Thoughts Are Things

I am no longer like Lot's wife, preserving
evil in mind and
body by remembering it. I relax and willingly
let go of all
effete substance, that the new, pure
radiance of God may be
made manifest in me.

My mind no longer clings to the
complexity of mortal
finances. I am open to the splendor
of the kingdom of God
within, and a flood of plenty follows.

ONE OF the axiomatic truths of metaphysics is that "thoughts are things." That the mind of man marshals its faculties and literally makes into living entities the ideas that it entertains is also a foregone conclusion.

The word "things" expresses poorly the active and very vital character of the thoughts to which the mind gives life, substance, and intelligence.

We see so many inanimate "things" around us in the material world, and we compare our creative thoughts with them and thereby get a very inferior