The Wisdom of Joseph Murphy by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: G&D Media
Published: 2020-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

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The Mystery of Prodigies

There is an account of the early career of Zerah Colburn, published when he was under eight years of age taken from the Annual Register of 1812. This young boy in Vermont struck everyone with astonishment by his extraordinary mathematical powers. He was asked by an investigator how many minutes there were in 48 years; before the question could be written down he replied 25,228,800; also he instantly added the number of seconds in the same period. This child was entirely ignorant of the common rules of arithmetic. He could not perform upon paper a simple sum in multiplication and division. This singular faculty extended not only to the raising of numerical powers, but to the extraction of the square and cube roots of the number proposed, as these and many more complex, mathematical calculations were answered instantaneously by the boy.

Hudson points out in “The Law of Psychic Phenomena” that this child was placed in school, and trained on objective methods of mathematical calculations. It was believed that when he was more mature and grown up, that he would be able to impart to others the powers by which his calculations were made; however his powers did not improve by objective training. Hudson adds this interesting statement: “On the contrary, they deteriorated in proportion to his efforts in that direction, and his pupils derived no benefit from the extraordinary faculties with which he was endowed.” This has been the invariable rule in such cases.

The subjective mind of you, or of anybody, knows the answer to any mathematical problem. As pointed out previously, any note that was ever played, or any song ever sung, is recorded on the Universal Mind within you—your subjective self; furthermore all languages are within. The Subjective Intelligence knows only the answer; It does not have to reason, investigate, calculate, or analyze. The mathematical, artistic, or musical genius is one who is en-rapport with his subconscious mind, enabling him to tap the answers which are there.

Very young children are living in a partly subjective state. There are numerous instances of early, remarkable, musical, mathematical ability which have subsequently diminished as their objective faculties were cultivated.

Quoting from Hudson’s Law of Psychic Phenomena: “Musical prodigies furnish further illustrations of the principle involved; of these the most remarkable is the negro idiot, known as Blind Tom. This person was not only blind from birth, but was little above the brute creation in point of objective intelligence or capacity to receive objective instruction; yet his musical capacity was prodigious. Almost in his infancy it was discovered that he could reproduce on the piano any piece of music that he had ever heard. A piece of music, however long or difficult, once heard seemed to be fixed indelibly on his memory; usually he could reproduce it with a surprising degree of accuracy. This capacity for improvisation was equally great; a discordant note rarely, if ever, marred the harmony of his music. These well-known facts of Blind Tom’s history furnish

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