7rcTIX1xP

The Fifth Lesson: Thought Dynamics65
The Fifth Lesson: Thought Dynamics
H
ad these lessons been written twenty years ago, instead of today,
it would have been a most difficult task to have awakened the
understanding of the Western public to the importance of the power of
thought, its nature, its effects. Twenty years ago but comparatively few
people in the Western world knew anything about the subject in question,
and, outside of a few occultists, the words of the teacher would have been
regarded as the wildest utterances. But, during the time mentioned, the
Western world has been slowly educated to at least a partial understanding
of the power of thought, and echoes of the great Oriental teachings on
this subject have reached the ears of nearly every thinking person in the
Western world, this being particularly true of Great Britain and America.
This awakening is in accordance with natural laws, and is a part of the
evolution of the race. It is true that much of the teaching has come from
persons who have had but a partial awakening to the truth, and consequently
the teachings have been more or less crude and imperfect and more or less
colored by the personal theories and speculations of the various teachers
who have been writing and speaking upon the subject. The average
Western student, who has been interested in the various movements which
may be roughly grouped together under the style of “The New Thought,”