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A sister cult is that which teaches them to surrender to the higher divine power that rules the world, saying that the more they surrender the more prosperous they will become. This is a misunderstanding of the wiser notion that surrender can only be actual and justified after they have done everything humanly possible to get what they need and that they are here to strive for it, thereafter leaving ultimate results to destiny.

In an age when economic troubles are widespread, we need not be surprised at the prevalence of another type of cult, more particularly in the Occident, which believes that merely by thinking frequently in meditation of desired possessions, the latter will fall somehow into one's life.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 8 : Christian Science, Other Spiritual Movements > # 51