMIND POWER PLUS\n\n\nDAVID V. BUSH, EDITOR\n\nIf you want to keep abreast of the times in all lines of mental\nscience, new thought, applied psychology and metaphysics, you should\nsubscribe for Mind Power Plus, the pace-making periodical in the field\nof mental science and advanced thought.\n\nIn this magazine you will find more special departments, and more\nworth-while articles of a practical nature than in any other periodical\nof its kind on the market. You will find features in Mind Power Plus\nthat will not only be of intense interest but also of extremely\npractical value.\n\nMind Power Plus brings to you the latest and the best in all branches\nof applied psychology. 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Bush\n\n                                                     Cloth    Novelette\n\n     Practical Psychology and Sex Life               $25.00    $27.00\n\n     Character Analysis--How to Read People at Sight   7.50\n\n     Applied Psychology and Scientific Living          3.50      4.50\n\n     Will Power and Success                            2.50      3.50\n\n     How to Make Love and Marry--Sex Harmony           3.00\n\n     Inspirational Poems                               1.75      2.50\n\n     Soul Poems and Love Lyrics                        1.50      2.25\n\n     Poems of Mastery and Love Verse                   1.50      2.25\n\n     The Universality of the Master Mind, paper, 50c   1.00\n\n     Grit and Gumption, paper, 50c                     1.00      1.25\n\n     The Fundamentals of Applied Psychology.\n\n------------------------------------------------------------------\n     Editor Mind Power Plus, per Year, $3.00.\n------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nADDRESS:\n\n     DAVID V. BUSH, PUBLISHER\n     ---- FRANKLIN AVE.\n     ST. LOUIS, MO.\n\n\n\n\nNOTES\n\n[1:  Taken from Applied Psychology and Scientific Living.]\n\n[2:  For complete study of how to charge the subconscious mind,\n     see chapters on the \"Subconscious Mind,\" \"How to Cleanse the\n     Aura,\" \"How to Get What You Want,\" \"Concentration\" and\n     \"Visualization,\" in \"Practical Psychology and Sex Life\" by\n     the author.]\n\n[3:  Scientific explanation of the Silence and How to enter the\n     Silence and the benefits derived thereby, will be found in\n     \"Practical Psychology and Sex Life\" by David V. Bush.]\n\n[4:  This is from The Fundamentals of Applied Psychology.]\n\n[5:  This is from Applied Psychology and Scientific Living.]","title":"The Silence: What It Is and How To Use It","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":13054}