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A philosophic mystic, James Allen (d. 1912) was an early example of the new thought, self-help, theosophic teachers. Made much of our quality of mind and will as determinative. The link gives most of his inspiring writings:
http://james-allen.in1woord.nl
As a man thinketh (1902).
Allen’s best known book. How it begins:
Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes,
And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes
The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills,
Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills:—
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass:
Environment is but his looking-glass.
http://james-allen.in1woord.nl
As a man thinketh (1902).
Allen’s best known book. How it begins:
Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes,
And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes
The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills,
Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills:—
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass:
Environment is but his looking-glass.