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As
A Man Thinketh, By James Allen
Introduction
Mind
is the Master-power that molds and makes,
And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes
The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills
Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills:--
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass:
Environment is but his looking-glass.
Allen
has a positive basis for his philosophical thought in that
he says law, justice, righteousness are the molding and
moving forces in the spiritual governing of the world. When
man rights himself humanity, in turn, learns that the universe
is right and in focus. One must attain a spiritual focus
to learn that as things are viewed, in turn one is viewed
by things. The focal point of view changes as things are
viewed in one light and perspective and then another, while
simultaneously, when being viewed, the focus again is ever
changing. All these elements, actions, interactions, gradations
flow one into and out of the other to create a spiritual
focus.
Introduction
This
little volume (the result of meditation and experience is
not intended as an exhaustive treatise on the much-written-upon
subject of the power of thought. It is suggestive rather
than explanatory, its object being to stimulate men and
women to the discovery and perception of the truth that--
"They
themselves are makers of themselves"
by
virtue of the thoughts which they choose and encourage;
that mind is the master-weaver, both of the inner garment
of character and the outer garment of circumstance, and
that, as they may have hitherto woven in ignorance and pain
they may now weave in enlightenment and happiness. -James
Allen
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