Puslapio vaizdai
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entity that God created to play its part in an eternal plan unfathomable to the finite mind. As Professor Myers taught, the spirits of men are co-operative elements in the cosmic evolution, are part and parcel of the ultimate vitalizing Power. It is a belief of the author's that all human spirits are at their creation equally gifted. We are distinguished from one another by the measure of our communication with the Infinite and consequently by the variety and amount of endowment we bring over from extra-planetary existence for objective expression in this life. If man could be impelled to project all that he is, we should be a race of gods. Theology has vainly tried to prove that man as man is altogether depraved and helpless.

The subliminal self finds high expression in all heroic feelings and deeds, so illustrating that concord between majestic means and noblest purpose which we characterize as sublime. It prompts and makes possible dauntless courage, manly resignation, generous self-sacrifice, exalted patriotism. In Egypt's golden age it nerved Rameses, forsaken by his cowardly troops to hold alone the field of battle against his Accadian foes. For the god Amen was on his side and, as he cried in man's earliest epic, "This is better for me than millions of soldiers."

It inspired Socrates, condemned by a sentence

flagrantly unjust, composedly to discuss the question of immortality before his judges, without fear, anger, or resentment, striving to prepare his very accusers for the future ordeal of death. It colored the gallant words and actions of a legion of demigods known to all readers of history. It kindled and sustained the devotion of those sweet spirits that have entombed themselves in leprosaries to carry to the most repulsive of physical sufferers the message of Christian consolation and peace.

It formulated the fearless declaration, "I have kept the First Day," that doomed to the arena and the stake-torch a hundred thousand martyrs. In the flames of pitch-steeped tunics, under the teeth of the lion, and on the horns of the aurochs -amid the realism of the Roman amphitheater, when in response to the cry of "Christians to the lions!" victims flaming with fever, human prey with cyanotic lips and clammy hair, were dragged from the dripping dungeons of the Esquiline and thrown to famished wild beasts, while emperors surrounded by lewd bacchantes and prostituted vestals looked on and jeeredamid this dream of hell, the subliminal self, exalted and activated by the spirit of Christ, reigned supreme in the souls of those who were called upon to suffer in His name. It was man imaging God. And this subliminal energy in

man, reinforced and made resistless by the Hagion Pneuma of the Supreme shortly converted this same festering Roman world, with its iron legions and haughty paganism, to the faith of the Galilean peasant.

In the Nazarene himself is centered the one perfect expression of moral and intellectual beauty, unattainable by the mere man, but idealized forever in the Immaculate Psyche of the Very God, so essentially human, so transcendently divine. And yet we are required to exploit these very attributes of the Almighty that are embodied in the character of Jesus for our ensample.

Man is under obligation to use his psychic forces as far as he is able, and he is endowed with power through their employment to make good in all situations that may arise in his career. Nor has he moral right to withhold the best that is in him from his fellow-beings. The prophet's question, Will a man rob God? is peculiarly pertinent here. He so robs who permits to slumber in his nature the energy that might lift him to levels abreast of angels, and fit him to stand a living witness for uplift and regeneration in the community of which he is a constituent part. "The earth is our workshop," said Mazzini, "and we are in duty bound to sanctify it." It becomes each of us, then, to do all the good he can with what psychology he knows, and

duty imposes the responsibility of perfecting personal efficiency by adequately informing one's self. "There is a responsibility about the care and culture of the Divine Essence with which we are intrusted."

SUGGESTION, THE DYNAMIC APPEAL:

AUTO-THERAPEUTICS

Mind-cure has developed a living system of mental hygiene, wholly and exclusively compacted of optimism, which leads to power. With its gospel of healthy-mindedness, it has come as a revelation to many whose hearts the church Christianity had left hardened. It has let loose their springs of higher life. What is attained is an altogether new level of spiritual vitality, a relatively heroic level, in which impossible things have become possible, and new energies and endurances are shown. The personality is changed, the man is born anew.

Professor WILLIAM JAMES, The Varieties of Religious Experience.

Suggestion combines with therapeutic attempts of all kinds. It either adds to or subtracts from the action of a drug. But in a large number of cases it actually forms the only therapeutic agent.

Professor FOREL.

The day is rapidly dawning when hospitals will not be considered complete without psycho-therapeutic specialists upon their staffs.

SIDNEY WILKINSON, M.R.C.S.,

Physician to Liverpool Psycho-therapeutic Clinic.

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