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The author has often been asked to write out in full, or allow people to write out, the daily treatment that he gives himself. This would be a mistake. The object of the author is to turn people to God, from Whom alone can a knowledge of Truth be gained. In treatment, the object is not to form a wonderful idea of the world of reality, nor is it to string together a number of words which sound harmonious and appeal to the intellect. The object is to get away altogether from thinking of the material world, and to lose oneself in a glorious and wonderful concept, as uplifted as possible, of God and God’s perfect world. To do this, one must use words that appeal to oneself. As a a matter of fact no human being can harm another. Those who believe that there is such a thing as a belief in hypnotism have to work against hypnotism; those who think that there is a belief in malice against the truth, must work against this. And so the work done by each individual varies more or less according to the condition of his so-called mind.
The author’s wife speaks of the author’s method of treatment as scaffold poles upon which to build one’s treatment. This is because of his class of mind which prefers few words and that they should be directly to the point, relying upon clearness of realisation for the result, the result being the getting away from all thought of the material. With a different class of mind, this result is better arrived at by a series of groupings of words dealing w...ith the wonders of heaven. The great thing is to let God do His work and to rely upon being led, through the action of God, to treat in the way that is of most value to humanity.
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