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Him we attain health, bliss and immortality, is the very foundation stone of the Vedas. It is at least presumptuous for anyone in this age to claim it as a discovery.
Once every century or two, the progressive minds of earth grow tired of empty forms and creeds, and seek for some simple expression of true religious feeling. Just now this creed is known as "New Thought." Two hundred years ago it was called "Quietism," and its leader was a woman, Mme. Guyon. She was born with a passion for a religious life. She passed through various phases of self-torture, self-sacrifice, austerity and devotion, and yet found no peace.
Finally a holy man said to her: "Madam, you are disappointed because you seek from without, that which you have within. Accustom yourself to seek God in your own heart, and you will find Him."
This statement was a revelation to Mme. Guyon; from that hour she became what was in that age termed "a mystic." It is said of her by a historian of her time: "God was continually present to her, and she appeared to feel and behold all creatures as immersed in the gracious omnipresence of the Most High. In her adoring contemplation of the Divine Presence, she often found herself unable to pray for any particular blessing. More than once those who chanced to sit near her, believed they perceived a
marvelous of of grace proceeding from her to
themselves."
Mme. Guyon founded a religion called Quietism. It meant simply the habit of becoming quiet and finding the Divine Nature within. It called for no aid of priest, ideal, form or creed.
That is precisely what the "New Thought" and
