Author : William Walker Atkinson
Release : 2013-09
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Book Synopsis The Law of the New Thought; a Study of Fundamental Principles and Their Application by : William Walker Atkinson
Download or read book The Law of the New Thought; a Study of Fundamental Principles and Their Application written by William Walker Atkinson. This book was released on 2013-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII. THE MIND AND ITS PLANES. The theory of the duality of the mind, and its weak points--Man has but one mind, but it functions upon two planes--The Conscious and the Sub-conscious--The Sub-conscious not the soul, but merely one field of mentation--Super-conscious faculties really the source of higher knowledge--Conscious thought is fresh from the mint--Subconscious thought is the results of preceding conscious thought of self or others--Thought impulses and habits--Conscious thoughts meet new condition--Sub-conscious thoughts handle familiar problems--Man exhibits the highest form of Conscious mentation-- Human sheep--The mind and the Will--The secret of the Oriental occultists--Evolutionary development still progressing. Many modern writers have endeavored to explain the apparent duality of the mind cf Man, by erecting elaborate, theoretical edifices upon the firm foundation of the dual functioning of the mind. Some of these writers have carried their reasoning to absurd lengths, and have attempted to explain all of the problems of existence by their theories of the duality of the mind. They have assumed that because Man has a mind capable of functioning along two different lines of effort, he must, necessarily, have two minds. Some have styled these two minds, respectively, the Objective and Subjective. Others have preferred the terms Conscious and Sub-conscious. Still others, have thought that the terms Voluntary and Involuntary best conveyed the idea. But all have assumed that Man had two distinct minds--some even considering them as separate entities. They ignored the fact that it was almost impossible to separate the two minds; they failed to state that the qualities attributed to the two respective minds seemed to shade...