~ Phineas Parkhurst
Quimby Philosophical Society ~
~ Dr. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby ~
[Science]
first comes to the educated, but they, having no light to
distinguish between truth and error, cannot receive it. So it turns
to that class which has no prejudices, and here in the wilderness it
develops itself, until it has attained its growth; and then it comes
forth. Then commences the war between the educated, who are ignorant
of the truth, and the Science. While science is growing in the minds
of the people, its opponents are eating and drinking, gloating over
their spoils, till the tide of popular opinion sweeps away their
foundation. And they never seem to realize their danger, till their
house falls over their heads. ~ Phineas Quimby,
July 16,
1864
The scientific man sees and knows himself - and he also sees and knows
his opponent.... ~ Phineas Quimby,
July 16, 1864
~
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby Philosophical Society ~
~ Our
Adopted
Creed ~
as Adherents of
New Thought
by
Abel L. Allen
~
New
Thought
may be said to possess One Fixed Creed--that of an Eternal
Search for Truth. It is anchored to that One Thought.
It
believes in Truth--but it does not accept every conception
of Truth "final." It realizes that attainment of Truth is a Process of
Evolution, Growth and Development.
Man
can acquire Truth only as he is Mentally and Spiritually prepared to
receive it.
New
Thought is anchored to the Idea of finding the Good and the
Beautiful in Life--the development of
latent possibilities in Man--and
that Law reigns supreme in the Universe.
Anchored
to these Principles,
New Thought moves forward in
its quest for more Truth--in
its search
for Greater Light that leads upward and onward--toward a Unity with
God.
It
has not come to eradicate the Old--except as the Old fades away
before the Advancing Light of the New.
However...
we have been told
that
it is dangerous to put New Wine into Old Bottles--lest the bottles may
break....
New
Thought
is constructive--not
destructive.
It
is not here to
tear down--but to build up.
It
employs Addition--not Subtraction.
Its
Symbol is Plus--not Minus.
It
recognizes
that the Universe is supported upon the enduring foundation of
Changeless
Principles and Fixed Laws--the result of an Infinite and Divine
Intelligence.
It
realizes, also, that Man may grow
into a Knowledge and Understanding of those Principles and Laws--only
as his Conscious Ideals grow
from day-to-day.
Its
Goal is
the Understanding
of Life, of Man and a Conscious Unity of Man with God.
If
its Adherents differ, it is only in methods and not in the end
sought. It
does not
enjoin methods. There
are
many avenues leading to Truth. The
Arc-Light sends out a Myriad of Rays--but they all lead to
the One Light.
The
Adherents of
New Thought worship the Omnipresent God--the Indwelling God--in whom we
live, move, and have our being. They do not conceive of God as distant
or separated from Man but as a Universal Spirit permeating all
Nature--finding its highest expression in Man.
No
better
conception of the God of New Thought can be expressed than was given by
Pythagoras to the World--six centuries before the Christian Era.
Listen
to the Great Message:
God
is the
Universal Spirit
that diffuses itself over all Nature. All
Beings
receive their Life from Him.
There is but One Only God, who is not as
some are apt to imagine seated
above the
World beyond
the orb of
the Universe; but
being Himself
All-in-All, He
sees all the
Beings
that
fill His Immensity - the Only
Principle,
the Light of Heaven,
the Father
of All.
He produces everything. He
orders and
disposes
of all things.
He IS the Reason
the Life
and
Motion
of all things.
~
Pythagoras
New
Thought
teaches that the revelation of God to Man is a continuous process
through Nature, through Reason--the whispering of Intuition through the
events and experiences of Life.
The
Objects of Nature convey their
message only as they awaken the Divine Impulse Within--the desire to
come into Harmony with God.
Molding
our lives
more-and-more into the Divine Likeness is the essential thought in any
worthy religion; as Plato taught--the Highest Aspiration of Man is the
"free imitation of God."
To
teach Man to
come into a Conscious realization of the Divinity Within and the Unity
of Man and God, so that--out of the sublimity of his Soul--he can say,
with the Gentle Master,
"The
Father and I Are One"
IS
the
Supreme Purpose and Meaning of New Thought.
And So It IS!
With Love,
Phineas
Parkhurst Quimby
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