The human mind is like a great mansion with many rooms. The conscious thought occupies a few of these rooms, and, because of its ignorance, it believes that it occupies the whole mansion; but this is not so. There are undiscovered chambers in this mind-mansion which the conscious thought has never entered.
"We are living in a great thought-world, and just as the air about us is inhabited by birds and insects, so this thought atmosphere is swarmed with busy thoughts, — some good (in belief) and some evil, — emitted from human minds. These thoughts assume individuality and power to act, even as the birds and insects do in the material world. There are thoughts which comprise the various physical ills of the human race; others are classed as sins; others as fears, superstitions, errors; others as misfortunes, sorrows, etc.; and others as prosperity, human love, human joy. Just as the winged inhabitants of the air may enter in through the open windows and doors of the material mansion, passing from room to room until they penetrate to the tenanted portion of the house, so the winged thoughts of the mental realm pass into those silent, unrecognized chambers of the thought-mansion (or human mind), and sooner or later become manifested, each intruding visitant stamping its own individuality upon the unprotected conscious thought, or body.
I often hear it remarked,—
