LESSON XII THE KING ON HIS THRONE Helen Wilmans A Home Course in Mental Science But the race has scarcely unfolded any new faculty for hundreds of generations. A trifling advancement here and a slight step forward there has been all. The people have held the heresy that God made them just as they are, and that they are as perfect as they ever will be until death purifies them. They do not know that they are growing creatures, and have been from the first. If they did but know this, they would also know that there is no limit to farther continuance of their growth except the limit put upon it by their ignorance; an ignorance that constantly rejects the hopes held out by their ideality, and insists on clothing the manly future in the child’s garments of the past. There are leaders among men because, though all men do not trust their own brightest hopes, yet they gladly follow the man who does. The true leader is the man who believes that something is possible for him that his followers do not believe possible for themselves. He who is a great leader, and at the same time adds to his power as a leader the power of teaching the people [216] and healing their wounds, not only believes the (so-called) impossible is possible to him, but he believes that it is possible for every living soul also. And thus in elevating himself by his belief he elevates all others equally. It is in this way that the mind healers are doing their mighty work. They have ascended--through a serene and steadfast trust in the ideal hopes they find implanted in the race--from the world’s old belittling and hampering beliefs concerning race limitations, to a loftier place and a clearer mental atmosphere than was ever reached before. They see that the people’s implanted hopes were meant to be actualized in real life. And they see farther, that their actualization will remove every one of our liabilities and make us free citizens of the universe, with perfect control over disease, old age, poverty and death.
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