From James Allen to You 54

From poverty to power; or, the realization of prosperity and peace.
Part 2: The path to prosperity
The silent power of thought: controlling and directing one’s forces 2

The Hebrew prophets,
with their perfect knowledge of the Supreme Law,
always related outward events to inward thought,
and associated national disaster or success
with the thoughts and desires
that dominated the nation at the time.

The knowledge of the causal power of thought
is the basis of all their prophecies,
as it is the basis of all real wisdom and power.
National events
are simply the working out of the psychic forces of the nation.

Wars, plagues, and famines
are the meeting and clashing
of wrongly-directed thought-forces, the culminating points
at which destruction steps in as the agent of the Law.

It is foolish to ascribe war to the influence of one man,
or to one body of men.
It is the crowning horror of national selfishness.
It is the silent and conquering thought-forces
which bring all things into manifestation.

to culminate = to have as a result or be the final result of a process
to ascribe something to something
= to believe or say that something is caused by something else
manifestation = appearance