Affirmation · “The Subconscious Says Yes”
Realizing Infinite Good
Dissolve fear, worry, and a sense of evil by deliberately realizing — not merely reciting — the Infinite Good, Perfection, and Presence of God, until the felt sense of threat gives way to peace and poise.
When fear or a sense of wrongness grips you, don’t argue with it — turn fully to the Good. Say earnestly, “There is no evil, there is only Infinite Good,” then address the Presence: “Thou art the Infinite Good, Perfection, Love, Peace, Life and Health.” Dwell on each until felt. Bring your specific fear into that light and realize it has no place in God. Stay until recitation becomes realization and the fear gives way to quiet peace; carry that poise back into the situation. (Genuinely calms fear and restores poise — but it steadies you, it doesn’t cure the illness; keep your medical and practical care.)
What it is
Hamblin’s “treatment” — his method for meeting fear, worry, and the sense that something is wrong by turning the whole attention to the Infinite Good of God until the felt sense of threat dissolves. It is his answer to fear: not arguing with the fear, not white-knuckling courage, but flooding awareness with the realized Presence and Perfection of God until fear has no ground to stand on.
The opening move is a denial-of-evil: “say earnestly, and realize the truth of what you are saying, ‘There is no evil, there is only Infinite Good.’” Then one ascends through a sustained contemplation of the divine attributes — “Thou art the Infinite Good, the Infinite Perfection, the Infinite Beauty and Loveliness… the Infinite Love, Joy, Peace and Happiness… the Infinite Life and Health.” Hamblin is emphatic that the words alone are inert — everything turns on realization: “It is all a question of realization, for it is only when you realize the Infinite Perfection of God, that the ‘treatment’ becomes effective,” the sign of which is “an inburst of spiritual light, of radiance and glory.” The fruit he seeks is the steady quiet joy and peace he says nothing outward can disturb.
The Method
Faithful to Hamblin (Dynamic Thought, “A Powerful Method of New Thought Treatment”):
- Deny the evil, affirm the Good. Begin: “There is no evil, there is only Infinite Good” — said earnestly, with the intent to realize its truth, not as rote words.
- Raise consciousness and address God directly. Lift the attention spiritually and speak to the Presence: “Thou art the Infinite Good, the Infinite Perfection, the Infinite Beauty and Loveliness.” Visualize and dwell on the meaning of each quality.
- Move through the divine attributes. Continue: “Thou art the Infinite Love, Joy, Peace and Happiness… the Infinite Abundance and Prosperity, the Infinite Success… the Infinite Wisdom, Knowledge, Truth, Light… the Infinite Life and Health. There is no disease, sickness, ill-health or infection.” Let each be felt, not just named.
- Apply it to your own trouble. “Deny especially the troubles, habits and difficulties of your own life, and realize that they can never exist in God.” Bring your specific fear into the light of the realized Good and see it has no place there.
- Realize until it shifts. Stay with it until recitation becomes realization — Hamblin’s marker is “an inburst of spiritual light, of radiance and glory,” a felt elevation. “It is all a question of realization.”
- Rest in the resulting peace and poise. What remains is his “quiet joy” — “the one who possesses this quiet joy can never be defeated in life’s battles.” Carry that settled peace back into the situation.
Source & Lineage
Dynamic Thought (1921), “A Powerful Method of New Thought Treatment,” with the “Infinite Good / quiet joy” theme from Within You is the Power (1921), Ch. XI “Happiness and Joy.” The structure — deny evil, then realize the Allness of God — is the standard New Thought “treatment” (Quimby → Eddy’s “there is no life, truth, intelligence in matter” → Cady, Holmes’s spiritual mind treatment, Fox).
Hamblin’s version is distinctively a devotional address to God (“Thou art…”) aimed squarely at dissolving fear into peace, rather than a third-person declaration of principle.
Common refinements
Reciting without realizing. Hamblin’s own warning: words are inert; the shift requires felt realization. If nothing changes inwardly, you’ve stayed on the surface.
- Denial of real illness/danger. “There is no disease… infection” is a contemplative stance for calming fear — never a clinical claim. Use it to steady yourself, then see the doctor anyway.
- Forcing the “inburst.” The radiance is a sometimes-fruit, not a target to strain for; straining blocks the settling.
- Spiritual bypass. Calming fear is not the same as solving the problem; let the peace clarify action, not replace it.
- Refinement: pair with (hand the steadied problem over) and (realize from the self in whom “no evil” can exist).