“HOLDING THE THOUGHT”

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 981, 26 May 1930, Page 16

“HOLDING THE THOUGHT”

MR. ROBINSON EXPLAINS At the Higher Thought Temple on Sunday the lecturer of the evening, Mr. H. F. Robinson, dealt with the ridicule of “holding the thought,” as demonstrated by Mrs. Elsie D. Benedict in one of her public lectures. The speaker gave a short outline of the principles of Higher Thought teachings. Higher Thought was not a heathen religion. It recognised that God was the Spirit, the Creator of all. The Eternal Being was not what the popular imagination pictures, a distant, austere, capricious potentate, who may or may not be persuaded, according to the particular mood in which He may be when appraoched, to grant the petitions of His creature.s. It was believed that God was the omnipresent spirit mind, in whom we lived and moved and had our being, and that such .Spirit worked according to eternal laws. The philosophy of Higher Thought was that mind was the creative force, ever at work, creating for one the things and conditions consistently held in thought. By daily and hourly •thought one was constantly, either consciously or unconsciously, creating personal character. The type of thought held, determined the nature of one’s experiences. The upliftment and control of thought for the betterment of individual experience, for the amelioration and cure of disease, and, generally, for the betterment of hum anity at large was the chief mission of the Higher Thought movement to •teach, to explain, to instruct. It laid stress upon the necessity for high ideals. It inculcated the upbuilding and refining of the individual character as being indispensable to the progress of the individual.