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HEALING CURRENTS FROM THE BATTERY OF LIFE Teaching the doctrines of the Positive and Negative Mind of the Creator; revealing how the Truth awakens the Soul to its natural inheritance as an immortal co-worker with the Creator, giving it dominion over iniquity, sickness, poverty and death. By WALTER DEVOE PUBLISHED BY THE ELOISTS, INC. DRAWER O DUXBURY MA 02331 FOREWORD It is the purpose of this book to heal those who read and study its pages. The articles are gathered together with that object in view. Each one was written under the inspiration of a definite purpose, to heal, encourage, and enlighten whomsoever should read it. The multitude of letters which have been received shows that the purpose has borne fruit, and causes me to rejoice in the knowledge that written truth can bear the balm of healing to suffering humanity. These lessons are the fruit of spiritual realization. The varying forms of expression were adapted to the various states of mind I desired to arouse. The energies of Omnipotence are latent within human minds, and there is no nobler task than speaking or writing words that will stir those energies and arouse them into activity for the healing of the Creator's beloved humanity. In the last analysis, all forces are of the nature of mind, developed or undeveloped, and the forces of mind or thoughts are the proper avenues through which we direct the living, healing dynamics within the nature of humanity. Mystical words of mighty healing power have been revealed to me, and I have woven many of them into these lessons and affirmations. Where a truth is repeated, I have purposely allowed the repetition to stand, and I trust that this will cause the reader to remember that "Repetition is the mother of learning." Remember that your ability to gain dominion over your physical body will develop as you cultivate thought power. By constant study of these lessons, you will gain an ability to heal the mind and therefore the body of yourself and others, according to the degree of thought power you generate. "There is no excellence without labor." It is not how much you read, or how much you know about mental processes that gives you mental power, but rather how much you incorporate of the positive thought and feeling of Truth into your mind and body. If you desire to progress in spiritual power you will be obliged to build a thought-body out of positive thoughts of truth. These lessons will furnish you with the material for building your spiritual temple, through which the 2 healing power will become manifest in your body, and as you put these truths into practice, day after day, and year after year, you will find all negative limitations vanishing and a positiveness of soul power developing which will repay you most wonderfully for all your efforts toward the attainment of spiritual and physical dominion. Awake, and understand your divine possibilities as a soul formed in the image and character of the Creator! Create into a powerful thought- or mind-body, all the divine attributes that lie latent within your soul awaiting your recognition and expression, and you will attain a consciousness of power that will grow and increase throughout all eternity. 3 ASPIRATION I pray to know the charm of mine own transcendent soul, that it may show forth greater power through my personality and enfold all mankind in the healing power that will soothe the aching hearts of the world. I pray that through the charm exerted by my own awakened soul, I may be able to arouse and awaken the slumbering soul which is the Self of everyone. May I realize the power to help each Self manifest the Great I AM in its being, and thus bring an immortal glory to this world. 4 Note to the Reader The healing affirmations and health perspective offered in Healing Currents should not be construed as a substitute for appropriate care rendered by the health care professional of your choice. No claims are made and no treatment is prescribed. Rather, this is a supplement to rational, properly supervised health care for your physical frame. We do feel, however, the need to also emphasize how the power of your mind, your spirit and your soul affects your physiological state. 5 CONTENTS Foreword 2 Knowledge is Power 8 Thought, the Supreme Remedy 11 Effects of Mental Stress 13 We Grow Like That Which We Study 15 Humanity's Relation to the Universal Mind 19 You Are Power 22 Positive and Negative Mind 24 How to Practice Mental Healing 28 The Power of Mind 35 How to Concentrate 36 Wonderful Possibilities 37 I Am All Mind 40 A General Healing Treatment 42 Teach Your Body to Think! 44 Use Your Will to Overcome 47 The Subconscious Mind and Soul Consciousness 49 Becoming Attuned to the Spirit 54 A Powerful Statement 58 The Mystery of Omnipotence 61 Cultivate Your Will 64 Trust in the Creator 67 The Word of Power 68 My Soul is Alive with the Healing Power of the Creator 74 Affirm Abundant Health 75 Insomnia 80 Exercise Your Imagination 82 Nervous Debility 84 Treatment for Depression 85 Healing Treatment for the Eyes 88 Healing Peace 89 The Great Sympathetic 92 Let Your Soul Express 95 The True Way 98 Ye Are Slumbering Gods! 99 Awake, My Soul, Awake! 102 Soul Development 104 The Globe of Glory 107 Thus Speaks the Living Soul 111 Divine Realization 112 Realization 116 Organization 119 Pray Without Ceasing 123 6 A Healing Prayer 129 To Overcome Antagonism 130 Healing Love 131 Thou Eternal Spirit of Wisdom 132 Joshu's Prayer Revised 133 Serenity 134 Trust 135 Gratitude 136 Peace 137 A Conception of the Creator 138 The God in Humanity 144 7 KNOWLEDGE IS POWER The great prayer that is arising from souls incarnate is the prayer for more vitality. It is the speechless prayer of the whole world; the unuttered longing and desire of every heart for that which will enable it to overcome limitations and find satisfaction. Scientists of today are searching as tirelessly for a life-renewing elixir as did Ponce de Leon for the fountain of youth, but their stimulants, tonics, and serums will not renew the creative impulse of vitality which produced the organism and which lies latent within, always ready to revitalize, renew, and heal every part of the physical nature. It is not medication that will save the sick and suffering, but the opening of the human nature to this divine influx, which is health-compelling and harmony-producing to every nature that finds it. Many are becoming conscious that a heavenly, healing vitality awaits them, and nothing can hinder their search for the immortal vigor that will save their beings from disease and pain, and evolve a new type of humanity. They shall become fearless and dauntless, healthy and happy in the conscious possession and understanding of the vital principle within them, which is the manifestation of the Life Ever-Present in humanity. Matter and body cannot create, because they are effects. They can only manifest the energy infused into them by their cause. Vitality is not a material force; it is spiritual force. Vitality is cause. Vitality is the creative energy of the love and intelligence of the I AM which holds in its embrace every atom of sentient substance. It is the vitality of the Infinite Mind that we see manifesting in bird and beast, tree and flower, and this same vitality is at this moment giving you all the life that you have, and the Infinite Mind can give you as much as you can individualize and express. Your lack of knowledge of the possibilities of your own nature keeps you from growing out of your weak or sickly condition. Knowledge is power. All nature is enlivened by the omnipotent vitality of the Infinite Mind, and the human mind must seek its vitality from this source, for vitality is a mental energy which can be appropriated to an unlimited degree. According to how it is recognized and expressed will it overcome all diseased and depleted conditions of the body. New ideas entering the mind bring with them an influx 8 of vitality. The thoughts in this book are overflowing with vitality and health, and the more you study them the closer your mind will get to the Fountain of Life, which will renew your body as your mind is renewed with living thoughts from the Divine Mind. If you want to live and be healthy you must not think or talk about disease or death. There is a Source of unlimited vitality, strength, and energy which has been given too little recognition, and from lack of knowledge of this vital impulse the race has suffered much. This knowledge was denied out of mortal understanding, but it is again being resurrected in the mind of humanity. The souls of mortals "cannot live by bread alone". They must be fed on the manna of Heaven, which is the thoughts that flow out from the Mind of the Creator, before there can be the harmonious union of the human and the divine in all of humanity. Only this will guarantee their health, happiness and prosperity while on the earth. You, no matter how poor, sick or miserable you may be, are living in the midst of Divine Forces which can generate a new health and strength in your body, weave prosperity and success into your destiny, and make your whole life divine and harmonious. The forces that contribute to success are within the reach of every mind, waiting to be polarized and individualized. Intelligent and powerful thought forces interpenetrate space, even as magnetic and electric currents flow through space, and these potent forces can intelligently control all the operations of natural law. It is still more wonderful to know that these forces are obedient to our minds and are ready and potent to operate everything for our good if we will but recognize our God-given dominion. We can establish this awareness by thinking the thoughts and speaking the words which embody our faith in the Almighty Presence and cause it to manifest for our benefit. We may have a wonderful mental power, and preach the highest truth, but the power that harmonizes and heals is ours only when our minds have entered the pure ocean of bliss and been magnetized by contact with the positive pole of Divinity. Then are we endowed for the time being with the power of the Cause of causes, and all causes respond to the one who realizes this mastery. Again and again must one retire from the world and overcome the conflicting vibrations of the world-mind, for the soul is 9 constantly in need of the omnipotent Power that abides with our Creator. 10 THOUGHT, THE SUPREME REMEDY Mental Science has been scorned and ridiculed for many years, but it has gained adherents by demonstrating the power of thought to cure disease. It has been discovered that bad and unpleasant feelings create harmful metabolic products in the body, which are physically injurious. Good, pleasant, benevolent, and cheerful feelings create beneficial chemical products which are physically healthful. It has been found that, for each bad emotion, there is a corresponding chemical change in the tissues of the body which is life-depressing or debilitating. Conversely, every good emotion makes a life-promoting change. Consequently, a noble and generous action blesses the doer as well as the beneficiary. Every thought which enters the mind is registered in the brain by a specific change in the activity of its cells. Experiments have proven that mere thought or favorable feelings of any sort concerning a food eaten not only assisted the digestion but partly caused it to occur. When people's minds are busy with things far removed from their food while they are eating, it can impair the digestive process. One who considers the matter thoughtfully will soon realize that thought or feeling has the power to cause and also to cure disease. All the secretions and activities of the body are controlled by the sympathetic nervous system, and the quality of the feelings that circulate over these nerve pathways, affects every cell in the body. Grief or anger will stop the flow of gastric fluid. The thought of eating will start the saliva flowing. Greed affects the vital organs in the same way, and when it is habitually prevalent in the mind, it undermines the very teach the Thought of the Creator, which brings so much happiness and health to suffering humanity through their awakening at the present time; and it is our constant experience that pure, loving thoughts are charged with the healing, invigorating potency of the Spirit of our Creator. Everyone who will educate the mind to conform to divine purity and truth will find the power of the Creator, which makes for health and happiness. Those who have not seen some wonderful demonstration in their own lives, or in the life of someone very close to them, are liable to become discouraged if immediate results do not manifest. Remember that all the force of your past thoughts is 11 against your new faith, and that you are just beginning to tear down a mental force which runs back through heredity for all ages, and although the Thought of the Creator is all-powerful, your understanding and exercise of it are to be compared to the efforts of the little child just learning to walk. The obstacles the child meets seem as insurmountable to him as yours do to you; but with the same persistent effort, you will gain control of the powers that are latent in your will and thought, and you will walk upright in dominion as a conquering Soul of the Creator. 12 EFFECTS OF MENTAL STRESS We are mental creatures, and our life is in our mind. Our happiness depends upon our state of mind. Our physical conditions exhibit our frame of mind, and we can progress in life and create a proper destiny only as we cultivate the thinking which is common to the Mind of the Creator. Mind is positive and negative. Mortal mind is negative-undeveloped. The Supreme Mind is positive-developed in wisdom. Whatever thoughts we listen to or speak, or whatever thoughts we allow to remain in our minds, will bear fruit. Condemnation, envy, prejudice, and all the thoughts and words of mortal mind, are negative. They are nothing and lead to nothing, which is dissolution. The words of truth will gain the mastery over all the beliefs and expressions of error, for these are negative conditions which the positive thoughts of truth overcome. Beliefs of sin, sickness and death are also negative. We can free ourselves from these thoughts by denial of them, and we can place our minds in unity with the positive pole of life and peace by the affirmation of truth. We are one with the almighty goodness of the Creator now. Our minds live in and draw their life from the Mind of the Creator, and we can and will grow out of our negative beliefs and conditions by the recognition that we are manifestations of the Ever-Present Life. We can think the thoughts of the Creator, and thus grow into a conscious knowledge and realization of an Infinite Presence and Power. While we are thinking the thoughts of the world, we are living in mental and spiritual darkness, and in this state of mind we cannot hope to enjoy life or peace or prosperity from the Creator, for all real enjoyment is in the Light of Truth. An abiding satisfaction flows into our minds as we charge them with thoughts based on the truth of infinite goodness and love. We have no power or substance or intelligence except through the Ever-Present Life within us, and this is true of all beings and all things. This is the saving truth that frees and heals. All life is good and full of healing power. All intelligence is good, and can manifest perfection. All substances are good, and will reveal more and more that 13 they are intelligent, as the truth about them is recognized. Energize these thoughts in your mind by repetition: I am living the life of eternal peace, for my life is one with the life of the Creator, which is peace. I desire to think only the thoughts that tend to life and peace, thus uniting myself with the divine Source of all wisdom and love. I know that I am the Mind of Truth expressing, and I think and feel that Almighty Goodness now dominates all my world. The Spirit of Goodness is omnipresent. It includes all that I need or want. I do not place any thoughts or conditions between myself and the Creator. Every claim that I make which is opposite to the Spirit of Goodness is a negation of my eternal life with the Creator, and hides the Creator from me. The Creator can do all things for me if I am true to the Ever-Present's Inspiration, and have unwavering faith. An all-abiding faith is the affirmation of the Power of the All-Good. I am Life. I am Health. I am Joy. I am Prosperity. My love is of the Creator and for the truth, and I constantly fill my mind with positive thoughts of truth, which create good and harmonious conditions for me. There is only One Mind, the Mind of the Creator, full of divine life and intelligence for all, overflowing with healing love and uplifting light. I lift my mind from all appearances of limitation to the consciousness of the one Omnipotent Power, and affirm that I am the recipient of all Its goodness and love. I negate from my being all the feelings and thoughts of the world, and individualize the thoughts based on my unity with the I AM, for I am the spoken word of the Creator, and I manifest the Ever-Present's intelligent goodness, now and forever. 14 WE GROW LIKE THAT WHICH WE STUDY Noted throat specialists have died of ailments of the throat, and insanity experts have become as mad as their patients. Those who study the power of disease will find disease and death creeping over their whole organism, but those who give their attention to the power of Life will find the Power that can transform them into health and perfection. We are all mind. We live in an ocean of Mind, and we are each a polarizing center capable of drawing into our being any quality of mind we may desire to incorporate. Looking at the universe from the physical standpoint, it is a vast ocean of matter or negative mind. This ocean of living force is constantly in flux, like the water that is part of a whirlpool one minute, and the next minute has gone to form a gigantic wave. So the atoms of negative mind are building up one body today, which tomorrow will have disintegrated, allowing those same atoms to go to the formation of another body. The planet is one center of force, and the trees, the animals and our bodies are still other centers organized for the time being from the substance of the universe. The atoms which compose our physical bodies were once part of the planet, and before that, planetary nebulae, and before that, stars. Our bodies are literally manufactured from the essence of stars. But if all this force is constantly in flux and not bound by any ties other than the attraction of the moment, what is it that holds our bodies and the bodies of all things in the forms in which they appear? It is positive, invisible Mind. Here we see the power of the Invisible Cause, the attractiveness of that positive center of Mind that draws around itself a body of physical atoms. We see that the positive, invisible pole of being has power over the world of visible effects. The organized form of positive mind is the positive pole of attraction. The positive mind of the plant has evolved to polarize atoms into the beautiful forms of verdure. The mind of the plant is organized from the Universal Mind. It has dominion over the atoms of negative substance, and develops a still stronger power by the process of organizing a form, so that after it has accomplished all that it can with one form, it will have gained the power to organize a 15 still higher and more complex form of life. We are polarizing as much of life as we understand, and as we understand more, we will use our powers of mind to organize into form the deeper realities of the Spirit of Truth. The complexity of the form will depend upon the power of the mind within the form which is holding it in organization. Its quality will also be determined by the quality of the mind which does the polarizing. This is illustrated by the fact that no two persons get the same benefit from the same foods. What is nourishment for one person is often poison for another. You may feed two people the same quantity of food per meal; one will grow fat while the other remains as thin as a greyhound. One has attributes of mind which find and attract to themselves corresponding chemicals in the food; and the other, not having the mental qualities that are nourished by a particular diet, will not build up on that substance. Whether one speaks of quality of mind or quality of the endocrine system, the original cause remains the same. It has been noted that those who study the heavens live to a goodly age. The mind of the astronomer opens up to the unfolding spaces of infinitude, with their teeming world systems, and in searching out the meaning of it all, inbreathes some of the Spirit of Truth. Minds centered upon the cares of the world and busy with the small duties of life, need to be opened by study and contemplation to the grandeur of the great Creator, whose marvelous Presence is manifest in all the laws and forms of the universe. Students should seek that instruction which opens the mind to the mighty Spirit of Life. This is necessary, that the mind may receive new life and the power to manifest life in endless abundance. The Truth reveals the Life which was always here but which we did not recognize. It is our recognition that opens up our minds to receive Its blessings. Recognition grows into faith, and faith builds up the mental forces that polarize life. As we walk through the park or in the woods, we should know that the contact of our feet with the ground is giving us the magnetic vitality of Mother Nature. The air is filled with invigorating vitality; the sun is pouring its mighty life into our being; and the beauty and grace of the Creator manifest in all outdoors are giving us a magnetic, mental, and soul treatment that tunes our minds to Infinite Life and health. We are healed because it is the 16 Presence of the Creator that we recognize. Let us contemplate the beauty and power of the Ever-Present that is all and in all, and we will be harmonized by Its mighty continuity and feel the thrill of the divine consciousness pervading our natures. We will grow like that which we study. It has been discovered that the perfume and color of roses will soothe the nerves and often cure a headache. To concentrate the mind upon one of these forms of nature's beauty and grace brings our nature into unity with the Spirit of Universal Nature, which is the Presence of the Creator. Each one of Nature's forms is a key to the kingdom of life, of beauty, and of endless wisdom. All forms are but the physical manifestations of spiritual entities, and these spiritual entities, or minds, are drawing their intelligence and power from the Infinite Source. They are the one Infinite Intelligence made manifest, so we can say that Nature, as a whole, is a form of the Creator. If we will examine any form of life, we will come in touch with a wisdom and skill so profound that our deepest thinking cannot encompass it. We, as organized beings, stand at the head of all the Creator's manifestations. We already have dominion over the negative mind of Nature. The fact that our spiritual nature has organized this form and has the power to hold it in life and to give activity to all its functions, proves that we are endowed with dominion. Now we are coming to the consciousness that our thought has built the character that is the invisible pattern upon which our flesh is woven, and that our thought, rightly cultivated, can increase our organizing power. Our thought can make for us a body of health or a body of pain. Let us study the mighty Life within and all about us, that our thoughts may be filled with the breath of the Divine Spirit, and our bodies renewed and reformed into living images of health and perfection. Thousands of chronic ailments have been healed in those who desired health and knew that they could get it through study of vital, healing concepts. The desire for healing and the constant study of healing words, opened their natures to the Omnipotent Life that is always seeking to give forth Its own likeness of infinite health and perfection. The Spirit of the Creator never ceases Its healing ministrations. If we do not know of Its goodness and mercy, we cannot have faith in Its operation; without knowledge of 17 this transforming Power, we cannot be receptive to Its influx, because It flows through our knowledge or faith into our bodies. The more knowledge we have of spiritual realities, the more vibrant our minds become with the living Breath of Heaven. Joyous vitality from the streams of eternal Life bubbles up within us and fills us with the consciousness of unity with the Ever-Present, so that we rejoice perpetually in the knowledge of the Presence and Power of our Creator. 18 HUMANITY'S RELATION TO THE UNIVERSAL MIND The universe is one vast Mind, expressing itself in all the manifold forms of vitality and intelligence. There are two poles of this great Mind, positive and negative, for it is a mighty magnet of living, attractive force. If we gain a comprehension of the law of attraction that radiates from the positive pole of life, holding suns, and systems of suns, as well as humanity and every atom of created life, in obedience to its one law; if we understand this law of life, we shall know how to fulfill the law in order to progress to the highest level of attainment, and how to overcome every obstacle to the success of our endeavors. The sun of our solar system is a positive pole of attraction, which holds the negative planetary spheres subject to its controlling influence, and radiates to all planets the vibrations which we sense as light and heat. The sun in turn is negative and obedient to the influence of some more positive suns of magnetic force, a mightier center which regulates the movement of solar systems within the galaxy. Yet this vast physical universe of created worlds and suns is, as a whole, but the negative pole of the Mind of God. It is the lowest degree of expression of that Great Mind. It is the most inert or negative condition of mind possible. The name "matter" should not be applied to this universal physical substance, because the word is used to express the idea of deadness or absence of life, and there is not an atom in all the universe utterly devoid of vitality or intelligence. All is Mind, an intelligent Mind evolving and expressing more and more of Its dormant energy in all substance. Progression is natural to all life. We are growing into a more positive state of intelligence through the wisdom gained from experience. We would now acquaint ourselves with the positive pole of Mind, the source of all happiness, health and prosperity. Therefore, we turn our attention from the plane of forgetfulness to the plane of endless consciousness. The positive pole of Mind is the individualization and revelation of all the qualities and attributes of the Eternal Being. It is the Great I AM, the unceasing affirmation and expression of all the love, wisdom and power of the Infinite Unknown. It is the Great Sun of the Creator, forever radiating intelligence and life to all planes of Mind, to all worlds and all beings. These radiations of mental energy from the Sun of the 19 Creator fill the objective heavenly realms with the Glory of divine Love and Wisdom, flowing out through all states of the Universal Mind until they reach the limit of the orbit of evolution, where they commence to individualize, evolve and progress back to their source through crystal, vegetable, animal and human forms; until the human mind and the Divine Mind blend in conscious unity, and the mortal realizes the immortality of human souls. So we see that the origin of all is the Creator, and that all forms and minds are manifestations of the Creator, evolving slowly but surely the latent possibilities of vitality and intelligence within them, until they become as gods, with the conscious ability to mold their lives and destinies as they will, thus manifesting the ultimate will of the Creator. Now for the practical application of these thoughts. We are compelled to progress from negative to positive, continually, through the experience we gain in the battle for existence; but if we are willing to learn the laws of mind and apply them constantly in working on life's problems, we shall develop more rapidly in intelligence and we shall realize the happiness and success that come from fulfilling the divine laws. The positive pole of the thinking individual is that controlling power of the mind which affirms, "I Am, I Will." This is the magnetic core to which everything in nature responds. Humanity is a magnet, an epitome of the Great Magnet, and through their positive pole they can appropriate and individualize somewhat all the qualities and powers of the Whole, for this power of affirmation unites them to the positive pole of the Divine Mind and enables them to draw from this Radiant Center everything that they may need for the expansion and growth of their own nature. There is no limit to the supply. It is equal to the demand, and manifests for humanity's use when they understand how to appropriate it through the exercise of the magnetic power of their mind. They must know that the positive pole of All-Being is the real center of their own being, the Image into whose likeness they are gradually growing. By identifying themselves with the qualities which radiate from this mighty Center, and affirming them for their own beings, as the qualities that belong to all intelligence, latent or developed, they will build up the positive forces of their minds which will overcome every negative condition of body or affairs. 20 Failure, sickness, and misery are not real forces; they are not positive elements, but the lack of such. They are the result of negative conditions of the mind, and are indications of a lack of vitality or knowledge. The intelligence in their nature strives of itself to overcome diseased conditions, to remove irritating obstructions, and to eliminate poisons from the system. This is recognized by those physicians who give remedies merely to aid Nature in her work. If the intelligence in Nature can produce health, then when this bodily intelligence is intensified, greater healing powers will result. The mind can polarize the needed vitality and intelligence, and draw it into bodily expression from the radiations that fill the Mind of the world, by the mental affirmation: I am Intelligence. I am filled with the Healing Power of the Mind of the Creator. The clouds of misery, fear, and discouragement can likewise be dissolved from the mind by lifting these negative thought currents into the positive currents of joyous life , strength and unfaltering courage , through affirming: I Am, I know I Am, and there is nothing greater than I Am. My mind is filled with the light and happiness of true thinking, and I inspire faith and courage with every breath I breathe. The mind may in this way be educated to a strong and substantial faith in its own powers. It will realize that success is a positive attribute of intelligence, and it should work and study unceasingly to individualize intelligence by this mental culture until the whole character is changed. Then it will feel the strength and power to successfully execute all its designs. 21 YOU ARE POWER Tremendous energy and power are stored in your soul, more than enough for every physical need. By continuous affirmation you can bring this power into manifestation. The patient affirmation of truth, continued with persistence, with conviction that all you desire will be accomplished, is the power of faith to bring about all good. Affirm: I am a soul organized of the potencies of the living Ever-Present. I call all my soul power into action to quicken all my organs, and reorganize my body into an image of health and perfection. The Creator is the power that works through my soul to quicken, purify and spiritualize my body. My soul is the power that polarizes the atoms and holds my body in form according to the mental pattern. I am not bound by any mortal or spiritual limitations. The antiquated beliefs of the inertness and grossness of matter and the physical body are dissolved from my mind. There is no inertia or sluggishness in my body. It is alive throughout every organ and atom with mental energy and intelligence. I will arouse the dormant powers of my soul and so infuse my body with new life and intelligence that every particle will tingle and vibrate with the vitality and health of the Almighty Creator. My body responds to every thought and feeling centered in it. I will cultivate the force and latent intelligence in my being until it becomes responsive and active, until it becomes living thought energy, and obeys the will of my soul. I will infuse all the life and power of my immortal soul into my being. I must be quickened and spiritualized. I must vibrate with life. The intelligence latent in every organ must be aroused to operate in divine harmony for the health of the whole body. I bless every internal organ with the cleansing activity of the Spirit of the I AM, which flows through my soul into my mind and fills the blood with the cleansing waters of life. Read over the foregoing statements a number of times daily, 22 emphasizing those with special personal meaning. The mighty power of the Creator is in and all around you awaiting your word of appropriation. You can speak words of truth until, verily, your whole nature will be vibrating, the Word of Power manifesting. 23 POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE MIND The mental healer works upon the theory that All is Mind; that every object in existence is an individualized form of the Universal Mind in one degree or another of development or evolution; that the human mind is the highest type of evolved intelligence, and that it can express more and more of health and perfection through appropriation of the qualities of the Divine Mind, of which it is a self-conscious expression. The healer is consistent with this premise in regarding the body as mind also, negative mind to be sure, but a substance potent with vitality and intelligence, every cell of which is capable of manifesting a degree of perfection and of acting in harmony with every other cell for the healing and perfecting of the whole. This places the human being in the aspect of a living battery of mental energy, the thought power being the positive pole and the body the negative pole. Through the constant action of thought power, the individual is polarizing the thought substance from the Universal Mind, and the body responds to the thought power and organizes the cells to conform to the characteristics of the mental qualities individualized. In other words, the character of the individual is expressed in every cell of one's nature, because the character of mind polarizes and qualifies the bodily cells. It is the constant action of the mental forces of the human magnet that produces all the involuntary actions of digestion, breathing, heart-pumping, etc., and holds nature in active organization. When either pole of the battery is injured the whole being suffers in consequence. The mental healer understands that diseased conditions of the patient are often visible expressions of discordant mental action. These are the embodied effect of some of the patient's thoughts and feelings, and through this thought power, which is transferable from one battery to another just as electric impulses are sent through space without wires, the healer seeks to inspire the patient's mind with thoughts that will counteract the effect already produced. The objective is to cause a new physical effect that will result in a more perfect character. All so-called matter is a storehouse of potential life and energy; it is the intelligence and power of the Universal Mind crystallized and at rest; it is the embodiment of the 24 mighty forces and energies of the All Mind; it is the negative pole of the battery of life, and every power and quality of the Divine Mind will be found expressed to some degree in this visible nature of the Ever-Present Creator. All is Mind, and all thoughts seek embodiment in organized form. Disease germs are at most but negative forms of unconscious or undeveloped mind, and they can be entirely overcome by the positive thought of the mind that recognizes its own power. The mental healer applies a positive thought force to the mind of the patient, and through the Mind this force acts on the patient's mental organization; whereas the physician applies a drug, a negative form of thought, to the body, from which it reacts on the Mind. One works on the positive pole and the other on the negative pole of the individual, and both get results equal to the intelligence of their efforts. Natural and spiritual methods both have their place and are good and serviceable in the development of the individual. The best results will not be accomplished by flying to the one extreme of looking to the Spirit and ignoring the needs of the body entirely, nor by going to the other extreme of applying the natural physical element needful for the healing, without recognizing the mind which organizes these elements and produces the perfect result. By natural elements I do not mean drastic or destructive drugs or serums, but only those elements which are found in the physical composition of the body, and are needed for its natural maintenance and well-being. The human being is a composite entity, being a body, mind, and soul related to the Body, Mind, and Spirit of the Universe of the Creator, and one must use discriminative knowledge if one would keep oneself balanced and in harmony with the Whole. When the human mind is consciously in unity with the All Mind, and illumined by the principles of divine knowledge, every fact that has ever been discovered will glorify the Creator and reveal the action of the All Mind in every sphere of existence, and in every atom of so-called matter. When viewed from the exalted standpoint of the One Great Mind, all the facts which the scientific investigators have discovered will coincide and agree with all the revelations that have dawned upon the intuitive perception of humanity. Humanity will evolve to a condition of mastery over its physical nature where it will escape all the ills of the flesh and many other ills besides, when it gains the knowledge 25 of its unity with the Divine Mind, and realizes that it can individualize the potent qualities of mind which image forth the likeness of the Divine Being; that it can have perfect health and perfect happiness only by having a perfect character. Humanity must understand that the currents of its thinking qualify the blood and nerve currents, which control and feed every organ, muscle, and fiber of its complex physical organism, and that there lies within its mental grasp the power to control every action of its nature. Through its wonderful action and reaction of its positive and negative mind, backed by Universal Intelligence, the processes of life have been going on unconsciously, and the human mind has not yet realized that it was the cause of discordant conditions, and could just as easily cause harmonious conditions. The body, the negative pole of the human battery, is responding every instant to the thoughts and feelings that are generated by the positive pole, and as the mind becomes more intelligent and more conscious of its power, it will grow more positive and infuse the flesh with its positive intelligence, giving it vitality and strength to overcome diseased conditions. Humanity is not only ignorant of its unity with the Universal Mind, but it is also busily engaged in thinking thoughts that do not conform to divine ideas, nor express the qualities which characterize the Thoughts that emanate from the positive pole of the Divine Mind; it is generating thoughts and feelings of lust, hatred, condemnation, fear, malice, selfishness, revenge, cruelty, jealousy, and envy, which come into physical expression as a host of abnormal bodily conditions. All such thoughts and feelings are mortal, and tend toward disease and the disintegration of the human magnet. They produce currents which cross with the currents of life and health and destroy the human organism, while the thoughts of the Divine Mind (purity, love, praise, courage, power, joy, freedom, success, and goodwill) are immortal and filled with Life eternal; they are most positive and have the power to convert, transform, and reorganize all the mortal and negative thoughts and their resultant conditions into health, harmony, and happiness. As all space is filled with electricity, which becomes manifest only through the dynamo that generates it, so in 26 like manner, the whole of Immensity is radiant with the beneficent healing Thought of the Divine Mind which will come into action by being polarized to the positive pole of the human magnet. This mighty Universal Mind is manifesting Its love, wisdom, and power throughout the whole of Its vast creation. It is individualizing Its thought wherever there is form or life, and inspiring all creatures with the great vital impulse which causes them to progress along the onward and upward movement of evolution, from the negative pole of undeveloped Mind to the positive pole of conscious life and intelligence. 27 HOW TO PRACTICE MENTAL HEALING The central attraction of these concepts has been the great fact of its healing power. Into the mind of humanity has come a mighty wave of awareness, bringing with it a merciful vitality for the strengthening of the weak, the healing of the sick and the soothing of all pain. The Angels of Goodness are stirring the pool of life and all who will it may have health and peace in overflowing abundance. If you are seeking health (physical, mental, or spiritual), it is essential first of all that you thoroughly grasp this fact: You are all mind, through and through, from soul to physical atoms. You believe that you are part mind and part matter; that part of your nature is intelligent and the rest is inert and unresponsive, except to powerful drugs and stimulants. But the fact of the matter is, every nerve and muscle and atom is responsive to the action of your mind. You are organized intelligence. YOU ARE ALL MIND. You have been in the habit of thinking that all the mind you have is situated in your brain. To be sure, your brain is the most positive center of mental action, and from its substance you generate the conscious thought that inspires and affects every negative center in your body. If you but stop to think, you will acknowledge that there is an instinctive intelligence operative in the involuntary action of your heart and lungs, and in every organ of your body. There is wisdom expressed in the adaptation of every bone and muscle and organ to its proper uses. And this wisdom is a creative intelligence constantly operative in your physical organization. You know your will has dominion over matter; for your will, operating through your arm, can move an inert object. Now, that same mental force which acts through your will to lift a heavy weight into the air, or walk your one or two hundred pounds of flesh the distance of a mile or more, is the same mind that is organizing and reorganizing every part of your body, and it is this mental force that can be educated to heal your body and keep you in health. You may have misdirected this wonderful force and, if so, it has caused you sickness and pain. If you have been fearful, for example, you have congealed internal secretions, and by your thoughts of fear, retarded the action of some physical function. You 28 should learn of the Love that overcomes all fear. Heavy charges of electricity will burn out the wires and connections in an electric battery, and if you consider that your organization is a mental battery, you will not be surprised that heavy charges of anger paralyze the delicate nerve wires and "burn out" brain cells in such abundance that mental action is no longer possible. Passion will poison the blood and destroy digestion. Fright has been known to turn the hair white in a single night, and excessive emotion has so affected the whole organism as to cause sudden death. Woven into your mind are all the false beliefs and feelings that you have inherited from the generations before you, and they are a basic cause for mental and physical tribulations. A philosophy of life based on truth will correct these causes and unite you to the fountain of everlasting life and love, from which will bubble forth a joyous life and strength sufficient for every need. The second point of importance for you to understand is the marvelous fact that thoughts are forces, endowed with an intelligence which enables them to be directed to accomplish what you will, in your body or in the body of a friend. As angels of mercy and love are sent out from the Almighty Presence to carry blessings to humanity, so from your mind are sent out thoughts endowed with your quality of intelligence, which go forth to cause peace or pain wherever they may be sent. You have probably not realized the importance of the truth that the Creator gave human beings dominion over everything less positive than themselves. You have been endowed by the Almighty with dominion over every negative state of your body and mind. The will power which you have received from the Ever-Present is creative in potency, and you can create health and happiness by working in unity with the love and wisdom of the All One. Disease and pain are the results of a lack of strength or intelligence in an inharmonious organ. You can consciously increase the force and intelligence in every organ of your body by thinking of the organ as an intelligent thing and blessing it with your power of thought. Take the heart, for instance. You know that mental excitement or fear will increase or disturb the heart's action. If the heart is weak in action, speak strength to it in this way: (It is not necessary to repeat the words aloud, or even to use the same words, though a carefully phrased affirmation may carry more power.) 29 I am strong and courageous, and I fill you with my strength and courage. You are organized life and intelligence. You are active with the life of the Creator, and there is nothing to limit your strength and power. Repeating such words constantly will develop strength and can have a beneficial effect on organ function. The bodily organs are like children; they appreciate love and attention. We are thinking so much of external things that all our thought force is spent outside of the body, and when we do think of any particular organ it is with a fear that it will not do its duty. Such thoughts go into the organ thought of and work to limit its action. Every time we think or speak of our weakness, or limit in thought the action of any bodily function, we are actually tearing down the strength and power of our organism. We must understand that, as children of the Almighty we are endowed with power and intelligence, and that we limit or expand our powers by the action of our own minds. If we build a mind of faith in the Presence and Power of the Creator in our midst, our faith lays hold of and brings into operation the Divine Life and Intelligence. Likewise, if we place any limit upon our own abilities, whether in the ability to manifest health or success in any department of life, we limit the action of the Almighty on our behalf. The Creator is glorified in glorifying all souls; in making them like gods in the Ever-Present's own image and likeness of health, perfection and success. "Be ye perfect even as your Creator in heaven is perfect," is the command. The mind can construct or destroy. Good, harmonious thoughts full of love and praise are constructive. Vindictive, pessimistic, angry and critical thoughts are destructive. An organ in pain can be soothed as you would comfort and harmonize an unhappy child. Do not forget that the organ contains an intelligence that is part of the Mind that you are, and is responsive to a harsh or pleasant word. I bless you with the love of my soul, which harmonizes all your nerves and atoms. Such blessings will create harmonious conditions. If your blood is impure, think in this manner: I am a pure spring flowing from the Fountain of Divine Life. My blood is cleansed and purified by the Ever-Present Power that glorifies all my life. My heart is cleansed of all impure thoughts and 30 feelings, and I am at peace. Dormant activities can be aroused by persistently thinking toward the organ or organs: You are the Spirit of Life in action. You are filled with joyous, active life, and you love to fulfill the will of my soul in making life manifest. Many have overcome indigestion of long standing by repeating over and over: I have within me the power from the Creator which is able to digest and assimilate anything that I may choose to put into my stomach. My stomach is a living dynamo of life and energy Capable of doing its perfect duty. My stomach enjoys its work and loves to assimilate the good life in all things. These are but a few of the many processes that may be used. Each case requires thoughtful attention and much confidence on the part of the one using the healing thought. If confidence is not aroused after a few trials, you should not lose faith in the method, but should seek a teacher who can help you attain a state of confidence in your own powers which are latent and inactive from lack of recognition and exercise. That part of mental or spiritual healing which seems to border on the realm of the miraculous is the power of one mind over another mind and body situated at a distance. This is based upon the truth that minds are not distinct or separate, but are surrounded by and united in One Universal Mind, of which each one is an organized part. We are living in an invisible ocean of Mind, and through this ocean our thought waves proceed to the one to whom they are directed. As it is possible to send impulses through space without wires, so may we send the more highly refined thought impulses from one human battery to another, no matter how far apart they may be. In treating patients living at a distance, the same process may be used as in treating oneself, except that the name of the patient should be repeated mentally about seven times before talking to the part of the body to be healed. It should be remembered that the physical body is organized by the constructive force of thought and feeling. Our invisible character is a real form of force independent of its physical envelope. The character is the positive organizing mind, the body is the negative mind, obedient and responsive to the action of the more positive 31 entity. It is through your character that all life and action express in your physical body, and your character determines the quantity and quality of your life, as well as how successful you will be. Character forms or limits life. So the real basis of all true mental or physical healing is character building. Now this invisible character, this invisible part of you, which is so potent in weaving physical substance into grotesque or beautiful physical forms, into diseased or healthy forms of life, is a bundle of thoughts and feelings crystallized. As you have organized your character by your habitual thinking patterns, and thus created the cause for your present physical condition, so by your thinking you can recreate and transform your character, and change all the expressions of your body into a new and more beautiful texture. If you have piled false thoughts and impure desires one upon the other to cause an unhealthy mind and body, you can begin now to use your thoughts to dissolve the mental building of the past, and work your mind just as persistently to form a character that will be composed of pure emotions and true, generous thoughts. A mind that is in the consciousness of the Almighty Goodness and Love of the Ever-Present, having naught but blessings for every soul as a child of the Creator, feeling only kindness and goodwill toward even the meanest criminal, will glorify its earthly temple with the very Spirit of the Creator. It will be transformed into an image of greater divine Perfection, with perception open to the living Truth, beholding the divine Love, by the Power of the Ever-Present within us. We must open our eyes to see that the physical universe is the body of the infinite and eternal Creator, and if we comprehend how our mind pervades and affects every part of our body, we will grasp the truth that the omnipotent Mind of Jehovih is present in every part of this Grand Body. We are surrounded and pervaded by this loving Presence, which is eternal life to all who awake to this fact. We cannot escape from the Creator. We are organized from Infinite Mind and Substance, and as quickly as we recognize that we can have all of the Good we can accept and make manifest, we will begin to draw upon this inexhaustible Source for all the life, health, prosperity, and satisfaction we need. We should build our faith 32 strong in the truth that the Almighty is for us, and nothing of evil can overcome us or make us forget that there is only omnipotent Goodness in us and all about us. It is also in those who are apparently evil, since they have not been taught of the Divine Presence, and the condemnations of mortals help to keep hidden the germ of divinity that slumbers within them. They are misdirecting the good life and energy with which the Creator so bountifully supplies them, because they lack knowledge of how to use and apply these forces. Nothing will save them from their ignorance and sin but the knowledge of the truth of their own oneness with the Creator. It is very important for us to know that we grow like that which we study. If we keep before our minds the beauty and perfection which the Ever-Present Great Spirit has bestowed upon all of creation, we will find our souls attracted more and more to that divine ideal, until the same love which our Creator has for all creation will be kindled within us, and we shall know that we are all brothers and sisters in oneness with the same Ever-Presence. The most perfect and permanent healing is attained only by the perception of this grand truth and the awakening of the soul to the realization of the mighty love of the I AM. This Love must endow us with a feeling of universal fellowship with all souls as children of the one Creator; we must feel toward all just as the Great Spirit feels toward us, if we would be healed by this transforming love. The Ever-Present Intelligence yearns to heal and prosper all souls, but unless It can find entrance and expression through our souls as love, Its power is limited so far as we are concerned. I have studied all the modern theories promulgated for the healing of the sick, and for years I have taught and practiced the healing Truth. I wish to give a word of guidance to those who may be seeki [... excerpt truncated; full document held on file, contact an admin for the complete text ...]

Healing Currents from the Battery of Life