The Faculty of Elimination, Renunciation and Renewal

A healthy state of mind is attained and continued when the thinker willingly lets go of old thoughts and takes on the new.

                                                             The Revealing Word

Thoughts are things; they occupy space in the mental field.  A healthy state of mind is attained and continued when the thinker willingly lets go the old thoughts and takes on the new.  This is illustrated by the inlet and the outlet of a pool of water.  Stop the inlet, and the pool goes dry.  Close the natural outlet, and the pool stagnates, or, like the Dead Sea, it crystallizes its salts until they preserve everything that they touch. The action of the mind on the body is, in some of its aspects, similar to that of water on the earth.  Living old thoughts over and over keeps the inlet of the new thoughts closed.  Then begins crystallization. 

The Twelve Power of Man p. 144

It is just as necessary that one should learn to let go of thoughts, conditions, and substances in consciousness, body, and affairs, when they have served their purpose and one no longer needs them, as it is that one should lay hold of new ideas and new substances to meet one's daily requirements.  Therefore it is very necessary that the eliminative faculty be quickened in one, and a right balance between receiving and giving, laying hold and letting go, be established.                                                                             Dynamics for Living

No step in spiritual unfoldment is more important than renunciation or elimination.  We must learn to let go, to give up, so that we can make room for the things we have prayed for and desired.  It is simply giving up and casting away old thoughts that have put us where we are, and putting in their place new ideas that promise to improve our condition.  There must be a constant elimination of the old to keep pace with growth.  When we cling to the old we hinder our advance or stop it altogether. Denial sweeps out the debris and makes room for the new tenant that is brought into the mind by the affirmation.  It would not be wise to eliminate the old thoughts unless you knew that there were higher and better ones to take their place.                                                 Dynamics for Living

The Divine idea - Renunciation (Elimination) is man’s power to cast off or free him self from those useless cells, forms or traditions which prevent newness from achieving expression…. It is power to reject, deny or escape from all states of consciousness that appears to act as a restraint on the activity of the Christ.  Renunciation (Elimination) in the mind of God is an idea of untrammeled freedom. In man it is the ability to renounce, deny, reject, or cast off all that appears contrary to the goodness of God                                                                                                            Powers of the Soul, Ella Pomeroy