The Sermon on the Mount: The Key to Success in Life - A Practical Approach to Jesus's Teachings, Personal Transformation, and the Power of Positive Thinking in the Sermon on the Mount

by Emmet Fox

The plain fact is that Jesus taught no theology whatever. His teaching is entirely spiritual or metaphysical.

All day long the thoughts that occupy your mind, your Secret Place, as Jesus calls it, are moulding your destiny for good or evil; in fact, the truth is that the whole of our life’s experience is but the outer expression of inner thought.

We have free will, but our free will lies in our choice of thought.

The Bible is really a textbook of metaphysics, a manual for the growth of the soul, and it looks at all questions from this point of view.

Now you learn in Divine Metaphysics, and particularly in the Sermon on the Mount, that all causation is mental, and that your body and all your affairs—your home, your business, all your experience—are but the manifestation of your own mental states.

The great Law of the Universe, however, is just this—that what you think in your mind you will produce in your experience. As within, so without.