Publisher's Synopsis
1. Introduction 4 2. The Power of the Mind 6 3. Health Natural 11 - Disease Unnatural 4. Health Pleasurable 17 - Disease Painful 5. Health Harmonius 22 - Disease Inharmonious 6. Man's Many-Sidedness 25 7. The New Thought and God 30 8. The New Thought and Man 34 9. The Fact of the Healing 45 Introduction THERE is an earnest desire on the part of most people to-day to know about the new Mental Healing, and especially to know how to apply it with benefit to themselves. If it is good and worth having, they want it. They want to know the truth about it and to know how to use it if it is useful. This is in accord with the good, plain common sense of Americans. But there are many who have not yet become familiar with it. Others have learned somewhat of it, yet not enough to grasp its principles. Still less are they able successfully to use the same. 'These First Lessons are designed to meet the wants of such persons, and of beginners generally in their study of the subject. The lessons are elementary, and the endeavor has been to present the plain, simple facts and principles of the Mental Cure in the simplest, plainest English, - in untechnical language easily understood by every one. The subject is many sided. We may look at it on its therapeutical side, as a cure, or we may consider its moral side - for it surely has a moral side. And it has a religious or spiritual side, as can readily be seen. And yet the main truths and basic principles of it are simple, easy to learn and easy to understand. For the sake of simplicity we will divide the whole subject into two parts.
