An assumption, held in the background of the mind, experienced as a “feeling tone”, is the imagination calling into action the creative cause.
The difficulty is that if a detrimental assumption, a deeply planted negative suggestion, is not observed, never brought to conscious realization, then it will continually give its bad results.
Take on a single assumption, reflecting one affirmation, one immediate pressing desire. Or, take on a grand assumption that subsumes every noble, worthwhile desire for yourself and others.
Robert A. Russell, although probably more a "conventional" Christian than Neville, echoes the latter’s advice. Evil is nothing but an impersonal thought operating through your mind. It can’t do that without your permission and acceptance. To the contrary, assume all good things, now. Russell draws on the biblical quote (Philippians 2:5):
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus
Russell asks: “Do you hear? Let it...”
This is the central assumption that supplants the unwanted with continuous renewal.
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