[Home course in] Mental Science

Contents Note: Contents: Lesson I: Omnipresent Life -- Lesson II: Thought, the Body Builder -- Lesson III: Our Beliefs -- Lesson IV: Denials -- Lesson V: Affirmations -- Lesson VI: The Soul of Things -- Lesson VII: Faith, Our Guide Through the Dark -- Lesson VIII: Spirit and Body are One -- Lesson IX: Prayer and Self-Culture -- Lesson X: The Power Behind the Throne -- Lesson XI: The Power Above the Throne -- Lesson XII: The King on His Throne -- Lesson XIII: Mental Science A Race Movement -- Lesson XIV: Mental Science Incarnate in Flesh and Blood -- Lesson XV: Personality and Individuality -- Lesson XVI: "The Stone that the Builders Rejected" -- Lesson XVII: A Noble Egoism A Foundation for Just Actions -- Lesson XVIII: Recognition of the Will The Cure of Disease -- Lesson XIX: Practical Healing -- Lesson XX: Posture of the Will Man.

Summary or Abstract: The universe is one mighty magnet, having its positive and negative poles. In Mental Science, the two words "positive" and "negative" explain the whole. And yet these words are used to describe relative and not absolute conditions ; and the words themselves are relative in their application. There is nothing absolutely positive. The whole--everything we can see or get any conception of--is one grand, sliding scale; the negative growing into the positive, and the positive into the more positive throughout all time. The words which will best explain negative and positive are "unintelligent" and "intelligent," or "unripe" and "ripe." Let me illustrate. The rocks are extremely negative as compared with my hand, and my hand is negative as compared with my brain, and my brain is negative as compared with that essence which it generates, and which we call "thought."