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The True Laws of Life Why? Because on account of the unnatural life they lead their propensities are such that nothing can satisfy them except that kind of information. The further result is that the mind being in a state of vibration and therefore in a state to transmit these vibrations to the ethereal matter outside of us, they are carried to other people and thus these propensities are also transmitted. We have even known that when a murder has been committed in one part of the country, just about the same time many othermurders are committed in other parts of the country.
How can this be explained but on the hypothesis that the minds of persons saturated with these thoughts are influencing others by means of the transmission of the thoughts to another place where they are received by a person in a similar condition of mind and translated into thoughts which act on the physical organism and produce the desire to commit the crime? From a physiological standpoint we know that the germs from small-pox and other contagious diseases are flying in very direction, and that we should not come into contact with persons who have these diseases. We must take even more care in matters of the mental and moral nature and thoughts has indeed a wonderful power of acting on a person's mind, as we see in our daily experience.
When one person meets another, suppose a conversation takes place between them, whom will we will call A and B. A says, well Mr. B., I think you are looking forty years old instead of thirty. How is that? There is a change in that person's mental organism which makes him actually appear forty years old for the moment. We are influenced in that way every day. If we call all people sinful they will feel always that they are considered so, and if they are not sinful they will commit sins and be sinful to some degree from this suggestion. But if we say that man is divine, that we are a part of God, as Jesus said, then we rise higher and higher toward our ideal. Then another rule comes in, that the faults of
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