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HERE'S A new PHILOSOPHY.
THEY GAIL IT THE "NEW
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A Growing Movement in Mind Gull
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They call it the New Thought
Some day it may be known by a more
Understanding name and take it's place
as a religion or philosophy or rule of
life At present it Is lust known as
the New Thought" without being able
to lay claim to so much as an accepted
definition. If a definition were to be at
tempted it might be said to be hybrid
of Christian Science and faith healing.
1t is not Christian science, because that
term properly belongs to a school or cult
which takes for its exclusive text book
work entitled Science and Health, y
by Mrs Mary B. G. Eddy, and the Bible
lis interpreted through it. The New
Thought has no textbook and no
high priest. 1t is not faith healing be-
cause that term can be properly ap-
piled only to the cult which has Rev. DR.
Albert B. Simpson for its founder The
New Thought" doesn't teach that all
the ills men are heir to can be cured
by faith. 1t does not DENY the existence
of matter, including the human body,
but it asserts that the mind can abso-
!. lutely dominate all matter, and, there
fore, many human ills can be cured by
IUe exercise Oh the Will.
While this new pbilosophy. If il NAV
be called such, teaches than many dis
cas-, particularly those arising from
disordered nervous system may be cur
ed through the triumph of mind over
matter the healing Of the sick Is not
by any means its sole mission. 1t un-
dertakes to provide for whatsoever will
accept it something which may be call
ed, for lack of a better term, religion.
a rule of Conduct, a philosophy of right
living. This something offers, however,
no creed and no dogma, and those ac-
cepting it can never become involved in
theological controversy or dogmatic dis
cussion. Although there is no one who
claims to be the founder of the philos-
ophy, it does not lack for teachers. AL
though they are known by no sect or de-
nomination. there are many who are
following its teachings. Some of these
followers are among educated persons,
and nersons known in the Fashionable
world on account of wealth and social
place.
AS religion the "New Thought" ac-
cepts the God of the Bible as the Great
First Cause. which appellation is pre-
ferred nerhans TO Cod This Great
First Cause is all-wise. all-powerful.
all-loying. He planned the present ex-
ietence and he planned post-mortem
existence. IN relation 10 the post-rnor-
tenn existence the New Thought teach
ers are not remarkably specific. They
saw in substance
.'God never makes mistake. He
made this world and peopled it with
persons created in his image. He ever
was and ever will be. When he is
through with us here. he will take us
elsewhere and it will be we'll 1t may
be that he will live again in the lives
of those vet unborn. It NAV be that he
will continue s entities after death in
another world. He will take care of that
He has not seen fit to reveal his pur-
nose to lis vet. but that will come in |
due time"
Christ is accepted. too, but as the Son |
of Man rather than the Son of God, and
the best and most divine man who
ever lived. Christ, according to this new
philosophy, which one of it's followers
describes as "a new consciousness,
rather than new philosophy, a devel- !
opment. rather than system, a spiritu-
al OPTIMISM, rather than a material or
pessimistic realism, life rather than |
doctrine was the person to whom God
revealed himself most fully. It's follow |
ers say that Christ was more sat one
ment'' with God than any one else and
that we NAV approach the Christ ideal |
and the Christ power, according to the |
unreservedness with which we permit |
ourselves to get into Eat onement"
with God, We NAV all reach this sat !
onement' if we will. But to do this we
muet think clearly, live clearly, and,
by constant repetition. affirm that we |
are "at onement" with God.
Having agreed that God is the origin |
of all things. and having settled the orr |
gin and character of Christ, the New |
Thought devotves concern themselves |
enough with the hereafter to assert that (
there is no hell no particular place to
which people are consigned after death |
to eternal torment for the since commit
ted on earth, They assert and they
teach and they saw they can prove the
truth Of their teachings and their as
eertions that we get all the torment we
will ever get right here in this world
The hell of this spiritual optimism is
commonly known as retributive Justice
They saw that, for every wrong act
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