The mind, being the matter under the control of the spirit, is capable of producing any phenomena. The word fire , for instance, doesn't mean the substance to be consumed but the process of consuming it. So mind is the name of a spiritual substance that can be changed. The idea that matter and mind make the man prevents man from understanding himself. The time has nearly arrived when the people will be prepared to receive a great truth that will give an impulse and set them investigating a subject which will open to their minds new and enlarged ideas of themselves and show man what he is and how he makes himself what he is.
All persons are to themselves just what they make themselves.
The body may be compared to a dead weight, The mind to a lever. It is error to put knowledge into the lever. The mind is a medium of a higher power. Our bodies are the machines to be moved, Like a locomotive. Our mind is the steam.