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THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.
as fear, anger, jealousy, worry, and the like, act upon the physical body as powerful poisons, and produce complicated diseases which defy the best skill at times. The state of health (we ought to call it disease) called nervous prostration is simply the materialized effect of worry. Have you ever thought why so many people in the world are ugly, or look wretched ? Surely, they were not all born with the stamp of wretchedness on their features. The reason is to be found in the principle which we are discussing now, that is, as one thinks, so one becomes. The outward ugliness, or wretchedness, is the result of the ugly thoughts on the mental plane within. This is why we find all the great Teachers enjoining their disciples to avoid such ugly feelings as anger, jealousy, worry, and so forth. The body is the expression of the mind ; whatever thought we hold in our mind, whether good or bad, must therefore appear in an externalized condition in the body. This is especially so with the subtle or the soul body. Jesus said :--
"For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid that shall not be known. Therefore, whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in light ; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the house-tops" (Luke, XII. 2-3).
This it is that explains the difference between the looks of the civilized races and their uncivilized brethren. Man has yet to understand that he shall have to give an account of, i.e., to suffer the consequences of, every idle word he speaks, for “by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned."
The whole thing is that in our blind materialism we have neglected to consider the only important thing
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