flits through the mind of every man, woman, and child in the universe produces a living organism, a germ of a character like its producing thought. There is no escape from this conclusion, no escape from the mighty possibilities of good and ill that rest with the thinker.

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Anger, jealousy, malice, avarice, lust, ambition, selfishness, and in fact all of the detestable patterns that mankind harbors, produce living organisms after their kind. If we had microscopes strong enough, we should find our body to be composed of living germs, doing to the best of their ability the tasks which our thoughts have set before them.

If you have said, "I hate you," there have been created in your atmosphere hate germs that will do the work for which you created them. If one's enemies alone were attacked by these germs of thought, the law would not be so severe, but they have no respect for anyone, and are likely to turn upon the body of their creator and tear it down.

So the fear, the doubts, the poverty, the sin, the sickness, the thousand erroneous states of consciousness have their germs. These organisms whose office it is to make men miserable do their work to the very best of their ability. They are