Mental science does not teach man how he may strengthen the spirit within the dead matter of his body so that he may overcome it. It teaches him that the substance of his body is not dead matter at all, but every Atom of it spirit, or mind, and one of the highest he can conceive of. It teaches him that he is a spirit all the way through; or a mind, if you prefer the word mind to spirit. they mean precisely the same thing. They both mean something that thinks and wills. Now, the meaning of Mental Science is this. It is the establishment-by unimpeachable logic-of the fact that all nature is the recognition of the law of Attraction; that every atom every combination of atoms is just as much or as little as it has power to perceive of the intense vital principle the law of attraction-that permeates all things and is inseparable from them. The world, the universe, is all mind or spirit; and it is the knowledge of this fact that shows the man his wholeness; shows him that his body is not a lot of dead matter to conquer, but only a coarser grade of mind than his thought, though all of a piece with it. This knowledge is of itself the reconciliation of what the man had been taught to consider two separate and distinct parts of himself. This knowledge shows that he is a unit, intact, indissoluble. This knowledge alone is his conquest over death. He sees that he is a unit. He must therefore be either all mind, or sprit, or all matter-which is a dead substance. He knows he is not dead substance and therefore he must be living substance. Living substance is distinguished from dead substance by the power to think. That which thinks also wills; that which wills is spirit. Therefore a man-because he thinks-is a spirt. He does not have to die to become a spirit. He is a spirit now, all through his organization, every bit of him. Home Course In Mental Science 1914 by HELEN WILMANS successmanual/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Home-Course-in-Mental-Science-by-Helen-Wilmans-1921-SMSE-2011.pdf
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