Education and the Philosophical Ideal by Horatio W. Dresser - Read the Complete Text for free at NewThoughtLibrary.com

Divine Library is a free online public library that includes free eBook downloads and free audio books.

We work with New Thought Seekers and Sharers around the world insuring that all New Thought Texts in the Public Domain are available for you to read on the web for free, forever!

"Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit."
~ 2 Corinthians 2:17

Navigate through this book by clicking Next Page or Previous Page below the text of the page & jump directly to chapters using the chapter numbers above the text.

Serving New Thought is pleased to present

Horatio W. Dresser's

Education and the Philosophical Ideal

"Evolution is better than Revolution. New Thought Library's New Thought Archives encompass a full range of New Thought from Abrahamic to Vedic. New Thought literature reflects the ongoing evolution of human thought. New Thought's unique inclusion of science, art and philosophy presents a dramatic contrast with the magical thinking of decadent religions that promulgate supersticions standing in the way of progress to shared peace and prosperity." ~ Avalon de Rossett

Your PayPal contributions insure this gift lasts forever. Please consider an ongoing PayPal subscription.

Preface - Introduction - The New Point of View - Educational Ideals - Equanimity - The Subconscious Mind - The Spiritual Ideal in Childhood - An Experiment in Education - The Expression of the Spirit - An Ideal Summer Conference - The Ministry of the Spirit - The Mystery of Pain and Evil - The Philosophical Ideal - The Criteria of Truth - Organic Perfection - Immortality - Index - p. 247

If an angry, excited man were to rush up to you, urging you to join him in a venturesome undertaking, you would say "Let as be calm. Let us quietly reason together." Proceed in the same way with yourself. First find the quiet centre within, then calmly reason. Do not permit your mind to dwell upon the painful, the unpleasant, the selfish thought. Let the higher self (the Christ) command the lower self: "Peace, be still!" "I and my Father are one," the higher self says. Think of that. Live in that. Rise above all that is distressing, in the strength and confidence of the Spirit, the greatest power in the world, the conqueror of the flesh, the master of the mind.

By this time, the reader is ready to leap to the conclusion that we are advocating a merely mental theory of health and healing. Not at all. We are contending for a recognition of both the physical and mental factors, for as mind in a sound body, a mind which draws upon its own resources and acquires mastery over the body. It is only in this broad sense that the problem of health becomes part of philosophical education, namely, through the lessons which pain may teach as a factor in self development and harmonious self-expression.

Take a test case. Two persons take a bicycle ride and become very much heated. They sit down to rest, and one of them "takes cold "; the other experiences no inconvenience, although he lies down upon the ground. The mental healer, defining disease as an "error of mind," declares that one

page scan

PREVIOUS PAGE - NEXT PAGE