The Inner Life
THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | FEBRUARY 1936
loosing, like wild beasts, in their mental communities, and which always create havoc before they spread and thereby lessen their harmful effects.
In the meantime those of your own or your neighbors’ children, helpless victims who are susceptible to the destructive effects of the vibrations of your selfish and thoughtless words, have to suffer and some of them even unto death. In the light of these facts, do you wonder there is so much sickness, inharmony, and trouble in the world?
With all due respect to medical science trying to account for the causes of different diseases, we say that all so-called germs or microbes are but these destructive vibrations sent forth into the mental atmosphere by different minds. Some of them sent so powerfully that they affect whole communities.
When the medical fraternity as a whole turns its power of scientific research into the realms of the mind and makes a systematic study of thoughts and the various emotions vitalizing them, and of all thought processes, they will then learn the true causes of the countless diseases now afflicting humanity; when it is hoped they will also learn the true way of curing them.
HOW THE above applies to remarkable children can be seen when we say that many of such understand this law of the Mind and wonder that their parents do not know these facts and so foolishly say things that bring them so much unnecessary trouble. It is often the real cause of loss of respect for their parents.
We know of one girl who has been allowed to grow up and do much as she chose, because of her ability to fool her mother at will and because her mother could not understand her. As a result of being allowed to eat candy because she insisted upon having it, and only the food she liked, the child is thin and sickly, has a weak stomach, no physical stamina, and is subject to every cold and ailment going the rounds of the neighborhood.
She often surprises her parents with unusual remarks, and once when her mother suggested if she did not stop eating so much candy she might die, she told her mother she was not afraid to die, because the soul never dies. She knew she had lived in other bodies. When her mother asked her how she knew this, she
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