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it is brought into material formation OF
existence. For long years the master
pieces of modern civilization lived only
in the world of thought and realm OF ia
tellectuality. The wonderful products OF
genius were not born of matter but oi
mind. When we consider the So called
creative energies are but the eternal
existing forces which the mind OF man
has directed at win, and have gained
some knowledge of the power of the
imaging faculty, we VIII come nearer
to a solution and application of the mys-
tifying laws of the new psychology and
the phenomena presented under the
names of Divine Healing, Mental Science
Telepathy, Hypnotism, Suggestion, Will
Force, Psychometry. etc., ETC., which are
all attributable to the out-working OF
and explainable under natural law.
All of these forces whicN3have beer
demonstrated and brought under subjec-
tion for our material advantage we have
accepted beyond dispute. There are yet
other and far more important discoveries
to be brought to us through an under
standing of the, science of mind. The
mind and the will lie back of every ac-
tivity. All physical functioning is gov
erned by the mind on either the conscious
OF sub conscious plane. Prof. VIM. James
of Harvard, states in his Psychology that
Primarily and fundamentally the mental
life is for the sake of action of preser-
vative sort. Secondarily and incidentally
it does many other things, and may even
when all adapted lead to it's possess
or's destruction. Psychology, taken in
the widest way ought to study verey
sort of mental activity, the useless and
harmful sorts as we'll as that which is
adapted"
l understand the above counsel on the
ground that prevention is better than
cure and knowledge is power" OuI
greatest enemy is ignorance, in fact
do not hold that we have any other, un-
conquerable enemy when we have elimi-
mated the first named.
Prof. James further says that "all men
tai states (no matter what their char
acter as regards utility may be) are
followed by bodily activity of some sort
They lead to inconspicuous changes in
breathing circulation, general muscular
tension, and glandular or other viscera
activity, even if they do not lead to con-
spicuous movements of the muscles o1
voluntary life. Not Only certain particular
states of mind, then (such as those called
volitons, for example, but states Of
mind as sucn. all states of mind, ever
mere thoughts and feelings, are motor
in their consequences.
The practical benefits TO be derived
from applied psychology are self-masterJ
through right thinking and consequent
right living There is the Science O
Knowing" and the Science of Doing.
From clear mental action must result
correct physical conditions.
Thought in the mind hath made US
What we are by thought is wrought ant
built
DR.. Alexander Wilder, NJ. D., +. A. S.
has written of Philosophy as essential &c
progress and repeats Buffers summary
of Philosophy as 1.-THE love of perfect
Wisdom: Perfect Wisdom ard Perfec
Goodness are identical. The Perfect Coco
is God; philosophy is the Love of Cod
What we love, what we are attuned Il
that must we realize within ourselves
1t is along these lines that health i:
built and the philosophy OF mental heal
ing djusted-''the highest rules.
ROSE M de VAUX-ROYER.