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Vol. 2, The Power of the Word
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2. The Power of the Sacred Word
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World of Sound and Mystery
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Vol. 2, The Power of the Word
2. The Power of the Sacred Word
World of Sound and Mystery
A time is coming in the present age when both spiritual and material people are realizing the power of the word. For instance, Coueism [Émile Coué] is talked about among spiritual and material people and they are beginning to see what a word can do. But when one goes a step further one will find that a sacred word has a greater importance and a greater phenomenon. Everyone who discovers some new idea feels at the time that he is the discoverer of it, but when we look back we find in the history of the world that it had been known already. Thus we come to realize and believe in the saying of Solomon that there is nothing new under the sun.
A great Persian poet has said that the repetition of the sacred name will not add sacredness to the Sacred, but it will make your own soul sacred. Those who understand from a psychological point of view the value of autosuggestion and the value of repetition, and how this works upon their body and their mind, are beginning to understand the elementary aspect of it. But before them is a large world of sound and mystery which is still closed, because they do not know that by repeating one word or one thing this may bring about a particular result - but it may do harm to something else.
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