Ideas Are Living Things, and They
Have a Vital Part in Shaping the World
 
 
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
 
 
 
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)
 
 
 
I hold it true that thoughts are things
Endowed with bodies, breath, and wings,
And that we send them forth to fill
The world with good results – or ill.
 
That which we call our secret thought
Speeds to the earth’s remotest spot,
And leaves its blessings or its woes
Like tracks behind it as it goes.
 
It is God’s [1] law. Remember it
In your still chamber as you sit
With thoughts you would not dare have known,
And yet made comrades when alone.
 
These thoughts have life; and they will fly
And leave their impress by and by,
Like some marsh breeze, whose poisoned breath
Breathes into homes its fevered breath.
 
And after you have quite forgot
Or all outgrown some vanished thought,
Back to your mind to make its home,
A dove or raven, it will come.
 
Then let your secret thoughts be fair;
They have a vital part and share
In shaping worlds and moulding fate –
God’s system is so intricate.
 
NOTE:
 
[1] In Theosophy, “God” means the Universal Law and the One Life. (CCA)
 
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The above poem is reproduced from the book “Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox”, published by W.P. Nimmo, Hay, & Mitchell, Edinburgh, undated, probably 1917, 527 pages, see p. 64.
 
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See in our websites the article “Telepathy, the Silent Conversation”.
 
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On 14 September 2016, a group of students decided to found the Independent Lodge of Theosophists. Two of the priorities adopted by the ILT are learning from the past and building a better future.  
 
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