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BOSICRUCIAN PHILOSOPHY
sermon on the mount, where he tells us that "The man who
has looked upon a woman with desire has, in fact, already
and when we realize that as a man
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committed adultery
thinketh in his heart, so is he, we shall have a much clearer
conception of life if we only
take into consideration the
acts of men, for every act is the outcome of a previous
thought lut these thoughts are not always our own.
When we strike a tuning fork, another tuning fork of
the same pitch being near, not only the one which is struck
will ring, but the other will also commence to sing in
sympathy. Likewise, when we think a thought and another
person in our environment has been thinking along the
same line, our thoughts coalesce with his and strengthen
him for good or evil according to the nature of the thought.
It is no mere fancy when in the play called "The Witch-
ing Hour/' the hero aims to help a scoundrel escape from
the State of Kentucky, where the latter is about to be
arrested for murder of the Governor. The hero, a man
of considerable thought power feels that he may have
prompted the criminal. He tells his sister that previous to
the time of the murder he had thought that the murder
could be committed just in the manner in which it was
actually done. He is under the impression that his thought
the brain of the murderer and
may have been caught by
have shown him the way to commit the murder.
When we go into a jury box and we see before ourselves
the criminal, we behold only his act ; we have no cognizance
of the thought which prompted him. If we have been
in the habit of thinking evil, malicious thoughts against
one person or another, these thoughts may have been
attractive to that criminal, and on the principle that when
we have before ourselves a saturated solution of salt it
will only take a single crystal to make that salt solution