Continual criticism produces rheumatism, as critical, inharmonious thoughts cause unnatural deposits in
the blood, which settle in the joints. False growths are caused by jealousy, hatred unforgiveness, fear, etc.
Every disease is caused by a mind not at ease.
I said once, in my class, "There is no use asking anyone
'What's the matter with you?' we might just as well say, 'Who's the matter with you?' "Unforgiveness is
the most prolific cause of disease. It will harden arteries or liver, and affect the eyesight. In its train are
endless ills.
I called on a woman, one day, who said she was ill from having eaten a poisoned oyster. I replied, "Oh,
no, the oyster was harmless, you poisoned the oyster. What's the matter with you?" She answered, "Oh
about nineteen people." She had quarreled with nineteen people and had become so inharmonious that she
attracted the wrong oyster.
Any inharmony on the external indicates there is mental inharmony. "As the within, so the without."
Man's only enemies are within himself. "And a man's foes shall be they of his own household."
Personality is one of the last enemies to be overcome, as this planet is taking its initiation in love. It was
Christ's message "Peace on Earth, good will towards man."
The enlightened man, therefore, endeavors
to perfect himself upon his neighbor. His work is with himself, to send out goodwill and blessings to
every man, and the marvelous thing is, that if one blesses a man he has no power to harm him.
For example: A man came to me asking to "treat" for success in business. He was selling machinery, and
rival appeared on the scene with what he proclaimed, was a better machine, and my friend feared defeat. I
said, "First of all, we must wipe out all fear, and know that God protects your interest, and that the divine
idea must come out of the situation.
That is, the right machine will be sold, by the right man, to the right
man." And I added, "Don't hold one critical thought towards that man. Bless him all day, and be willing
not to sell your machine, if it isn't the divine idea."
So he went to the meeting, fearless and nonresistant,
and blessing the other man. He said the outcome was very remarkable. the other man's machine refused to
work, and he sold his without the slightest difficulty. "But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them
that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which spitefully use you and persecute
you."
"Goodwill produces a great aura of protection about the one who sends it, and "No weapon
that is formed against him shall prosper." In other words, love and goodwill destroy the
enemies with one's self; therefore, one has no enemies on the external!
"There is peace on earth for him who sends goodwill to man!"