Wrong thinking produces inharmony
in our body, which in turn produces sickness.
Our bodies sometimes are instantly re-harmonized while
in the Silence. In the Silence our minds become
passive, open, free and loving, at which time the
Infinite Master of harmony touches the mental chords
of our being and we are well.
Just as the piano can be tuned, so
can the mind. Man’s body is made up of
twelve octaves the same as in music. All matter
is music. All matter is composed of twelve octaves.
Wrong thinking brings inharmony in some of the octaves
of our body. Right thinking tunes these organs,
puts them back into their normal condition.
Boys have their little steel magnets
by which they pick up small pieces of steel, pins
and so forth. When overworked, these magnets no
longer attract. Then the boys take their magnets,
have them rubbed against strong magnets or remagnetized
with an electric current and their power is quickly
restored so with our bodies. Mind is
the re-electrifier and re-harmonizer of
the octaves into all harmony.
Right thinking, therefore, is the
most important thing in life. As a man thinketh
in his heart so is he. Just as a tuning fork near
a piano will respond with a vibration when a key of
the same pitch is struck on the piano nearby, so likewise
do the bodies of men respond to proper stimulus and
become in tune. By right thinking man can re-harmonize
himself, can achieve health, success and prosperity.
To enter the Silence one must first
establish perfect relaxation in mind and body.
Then as the consciousness is brought from one part
of the body to another the tuning takes place.
If the leader in the Silence should
be intoning, there will be many in the audience who
will feel tinkling sensations vibrations and
often are instantly healed. They have been instantly
re-harmonized. Sometimes it may take several
intonings in the Silence for a complete healing.
Should you have a violent vibration, feel no fear,
but thank God for your healing because the more violent
the vibration perhaps the worse has been your condition
and the more surely has the re-harmony begun.
Some people will feel this vibration for hours, even
days, throughout which there is always healing.
Others may not feel the vibration
at all, yet if there has been any inharmony in the
bodily organs, these organs are unconscious to the
conscious intoning re-harmonization. Many people
who have been healed of divers and many malignant
diseases were at no time conscious of any vibration.
Never be discouraged if you feel no sensation.
If you do feel a vibration, know that you are susceptible
and on the high road to a healing demonstration.
The one intoning may or may not be
feeling vibrations. Religion is the life of
God in the soul of Man. The Silence is the medium
by which the life of God and the soul of man are brought
into At-one-ment.
The Silence is a medium by which man
comes in a closer touch with the Infinite; a medium
by which man becomes conscious of his nearness to
the Infinite. The Silence is the meeting place
where man’s spirit links with God’s spirit;
where spirit meets spirit and the marvel of His grace
never ceases.
The Silence is another way of praying,
which is another way of concentration. It is
another way of visualization.
“As a man thinketh in his heart
so is he.” In the Silence a man can by
his thoughts change his life, his conditions, his environment,
his all. By right thinking man becomes harmonious.
A harmonious man in tune with the Infinite is
on the King’s highway to health, success, abundance,
prosperity, happiness, love and peace.
By means of wrong thinking our minds
are put out of harmony with the great Infinite spirit
of God. “As a man thinketh in his heart
so is he.” When wrong thinking becomes
right thinking, then man’s right relationship
to God is restored. He becomes an open channel
for the influx of the spirit so that whatever demonstration
he may desire he may have.
In the Silence a man may change his
thinking as in no other way, therefore, may change
his heart, change his whole being, change his environment,
change every condition to which he was subject.
The human body may be likened to a
harp. When man thinks rightly his body is in
tune; but wrong thinking creates inharmony in the body
and produces sickness. Wrong thinking produces
inharmony in the mind, which, of course, disconnects
man from rightful association with the Divine.
A man must, therefore, think right. Yet, because
of centuries of erroneous conception of God and of
the world, man has been a negative instead of a positive
being, and his unwisdom has reacted upon the present
generation.
We are mental sending and receiving
stations. What we receive depends upon how we
are thinking Now. For success, health and happiness
we must in the silent chambers of the soul change
our thinking if we are holding negative or inharmonious
thoughts. In the Silence there is presented to
man his greatest opportunity to change his thinking.
Wrong thinking produces inharmony of the body which
in turn produces sickness. If we change to right
thinking we have health, success and happiness.
Therefore the Silence when properly used re-harmonizes
our bodies and minds through the simple agency of
right thinking.
“There are steps of approach
to the Silence. Stillness is one thing and the
Silence is another. One may quiet himself physically
and not be still, and he may be still without entering
the Silence. When one becomes physically and
mentally at rest, he is apt to become receptive to
psychic influences; and when these are not desired
it is advisable to protect oneself while mentally
negative. One may affirm his Oneness with God,
his being surrounded and protected by the divine Goodness,
and may symbolize this by enveloping himself in thought
with the white light of love or the mellowed tints
of sunshine.
“With the senses calmed and
unresponsive to the slower vibrations, but responsive
to the quicker ones, a peace and calm pervade one’s
mind, and it becomes consciously receptive to higher
vibrations of vital energy. Immune from the lesser
harmonies, one opens himself to the greater ones,
which are always seeking avenues of expression.
With the greater influx of the One Life, a sense of
power steals over one and he becomes conscious of
increased vigor and vitality.
“In relinquishing specific thoughts,
one opens inwardly rather than outwardly, and becomes
receptive to subconscious impressions that are directed
by his conscious affirmation of fundamental Truth.
The subconscious responds by returning to the conscious
the logical sequences of the Truths that have been
consciously impressed upon it. The subconscious
follows the lead given to it by the conscious affirmations
of Truth, and it brings back the consciousness of those
Truths in their various ramifications.”