The Inner Life

the doors of our own mind to these conditions, we run the risk of being overcome by them. “Evil communications corrupt good manners,” is true, both physically and spiritually.

A young child may be injured mentally and physically by sleeping with an aged person. On the other hand, an aged person can retain a good deal of strength and youth by associating with the young. One who loves children and has them constantly about, will feel a youthfulness not enjoyed by those who live otherwise. Sometimes a sick person seems to fill the whole house with unpleasant vibrations, while a fault-finding or fretful person may make a whole family unhappy by his or her unspoken thoughts. There are others whose presence is a benediction, and the room just vacated by them seems full of pleasant thoughts.

One can train one’s mind so that one’s thoughts will strike with the precision and the force of a bullet, but before this kind of such training, it should be done in mind that an unprincipled character may produce as much harm by unwise or selfish thought projects as a child with a shotgun in his hands. A person whose vibrations rise from a good, unselfish mind and a pure and loving heart, is a blessing to the whole world. His very presence is good and his unconscious thoughts are healing to those sick in mind or body.

The fourth or unseen dimension of anything is its projection in space, or as I have said, its vibration. The dimension that we are all familiar with, are length, breadth and thickness. This other dimension, the fourth, is one that philosophers have long studied, but is now being better understood in the light of recent scientific discoveries. It is merely that dimension which extends beyond all that is visible.