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"To Live and Grow Young," it is
necessary to conquer fear for fear is mortal mind's great ghost
factory. Understand you abide on earth under an eternal law
and that law is --As you sow, so shall you reap. Fear is bad
seed to plant in the human consciousness for the harvest is worry,
discontent, failing health and loss of years.
Try to make each day one of perfect harmony,
harmony that comes with the understanding that you are one with
the universal mind, one of the hosts of eternity. Then your
tasks of the day will be done without effort, for freedom from
fear removes burdens from your path and enables you to look on the
bright side -- to look up and not down.
Do not fear want, for such fear clogs the channel
of supply; do not fear disease, for it blocks the path of the
health stream flowing through your veins, which, unrestricted by
fear, produces health and enables you to "Live and Grow
Young." Do not fear years for there is no reality in
them. There are no years in law. You cannot imagine
that there ever was or ever will be any age in any principle of
mathematics, music or electricity. They are just principles,
and so is existence when free from the fear of belief of
years. Fear of years robs man of youth and all it
represents. Do not fear contact with people. The
lustre of the pearl is improved by human contact. Let your
contact with the world improve your lustre. Do not fear the
thoughts of others or their power to hurt or influence you.
The only power they have to hurt you is your own fear of them.
Do not fear malicious animal magnetism. This
fear destroys any person or organization that believes in
it. Affirm that which you desire and do not let that which
you do not desire enter your mind. Build a wall of thought
so high that disease and death thoughts cannot reach you. Do
not rear the weather. Do not fear days. There are no
lucky or unlucky days, but your fears make them so. In
principle there is no luck. It never fails to act on certain
days and work better on others.
Free yourself from any belief of the stars
controlling your health or life. They have no power to
control you, and belief in astrology may rob you of a great
future. You were never under any planet and cannot be under
any influence of planets, but you may be so filled with fear
regarding your birthday that you will produce unfavorable
conditions in life, the same as if you were born under so-called
unfavorable planetary influences. The earth is not under or
over any planet. It is just a very small jewel in God's good
universe --a universe so great that words inadequate to express
it.
Do not fear creeds, dogmas or church
councils. Do not allow any teachings of the past to
cause you fear. One of the greatest causes that shorten life
is the fear of some disease hereditary in your family, but there
is no reason for your dying of consumption even if both your
father and mother did, except your fear that you will. This
fear will put you always on the watch for symptoms and if you
catch a sever cold at about the age that your father or mother
died with the disease, you think at once --here it is, my time has
come. You start the ghost factory working overtime.
You visualize this disease. The cell life takes it up and
starts reproducing this manifestation. It is faithful to the
picture you order. You must understand that you have the
power to release all this from your mind.
Some think that on account of members of their
family only reaching 40 or 50 years, they must depart also about
that time. They persist in telling their friends that they
came from a short-lived family and do not expect to reach more
than the age of 50. As that age draws near they accept all
symptoms as indications of the approaching end. The ghost
factory is working. The truth is they need not die young
simply because several of their family did. Surely some of
the family should live to a good old age to average the family
years, that is, to bring it up to the average age. So if you
wish to hold any thought, why not hold this one --"The
chances are I will live to a good ripe age, for some of my
family must strike an average age." As long as
you must hold some thought, pick out a good life-producing
one. Do not select a bad belief, even if all your family
hold to it, for it is only mesmerism and will bring bad results.
Many assume that if some of their ancestors
possessed ungovernable tempers, they are justified in manifesting
temper on every occasion, and if rebuked, they hide in the shade
of the ancestral tree. They cling to the belief that this trait
was wished on them and instead of trying to overcome it,
vigorously defend it. If they would know the truth about it,
and destroy the belief that they are controlled by this law of
heredity, the next generation would be improved.
No matter what your family traits may have been,
you have the power to be your own master --to remake yourself and
improve the stock that is to follow. Have the courage to
shake from the family tree this belief that an ungovernable temper
is your heritage. Allow nothing to annoy you or disturb your
serenity. Claim the mastery of your life and its
problems. It will put the ghost factory out of business,
give you days of peace and longer life.
Write on the tablet of your mind the seventh verse
of the first chapter of 2 Timothy --"For God hath not given
us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound
mind."
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