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The World’s New Dawn
"Let us not look at ourselves but onwards, and take strength from the leaf and the
signs of the field. He is indeed despicable who cannot look onwards to the ideal life
of man. Not to do so is to deny our birthright of mind."— Thomas Coke Watkins.
I AM often asked, "Do you think the world is really becoming better?"
My inmost self — the self I trust and try to assist — is sure that the world is growing
better, whatever the hampered intellect may from time to time aver.
For one thing, I feel that the world's mind is slowly yet swiftly changing its
adjustment to one supreme reality — Truth.
Always have men believed that they desired only the truth, and always have they
sought and found it in part. But then they have immediately wrapped it in packages
and stowed it in boxes with elaborate labels. Our nature craves reality, not
wrappings and tables of contents. Therefore every age has torn off some of the
ancient outer things, and insisted at last on truth alone. More than during all the
centuries before, men today demand reality — just the essential reality a human soul
craves, and can recognize, and can use in the building of its life.
Henry Drummond spoke of the adjustment which a great telescope needs for
photographing the stars. Let us think of one fixed star. “No adjustment is ever
required on behalf of the star. That is one great fixed point in this shifting universe.
But the world moves. And each day, each hour, demands a further motion and
adjustment of the soul. A telescope in an observatory follows a star by clockwork,
but the clockwork of the soul is the Will." The world and the man must will to adjust
to truth if they would really find and know Truth.
THE WORLD ADJUSTING TO TRUTH.
I hold that the world today, more perfectly than ever before, is urging an accurate
adjustment of the human soul to truth — that which alone the body demands for
health, the mind for development, the deeper self for peace and power.
The old adjustments no longer satisfy. Truth is, indeed, eternal, but our relation
must keep pace with it as we swing through the vast heavens of time. The
photographs of yesterday do not speak correctly for today. We do not deny the stars;
we only deny the science that is past.
This adjustment is a huge prayer. It is a request for truth, in a sense, but for truth
only. And it is an assurance. It expects the truth. Now, that is the best kind of
praying I know — Expectation in Adjustment.
When you plant your seed or properly place your telescope, you have created
adjustment, and you expect harvest and picture.
Expectation in Adjustment is Assumption.
The world no longer merely asks for truth; it harmonizes with Nature and Life, and
so, appropriates.
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You are invited to make this thought a lifelong affirmation: In Harmony I Appropriate
All Good.
Such is one of my reasons for believing that the world is growing better. This
attitude toward Truth has influenced for the better every legitimate activity of man.
The results are seen in Benevolence, Business, Education, Government, and Religion.
A new day of splendid, unhampered, happy and growing spiritual life b bursting over
the earth. Souls are coming free. Hearts are thrilling with courage. In minds has
begun the swing and heave of the sea.
I ask you to take the following lines as a symbol of the world's wonderful sense of
appropriation that is everywhere evident.
The sea, the pine, the stars, the forest deep,
Bequeath to me at will their subtle wealth.
Or still days brood, or rough winds round me sweep,
Mine is the buoyant earth man's vibrant health:
All things for love of me their vigils keep —
I am the soul of health, of wealth.
Run, sea, in my heart!
Pine, sing in my heart!
Stars, glow in my heart!
For ye are mine, and my soul,
Like ye, is a part Of the Marvelous Whole.
There's no thing dear to me is not my wealth,
And none that sees me I would distant keep;
For swift possession is my earth man's health,
Or still days brood, or rough winds round me sweep:
All things for love of me their vigils keep
I am the soul of health, of wealth.
You are invited, now, to seize and use the spirit of this attitude of appropriation for
your own welfare and power.
Courage Abroad
And I hold that our life is growing better for the reason that I discover, in all this
new adjustment to truth, this expectation and assumption that Good will not
withhold itself, and because of these things, a new era of courage sweeping the
heart of humanity from sea to sea. There is abroad a Universal Breath, manifest of
Life. This breath consists of two general activities, that of Denial and that of
Affirmation. Courage is a denial of fear and of the reality of fear's cause. But denial
is only the beginning; the really vital thing is confidence in self and in the huge
friendly Universe in which we live. Kindly remember this. You are not making
progress merely because you turn your back on the Night. Progress means that you
also turn face to the Sun and walk buoyantly into the Day. Courage is affirmation:
I am the spirit of the soul
Harmonic with the Perfect Whole.
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Why, the attitude of healthy denial is everywhere apparent. Permit me to run over
some of the things that are coming more and more to be refused acceptance. You
will understand that the items are illustrations only. We are denying: The divine
right of kings; the littleness and unholiness of fundamental human nature; a God who
is a kind of huge carpenter; a Deity who needs to be appeased; a Providence which
punishes; the idea that some people are created for toil and service and others for
ease and to be served; the notion that we must eschew all drugs or depend only on
drugs; the thought which makes disease an entity; the fancy that the illness of some
is a divine will; the feeling that wealth should not be craved, or that it exists for a
favored few; the creed that "evil" is a necessary existence; the faith that heaven is
reserved for the "elect" who "believe" a number of things; the horror of an eternal
hell; the heresy that religion, the spiritual, need have anything to do with creeds,
rites or ceremonies; the feeling that success is only for the favored ones of earth;
and so on, and so on.
These are merely miscellaneous examples of the thousand old-time "truths" which
are now more and more denied. Many pages would be required to set forth the ideas
and dogmas which are unceasingly and emphatically being rejected, thoughtfully,
deliberately, and in a wholesale manner throughout the world of earnest men and
women today.
But when you deny, it is a great mistake if you do not affirm something better. The
breath of courage which is sweeping over the earth, therefore, is splendidly
declaring for ten thousand deathless realities to take the place of mistaken beliefs. I
have space simply for a few illustrations. Are we not affirming somewhat as follows
at the present time?
SIGNS OF THE NEW LIFE.
Deity is neither Jew nor Gentile; He is the Infinite All-Good — the Eternal White Life.
The Infinite and Eternal White Life is evolving a Universe toward the ultimate
perfection of absolute harmony.
All human beings are in fundamental nature divine. We are here for the purpose of
growing to best estate.
Every man, woman and child in the world is entitled to health, happiness, power.
"Evil" is derangement in individual life induced by individual and world thought gone
wrong. As such derangement "evil" is real, but this reality is not necessary or
essential, and it may be banished totally and forever.
Disease is dis-easement of the matter of a body induced by dis-easement of soul in a
body. The self creates or builds its own body, and the condition of the self
determines the condition of the body. In "Power for Success" I have stated what I
believe to be the growing conviction in this regard. "The sound body is a perfect
material expression of the Universal Forces playing into its field, and its physical
character is determined by the psychic character of its owner." " In a state of health,
all physical movements must necessarily cooperate harmoniously with one another
and with the Universal Forces."
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What we call mind is a collection of powers organized for use by the self, and these
powers are rightly developed only by the good, the true, the beautiful. If the feeling
of goodness, or of trueness, or of beauty, is deep within the subconscious phase of
the self, mind-life exhibits as mental health. Mental health is a universal right.
The "spirit" — not to refine on philosophy — is the real self which builds body and
may unfold mind. The highest state of the individual, therefore, is religious at the
top. This is spirituality. But the only conceivable essential to spirituality is a belief
in, and an intelligent (truth-using) surrender to, the White Life — conceived in one's
own way — for harmony and oneness therewith.
Happiness consists in being consciously harmonized with the true, the good and the
beautiful. It is not necessary, however, although it is, of course, better, to know
these words. The child vibrates with goodness without understanding the name
"goodness." And so on.
Power is personality receiving its own in the realms of life.
All things exist for all beings.
Such are some of the realities that are being quietly and potently assumed and
affirmed today throughout the world. Of course the language of assertion will vary
with each individual, but this is immaterial. The essences affirmed are beyond cavil.
Other illustrations might be given, but they would be mere phases of that one breath
of new hope and courage that is stirring in every land, to "spread contagion on
mankind," of the "life which really is."
These higher thoughts, however, are of the Dawn only. The full Day is not yet with
us. Shadows still there are, and error, disease and pain. Why must these false
"realities" remain? Solely because of three things that linger on:
False Thought :: Selfishness :: Fear
And when fear vanishes, replaced by the white life, selfishness will die as
impossible, and thought will no longer be false for the reason that only truth will be
possessed.
If the whole world, then, would but thrust out fear and receive the spirit of courage,
I do not know any "evils" that could endure a century.
And if you who read these pages will but swing up to the white life harmony-plane,
Health, Happiness and Power must be yours as surely as air rushes into a broken
vacuum. If you ask, “What are the limits of this truth?" I answer, "I don't know." To
speak otherwise would be mere speculation. I affirm the great truth: All things are
yours. That you, if stricken through and through with disharmony, may be able to
receive all you crave, I may not affirm. Nevertheless, it is permitted to say: "Launch
out! Launch out in the New Thought of Life, and receive, as you do so, whatever is
rightly your own, as you are increasingly able to do so."
Man has banished many of his fears already. It is not a long run of the centuries since
he quaked before the gloom of the forest, the solitude of the hills, the fog of the
vast sea, and, creating innumerable gods and devils by that wizard of distortion, the
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