These are the Thoughts expressed in Nature which are manifest of the White Life.  For such the nature of things always declares, when free to do so.  By so much as any object of existence fully realizes itself, by so much are these Thoughts, so far as such realization requires, made concrete if only we have the seeing mind and the feeling heart.  With these powers of perception, the seeing mind and the feeling heart, we come to know that all in Nature is good and means good to every man and woman and child in this world.  There is no evil in Nature.  All so-called evil in Nature is due either to some phase of her existence wrongly used or to some false interpretation in human thinking.  Nature is real, true, law-full, beautiful, good, harmonious, full of power, A growing organism, A Minister of service and well-being, A living thing, A literature of love.  If you refer to microbes, poisons, deadly serpents, and the like, I reply that the perfect white life in man, together with the knowledge of science, would teach him to avoid wrong relations and develop within him physical, mental and moral tone (tonus, in the language of the schools).  Thus would he be rendered immune from all so-called evils.

If your inner life contains nothing alien to these great Nature-Thoughts, if you see to it that their character is given your personal character, you will secure in the body a degree of the power of harmony which they possess, and your health will infallibly correspond.  Do no mistake this sentence.  Will you kindly read it—­again until you see what it really means?  The only limit to your health will be the limit of your ability to realize in yourself the mighty Thoughts which make Nature what she is.  I do not mean that splendid results must immediately issue from the course indicated.  Patience and time are important factors.  I do not mean that a dying man can inevitably realize these Thoughts sufficiently to recover health.  There are limits, not to the law, but to one’s ability to use the law.  In spiritual effort, effort of the inner self to lay hold upon the Universal Forces, you can make your own personal discoveries.  I may not say a greater word.  Above all, I do not mean that merely thinking the Thoughts will be enough, in any case.  The method is one of realization as well as affirmation.  But by so much as you become that which the Nature-Thoughts suggest, by so much will your physical and psychic health come to buoyancy, joy and power.  You are now invited, then, to adopt the following as the permanent law of your thought-life: 

I am, in every function of my body and every activity of my deeper self, entirely genuine, representing truth, obeying law, loving beauty, striving for goodness, coming to harmony, possessed of power, growing to better things, full of happiness, eager to Serve, a living white life, and a Lover of all that is good.