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024 - Self-Conquest · Heart of the New Thought

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  Speaker 1: Section twenty three of the Heart of the New Thought
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  Speaker 1: by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This liprivox recording is in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain self conquest. Every new idea or supposed new idea,
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  Speaker 1: is a light which attracts the moths. The new thought
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  Speaker 1: is no exception about it. Flutter hysterical women, unbalanced men,
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  Speaker 1: the erratic, and the irresponsible. The possibilities of performing miracles,
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  Speaker 1: of healing the sick, hypnotizing the well, transforming poverty into wealth,
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  Speaker 1: and changing age to youth are the rays of light
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  Speaker 1: which flicker through the darkness and drew them into the
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  Speaker 1: circle of radiance. The self indulgent fat woman subscribes to
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  Speaker 1: new thought literature, pays for a course of lectures, and
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  Speaker 1: goes forth into the ranks of the unbelievers, proclaiming her
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  Speaker 1: power to become a self and to cause others to
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  Speaker 1: become selfs. The extravagant and inconsiderate rush forth, after having
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  Speaker 1: heard a discourse upon the power of mind over matter,
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  Speaker 1: and declare that they possess the secret of accumulating a
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  Speaker 1: fortune by occult means. The lovers of the marvelous believe
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  Speaker 1: that they will become great healers in a brief space
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  Speaker 1: of time. Not one of these moth converters realizes that
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  Speaker 1: the very first step to take in the direction of
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  Speaker 1: new thought is self conquest. The gormond does not know
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  Speaker 1: that self indulgence and gross appetite are incompatible with mental
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  Speaker 1: or spiritual growth, and will be insurmountable obstacles in her
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  Speaker 1: path toward symmetry. This pen's thrift does not take into
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  Speaker 1: consideration the fact that good sense, thrift and industry must
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  Speaker 1: aid his mental assertion of wealth, and the miracle lover
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  Speaker 1: does not understand that something greater and more difficult is
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  Speaker 1: required than a mere wish to heal before healing powers
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  Speaker 1: can be obtained. That the physical body and material conditions
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  Speaker 1: can be dominated by the divine spirit in man is
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  Speaker 1: an incontrovertible fact. But first, last, and always, the lesser
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  Speaker 1: self must be subjugated and the weak and unworthy qualities overcome.
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  Speaker 1: The woman who desires to reduce her flesh cannot do
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  Speaker 1: so by reading occult literature or joining mystic circles or
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  Speaker 1: attending lectures. She permeates herself so thoroughly with the spiritual
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  Speaker 1: truth that she no longer craves six courses At dinner
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  Speaker 1: and three meals a day, and unless she overcomes her
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  Speaker 1: dislike for exercise. The man who wishes to control circumstances
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  Speaker 1: must love better things than money. Before he can succeed.
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  Speaker 1: He must love and respect and believe in his creator
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  Speaker 1: and trust the divine man within himself. And he must
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  Speaker 1: illustrate this love and trust by his daily conduct, and
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  Speaker 1: in his home circle, and in his business relations. Once
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  Speaker 1: in a century, perhaps is a man born with great
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  Speaker 1: powers already developed to heal the sick, or to do
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  Speaker 1: other seeming miracles. Such beings are old souls who have
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  Speaker 1: obtained the blomacy in former lives. But the majority of
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  Speaker 1: us are still in school, and we cannot become seniors
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  Speaker 1: until we pass through the lower grades. We must change
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  Speaker 1: ourselves before we can change material conditions. We must heal
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  Speaker 1: our own thoughts and make them sane and normal, before
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  Speaker 1: we can heal bodily disease in others. It is not
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  Speaker 1: an immediate process. I have heard an old lady declare
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  Speaker 1: that she got religion in the twinkling of an eye,
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  Speaker 1: and she believed all people would be damned and burnt
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  Speaker 1: in hell fire. Who did not pass through this sudden illumination.
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  Speaker 1: It is possible that the religion which can worship a
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  Speaker 1: God cruel enough to burn his children in fire, can
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  Speaker 1: only be obtained in the twinkling of an eye. But
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  Speaker 1: the reverend wholesome and beautiful religion of New Thought must
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  Speaker 1: be grown into, little by little, through patience, faith, and
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  Speaker 1: practice all that it claims to do. It can do,
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  Speaker 1: but not instantaneously, not rapidly. We must first make ourselves over,
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  Speaker 1: after absolute control of our minds has been obtained. Then
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  Speaker 1: and only then may we hope to influence circumstances and health.
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  Speaker 1: End of Section twenty three.