AS A MAN THINKETH

From inside book: Is a man responsible for what he thinks? Do men and God hold him accountable? Most assuredly. Then, what is it that thinks? It is the mind, the ego. The brain is only a medium for thought. The personal self is responsible at the bar of the eternal Truth for the way it uses this medium. The account must be rendered with the utmost precision, for when the mind thinks a certain thing, the brain registers it, and that single registration is an influencing factor in causing the mind to entertain the same thought again. The two—brain and mind—become reciprocal in their influence. A mind that is bad can not become good until cell-changes have taken place in the brain. For that reason, a bad, old man is very difficult to render good, and a good man, who has advanced to maturity, stands like a Gibraltar against onslaughts of evil. The bending of the young tree until it has become fixt in its shape is a favorite figure, used as an analogy between the tender plant and tender youth. If a boy can only get through his teens clean-minded, and free from bad habits, we feel that he is safe—and he generally is. It is simply the result of law, inexorably fixt but wondrously kind. This book published in 1914 has been reformatted from its original format for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.