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The Cosmic Energizer: Miracle Power of the Universe
Book by Murphy, Joseph
214 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1974
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Joseph Murphy
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Joseph Murphy was a Divine Science minister and author.
Murphy was born in Ireland, the son of a private boy's school headmaster and raised a Roman Catholic. He studied for the priesthood and joined the Jesuits. In his twenties, an experience with healing prayer led him to leave the Jesuits and move to the United States, where he became a pharmacist in New York (having a degree in chemistry by that time). Here he attended the Church of the Healing Christ (part of the Church of Divine Science), where Emmet Fox had become minister in 1931.
In the mid 1940s, he moved to Los Angeles, where he met Religious Science founder Ernest Holmes, and was ordained into Religious Science by Holmes in 1946, thereafter teaching at the Institute of Religious Science. A meeting with Divine Science Association president Erwin Gregg led to him being reordained into Divine Science, and he became the minister of the Los Angeles Divine Science Church in 1949, which he built into one of the largest New Thought congregations in the country. In the next decade, Murphy married, earned a PhD in psychology from the University of Southern California and started writing. After his first wife died in 1976, he remarried to a fellow Divine Science minister who was his longstanding secretary. He died in 1981.
Joseph Murphy was a Divine Science minister and author.
Murphy was born in Ireland, the son of a private boy's school headmaster and raised a Roman Catholic. He studied for the priesthood and joined the Jesuits. In his twenties, an experience with healing prayer led him to leave the Jesuits and move to the United States, where he became a pharmacist in New York (having a degree in chemistry by that time). Here he attended the Church of the Healing Christ (part of the Church of Divine Science), where Emmet Fox had become minister in 1931.
In the mid 1940s, he moved to Los Angeles, where he met Religious Science founder Ernest Holmes, and was ordained into Religious Science by Holmes in 1946, thereafter teaching at the Institute of Religious Science. A meeting with Divine Science Association president Erwin Gregg led to him being reordained into Divine Science, and he became the minister of the Los Angeles Divine Science Church in 1949, which he built into one of the largest New Thought congregations in the country. In the next decade, Murphy married, earned a PhD in psychology from the University of Southern California and started writing. After his first wife died in 1976, he remarried to a fellow Divine Science minister who was his longstanding secretary. He died in 1981.
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January 5, 2016
Good read, full of positive affirmations.
April 15, 2018
Best idea of the book:
All life is largely an absorption of power that you as yet do not know to be actually there
Before you, the dynamo, begin rotating and there is only potential power as a possibility
But when you begin to move as a dynamic, magnetic personality (dynamo), you will soon emit sparks and generate power from the Source of all power
However, you must become a 'self-starter'
Some people only 'come to life' in emergencies instead of making it a daily habit of abiding continually in the field of potential energy
All life is largely an absorption of power that you as yet do not know to be actually there
Before you, the dynamo, begin rotating and there is only potential power as a possibility
But when you begin to move as a dynamic, magnetic personality (dynamo), you will soon emit sparks and generate power from the Source of all power
However, you must become a 'self-starter'
Some people only 'come to life' in emergencies instead of making it a daily habit of abiding continually in the field of potential energy
April 3, 2018
Excellent book for anyone interested in metaphysics.
September 25, 2018
Great insightful book.
October 28, 2020
Another excellent book by Joseph Murphy. So glad I found this author. Lots of good affirmations and truths of living a full great life of abundance!
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February 7, 2019"Your dominant belief about yourself, life and God is your real religion. Your subconscious assumptions, convictions and beliefs dictate and control all your conscious action. In other words, your religion is your relationship with God" (63).
"The sense of guilt holds many people back, as it blocks the flow of cosmic energy into their lives, robbing them of vitality, enthusiasm and expansion in life. Self-condemnation brings failure and misery; self-forgiveness brings joy, happiness and prosperity" (93).
"To forgive is to give for. You have the power to forgive yourself by changing your thoughts according to universal principles and keeping them changed. The moment you do this, there is an automatic response from your subconscious mind, and the past is forgotten and remembered no more. A new beginning is a new end" (93).
"The sense of guilt holds many people back, as it blocks the flow of cosmic energy into their lives, robbing them of vitality, enthusiasm and expansion in life. Self-condemnation brings failure and misery; self-forgiveness brings joy, happiness and prosperity" (93).
"To forgive is to give for. You have the power to forgive yourself by changing your thoughts according to universal principles and keeping them changed. The moment you do this, there is an automatic response from your subconscious mind, and the past is forgotten and remembered no more. A new beginning is a new end" (93).
April 30, 2023
I read the author's "The Power of the Subconscious Mind" some decades ago. I was impressed with his conviction and faith. Then, a few years ago, I read his "Psychic Perception" which is another wonderful classic that had an enormous effect upon my ideas of life.
I have just read "The Cosmic Energizer", which, in terms of the power, conviction and cogent views, can be set beside the two books I mentioned above.
It is a book that I should recommend to anyone who is sincere, hopeful and determined to establish contacts with the higher powers of existence in this material plane.
I have just read "The Cosmic Energizer", which, in terms of the power, conviction and cogent views, can be set beside the two books I mentioned above.
It is a book that I should recommend to anyone who is sincere, hopeful and determined to establish contacts with the higher powers of existence in this material plane.
May 18, 2016
Profound.
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