Health; omnipresence, omniscience, infinite, abstract and concrete

Foreword

The Lectures that make up this volume have never been written either in part or as a whole until now. My time has been so fully occupied in teaching and in healing, that I never thought it possible for me to undertake the writing of a book, so long as I was engaged in active work. I am now indebted to several of my students for very full notes of my Lectures, some of them verbatim, which have been a great saving of time to me in bringing the teaching into book form. I have also been able to produce a good deal of new matter under the exigencies of the moment, so that, as they now stand, these lectures very fairly represent the Principle that I teach. I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness to my friend Mr. James Rhoades, who has been kind enough to look through the proofs of this work, and to assist me with valuable suggestions. Again, I have to thank Mr. E. A. Hunter for the very suggestive design on the cover, which he has so generously offered.

I must ask the indulgence of my readers for my frequent offense against literary propriety, in formulating the same ideas many times in different connections, often in the same words. My purpose has been to write for a very varied public, many of whose minds are in no way trained to thinking on these rather abstruse lines, and I have invariably found, in teaching my classes, that it is necessary to insist on the same points over and over again; for although some could receive them at once, the majority would fail to grasp them until familiarized by habit. Those, then, who have trained minds, will kindly overlook the otherwise inexcusable repetition.

Let me here add a word about my employment of capital letters throughout the book. Whenever I have made direct reference to Being — First Cause, or any of Its Modes — I have begun the word with a capital. On the other hand, whenever reference has been made indirectly to Being, as a correspondence in terms of man-consciousness — God-Power in use by man — I have adhered to the ordinary type.

The subject-matter contained in this volume is the concentration of a fifteen hours' discourse given in sections of an hour each ; it cannot therefore yield up its spirit, even to the most intelligent reader, by a casual glance or a hasty looking through, or by any oth^.r than a careful consecutive reading, page by page.

Even as many have been healed, while listening to the spoken word, during the progress of the lectures, so, also, there will be not a few who will experience this same healing power, when the perception and realization of the Spirit of Truth, in such degree as It is embodied in these pages, breaks over their minds.

I have not gone into the subject of Practical Healing as specifically and thoroughly as its importance demands ; I hope, however, later in the year to bring out a supplementary book dealing solely with Practical Healing, and with the evolving of spiritual consciousness through meditation.

JAMES PORTER MILLS,

3, Cornwall Gardens,

London, S. W.

April, 1908.

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