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Serving New Thought is pleased to present
Horatio W. Dresser's
The Power of Silence
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Preface to the New Edition -
The Point of View -
Immanent God -
World of Manifestation -
Nature of Existence -
Mental Life -
Meaning of Idealism -
Nature of Mind -
Meaning of Suffering -
Duality of Self -
Adjustment -
Poise -
Self-Help -
Entering the Silence -
The Outlook -
Contents -
Index
we
possess a foundation for the unity of life which renders all else secondary.
The great fact in all the universe
about us and especially in the world of the soul, is the existence of the
Spirit, ever in manifestation, possessing what we in our feeble speech
call a "constitution," an "organism." That is, God
is orderly. Since He is one, and His life is a system, fraught with purpose,
inspired by centralising love, all His universe is orderly. The world over,
God's life moves
in uniformity, is exemplified by what we call law. His will, His oneness
of purpose is thus
the true basis of unity. Whether in the inner life or the outer, God is
the same. The distinctions of nature, man and man, mind and matter, are
not separations of God from God.
Conscious of himself, within
this great system, exists man, environed by activities of that Life,
expressed in various forms.
Some forms are conveniently distinguishable as belonging to nature, some
to mind, and some to the moral domain. But all is from one great Life,
and the question is, What is the dynamic relation of the soul to the
activities of that Life, the
laws which it reveals, and the ideal tendencies which it manifests? It
matters not what the order of being, the question is
the same. Thus the problem of life is a spiritual problem.
There is an ideal for each, a tendency resident in each. How far is the
soul aware of
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