Questions

This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

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18392	***** I stay my haste, I make delays, For what avails this eager pace?
18392	And would you have in your body all the elasticity, all the strength, all the beauty of your younger years?
18392	_ Whittier_***** Would you remain always young, and would you carry all the joyousness and buoyancy of youth into your maturer years?
4507	Who does not love a tranquil heart, a sweet- tempered, balanced life? 4507 In the light of this truth, what, then, is the meaning offighting against circumstances?"
4507	Shall man''s basest desires receive the fullest measure of gratification, and his purest aspirations starve for lack of sustenance?
8414	Again, the depth of a life must be equal, and how do we lack in this?
8414	How can we comfort them and point them to the hope of a new endeavor?
8414	How often shall we treat an absent patient?
8414	Jesus again told this when he said to the man who asked him"What shall I do that I may have eternal life?"
8414	Like the Christians of old we do not understand higher relationships, and at last, worn out with disappointment we cry,"Where are the promises?"
8414	What makes the difference?
13136	What Is God? 13136 ................................................................... How long so affected?.............................................. 13136 Are you reading Dr. Bush''s books?.................................. 13136 Are you tense? 13136 Are you willing to earnestly work in harmony with the treatment when sent out?........................................................ 13136 Do you wish to conquer disease-- strengthen your personality-- be more and do more? 13136 Ever had a severe accident, shock, great sorrow or disappointment? 13136 Ever taken Silent Treatment?....................................... 13136 What is God? 13136 What is wrong? 13136 Where is Success? 13136 Which ones?........................................................ 7224 If then,"you may ask,"fate is so pitiless and so powerful, what can be done with it and where does free- will enter into the matter?"
7224	FATE OR FREE- WILL?
7224	How can this be done?
7224	On the other hand, he has no incentive to hoard or to grab wealth, for of what use are riches to one whose supply is for ever assured?
7224	PREFACE CHAPTER I.--Infinite Life and Power CHAPTER II.--The Overcoming of Life''s Difficulties CHAPTER III.--Fate or Free- Will?
7224	Shall we be victorious or shall we be submerged?
7224	Shall we overcome life''s difficulties or shall we give in to them?
7224	The greatest Teacher of all once said:"For what shall it profit man, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?"
7224	The question is, can this be done?
7224	Those who have studied the Occult sciences may say"what about planetary influences?"
7224	What has all this got to do with practical, everyday life, it may be asked?
7224	Why should they have any such desire?
10390	Again, what average boy would not prefer a fox- terrier to a goldfish for a pet?
10390	But it will be asked, May we not go on until at last we attain the possession of all knowledge?
10390	But suppose, when we reach a point where some momentous decision has to be made, we happen to decide wrongly?
10390	He that planted the ear shall He not hear?"
10390	How can this be done?
10390	How do we know what the intention of the Universal Mind may be?
10390	How is this to be accomplished?
10390	Is there any reason why the laws which hold good of the individual subjective mind should not hold good of the Universal Mind also?
10390	Or, again, why is it that the boy himself is an advance upon the dog?
10390	That such a connection must exist is proved by metaphysical argument in answer to the question,"How did anything ever come into existence at all?"
10390	The answer to this error remains, as of old, in the simple question,"He that made the eye shall He not see?
10390	The question then arises, how can the healer substitute his own conscious mind for that of the patient?
10390	What Form, then, should Love give to the vehicles of its expression?
10390	What must the Supreme All- originating Spirit be in itself?
10390	What should be the relation of such an intelligence towards us?
30256	Again, are you unhappy?
30256	And the prize for which we strive"to have and to hold"--what is it?
30256	Are you growing more attractive as you advance in life?
30256	Do you go to pieces nervously if you are obliged to repeat a remark to some one who did not understand you?
30256	Eternity Do you know what a wonderfully complicated thing a human being is?
30256	Generosity Have you ever observed how invariably your"last dollar"is restored to you, with additions, when you have given it for some worthy purpose?
30256	Is it flying loose over a trifle?
30256	Is your eye softer and deeper, is your mouth kinder, your expression more sympathetic, or are you screwing up your face in tense knots of worry?
30256	It surely was not visible upon those pinched and worried faces?
30256	Morning Influences What do you think about the very first thing in the morning?
30256	Sympathy Are you of a sympathetic nature?
30256	The Object of Life What do you believe to be the object of your life?
30256	Then what is character, and what is success?
30256	Then why think it your duty to take mental potions which paralyze your courage and kill your ambition?
30256	Then, about your temper?
30256	What is uglier or more unattractive than mud?
30256	What monarch would feel pleasure in having his children crawl in the dust, saying,"We are less than nothing, miserable, unworthy creatures?"
30256	Would he not prefer to hear them say, proudly:"We are of royal blood"?
30256	Would you be happy and successful?
30256	Yet where was the result of the loving, tender, sweet spirit of Christ''s teaching?
33917	***** Do you want more books on Health and Success?
33917	And do n''t you want to read Wallace D. Wattles''"New Science of Living and Healing,"price 50 cents?
33917	And when shall I eat my second meal?
33917	Are long continued fasts necessary?
33917	But if I do not eat on arising in the morning, when shall I take my first meal?
33917	Can one be in actual physical suffering and still think only thoughts of_ health_?
33917	From the foregoing, however, you can easily see that the Science of Being Well readily answers the question: When, and how often shall I eat?
33917	It is very easy to find the correct answer to the question, How much shall I eat?
33917	Must we not conclude that their patients are healed by a Principle of Health within themselves, and not by something in the varying"remedies"?
33917	Shall I drive myself beyond my strength, trusting in God to support me?
33917	Shall I go on, like the runner, expecting a"second wind"?
33917	So, I say, the question, What shall I eat?
33917	The current sciences of medicine and hygiene have made no progress toward answering the question, What shall I eat?
33917	What about exercise?
33917	What shall I do about that great bugaboo which scares millions of people to death every year-- Constipation?
33917	What shall I do when I am in pain?
33917	What shall I do when I am too weak for my work?
33917	What use for you to talk of mental control unless you will govern yourself in so simple a matter as ceasing to bolt your food?
10740	And have you ceased to talk about yourself and to regard yourself with self- complacent pride?
10740	Are you content to take the lowest place, and to be passed by unnoticed?
10740	Are you given to ostentation and self- praise?
10740	Are you saved from your temper, your irritability, your vanity, your personal dislikes, your judgment and condemnation of others?
10740	Are you willing to deny yourself, to give up your lusts, your prejudices, your opinions?
10740	Armored in changeless Truth, what can he know Of loss and gain?
10740	Art thou purged by the fires of sorrow?
10740	But how may one attain to this sublime realization?
10740	Divine Love can not be known until self is dead, for self is the denial of Love, and how can that which is known be also denied?
10740	Do you fight, with passion, for your party?
10740	Do you harbor thoughts of suspicion, enmity, envy, lust, pride, or do you strenuously fight against these?
10740	Do you lust for power and leadership?
10740	Do you seek to know and to realize Truth?
10740	Do you strive for riches?
10740	From thy human heart hath all striving gone, Leaving but Truth, and Love, and Peace alone?
10740	Hast thou crossed the wide ocean of strife?
10740	Hast thou found on the Shores of the Silence, Release from all the wild unrest of life?
10740	Hast thou passed through the desert of doubt?
10740	Hast thou passed through the place of despair?
10740	Hast thou wept through the dark night of grief?
10740	Have you pondered seriously upon the problem of life?
10740	Have you relinquished all strife?
10740	Have you sorrowed deeply?
10740	Have you suffered much?
10740	How does he act under trial and temptation?
10740	If not, from what are you saved, and wherein have you realized the transforming Love of Christ?
10740	Is thy soul so fair That no false thought can ever harbor there?
10740	Or have you given up the love of riches?
10740	Reader, do you seek to realize the birth into Truth?
10740	Sheltered by deathless love, what fear hath he?
10740	The final test of wisdom is this,--how does a man live?
10740	What spirit does he manifest?
10740	Who, then, in the midst of the ceaseless pandemonium of schools and creeds and parties, has the Truth?
10740	You say,"How can I love the drunkard, the hypocrite, the sneak, the murderer?
10740	does it move( Now freed from its sorrow and care) Thy human heart to pitying gentleness, Looking on wrong, and hate, and ceaseless stress?
10740	hath ruth The fiends of opinion cast out Of thy human heart?
10361	And if this beginning is now with us, by what reason can we limit it?
10361	But how about those who have passed over without that recognition?
10361	But how are we to do this?
10361	But the question is, What is going to become of ourselves?
10361	CHAPTER III THE DIVINE IDEAL What is the Divine Ideal?
10361	Do you expect God to put cash into your desk by a conjuring trick?
10361	Four kingdoms we know: what is to be the Fifth?
10361	Have I got this as an ever present Law of Tendency at the back of my thought?
10361	How can the force which pulls a thing down be an integral part of the force which builds it up?
10361	How do we know that it is the will of God?
10361	How do we know this?
10361	If so, then how is it that we all project identically similar images?
10361	Is the material movement evolved at this stage bound to take any particular form?
10361	Now ask yourself in what way individual selection and initiative would be likely to act as expressing the Originating Spirit itself?
10361	Now what must this passing out of the body mean to us?
10361	One is the question, How can moral guilt be transferred from one person to another?
10361	So, then, the question arises, What lines will this further development be likely to follow?
10361	The Law is that we can not transcend the Normal; therefore comes the question, What is the Normal?
10361	The bruised shins of our childhood convince us of its solidity, so now comes the question, Why does Matter exist?
10361	Then comes the question, How did the Universal Substance get there?
10361	Then comes the question, Is there no way of getting out of this law?
10361	Then the question arises, if these principles are true, why are we not demonstrating them?
10361	Then the question is, How are we to do this?
10361	Then there is the objection, How can past sins be done away with?
10361	Then why not impress upon it the suggestion that in passing over to the other side it has brought its objective mentality along with it?
10361	Therefore we arrive at the question, What is the Divine Ideal like?
10361	What is this something?
10361	When you were fourteen did you know where all the means were coming from which were going to support you till now when you are perhaps forty or fifty?
10361	Where, then, does limitation come from?
10361	Why not?
10361	Why, then, should not regeneration be accomplished here and now?
28163	And when they saw him they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? 28163 Do you know why money is so scarce, brothers?"
28163	Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God? 28163 Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God?
28163	Why callest thou me good? 28163 Again it is as Jesus said:For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and lose his own life?"
28163	And Goethe had a still deeper vision when he said:"Who is the happiest of men?
28163	And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me?
28163	And may I say a word here to our Christian ministry, that splendid body of men for whom I have such supreme admiration?
28163	And may I say here this word to those outside, and especially to this class of young men and young women outside of our churches?
28163	And what really underlies the making of a record?
28163	Are we ready for this high type of spiritual adventure?
28163	As His words are recorded by Matthew:"Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
28163	As Jesus said:"And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?"
28163	But what, after all, does this mean?
28163	Can he be made into a spiritual man?
28163	Can not this healing process be greatly accelerated by a voluntary and conscious action of the mind, assisted, if need be, by some other person?
28163	Do you know that incident in connection with the little Scottish girl?
28163	Hast thou not heard that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth fainteth not, neither is weary?
28163	His question was:"Master, which is the great commandment in the law?"
28163	If you go back to the olden time and the old conflicts, the question was,''What is the relation of Jesus Christ to the Eternal?''
28163	In clear and unmistakable words he made it known-- and why should he not?
28163	Is it like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened?"
28163	Jesus was right-- What doth it profit?
28163	Many times his question was:"Believe ye that I am able to do this?"
28163	No matter how the die is cast, Or who may seem to win-- We know that we must love at last-- Why not begin?
28163	Now what is the Divine call?
28163	Or according to our idiom-- who can understand him?
28163	Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
28163	Or with what comparison shall we compare it?
28163	Peace?
28163	Peace?
28163	Peace?
28163	Shall we look for a moment to the first?
28163	Shall we recall again in this connection:"I am come that ye might have life and that ye might have it more abundantly"?
28163	Should not each one do his share?
28163	Wars have been fought over the question,''Was he of one substance with the Father?''
28163	Was Mayor Jones a Christian?
28163	Was he a member of a religious organisation?
28163	What can be plainer?
28163	What is the cause of this almost world- wide difference in these two lives?
28163	What right have I to call them his fundamentals?
28163	Where were the books?
28163	Who made up the complete list?
28163	Why be disconcerted, why in a heat concerning so many things?
28163	Why be so eager to gain possession of the hundred thousand or the half- million acres, of so many millions of dollars?
28163	Wist ye not that I must be about my father''s business?
28163	[ Footnote E: Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon?
28163	_ We touch the Father when we help His child._ Jesus taught us not to come to God asking, art Thou this or that?
41892	Surely this takes the matter away from Mental Action, does n''t it?
41892	What,you may cry,"Mind and Mentation in the mineral and chemical world-- surely not?"
41892	Why,some of us may cry,"how can we go back of the Atom, or Electron?"
41892	_ What_ Force and Energy?
41892	And as Thought is produced by Mind causing vibrations in the Psychoplasm, why is not the Astral Colors reasonable?
41892	And does it not explain why Gravitation is not affected in its"passage"by intervening bodies?
41892	And does not seem that this theory also explains why no medium is required for the"travel"of Gravitation?
41892	And in thus parting company, reader, let us murmur the words of the German poet, who has sung:"Dost thou ask for rest?
41892	And should not the medium between Mind and Mind be looked for in the Mental Region?
41892	And, have n''t we seen that both Electricity and Magnetism were Mental Actions also?
41892	But what about Mentation and Life in the plant life?
41892	Do these things mean anything to the"Man of the Street?"
41892	Do you desire to come in with us?
41892	Do you realize what this means?
41892	Do you want to get the cream of Success-- thought?
41892	Do you want to join our circle of thousands of Success readers?
41892	Does it not appear that they exhibit something very like both?
41892	Does it take a wild flight of the imagination to see that this Something, that is not Matter, and nor Force,_ must be a manifestation of Mind_?
41892	Does not the process of crystallization look like rudimentary purposive action?
41892	Does not this seem reasonable?
41892	He says:"Is it not a patent fact, obvious to all but the wilfully blind that_ matter does think_?
41892	How can Mind conduct Radiant Energy?
41892	How do the Atoms attract each other and move together?
41892	If so, wherefore?
41892	Is it a worthy exchange?
41892	Is it not more reasonable to think of it as a form of vital- action-- life- action?
41892	Is it too daring a conception to hazard the thought that perhaps the Universe itself is_ the result of the Dynamic Thought of The Infinite_?
41892	Is not this strong enough?
41892	Nothing"dead"about this, is there?
41892	Now is it reasonable to suppose that this wonderful"power"is a mere blind- force?
41892	Now, do we find it there?
41892	Passing_ how_?
41892	Perhaps it would be as well to begin by asking ourselves the question:"What is Substance?"
41892	Should not the explanation for Mental Effects be sought in a Mental Cause?
41892	The movement is ever forward, and upward-- what matter the banner under which the armies move?
41892	There is an evidence of Force and Energy here that is not Heat, Light or Electricity-- what is it?
41892	There is no_ material_ connection between them( and Electricity and Magnetism will not answer), so what is to be done?
41892	Well, that looks like a degree of Mentation, does n''t it?
41892	Were these things merely minerals or chemical- substances, or were they low forms of organic life?
41892	What can we offer him as an illustration?
41892	What is"Inherent?"
41892	When a rose throws off its perfume, it emanates tiny particles of itself-- can you measure or weigh the molecules composing that odor?
41892	When you handle a coin, an infinitesimal portion of it is worn off-- can you figure the size of the molecules composing that part?
41892	_ Have n''t we?_ Then how about two pieces of magnetised steel, or two electrified substances?
41892	_ Have n''t we?_ Then how about two pieces of magnetised steel, or two electrified substances?
41892	_ What is being produced?_ The imagination can not conceive of what this state of Substance, now being reached, is like.
41892	_ What is the Force used?_ Science admits the existence of this Force, and calls it"Nervous Energy,"or"Nerve Force."
41892	_ Why, different?_ Is n''t_ the bond intangible_?
41892	_ Why, different?_ Is n''t_ the bond intangible_?
19051	And what is our failure here but a triumph''s evidence For the fullness of the days? 19051 I am asked often: What is the relation of this movement to the Church?
19051	Is a man sick if the material senses indicate that he is in good health? 19051 And is he well if the senses say he is sick? 19051 Are they likely to displace the historic forms of Christianity, will they substantially modify it, or will they wear away and be reabsorbed? 19051 Are you true? 19051 But after all it did answer the insistent questions, Whence? 19051 Can the earth which is but dead in a vision resist spirits which have reality and are alive?
19051	Directly science began to offer its own answers to Whence?
19051	HALDEMAN_ Can the Dead Communicate with the Living?
19051	Have we withered or agonized?
19051	If evil is error and error evil and the belief that evil is an illusion is itself an illusion what is there to guarantee the reality of good?
19051	It goes on to supply an answer to the dominant questions-- Whence?
19051	Might it not demoralize those who have passed through the veil to be always trying to come back?
19051	The Eastern saint has sought to answer for himself and in his own way those compelling questions which lie behind all religion-- Whence?
19051	The old answers to the questions Whence?
19051	The reply came back in professional tones--"And what error are you suffering from this morning?"
19051	These needs and seekings are, after all, near and familiar; they are only our old questions Whence?
19051	True enough, the old questions-- Whence?
19051	We shall, therefore, the more insistently ask Whence?
19051	What do you give to a man to carry to his daily task?"
19051	Whence?
19051	Where, then, is the hiding of its power?
19051	Wherein, then, is this new mysticism, or better, this new cult of the inner life different from the old?
19051	Whither?
19051	Whither?
19051	Whither?
19051	Whither?
19051	Why are we happy?
19051	Why do we suffer?
19051	Why else was the pause prolonged but that singing might issue thence?
19051	Why rushed the discords in, but that harmony should be prized?"
19051	Why?
19051	_ Christian Science Has a Rich Field to Work_ Now what can finally be said of the whole matter?
19051	_ Their Parallels in the Past_ Now by such tests as these what future may one anticipate for such cults as we have been studying?
19051	and Whither?
19051	and Whither?
19051	and Whither?
19051	and Whither?
19051	and Whither?
19051	and Whither?
19051	and Whither?
19051	and Whither?
19051	and Why?
19051	and Why?
19051	and Why?
19051	and Why?
19051	and Why?
19051	and Why?
19051	and Why?
19051	and Why?
19051	and Why?
14599	Am I speaking too positively?
14599	And in this fact lies the whole answer to the question,"Why does man create pain for his own discomfort?"
14599	And when they open, what is it that is found?
14599	And why?
14599	At least, to ask a lesser question, is it impossible to make a guess as to the direction in which our goal lies?
14599	But are these results unknowable?
14599	But can any earnest student of Theosophy deny, or object to this?
14599	But what is the iron bar and the knot?
14599	Conquer what?
14599	Destiny, the inevitable, does indeed exist for the race and for the individual; but who can ordain this save the man himself?
14599	Does it not agree perfectly with the teaching of the Bhagavat- Gita?
14599	Granted, then, for the sake of our argument, that he desires pain, why is it that he desires anything so annoying to himself?
14599	Has the statement too dogmatic a sound?
14599	How else can he be where he is, or be at all?
14599	How is it possible to divide the infinite,--that which is one?
14599	How is it possible to obtain recognition of the inner man, to observe its growth and foster it?
14599	How is it that the profound sinner who lives for pleasure can at last feel stir within himself the divine afflatus?
14599	How, then, can he know that he lives?
14599	If religion be of God how is it that we find that same God in his own works and acts violating the precepts of religion?
14599	In contemplating a battlefield it is impossible to realize the agony of every sufferer; why, then, realize your own pain more keenly than another''s?
14599	In how many virtuous and religious men does not this same state exist?
14599	Is it not a pure statement of the law of Karma?
14599	Is it not enough to produce a weariness and sickness unutterable, to be forever accomplishing a task only to see it undone again?
14599	Is it too dogmatic to say that a man must have foothold before he can spring?
14599	Is there one?
14599	It can not answer the question"what am I?"
14599	Knowledge is man''s greatest inheritance; why, then, should he not attempt to reach it by every possible road?
14599	Otherwise how could they exist, even for an hour, in such a mental and psychic atmosphere as is created by the confusion and disorder of a city?
14599	Otherwise why place them so far off?
14599	Shall we not search for it?
14599	Some scant fragments we have of these great gifts of man; where, then, is the whole of which they must be a part?
14599	The disciple may say, Should I study these thoughts at all did I not seek out the way?
14599	This can not last always; why let it last any longer?
14599	VII What is the cure for this misery and waste of effort?
14599	What are these two gaunt figures, and why are they permitted to be our constant followers?
14599	What are those waters?
14599	What good fortune can we expect?
14599	What good has the drunkard obtained by his madness?
14599	What has given this ghastly shape the right to haunt us from the hour we are born until the hour we die?
14599	What then can he do but reconcile his conduct gradually to their rules?
14599	What then will be the value of the knowledge of its laws acquired by industry and observation?
14599	What value or strength is there in the neglected garden rose which has the canker in every bud?
14599	What we desire to discover is, who is the user; what part of ourselves is it that demands the presence of this thing so hateful to the rest?
14599	What we desire to discover is, who is the user; what part of ourselves is it that demands the presence of this thing so hateful to the rest?"
14599	When will that ultimate good be attained?
14599	Where is this to be found?
14599	Who cares for any intermediate states?
14599	Who places those obstacles there?
14599	Why does he desire his own hurt?
14599	Why does he not stay on this hill- top he has reached, and look away to the mountains beyond, and resolve to scale those greater heights?
14599	Why is this?
14599	Why long and look for that which is beyond all hope until the inner eyes are opened?
14599	Why not piece together the fragments that we have, at hand, and see whether from them some shape can not be given to the vast puzzle?
14599	Why should he not die for it?
14599	Why should this be, will be asked at once, if he is a being of such great powers as those say who believe in his existence?
14599	Why this useless labor?
14599	Why, then, should she shut her doors on any?
14599	Why?
14599	Yet is it for his own people to say he has done wrong, if he has injured no man and remained just?
14599	Yet man has undoubtedly within himself the heroism needed for the great journey; else how is it martyrs have smiled amid the torture?
15568	But why should any one be shooting in our garden at nearly midnight?
15568	Did you not see it?
15568	See what?
15568	Why, what is the matter?
15568	And in either case how can guilt be transferred from one person to the other?
15568	And when, do you suppose, twice two will cease to make four?
15568	But if the atom be imperfect as an atom, how could it combine with other atoms?
15568	But if unregulated thought acts as a centre of impulse, why should not regulated thought do the same?
15568	But perhaps the reader will say: How can a Word take form as a Person?
15568	But perhaps you will say,"Why should we want to have anything more to do with the physical plane?
15568	But perhaps you will say: How can this be, seeing that by the hypothesis the Soul of the Universe is Impersonal, and therefore unintelligent?
15568	But perhaps you will say:"How am I to know that I am not speaking my own Word instead of that of the Creative Spirit?"
15568	But perhaps you will say:"If this be true, what word or words am I to employ?"
15568	But some one will say: Why should we need such a Standard?
15568	But what do we mean by"Sin"?
15568	But what is accomplished by the journey of the Ego round the Circle of Life?
15568	But what is it in us that is aware of these two things, that hopes and fears and plans regarding them?
15568	But what starts the vibrations?
15568	But why should the reconstruction of a physical body be either necessary or desirable?
15568	But you heard the shot, did you not?"
15568	Do you not know that First Cause works by universal Law, and makes no exceptions?"
15568	Fancy a mathematician having to solve an equation, both sides of which were entirely made up of unknown quantities-- where would he be?
15568	First of all, why have we any physical body at all?
15568	Forgiveness of sin?
15568	How could you paint a picture without distinction of form, colour, or tone?
15568	How is it possible for the Laws of the Universe to make exceptions?
15568	How, then, does the Atonement come in?
15568	If it be to God, then how can a God who demands a sacrifice of blood be Love?
15568	If the Law can not be altered in the least particular, how can the Word be free to do what it likes?
15568	If the power of the Spirit over things of the material plane be an impossibility, then by what power did Jesus perform his miracles?
15568	In what direction is the conscious thought going to modify the action of the three principles that are below it?
15568	In what manner, then, is this influence conveyed?
15568	Instances of this kind might be multiplied, but as the French say"à quoi bon?"
15568	Now can we conceive any combination of the Law and the Word which would produce such results?
15568	One of the first things that naturally attract our attention is the question,--How did Life originate?
15568	Perhaps some one may say: Can not it_ make_ suitable channels for any sort of expression that it needs?
15568	Perhaps you will say:"What came of it?"
15568	Punishment for Sin?
15568	So then comes the question: What started this differentiation?
15568	Then our sceptic says,"What, do you think_ your_ word can do that?"
15568	Then our thought naturally passes on to the question what will happen after this?
15568	Then the question very naturally suggests itself: Why did not God create us so that we could not think negative or destructive thoughts?
15568	Then, since the Word is the Point of Origination, what is our conception of the best thing we can originate with it?
15568	They say:"How is it that apparitions are always seen in the dark?"
15568	This brings us to another important question-- is not the creative power of the Word limited by the immutability of the Law?
15568	To God or to the Devil?
15568	To whom is the sacrifice offered?
15568	We can not conceive of any time when it was not, for, if there was a time when no such Primary Energizing Life existed, what was there to energize it?
15568	Well, St. Paul is dead and buried, and so I suppose will most of us be in a few years; so the question confronts us, what becomes of us then?
15568	What further developments may follow, who shall say?
15568	What then does stop the flow of any sort of current?
15568	What then is likely to survive?
15568	What, then, is the"Motif"of Life?
15568	When, do you suppose, twice two began to make four?
15568	Where then are we to find the Word which will produce these conditions: perfect freedom from anxiety and continual, happy interest?
15568	Which comes first, the Law or the Word?
15568	Which of the two is to predominate?
15568	Why then does the balance preponderate to the life- side for a certain length of time, and then go over to the opposite side?
15568	[ 4] But what is it that occasions these vibrations of the nerves?
15568	viii, 2)?
23559	Are we not all children of one Father?
23559	As big as this?
23559	As big as this?
23559	But suppose one is in delicate health, or especially subject to drafts?
23559	How big is your sea?
23559	How do we know,was the reply,"that he is not witnessing it all?
23559	How much bigger, then?
23559	How then can you describe so accurately the disease with which he is afflicted?
23559	May it not be good policy,says one,"to be governed sometimes by one''s surroundings?"
23559	The sea? 23559 Where are you going?"
23559	Who are you? 23559 A Brahmin or a Buddhist asks,Are not the Vedas inspired?"
23559	A Christian asks,"But is not our Christian Bible inspired?"
23559	And here shall we consider a few facts in connection with sleep, in connection with receiving instruction and illumination while asleep?
23559	And how can one find his centre?
23559	And how could it be otherwise?
23559	And how could it do otherwise?
23559	And how will you do it?
23559	And what do we mean by the unseen side of life?
23559	And what does this mean?
23559	And what is a God- man?
23559	And what is the result of this particular form of violation?
23559	And why should not the power of effecting such cures exist among us today?
23559	And why should we go to another for knowledge and wisdom?
23559	And why should we not have the power today, the same as they had it then?
23559	And would you have in your body all the elasticity, all the strength, all the beauty of your younger years?
23559	And, truly,"are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister to those who shall be heirs of salvation?"
23559	Another who is a Buddhist asks,"Was not Buddha inspired?"
23559	Are the laws at all different?
23559	Are we not satisfied with whatever comes into our lives?
23559	Are you a minister, or a religious teacher of any kind?
23559	Are you a painter?
23559	Are you a singer?
23559	Are you a writer?
23559	Are you an orator?
23559	Are you out of a situation?
23559	But some one says,"May it not be dangerous for us to act always upon our intuitions?
23559	But why had not Pharaoh the power of interpreting his dreams?
23559	Can anything be clearer than this?
23559	Do I fear a draft?
23559	Do n''t you?
23559	Do you know the circumstances under which Mr. Sankey sang for the first time"The Ninety and Nine?"
23559	Do you want to be a power in the world?
23559	Does this mean that we must literally betake ourselves to a private closet with a key in the door?
23559	Does this or that occurrence or condition cause you annoyance?
23559	For what, let us ask, is a miracle?
23559	He looked at me in surprise and said,"Why, you do not know my father?"
23559	His question almost invariably was,"Dost thou believe?"
23559	How can anything die before it is really born?
23559	I am sometimes asked,"To what religion do you belong?"
23559	I hear the question, What can be said in a concrete way in regard to the method of coming into this realization?
23559	If this is true of a beast, what can we say of its power upon human beings, especially upon a child?
23559	If this is true, does it not then follow that in the degree that man opens himself to this divine inflow does he approach to God?
23559	In this do we not see a complete parallel so far as human life is concerned?
23559	In this light is it not then evident that both conceptions are true?
23559	Is it something supernatural?
23559	It was Goethe who said:"Are you in earnest?
23559	No?
23559	One who does n''t grasp this great truth, a Christian, for example, asks"But was not Christ inspired?"
23559	Patriotism is a beautiful thing; it is well for me to love my country, but why should I love my own country more than I love all others?
23559	Religion dying out?
23559	Religion dying out?
23559	Said the young man, Jesus, Know ye not that I must be about my Father''s business?
23559	Say not Lo here nor lo there, know ye not that the kingdom of heaven is within you?
23559	Suppose we should have an intuition to do harm to some one?"
23559	The Hindu has said,"The narrow minded ask,''Is this man a stranger, or is he of our tribe?''
23559	We sometimes hear the question asked,"Can they be overcome?"
23559	What is good policy?
23559	What is that?
23559	What religion?
23559	Where do you live?"
23559	Where is that?"
23559	Which is right?
23559	Who has ever appointed any man, whoever he may be, as the keeper, the custodian, the dispenser of God''s illimitable truth?
23559	Who is my mother and who are my brethren?
23559	Why are you powerless to move?
23559	Why did he not only dream, but had also the power to interpret both his own dreams and the dreams of others?
23559	Why do you tremble?
23559	Why is it?
23559	Why not go directly to the mountain top itself, instead of wandering through the by- ways, in the valleys, and on the mountain sides?
23559	Why should we not go direct to the Infinite Source itself?
23559	Why should we seek these things second hand?
23559	Why should we thus stultify our own innate powers?
23559	Why was Joseph the type of the"truly gifted seer?"
23559	Why waste time with this practice or that practice?
23559	Why, then, waste time in running hither and thither to acquire power?
23559	Why, then?
23559	Why?
23559	Will you?
23559	Would you remain always young, and would you carry all the joyousness and buoyancy of youth into your maturer years?
23559	and more, that he is not having a hand in it all,--a hand even greater, perhaps, than when we_ saw_ him here?"
23559	and more, that they are one and the same?
45113	Bright pictures in the mind,why not, indeed?
45113	Is it different from what is called Mental Science, or Christian Science?
45113	What Is The New Thought?
45113	What does it mean?
45113	What principles does it stand for?
45113	And if not, why not, pray?
45113	And the followers of those strange prophets, what of them?
45113	And this hunger for spiritual knowledge and growth, from whence comes it?
45113	And, after all, who are"They?"
45113	Are you not aware that there are powers latent within us, pressing forth for development and unfoldment?
45113	Aye, why should I doubt or question?
45113	But does n''t it seem like a pity to see people wasting their time, energy, thoughts and life on these old sorrows?
45113	Can I make my disposition into one which is active, positive, high strung and masterful?
45113	Can any good come of lugging this trash around with you?
45113	Can any of you describe the process of getting things better than this?
45113	Did you ever doubt that the grass would grow and the trees take on leaves next Spring?
45113	Did you ever fear that perhaps the Summer would not come?
45113	Did you ever go house hunting?
45113	Did you ever meet the Human Wet Blanket?
45113	Did you ever meet the man with the"Southern Exposure"--the man who faces the Sun?
45113	Did you ever notice a man or a woman looking for trouble, and how soon they found it?
45113	Did you ever shiver with dread at the thought of what would happen if the sun should not rise to- morrow?
45113	Did you ever start in the morning feeling cross and crabbed?
45113	Did you think that some wonderful essence was going to grow from you, and that that essence would be what you call a spirit?
45113	Did you think you were here by chance, or that you were an alien?
45113	Do I believe this?
45113	Do n''t you know that an earnest, confident expectation of the good things to come will cause these good things to grow for your use in the future?
45113	Do n''t you know that in the womb of the future sleep opportunities intended for your use when the time comes?
45113	Do n''t you know that the supply of good things does not cease with the close of to- day?
45113	Do you doubt the Supreme Intelligence which knows all things and is conscious of all things?
45113	Do you doubt the Supreme Power which manifests itself in all forms of power?
45113	Do you doubt the Universal Presence which is in all places at all times?
45113	Do you fret and chafe at the trials and troubles of this world, and imagine that somewhere else things will be better?
45113	Do you know that we are young giants who have not discovered our own strength?
45113	Do you long for another home?
45113	Do you not know that Desire, Faith and Work is the triple key to the doors of Attainment?
45113	Do you recall how he brought with him the inspiring Solar vibrations?
45113	Do you remember how the wrinkles and frowns disappeared from the faces of those in his presence?
45113	Do you remember how, long after he had departed, the memory of his presence cheered you-- the thrill of his thought vibrations remained to stimulate?
45113	Do you suppose that the manifestation is everything, and the manifestor nothing?
45113	Do you think for a moment that GOD does not know what he is about?
45113	Do you think it helps you to overcome your troubles, or makes your burden any lighter?
45113	Do you think that it does you any good to go around with a long face, telling your tale of woe to everyone whom you can induce to listen to you?
45113	Do you think that it does you any good?
45113	Funny, is n''t it?
45113	Have I not felt the pressure of the Unseen Hand?
45113	Have you ever noticed that some rooms always seem to exert a beneficial effect upon you, while others seem to depress you?
45113	How am I to recognize the causes of my failure and thus avoid them?
45113	How can I affect my circumstances by my mental effort?
45113	How can I directly attract friends and friendship?
45113	How can I draw vitality of mind and body from an invisible source?
45113	How can I influence other people by mental suggestion?
45113	How can I influence people at a distance by my mind alone?
45113	How can I influence those more powerful ones from whom I desire favor?
45113	How can I retard old age, preserve health and good looks?
45113	I''ve seen it happen many a time, have n''t you?
45113	If a room in your house is dark and gloomy, do you hire a man to shovel out the darkness-- do you attempt to do it yourself in your desire for light?
45113	If they must think of the past, why not think of the bright things that came into their lives, instead of the dark ones?
45113	If we were preparing a new room for the occupancy of some dear one, would we place there any but the brightest picture?
45113	Just how shall I go about it to free myself from my depression, failure, timidity, weakness and care?
45113	No, you do n''t see it that way?
45113	Now what are you going to do about it?
45113	Now, if this"Southern Exposure"is such a good thing in a room, why is n''t it a good thing in a man?
45113	Oh what''s the use?
45113	Oh, dear, dear, what''s the use?
45113	Oh, ye of little Faith, why do you not see these things?
45113	Oh, ye of little faith do you not know that this is no world of chance?
45113	Or will you cease being a psychic pest- house, and begin to fumigate and disinfect your Mind?
45113	Outside of what?
45113	See?"
45113	Seeing this-- looking into our own hearts-- how can we Condemn?
45113	Shall I ever know the owner of this hand?
45113	Shall I ever see its face?
45113	Shall I ever understand the mystery of its existence?
45113	So what are they going to do about it anyhow?
45113	So what''s the use in being afraid?
45113	Tear and twist, pull and wrench, beat and pound, and what have you accomplished?
45113	We may assert fervently that we know that All is Good, and that all is best for us, etc., etc., but have we enough faith to manifest it in our lives?
45113	Well, what of that?
45113	What does Life mean?"
45113	What is the object of my existence?
45113	What''s the use in being afraid?
45113	What''s the use of attempting to resist it?
45113	What''s the use?
45113	What''s the use?
45113	When we ask our intellects,"Whence come I?
45113	Whither go I?
45113	Who can resist the"fetching"qualities of a bright, baby face, smiling from a little picture on the mantel, or on the wall?
45113	Who knows what a day may bring forth?
45113	Who''s going to hurt you?
45113	Why ca n''t you see this?
45113	Why do we not have Faith?
45113	Why do we not recognize Law?
45113	Why do we not see the great Plan behind it all?
45113	Why do"birds of a feather flock together,"in business and everyday life?
45113	Why should I fear, have I not hold of my father''s hand?
45113	Why should you doubt-- have you not felt the pressure of The Hand?"
45113	Work?
45113	Would we do this thing I ask you?
45113	Would we hang there pictures of pain and misery, hate and murder, jealousy and revenge, sickness, suffering and death, failure and discouragement?
45113	Would_ you_ do it?
45113	mysterious to- morrow-- that delight of the child-- that bugaboo of the"grown up"--what shall we say of to- morrow?
23820	Are you rich? 23820 Can anything that it sends be amiss?
23820	Can man by searching find out God?
23820	Can the divine will err?
23820	Do we not all wish that we could live our lives over again in the light of our present experience?
23820	How shall I seem to love my people?
23820	Out of politics, triumphs, battles, life, what at last finally remains? 23820 Seek you,"said a devout Catholic priest,"the secret of union with God?
23820	What is the happy life?
23820	What shall it profit a man,He well said,"if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?"
23820	You desire to''serve humanity,''do you?
23820	''Where are you?''
23820	Again, are the daily occurrences of life pre- destined?
23820	All over the state the tourist is asked,"Have you seen Greeley?
23820	All that made life worth the living has been inexplicably withdrawn; and how, then, shall he live?
23820	And how?
23820	And so the question comes,--What do they mean?
23820	And the remedy lies,--where?
23820	And what is the life of the spirit?
23820	And_ why_ shall he live?
23820	But is gold the test of success?
23820	But what is humanity?
23820	But what is it to live?
23820	Can he be happy if he has lost all his worldly goods?
23820	Can he be happy if he has lost all his worldly goods?
23820	Can its infinite value be increased by the paltry difference of time, place, or circumstance?
23820	Can not even denial and defeat be held as developing qualities that might otherwise lie latent?
23820	Can the individual be happy, he will ask, when all that made happiness is taken away?
23820	Can the individual be happy, he will ask, when all that made happiness is taken away?
23820	Can we not relate our consciously intelligent life to our unconscious spiritual life?
23820	Can you forsake it for abstract literature?"
23820	Catholic or Protestant,--what matters it so that one who listens may hear the word?
23820	Comprising: WHAT LACKS THE SUMMER?
23820	Do not the interruptions assume a new form, and are they not, thereby, transfigured into glad and golden opportunity?
23820	Do thoughts register themselves magnetically on the air, and is this magnetic writing perceived, unconsciously, by one sensitive to it?
23820	Does it lose this power by the change called death?
23820	Does not the environment change with the life in a corresponding evolutionary process?
23820	Does one prefer to go down hill into some dark ravine or deep mountain gorge?
23820	Does the gate of possibilities, does the door of opportunity close with this brief mortal life?
23820	Does the road wind up hill?
23820	Does the vibration of the spoken word linger in the place where it is uttered?
23820	For himself alone, what does he want that money, mere money, can buy?
23820	For is not the underlying and fundamental truth this: that all is spirit?
23820	Has one been wronged, or misrepresented, or in any way injured?
23820	Have you eyes to find the five Which five hundred did survive?
23820	Here are an array of interruptions, but why not give them another name-- that of opportunities?
23820	Heretofore poet and prophet have always questioned despondently,--"Does the road wind up hill all the way?"
23820	How does this occur?
23820	How far do we make our own life?
23820	How far is it made for us?
23820	How is he to endure it?
23820	How is he to go on, living his life, in all this pain, perplexity, trial, or annoyance, much less to"glory"in this atmosphere of tribulation?
23820	How shall the perfect spiritual supremacy be established?
23820	If one encounters disaster or great personal sorrow, what then?
23820	If psychological only, what does that mean?
23820	If the physical universe can be so increasingly explored, shall not the spiritual universe be also penetrated by the spiritual powers of man?
23820	If this be true of resignation, what shall be said of tribulation,--of glorying in tribulation?
23820	If this deduction is true-- what then?
23820	Instead, what does the tourist see?
23820	Is every life just that which it is made?
23820	Is it a physical process going on in some physical medium or ether connecting the two brains?
23820	Is it a primary physiological function of the brain, or is it primarily psychological?
23820	Is it not this which is set before us in the progress of spirituality?
23820	Is it not, after all, composed of individuals?
23820	Is it not, then, true that a life really belongs to the environment it creates for himself, rather than to that in which it is first nurtured?
23820	Is not the life more than meat?
23820	Is not the next step in scientific progress to be into the invisible and the unknown?
23820	Is there no Roentgen ray that will pierce the horizon of the future and disclose to us what lies beyond?
23820	Is there not, then, a need for the gospel of one''s own endeavor?
23820	Is this power only inherent in the physical structure?
23820	Is this"The Country God Forgot"?
23820	Is thought, itself, photographed on the ether?
23820	Just how shall one be well and keep well?
23820	Just what is the explanation?
23820	May they not teach the divinest lesson of all,--the one most invaluable to human life,--absolute trust in God?
23820	Might not one, with profit, dwell for a moment upon this statement?
23820	Nor what indeed is more reasonable, more perfect, more divine, than the will of God?
23820	Nothing could withstand its consuming power.... And what makes this stupendous force?
23820	Now how are we to pluck out the heart of the mystery?
23820	Now the scientific question is: From whence did this impression proceed?
23820	Now,--always provided that there is full conviction of immortality,--why should it be wrong to seek his companionship or counsel from the unseen life?
23820	One asks for them-- and they do not come?
23820	Or does there work, under all our human will and endeavor, a force resistless as gravitation and as constant as attraction?
23820	Or is he the product of his environment?
23820	Shall Phillips Brooks, the friend and helper and wise counsellor when here, be less so now that he has entered into the next higher scale of being?
23820	Shall he do it?
23820	Shall not one rejoice and recognize that the need of another is brought as a privilege to himself?
23820	Shall we not enter to- day into the very joy of the Lord?
23820	Shall we not enter to- day into this kingdom of heaven which is at hand?
23820	Shall you make his life and your own a burden with complaint and reproach?
23820	Should not the minister break off his morning meditation-- an abstract thing, at best-- to see me, who needs an immediate infusion of encouragement?"
23820	Strictly speaking, perhaps, no one of these has any real right to thus tax the time and energy of a stranger; but is there not another side to it?
23820	The cry of certain reformers(?)
23820	The problem, then, becomes that of bringing the psychical body into this receptive relation to the physical self?
23820	The question confronts one as a very determining problem in life,--can man control his circumstances?
23820	Then what remains?
23820	To go deeper still, can he create them?
23820	To see the future as clearly as we see the past, what does it require?
23820	To what extent should he yield to the"devastator of the day"?
23820	Was all this series of events-- trifles of no importance in themselves, but very curious in their combination-- foreordained?
23820	Was his life thereby a failure?
23820	Was it a clairvoyant reading of the letter that was en route during the night?
23820	Was it direct telepathy between the two persons concerned?
23820	What has he to do with that far- away, opaque, limited environment into which he was born?
23820	What is a book compared to a human soul?
23820	What is distance to the spiritual being?
23820	What then?
23820	What then?
23820	What though the bough beneath thee break?
23820	What value shall I give to those transformation experiences?"
23820	When shows break up what but one''s self is sure?"
23820	When shows break up, what but one''s self is sure?"
23820	Who can contemplate wireless telegraphy without having opened to him a range of activities and conditions undreamed of heretofore?
23820	Who can decide?
23820	Who has won the triumph''s evidence-- Pilate or Christ?
23820	Who would relinquish a right purpose because its achievement were hard?
23820	Why is it not visible?
23820	Why need you choose so painfully your place, and occupation, and associates, and modes of action and of entertainment?
23820	Will this theory furnish the basis for a true interpretation of telepathy?
23820	Without its own sustenance from the spiritual world, how could it survive?
23820	Yet where does the remedy lie?
23820	Yet, is there not just here a richness of opportunity in the aim to"do good to all men"that may often be unrecognized?
23820	Yet, with his personal world in ruins, what shall he do?
23820	_ Would he take a message?_ Just as lief as not; had nothing else to do; would carry it in no time.
23820	and if not, how was it that they were partly perceived, in the passive state of sleep, twenty- four hours before they occurred?
23820	or if death has taken those nearest and dearest to him?
23820	or if death has taken those nearest and dearest to him?
23820	or if the separations of life, far harder to bear than those of death, have come into his experience with their almost hopeless sense of desolation?
23820	or if the separations of life, far harder to bear than those of death, have come to him?
23820	rich enough to help somebody?"