The Master Key System (1916) by Charles F. Haanel

the Master Key System by Charles F hannel read by Randy Scott original copyright 1916 by Charles F hannel St Louis Missouri prior to this book's publication the Master Key System was distributed as a 24-week correspondence course each of the 24 chapters contain an introduction an exercise towards the end followed by a section with questions and answers letter of transmittal part 1. it is my privilege to enclose here with part one of the Master Key System would you bring into your life more power get the power Consciousness more health get the health consciousness more happiness get

the happiness consciousness live the spirit of these things until they become yours by right it will then become impossible to keep them from you the things of the world are fluid to a power within Man by which he rules them you need not acquire this power you already have it but you want to understand it you want to use it you want to control it you want to impregnate yourself with it so that you can go forward and carry the world before you day by day as you go on and on as you gain momentum

as your inspiration deepens as your plans crystallize as you gain understanding you will come to realize that this world is no dead pile of stones and Timber but that it is a living thing it is made up of the beating hearts of humanity it is a thing of life and beauty it is evident that it requires understanding to work with material of this description but for those who come into this understanding are inspired by a new light a new Force they gain confidence and greater power each day they realize their hopes and their dreams come

true life has a deeper Fuller clear meaning than before part one that much gathers more is true on every plane of existence and that loss leads to Greater loss is equally true mind is creative and conditions environment and all experiences in life are the result of our habitual or predominant mental attitude the attitude of Mind necessarily depends upon what we think therefore the secret of all power all achievement and all possession depends upon our method of thinking this is true because we must be before we can do and we can do only to the extent

of which we are and what we are depends upon what we think we cannot express Powers which we do not possess and the only way by which we may secure possession of power is to become conscious of power and we can never become conscious of power until we learn that all power is from within there is a world within world of thought and feeling and power of light and life and beauty and although invisible its forces are mighty the world within is governed by mind when we discover this world we shall find the solution for

every problem the cause for every effect and since the world within is subject to our control all Laws of Power and possession are also within our control the world without is a reflection of the world within what appears without is what has been found within in the world within may be found Infinite Wisdom infinite power infinite supply of all that is necessary waiting for unfoldment development and expression if we recognize these potentialities in the world within they will take form in the world without Harmony in the world within will be reflected in the world without

by harmonious conditions agreeable surroundings and the best of everything it is the foundation of health and a necessary essential to all greatness all power all attainment all achievement and all success Harmony in the world within means the ability to control our thoughts to determine for ourselves how any experiences to affect us Harmony in the world within results in optimism and affluence affluence within results in affluence without the world without reflects the circumstances and the conditions of the Consciousness Within if we find wisdom in the world within we shall have the understanding to discern The Marvelous

possibilities which are latent in this world within and we shall be given the power to make these possibilities manifest in the world without as we become conscious of the wisdom in the world within we mentally take possession of this wisdom and by taking mental possession we come into actual possession of the power and wisdom necessary to bring into manifestation the essentials necessary for our most complete and harmonious development the world within is the Practical World in which the men and women of power generate courage hope enthusiasm confidence trust and faith by which they are given

the fine intelligence and the Practical skill to see the vision and make the vision real life is an unfoldment not accretion what comes to us in the world without is what we already possess in the world within all possession is based on consciousness all gain is the result of an accumulative Consciousness all loss is a result of a scattering of consciousness mental efficiency is contingent upon Harmony Discord means confusion therefore who would acquire power must be in harmony with natural law we related to the world without by the objective mind the brain is the organ

of this mind and the cerebrospinal system of nerves puts us in conscious communication with every part of the body the system of nerves responds to every sensation of light heat odor sound and taste when this mind thinks correctly when it understands the truth when the thoughts sent through the cerebral spinal nervous system to the body are constructive these Sensations are Pleasant harmonious the result is that we build strength vitality and all constructive forces into our body but it is through this same objective mind that all distress sickness lack limitation and every form of Discord and

in harmony is admitted to our lives it is therefore through the objective Mind by wrong thinking that we are related to all destructive forces we are related to the world within by the subconscious mind the solar plexus is the organ of this mind the sympathetic system of nerves presides over all subjective Sensations such as Joy fear love emotion respiration imagination and all other subconscious phenomena it is through the subconscious that we are connected with the universal mind and brought into relation with the infinite constructive forces of the universe it is the coordination of these two

centers of our being and the understanding of their functions which is the great secret of life with this knowledge we can bring the objective and subjective Minds into conscious cooperation and thus coordinate the finite and the infinite our future is entirely within our own control it is not at the mercy of any capricious or uncertain external power all agree that there is but one principle or Consciousness pervading the entire universe occupying all space and being essentially the same in kind at every point of its presence it is all-powerful all wisdom and always present all thoughts

and things are within itself it is all in all there is but one Consciousness in the universe able to think and when it thinks its thoughts become objective things to it as this Consciousness is omnipresent it must be present within every individual each individual must be a manifestation of that omnipotent omniscient and omnipresent consciousness as there is only one Consciousness in the universe which is able to think it necessarily follows that your Consciousness is identical with the universal Consciousness or in other words all mind is one mind there is no dodging this conclusion the Consciousness

which focuses in your brain cells is the same Consciousness which focuses in the brain cells of every other individual each individual is but the individualization of the universal the cosmic mind the universal mind is static or potential energy it simply is it can manifest only through the individual and the individual can manifest only through the universal they are one the ability of the individual to think is his ability to act on the universal and bring it into manifestation human consciousness consists only in the ability of man to think Walker says mind in itself is believed

to be a subtle form of static energy from which arises the activities called thought which is the dynamic phase of Mind mind is static energy thought is dynamic energy the two phases of the same thing thought is therefore the vibratory Force formed by converting static mind into Dynamic mind as the sum of all attributes is contained in the universal mind which is omnipotent omniscient and omnipresent these attributes must be present at all times in their potential form in every individual therefore when the individual thinks the thought is compelled by its nature to embody itself in

an objectivity or condition which will correspond with its origin every thought is therefore a cause and every condition an effect for this reason it is absolutely essential that you control your thoughts so as to bring forth only desirable conditions all power is from within and is absolutely under your control it comes through exact knowledge and by the voluntary exercise of exact principles it should be plain that when you get a thorough understanding of this law and are able to control your thought processes you can apply it to any condition in other words you will have

come into conscious cooperation with omnipotent law which is the fundamental basis of all things the universal mind is the life principle of every atom which is in existence every atom is continually striving to manifest more life all are intelligent and all are seeking to carry out the purpose for which they were created a majority of mankind lives in the world without few have found the world within and yet it is the world within which makes the world without it is therefore creative and everything which you find in your world without has been created by you

in the world within this system will bring you into a realization of power which will be yours when you understand this relation between the world without and the world within the world within is the cause the world without the effect to change the effect you must change the cause you will at once see that this is a radically new and different idea most men try to change Effects by working with effects they fail to see that this is simply changing one form of distress for another to remove Discord we must remove the cause and this

cause can be found in the world within all growth is from within this is evident in all nature every plant every animal every human is a living testimony to this great law and the error of the ages is in looking for strength or power from without the world within is the universal Fountain of supply and the world without is the outlet to the Stream our ability to receive depends upon our recognition of this Universal fountain this infinite energy of which each individual is an outlet and so is one with every other individual recognition is a

mental process mental action is therefore the interaction of the individual upon the universal mind and as the universal mind is the intelligence which pervades all space and animates all living things this mental action and reaction is the law of causation but the principle of causation does not obtain in the individual but in the Universal Mind it is not an objective faculty but a subjective process and the results are seen in an infinite variety of conditions and experiences in order to express life there must be mind nothing can exist without mind everything which exists is some

manifestation of this one basic substance from which and by which all things have been created and are continually being recreated we live in a fathomless sea of plastic mind substance this substance is ever alive and active it is sensitive to the highest degree it takes form according to the mental demand thought forms the mold or Matrix from which the substance expresses remember that it is in the application alone that the value consists and that a practical understanding of this law will substitute abundance for poverty wisdom for ignorance Harmony for Discord and freedom for tyranny and

certainly there can be no greater blessing than these from a material and social standpoint now make the application select a room where you can be alone and undisturbed sit erect comfortably but do not Lounge let your thoughts roam where they will but be perfectly still for from 15 minutes to half an hour continue this for three or four days or for a week until you secure full control of your physical being many will find this extremely difficult others will conquer with ease but it is absolutely essential to secure complete control of the body before you

are ready to progress next week you'll receive instructions for the next step in the meantime you must have mastered this one questionnaire part one what is the world without in its relation to the world within the world without is a reflection of the world within upon what does all possession depend all possession is based on consciousness how is the individual related to The Objective world the individuals related to The Objective World by the objective mind the brain is the organ of this mind how is he related to the universal mind he is related to the

Universal Mind by the subconscious mind the solar plexus is the organ of this mind what is the universal mind the universal mind is the life principle of every atom which is in existence how can the individual act on the universal the ability of the individual to think is his ability to act upon the universal and bring it into manifestation what is the result of this action and interaction the result of this action and interaction is cause and effect every thought is a cause in every condition and effect how are harmonious and desirable conditions secured harmonious

and desirable conditions are obtained by right thinking what is the cause of all Discord in harmony lack and limitation Discord in harmony lack and limitation are the result of wrong thinking what is the source of all power the source of all power is the world within the universal Fountain of Supply the infinite energy of which each individual is an outlet letter of transmittal part two our difficulties are largely due to confused ideas and ignorance of our true interests the great task is to discover the laws of nature to which we are to adjust ourselves clear

thinking and moral Insight are therefore of incalculiable value all processes even those of thought rest on solid foundations the Keener the sensibilities the more acute the judgment the more delicate The Taste the more refined the moral feelings the more subtle the intelligence the loftier the aspiration the pure and more intense are the gratifications which existence yields hence it is that the study of the best that has been thought in the world gives Supreme pleasure the powers uses and possibilities of the Mind under the new interpretations are incomparably more wonderful than the most extravagant accomplishment or

even dreams of material progress thought is energy active thought is active energy concentrated thought is concentrated energy thought concentrated on a definite purpose becomes power this is the power which is being used by those who do not believe in the virtue of poverty for the beauty of self-denial they perceive that this is the talk of weaklings the ability to receive and Manifest this power depends upon the ability to recognize the infinite energy ever dwelling in man constantly creating and recreating his body and mind and ready at any moment to manifest through him in any needful

manner in exact proportion to the recognition of this truth will be the manifestation in the outer life of the individual part 2 explains the method by which this is accomplished part two the operations of the Mind are produced by two parallel modes of activity the one conscious and the other subconscious Professor Davidson says he who thinks to illuminate the whole range of mental action by the light of his own Consciousness is not unlike one who should go about to illuminate the universe with a rush light the subconscious logical processes are carried on with a certainty

and regularity which would be impossible if there existed the possibility of error our mind is so designed that It prepares for us the most important foundations of cognition whilst we have not this slightest apprehension of the modest operandi the subconscious Soul like a benevolent stranger works and makes provision for our benefit pouring only the mature fruits into our lap thus ultimate analysis of thought processes shows that the subconscious is the theater of the most important mental phenomena it is through the subconscious that Shakespeare must have perceived without effort great truths which are hidden from the

conscious mind of the student that phidius fashioned marble and bronze that Raphael painted Madonna's and Beethoven composed symphonies ease and Perfection depend entirely upon the degree in which we cease to depend upon the consciousness playing the piano skating operating the typewriter the skilled trades depend for their perfect execution on the process of the subconscious mind the Marvel of playing a brilliant piece on the piano while at the same time conducting a vigorous conversation shows the greatness of our subconscious powers we are all aware how dependent we are upon the subconscious and the greater the nobler

and more brilliant our thoughts are the more it is obvious to ourselves that the origin lies beyond our kin we find ourselves endowed with tact Instinct sense of the beautiful in arts music Etc of whose origin or dwelling place we are wholly unconscious the value of the subconscious is enormous it inspires us it warns us it furnishes us with names facts and scenes from the storehouse of memory it directs our thoughts tastes and accomplishes tasks so intricate that no conscious mind even if it had the power has the capacity for we can walk at will

we can raise the arm whenever we choose to do so we can give our attention through eye or ear to any subjected pleasure on the other hand we cannot stop our heartbeats nor the circulation of the blood nor the growth of stature nor the formation of nerve and muscle tissue nor the building of the bones nor many other important vital processes if we compare these two sets of action the one decreed by the will of the moment and the other proceeding in Majestic rhythmic course subject to no vascularization but constant at every moment we stand

in awe of the latter and asked to have the mystery explained we see it once that these are the vital processes of our physical life and we cannot avoid the interference that these all-important functions are decidedly withdrawn from the domain of our outward will with its variations and Transitions and placed under the direction of a permanent and dependable power within us of these two Powers the outward and changeable has been termed the conscious mind or the objective mind dealing with outward objects the interior power is called the subconscious mind or the subjective mind and besides

its work on the mental plane it controls the regular functions which make physical life possible it is necessary to have a clear understanding of their respective functions on the mental plane as well as of certain other basic principles perceiving and operating through the five physical senses the conscious mind deals with the Impressions and objects of the outward life it has the faculty of discrimination carrying with it the responsibility of choice it has the power of reasoning whether inductive deductive analytical or syllogistic and this power may be developed to a high degree it is the seat

of the will with all the energies that flow there from not only can It impress other minds but it can direct the subconscious mind in this way the conscious mind becomes the responsible ruler and guardian of the subconscious mind it is this High function which can completely reverse conditions in your life it is often true that conditions of fear worry poverty disease inharmony and evils of all kinds dominate Us by reason of false suggestions accepted by the unguarded subconscious mind all this the trained conscious mind can entirely prevent by its Vigilant protective action it may

properly be called The Watchman at the Gate of the great subconscious domain one writer has expressed the chief distinction between the two phases of Mind thus conscious mind is reasoning will subconscious mind is instinctive desire the result of past reasoning will the subconscious mind draws just an accurate inferences from premises furnished from outside sources where the premise is true the subconscious mind reaches a faultless conclusion but where the premise or suggestion is an error the whole structure Falls the subconscious mind does not engage in the process of proving it relies upon the conscious mind the

Watchman at the gate to guard it from mistaken impressions receiving any suggestions is true the subconscious mind at once proceeds to act thereon in the whole domain of its tremendous field of work the conscious mind can suggest either truth or error if the latter it is at the cost of wide reaching Peril to the whole being the conscious mind ought to be on duty during every waking hour when the Watchman is off guard or when it's calm judgment is suspended under a variety of circumstances then the subconscious mind is unguarded and left open to suggestion

from all sources during the wild excitement of Panic or during the height of anger were the impulses of the irresponsible mob or at any other time of unrestrained passion the conditions are most dangerous the subconscious mind is then open to the suggestion of fear hatred selfishness greed self-deprecation and other negative forces derived from surrounding persons or circumstances the result is usually unwholesome in the extreme with effects that may endure to distress it for a long time hence the great importance of guarding the subconscious mind from false impressions the subconscious mind perceives by intuition hence its

processes are rapid it does not wait for the slow methods of conscious reasoning in fact it cannot employ them the subconscious mind never sleeps never rests any more than does your heart or your blood it has been found that by plainly stating to the subconscious mind certain specific things to be accomplished forces are set in operation that lead to the result desired here then is a source of power which places us in touch with omnipotence herein is a deep principle which is well worth our most Earnest study the operation of this law is interesting those

who put it into operation find that when they go out to meet the person with whom they anticipate a difficult interview low something has been there before them and dissolved the supposed differences Everything Has Changed all is harmonious they find that when some difficult business problem presents itself they can afford to make delay and something suggests the proper solution everything is properly arranged in fact those who have learned to trust the subconscious fine that they have infinite resources at their command the subconscious mind is the seat of our principles and our aspirations it is the

fount of our artistic and altruistic ideals these instincts can only be overthrown by an elaborate and gradual process of undermining the innate principles the subconscious mind cannot argue controversially hence if it has accepted wrong suggestions the sure method of overcoming them is by the use of a strong counter suggestion frequently repeated which the Mind must accept thus eventually forming new and healthy habits of thought and life for the subconscious mind is the seat of habit that which we do over and over becomes mechanical it is no longer an act of judgment but has worn its

deep grooves in the subconscious mind this is favorable for us if the Habit be wholesome and right if it be harmful and wrong the remedy is to recognize the omnipotence of the subconscious mind and suggest present actual freedom the subconscious being creative and one with our divine Source will at once create the freedom suggested to sum up the normal functions of the subconscious on the physical side have to do with the regular and vital processes with the preservation of life and the restoration of Health with the care of Offspring which includes an instinctive desire to

preserve all life and improve conditions generally on the mental side it is the storehouse of memory it Harbors the wonderful thought Messengers who work unhampered by time or space it is the Fountain of the Practical initiative and constructive forces of life it is the seat of habit on the spiritual side it is the source of ideals of aspiration of the imagination and is the channel through which we recognize our divine source and in proportion as we recognize this Divinity do we come into an understanding of the source of power someone may ask how can the

subconscious change conditions the reply is because the subconscious is a part of the universal mind and a part must be the same in kind and quality as the whole the only difference is one of degree the whole as we know is creative in fact it is the only Creator there is consequently we find that mind is creative and his thought is the only activity which the Mind possesses thought must necessarily be creative also but we shall find that there is a vast difference between simply thinking and directing our thought consciously systematically and constructively when we

do this we place our mind in harmony with the universal mind we come in tune with the infinite we set an operation the mightiest force in existence the creative power of the universal mind this as everything else is governed by natural law and this law is the law of attraction which is that mind is creative and will automatically correlate with its object and bring it into manifestation last week I gave an exercise for the purpose of securing control of the physical body if you have accomplished this you are ready to advance this time you will

begin to control your thought always take the same room the same chair and the same position if possible in some cases it is not convenient to take the same room in this case simply make the best use of such conditions as may be available now be perfectly still as before but inhibit all thought this will give you control over all thoughts of care worry and fear and will enable you to entertain only the kind of thoughts you desire continue this exercise until you gain complete mastery you will not be able to do this for more

than a few moments at a time but the exercise is valuable because it will be a very practical demonstration of the great number of thoughts which are constantly trying to gain access to your mental world next week you will receive instructions for an exercise which may be a little more interesting but it is necessary that you mastered this one first cause and effect is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of visible and material things mind is the master Weaver both of the Interior Garment of character and the

outer garment of circumstance James Allen questionnaire part two what are the two modes of mental activity conscious and subconscious upon what do ease and Perfection depend ease and Perfection depend entirely upon the degree in which we cease to depend upon the conscious mind what is the value of the subconscious it is enormous it guides us warns us it controls the vital processes and is the seat of memory what are some of the functions of the conscious mind it has the faculty of discrimination it has the power of reasoning it is the seat of the will

and may impress the subconscious how has the distinction between the conscious and subconscious been expressed conscious mind is reasoning will subconscious mind is instinctive desire the result of past reasoning will what method is necessary in order to impress the subconscious mentally State what is wanted what will be the result if the desire is in harmony with the forward movement of the great whole forces will be set in motion which will bring about the result what is the result of the operation of this law our environment reflects conditions corresponding to the predominant mental attitude which we

entertain what name has been given to this law law of attraction how is this law stated thought is a creative energy and will automatically correlate with its object and bring it in to manifestation letter of transmittal part three you have found that the individual may act on the universal and that the result of this action and interaction is cause and effect thought therefore is the cause and the experiences with which you meet in life are the effect eliminate therefore any possible tendency to complain of conditions as they have been or as they are because it

rests with you to change them and make them what you would like them to be direct your effort to a realization of the mental resources always at your command from which all real and Lasting power comes persist in this practice till you come to a realization of the fact that there can be no failure in the accomplishment of any proper object in life if you but understand your power and persist in your object because the mind forces are ever ready to lend themselves to a purposeful will in the effort to crystallize thought and desire into

actions events and conditions whereas in the beginning of each function of life and each action is the result of conscious thought the habitual actions become automatic and the thought that controls them passes into the realm of the subconscious yet it is just as intelligent as before it is necessary that it become automatic or subconscious in order that the self-conscious mind May attend to other things the new actions will however in their turn become habitual then automatic then subconscious in order that the mind again may be freed from this detail in advance to still other activities

when you realize this you have found a source of power which will enable you to take care of any situation in life which may develop part three the necessary interaction of the conscious and subconscious mind requires a similar interaction between the corresponding systems of nerves judge troward indicates the very beautiful method in which this interaction is affected he says the cerebral spinal system is the organ of the conscious mind and the sympathetic is the organ of the subconscious the cerebrospinal is the channel through which we receive conscious perception from the physical senses and exercise control

over the movements of the body this system of nerves has its Center in the brain the sympathetic system has its Center in a ganglionic mass at the back of the stomach known as the solar plexus and is the channel of that mental action which unconsciously supports the vital functions of the body the connection between the two systems is made by the vagus nerve which passes out of the cerebral region as a portion of the voluntary system to the thorax sending out branches to the heart and lungs and finally passing to the diaphragm it loses its

outer coating and becomes identified with the nerves of the sympathetic system so forming a connecting link between the two and making man physically a single entity we have seen that every thought is received by the brain which is the organ of the conscious it is here subjected to our power of reasoning when the objective mind has been satisfied that the thought is true it is sent to the solar plexus or the brain of the subjective mind to be made into our flesh to be brought forth into the world as a reality it is then no

longer susceptible to any argument whatever the subconscious mind cannot argue it only acts it accepts the conclusions of the objective mind as final the solar plexus has been likened to the sun of the body because it is a central point of distribution for the energy which the body is constantly generating this energy is very real energy and the Sun is a very real sun and the energy is being distributed by very real nerves to all parts of the body and is thrown off in an atmosphere which envelops the body if this radiation is sufficiently strong

the person is called magnetic he is said to be filled with personal magnetism such a person may wield an immense of power for good his presence alone will often bring Comfort to the troubled Minds with which he comes in contact when the solar plexus is an act of operation and is radiating Life Energy and vitality to every part of the body and to everyone whom he meets the sensations are Pleasant the body is filled with health and all with whom he comes in contact experience a pleasant sensation if there is any Interruption of this radiation

the sensations are unpleasant the flow of life and energy to some part of the body is stopped and this is the cause of every ill to the human race physical mental or Environmental physical because the son of the body is no longer generating sufficient energy to vitalize some part of the body mental because the conscious mind is dependent upon the subconscious mind for the Vitality necessary to support its thought an environmental because the connection between the subconscious mind and the universal mind is being interrupted the solar plexus is the point at which the part meets

with the whole where the finite becomes infinite where the uncreate becomes create the universal becomes individualized the invisible becomes visible it is the point at which life appears and there is no limit to the amount of Life an individual May generate from this solar center the center of energy is omnipotent because it is the point of contact with all life and all intelligence it can therefore accomplish whatever it is directed to accomplish and herein lies the power of the conscious mind the subconscious can and will carry out such plans and ideas as may be suggested

to it by the conscious mind conscious thought then is master of this sun center from which life and energy of the entire body flows and the quality of the thought which we entertain determines the quality of the thought which this sun will radiate and the character of the thought which our conscious mind entertains will determine the character of the thought which this sun will radiate and the nature of the thought which our conscious mind entertains will determine the nature of thought which the sun will radiate consequently will determine the nature of the experience which will

result it is evident therefore that all we have to do is let our light shine the more energy we can radiate the more rapidly shall we be enabled to transmute undesirable conditions into sources of pleasure and profit the important question then is how to let this light shine how to generate this energy non-resistant thought expands the solar plexus resistant thought contracts it Pleasant thought expands it unpleasant thought contracts it thoughts of Courage power confidence and hope all produce a corresponding state but the one Arch Enemy of the solar plexus which must be absolutely destroyed before

there is any possibility of letting any light shine is fear this enemy must be completely destroyed he must be eliminated he must be expelled forever he is the cloud which hides the sun which causes a Perpetual Gloom it is this personal devil which makes men fear the past the present and the future fear themselves their friends and their enemies fear everything and everybody when fear is effectually and completely destroyed your light will shine the clouds will disperse and you will have found the source of power energy and life when you find that you are really

one with the infinite power and when you can consciously realize this power by a practical demonstration of your ability to overcome any adverse condition by the power of your thought you have nothing to fear fear will have been destroyed and you have come into possession of your Birthright it is our attitude of Mind toward life which determines the experiences with which we are to meet if we expect nothing we shall have nothing if we demand much we shall receive the greater portion the world is Harsh only as we fail to assert ourselves the criticism of

the world is bitter only to those who cannot compel room for their ideas it is fear of this criticism that causes many ideas to fail to see the light of day but the man who knows that he has a solar plexus will not fear criticism or anything else he will be too busy radiating courage confidence and power he will anticipate success by his mental attitude he will pound barriers to pieces and leap over the chasm of doubt and hesitation which fear places in his path a knowledge of our ability to consciously radiate health strength and

Harmony will bring us into a realization that there is nothing to fear because we are in touch with Infinite Strength this knowledge can be gained only by making practical application of this information we learn by doing thought practice the athlete comes powerful as the following statement is of considerable importance I will put it in several ways so that you cannot fail to get the full significance of it if you are religiously inclined I would say you can let your light shine if your mind has a bias toward physical science I would say you can wake

the solar plexus or if you prefer the strictly scientific interpretation I will say that you can impress your subconscious mind I have already told you what the result of this impression will be it is the method in which you are now interested you have already learned that the subconscious is intelligent and that it is creative and responsive to the will of the conscious mind what then is the most natural way of making the desired impression mentally concentrate on the objects of your desire when you are concentrating you are impressing the subconscious this is not the

only way but it is as simple and effective way in the most direct way and consequently the way in which the best results are secured it is the method which is producing such extraordinary results that many think that Miracles are being accomplished it is the method by which every great inventor every great financier ever great Statesman has been enabled to convert the subtle and invisible force of Desire faith and confidence into actual tangible concrete facts in the objective world the subconscious mind is a part of the universal mind the universal is the creative principle of

the universe a part must be the same and kind and quality as the whole this means that this creative power is absolutely Unlimited it is not bound by precedent of any kind and consequently has no prior existing pattern by which to apply its constructive principle we have found that the subconscious mind is responsive to our conscious will which means that the unlimited creative power of the universal mind is within control of the conscious mind of the individual when making a practical application of this principle in accordance with the exercises given in subsequent lessons It is

Well to remember that it is not necessarily to outline the method by which the subconscious will produce the results you desire the finite cannot inform the infinite you were simply to say what you desire not how you are to obtain it you are the channel by which the undifferentiated is being differentiated and this differentientation is being accomplished by appropriation it only requires recognition to set causes in motion which will bring about results in accordance with your desire and this is accomplished because the universal can act only through the individual and the individual can act only

through the universal they are one for your exercise this week I will ask you to go one step further I want you to not only be perfectly still and inhibit all thought as far as possible but relax let go let the muscles take their normal condition this will remove all pressure from the nerves and eliminate that tension which so frequently produces physical exhaustion physical relaxation is a voluntary exercise of the will and the exercise will be found to be of great value as it enables the blood to circulate freely to and from the brain and

body tension leads to mental unrest and abnormal mental activity of the mind it produces worry care fear and anxiety relaxation is therefore an absolute necessity in order to allow the mental faculties to exercise the greatest freedom make this exercise as thorough and complete as possible mentally determined that you will relax every muscle and nerve until you feel quiet and restful and at peace with yourself in the world the solar plexus will then be ready to function and you will be surprised at the result questionnaire part three what system of nerves is the organ of the

conscious mind the cerebrospinal what system of nerves is the organ of the subconscious mind the sympathetic what is the central point of distribution for energy which the body is constantly generating the solar plexus how may this distribution be interrupted by resistant critical discordant thoughts but especially by fear what is the result of such interpretation every ill with which the human race is afflicted how may this energy be controlled and directed by conscious thought how may fear be completely eliminated by an understanding and recognition of the true source of all power what determines the experiences with

which we meet in life our predominant mental attitude how may we awake the solar plexus mentally concentrate upon the condition which we desire to see manifested in our lives what is the creative principle of the universe the universal mind we judge of a man's Wisdom by his hope knowing that the perception of the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth Emerson letter of transmittal part four enclosed here with a hand you part four this part will show you why what you think or do or feel is an indication of what you are thought is energy

and energy is power and it is because all the religions sciences and philosophies with which the world has heretofore been familiar have been based upon the manifestation of this energy instead of the energy itself that the world has been limited to effects while causes have been ignored or misunderstood for this reason we have God and the devil in religion positive and negative in science and good and bad in philosophy the master key reverses the process it is interested only in cause and the letters received from students tell a marvelous story they indicate conclusively that students

are finding the cause whereby they may secure for themselves Health Harmony abundance and whatever else may be necessary for their welfare and happiness life is expressive and it is our business to express ourselves harmoniously and constructively sorrow misery unhappiness disease and poverty are not necessities and we are constantly eliminating them but this process of eliminating consists in Rising above and beyond limitation of any kind he who has strengthened and purified his thought need not concern himself about microbes and he who has come into an understanding of the law of abundance will go at once to

the source of supply it is thus that fate fortune and Destiny will be controlled as readily as a captain controls his ship or an engineer his train part four the I of U is not the physical body that is simply an instrument which the I uses to carry out its purposes the I cannot be the mind the mind is simply another instrument which the I uses with which to think reason and plan the I must be something which controls and directs both the body and the mind something which determines what they shall do and how

they shall Act when you come into a realization of the true nature of this eye you will enjoy a sense of power which you have never before known your personality is made up of countless individual characteristics peculiarities habits and traits of character these are the result of your former method of thinking but they have nothing to do with the real eye when you say I think the I tells the mind what it shall think when you say I go the eye tells the physical body where it shall go the real nature of this eye is

spiritual and is the source of the real power which comes to men and women when they come into a realization of their true nature the greatest and most marvelous power which this eye has been given is the power to think but few people know how to think constructively or correctly consequently they achieve only indifferent results most people allow their thoughts to dwell on selfish purposes the inevitable result of an infantile mind when a mind becomes mature it understands that the germ of defeat is in every selfish thought the trained mind knows that every transaction must

benefit every person who is in any way connected with the transaction in any attempt to profit by the weakness ignorance or necessity of another will inevitably operate to his disadvantage this is because the individual is part of the universal apart cannot antagonize any other part but on the contrary the welfare of each part depends upon a recognition of the interest of the whole those who recognize this principle have a great advantage in the Affairs of life they do not wear themselves out they can eliminate vagrant Thoughts with faculty they can readily concentrate to the highest

possible degree on any subject they do not waste time or money upon objects which can be of no possible benefit to them if you cannot do these things it is because you have thus far not made the necessary effort now is the time to make the effort the result will be exactly in proportion to the effort expended one of the strongest affirmations which you can use for the purpose of strengthening the will and realizing your power to accomplish is I can be what I will to be every time you repeat it realize who and what

this I is try to come into a thorough understanding of the true nature of the I if you do you'll become invincible that is provided that your objects and purposes are constructive and are therefore in harmony with the creative principle of the universe if you make use of this affirmation use it continuously night and morning and as often during the day as you think of it and continue to do so until it becomes a part of you form the habit unless you do this you had better not start at all because modern psychology tells us

that when we start something and do not complete it or make a resolution and do not keep it we are forming the habit of failure absolute ignominious failure if you do not intend to do a thing do not start if you do start see it through even if the heavens fall if you make up your mind to do something do it let nothing no one interfere the i in you has determined the thing is settled the die is cast there is no longer any argument if you carry out this idea beginning with small things which

you know you can control and gradually increase the effort but never under any circumstances allowing your eye to be overruled you will find that you can eventually control yourself and many men and women have found to their sorrow that is easier to control a kingdom than to control themselves but when you have learned to control yourself you will have found the world within which controls the world without you have become irresistible men and things will respond to your every wish without any apparent effort on your part this is not so strange or impossible as it

may appear when you remember that the world within is controlled by the eye and that this eye is a part or one with the infinite eye which is the universal energy or Spirit usually called God this is not a mere statement or Theory made for the purpose of confirming or establishing an idea but it is a fact which has been accepted by the best religious thought as well as the best scientific thought Herbert Spencer says amid all the Mysteries by which we are surrounded nothing is more certain than that we are ever in the presence

of an infinite and eternal energy from which all things proceed Lyman Abbott in an address delivered before the alumni of Bangor Theological Seminary said we are coming to think of God as dwelling in man rather than as operating on man from without science goes a little way in its search and stops science finds the ever-present Eternal energy but religion finds the power behind this energy and locates it within man but this is by no means a new discovery the Bible says exactly the same thing and the language is just as plain and convincing no ye

not that ye are the Temple of the Living God here then is the secret of the wonderful creative power of the world within here is the secret of power of Mastery to overcome does not mean to go without things self-denial is not success we cannot give unless we get we cannot be helpful unless we are strong the infinite is not a bankrupt and we who are the representatives of infinite power should not be bankruptcy either and if we wish to be of service to others we must have power and more power but to get it

we must give it we must be of service the more we give the more we shall get we must become a channel whereby the universal can express activity the universal is constantly seeking to express itself to be of service and it seeks the channel whereby it can find the greatest activity where it can do the most good where it can be of greatest service to mankind the universal cannot express through you as long as you are busy with your plans your own purposes quiet the senses seek inspiration Focus the mental activity on the Within dwell

in the consciousness of your Unity with omnipotence Still Water Runs deep contemplate the multitudinous opportunities to which you have spiritual access by the Omni presence of power visualize the events circumstances and conditions which these spiritual connections May assist in manifesting realize the fact that the essence and soul of all things is spiritual and that the spiritual is the real because it is the life of all there is the spirit is gone the life is gone it is dead it has ceased to exist these mental activities pertain to the world within the world of cause and

conditions and circumstances which result are the effect it is thus that you become a creator this is important work and the higher loftier grander and more noble ideals which you can conceive the more important the work will become overwork or overplay or over bodily activity of any kind produces conditions of mental apathy and stagnation which makes it impossible to do the more important work which results in a realization of conscious power we should therefore seek the silence frequently power comes through repose it is in the silence that we can be still and when we are

still we can think and thought is the secret of all attainment thought is a mode of motion and is carried by the law of vibration the same as light or electricity it is given Vitality by the emotions through the law of love it takes form and expression by the law of growth it is a product of the spiritual I hence its Divine spiritual and creative nature from this it is evident that in order to express power abundance or any other constructive purpose the emotions must be called upon to give feeling to the thought so that

it will take form how may this purpose be accomplished this is the vital point how may we develop the faith the Courage the feeling which will result in accomplishment the reply is by exercise mental strength is secured in exactly the same way that physical strength is secured by exercise we think something perhaps with difficulty the first time we think the same thing again and it becomes easier this time we think it again and again it then becomes a mental habit we continue to think the same thing finally it becomes automatic we can no longer help

thinking this thing we are now positive of what we think there is no longer any doubt about it we're sure we know last week I asked you to relax to let go physically this week I'm going to ask you to let go mentally if you practice the exercise given you last week 15 or 20 minutes a day in accordance with the instructions you can no doubt relax physically and anyone who cannot consciously do this quickly and completely is not a master of himself he has not obtained freedom he is still a slave to conditions but

I shall assume that you have mastered the exercise and are ready to take the next step which is mental freedom this week after taking your usual position remove all tension by completely relaxing then mentally let go of all adverse conditions such as hatred anger worry jealousy Envy sorrow trouble or disappointment of any kind you may say that you cannot let go of these things but you can you can do so by mentally determining to do so by voluntary intention and persistence the reason that some cannot do this is because they allow themselves to be controlled

by the emotions instead of by their intellect but the will Guided by the intellect will gain the victory you will not succeed the first time you try but practice makes perfect in this as in everything else and you must succeed in dismissing eliminating and completely destroying these negative and destructive thoughts because they are the seed which is constantly germinating into discordant conditions of every conceivable kind and description there is nothing truer than the quality of thought which we entertain correlates certain externals in the outside world this is the law from which There Is No Escape

and it is this law this correlative of the thought with its object that from time immemorial has led the people to believe in special Providence wilmens questionnaire part four what is thought thought is spiritual energy how is it carried by the law of vibration how is it given vitality by law of love how does it take form by the law of growth what is the secret of its creative power it is a spiritual activity how may we develop the faith courage and enthusiasm which will result in accomplishment by a recognition of our spiritual nature what

is the secret of power service why is this so because we get what we give what is the silence a physical Stillness of what value is it it is the first step to self-control self-mastery letter of transmittal part five enclosed here with you will find part five after studying this part carefully you will see that every conceivable force or object or fact is the result of Mind in action mind in action is thought and thought is creative men are thinking now as they never thought before therefore this is a creative age and the world is

awarding its richest prizes to the thinkers matter is powerless passive inert Midas Force Energy power mind shapes and controls matter every form which matter takes is but the expression of some pre-existing thought but thought Works no magic Transformations it obeys natural laws sets in motion Natural Forces it releases natural energies it manifests in your conduct and actions and these in turn react upon your friends and acquaintances and eventually upon the whole of your environment you can originate thought and since thoughts are creative you can create for yourselves the things you desire part five at least

90 percent of our mental life is subconscious so that those who fail to make use of this mental power live within very narrow limits the subconscious can and will solve any problem for us if we know how to direct it the subconscious processes are always at work the only question is are we to be simply passive recipients of this activity or are we to consciously direct the work shall we have a vision of the destination to be reached the dangers to be avoided or shall we simply drift we have found that mind pervades every part

of the physical body and is always capable of being directed or impressed by Authority coming from the objective or the more dominant portion of the Mind the mind which pervades the body is largely the result of heredity which in turn is simply the result of all the environments of all past Generations on the responsive and ever moving life forces an understanding of this fact will enable us to use our Authority when we find some undesirable trait of character manifesting we can consciously use all the desirable characteristics with which we have been provided and we can

repress and refuse to allow the undesirable ones to manifest again this mind which pervades our physical body is not only the result of hereditary Tendencies but as a result of home business and social environment where countless thousands of Impressions ideas prejudices and similar thoughts have been received much of this has been received from others the result of opinions suggestions or statements much of it is the result of our own thinking but nearly all of it has been accepted with little or no examination or consideration the idea seemed plausible the conscious received it passed it on

to the subconscious where it was taken up by the sympathetic system and passed on to be built into our physical body the word has become flesh this then is the way we are constantly creating and recreating ourselves we are today the result of our past thinking and we shall be what we are thinking today the law of attraction is bringing to us not the things we should like or the things we wish for or the things someone else has but it brings us our own the things which we have created by our thought processes whether

consciously or unconsciously unfortunately many of us are creating these things unconsciously if either of us were building a home for ourselves how careful would we be in regard to the plants how we should study every detail how we should watch the material and select only the best of everything and yet how careless we are when it comes to building our mental home which is infinitely more important than any physical home as everything which can possibly enter into our lives depends upon the character of the material which enters into the construction of our mental home what

is the character of this material we have seen that it is the result of the Impressions which we have accumulated in the past and stored away in our subconscious mentality if these Impressions have been a fear of worry of care of anxiety if they have been despondent negative doubtful then the texture of the material which we are weaving today will be of the same negative material instead of being of any value it will be mildewed and rotten and will bring us only more toil and care and anxiety we shall be forever busy trying to patch

it up and make it appear at least genteel but what if we have stored away nothing but courageous thought if we have been optimistic positive and have immediately thrown any kind of negative thought on the scrap pile have refused to have anything to do with it have refused to associate with it or become identified with it in any way what then is the result our mental material is now of the best kind we can weave any kind of material we want we can use any color we wish we know that the texture is firm that

the material is solid that it will not fade and we have no fear no anxiety concerning the future there is nothing to cover there are no patches to hide these are psychological facts there is no Theory or guesswork about these thinking processes there's nothing secret about them in fact they're so plain that everyone can understand them the thing to do is to have a mental house cleaning and to have this house cleaning every day and keep the house clean mental moral and physical cleanliness are absolutely indispensable if we were to make progress of any kind

when this mental house cleaning process has been completed the material which is left will be suitable for the making of the kind of ideals or mental images which we desire to realize there is a fine estate awaiting a claimant it's broad Acres with abundant crops running water and fine Timber stretch away as far as the eye can see there's a mansion spacious and cheerful with rare pictures A well-stocked Library Rich hangings and every comfort and luxury all the air has to do is to assert his Airship take possession and use the property he must use

it he must not let it decay for use is the condition on which he holds it to neglect is to lose possession in the domain of Mind and Spirit in the domain of practical power such an estate is yours you are the heir you can assert your airship and possess and use this Rich inheritance power over circumstances is one of its fruits Health Harmony and prosperity are assets upon its balance sheet it offers you Poise and peace it costs you only the labor of studying and harvesting its great resources it demands No sacrifice except the

loss of your limitations your servitudes your weakness it clothes you with self-honor and puts a scepter in your hands to gain this estate three processes are necessary you must earnestly desire it you must assert your claim you must take possession you admit that those are not burdensome conditions you are familiar with the subject of heredity Darwin Huxley Hackle and other physical scientists have piled evidence Mountain High that heredity is a law attending Progressive creation it is Progressive heredity which gives man his erect attitude his power of motion the organs of digestion blood circulation nerve Force

muscular Force bone structure and a host of other faculties on the physical side they're even more impressive facts concerning heredity of mind force all these constitute what may be called your human heredity but there is a heredity which the physical scientists have not compassed it Lies Beneath an antecedent to all their researches at a point where they throw up their hands in despair saying they cannot account for what they see this Divine heredity is found in full sway it is the benign Force which decrees Primal creation it Thrills down from the Divine direct into every

created being it originates life which the physical scientist has not done nor ever can do it stands out among all forces Supreme and approachable no human heredity can approach it no human heredity measures up to it this infinite life flows through you is you its doorways are the faculties which comprise your consciousness to keep open these doors is the secret of power is it not worthwhile to make the effort the great fact is that the source of all life and all power is from within persons circumstances and events may suggest need and opportunities but the

Insight strength and power to answer these needs will be found within avoid counterfeits build firm foundations for your Consciousness upon forces which flow direct from the Infinite Source the Universal Mind of which you are the image and likeness those have come into possession of this inheritance are never quite the same again they have come into a possession of a sense of power hitherto undreamed of they can never again be timid weak vacillating or fearful they are indissolubly connected with omnipotence something in them has been aroused they have suddenly discovered that they possess a tremendous latent

ability of which they were here to for entirely unconscious this power is from within but we cannot receive it unless we give it use is the condition upon which we hold this inheritance we are each of us but the channel through which the omnipotent power is being differentiated into form unless we give out the channel is obstructed and we can receive no more this is true on every plane of existence and in every field of endeavor in all walks of life the more we give the more we get the athlete who wishes to get strong

must make use of the strength he has and the more he gives the more he will get the financier who wishes to make money must make use of the money he has for only by using it can he get more the merchant who does not keep his Goods going out will soon have none coming in the corporation which fails to give efficient service will soon lack customers the attorney who fails to get results will soon lack clients and so it goes everywhere power is contingent upon a proper use of the power already in our possession

what is true in every field of endeavor every experience in life is true of the power from which every other power known among men is begotten spiritual power take away the spirit and what is left nothing if then the spirit is all there is upon the recognition of this fact must depend the ability to demonstrate all power whether physical mental or spiritual all possession is the result of the accumulative attitude of mind or the money Consciousness this is the magic wand which will enable you to receive the idea and it will formulate plans for you

to execute and you will find as much pleasure in the execution as in the satisfaction of attainment and achievement now go to your room take the same seat the same position as heretofore and mentally select a place which has Pleasant associations make a complete mental picture of it see the buildings the grounds the trees associations everything complete at first you will find yourself thinking of everything under the sun except the ideal upon which you desire to concentrate but do not let that discourage you persistence will win but persistence requires that you practice these exercises every

day without fail questionnaire part 5. What proportion of our mental life is subconscious at least 95 percent is this vast mental Storehouse generally utilized no why not if you understand or appreciate the fact that it is an activity which they may consciously Direct where has the conscious mind received its governing tendencies from heredity which means that it is a result of all the environments of all past Generations what is the law of attraction bringing to us our own what is our own what we inherently are and is the result of our past thinking both conscious

and subconscious of what is the material with which we construct our mental home composed the thoughts which we entertain what is the secret of power a recognition of the omnipresence of omnipotence where does it originate all life and all power is from within upon what is the possession of power contingent upon a proper use of the power already in our possession relation and connection are not somewhere in some time but everywhere and always Emerson letter of transmittal part six it is my privilege to enclose part six this part will give you an excellent understanding of

the most wonderful piece of mechanism which has ever been created a mechanism whereby you may create for yourself health strength success Prosperity or any other condition which you desire Necessities are demands and demands create action and actions bring about results the process of evolution is constantly building our tomorrows out of our today's individual development like Universal development must be gradual with an ever-increasing capacity and volume the knowledge that if we infringe upon the rights of others we become moral thorns and find ourselves entangled at every turn of the road should be an indication that success

is contingent upon the highest moral ideal which is the greatest good to the greatest number aspiration desire and harmonious relations constantly and persistently maintained will accomplish results the greatest hindrance is erroneous and fixed ideas to be in tune with eternal truth we must possess Poise and Harmony Within in order to receive intelligence the receiver must be in tune with the transmitter thought is a product of mind and mind is creative but this does not mean that the universal will change its modus operandi to suit us or our ideas but it does mean that we can

come into harmonious relationship with the universal and when we have accomplished this we may ask anything to which we are entitled and the way will be made plain part six the universal mind is so wonderful that it is difficult to understand its utilitarian powers and possibilities and its unlimited producing effects we have found that this mind is not only all intelligence but all substance how then is it to be differentiated in form how are we to secure the effect which we desire ask an electrician what the effect of electricity will be and he will apply

that electricity is a form of motion and its effect will depend upon the mechanism to which it is attached upon this mechanism will depend whether we shall have heat light power music or any of the other marvelous demonstrations of power to which this vital energy has been harnessed what effect can be produced by thought the reply is that thought is MIND in motion just as wind is air in motion and its effect will depend entirely on the mechanism to which it is attached here then is the secret of all mental power it depends entirely on

the mechanism which we attach what is this mechanism you know something of the mechanism which has been invented by Edison Bell Marconi and other electrical Wizards by which place and space and time have become only figures of speech but did you ever stop to think that the mechanism which has been given you for transforming the universal omnipresent potential power was invented by a greater inventor than Edison we are accustomed to examining the mechanism of the implements which we use for tilling the soil and we try to get an understanding of the mechanism of the automobile

which we drive but most of us are content to remain in absolute ignorance of the greatest piece of mechanism which has ever come into existence the brain of man let us examine the wonders of this mechanism perhaps we shall thereby get a better understanding of the various effects of which it is the cause in the first place there is the great mental World in which we live and move and have our being this world is omnipotent omniscient and omnipresent it will respond to our desire and direct ratio to our purpose and faith the purpose must

be in accordance with the law of our being that is it must be creative or constructive our faith must be strong enough to generate a current of sufficient strength to bring our purpose into manifestation as thy faith is so be it unto thee there's the stamp of scientific test the effects which are produced in the world without are the result of the action and reaction of the individual upon the universal that is the process which we call thinking the brain is the organ through which this process is accomplished think of The Wonder of it all

deal of music flowers literature art or are you inspired by the thought of ancient or modern genius remember every Beauty to which you respond must have its corresponding outline in your brain before you can appreciate it there's not a single virtue or principle in the storehouse of nature which the brain cannot express the brain is an embryonic World ready to develop at any time as necessity may arise if you can comprehend that is the scientific truth and one of the wonderful laws of nature it will be easier for you to get an understanding of the

mechanism by which these extraordinary results are being accomplished the nervous system has been compared to an electric circuit with its battery of cells in which forces originated and its white matter to insulated wires by which the current is conveyed it is through these channels that every impulse or desire is carried through the mechanism the spinal cord is the great motor and sensory pathway by which messages are conveyed to and from the brain then there is the blood supply plunging through the veins and arteries renewing our energy and strength the perfectly arranged structure upon which the

entire physical body rests and finally the delicate and beautiful skin clothing the entire mechanism in a mantle of beauty this then is the Temple of the Living God and the individual I is given control and upon his understanding of the mechanism which is within his control will the result depend every thought sets the brain cells in action first the substance upon which the thought is directed fails to respond but if the thought is sufficiently refined and concentrated the substance finally yields and expresses perfectly this influence of the mind can be exerted upon any part of

the body causing the elimination of any undesirable effect a perfect conception and understanding of the laws governing in the mental world could not fail to be an estimable value in the transaction of business as it develops the power of discernment and gives a clear understanding and appreciation of facts the man who looks within instead of without cannot fail to make use of the mighty forces which will eventually determine his course in life and so bring him into vibration with all that is best strongest and most desirable attention or concentration is probably the most important essential

in the development of Mind culture the possibilities of attention when properly directed are so startling that they would hardly appear credible to the uninitiated the cultivation of attention is the distinguishing characteristic of every successful man or woman and is the very highest personal accomplishment which can be acquired the power of attention can be more readily understood by comparing it with a sunglass in which the rays of sunlight are focused they possess no particular strength as long as the glass is moved about and the Rays directed from one place to another but let the glass be

held perfectly still and let the Rays be focused on one spot for any length of time the effect will become immediately apparent so with the power of thought let power be dissipated by scattering the thought from one object to another and no result is apparent but Focus this power through attention or concentration on any single purpose for any length of time and nothing becomes impossible a very simple remedy for a very complex situation some will say alright try it you who have had no experience in concentrating the thought on a definite purpose or object choose

any single object and concentrate your attention on it for a definite purpose for even 10 minutes you cannot do it the mind will wander a dozen times and it will be necessary to bring it back to the original purpose and each time the effect will have been lost and at the end of the 10 minutes nothing will have been gained because you have not been able to hold your thoughts steadily to the purpose it is however through a tension that you will finally be able to overcome obstacles of any kind that appear in your path

onward and upward and the only way to acquire this wonderful power is by practice practice makes perfect in this as in anything else in order to cultivate the power of attention bring a photograph with you to the same seat in the same room in the same position as heretofore examine it closely at least 10 minutes note the expression of the eyes the form of the features the clothing the way the hair is arranged in fact note every detail shown on the photograph carefully Now cover it close your eyes and try to see it mentally if

you can see every detail perfectly and can form a good mental image of the photograph you're to be congratulated if not repeat the process until you can this step is simply for the purpose of preparing the soil next week we shall be ready to sow the seed It Is by such exercises as these that you will finally be able to control your mental moods your attitude your consciousness great financiers are learning to withdraw from the multitude more and more that they may have more time for planning thinking and generating the right mental moods successful businessmen

are constantly demonstrating the fact that it pays to keep in touch with the thought of other successful businessmen a single idea may be worth thousands of dollars and these ideas can only come to those who are receptive who are prepared to receive them who are in a successful frame of mind men are learning to place themselves in harmony with the universal mind they are learning the unity of all things they are learning the basic methods and principles of thinking and this is changing conditions and multiplying results they are finding that circumstances and environment follow the

trend of mental and spiritual progress they find that growth follows knowledge action follows inspiration opportunity follows perception always the spiritual first then the transformation into the infinite and illimitable possibilities of achievement as the individual is but the channel for the differentiation of the universal these possibilities are necessarily inexhaustible thought is the process by which we may absorb the spirit of power and hold the result in our inner Consciousness until it becomes a part of our ordinary consciousness the method of accomplishing this result by the persistent practice of a few fundamental principles as explained in the

system is the master key which unlocks the storehouse of universal truth the two great sources of human suffering at present are bodily disease and mental anxiety these may be readily traced to the infringement of some natural law this is no doubt owing to the fact that so far knowledge has largely remained partial with the clouds of darkness which have accumulated through long ages are beginning to roll away and with them many of the miseries that attend imperfect information that a man can change himself and prove himself recreate himself control his environment and master his own

destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide awake to the power of right thought in constructive action Larson questionnaire part six what are some of the effects which can be produced by electricity heat light power music upon what do these various effects depend upon the mechanism to which electricity is attached what is the result of the action and interaction of the individual mind upon the universal the conditions and experiences with which we meet how may these conditions be changed by changing the mechanism by which the universal is differentiated in form what is the

mechanism the brain how may it be changed by the process we call thinking thoughts produce brain cells and these cells respond to the corresponding thought in the Universal of what value is the power of concentration it is the very highest personal accomplishment which can be acquired and the distinguishing characteristic of every successful man or woman how may it be acquired by Faithfully practicing the exercises outlined in this system why is this so important because it will enable us to control our thoughts and since thoughts or causes conditions must be effects if we can control the

cause we can also control the effect what is changing conditions and multiplying results in the objective World men are learning the basic methods of constructive thinking this above all to thine own self be true and it must follow as the night the day thou canst not then be false to any man letter of transmittal part 7. through all the ages man has believed in an invisible power through which and by which all things have been created and are continually being recreated we may personalize this power and call it God or we may think of it

as the essence or Spirit which permeates all things but in either case the effect is the same so far as the individual is concerned the objective the physical the visible is the personal that which can be cognized by the senses it consists of body brain and nerves the subjective is the spiritual the invisible the impersonal the personal is conscious because it is a personal entity the impersonal being the same in-kind and quality as all other being is not conscious of itself and has therefore been termed the subconscious the personal or conscious has the power of

Will and choice and can therefore exercise discrimination in the selection of methods whereby to bring about the solution of difficulties the impersonal or spiritual being a part or one with the source and origin of all power can necessarily exercise no such choice but on the contrary it has infinite resources at its command it can and does bring about results by methods concerning which the human or individual mind can have no possible conception you will therefore see that it is your privilege to depend upon the human will with all its limitations and misconceptions or you may

utilize the potentialities of infinity by making use of the subconscious mind here then is the scientific explanation of the wonderful power which has been put within your control if you but understand appreciate and recognize it one method of consciously utilizing this omnipotent power is outlined in part seven which I have the honor of transmitting herewith part 7. visualization is the process of making mental images and the images is the mold or model which will serve as a pattern from which your future will emerge make the pattern clear and make it beautiful do not be afraid

make it Grand remember that no limitation can be placed upon you by anyone but yourself you are not limited as to cost or material draw on the infinite for your supply constructed in your imagination it will have to be there before it will ever appear anywhere else make the image clear and clean cut hold it firmly in the mind and you will gradually and consistently bring the thing nearer to you you can be what you will be this is another psychological fact which is well known but unfortunately reading about it will not bring about any

result which you may have in mind it will not even help you to form the mental image much less bring it into manifestation work is necessary labor hard mental labor the kind of effort which so few are willing to put forth the first step is idealization it is likewise the most important step because it is the plan on which you are going to build it must be solid it must be permanent the architect when he plans a 30-story building has every line in detail pictured in advance the engineer when he spans a Chasm first ascertains

the strength requirements of a million separate parts they see the end before a single step is taken so you were to picture in your mind what you want you are sowing the seed but before sowing any seed you want to know what the Harvest is to be this is idealization if you are not sure return to the chair daily until the picture becomes plain it will gradually unfold first the general plan will be dim but it will take shape the outline will take form then the details and you will gradually develop the power by which

you will be enabled to formulate plans which will eventually materialize in the objective world you will come to know what the future holds for you then comes the process of visualization you must see the picture more and more complete see the detail and as the details begin to unfold the ways and means for bringing it into manifestation will develop one thing will lead to another thought will lead to action action will develop methods methods will develop friends and friends will bring about circumstances and finally the third step or materialization will have been accomplished we all

recognize that the Universe must have been thought into shape before it ever could have become a material fact and if we are willing to follow along the lines of the great architect of the universe we shall find our thoughts taking form just as the universe took concrete form it is the same mind operating through the individual there was no difference in kind or quality the only difference is one of degree the architect visualizes his building he sees it as he wishes it to be his thought becomes a plastic mold from which the building will eventually

emerge a high one or a low one a beautiful one or a plain one his vision takes form on paper and eventually the necessary material is utilized and the building stands complete the inventor visualizes his idea in exactly the same manner for instance Nikola Tesla he with the giant intellect one of the greatest inventors of all ages the man who has brought forth the most amazing realities always visualizes his inventions before attempting to work them out he does not rush to embody them in form and then spend his time in correcting defects having first built

up the idea in his imagination he holds it there as a mental picture to be reconstructed and improved by his thought in this way he writes in the electrical experimenter I'm unable to rapidly develop and perfect a conception without touching anything when I have gone so far as to embody in the invention every possible Improvement I can think of and see no fault anywhere I put into concrete the product of my brain invariably my device works as I conceived it should in 20 years there has not been a single exception if you can conscientiously follow

these directions you will develop Faith the kind of faith that is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of Things Not Seen you will develop confidence the kind of confidence that leads to endurance and courage you will develop the power of concentration which will enable you to exclude all thoughts except the ones which are associated with your purpose the law is that thought will manifest in form and only one who knows how to be the Divine thinker of his own thoughts can ever take a master's place and speak with authority clearness and accuracy are

obtained only by repeatedly having the image in mind each repeated action renders the image more clear and accurate than the preceding and in proportion to the clearness and accuracy of the image will the outward manifestation be you must build it firmly and securely in your mental world the world within before it can take form in the world without and you can build nothing of value even in the mental World unless you have the proper material when you have the material you can build anything you wish but make sure of your material you cannot make broad

cloth from shoddy this material will be brought out by millions of Silent mental workers and fashioned into the form of the image which you have in mind think of it you have over 5 million of these mental workers ready and in active use brain cells they are called besides this there is another Reserve force of at least an equal number ready to be caught a new action at the slightest need your power to think then is almost unlimited and this means that your power to create the kind of material which is necessary to build for

yourself any kind of environment which you desire is practically Unlimited in addition to these millions of mental workers you have billions of mental workers in the body every one of which is endowed with sufficient intelligence to understand and act upon any message or suggestion given these cells are all busy creating and recreating the body but in addition to this they are endowed with psychic activity whereby they can attract to themselves the substance necessary for perfect development they do this by the same law and in the same manner that every form of life attracts to itself

the necessary material for growth the oak the rose the Lily all requires certain material for their most perfect expression and they secure it by silent demand The Law of Attraction the most certain way for you to secure what you require for your most complete development make the mental image make it clear distinct perfect hold it firmly the ways and means will develop Supply will follow the demand you will be led to do the right thing at the right time in the right way Earnest desire will bring about confident expectation and this in turn must be

reinforced by firm demand these three cannot fail to bring about attainment because the earnest desire is the feeling The Confident expectation is the thought and the firm demand is the will and as we have seen feeling gives Vitality to thought and the will holds it steadily until the law of growth brings it into manifestation it is not wonderful that man has such tremendous power within himself such transcendental faculties concerning which he has no conception is it not strange that we have always been taught to look for strength and power without we have been taught to

look everywhere but within and whenever this power manifested in our lives we were told that it was something Supernatural there are many who have come to an understanding of this wonderful power and who makes serious and conscientious efforts to realize Health power and other conditions seem to fail they do not seem able to bring the law into operation the difficulty in nearly every case is that they are dealing with externals they want money power health and abundance but they fail to realize that these are effects that can come only when the cause is found those

who will give no attention to the world without will seek only to ascertain the truth will look only for wisdom we'll find that this wisdom will unfold and disclose the source of all power that it will manifest in thought and purpose which will create the external conditions desired this truth will find expression and Noble purpose and courageous action create ideals only give no thought to external conditions make the world within beautiful and opulent and the world without will Express and manifest the condition which you have made Within you will come into a realization of your

power to create ideals and these ideals will be projected into the world of effect for instance a man isn't dead he will be continually thinking about the dead concentrating on it and his thoughts are causes the result is that he not only fastens the debt closer to him but actually creates more debt he is putting the Great Law of Attraction into operation with the usual and inevitable result loss leads to Greater loss what then is the correct principle concentrate on the things you want not on the things you do not want think of abundance idealize

the methods and plans for putting the law of abundance into operation visualize the condition which the law of abundance creates this will result in manifestation if the law operates perfectly to bring about poverty lack in every form of limitation for those who are continually entertaining thoughts of lack and fear it will operate with the same certainty to bring about conditions of abundance and opulence for those who entertain thoughts of courage and Power this is a difficult problem for many we are too anxious we manifest anxiety fear distress we want to do something we want to

help we are like a child who has just planted a seed and every 15 minutes goes out stirs up the Earth to see if it's growing of course under such circumstances the seed will never germinate and yet this is exactly what many of us do in the mental world we must plant the seed and leave it undisturbed does not mean that we are to sit down and do nothing by no means we will do more and better work than we have ever done before new channels will constantly be provided new doors will open all that

is necessary is to have an open mind be ready to act when the time comes thought force is the most powerful means of obtaining knowledge and have concentrated on any subject will solve the problem nothing is beyond the power of human comprehension but in order to harness thought force and make it do your bidding work is required remember that thought is the fire that creates the steam that turns The Wheel of Fortune upon which your experiences depend ask yourself a few questions and then reverently await the response do you not now and then feel the

self within you you assert this self or do you follow the majority remember that majorities are always LED they never lead it was the majority that fought tooth and nail against the steam engine the power loom and every other Advance or Improvement ever suggested for your exercise this week visualize your friend seem exactly as you last Saw see the room the furniture recall the conversation now See's face see it distinctly now talk to him about some subject of mutual interest see his expression change watch him smile can you do this all right you can then

arouse his interest tell him a story of Adventure see his eyes light up with a spirit of fun or excitement can you do all of this if so your imagination is good you are making excellent progress questionnaire part 7. what is visualization the process of making mental pictures what is the result of this method of thought by holding the image or picture in mind we can gradually but surely bring the thing nearer to us we can be what we will to be what is idealization it is the process of visualizing or idealizing the plans which

will eventually materialize in our objective world why are clearness and accuracy necessary because seeing creates feeling and feeling creates being first the mental then the emotional then the illimitable possibilities of achievement how are they obtained each repeated action renders the image more accurate than the former one how is this material for the construction of your mental image secured by millions of mental workers brain cells they are called how are the necessary conditions for bringing about the materialization of your ideal and the objective World secured by law of attraction the natural law by which all conditions

and experiences are brought about what three steps are necessary in order to bring this law into operation Earnest desire confident expectation firm demand why do many fail because they concentrate on loss disease and disaster the law is operating perfectly the things they fear are coming upon them what is the alternative concentrate on the ideals which you desire to see manifested in your life letter of transmittal part 8. part 8 is enclosed herewith in this part you will find that you may freely choose what you think but the result of your thought is governed by an

immutable law is not this a wonderful thought is it not wonderful to know that our lives are not just subject to Caprice or variability of any kind that they are governed by law the stability is our opportunity because by complying with the law we can secure the desired effect with invariable precision it is the law which makes the universe one grand pay-in of Harmony if it were not for the law the universe would be a chaos instead of a cosmos here then is the secret of the origin of both Good and Evil this is all

the good and evil there ever was or ever will be let me illustrate thought results in action if your thought is constructive and harmonious the result will be good if your thought is destructive or inharmonious the result will be evil there is therefore but one law one principle one cause one source of power and good and evil are simply Words which have been coined to indicate the result of our action or our compliance or non-compliance with this law the importance of this is well Illustrated in the lives of Emerson and Carlisle Emerson loved the good

and his life was a symphony of peace and harmony Carlisle hated the bad and his life was a record of Perpetual Discord and in harmony here we have two grand men each intent upon achieving the same ideal but one makes use of constructive thought and is therefore in harmony with natural law the other makes use of destructive thought and therefore brings upon himself Discord of every kind and character it is evident therefore that we are to hate nothing not even the bad because hatred is destructive and we shall soon find that by entertaining destructive thought

we are sowing the wind and in turn shall reap the Whirlwind part eight contains a vital principle because it is the creative principle of the universe and by its nature will combine with other similar thoughts as the one purpose of life is growth all principle underlying existence must contribute to give it effect thought therefore takes form and the law of growth eventually brings it into manifestation you may freely choose what you think but the result of your thought is governed by an immutable law any line of thought persisted in cannot fail to produce its results

in the character health and circumstances of the individual methods whereby we can substitute habits of constructive thinking for those which have found produce only undesirable effects are therefore of primary importance we all know that this is by no means easy mental habits are difficult to control but it can be done and the way to do it is to begin at once to substitute constructive thought for destructive thought form the habit of analyzing every thought if it is necessary if it's manifestation in the object will be a benefit not only to yourself but to all whom

it may affect in any way keep it treasure it it is a value it is in tune with the infinite it will grow and develop and produce fruit 100-fold on the other hand it will be well for you to keep this quotation from George Matthew Adams in mind learn to keep the door shut keep out of your mind out of your office and out of your world every element that seeks admittance with no definite helpful end in view if your thought has been critical or destructive and has resulted in any condition of Discord or in

Harmony in your environment it may be necessary for you to cultivate a mental attitude which will be conducive to constructive thought the imagination will be found to be a great assistance in this direction the cultivation of the imagination leads to the development of the ideal out of which your future will emerge the imagination gathers up the material by which the Mind weaves the fabric in which your future is to be clothed imagination is the light by which we can penetrate new worlds of thought and experience imagination is the mighty instrument by which every Discoverer every

inventor open the way from precedent to experience precedent said it cannot be done experience said it is done imagination is a plastic power molding the things of sense into new forms and ideals imagination is the constructive form of thought which must precede every constructive form of action a builder cannot build a structure of any kind until he has first received the plans from the architect and the architect must get them from his imagination the captain of industry cannot build a giant corporation which may coordinate hundreds of smaller corporations and thousands of employees and utilize millions

of capital until he has first created the entire work in his imagination objects in the material world are as clay in The Potter's hand it is in The Mastermind that the real things are created and it is by use of the imagination that the work is done in order to cultivate the imagination it must be exercised exercise is necessary to cultivate mental muscle as well as physical muscle it must be supplied with nourishment or it cannot grow did I confuse imagination with fancy or that form of daydreaming in which some people like to indulge daydreaming

is a form of mental dissipation which may lead to mental disaster constructive imagination means mental labor by some considered to be the hardest kind of labor but if so it yields the greatest returns for all the great things in life have come to men and women who had the capacity to think to imagine and to make their dreams come true when you have become thoroughly conscious of the fact that mind is the only creative principle that is omnipotent omniscient and omnipresent and that you can consciously come into harmony with this omnipotence through your power of

thought you will have taken a long step in the right direction the next step is to place yourself in position to receive this power as it is omnipresence it must be within you we know that this is so because we know that all power is from within but it must be developed unfolded cultivated in order to do this we must be receptive and this receptivity is acquired just as physical strength is gained by exercise The Law of Attraction will certainly and uneeringly bring to you the conditions environment and experiences in life corresponding with your habitual

characteristic predominant mental attitude not what you think once in a while when you were in church or have just read a good book but your predominant mental attitude is what counts you cannot entertain weak harmful negative thoughts 10 hours a day and expect to bring about beautiful strong and harmonious conditions by 10 minutes of strong positive creative thought real power comes from within all power that anybody can possibly use is within man only waiting to be brought into visibility by his first recognizing it and then affirming it at his working it into his consciousness until

he becomes one with it people say that they desire Abundant Life and so they do but so many interpret this to mean that if they will exercise their muscles or breathe scientifically eat certain foods in certain ways drink so many glasses of water every day or just a certain temperature keep out of drafts they will attain the Abundant Life they seek the result of such methods is but indifferent however when man awakens to the truth and affirms his Oneness with all life he finds that he takes on the Clear Eye the elastic step the Vigor

of Youth he finds that he has discovered the source of all power all mistakes are but the mistakes of ignorance knowledge gaining and consequent power is what determines growth and evolution the recognition and demonstration of knowledge is what constitutes power and this power is spiritual power and the spiritual power is the power which lies at the heart of all things it is the soul of the universe this knowledge is the result of man's ability to think thought is therefore the germ of man's conscious evolution when man ceases to advance in his thoughts and ideals his

forces immediately begin to disintegrate and his countenance gradually registers these changing conditions successful men make it their business to hold ideals of the conditions which they wish to realize they constantly hold in mind the next step necessary to the ideal for which they are striving thoughts are the materials with which they build and the imagination is their mental Workshop mine is the ever moving force with which they secure the persons and Circumstance necessary to build their success structure an imagination is the Matrix in which all great things are fashioned if you have been faithful to

your ideal you will hear the call when circumstances are ready to materialize your plans and results will correspond in the exact ratio of your Fidelity to your ideal the ideal steadily held is what predetermines and attracts the necessary conditions for its fulfillment it is thus that you may weave a garment of spirit and power into the web of your entire existence it is thus that you may lead a Charmed Life and be forever protected from all harm it is thus that you may become a positive force whereby conditions of opulence and Harmony may be attracted

to you this is the leaven which is gradually permeating the general Consciousness and is largely responsible for the conditions of unrest which are everywhere evident last week you created a mental image you brought it from the invisible into the visible this week I want you to take an object and follow it back to its origination see of what it really consists if you do this you will develop imagination Insight perception and sagacity these come not by The Superficial observation of the multitude but by a keen analytical observation which sees below the surface it is the

few who know that the things which they see are only effects and understand the causes by which these effects were brought into existence take the same position as heretofore and visualize a battleship see the Grim monster floating on the surface of the water there appears to be no life anywhere about all this silence you know that by far the largest part of the vessel is underwater out of sight you know that the ship is as large and as heavy as a 20-story skyscraper you know that there are hundreds of men ready to spring to their

appointed task instantly you know that every department is in charge of able trained skilled officials who have proven themselves competent to take charge of this marvelous piece of mechanism you know that although it lies apparently oblivious to everything else it has eyes which see everything for miles around and nothing is permitted to escape its watchful vision you know that while it appears quiet submissive and innocent it is prepared to hurl a steel projectile weighing thousands of pounds at an enemy many miles away this and much more you can bring to mind with comparatively no effort

whatever but how did the battleship come to be where it is how did it come into existence in the first place all of this you want to know if you are a careful Observer follow the great steel plates through the foundries see the thousands of men employed in their production go still further back and see the or as it comes from the Mind see it loaded on barges or cars see it melted and properly treated go back still further and see the architect and Engineers who planned The Vessel let the thought carry you back still

further in order to determine why they planned the vessel you will see that you are now so far back that the vessel is something intangible it no longer exists it is now only a thought existing in the brain of the architect but from where did the order come to plan the vessel probably from the Secretary of War but probably this vessel was planned long before the war was thought of and that Congress had to pass a bill appropriating the money possibly there was opposition in speeches for or against the bill whom do these congressmen represent

they represent you and me so that our line of thought begins with the battleship and ends with ourselves and we find in the last analysis that our own thought is responsible for this and many other things of which we seldom think and a little further reflection will develop the most important fact of all and that is if someone had not discovered the law by which this tremendous mass of steel and iron could be made to float upon the Water instead of immediately going to the bottom the battleship could not have come into existence at all

the law is that the specific gravity of any substance is the weight of any volume of it compared with an equal volume of water the discovery of this law revolutionized every kind of Ocean Travel Commerce and warfare and made the existence of the battleship possible you will find exercise of this kind invaluable When the Thought has been trained to look below the surface everything takes on a different appearance the insignificant becomes significant the uninteresting interesting the things which we supposed to be of no importance are seen to be the only really vital things in existence

look to this day for it is life the very life of life in its brief course lie all the verities and realities of your existence the Bliss of growth the glory of action the Splendor of Beauty for yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of Hope look well therefore to this day from the Sanskrit questionnaire part 8. what is the imagination a form of constructive thought the light by which we penetrate new worlds of thoughts and

experience the mighty instrument by which every inventor or Discoverer opened the way from precedent to experience what is the result of imagination the cultivation of the imagination leads to the development of the ideal out of which your future will emerge how may it be cultivated by exercise it must be supplied with nourishment or it cannot live how does imagination differ from daydreaming daydreaming is a form of mental dissipation while imagination is a form of constructive thought which must precede every constructive action what are mistakes the result of ignorance what is knowledge the result of man's

ability to think what is the power with which successful men build mind is the ever moving force with which they secure the persons and circumstances necessary to complete their plans what predetermines the result the ideal held steadily in mind attracts the necessary conditions for its fulfillment what is the result of a keen analytical observation the development of imagination Insight perception and Sega City to what did these lead opulence and harmony those who have finished by making all others think with them have usually been those who began by daring to think for themselves Colton letter of

transmittal part 9. Part 9 is enclosed here with in this part you may learn to Fashion the tools by which you may build for yourself any condition you desire if you wish to change conditions you must change yourself your wimps your wishes your fancies your Ambitions may be thwarted at every step but your inmost thoughts will find expression just as certainly as the plant Springs from the seed suppose then we desire to change conditions how are we to bring this about the reply is simple by the law of growth cause and effect are absolute and

undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of material things hold in mind the condition desired affirm it as an already existing fact this indicates the value of a powerful affirmation by constant repetition it becomes a part of ourselves we are actually changing ourselves or making ourselves what we want to be character is not a thing of chance but it is the result of continued effort if you are timid vacillating self-conscious or if you are over anxious or harassed by thoughts of fear or impending danger remember that it is axiomatic that two

things cannot exist in the same place at the same time exactly the same thing is true in the mental and spiritual world so that your remedy is plainly to substitute thoughts of Courage power self-reliance and confidence for those of fear lack and limitation the easiest and most natural way to do this is to select an affirmation which seems to fit your particular case the positive thought will destroy the negative as certainly as light destroys darkness and the results will be just as effectual Act is the blossom of thought and conditions are the result of action

so that you constantly have in your possession the tools by which you will certainly and inevitably make or unmake yourself Joy or suffering will be the reward part nine there are only three things which can possibly be desired in the world without and each of them can be found in the world within the secret of finding them is simply to apply the proper mechanism of attachment to the omnipotent power to which each individual has access the three things which all mankind desires and which are necessary for His Highest expression and complete development are health wealth

and love all will admit that health is absolutely essential no one can be happy if the physical body is in pain all will not so readily admit that wealth is necessary but almost admit that a sufficient Supply at least is necessary and what would be considered sufficient for one would be considered absolute and painful lack for another and as nature provides not only enough but abundantly wastefully lavishly we realize that any lack or limitation is only the limitation which has been made by an artificial method of distribution all will probably admit that love is the

third or maybe some will say the First Essential necessary to the happiness of mankind at any rate those who possess all three health wealth and love find nothing else which can be added to their cup of happiness we have found that the universal substances all Health all substance and all love that the mechanism of attachment whereby we can consciously connect with this infinite Supply is in our method of thinking to think correctly is therefore to enter into the secret place of the most high what shall we think if we know this we shall have found

the proper mechanism of attachment which will relate us to whatsoever things we desire this mechanism may seem very simple when I give it to you but read on you will find that it is in the reality the master key the Aladdin's lamp if you please you will find that it is the foundation the imperative condition the absolute law of well-doing which means well-being to think correctly accurately we must know the truth the truth then is the underlying principle in every business or social relation it is a condition precedent to every right action to know the

truth to be sure to be confident affords a satisfaction beside which no other is at all comparable it is the only Solid Ground in a world of Doubt conflict and danger to know the truth is to be in harmony with the infinite and omnipotent power to know the truth is therefore to connect yourself with a power which is irresistible and which will sweep away every kind of Discord in harmony doubt or error of any kind because the truth is mighty and will prevail the humblest intellect can readily foretell the result of any action when he

knows that it is based on truth but the mightiest intellect the most profound and penetrating mind loses its way hopelessly and can form no conception of the results which may ensue when his hopes are based on a premise which he knows to be false every action which is not in harmony with truth whether through ignorance or design will result in Discord and eventually loss and proportion to its extent and character how then are we to know the truth in order to attach this mechanism which will relate us to the infinite we can make no mistake

about this if we realize the truth is the vital principle of the universal mind and is omnipresent for instance if you require Health a realization of the fact that the i in you is spiritual and that all spirit is one that wherever apart is the whole must be will bring about a condition of health because every cell in the body must manifest the truth as you see it if you see sickness they will manifest sickness if you see Perfection they must manifest perfection the affirmation I am whole perfect strong powerful loving harmonious and happy we'll

bring about harmonious conditions the reason for this is because the affirmation is in strict accordance with the truth and when truth appears every form of error or Discord must necessarily disappear you have found that the eye is spiritual it must necessarily then always be no less than perfect the affirmation I am whole perfect strong powerful loving harmonious and happy is therefore an exact scientific statement thought is a spiritual activity and spirit is creative therefore the result of holding this thought in mind must necessarily bring about conditions and harmony with the thought if you require wealth

or realization of the fact that the i in you is one with the universal mind which is all substance and is omnipotent will assist you in bringing into operation The Law of Attraction which will bring you into vibration with those forces which make for success and bring about conditions of power and affluence in direct proportion with the character and purpose of your affirmation visualization is the mechanism of the attachment which you require visualization is a very different process from seeing seeing is physical and is therefore related to The Objective world the world without but visualization

is a product of the imagination and is therefore a product of the subjective mind the world within it therefore possesses vitality it will grow the thing visualized will manifest itself in form the mechanism is perfect it was created by the master architect who doeth all things well but unfortunately sometimes the operator is an experienced or inefficient but practice and determination will overcome this defect if you require love try to realize that the only way to get Love Is by giving it that the more you give the more you will get and the only way in

which you can give it is to fill yourself with it until you become a magnet the method was explained in another lesson he who has learned to bring the greatest spiritual truths into touch with the so-called lesser things of life has discovered the secret of the solution of his problem one is always quickened made more thoughtful by his Nearness of approach to great ideas great events great natural objects and great men Lincoln isidua have begotten in all who came near him the feeling awakened when one approaches a mountain and the sense asserts itself most keenly

when one comes to realize that he has laid hold upon things that are eternal the power of Truth it is sometimes an inspiration to hear from someone who has actually put these principles to the test someone who has demonstrated them in his own life I am today in receipt of a letter from Mr Andrews he says dear friend you will find my experience published in March Nautilus and you are at Liberty to make any extracts from or reference to it that may suit your purpose sincerely yours Frederick Elias Andrews 512 Odd Fellows building March 7

1917 Indianapolis Indiana I was about 13 years old when Dr t w Marcy since passed over said to my mother there is no possible chance Mrs Andrews I lost my little boy the same way after doing everything for him that it was possible to do I have made a special study of these cases and I know there is no possible chance for him to get well she turned to him and said Doctor what would you do if he were your boy and he answered I would fight fights as long as there is a breath of

life to fight for that was the beginning of a long drawn-out battle with many ups and downs the doctors all agreeing that there was no chance for a cure though they encouraged and cheered us the best they could but at last the victory came and I have grown from a little crooked Twisted going about on my hands and knees to a strong straight well-formed man now I know you want the formula and I will give it to you as briefly and quickly as I can I built up an affirmation for myself taking the qualities I

most needed and affirming for myself over and over again I am whole perfect strong powerful loving harmonious and happy I kept up this affirmation always the same never varying till I could wake up in the night and find myself repeating I am whole perfect strong powerful loving harmonious and happy it was the last thing on my lips at night and the first thing in the morning not only did I affirm it for myself but for others that I knew needed it I want to emphasize this point whatever you desire for yourself affirm it for others

and it will help you both we reap what we sow if we send out thoughts of love and health they return to us like bread cast upon the waters but if we send out thoughts of fear worry jealousy anger hate Etc we will reap the results in our own lives it used to be said that man is completely built over seven years but some scientists now declare that we build ourselves over entirely every 11 months so we are really only 11 months old if we build the defects back into our bodies year after year we

have no one to blame but ourselves man is the sum total of his own thoughts so the question is how are we going to entertain only the good thoughts and reject the evil ones at first we can't keep the evil thoughts from coming but we can keep from entertaining them the only way to do this is to forget them which means get something for them this is where the ready-made affirmation comes in when a thought of anger jealousy fear or worry Creeps in just start your affirmation going the way to fight darkness is with light

the way to fight cold is with heat the way to overcome evil is with good for myself I never could find any help in denials affirm the good and the bad will vanish Frederick Elias Andrews if there is anything you require it will be well for you to make use of this affirmation it cannot be improved upon use it just as it is take it into the Silence with you until it sinks into your subconscious so that you can use it anywhere on the street cars in the office at home this is the advantage of

spiritual methods they are always available Spirits is omnipresent every ready all that is required is a proper recognition of its omnipotence and a willingness or desire to become the recipient of its beneficial effects if our predominant mental attitude is one of power courage kindness and sympathy we shall find that our environment will reflect conditions and correspondence with these thoughts if it is weak critical envious and destructive we shall find our environment reflecting conditions corresponding to these thoughts thoughts are causes and conditions are effects herein is the explanation of the origin of both Good and Evil

thought is creative and will automatically correlate with its object this is a cosmological law The Law of Attraction the law of cause and effect the recognition and application of this law will determine both beginning and end it is the law by which in all ages and in all times the people were led to believe in the power of prayer as thy faith is so be it unto thee is simply another shorter and a better way of stating it this week visualize a plant take a flower the one you most admire bring it from The Unseen

into the scene plant the Tiny Seed water it care for it place it where it will get the direct rays of the morning sun see the seed burst it is now a living thing something which is alive and beginning to search for the means of substance see the roots penetrating the Earth watch them shoot out in all directions and remember that they are living cells dividing and subdividing and that they will soon number millions that each cell is intelligent that knows what it wants and knows how to get it see the stem shoot forward and

upward watch it burst through the surface of the Earth see it divide and form branches see how perfect and symmetrical each branch is formed see the leaves begin to form and then the tiny stems each one holding a loft a bud and as you watch you see the bud begin to unfold in your favorite flower comes to view and now if you will concentrate intently you become conscious of a fragrance it is the fragrance of the flower as the breeze gently sways the beautiful creation which you have visualized when you are unable to make your

vision clear and complete you will be enabled to enter into the spirit of a thing it will become very real to you you will be learning to concentrate and the process is the same whether you are concentrating on health a favorite flower an ideal a complicated business proposition or any other problem of life every success has been accomplished by persistent concentration upon the object in view questionnaire part nine what is the imperative condition of all well-being well doing what is the condition precedent to every right action right thinking what is the underlying condition necessary in

every business transaction or social relation to know the truth what is the result of a knowledge of the truth we can readily foretell the result of any action that is based upon a true premise what is the result of any action based upon a false premise we can form no conception of the results which may ensue how may we know the truth by a realization of the fact that the truth is the vital principle of the universe and is therefore omnipresent what is the nature of Truth it is spiritual what is the secret of the

solution to every problem to apply spiritual truth what is the advantage of spiritual methods they are always available what are the necessary requirements a recognition of the omnipotence of spiritual power and a desire to become the recipient of its beneficient effects thought means life since those who do not think do not live in any high or real sense thinking makes the man a b Alcott letter of transmittal part 10. if you get a thorough understanding or the thought contained in part 10 you will have learned that nothing happens without a definite cause you will be

enabled to formulate your plans in accordance with exact knowledge you will know how to control any situation by bringing adequate causes into play when you win as you will you will know exactly why the ordinary man who has no definite knowledge of cause and effect is governed by his feelings or emotions he thinks chiefly to justify his action if he fails as a businessman he says that luck is against him if he dislikes music he says that music is an expensive luxury if he is a poor office man he says that he could succeed better

at some outdoor work if he likes friends he says his individuality is too fine to be appreciated he never thinks his problem through to the end in short he does not know that every effect is the result of a certain definite cause but he seeks to console himself with explanations and excuses he thinks only in self-defense on the contrary the man who understands that there is no effect without an adequate cause thinks impersonally he gets down to bedrock facts regardless of consequences he is free to follow the trail of Truth wherever it may lead he

sees the issue clear to the end and he meets the requirements fully and fairly and the result is that the world gives him all that it has to give and friendship honor love and approval part 10. abundance is a natural law of the universe the evidence of this law is conclusive we see it on every hand everywhere nature is lavish wasteful it extravagant nowhere is economy observed in any created thing profusion is manifested in everything the millions and millions of trees and flowers and plants and animals in the vast scheme of reproduction where the process

of creating and recreating is forever going on all indicates the lavishness with which Nature has made provision for man that there is an abundance for everyone as evident but that many failed to participate in this abundance is also evident they have not yet come into a realization of the universality of all substance and that mind is the active principle whereby we are related to the things we desire all wealth is The Offspring of power possessions are of value only as they confer power events are significant only as they affect power all things represent certain forms

and degrees of power knowledge of cause and effect is shown by the laws governing electricity chemical affinity and gravitation enables man to plan courageously and execute fearlessly these laws are called natural laws because they govern in the physical world but all power is not physical power there is also mental power and there is moral and spiritual power spiritual power is superior because it exists on a higher plane it has enabled man to discover the law by which these wonderful forces of nature could be harnessed and made to do the work of hundreds and thousands of

men it has enabled man to discover laws whereby time and space have been annihilated and now apparently the law of gravitation is to be overcome the operation of this law is dependent upon spiritual contact as Henry Drummond well says in the physical world as we know it there exists the organic and the inorganic the inorganic or the mineral world is absolutely cut off from the plant or animal world the passage is hermetically sealed these barriers have never yet been crossed no change of substance no modification of environment no chemistry no electricity no form of energy

no evolution of any kind can ever endow a single atom of the mineral world with the attribute of life only by the bending down into this dead world of some living form can those dead atoms be gifted with the properties of Vitality without this contact with life they remain fixed in the inorganic sphere forever Huxley says that the doctrine of biogenesis or life only from life is Victorious all along the line and Tyndall is compelled to say I affirm that no shred of trustworthy evidence exists to prove that life in our day has ever appeared

independent of antecendant life physical laws may explain the inorganic biology explain and account for the development of the organic but of the point of contact science is silent a similar passage exists between the natural world and the spiritual world this passage is hermetically sealed on the natural side the door is closed no man can open it no organic change no mental energy no moral effort no progress of any kind can enable any human being to enter the spiritual world but as the plant reaches down into the mineral world and touches it with the mystery of

life so the Universal Mind reaches down into the human mind and endows it with new strange wonderful and even marvelous qualities all men or women who have ever accomplished anything in the world of Industry Commerce or Arts have accomplished because of this process thoughts is the connecting link between the infinite and the finite between the universal and the individual we have seen that there is an impassable barrier between the organic and the inorganic and that the only way that matter can unfold is to be impregnated with life as a seed reaches down into the mineral

world and begins to unfold and reach out the dead matter begins to live a thousand invisible fingers begin to weave a suitable environment for the new arrival and as the law of growth begins to take effect we see the process continue until the Lily finally appears and even Solomon in all his glory was not a raid like one of these even so a thought is dropped into the invisible substance of the universal mind that substance from which all things are created and as it takes root the law of growth begins to take effect and we

find that conditions and environment are but the objective form of our thought the law is that thought is an active vital form of dynamic energy which has the power to correlate with its object and bring it out of the invisible substance from which all things are created into the visible or objective world this is the law by which and through which all things come into manifestation it is the master key by which you are admitted into the secret place of the most high and are given dominion over all things with an understanding of this law

you may decree a thing and it shall be established unto thee it could not be otherwise if the soul of the universe as we know it is the universal Spirit then the universe is simply the condition which the universal Spirit has made for itself we are simply individualized spirit and are creating the conditions for our growth in exactly the same way this creative power depends upon our recognition of the potential power of spirit or mind and must not be confused with evolution creation is the calling into existence of that which does not exist in the

objective world evolution is simply the unfolding of potentialities involved in things which already exist in taking advantage of the wonderful possibilities opened up to us through the operation of this law we must remember that we ourselves contribute nothing to its efficacy as the great teacher said it is not that I doeth the works but the father that dwelleth in me he doeth the work we must take exactly the same position we can do nothing to assist in the manifestation we simply comply with the law and the all-originating mind will bring about the result the great

error of the present day is the idea that man has to originate the intelligence whereby the infinite can proceed to bring about a specific purpose or result nothing of this kind is necessary the universal mind can be dependent upon to find the ways and means for bringing about any necessary manifestation we must however create the ideal and this ideal should be perfect we know that the laws governing electricity have been formulated in such a way that this invisible power can be controlled and used for our benefit and comfort in thousands of ways we know that

messages are carried around the world that ponderous Machinery does its bidding that it now illuminates practically the whole world but we know too that if we consciously or ignorantly violate its law by touching a live wire when it is not properly insulated the result will be unpleasant and possibly disastrous a lack of understanding of the laws governing in The Invisible world has the same result and many are suffering the consequences all the time it has been explained that the law of causation depends upon polarity a circuit must be formed this circuit cannot be formed unless

we operate in harmony with the law how shall we operate in harmony with the law unless we know what the law is how shall we know what the law is by study by observation we see the law in operation everywhere all nature testifies to the operation of the law by silently constantly expressing itself in the law of growth where there is growth there must be life where there is life there must be Harmony so that everything that has life is constantly attracting to itself the conditions and the supply which is necessary for its most complete

expression if your thought is in harmony with the creative principle of nature it is in tune with the infinite mind and it will form the circuit it will not return to you void but it is possible for you to think thoughts that are not in tune with the infinite and there is no polarity circuit is not formed what then is the result what is the result when a Dynamo is generating electricity the circuit is cut off and there is no Outlet the Dynamo stops it will be exactly the same with you if you entertain thoughts

which are not in accordance with the infinite and cannot therefore be polarized there is no circuit you are isolated the thoughts cling to you harass you worry you and finally bring about disease and possibly death The Physician may not diagnose the case exactly in this way he may give it some fancy name which has been manufactured for the various ills which are the result of wrong thinking but the cause is the same nevertheless constructive thought must necessarily be creative but creative thought must be harmonious and this eliminates all destructive or competitive thought wisdom strength courage

and all harmonious conditions are the result of power and we have seen that all power is from within likewise every lack limitation or adverse circumstance is the result of weakness and weakness is simply absence of power it comes from nowhere it is nothing the remedy then is simply to develop power and this is accomplished in exactly the same manner that all power is developed by exercise this exercise consists in making an application of your knowledge knowledge will not apply itself you must make the application abundance will not come to you out of the sky neither

will it drop into your lap but a conscious realization of the Law of Attraction and the intention to bring it into operation for a certain definite and specific purpose and the will to carry out this purpose will bring about the materialization of your desire by a natural law of transference if you are in business it will increase and develop along regular channels possibly new or unusual channels of distribution will be opened and when the law becomes fully operative you will find the things you seek are seeking you this week select a blank space on the

wall or any other convenient spot from where you usually sit mentally draw a black horizontal line about six inches long try to see the line as plainly as though it were painted on the wall now mentally draw two vertical lines connecting with this horizontal line at either end now draw another horizontal line connecting with the two vertical lines now you have a square try to see the square perfectly when you can do so draw a circle within the square now place a point in the center of the circle now draw the point toward you about

10 inches now you have a cone on a square base you will remember that your work was all in black change it to White to red to Yellow if you can do this you're making excellent progress and will soon be enabled to concentrate on any problem you may have in mind when any object or purpose is clearly held in thought its precipitation intangible and visible form is merely a question of time the vision always proceeds and itself determines the realization Lillian Whiting questionnaire part 10. what is wealth wealth is The Offspring of power of what

value are possessions possessions are a value only as they confer power of what value is a knowledge of cause and effect it enables men to plan courageously and execute fearlessly how does life originate in the inorganic world only by the introduction of some living form there is no other way what is the connecting link between the finite and the infinite thought is the connecting link why is that so because the universal can manifest only through the individual upon what does causation depend upon polarity a circuit must be formed the universal is the positive side of

the battery of Life the individual is the negative and thought forms the circuit why do many fail to secure harmonious conditions they do not understand the law there is no polarity they have not formed the circuit what is the remedy a conscious recognition of the Law of Attraction with the intention of bringing it into existence for a definite purpose what will be the result thought will correlate with its object and bring it into manifestation because thought is a product of the spiritual man and spirit is the creative principle of the universe a vivid thought brings

the power to paint it and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection Emerson letter of transmittal part 11. your life is governed by law by actual immutable principles that never vary law is in operation at all times in all places fixed laws underlie all human actions for this reason men who controlled giant Industries are enabled to determine with absolute Precision just what percentage of every hundred thousand people will respond to any given set of conditions it is well however to remember that while every effect is the result of

a cause the effect in turn becomes a cause which creates other effects which in turn create still other causes so that when you put the Law of Attraction into operation you must remember that you are starting a train of causation for good or otherwise which may have endless possibilities we frequently hear it said a very distressing situation came into my life which could not have been the result of my thought as I certainly never entertain any thought which could have such a result we fail to remember that like attracts like in the mental world man

that the thought of which we entertain brings us certain friendships companionships of a particular kind and these in turn bring about conditions and environment which in turn are responsible for the conditions of which We complain part 11. inductive reasoning is the process of the object of Mind by which we compare a number of separate instances with one another until we see the common factor that gives rise to them all induction proceeds by comparison of facts it is this method of studying nature which has resulted in the discovery of a reign of law which is marked

an Epoch and human progress it is the dividing line between Superstition and intelligence it has eliminated the elements of uncertainty and Caprice for men's lives and substituted law reason and certitude it is the Watchman at the gate mentioned in a former lesson when by virtue of this principle the world to which the senses were accustomed had been revolutionized when the sun had been arrested in his course the Apparently Flat Earth had been shaped into a ball and set whirling around him when the inert matter had been resolved into active elements and the universe presented itself

wherever we directed the telescope and microscope full of force motion and life we are constrained to ask by what possible means the delicate forms of organization in the midst of it are kept in order and repair like poles and like forces repel themselves or remain impenetrable to each other and this cause seems in general sufficient to assign a proper place and distance to Stars men and forces as men of different virtues enter into partnership pseudo-opposite poles attract each other elements that have no property in common like acids and gases cling to each other in preference

and a general exchange is kept up between the Surplus and the demand as the eye seeks and receives satisfaction from colors complementary to those which are given so does need want and desire in the largest sense induce guide and determine action it is our privilege to become conscious of the principle and act in accordance with it koviere sees a tooth belonging to an extinct race of animals this tooth wants a body for the performance of its function and it defines the peculiar body it stands in need of with such Precision that cuvier is able to

reconstruct the frame of this animal perturbations are observed in the motion of Uranus leveria needs another star at a certain place to keep the solar system in order and Neptune appears in the place an hour appointed the instinctive wants of the animal and the intellectual wants of cuvier the once of Nature and of the mind of leviere were alike and thus the results hear the thoughts of an existence there in existence a well-defined lawful want therefore furnishes the reason for more complex operations of nature having recorded correctly the answers furnished by nature and stretched our

senses with the growing science over her surface having joined hands with the levers that moved the Earth we become conscious of such a close varied in deep contact with the world without our wants and purposes become no less identified with the harmonious operations of this vast organization than the life liberty and happiness of the citizen is identified with the existence of his government as the interests of the individual are protected by the arms of the country added to his own and his needs may depend upon certain Supply in the degree that they are felt more

universally and steadily in the same manner does conscious citizenship in the Republic of nature secure us from the annoyances of subordinate agents by alliance with Superior powers and by appeal to the fundamental laws of resistance or inducement offered to Mechanical or chemical agents dispute the labor to be performed between them and man to the best advantage of the inventor if Plato could have witnessed the pictures executed by the sun with the assistance of the photographer or a hundred similar illustrations of What man does by induction he would perhaps have been reminded of the intellectual Midwifery

of his master and in his own mind might have Arisen to the vision of a land where all manual mechanical labor and repetition is assigned to the power of nature where our wants are satisfied by purely mental operations set in motion by the will and where the supply is created by the demand however distant that land may appear induction has taught men to make strides toward it and it surrounded him with Benefits which are at the same time rewards for past Fidelity and incentives for more assiduous devotion it is also an aid in concentrating and

strengthening our faculties for the remaining part giving uneering solution for individual as well as universal problems by the mere operations of Mind in the purest form here we find a method the spirit of which is to believe that what is sought has been accomplished in order to accomplish it a method bequeathed Upon Us by the same Plato who outside of his sphere could never find how the ideas became realities this conception is also elaborated by swedenborg and his doctrine of correspondences and a still great teacher has said what things so ever ye desire when ye

pray believe that you receive them and ye shall have them Mark 11 24 RV the difference of the tenses In this passage is remarkable we are first to believe that our desire has already been fulfilled its accomplishment will then follow this is a concise direction for making use of the creative power of thought by impressing on the universal subjective mind the particular thing which we desire as an already existing fact we are thus thinking on the plane of the absolute and eliminating all consideration of conditions or limitation and are planting a seed which if left

undisturbed will finally germinate into external fruition to review inductive reasoning is the process of the objective Mind by which we compare a number of separate instances with one another until we see the common factor that gives rise to them all we see people in every civilized country in the globe securing results by some process which they do not seem to understand themselves and to which they usually attach more or less mystery our reason is given to us for the purpose of ascertaining the law by which these results are accomplished the operation of this thought process

is seen in those fortunate Natures that possess everything that others must acquire by toil who never have a struggle with conscience because they always act correctly and can never comport themselves otherwise than with tact learn everything easily complete everything they begin with a happy neck live in external harmony with themselves without ever reflecting much what they do or ever experiencing difficulty or toil the fruit of this thought is as it were a gift of the Gods but a gift which few as yet realize appreciate or understand the recognition of The Marvelous power which is possessed

by the Mind under proper conditions and the fact that this power can be utilized directed and made available for the solution of every human problem is of transcendental importance all truth is the same whether stated in modern scientific terms or in the language of apostolic times there are timid Souls who fail to realize that the very completeness of Truth requires various statement that no one human formula will show every side of it changing emphasis new language novel interpretations unfamiliar perspectives are not as some suppose signs of departure from truth but on the contrary they are

evidence that the truth is being apprehended in new relations to human needs and is becoming more generally understood the truth must be told to each generation and to every people in new and different terms so that when the great teacher said believe that ye receive and ye shall receive or when Paul said faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen or when modern science says the law of attraction is the law by which thought correlates with its object each statement when subjected to analysis is found to contain exactly the

same truth the only difference being the form of presentation we're standing on the threshold of a new era the time has arrived when man has learned the secrets of Mastery and the way is being prepared for a new social order more wonderful than anything every heretofore dreamed of the conflict of modern science with theology the study of comparative religions the tremendous power of new social movements all of these are but clearing the way for the New Order they may have destroyed traditional forms which have become Antiquated and impotent but nothing of value has been lost

a new faith has been born a faith which Demands a new form of expression and this faith is taking form in a deep consciousness of power which is being manifested in the present spiritual activity found on every hand the spirit which sleeps in the mineral breeds in the vegetable moves in the animal and reaches its highest development in man is the universal mind and it behooves us to span the gulf between being and doing theory and practice by demonstrating our understanding of the Dominion which we have been given by far the greatest discovery of all

the centuries is the power of thought the importance of this discovery has been a little slow in reaching the general Consciousness but it has arrived and already in every field of research the importance of this greatest of all great discoveries is being demonstrated you ask in what does the creative power of thought consist it consists in creating ideas and these in turn objectify themselves by appropriating inventing observing Discerning discovering analyzing ruling governing combining and applying matter and force it can do this because it is an intelligent creative power thought reaches its loftiest activity when plunged

into its own mysterious depth when it breaks through the narrow Compass of self and passes from truth to truth to the region of Eternal Light where all which is was or ever will be melts into one grand Harmony from this process of self-contemplation comes inspiration which is creative intelligence and which is undeniably superior to every element force or law of nature because it can understand modify govern and apply them to its own ends and purposes and therefore possess them wisdom begins with the dawn of reason and reason is but an understanding of the knowledge and

principles whereby we may know the true meaning of things wisdom then is illuminated reason and this wisdom leads to humility for humility is a large part of wisdom we all know many who have achieved this seemingly impossible who have realized lifelong dreams who have changed everything including themselves we have sometimes marveled at the demonstration of an apparently irresistible power which seemed to be ever available just when it was most needed but it is all clear now all that is required is an understanding of certain definite fundamental principles and their proper application for your exercise this

week concentrate on the quotation taken from the Bible whatsoever things ye desire when ye pray believe that ye receive them and ye shall have them notice that there is no limitation whatsoever things is very definite and implies that the only limitation which is placed upon us in our ability to think to be equal to the occasion to rise to the emergency to remember that faith is not a shadow but a substance the substance of things hoped for the evidence of Things Not Seen death is but the natural process whereby all material forms are thrown into

The Crucible for reproduction and fresh diversity questionnaire part 11. what is inductive reasoning it is the process of the objective Mind by which we compare a number of separate instances with each other until we see the common factor which gives rise to them all what has this method of studying accomplished it has resulted in the discovery of a reign of law which has marked an Epoch and human progress what is it that guides and determines action it is need want and desire which in the largest sense induce guide and determine action what is the formula

for the uneering solution of every individual problem we are to believe that our desire has already been fulfilled its accomplishment will then follow what great teachers advocated it Jesus Plato swedenborg what is the result of the operation of this thought process we are thinking on the plane of the absolute and planting a seed which if left undisturbed will germinate into fruition why is it scientifically exact because it is natural law what is faith faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things unseen what is the law of attraction the law by which

faith is brought into manifestation what importance do you attach to an understanding of this law it has eliminated the elements of uncertainty and Caprice from Men's lives and substituted law reason and certitude letter of transmittal part 12. Part 12 is enclosed here with in the fourth paragraph you will find the following statement you must first have the knowledge of your power second the courage to dare third the faith to do if you concentrate upon the thoughts given if you give them your entire attention you will find a world of meaning in each sentence and will

attract to yourself other thoughts and harmony with them and you will soon grasp the full significance of the vital knowledge upon which you are concentrating knowledge does not apply itself we as individuals must make the application and the application consists in fertilizing the thought with a living purpose the time and thought which most persons waste an aimless effort would accomplish wonders if properly directed with some special object in view in order to do this it is necessary to Center your mental Force upon a specific thought and hold it there to the exclusion of all other

thoughts if you have ever looked through the focusing screen of a camera you found that when the object was not in Focus the impression was indistinct and possibly blurred but when the proper Focus was obtained the picture was clear and distinct this illustrates the power of concentration unless you can concentrate upon the object which you have in view you will have but a hazy indifferent vague indistinct and blurred outline of your ideal and the results will be in accordance with your mental picture part 12. there is no purpose in life that cannot be best accomplished

through a scientific understanding of the creative power of thought the power to think is common to all man is because he thinks Man's power to think is infinite consequently his creative power is unlimited we know that thought is building for us the thing we think of and actually bringing it nearer yet we find it difficult to banish fear anxiety or discouragement all of which are powerful thought forces and which continually send the things we desire further away so that it is often one step forward and two steps backward the only way to keep from going

backward is to keep going forward Eternal viligence is the price of success there are three steps and each one is absolutely essential you must first have the knowledge of your power second the courage to DARE third the faith to do with this as a basis you can construct an ideal business an Ideal Home ideal friends ideal environment you are not restricted as to material or cost is omnipotent and has the power to draw on the infinite Bank of primary substance for all that it requires infinite resources are therefore at your command but your ideal must

be sharp clear-cut definite to have one ideal today another tomorrow and a third next week means to scatter your forces and accomplish nothing your result will be a meaningless and chaotic combination of wasted material unfortunately this is the result which many are securing and the cause is self-evident if a sculptor started out with a piece of marble and a chisel and changed his ideal every 15 minutes what result could he expect and why should you expect any different result in molding the greatest and most plastic of all substances the only real substance the result of

this indecision and negative thought is often found in the loss of material wealth supposed Independence which required many years of toil and effort suddenly disappears it is often found then that money and property are not Independence at all on the contrary the only Independence is found to be a practical working knowledge of the creative power of thought this practical working method cannot come to you until you learn that the only real power which you can have is the power to adjust yourself to Divine and unchangeable principles you cannot change the infinite but you can come

into an understanding of natural laws the reward of this understanding is a conscious realization of your ability to adjust your thought faculties with the universal thought which is omnipresent your ability to cooperate with this omnipotence will indicate the degree of success with which you meet the power of thought has many counterfeits which are more or less fascinating but the results are harmful instead of helpful of course worry fear and all negative thoughts produce a crop after their kind those who Harbor thoughts of this kind must inevitably reap what they have sown again there are the

phenomena Seekers who Gorman dies on the so-called proofs and demonstrations obtained and materializing seances they throw open their mental doors and soak themselves in the most poisonous currents which can be found in the psychic World they do not seem to understand that it is the ability to become negative receptive and passive and the strain themselves of all their vital force which enables them to bring about these vibratory thought forms there are also Hindu worshipers who see in the materializing phenomena which are performed by the so-called adepts a source of power forgetting or never seeming to

realize that as soon as the will is withdrawn the forms wither and the vibratory forces of which they are composed vanish telepathy or thought transference has received considerable attention but as it requires a negative mental state on the part of the receiver the practice is harmful a thought may be sent with the intention of hearing or seeing but it will bring the penalty attached to the inversion of the principle involved hypnotism is positively dangerous to the subject as well as the operator no one familiar with the laws governing in the mental world would think of

attempting to dominate the will of another for by so doing he will gradually but surely divest himself of his own power all of these perversions have their temporary satisfaction and for some a keen Fascination but there is an infinitely greater Fascination and a true understanding of the world of Power Within power which increases with use it's permanent instead of fleeting which not only is potent as a remedial agency to bring about the remedy for past error or results of wrong thinking but it is a prophylactic agency protecting us from all manner and form of danger

and finally is an actual creative force with which we can build new conditions and new environment the law is that thought will correlate with its object and bring forth in the material world the correspondence of the thing thought or produced in the mental world we then discern the absolute necessity of seeing that every thought has the inherent germ of Truth in order that the law of growth will bring into manifestation good for good alone can confer any permanent power the principle which gives the thought the dynamic power to correlate with its object and therefore to

master every adverse Human Experience is the law of attraction which is another name for love this is an eternal and fundamental principle inherent in all things in every system of philosophy in every religion and in every science there is no getting away from the law of love it is feeling that imparts Vitality to thought feeling is desire and desire is love thought impregnated with love becomes invincible we find this truth emphasized whether the power of thought is understood the universal mind is not only intelligence but it is substance and the substance is the attractive Force

which brings electrons Together by The Law of Attraction so that they form atoms the atoms in turn are brought together by the same law and form molecules molecules take objective forms and so we find that the law of Love is the creative force behind every manifestation not only of atoms but of Worlds of the universe of everything of which the imagination can form any conception it is the operation of this marvelous Law of Attraction which has caused men in all ages and all times to believe that there must be some personal being who responded to

their petitions and desires and manipulated events in order to comply with their requirements it is the combination of thought and love which forms the irresistible Force called The Law of Attraction all natural laws are irresistible the law of gravitation or electricity or any other law operates with mathematical exactitude there is no variation it is only the channel of distribution which may be imperfect if a bridge Falls we do not attribute the collapse to any variation of the law of gravitation if a light fails us we do not conclude that the laws governing electricity cannot be

dependent on and if the Law of Attraction seems to be imperfectly demonstrated by an inexperienced or uninformed person we are not to conclude that the greatest and most infallible law upon which the entire system of creation depends has been suspended we should rather conclude that a little more understanding of the law is required for the same reason that a correct solution of a difficult problem in mathematics is not always readily and easily obtained things are created in the mental or spiritual world before they appear in the outward act or event by the simple process of

governing our thought forces today we help create the events which will come into our lives in the future perhaps even tomorrow educated desire is the most potent means of bringing into action the law of attraction man is so constituted that he must first create the tools or implements by which he gains the power to think the Mind cannot comprehend an entirely new idea until a corresponding vibratory brain cell has been prepared to receive it this explains why it is so difficult for us to receive or appreciate an entirely new idea we have no brain cell

capable of receiving it we are therefore incredulous we do not believe it if therefore you have not been familiar with the omnipotence of the Law of Attraction and the scientific method by which it can be put into operation or if you have not been familiar with the unlimited possibilities which it opens to those who are unable to take advantage of the resources it offers begin now and create the necessary brain cells which will enable you to comprehend the unlimited Powers which may be yours by co-operating with natural law this is done by concentration or attention

the intention governs the attention power comes through repos It Is by concentration that deep thoughts wise speech and all forces of high potentiality are accomplished it is in the silence that you get into touch with the omnipotent power of the subconscious mind from which all power is evolved he who desires wisdom power or permanent success of any kind will find it only Within it is an unfoldment the unthinking May conclude that the silence is very simple and easily attained but it should be remembered that only an absolute silence May one come into contact with divinity

itself May learn of the unchangeable law and open for himself the channels by which persistent practice and concentration lead to perfection this week go to the same room take the same chair same position as heretofore be sure to relax let go both mentally and physically always do this never try to do any mental work Under Pressure see that there are no tense muscles or nerves that you are entirely comfortable now realize your Unity with omnipotence get into touch with this power come into a deep and vital understanding appreciation and realization of the fact that your

ability to think is your ability to act upon the universal mind and bring it into manifestation realize that it will meet any and every requirement that you have exactly the same potential ability which any individual ever did have or ever will have because each is but an expression or manifestation of the one all are parts of the whole there is no difference in kind or quality the only difference being one of degree thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression he who first uttered it may be only the suggestor but the

doer will appear Wilson questionnaire part 12. how may any purpose in life be best accomplished through a scientific understanding of the spiritual nature of thought what three steps are absolutely essential the knowledge of our power the courage to dare and the faith to do how is the Practical working knowledge secured by an understanding of natural laws what is the reward of an understanding of these laws conscious realization of our ability to adjust ourselves to Divine and unchanging principle what will indicate the degree of success with which we meet the degree in which we realize that

we cannot change the infinite but must co-operate with it what is the principle which gives thought its Dynamic power The Law of Attraction which rests on vibration which in turn rests upon the law of Love thought impregnated with love becomes invincible why is this law irresistible because it is a natural law all natural laws are irresistible and unchangeable and act with mathematical exactitude there is no deviation or variation why then does it sometimes seem to be difficult to find the solution to our problems in life for the same reason that it is sometimes difficult to

find the correct solution to a difficult mathematical problem the operator is uninformed or inexperienced why is it impossible for the mind to grasp an entirely new idea we have no corresponding vibratory brain cell capable of receiving the idea how is wisdom secured by concentration it is an unfoldment it comes from within letter of transmittal part 13. physical science is responsible for the marvelous age of invention in which we are now living but spiritual science is Now setting out in a career whose possibilities no one can foretell spiritual science has heretofore been the football of the

uneducated the superstitious the mystical but men are now interested in definite methods and demonstrated facts only we have come to know that thinking is a spiritual process that vision and Imagination precede action and event that the day of the dreamer has come the following lines by Mr Herbert Kaufman are interesting in this connection they are The Architects of greatness their Vision lies within their souls they appear beyond the veils and Mists of doubt and Pierce the walls of unborn time the belted wheel the trail of Steel the churning screw are the shuttles in the loom

on which they weave their magic tapestries makers of Empire they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than Thrones your homes are set upon the land a dreamer found the pictures on its walls are Visions from a dreamer's soul they are the Chosen Few the Blazers of the way walls crumble in Empire's fall the tidal wave sweeps from the sea and tears of Fortress from its rocks the rotting Nations drop off team's bow and only the dreamers make live on part 13 which is enclosed here with tells why the dreams of the

dreamer come true it explains the law of causation by which dreamers inventors authors financiers bring about the realization of their desires explains the law by which the thing pictured upon our mind eventually becomes our own part 13. it has been the tendency and as might be proved a necessity for science to seek the explanation of everyday facts by a generalization of those others which are less frequent in form the exception thus does the eruption of the volcano manifest the heat which is continually at work in the interior of the earth and to which the latter

owes much of her configuration thus does the lightning reveal a subtle power constantly busy to produce changes in the inorganic world and as dead languages now seldom heard were once ruling among the Nations so does a giant tooth in Siberia or a fossil in the depth of the Earth not only bare record of the evolution of past ages but thereby explains to us the origin of the Hills and Valleys which we inhabit today in this way a generalization of facts which are rare strange or form the exception has been the magnetic needle guiding to all

the discoveries of inductive science this method is founded upon reason and experience and thereby destroyed Superstition precedent and conventionality it is more than 200 years since Lord bacon recommended this method of study to which the Civilized Nations owe the greater part of their prosperity and the more valuable part of their knowledge purging the Mind from narrow prejudices denominated theories more effectually than the keenest irony calling the attention of men from Heaven to Earth more successfully by surprising experiments than by the most forcible demonstrations of their ignorance educating the inventive faculties more powerfully by the near

Prospect of useful discoveries thrown open to all then by talk of bringing to light the innate laws of our mind the method of Beacon has seized the spirit an aim of the great philosophers of Greece and carry them into effect by the new means of observation which another age offered thus gradually revealing a wondrous field of knowledge in the Infinite Space of astronomy in the microscopic egg of embryology and the dim age of geology disclosing an order of the pulse which the logic of Aristotle could never have unveiled and analyzing into formerly unknown elements the

material combinations which no dialect of the Scholastics could force apart it has lengthened life it has mitigated pain it has extinguished diseases it has increased the fertility of the soil it has given new Securities to the Mariner it has spawned Great Rivers with bridges of form unknown to our fathers it has guided the Thunderbolt from Heaven to Earth it has lighted up the night with the Splendor of the day it has extended the range of human vision it has multiplied the power of the human muscles it has accelerated motion it has annihilated distance it has

facilitated intercourse correspondence all friendly offices all dispatch of business it has enabled men to descend into the depths of the sea to soar into the air to penetrate securely into the noxious recesses of the Earth this then is the true nature and scope of induction but the greater the success which men have achieved in the inductive science the more does the whole tenor of their teachings an example impress us with the necessity of observing carefully patiently accurately with all the instruments and resources at our Command the individual facts before venturing upon a statement of general

laws to discern the bearing of the spark drawn from the electric machine under every variety of circumstances that we thus may be emboldened with Franklin to address in the form of a kite a question to the cloud about the nature of the lightning to assure ourselves of the manner in which bodies fall with the exactness of Galileo that with Newton we may dare to ask the moon about the force that fastens it to the Earth in short by the value we set upon Truth by Our Hope in a steady and Universal progress not to permit

a tyrannical Prejudice to neglect or mutilate unwelcome facts but to rear the superstructure of science upon the broad and unchangeable basis a full attention paid to the most isolated as well as the most frequent phenomena an ever-increasing material may be collected by observation but the accumulated facts are a very different value for the explanation of Nature and as we esteem most highly those useful qualities of men which are of the rarest occurrence so does natural philosophy sift the facts and attach a preeminent importance to that striking class which cannot be accounted for by the usual

and daily observation of life if then we find that certain persons seem to possess unusual power what are we to conclude first we may say it is not so which is simply an acknowledgment of our lack of information because every honest investigator admits that there are many strange and heretofore unaccountable phenomena constantly taking place those however who become acquainted with the creative power of thought will no longer consider them unaccountable second we may say that they are the result of Supernatural interference but a scientific understanding of natural laws will convince us that there is nothing

Supernatural every phenomenon is the result of an accurate definite cause and the cause is an unmutable law or principle which operates with invariable Precision whether the law is put into operation consciously or unconsciously third we may say that we are on forbidden ground that there are some things which we should not know this objection was used against every advance in human knowledge every individual who ever Advanced a new idea whether a Columbus a Darwin a Galileo a Fulton or an Emerson was subjected to ridicule or persecution so that this objection should receive no serious consideration

but on the contrary we should carefully consider every fact which is brought to our attention by doing this we will more readily ascertain the law upon which it is based it will be found that the creative power of thought will explain every possible condition or experience whether physical mental or spiritual thought will bring about conditions and correspondence with the predominant mental attitude therefore if we fear disaster as fear is a powerful form of thought disaster will be the certain result of our thinking it is this form of thought which frequently sweeps away the result of

many years of toil and effort if we think of some form of material wealth we may secure it my concentrated thought the required conditions will be brought about and the proper effort put forth which will result in bringing about the circumstances necessary to realize our desires but we often find that when we secure the things we thought we wanted they do not have the effect we expected that is the satisfaction is only temporary or possibly is the reverse of what we expected what then is the proper method of procedure what are we to think in

order to secure what we really desire what you and I desire what we all desire what everyone is seeking is happiness and harmony if we can be truly happy we shall have everything the world can give if we are happy ourselves we can make others happy but we cannot be happy unless we have health strength congenial friends pleasant environment sufficient Supply not only to take care of our Necessities but to provide for those Comforts and luxuries to which we are entitled the old Orthodox way of thinking was to be a worm to be satisfied with

our portion whatever it is but the modern idea is to know that we are entitled to the best of everything that the father and I are one and that the father is the universal mind the Creator the original substance from which all things proceed now admitting that this is all true in theory and it has been taught for two thousand years and is the essence of every system of philosophy religion how are we to make it practical in our own lives are we to get the actual tangible results Here and Now in the first place

we must put our knowledge into practice nothing can be accomplished in any other way the athlete May read books and lessons on physical training all his life but unless he begins to give out strength by actual work he will never receive any strength he will eventually get exactly what he gives but he will have to give it first it is exactly the same with us we will get exactly what we give but we shall have to give it first it will then return to us many fold and the giving is simply a mental process because

the thoughts are causes and conditions are effects therefore in giving thoughts of Courage inspiration health or help of any kind we are setting causes in motion which will bring about their effect thought is a spiritual activity and is therefore creative but make no mistake thought will create nothing unless it is consciously systematically and constructively directed and herein is the difference between idle thinking which is simply a dissipation of effort and constructive thinking which means practically unlimited achievement we have found that everything we get Comes To Us by the law of attraction a happy thought cannot

exist in an unhappy Consciousness therefore the Consciousness must change and as the Consciousness changes all conditions necessary to meet the changed Consciousness must gradually change in order to meet the requirements of the new situation in creating a mental image or an ideal we are projecting a thought into the universal substance from which all things are created this Universal substance is omnipresent omnipotent and omniscient are we to inform the omniscient as to the proper channel to be used to materialize or demand can the finite advise the infinite this is the cause of failure of every failure

we recognize the omnipresence of the universal substance but we fail to appreciate the fact that this substance is not only omnipresent but is omnipotent and omniscient and consequently will set causes in motion concerning which we may be entirely ignorant we can best conserve our interests by recognizing the infinite power and infinite wisdom of the universal mind and in this way become a channel whereby the infinite can bring about the realization of our desire this means that the recognition brings about realization therefore for your exercise this week make use of the principle recognize the fact that

you are a part of the whole and that a part must be the same in-kind and quality as the whole the only difference there can possibly be is in degree when this tremendous fact begins to permeate your Consciousness when you really come into a realization of the fact that you not your body but the ego the I the spirit which thinks is an integral part of the Great whole that it is the same in substance in quality in kind that the Creator could create nothing different from himself you will also be able to say the

father and I are one and you will come into an understanding of the beauty the Grandeur the transcendental opportunities which have been placed at your disposal increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest strengthened my resolution to perform that which wisdom dictates Franklin questionnaire part 13. what is the method by which natural philosophers obtain and apply their knowledge to observe individual facts carefully patiently accurately with all the instruments and resources at their command before venturing upon a statement of general laws how may we be certain that this method is correct by not permeating

a tyrannical Prejudice to neglect or mutilate unwelcome facts what class of facts are esteemed most highly those which cannot be accounted for by the usual daily observations of life upon what is this principle founded upon reason and experience what does it destroy Superstition precedent and conventionality how have these laws been discovered by a generalization of facts which are uncommon rare strange and form the exception how may we account for much of the strange and heretofore unexplainable phenomena which is constantly taking place by the creative power of thought why is this so because when we learn

of a fact we can be sure that it is the result of a certain definite cause and that this cause will operate with invariable precision what is the result of this knowledge it will explain the cause of every possible condition whether physical mental or spiritual how will our best interest be conserved by a recognition of the fact that a knowledge of the creative nature of thought puts us in touch with infinite power letter of transmittal part 14. you have found from your study thus far that thought is a spiritual activity and is therefore endowed with

creative power this does not mean that some thought is creative but that all thought is creative this same principle can be brought into operation in a negative way through the process of denial the conscious and subconscious are but two phases of action in connection with one mind the relation of the subconscious to the conscious is quite anomalous to that existing between a Weather Vein and the atmosphere just as the least pressure of the atmosphere causes an action on the part of the Weather Vein so does the least thought entertained by the conscious mind produce within

your subconscious mind action in exact proportion to the depth of feeling characterizing the thought and the intensity with which the thought is indulged it follows that If you deny unsatisfactory conditions you are withdrawing the creative power of your thought from these conditions you are cutting them away at the root you are sapping their vitality remember that the law of growth necessarily governs every manifestation in the objective so that a denial of unsatisfactory conditions will not bring about instant change a plant will remain visible for some time after its roots have been cut but it will

gradually fade away and eventually disappear so the withdrawal of your thought from the contemplation of unsatisfactory conditions will gradually but surely terminate these conditions you will see that this is an exactly opposite course from the one which we would naturally be inclined to adopt it will therefore have an exactly opposite effect to the one usually secured most persons concentrate intently upon unsatisfactory conditions thereby giving the condition that measure of energy and vitality which is necessary in order to supply a vigorous growth part 14. the universal energy in which all motion light heat and color have

their origin does not partake of the limitation of the many effects of which it has the cause but it is supreme over them all the universal substance is the source of all power wisdom and intelligence to recognize this intelligence is to acquaint yourself with the knowing quality of mind and through it to move upon the universal substance and bring it into harmonious relations in your affairs this is something that the most learned physical science teacher has not attempted a field of Discovery upon which he has not yet launched in fact but few of the materialistic

schools have ever caught the first Ray of this light it does not seem to have dawned upon them that wisdom is just as much present everywhere as our force and substance some will say if these principles are true why are we not demonstrating them as the fundamental principle is obviously correct why do we not get proper results we do we get results in exact accordance with our understanding of the law and our ability to make the proper application we secured no results from the laws governing electricity until someone formulated the law and showed us how

to apply it this puts us in an entirely new relation to our environment opening up possibilities hitherto undreamed of and this by an orderly sequence of law which is naturally involved in our new mental attitude mind is creative and the principle upon which this law is based is sound and legitimate and is inherent in the nature of things but this creative power does not originate in the individual but in the Universal which is the source and Fountain of all energy and substance the individual is simply the channel for the distribution of this energy the individual

is the means by which the universal produces the various combinations which result in the formation of phenomena we know that scientists have resolved matter into an immense number of molecules these molecules have been resolved into atoms and the atoms and two electrons the discovery of electrons in high vacuum glass tubes containing fused terminals of hard metal indicates conclusively that these electrons fill all space that they exist everywhere that they are omnipresent that they fill all material bodies and occupy the whole of what we call empty space this then is the universal substance from which all

things proceed electrons would forever remain electrons unless directed where to go to be assembled into atoms and molecules and this director is mind a number of electrons revolving around a center of force constitutes an atom atoms unite an absolutely regular mathematical ratios and four molecules and these Unite with each other to form a multitude of compounds which unite to build the universe the lightest known atom is hydrogen and this is 1700 times heavier than an electron an atom of mercury is 300 000 times heavier than an electron electrons are pure negative electricity and as they

have the same potential velocity as other cosmic energy such as heat light electricity and thought of 189 380 miles a second neither time or space require consideration the manner in which the velocity of light was ascertained is interesting the velocity of light was obtained by the Danish astronomer Romer in 1676 by observing the eclipses of Jupiter's moons when the Earth was nearest to Jupiter the eclipse appeared about eight and one-half minutes too soon for the calculations and when the Earth was most remote from Jupiter they were about eight and one-half minutes too late Romer concluded

the reason to be that it required 17 minutes for light from the planet to Traverse to the diameter of the Earth's orbit which measured the difference of the distances of the Earth from Jupiter this calculation has since been verified and proved that light travels about 186 000 miles a second electrons manifest in the body's cells and possess mind and intelligence sufficient for them to perform their offices in the human physical Anatomy every part of the body is composed of cells some of which operate independently others in communities some are busy building tissue While others are

engaged in forming the various secretions necessary for the body some act as carriers of material others are the surgeons whose work it is to repair damage others are scavengers carrying off waste others are constantly ready to repel Invaders or other undesirable Intruders of The Germ family all these cells are moving for a common purpose and each one is not only a living organism but has sufficient intelligence to enable it to perform its necessary duties it is also endowed with sufficient intelligence to conserve the energies and perpetuate its own life it must therefore secure sufficient nourishment

and it has been found that it exercises choice in the selection of such nourishment each cell is born reproduces itself dies and is absorbed the maintenance of health and life itself depends upon the constant regeneration of these cells it is therefore apparent that there is MIND in every atom of the body this mind is negative mind and the power of the individual to think makes him positive so that he can control this negative mind this is the scientific explanation for metaphysical healing and will enable anyone to understand the principle upon which this remarkable phenomenon rests

this negative mind which is contained in every cell of the body has been called the subconscious mind because it acts without our conscious knowledge we have found that this subconscious mind is responsive to the will of the conscious mind all things have their origin in mind and appearances are the result of thought so that we see that things in themselves have no origin permanency or reality since they are produced by thought they can be erased by thought in mental as in natural science experiments are being made and each Discovery lifts man one step higher toward

his possible goal we find that every man is the reflection of the thought he has entertained during his lifetime this is stamped on his face his form his character his environment back of every effect there is a cause and if we follow the trail to its starting point we shall find the creative principle out of which it grew proofs of this are now so complete that this truth is generally accepted the objective world is controlled by an unseen and heretofore unexplainable power we have heretofore personalized this power and called it God we have now however

learned to look upon it as the permeating essence or principle of all that exists the infinite or Universal Mind the universal mind being infinite and omnipotent has unlimited resources at its command and when we remember that it is also omnipresent we cannot escape the conclusion that we must be an expression or manifestation of that mind a recognition and understanding of the resources of the subconscious mind will indicate that the only difference between the subconscious and the universal is one of degree they differ only as a drop of water differs from the ocean they are the

same and kind in quality the difference is one of degree only do you can you appreciate the value of this all-important fact do you realize that a recognition of this tremendous fact places you in touch with omnipotence the subconscious mind being the connecting link between the universal mind and the conscious mind is it not evident that the conscious mind can consciously suggest thoughts which the subconscious mind will put into action and as the subconscious is one with the universal it is not evident that no limit can be placed upon its activities a scientific understanding of

this principle will explain the wonderful results which are secured through the power of Prayer the results which are secured in this way are not brought about by any special dispensations of Providence but on the contrary they are the result of the operation of a perfectly natural law there is therefore nothing either religious or mysterious about it yet there are many who are not ready to enter into the discipline necessary to think correctly even though it is evident that wrong thinking has brought failure thought is the only reality conditions are but the outward manifestations as the

thought changes all outward or material conditions must change in order to be in harmony with their creator which is thought but the thought Must Be clear-cut steady fixed definite unchangeable you cannot take one step forward and two steps backward neither can you spend 20 or 30 years of your life building up negative conditions as the result of negative thoughts and then to expect to see them all melt away as the result of 15 or 20 minutes of right thinking if you enter into the discipline necessary to bring about a radical change in your life you

must do so deliberately after giving the matter careful thought and full consideration and then you must allow nothing to interfere with your decision this discipline this change of thought this mental attitude will not only bring you the material things which are necessary for your highest and best welfare but will bring health and harmonious conditions generally if you wish harmonious conditions in your life you must develop a harmonious mental attitude your world without will be a reflection of your world within for your exercise this week concentrate on Harmony and when I say concentrate I mean all

that the word implies concentrates so deeply so earnestly that you will be conscious of nothing but Harmony remember we learn by doing reading these lessons will get you nowhere it is in the practical application that the value consists learn to keep the door shut keep out of your mind and out of your world every element that seeks admittance with no definite helpful end in view George Matthew Adams questionnaire part 14. what is the source of all wisdom power and intelligence the universal mind where do all motion light heat and color have their origin in the

Universal energy which is one manifestation of the universal mind where does the creative power of thought originate in the universal mind what is thought mind in motion how is the universal differentiated in form the individual is the means by which the universal produces the various combinations which result in formation of phenomena how is this accomplished the power of the individual to think is his ability to act upon the universal and bring it into manifestation what is the first form which the universal takes so far as We Know electrons which fill all space where do all

things have their origin in mind what is the result of a change of thought a change in conditions what is the result of a harmonious mental attitude harmonious conditions in life thought immaterial though it may be is the Matrix that shapes the issues of Life the mind has been active in our Fields during this fruitful century but it is to science we must look for the thoughts that have shaped all thinking selected letter of transmittal part 15. experts with parasites found on Plants indicate that even the lowest order of life is unable to take advantage

of natural law this experiment was made by jock Loeb MD PhD member of the Rockefeller Institute in order to obtain the material potted rose bushes are brought into a room and placed in front of a closed window if the plants are allowed to dry out the aphides parasites previously wingless change to winged insects after the metamorphosis the animals leave the plants fly to the window and then creep upward on the glass it is evident that these tiny insects found that the plants on which they had been thriving were dead and that they could therefore secure

nothing more to eat and drink from the source the only method by which they could save themselves from starvation was to grow temporary wings and fly which they did experiments such as this indicate that omniscience as well as omnipotence is omnipresent and that the tiniest living thing can take advantage of it in an emergency part 15 will tell you more about the law under which we live it will explain that these laws operate to our advantage that all conditions and experiences that come to us are for our benefit that we gain strength in proportion to

the effort expended and that our happiness is best attained through a conscious cooperation with natural laws part 15. the laws under which we live are designed solely for our advantage these laws are immutable and we cannot escape from their operation all the great eternal Forces act in solemn silence but it is in our power to place ourselves in harmony with them and thus Express a life of comparative peace and happiness difficulties and harmonies and obstacles indicate that we are either refusing to give out what we no longer need or refusing to accept what we require

growth is attained through an exchange of the old for the new of the good for the better it is a conditional or reciprocal action for each of us is a complete thought entity in this completeness makes it possible for us to receive only as we give we cannot obtain what we lack if we tenaciously cling to what we have we are able to consciously control our conditions as we come to the sense the purpose of what we attract and are able to extract from each experience only what we require for our further growth our ability

to do this determines the degree of Harmony or happiness we Attain the ability to appropriate what we require for our growth continually increases as we reach higher planes and broader visions and the greater our ability to know what we require the more certain we shall be to discern its presence to attract it and to absorb it nothing May reach us except what is necessary for our growth all conditions and experiences that come to us do so for our benefit difficulties and obstacles will continue to come until we absorb their wisdom and gather from them the

essentials of further growth that we reap what we sow is mathematically exact we gain permanent strength exactly to the extent of the effort required to overcome difficulties the inexorable requirements of growth demand that we exert the greatest degree of Attraction for what is perfectly in accord with us our highest happiness will be best attained through our understanding of and conscious cooperation with natural laws in order to possess Vitality thought must be impregnated with love love is a product of the emotions it is therefore essential that the emotions be controlled and guided by the intellect and

reason it is love which imparts Vitality to thought and thus enables it to germinate the law of attraction or the law of love for they are one and the same will bring to it the necessary material for its growth and maturity the first form which thought will find is language or words this determines the importance of words they are the first manifestation of thought the vessels in which thought is carried they take hold of The Ether and by setting it in motion reproduce the thought to others in the form of sound thought may lead to

action of any kind but whatever the action it is simply the thought attempting to express itself in visible form it is evident therefore that if we wish desirable conditions we can afford to entertain only desirable thoughts this leads to the inevitable conclusion that if we wish to express abundance in our lives we can afford to think abundance only and as words are only thoughts taking form we must be especially careful to use nothing but constructive and harmonious language which when finally crystallized into objective forms will prove to our advantage we cannot escape from the pictures

we incessantly photograph on the mind and this photography of erroneous conceptions is exactly what is being done by the use of words when we use any form of language which is not identified with our welfare we manifest more and more life as our thought becomes clarified and takes higher planes this is obtained with greater faculty as we use word pictures that are clearly defined and relieved of the conceptions attached to them on Lower planes of thought it is with words that we must express our thoughts and if we are able to make use of higher

forms of Truth we may use only such material as has been carefully and intellectually selected with this purpose in view this wonderful power of clothing thoughts in the form of words is what differentiates man from the rest of the animal kingdom by the use of the written word he has been enabled to look back over the centuries and see the stirring scenes by which he has come into present inheritance he has been enabled to come into communion with the greatest writers and thinkers of all time and the combined record which we possess today is therefore

the expression of universal thought as it has been seeking to take form in the mind of man we know that the universal thought has for its goal the creation of form and we know that the individual thought is likewise forever attempting to express itself in form and we know that the word is a thought form and a sentence is a combination of thought forms therefore if we wish our ideal to be beautiful or strong we must see that the words out of which this Temple will eventually be created are exact that they are put together

carefully because accuracy in building words and sentences is the highest form of architecture in Civilization and is a passport to success words are thoughts and are therefore an invisible and Invincible power which will finally objectify themselves in the form they are given words may become mental palaces that will live forever or they may become Shacks which the first Breeze will carry away they may Delight the eye as well as the ear they may contain all knowledge in them we find the history of the past as well as the hope of the future they are living

Messengers from which every human and superhuman activity is born the beauty of the word consists in the beauty of the thought the power of the word consists in the power of the thought the power of the thought consists in its vitality how shall we identify a vital thought what are its distinguishing characteristics it must have principle how shall we identify principle there is a principle of mathematics but none of error there is a principle of Health but none of disease there is a principle of truth but none of dishonesty there is a principle of light

but none of darkness and there is a principle of abundance but none of poverty how shall we know that this is true because if we apply the principles of mathematics correctly we shall be certain of our results where there is Health there will be no disease if we know the truth we cannot be deceived by error if we let in light there can be no Darkness and where there is abundance there can be no poverty these are self-evident facts but the all-important truth that a thought containing principle is vital and therefore contains life and consequently

takes root and eventually but surely and certainly displaces the negative thoughts which by their very nature can contain no Vitality is one which seems to have been overlooked but this is a fact which will enable you to destroy every manner of Discord lack and limitation there can be no question but that he who is wise enough to understand will readily recognize that the creative power of thought places an invincible weapon in his hands and makes him a master of Destiny in the physical world there is a law of compensation which is that the appearance of

a given amount of energy anywhere means The Disappearance of the same amount somewhere else and so we find that we can get only what we give if we pledge ourselves to a certain action we must be prepared to assume the responsibility for the development of that action the subconscious cannot reason it takes us at our word we have asked for something we are now to receive it we have made our bed we are now to lie in it the die has been cast the threads will carry out the pattern we have made for this reason

Insight must be exercised so that the thought which we entertain contains no mental moral or physical germ which we do not wish objectified in our lives Insight is a faculty of the mind whereby we are enabled to examine facts and conditions at long range the kind of human telescope it enables us to understand the difficulties as well as the possibilities in any undertaking Insight enables us to be prepared for the obstacles which we shall meet we can therefore overcome them before they have any opportunity of causing difficulty Insight enables us to plan to Advantage and

turn our thought and attention in the right direction instead of into channels which can yield no possible return Insight is therefore absolutely essential for the development of any great achievement but with it we may enter explore and possess any mental field Insight is a product of the world within and is developed in the silence by concentration for your exercise this week concentrate on insight take your accustomed position and focus the thought on the fact that to have a knowledge of the creative power of thought does not mean to possess the art of thinking let the

thought dwell on the fact that knowledge does not apply itself that our actions are not governed by knowledge but by custom precedent and habit that the only way we can get ourselves to apply knowledge is by a determined conscious effort call to mind the fact that knowledge unused passes from the mind that the value of the information is in the application of the principle continue this line of thought until you gain sufficient insight to formulate a definite program for applying this principle to your own particular problem think truly in their thoughts shall the world's famine

feed truly and each word of thine shall be a fruitful seed live truly and thy life shall be a great and Noble Creed Horatio banar questionnaire part 15. what determines the degree of Harmony which we Attain our ability to appropriate what we require for our growth from each experience what do difficulties and obstacles indicate that they are necessary for our wisdom and spiritual growth how may these difficulties be avoided by a conscious understanding of and cooperation with natural laws what is the principle by which thought manifests itself in form the law of attraction how is

the necessary material secured by which the growth development and maturity of the idea take form the law of love which is the creative principle of the universe imparts Vitality to the thought and the Law of Attraction brings the necessary substance by the law of growth how are desirable conditions cured by entertaining desirable thoughts only how are the undesirable conditions brought about by thinking discussing and visualizing conditions of lack limitation disease inharmony and Discord of every kind this mental photography of erroneous conceptions is taken up by the subconscious and the Law of Attraction will inevitably crystallize

it into objective form that we reap what we sow is scientifically exact how can we overcome every kind of fear lack limitation poverty and Discord by substituting principle for error how may we recognize principle by the conscious realization of the fact that truth invariably destroys error we do not have to laboriously shovel the darkness out all that is necessary is to turn on the light the same principle applies to every form of negative thought what is the value of insight it enables us to understand the value of making application of the knowledge which we gain

many seem to think that knowledge will automatically apply itself which is by no means true to every man they're openeth away and the high Soul climbs the highway and the low soul gropes the low and in between on the Misty Flats the rest drift to and fro but to every man their openeth a high way and a low and every man decideth the way his soul go letter of transmittal part 16. the vibratory activities of the planetary universe are governed by a law of curiosity everything that lives has periods of birth growth fruitage and decline

these periods are governed by the Septima law the law of sevens govern the days of the week the phases of the moon the harmonies of sound light heat electricity magnetism atomic structure it governs the life of individuals and of Nations and it dominates the activities of the commercial world life is growth and growth is change each seven years period takes us into a new cycle the first seven years is the period of infancy the next seven the period of childhood representing the beginning of individual responsibility the next seven represents the period of adolescence the fourth

period marks the attainment of full growth the fifth period is the constructive period when men begin to acquire property possessions a home and family the next from 35 to 42 is a period of reactions and changes and this in turn is followed by a period of reconstruction adjustment and recuperation so as to be ready for a new cycle of sevens beginning with the 50th year there are many who think that the world is just about to pass out of the sixth period that it will soon enter into the seventh period the period of Readjustment reconstruction

and Harmony the period which is frequently referred to as the millennium those familiar with these Cycles will not be disturbed when things seem to go wrong but can apply the principle outlined in these lessons with the full assurance that a higher law will invariably control all other laws and that through an understanding and conscious operation of spiritual laws we can convert every seemingly difficulty into a blessing part 16. wealth is a product of labor capital is an effect not a cause a servant not a master a means not an end the most commonly accepted definition

of wealth is that it consists of all useful and agreeable things which possess exchange value it is this exchange value which is the predominant characteristic of wealth when we consider the small addition made by wealth to the happiness of the possessor we find that the True Value consists not in its utility but in its exchange value this exchange value makes it a medium for securing the things of real value whereby our ideals may be realized wealth should then never be desired as an end but simply as a means of accomplishing an end success is contingent

upon a higher ideal than the mere accumulation of riches and he who aspires to such success must formulate an ideal for which she is willing to strive with such an ideal in mind the ways and means can and will be provided but the mistake must not be made of substituting the means for the end there must be a definite fixed purpose an ideal Prentice Mulford said the man of success is the man possessed of the greatest spiritual understanding and every great Fortune comes of Superior and truly spiritual power unfortunately there are those who fail to

recognize this power they forget that Andrew Carnegie's mother had to help support the family when they came to America that harriman's father was a poor clergyman with a salary of only two hundred dollars a year that Sir Thomas Lipton started with only 25 cents these men had no other power to depend upon but it did not fail them the power to create depends entirely upon spiritual power there are three steps idealization visualization and materialization every Captain of industry depends upon this power exclusively in an article in everybody's magazine Henry M Flagler the Standard Oil multi-millionaire

admitted that the secret of his success was his power to see a thing in its completeness the following conversation with the reporter shows his power of idealization concentration and visualization all spiritual powers did you actually Vision to yourself the whole thing I mean did you or could you really close your eyes and see the tracks and the trains running and hear the whistles blowing did you go as far as that yes how clearly very clearly here we have a vision of the law we see cause and effect we see that thought necessarily precedes and determines

action if we are wise we shall come into a realization of the tremendous fact that no arbitrary condition can exist for a moment and that Human Experience is the result of an orderly and harmonious sequence the successful businessman is more often than not an idealist and is ever striving for higher and higher standards the subtle forces of thought as they crystallize in our daily moods is what constitutes life thought is the plastic material with which we build images of our growing conception of Life use determines its existence as in all other things her ability to

recognize it and use it properly is the necessary condition for attainment premature wealth is but the Forerunner of humiliation and disaster because we cannot permanently retain anything which we do not Merit or which we have not earned the conditions in which we meet in the world without correspond to the conditions which we find in the world within this is brought about by The Law of Attraction how then shall we determine what is to enter into the world within whatever enters the Mind through the senses or the objective mind will impress the mind and result in

a mental image which will become a pattern for the creative Energies these experiences are largely the result of environment chance past thinking and other forms of negative thought and must be subjected to careful analysis before being entertained on the other hand we can form our own mental images through our own interior processes of thought regardless of the thoughts of others regardless of exterior conditions regardless of environment of every kind and it is by the exercise of this power that we can control our own destiny body mind and soul it is by the exercise of this

power that we take Our Fate out of the hands of chance and consciously make for ourselves the experiences which we desire because when we consciously realize a condition that condition will eventually manifest in our lives it is therefore evident that in the last analysis thinking it's the one great cause in life therefore to control thought is to control circumstances conditions environment and Destiny how then are we able to control thought what is the process to think it is to create a thought but the result of the thought will depend upon its form its quality and

its vitality the form will depend upon the mental image from which it emanates this would depend upon the depth of the impression the predominance of the idea the clarity of the vision the boldness of the image the quality depends upon its substance and this depends upon the material of which the mind is composed if this material has been woven from thoughts of vigor strength courage determination the thought will possess these qualities and finally the Vitality depends upon the feeling with which the thought is impregnated if the thought is constructive it will possess Vitality it will

have life it will grow develop expand it will be creative it will attract to itself everything necessary for its complete development if the thought is destructive it will have within itself The Germ of its own disillusion it will die but in the process of dying it will bring sickness disease and every other form of Discord this we call evil and when we bring it upon ourselves some of us are disposed to attribute our difficulties to a Supreme Being but the Supreme Being is simply mind in equilibrium it is neither good nor bad it simply is

our ability to differentiate it into form is our ability to manifest good or evil good and evil therefore are not entities they are simply Words which we use to indicate the result of our actions these actions are in turn predetermined by the character of our thought if our thought is constructive and harmonious we manifest good if it is destructive and discordant we manifest evil if you desire to visualize a different environment the process is simply to hold the ideal in mind until your vision has been made real give no thought to persons places or things

these have no place in the absolute the environment you desire will contain everything necessary the right persons and the right things will come at the right time and in the right place it is sometimes not playing how character ability attainment achievement environment and Destiny can be controlled through the power of visualization but this is an exact scientific fact you will readily see that what we think determines the quality of mind and that the quality of Mind in turn determines our ability in mental capacity and you can readily understand that the improvement in our ability will

naturally be followed by increase in attainment and a greater control of circumstances it will thus be seen that natural laws work in a Perfectly Natural and harmonious manner everything seems to just happen if you want any evidence of this fact simply compare results of your efforts in your own life when your actions were prompted by high ideals and when you had selfish or ulterior motives in mind you will need no further Evidence if you wish to bring about the realization of any desire form a mental picture of success in your mind by consciously visualizing your

desire in this way you will be compelling success you'll be externalizing it in your life by scientific methods we can only see what already exists in the objective world but what we visualize already exists in the spiritual world and this visualization is a substantial token of what will one day appear in the objective world if we are faithful to our ideal the reason for this is not difficult visualization is a form of imagination this process of thinking forms Impressions on the mind and these impressions in turn from Concepts and ideals and they in turn are

the plans from which the master architect will weave the future the psychologists have come to the conclusion that there is but one sense the sense of feeling and that all other senses are but modifications of this one since this being true we know why feeling is the very Fountainhead of power why the emotions so easily overcome the intellect and why we must put feeling into our thought if we wish results thought and feeling is the irresistible combination visualization must of course be directed by the will we are to visualize exactly what we want we must

be careful not to let the imagination run Riot imagination is a good servant but of poor master and unless it is controlled it may easily lead us into all kinds of speculations and conclusions which have no basis or Foundation of fact whatever every kind of plausible opinion is liable to be accepted without any analytical examination and the inevitable result is mental chaos we must therefore construct only such mental images as are known to be scientifically true subject every idea to a searching analysis and accept nothing which is not scientifically exact when you do this you

will attempt nothing but what you know you can carry out and success will Crown your efforts this is what businessmen call farsightedness it is much the same as insight and is one of the great secrets of success in all important undertakings for your exercise this week try to bring yourself to a realization of the important fact that Harmony and happiness are states of Consciousness and do not depend upon the possession of things that things are effects and come as a consequence of correct mental States so that if we desire material possession of any kind our

chief concern should be to acquire the mental attitude which will bring about the result desired this mental attitude is brought about by a realization of our spiritual nature and our Unity with the universal mind which is the substance of all things this realization will bring about everything which is necessary for our complete enjoyment this is scientific or correct thinking when we succeed in bringing about this mental attitude it is comparatively easy to realize or desire as an already accomplished fact when we can do this we shall have found the truth which makes us free from

every lack or limitation of any kind a man might frame and let loose a star to roll in its orbit and yet not have done so memorable a thing before God as he who lets a golden orbed thought to roll through the generations of time H.W Beecher questionnaire part 16. upon what does wealth depend upon an understanding of the creative nature of thought upon what does its true value consist upon its exchange value upon what does success depend upon spiritual power upon what does this power depend upon use use determines its existence how may we

take Our Fate out of the hands of chance by consciously realizing the conditions which we desire to see manifested in our lives what then is the great business of life thinking why is this so because thought is spiritual and therefore creative to consciously control thought is therefore to control circumstances conditions environments and Destiny what is the source of all evil destructive thinking what is the source of all good scientific correct thinking what is scientific thinking a recognition of the creative nature of spiritual energy and our ability to control it the greatest events of an age

are its best thoughts it is the nature of thought to find its way into action Bovi letter of transmittal part 17. the kind of deity which a man consciously or unconsciously worships indicates the intellectual status of the worshiper ask the Indian of God and he will describe to you a powerful Chieftain of a glorious tribe ask the Pagan of God and he will tell you of a god of fire a god of water a God of this that and the other ask the Israelite of God and he will tell you of the god of Moses

who conceived it expedient to rule by coercive measures hence the Ten Commandments or of Joshua who led the Israelites into battle confiscated property murdered the prisoners and laid waste to cities the so-called Heathen made graven images of their gods whom they were accustomed to worship but among the most intelligent at least these images were but the visible fulcrums with which they were enabled to mentally concentrate on the qualities which they desired to externalize in their lives we of the 20th century worship a god of love in theory but in practice we make for ourselves graven

images of wealth power fashion custom and conventionality we fall down before them and worship them we concentrate on them and they are hereby externalized in our lives the student who Masters the contents of part 17 will not mistake the symbols for the reality he will be interested in causes rather than effects he will concentrate on the realities of life and will then not be disappointed in the results part 17 we are told that man has dominion over all things this Dominion is established through mind thought is the activity which controls every principle beneath it the

highest principle by reason of its Superior Essence and qualities necessarily determines the circumstances aspects and relation of everything with which it comes in contact the vibrations of mental forces are the finest and consequently the most powerful in existence to those who perceive the nature and transcendency of mental force all physical power sinks into insignificance we are accustomed to look upon the universe with a lens of five senses and from these experiences are anthropomorphic conceptions originate but true conceptions are only secured by spiritual insight this Insight requires a quickening of the vibrations of the mind and

is only secured when the mind is continuously concentrated in a given Direction continuous concentration means an even unbroken flow of thought and is the result of patience persistent persevering and well-regulated system great discoveries are the result of long continued investigation the science of mathematics requires years of concentrated effort to master it and the greatest science that of the mind is revealed only through concentrated effort concentration is much misunderstood there seems to be an idea of effort or activity associated with it when just the contrary is necessary the greatness of an actor lies in the fact

that he forgets himself in the portrayal of his character becoming so identified with it that the audience is swayed by the realism of the performance this will give you a good idea of true concentration you should be so interested in your thought so engrossed in your subject as to be conscious of nothing else such concentration leads to intuitive perception and immediate insight into the nature of the object concentrated upon all knowledge is the result of concentration of this kind it is thus that the secrets of Heaven and Earth have been rested it is thus that

the Mind becomes a magnet and the desire to know draws the knowledge irresistibly attracts it makes it your own desire is largely subconscious conscious desire rarely realizes its object when the latter is out of immediate reach subconscious desire arouses the latent faculties of the mind and difficult problems seem to solve themselves the subconscious mind may be aroused and brought into action in any direction and made to serve us for any purpose by concentration the practice of concentration requires the control of the physical mental and psychial being all modes of Consciousness whether physical mental or psychial

must be under control spiritual truth is therefore the controlling Factor it is this which will enable you to grow out of limited attainment and reach a point where you will be able to translate modes of thought into character and consciousness concentration does not mean mere thinking of thoughts but the transmutation of these thoughts into practical values the average person has no conception of the meaning of concentration there is always the cry to have but never the cry to be they fail to understand that they cannot have one without the other that they must first find

the kingdom before they can have the things added momentary enthusiasm is of no value it is only unbounded self-confidence that the goal is reached the Mind May place the ideal a little too high and fall short of the mark it may attempt to soar on untrained wings and instead of flying fall to Earth but that is no reason for not making another attempt weakness is the only barrier to mental attainment attribute your weakness to physical limitations or mental uncertainties and try again ease and Perfection are gained by repetition the astronomer centers his mind on the

stars and they give forth their secrets the geologist centers his mind on the construction of the earth and we have geology so with all things men Center their minds with the problems of life and the result is apparent in the vast and complex social order of the day all mental Discovery and attainment are the result of Desire plus concentration desire is the strongest mode of action the more persistent the desire the more authoritative the revelation desire added to the concentration will wrench any secret from nature in realizing great thoughts and experiencing great emotions that correspond

with great thoughts the mind is in a state where it appreciates the value of higher things the intensity of one's moments Earnest concentration and the intense longing to become and to attain may take you further than years of slow normal and forced effort it will unfasten the prison bars of unbelief weakness impotence and self-belittlement and you will come into a realization of the joy of overcoming the spirit of initiative and originality is developed through persistence and continuity of mental effort business teaches the value of concentration and encourages decision of character it develops practical insight and

quickness of conclusion the mental element in every commercial Pursuit is dominant as the controlling factor and desire is the predominating force all commercial relations are the externalization of Desire many of the sturdy and substantial virtues are developed in commercial employment the mind is steadied and directed it becomes efficient the principle necessity is the strengthening of the mind so that it rises superior to the distractions and Wayward impulses of instinctive life in the successfully overcomes the conflict between the higher and lower self all of us are dynamos but the Dynamo of itself is nothing the Mind

must work the Dynamo then it is useful and its energy can be definitely concentrated the mind is an engine whose power is undreamed thought is an omni working power it is the ruler and creator of all form and all events occurring in form physical energy is nothing in comparison with the omnipotence of thought because thought enables man to harness all other natural power vibration is the action of thought it is vibration which reaches out and attracts the material necessary to construct and build there is nothing mysterious concerning the power of thought concentration simply implies that

Consciousness can be focalized to the point where it becomes identified with the object of its attention as food absorbed is the essence of the body so the Mind absorbs the object of its attention gives it life and being if you concentrate on some matter of importance the intuitive power will be set in operation and help will come in the nature of information which will lead to success intuition arrives at conclusions without the aid of experience or memory intuition often solves problems that are beyond the grasp of the reasoning power intuition often comes with a suddenness

that is startling it reveals the truth for which we are searching so directly that it seems to come from a higher power intuition can be cultivated and developed in order to do this it must be recognized and appreciated if the intuitive visitor is given a royal welcome when he comes he will come again the more cordial the welcome the more frequent his visits will become but if he is ignored or neglected he will make his visits few and far apart intuition usually comes in the silence great minds seek Solitude frequently it is here that all

the large problems of Life are worked out for this reason every businessman who can afford it has a private office where he will not be disturbed if you cannot afford a private office you can at least find somewhere where you can be alone a few minutes each day to train the thought along lines which will enable you to develop that Invincible power which is necessary to achieve remember that fundamentally the subconscious is omnipotent there is no limit to the things that can be done when it is given the power to act your degree of success

is determined by the nature of your desire the nature of your desire is in harmony with natural law or the universal mind it will gradually emancipate the mind and give you invincible courage every obstacle conquered every Victory gained will give you more faith in your power then you will have greater ability to win your strength is determined by your mental attitude if this attitude is one of success and is permanently held with an unswerving purpose you will attract to you from the Invincible domain the things you silently demand by keeping the thought in mind it

will gradually take tangible form a definite purpose sets causes in motion which will go out in the invisible world and find the material necessary to serve your purpose you may be pursuing the symbols of power instead of power itself you may be pursuing Fame instead of Honor riches instead of wealth position instead of service in either event you will find that they turn to ashes just as you overtake them premature wealth or position cannot be retained because it has not been earned we get only what we give and those who try to get without giving

always find that the law of compensation is relentlessly bringing about an exact equilibrium the race has hitherto been for money and other mere symbols of power but with an understanding of the true source of power we can afford to ignore the symbols the man with a large bank account finds it unnecessary to load his pockets down with gold so with the man who has found the true source of power is no longer interested in its Shams or pretentions thought ordinarily leads outwardly in evolutionary directions but it can be turned within where it will take hold

of the basic principles of things the heart of things the spirit of things when you get to the heart of things it is comparatively easy to understand and command them this is because the spirit of a thing is the thing itself the vital part of it the real substance the form is simply the outward manifestation of the spiritual activity within for your exercise this week concentrate as nearly as possible in accordance with the method outlined in this lesson let there be no conscious effort or activity associated with your purpose relax completely avoid any thought of

anxiety as to results remember that power comes through Repose let the thought dwell upon your object until it is completely identified with it until you are conscious of nothing else if you wish to eliminate fear concentrate on Courage if you wish to eliminate lack concentrate on abundance if you wish to eliminate disease concentrate on health always concentrate on the ideal as an already existing fact this is the Elohim the germ cell the life principle which Goes Forth and enters in and becomes sets in motion those causes which guide direct and bring about the necessary relation

which eventually manifests in form thought is the property of those only who can entertain it Emerson questionnaire part 17. what is the true method of concentration to become so identified with the object of your thought that you are conscious of nothing else what is the result of this method of concentration invisible forces are set in motion which irresistibly bring about conditions and correspondence with your thought what is the controlling factor in this method of thought spiritual truth why is this so because the nature of our desire must be in harmony with natural law what is

the Practical value of this method of concentration thought is transmuted into character character is the magnet which creates the environment of the individual what is the controlling factor in every commercial Pursuit the mental element why is this so because mind is the ruler and creator of all form and all events occurring in form how does concentration operate by the development of the powers of perception wisdom and tuition and sagacity why is intuition Superior to reason because it does not depend upon experience or memory and frequently brings about the solution to our problem by methods concerning

which we are in entire ignorance what is the result of pursuing the symbol of the reality they frequently turn to ashes just as we overtake them because the symbol is only the outward form of the spiritual activity within therefore unless we can possess the spiritual reality the form disappears letter of transmittal part 18. in order to grow we must obtain what is necessary for our growth this is brought about through the law of attraction this principle is the sole means by which the individual is differentiated from the universal think for a moment what would a

man be if he were not a husband father or brother if he were not interested in the social economical political or religious world he would be nothing but an abstract theoretical ego he exists therefore only in his relation to the whole in his relation to other men in his relation to society this relation constitutes his environment and in no other way it is evident therefore that the individual is simply the differentiation of the one universal mind which lighteth every man that cometh into the world and a so-called individuality or personality consists of nothing but the

manner in which he relates with the whole this we call his environment and is brought about by the law of attraction part 18 which I enclose here with has something more to say concerning this important law part 18. there is a change in the thought of the world this change has silently transpiring in our midst and is more important than any which the world has undergone since the downfall of paganism these present revolution in the opinions of all classes of men the highest and most cultured of men as well as those of the laboring class

stands unparalleled in the history of the world science as of late made such vast discoveries has revealed such an Infinity of resources has unveiled such enormous possibilities and such unsuspected forces that scientific men more and more hesitate to affirm certain theories as established and indubitable or to deny other theories as absurd or impossible a new civilization is being born Customs Creeds and precedent or passing Vision faith and service are taking their place the Fetters of tradition are being melted off from humanity and as the dross of materialism is being consumed thought is being liberated and

Truth is rising full orbed before an astonished multitude the whole world is on the eve of a new Consciousness a new power and a new realization within the self physical science has resolved matter into molecules molecules into atoms atoms into energy and it has remained for Mr J.A Fleming in an address before the Royal Institution to resolve this energy into mind he says in its ultimate Essence Energy may be incomprehensible by us except as an exhibition of the direct operation of that which we call mind or will and this mind is the indwelling and ultimate

it is imminent in matter as in spirit it is the sustaining energizing all-pervading Spirit of the universe every living thing must be sustained by this omnipotent intelligence and we find the difference in individual lives to be largely measured by the degree of this intelligence which they manifest it is greater intelligence that places the animal in a higher scale of being than the plant the man higher than the animal we find that this increased intelligence is again indicated by the power of the individual to control modes of action and thus to consciously adjust himself to his

environment it is this adjustment that occupies the attention of the greatest minds and this adjustment consists in nothing else than the recognition of an existing order in the universal mind for it is well known that this mind will obey us precisely in proportion as we first obey it it is the recognition of natural laws that has enabled us to annihilate time and space to soar in the air and to make iron float and the greater the degree of intelligence the greater will our recognition of these natural laws and the greater the degree of intelligence the

greater we will be on our recognition of these natural laws and the greater will be the power we can possess it is the recognition of the self as an individualization of this Universal intelligence that enables the individual to control those forms of intelligence which have not yet reached this level of self-recognition they do not know that this Universal intelligence permeates all things ready to be called into action they do not know that it is responsive to every demand and they are therefore in bondage to the law of their own being thought is creative and the

principle on which the law is based is sound and legitimate as is inherent in the nature of things but this creative power does not originate in the individual but in the Universal which is the source and Foundation of all energy and substance the individual is simply the channel for the distribution of this energy the individual is simply the means by which the universal produces the various combinations which result in the formation of phenomena which depends upon the law of vibration whereby various rates of rapidity of motion and the primary substance form new substances only in

certain exact numerical ratios thought is the invisible link by which the individual comes into communication with the universal the finite with the infinite the scene with the Unseen thought is the Magic by which the human is transformed into being who thinks and knows and feels and acts as the proper apparatus has enabled the eye to discover worlds without number millions of miles away so with the proper understanding man has been enabled to communicate with the universal mind the source of all power the understanding which is usually developed is about as valuable as the telephone box

without wires or a Central Station in fact it is usually nothing more than a belief which means nothing at all the Indians believe something and so do the Savages of the cannibal Islands but that proves nothing the only belief which is of any value to anyone is a belief that has been put to a test and demonstrated to be a fact it is then no longer a belief but has become a living faith or truth and this truth has been put to the test by hundreds of thousands of people and has been found to be

the truth exactly in proportion to the usefulness of the apparatus which they used a man would not expect to locate Stars hundreds of millions of miles away without a sufficiently strong telescope and for this reason science is continually engaged in building larger and more powerful telescopes and is continually rewarded by additional knowledge of the heavenly bodies so with understanding men are continually making progress in the methods which they use to come into communication with the universal mind and its infinite possibilities the Universal Mind manifests itself in the objective through the principle of attraction that each

atom has for every other atom in infinite degrees of intensity It Is by this principle of combining and attracting that things are brought together this principle is of universal application and is the sole means whereby the purpose of existence is carried into effect the expression of growth is met in a most beautiful manner through the instrumentality of this Universal principle in order to grow we must obtain what is essential for our growth but as we are at all times a complete thought entity this completeness makes it possible for us to receive only as we give

growth is therefore conditioned on reciprocal action and we find that on the mental plane like attracts like that mental vibrations respond only to the extent of their vibratory Harmony it is clear therefore that thoughts of abundance will respond only to similar thoughts the wealth of the individual is seen to be what he inherently is affluence within is found to be the secret of Attraction for affluence without the ability to produce is found to be the real source of wealth of the individual it is for this reason that he who has his heart in his work

is certain to meet with unbounded success he will give and continually give and the more he gives the more he will receive what do the great financiers of Wall Street the captains of industry the Statesman the great Corporation attorneys the inventors the Physicians the authors what do each of these contribute to the sum of human happiness but the power of their thought thought is the energy by which the law of attraction is brought into operation which eventually manifests into abundance the universal mind is static mind or substance is equilibrium it is differentiated into form by

our power to think thought is the dynamic phase of mind power depends upon consciousness of power unless we use it we shall lose it and unless we are conscious of it we cannot use it the use of this power depends upon attention the degree of attention determines our capacity for the acquirement of knowledge which is another name for power attention has been held to be the distinguishing Mark of Genius the cultivation of attention depends upon practice the incentive of attention is interest the greater the interest the greater the attention the greater the attention the greater

the interest action and reaction Begin by paying attention for long you will have a roused interest this interest will attract more attention and this attention will produce the more interest and so on this practice will enable you to cultivate the power of attention this week concentrate upon your power to create seek Insight perception try to find a logical basis for the faith which is in you let the thought dwell on the fact that the physical man lives and moves and has his being in the sustainer of all organic life air that he must breathe to

live then let the thought rest on the fact that the spiritual man also lives and moves and as his being in a similar but subtler energy upon which he must depend for life and that is in the physical world no life assumes form until after a seed is sown and no higher fruit than that of the parent stock can be produced so in the spiritual world no effect can be produced until the seed is sown and the fruit will depend upon the nature of the seed so that the results which you secure depend upon your

perception of law in the mighty domain of causation the highest evolution of human consciousness there is no thought in my mind but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power and organizes a huge instrumentality of means Emerson questionnaire part 18. how is the difference in individual lives measured by the degree of intelligence which they manifest what is the law by which the individual May control other forms of intelligence a recognition of the self as an individualization of the universal intelligence where does the creative power originate in the Universal how does the universal create form

by means of the individual what is the connecting link between the individual and the universal thought what is the principle by which the means of existence is carried into effect the law of love how is this principle brought into expression by the law of growth upon what condition does the law of growth depend upon reciprocal action the individual is complete at all times and this makes it possible to receive only as we give what is it that we give thought what do we receive thought which is substance in equilibrium and which is constantly being differentiated

in form by what we think thoughts even more than overt acts reveal character WS plumber letter of transmittal part 19. fear is a powerful form of thought it paralyzes the nerve centers thus affecting the circulation of the blood this in turn paralyzes the muscular system so that fear affects the entire being body brain and nerve physical mental and muscular of course the way to overcome fear is to become conscious of power what is the mysterious vital force which we call power we do not know neither do we know what electricity is but we do know

that by conforming to the requirements of the law by which electricity is governed it will be our obedient servant that it will light our homes our cities run our machinery and service in many useful capacities and so it is with vital force although we do not know what it is and possibly may never know we do know that it is a primary force which manifests through living bodies and that by complying with the laws and principles by which it is governed we can open ourselves to a more abundant inflow of this vital energy and thus

Express the highest possible degree of mental moral and spiritual efficiency the lesson which I enclose here with tells of a very simple way of developing this vital force if you put into practice the information outlined in this lesson you will soon develop the sense of power which has ever been the distinguishing Mark of Genius part 19. the search for truth is no longer a haphazard Adventure but it is a systematic process and is logical in its operation every kind of experience is given a voice in shaping its decision in seeking the truth we are seeking

ultimate cause we know that every human experience is in effect that if we may ascertain the cause and if we shall find that this cause is one which we can consciously control the effect or the experience will be within our control also Human Experience will then no longer be the football of Fate a man will not be the child of Fortune but destiny fate and Fortune will be controlled as readily as a captain controls his vessel or an engineer his train all things are finally resolvable into the same element and as they are thus translatable

one into another they must ever be in relation and may never be in opposition to one another in the physical world they are innumerable contrasts and these May for convenience sake be designated by distinctive names there are sizes colors shades or ends to all things there is a North Pole and a South Pole an inside and an outside a scene and an unseen but these Expressions merely serve to place Extremes in contrast there are names given to two different parts of one quantity the two extremes are relative they're not separate entities but are two parts

or aspects of the whole in the mental world we find the same law we speak of knowledge and ignorance but ignorance is but a lack of knowledge and is therefore found to be simply a word to express the absence of knowledge it has no principle in itself in the moral world we again find the same law we speak of Good and Evil but good is a reality something tangible while evil is found to be simply a negative condition the absence of good evil is sometimes thought to be a very real condition but it has no

principle no Vitality no life we know this because it can always be destroyed by good just as truth destroys error and light destroys Darkness so evil vanishes when good appears there is therefore but one principle in the moral world we find exactly the same law obtaining in the spiritual world we speak of mind and matter as two separate entities but clear Insight makes it evident that there is but one operative principle and that is mind mind is the real and the Eternal matter is forever changing we know that in the eons of time a hundred

years is but as a day if we stand in any large city and let the eye rest on the innumerable large and magnificent buildings the railroads and electric cars the telephones the electric lights and all the other conveniences of modern civilization we may remember that not one of them was there a hundred years ago and if we could stand on the same spot in a hundred years from now and all probability we should find that but a few of them remained in the animal kingdom we find the same law of change the millions and millions

of animals come and go a few years constituting their span of life in the Plant World the change is still more rapid many plants and nearly all grasses come and go in a single year when we pass to the inorganic we expect to find something more substantial but as we Gaze on the Apparently solid continent we are told that it arose from the ocean we see the Giant mountain and are told that the place where it now stands was once a lake and as we stand it all before the giant cliffs in the Yosemite Valley

we can easily trace the path of the glaciers which carried all before them we are in the presence of continual change and we know that this change is but the evolution of the universal mind the grand process whereby all things are continually being created anew and we come to know that matter is but a form which mind takes and is therefore simply a condition matter has no principle mind is the only principle we have then come to know that mind is the only principle which is operative in the physical mental moral and spiritual world we

also know that this mind is static mind at rest we also know that the ability of the individual to think is his ability to act upon the universal mind and convert it into Dynamic mind or mind in motion in order to do this fuel must be applied in the form of food for man cannot think without eating and so we find that even a spiritual activity such as thinking cannot be converted into sources of pleasure and profit except by making use of material means it requires energy of some kind to collect electricity and convert it

into a dynamic power it requires the Rays of the sun to give the necessary energy to sustain plant life so it also requires energy in the form of food to enable the individual to think and thereby act upon the universal mind you may know that thought constantly eternally is taking form is forever seeking expression or you may not but the fact remains that if your thought is powerful constructive and positive this will be plainly evident in the state of your health your business and your environment if your thought is weak critical destructive and negative generally

it will manifest in your body as fear worry and nervousness and your finances lack and limitation and in discordant conditions in your environment all wealth is The Offspring of power possessions are of value only as they confer power events are significant only as they affect power all things represent certain forms and degrees of power a knowledge of cause and effect as shown by the laws governing steam electricity chemical affinity and gravitation enables men to plan courageously and to execute fearlessly these laws are called natural laws because they govern the physical world but all power is

not physical power there is also mental power and there is moral and spiritual power what are schools our universities but mental powerhouses places where mental power is being developed as there are many mighty powerhouses for the application of power to ponderous Machinery whereby raw materials collected and converted into the necessities and Comforts of life so the mental powerhouses collect the raw material and cultivate and develop it into a power which is infinitely Superior to all the forces of nature marvelous though they be what is this raw material which is being collected in these thousands of

mental powerhouses all over the world and developed into a power which is evidently controlling every other power in its static form it is mined in its Dynamic form it is thought this power is superior because it exists on a higher plane because it has enabled man to discover the law by which these wonderful forces of nature could be harnessed and made to do the work of hundreds and thousands of men it has enabled man to discover laws whereby time and space have been annihilated and the law of gravitation is to be overcome thought is the

vital force or energy which is being developed and which has produced such startling results in the last half century as to bring about a world which would be absolutely inconceivable to a man existing only 50 or even 25 years ago if such results have been secured by organizing these mental powerhouses in 50 years what may not be expected in another 50 years the substance from which all things are created is infinite in quantity we know that light travels at the rate of 186 000 miles per second and we know that there are stars so remote

that it takes Light 2 000 years to reach us and we know that such Stars exist in all parts of the heaven we know too that this light comes in waves so that if the ether on which these waves travel was not continuous the light would fail to reach us we can then only come to the conclusion that this substance or ether or raw material is universally present how then does it manifest in form in electrical science a battery is formed by connecting the opposite poles of zinc and copper which causes a current to flow

from one to the other and so provides energy the same process is repeated in respect to every polarity and as all forms simply depends upon the rate of vibration and consequent relations of atoms to each other if we wish to change the form of manifestation we must change the polarity this is the principle of causation for your exercise this week concentrate and when I use the word concentrate I mean all that word implies becomes so absorbed in the object of your thought that you are conscious of nothing else and do this for a few minutes

every day you take the necessary time to eat in order that the body may be nourished why not take the time to assimilate your mental food let the thought rest on the fact that appearances are deceptive the Earth is not flat neither is it stationary the sky is not a dome the sun does not move the stars are not small specks of light and matter which was once supposed to be fixed has been found to be in a state of Perpetual flux try to realize that the day is fast approaching its Dawn is now at

hand when modes of thought and action must be adjusted to rapidly increasing knowledge of the operation of Eternal principles silent thought is after all the mightiest agent in human affairs Channing questionnaire part 19. how are extremes placed in contrast they are designated by distinctive names such as inside and outside top and bottom lights and dark good and bad are these separate entities no they are parts or aspects of one whole what is the one creative principle in the physical mental and spiritual world the universal mind or the Eternal energy from which all things proceed how

are we related to this creative principle by our ability to think how does this creative principle become operative thought is the seed which results in action and action results in form upon what does form depend upon the rate of vibration how may the rate of vibration be changed by mental action upon what does mental action depend upon polarity action and reaction between the individual and the universal does the Creative Energy originate in the individual or the universal in the Universal but the universal can manifest only through the individual why is the individual necessary because the

universal is static and requires energy to start it in motion this is furnished by food which is converted into energy which in turn enables the individual to think when the individual stops eating he stops thinking then he no longer acts upon the universal there is consequently no longer any action or reaction the universal is then only pure mind in static form mind at rest letter of transmittal part 20. for many years there has been an endless discussion as to the origin of evil theologians have told us that God is love and that God is omnipresent

if this be true there is no place where God is Not where then is evil Satan and Hell let us see God is Spirit is the creative principle of the universe man is made in the image and likeness of God man is therefore a spiritual being there is only activity which Spirit possesses is the power to think ing is therefore a creative process all form is therefore the result of the thinking process the destruction of four must also be a result of the thinking process fictitious representations of form are the result of the creative power

of thought as in hypnotism apparent representations of form are the result of the creative power of thought as in spiritualism invention organization and constructive work of all kinds are the result of the creative power of thought as in concentration when the creative power of thought is manifested for the benefit of humanity we call the result good when the creative power of thought is manifested in a destructive or evil manner we call the result evil this indicates the origin of both good and evil they are simply Words which have been coined in order to indicate the

nature of the result of the thinking or creative process thought necessarily proceeds and predetermines action action precedes and predetermines condition part 20 will throw more light upon this important subject part 20. the spirit of a thing is that thing it is necessarily fixed changeless and eternal the spirit of you is you without the spirit you would be nothing it becomes active through your recognition of it and its possibilities you may have all the wealth in Christendom but unless you recognize it and make use of it it will have no value so with your spiritual wealth

unless you recognize it and use it it will have no value the one and only condition of spiritual power is use of recognition all great things come through recognition a scepter of power is consciousness and thought is its messenger and this messenger is constantly molding the realities of the invisible world into the conditions and environments of your objective world thinking is the true business of life power is the result you are at all times dealing with the magical power of thought and consciousness what results can you expect so long as you remain oblivious to the

power which has been placed within your control so long as you do this you limit yourself to superficial conditions and make of yourself a beast of burden for those who think those who recognize their power those who know that unless we are willing to think we shall have to work and the less we think the more we shall have to work and the less we shall get for our work The Secret of power is a perfect understanding of the principles forces methods and combinations of mind and a perfect understanding of our relationship to the universal

mind It is Well to remember that this principle is unchangeable if this were not so it would not be reliable all principles are changeless this stability is your opportunity you are its active attribute the channel for its activity the universal can act only through the individual when you begin to perceive that the essence of the universal is within yourself is you you begin to do things you begin to feel your power it is the fuel which fires the imagination which lights the torch of inspiration which gives Vitality to thought which enables you to connect with

all the invisible forces of the universe it is this power which will enable you to plan fearlessly to execute masterfully but perception will come only in the silence this seems to be the condition required for all great purposes you are a visualizing entity imagination is your Workshop it is here that your ideal is to be visualized as a perfect understanding of the nature of this power is a primary condition for its manifestation visualize the entire method over and over again so that you may use it whenever occasion requires the Infinity of wisdom is to follow

the method whereby we may have the inspiration of the omnipotent universal mind on demand at any time we can fail to recognize this world within and so exclude it from our consciousness but it will still be the basic fact of all existence and when we learn to recognize it not only in ourselves but in all persons events things and circumstances we shall have found the Kingdom of Heaven which we are told is within us our failures are a result of the operation of exactly the same principle the principle is unchangeable its operation is exact there

is no deviation if we think lack limitation Discord we shall find their fruits on every hand if we think poverty unhappiness or disease the thought Messengers will carry the summons as readily as any other kind of thought and the result will be just as certain if we fear a coming Calamity we shall be able to say with job the thing I feared has come upon me if we think unkindly or ignorantly we shall thus attract ourselves to the results of our ignorance this power of thought if understood and correctly used is the greatest labor-saving device

ever dreamed of but if not understood or improperly used the result will in all probability be disastrous as we have already seen by the help of this power you can confidently undertake things that are seemingly impossible because this power is the secret of all inspiration a genius to become inspired means to get out of the beaten path out of the rut because extraordinary results require extraordinary means when we come into a recognition of the unity of all things and that the source of all power is within we tap the source of inspiration inspiration is the

art of imbibing the art of self-realization the art of adjusting the individual mind to that of the universal mind the art of attaching the proper mechanism to the source of all power the art of differentiating the formless into form the art of becoming a channel for the flow of infinite wisdom the art of visualizing Perfection the art of realizing the Omni presence of omnipotence an understanding and appreciation of the fact that the infinite power is omnipresent and is therefore in the infinitely small as well as the infinitely large will enable us to absorb its Essence

a further understanding of the fact that this power is spirit and therefore indivisible will enable us to appreciate its Presence at all points at the same time an understanding of these facts first intellectually and then emotionally will enable us to drink deeply from this ocean of infinite power an intellectual understanding will be of no assistance the emotions must be brought into action thought without feeling is cold the required combination is thought and feeling inspiration is from within the silence is necessary the senses must be stilled the muscles relaxed Repose cultivated when you have thus come

into possession of a sense of poise and power you will be ready to receive the information or inspiration or wisdom which may be necessary for the development of your purpose do not confuse these methods with those of clairvoyant they have nothing in common inspiration is the art of receiving and makes for all that is best in life your business in life is to understand and command these invisible forces instead of letting them command and rule you or implies service inspiration implies power to understand and apply the method of inspiration is to become a Superman we

can live more abundantly every time we breathe if we consciously breathe with that intention the if is a very important condition in this case as the intention governs the attention and without the attention you can secure only the results which everyone else secures that is a supply equal to the demand in order to secure the larger Supply your demand must be increased and as you consciously increase the demand the supply will follow you will find yourself coming into a larger and larger supply of Life Energy and vitality the reason for this is not difficult to

understand but it is another of the vital mysteries of Life which does not seem to be generally appreciated if you make it your own you will find it one of the great realities of life we are told that in him we live and move and have our being and we are told that he is a spirit and again that he is love so that every time we breathe we breathe this life love and spirit this is pranic energy or pranic ether we could not exist a moment without it it is the cosmic energy it is

the life of the solar plexus every time we breathe we fill our lungs with air and at the same time vitalize our body with this pranic ether which is life itself so that we have the opportunity of making a conscious connection with all life all intelligence and all substance a knowledge of your relation and Oneness with this principle that governs the universe and the simple method whereby you can consciously identify yourself with it gives you a scientific understanding of a law whereby you may free yourself from disease from lack of limitation of any kind in

fact it enables You to Breathe the breath of life into your own nostrils this Breath of Life is a super conscious reality it is the essence of the I am it is pure being or Universal substance and our conscious Unity with it enables us to localize it and thus exercise the powers of this Creative Energy thought is creative vibration and the quality of the conditions created will depend upon the quality of our thought because we cannot express Powers which we do not possess we must be before we can do and we can do only to

the extent to which we are and so what we do will necessarily coincide with what we are and what we are depends upon what we think every time you think you start a train of causation which will create a condition in strict accordance with the quality of the thought which originated it thought which is in harmony with the universal mind will result in corresponding conditions thought which is destructive or discordant will produce corresponding results you may use thought constructively or destructively but the immutable law will not allow you to plant a thought of one kind

and reap the fruit of another you are free to use this marvelous creative power as you will but you must take the consequences this is the danger from what is called willpower there are those who seem to think that by force of will they can coerce this law that they can sow seed of one kind and by willpower make it bear fruit of another but the fundamental principle of creative power is in the Universal and therefore the idea of forcing a compliance with our wishes by the power of the individual will is an inverted conception

which may appear to succeed for a while but is eventually doomed to failure because it antagonizes the very power of which it is seeking to use it is the individual attempting to coerce the universal the finite and conflict with the infinite our permanent well-being will be best conserved by a conscious cooperation with A continuous forward movement of the great whole for your exercise this week go into the silence and concentrate on the fact that in him we live and move and have our being is literally and scientifically exact that you are because he is that

if he is omnipresent he must be in you that if he is all in all you must be in him that he is spirit and you are made in His image and likeness and that the only difference between his spirit and your spirit is one of degree that a part must be the same and kind and quality as the whole when you can realize this clearly you will have found the secret of the creative power of thought you will have found the origin of both good and evil you have found the secret of the wonderful

power of concentration you have found the key to the solution of every problem whether physical Financial or Environmental the power to think consecutively and deeply and clearly is an avowed and deadly enemy to mistakes and blunders superstitions unscientific theories irrational beliefs unbridled enthusiasm fantasism haddock questionnaire part 20. upon what condition does power depend upon recognition and use what is recognition Consciousness how do we become conscious of power thinking what then is the true business of life correct scientific thinking what is correct scientific thinking the ability to adjust our thought process to the will of the

universal in other words to co-operate with natural laws how is this accomplished by securing a perfect understanding of the principles forces methods and combinations of mind what is the universal mind the basic fact of all existence what is the cause of a lack limitation disease and Discord it is due to the operation of exactly the same law the law operates relentlessly and is continually bringing about conditions and correspondence with the thought which originated or created them what is inspiration the art of realizing the omnipresence of omniscience upon what does the conditions with which we meet

depend upon the quality of our thought because what we do depends upon what we are and what we are depends upon what we think Learning Without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous letter of transmittal part 21. it is my privilege to enclose part 21. in paragraph 7 you will find that one of the secrets of success one of the methods of organizing Victory one of the accomplishments of The Mastermind is to think big thoughts in paragraph 8 you'll find that everything which we hold in our Consciousness for any length of time becomes

impressed Upon Our subconsciousness and so becomes a pattern which the Creative Energy will wave into our life and environment this is the secret of the wonderful power of Prayer we know that the universe is governed by law that for every effect there must be a Cause and that the same cause under the same conditions will invariably produce the same effect consequently if prayer has ever been answered it will always be answered if the proper conditions are complied with this must necessarily be true otherwise the universe would be a chaos instead of a cosmos the answer

to prayer is therefore subject to law and this law is definite exact and scientific just as are the laws governing gravitation and electricity an understanding of this law takes the foundation of Christianity out of the realm of superstition and crudility and places it upon the firm Rock of scientific understanding but unfortunately there are comparatively few persons who know how to pray they understand that there are laws governing electricity mathematics and chemistry but for some inexplicable reason it never seems to occur to them that there are also spiritual laws and that these laws are also definite

scientific exact and operate with immutable precision part 21 the real secret of power is consciousness of power the universal mind is unconditional therefore the more conscious we become of our Unity with this mind the less conscious we shall become of conditions and limitations and as we become emancipated or freed from conditions we come into a realization of the unconditional we have become free as soon as we become conscious of the inexhaustible power in the world within we begin to draw on this power and apply and develop the greater possibilities which this discernment has realized because

whatever we become conscious of is invariably manifested in the objective world is brought forth into tangible expression this is because the infinite mind which is the source from which all things proceed is one and indivisible and each individual is a channel whereby this eternal energy is being manifested our ability to think is our ability to act upon this Universal substance and what we think is what is created or produced in the objective world the result of this discovery is nothing less than marvelous it means that mind is extraordinary in quality Limitless in quantity and contains

possibilities without number to be conscious of this power is to become a live wire it has the same effect as placing an ordinary wire in contact with a wire that is charged the universal is the live wire it carries power sufficient to meet every situation which may arise in the life of every individual when the individual mind touches the universal mind it receives all the power it requires this is the world within all science recognizes the reality of this world and all power is contingent Upon Our recognition of this world the ability to eliminate imperfect

conditions depends upon mental action and mental action depends upon consciousness of power therefore the more conscious we become of our Unity with the source of all power the greater will be our power to control and master every condition large ideas have a tendency to eliminate all smaller ideas so that is well to hold ideas large enough to counteract and destroy all small or undesirable Tendencies this will remove innumerable Petty and annoying obstacles from your path you will also become conscious of a larger world of thought thereby increasing your mental capacity as well as placing yourself

in position to accomplish something of value this is one of the secrets of success one of the methods of organizing victory one of the accomplishments of The Mastermind he thinks big thoughts the creative energies of Mind find no more difficulty in handling large situations than small ones mind is just as much present in the infinitely large as in the infinitely small when we realize these facts concerning mind we understand how we may bring to ourselves any condition by creating the corresponding conditions in our Consciousness because everything which is held for any length of time in

the Consciousness eventually becomes impressed upon the subconscious and thus becomes a pattern which the Creative Energy will weave into the life and environment of the individual in this way conditions are produced and we find that our lives are simply the reflection of our predominant thoughts our mental attitude we see then that the science of correct thinking is the one science that it includes all other Sciences from this science we learned that every thought creates an impression on the brain that these Impressions create mental Tendencies and these Tendencies create character ability and purpose and that the

combined action of character ability and purpose determines the experiences with which we shall meet in life these experiences come to us through the Law of Attraction through the action of this law we meet in the world without the experiences which correspond to our world within the predominant thought or the mental attitude is the magnet and the law is that like attracts like consequently the mental attitude will invariably attract such conditions as correspond to its nature this mental attitude is our personality and is composed of the thoughts which we have been creating in our own mind

therefore if we wish a change in conditions all that is necessary to change our thought this will in turn change our mental attitude which will in turn change our personality which will in turn change the person's things and conditions or the experiences with which we meet in life it is however no easy matter to change the mental attitude but by persistent effort it may be accomplished the mental attitude is patterned after the mental pictures which have been photographed on the brain if you do not like the pictures destroy the negatives and create new pictures this

is the art of visualization as soon as you have done this you will begin to attract new things and the new things will correspond to the new pictures to do this impress on the mind a perfect picture of the desire which you wish to have objectified and continue to hold the picture in mind until results are obtained if the desire is one which requires determination ability Talent courage power or any other spiritual power these are necessary Essentials for your picture build them in they are the vital part of the picture they are the feeling which

combines with thought and creates the irresistible magnetic power which draws the things you require to you they give your picture life and life means growth and as soon as it begins to grow the result is practically assured do not hesitate to Aspire to the highest possible attainments in anything you may undertake for the Mind forces are ever ready to lend themselves to a purposeful will in the effort to crystallize its highest aspirations into acts accomplishments and events an illustration of how these mine forces operate is suggested by the method in which all our habits are

formed we do a thing then we do it again and again and again until it becomes easy and perhaps almost automatic and the same rule applies in Breaking any and all bad habits we stopped doing a thing and then avoid it again and again until we are entirely free from it and if we do fail now and then we should by no means lose hope for the law is absolute and invincible and gives us credit for every effort and every success even though our efforts and successes are perhaps intermittent there is no limit to what

this law can do for you dare to believe in your own ideal remember that nature is plastic to the ideal think of the ideal as an already accomplished fact the real battle of life is one of ideas it is being fought out by the few against the many on the one side is the constructive and creative thought on the other side is the destructive and negative thought the creative thought is dominated by an ideal the passive thought is dominated by appearances on both sides are men of science men of letters and Men of Affairs on

the creative side are men who spend their time in Laboratories or over microscopes and telescopes side by side with the men who dominate the commercial political and scientific world the negative side or men who spend their time investigating law and precedent men who mistake theology for religion Statesmen who mistake might for right and all the millions who seem to prefer precedent to progress who are eternally Looking Backward instead of forward who see only the world without but know nothing of the world within in the last analysis there are but these two classes all men will

have to take their place on one side or the other they will have to go forward or go back there is no standing still in a world where all is motion it is this attempt to stand still that gives sanction and force to arbitrary and unequal codes of law that we are in a period of transition is evidenced by the unrest which is everywhere apparent the complaint of humanity is as a role of Heaven's artillery commencing with low and threatening notes and increasing until the sound is sent from Cloud to cloud and the lightning runs

the air and Earth the centuries who Patrol the most advanced outposts of the industrial political and religious world are calling anxiously to each other what of the night the danger and insecurity of the position they occupy an attempt to hold is becoming more apparent every hour the dawn of a new era necessarily declares that the existing order of things cannot much longer be the issue between the old regime and the new the Crux of the social problem is entirely a question of conviction in the minds of the people as to the nature of the universe

when they realize that the Transcendent force of spirit or mind of the cosmos is within each individual it will be possible to frame laws that shall consider the Liberties and rights of the many instead of the Privileges of the few as long as the people regard the cosmic power as a power non-human and alien to humanity so long will it be comparatively easy for a supposed privileged class to rule but Divine Right In Spite of every protest of social sentiment the real interest of democracy is therefore to exalt emancipate and recognize the Divinity of the

human Spirit to recognize that all power is from within that no human being has any more power than any other human being except such as May willingly be delegated to him the old regime would have us believe that the law was superior to the lawmakers here in the gist of the social crime of every form of privilege and personal inequity the institutionalizing of the fatalistic doctrine of divine election the Divine mind is the universal mind which makes no exceptions it plays no favorites it does not act through sheer Caprice or from anger jealousy or wrath

neither can it be flattered cajoled or moved by sympathy or petition to supply man with some need which he thinks necessary for his happiness or even his existence the Divine mind makes no exceptions in favor any individual but when the individual understands and realizes his Unity with the universal principle he will appear to be favored because he will have found the source of all Health all wealth and all power for your exercise this week concentrate on the truth try to realize that the truth shall make you free that is nothing can permanently stand in the

way of your perfect success when you learn to apply the scientifically correct thought methods and principles realize that you are externalizing in your environment your inherent Soul potencies realize that the silence offers an Ever available and almost unlimited opportunity for awakening the highest conception of Truth try to comprehend that omnipotence itself is absolute silence all else is change activity limitation silent thought concentration is therefore the true method of reaching Awakening and then expressing the wonderful potential power of the world within the possibilities of thought training are infinite its consequence eternal and yet few take the

pains to direct their thinking into channels that will do them good but instead leave all the chance Martin questionnaire part 21 what is the real secret of power the consciousness of power because whatever we become conscious of is invariably manifested in the objective world is brought forth into tangible expression what is the source of this power the Universal Mind from which all things proceed and which is one and indivisible how is this power being manifested through the individual each individual is a channel whereby this energy is being differentiated in form how may we connect with

this omnipotence our ability to think is our ability to act on this Universal energy and what we think is what is produced or created in the objective world what is the result of this discovery the result is nothing less than marvelous it opens unprecedented and Limitless opportunity how then may we eliminate imperfect conditions by becoming conscious of our Unity with the source of all power what is one of the distinctive characteristics of the Mastermind he thinks big thoughts he holds ideas large enough to counteract and destroy all petty and annoying obstacles how do experiences come

to us through the law of attraction how is this law brought into operation by our predominant mental attitude what is the issue between the old regime and the new a question of conviction as to the nature of the universe the old regime is trying to cling to the fatalistic doctrine of divine election the new regime recognizes the Divinity of the individual the Democracy of humanity letter of transmittal part 22. in part 22 you will find that Thoughts Are Spiritual seeds which when planted in the subconscious mind have a tendency to sprout and grow but unfortunately

the fruit is frequently not to our liking the various forms of inflammation paralysis nervousness and diseased conditions generally are the manifestations of fear worry care anxiety jealousy hatred and similar thought the life processes are carried on by two distinct methods first the taking up and making use of nutritive material necessary for constructing cells second breaking down and excreting the waste material all life is based upon these constructive and destructive activities and as food Water and Air are the only requisites necessary for the construction of cells it would seem that the problem of prolonging life indefinitely

would not be a very difficult one however strange it may seem it is the second or destructive activity that is with rare exception the cause of all disease the waste material accumulates and saturates the tissues which causes Auto intoxication this may be partial or general in the first case the disturbance will be local in the second place it will affect the whole system the problem then before us in the healing of disease is to increase the inflow and distribution of vital energy throughout the system and this can only be done by eliminating thoughts of fear

worry care anxiety jealousy hatred and every other destructive thought which tend to tear down and destroy the nerves and glands which control the excretion and elimination of poisonous and waste matter nourishing foods and strengthening tonics cannot bestow life because these are but secondary manifestations of life the primary manifestation of life is how you may get in touch with it is explained in the part which I have the privilege of enclosing herewith part 22. knowledge is of Priceless value because by applying knowledge we can make our future what we wish it to be when we realize

that our present character our present environment our present ability our present physical condition are all the result of past methods of thinking we shall begin to have some conception of the value of knowledge if the state of our health is not all that could be desired let us examine our method of thinking let us remember that every thought produces an impression on the mind every impression is a seed which will sink into the subconscious and form a tendency the tendency will be to attract other similar thoughts and before we know it we shall have a

crop which must be harvested if these thoughts contain disease germs the Harvest will be sickness Decay weakness and failure the question is what are we thinking what are we creating what is the Harvest to be if there is any physical condition which it is necessary to change the law governing visualization will be found effective make a mental image of physical perfection hold it in the mind until it is absorbed by the consciousness many have eliminated chronic ailments in a few weeks by this method and thousands have overcome and destroyed all manner of ordinary physical disturbances

by this method in a few days sometimes in a few minutes it is through the law of vibration that the Mind exercises this control over the body we know that every mental action is a vibration and we know that all form is simply a mode of motion a rate of vibration therefore any given vibration immediately modifies every atom in the body every life cell is affected and an entire chemical change is made in every group of life skills everything in the universe is what it is by virtue of its rate of vibration change the rate

of vibration and you can change the nature quality and form the vast pararama of nature both visible and invisible is being constantly Changed by simply changing the rate of vibration and as thought as a vibration we can also exercise this power we can change the vibration and thus produce any condition which we desire to manifest in our bodies we are all using this power every minute the trouble is most of us are using it unconsciously and thus producing undesirable results the problem is to use it intelligently and produce only desirable results this should not be

difficult because we all have had sufficient experience to know what produces Pleasant vibration in the body and we also know the causes which produce the unpleasant and disagreeable Sensations all that is necessary is to consult our own experience when our thought has been uplifted Progressive constructive courageous Noble kind or in any other way desirable we have set in motion vibrations which brought about certain results what our thought has been filled with Envy hatred jealousy criticism or any of the other Thousand and One forms of Discord certain vibrations were set in motion which brought about certain

other results of a different nature and each of these rates of vibration if kept up crystallized in form in the first case the result was mental moral and physical health and in the second case Discord in Harmony and disease we can understand then something of the power which the Mind possesses over the body the objective mind has certain effects on the body which are readily recognized someone says something to you which strikes you as ludicrous and you laugh possibly until your whole body shakes which shows that thought has control over the muscles of your body

or someone says something which excites your sympathy and your eyes fill with tears which shows that thought controls the glands of your body or someone says something which makes you angry and the blood mounts to your cheek which shows that thought controls the circulation of your blood but as these experiences are all the results of action of your objective mind over the body the results are of a temporary nature they soon pass away and leave the situation as it was before let us see how the action of the subconscious mind over the body differs you

receive a wound thousands of cells being the work of healing at once in a few days or a few weeks the work is complete you may even break a bone no surgeon on Earth can weld the parts together you may set the bone for you and the subjective mind will immediately begin the process of welding the parts together and in a short time the bone is as solid as it ever was you may swallow poison the subjective mind will immediately discover the danger and make violent efforts to eliminate it you may become infected with a

dangerous germ the subjective will at once commence to build a wall around the infected area and destroy the infection by absorbing it in the white blood corpuscles which IT supplies for the purpose these processes of the subconscious mind usually proceed without our personal knowledge or Direction and so long as we do not interfere the result is perfect but as these millions of repair cells are all intelligent and respond to our thought they are often paralyzed and rendered impotent by our thoughts of fear doubt and anxiety they are like an army of workmen ready to start

an important piece of work but every time they get fairly started on the undertaking a strike is called or plans changed until they finally get discouraged and give up the way to health is founded on the law of vibration which is the basis of all science and this law is brought into operation by the mind the world within it is a matter of individual effort and practice our world of power is within if we are wise we shall not waste time and effort in trying to deal with effects as we find them in the world

without which is only an external a reflection we shall always find the cause in the world within by changing the cause we change the effect every cell in your body is intelligent and it will respond to your direction the cells are all creators and will create the exact pattern which you give them therefore when perfect images are placed before the subjective the creative energies will build a perfect body brain cells are constructed in the same way the quality of the brain is governed by the state of mind or mental attitude so that if undesirable mental

attitudes are conveyed to the subjective they will in turn be transferred to the body we can therefore readily see that if we wish the body to manifest Health strengthen Vitality this must be the predominant thought we know then that every element of the human body is the result of a rate of vibration we know that mental action is a rate of vibration we know that a higher rate of vibration governs modifies controls changes or destroys a lower rate of vibration we know that the rate of vibration is governed by the character of brain cells and

finally we know how to create these brain cells therefore we know how to make any physical change in the body we desire and having secured a working knowledge of the power of mind to this extent we have come to know that there is practically no limitation which can be placed upon our ability to place ourselves in harmony with natural law which is omnipotent this influence or control over the body by the mind is coming to be more and more generally understood and many Physicians are now giving them matter their Earnest attention Dr Albert T Schofield

who has written several important books on the subject says the subject of mental Therapeutics is still ignored in medical Works generally in our physiologies no reference is made to the central controlling power that rules the body for its good and the power of the Mind Over the body is seldom spoken of no doubt many Physicians treat nervous diseases or functional origin wisely and well but what we contend is that the knowledge they display was taught at no school was learn from no book but it is intuitive and empirical this is not as it should be

the power of mental therapeutic should be the subject of careful special and scientific teaching in every medical school we might pursue the subject of maltreatment or wants of treatment further in detail and describe the disastrous results of neglected cases but the task is an indigenous one there can be no doubt that few patients are aware how much they can do for themselves what the patient can do for himself the forces he can set in motion are as yet unknown we are inclined to believe that they are far greater than most imagine and will undoubtedly be

used more and more mental Therapeutics may be directed by the patient himself to calming the mind in excitement by arousing feelings of Joy hope faith and Love by suggesting motives for exertion by regular mental work by diverting the thoughts from the malady for your exercise this week concentrate on Tennyson's beautiful lines speak to him thou for he hears and spirit with Spirit can meet closer is he than breathing and nearer than hands and feet then try to realize that when you do speak to him you're in touch with omnipotence this realization and recognition of this

omnipresent power will quickly destroy any and every form of sickness or suffering and substitute Harmony and perfection then remember there are those who seem to think that sickness and suffering are sent by God if so every physician every surgeon in every Red Cross nurse is defying the will of God and hospitals and sanatoriums or places of rebellion instead of houses of mercy of course this quickly reasons itself into an absurdity but there are many who still cherish the idea then let the thought rest on the fact that until recently theology has been trying to teach

an impossible Creator one who created beings capable of sinning and then allowing them to be eternally punished for such sins of course the necessary outcome of such extraordinary ignorance was to create fear instead of love and so after two thousand years of this kind of propaganda theology is now busily engaged in apologizing for Christendom you will then more readily appreciate the ideal man the man made in the image and likeness of God and you will more readily appreciate the all-originating mind that forms upholds sustains originates and creates all there is all are but parts of

one stupendous whole whose body nature is and God the soul Pope opportunity follows perception action follows inspiration growth follows knowledge imminence follows progress always the spiritual first then the transformation into the infinite and illimitable possibilities of achievement questionnaire part 22. how many sickness be eliminated by placing ourselves in harmony with natural law which is omnipotent what is the process a realization that man is a spiritual being and that the spirit must necessarily be perfect what is the result a conscious recognition of this Perfection first intellectually then emotionally brings about a manifestation of this perfection why

is this so because thought is spiritual and therefore creative and correlates with its object and brings it into manifestation what natural law is brought into operation the law of vibration why does this govern because a higher rate of vibration governs modifies controls changes or destroys a lower rate of vibration is this system of mental Therapeutics generally recognized yes there are over a million people in this country who make use of it in one form or another what is the result of this system of thought for the first time the world's history Every Man's highest reasoning

faculty can be satisfied by a demonstratable truth which is now fast flooding the world is the system applicable to other forms of supply it will meet every human requirement or necessity is this system scientific or religious both true science and True Religion are twin sisters where one goes the other necessarily follows letter of transmittal part 23. in the part which I have the honor to transmit here with you will find that money weaves itself into the entire fabric of our very existence that the law of success is service that we get what we give and

for this reason we should consider it a great privilege to be able to give we have found that thought is the creative activity behind every constructive Enterprise we can therefore give nothing of more practical value than our thought creative thought requires attention and the power of attention is as we have found the weapon of the Superman attention develops concentration and concentration develops spiritual power and spiritual power is the mightiest force in existence this is the science which Embraces all Sciences it is the art which above all Arts is relevant to human life in the Mastery

of this science and this art there is opportunity for unending progression perfection in this is not acquired in six days or in six weeks or in six months it is the labor of a life not to go forward is to go backward it is inevitable that the entertainment of positive constructive and unselfish thoughts should have a far-reaching effect for good compensation is the keynote of the universe nature is constantly seeking to strike in equilibrium where something is sent out something must be received else there should be a vacuum formed by observance of this rule you

cannot fail to profit in such measure as to amply justify your effort along this line part 23 the money Consciousness is an attitude of mind it is the open door to the arteries of Commerce it is the receptive attitude desire is the attractive Force which sets the current in motion and fear is the great obstacle by which the current is stopped or completely reversed turned away from us fear is just the opposite from money Consciousness it is poverty Consciousness and as the law is unchangeable we get exactly what we give if we fear we get

what we feared money weaves itself into the entire fabric of our very existence it engages the best thought of the best Minds we make money by making friends and we enlarge our Circle of Friends by making money for them by helping them by being of service to them the first law of success then is service and this in turn is built on integrity and Justice the man who at least is not fair in his intention is simply ignorant he has missed the fundamental law of all Exchange he is impossible he will lose surely and certainly

he may not know it he may think he's winning but he is doomed to certain defeat he cannot cheat the infinite the law of compensation will demand of him an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth the forces of Life are volatile they are composed of our thoughts and ideals and these in turn are molded into form our problem is to keep an open mind to constantly reach out for the new to recognize opportunity to be interested in the race rather than the goal for the pleasure is in the pursuit rather than

The Possession you can make a money magnet of yourself but to do so you must first consider how you can make money for other people if you have the necessary insight to perceive and utilize opportunities and propitious conditions and recognize values you can put yourself in position to take advantage of them but your greatest success will come as you are enabled to assist others what benefits one must benefit all a generous thought is filled with strength and vitality a selfish thought contains the germs of disillusion it will disintegrate and pass away great financiers like Morgan

and others are simply channels for the distribution of wealth enormous amounts come and go but it would be as dangerous to stop the outgo as the income both ends must remain open and so our greatest success will come as we recognize that it is just as essential to give as to get if we recognize the omnipotent power that is the source of all Supply we will adjust our Consciousness to the supply in such a way that it will constantly attract all that is necessary to itself and we shall find that the more we give the

more we get giving in this sense implies service the banker gives us money the merchant gives his Goods the author gives his thought the Workman gives his skill all have something to give but the more they can give the more they can get and the more they get the more they are enabled to give the financier gets much because he gives much he thinks he has seldom a man that lets anyone else do his thinking for him he wants to know how results are to be secured you must show him when you can do this

he will furnish the means by which hundreds or thousands May profit and in proportion as they are successful will he be successful Morgan Rockefeller Carnegie and others did not get rich because they lost money for other people on the contrary it is because they made money for other people that they became the wealthiest men in the wealthiest country on the globe the average person is entirely innocent of any deep thinking he accepts the ideas of others and repeats them in very much the same way as a parrot this is readily seen when we understand the

method which is used to form public opinion and this docile attitude on the part of a large majority who seemed perfectly willing to let a few persons do all their thinking for them is what enables a few men in a great many countries to assert all avenues of power hold the millions in subjection creative thinking requires attention the power of attention is called concentration this power is directed by the will for this reason we must refuse to concentrate or think of anything except the things we desire many are constantly concentrating upon sorrow loss and Discord

of every kind as thought as creative it necessarily follows that this concentration inevitably leads to more loss more sorrow and more Discord how could it be otherwise on the other hand when we meet with success gain or any other desirable condition we naturally concentrate upon the effects of these things and thereby create more and so it follows that much leads to more how an understanding of this principle can be utilized in the business world is well told by Mr Atkinson an advanced thought he says Spirit whatever else it may or may not be must be

considered as the essence of consciousness the substance of mind the reality underlying thought and as all ideas are phases of the activity of Consciousness mind or thought it follows that in spirit and in it alone is to be found the ultimate fact the real thing or idea this being admitted does it not seem reasonable to hold that a true understanding of spirit and its laws of manifestation would be about the most practical thing that a practical person can hope to find does it not seem certain that if the Practical men of the world could but

realize this fact that they would fall all over themselves and getting to the place in which they might obtain such knowledge of spiritual things and laws these men are not fools they need only to grasp this fundamental fact in order to move in the direction of that which is the essence of all achievement let me give you a concrete example I know a man here in Chicago whom I had always considered to be quite materialistic he had made several successes in life and also several failures the last time I had a talk with him he

was practically down and out as compared with his former business condition it looked as if he had indeed reached the end of his rope for he was well Advanced into the stage of middle age and new ideas came more slowly and less frequently to him than in former years he said to me in substance I know that all things that work out in business are the result of thought any fool knows that just now I seem to be short on thoughts and good ideas but if this all mine teaching is correct there should be possible

to the individual the attainment of direct connection with infinite mind and an infinite mind there must be the possibility of all kinds of good ideas which a man of my courage and experience could put to practical use in the business world and make a big success thereof it looks good to me and I'm gonna look into it this was about two years ago the other day I heard of this man again talking to a friend I said what has come of our old friend X has he ever gotten on his feet again the friend looked

at me in amazement why said he don't you know about X's great success he is the big man in the blank company naming a concern which has made a phenomenal success during the last 18 months and is now well known by reason of its advertisements from one end of the country to another and also abroad he is the man who supplied the big idea for that concern why he is about a half a million to the good and is moving rapidly toward the million mark all in the space of 18 months I had not connected

this man with the Enterprise mentioned although I knew of the wonderful success of the company in question investigation has shown that the story is true and that the above stated facts are not exaggerated in the slightest now what do you think of that to me it means that this man actually made the direct connection with infinite mind spirit and having found it he set it to work for him he used it in his business does this sound sacrilegious or blasphemous I hope not I do not mean it to be so take away the implication of

Personality more magnified human nature from the conception of the infinite and you have left the conception of an infinite Presence Power the quintessence of which is consciousness in fact at the last spirit as this man also at the last must be considered as a manifestation of spirit there's nothing sacrilegious in the idea that he being spirit should so harmonize himself with his origin and source that he would be able to manifest at least a minor degree of its power all of us do this more or less when we use our minds in the direction of

creative thought this man did more he went about it in an intensely practical manner I have not consulted him about his method of procedure though I intend doing so at the first opportunity but he not only Drew upon the infinite supply for the ideas which he needed and which formed the seat of his success but that he also used the creative power of thought in building up for himself an idealistic pattern of that which he hoped to manifest in material form adding thereto changing improving its detail from time to time proceeding from General outline to

the finished detail I judge this to be the facts of the case not alone from my recollection of the conversation two years ago but also because I found the same thing to be true in the cases of other prominent men who have made similar manifestation of creative thought those who may shrink from this idea of employing the infinite power to Aid one and his work in the material world should remember that if the infinite objected in the least to such a procedure the thing could never happen the infinite is quite able to take care of

itself spirituality is quite practical very practical intensely practical it teaches that spirit is the real thing the whole thing and that matter is but plastic stuff which spirit is able to create mold manipulate and fashion to its will spirituality is the most practical thing in the world the only really and absolutely practical thing that there is this week concentrate on the fact that man is not a body with a spirit but a spirit with a body and that it is for this reason that his desires are incapable of any permanent satisfaction in anything not spiritual

money is therefore of no value except to bring about the conditions which we desire and these conditions are necessarily harmonious harmonious conditions necessitate sufficient Supply so that if there appears to be any lack we should realize that the idea or soul of money is service and as this thought takes form channels of Supply will be opened and you will have the satisfaction of knowing that spiritual methods are entirely practical we have discovered that premeditated orderly thinking for a purpose matures that purpose into fixed form so that we may be absolutely sure of the result of

our Dynamic experiment Francis Larimore Warner questionnaire part 23. what is the first law of success service how may we be of the most service by having an open mind by being interested in the race rather than the goal and the pursuit rather than possession what is the result of a selfish thought it contains the germs of disillusion how will our greatest success be achieved by a recognition of the fact that it is just as essential to give as to receive why do financiers frequently meet with great success because they do their own thinking Why did

the Great majority in every country Remain the docile and apparently willing tools of the few because they let the few do all the thinking for them what is the effect of concentrating upon sorrow and loss more sorrow and more loss what is the effect of concentrating upon gain more gain is this principle used in the business world it is the only principle which is ever used or ever can be used there is no other principle the fact that it may be used unconsciously does not alter or change the situation what is the practical application of

this principle the fact that success is an effect not a cause and if we wish to secure the effect we must ascertain the cause or idea or thought by which the effect is created nurture your mind with great thoughts to believe in the heroic makes Heroes Disraeli letter of transmittal part 24. enclosed herewith you will find part 24. this is the final lesson if you have practiced each of the exercises a few minutes every day as suggested you will have found that you can get out of life exactly what you wish by first putting into

life that which you wish and you will probably agree with the student who said the thought is almost overwhelming so vast so available so definite so reasonable and so usable the fruit of this knowledge is as it were a gift of the Gods it is the truth that makes men free not only free from every lack and limitation but free from sorrow worry and care and is it not wonderful to realize that this law is no respect or persons that it makes no difference what your habit of thought may be the way has been prepared

if you are inclined to be religious the greatest religious teacher the world has ever known made the way so plain that all may follow if your mental bias is toward physical science the law will operate with mathematical certainty if you are inclined to be philosophical Plato or Emerson may be your teacher but in either case you may reach degrees of power to which it is impossible to assign any limit an understanding of this principle I believe is the secret for which the ancient Alchemist vainly sought because it explains how gold in the mind may be

transmuted into gold in the heart and in the hand part 24. when the scientists first put the sun in the center of the solar system and sent the Earth spinning around it there was a mint surprise in consternation the whole idea was self-evidently false nothing was more certain than the movement of the sun across the sky and anyone could see it descend behind the Western Hills and sink into the sea Scholars raged and scientists rejected the ideas absurd yet the evidence has finally carried conviction in the minds of all we speak of a bill as

a sounding body yet we know that all the Bell can do is produce vibrations in the air when these vibrations come at the rate of 16 a second they cause a sound to be heard in the mind it is possible for the mind to hear vibrations at the rate of 38 000 the second when the number increases Beyond this all is silence again so that we know that the sound is not in the Bell it is in our own mind we speak and even think of the Sun as giving light yet we know it is

simply giving forth energy which produces vibrations in The Ether at the rate of 400 trillion a second causing what are termed light waves so that we know that what we call light is simply a form of energy and that the only light there is is the sensation caused in the Mind by the motion of the Waves when the number increases the light changes in color each change in color being caused by shorter and more rapid vibrations so that although we speak of the Rose as being read the grass is being green or the sky is

being blue we know that the colors exist only in our minds and are the sensations experienced by us as the result of the vibrations of light waves when the vibrations are reduced below 400 trillion a second they no longer affect us as light but we experience the sensation of heat it is evident therefore that we cannot depend upon the evidence of the senses for our information concerning the realities of things if we did we should believe that the Sun moved that the world was flat instead of round the stars were bits of light instead of

vast Suns the whole range then of the theory and practice of any system of metaphysics consists in knowing the truth concerning yourself in the world in which you live in knowing that in order to express Harmony you must think Harmony in order to express Health you must think health and in order to express abundance you must think abundance to do this you must reverse the evidence of the senses when you come to know that every form of disease sickness lack and limitation are simply the result of wrong thinking you have come to know the truth

which shall make you free you will see how mountains may be removed if these mountains consist only of Doubt fear distrust or other forms of discouragement they are nonetheless real and they need not only to be removed but to be cast into the sea your real work consists in convincing yourself of the truth of these statements when you have succeeded in doing this you will have no difficulty in thinking the truth and as has been shown the truth contains a vital principle and will manifest itself those who heal diseases by mental methods have come to

know this truth they demonstrated in their lives and the lives of others daily they know that life health and abundance are omnipresent filling all space and they know that those who allow disease or lack of any kind to manifest have as yet not come into an understanding of this great law as all conditions are thought creations and therefore entirely mental disease and lack are simply mental conditions in which the person fails to perceive the truth as soon as the error is removed the condition is removed the method for removing this error is to go into

the silence and know the truth as all mind is one mind you can do this for yourself or anyone else if you have learned to form mental images of the conditions desired this will be the easiest and quickest way to secure results if not results can be accomplished by argument by the process of convincing yourself absolutely of the truth of your statement remember when this is one of the most difficult as well as most wonderful statements to grasp remember that no matter what the difficulty is no matter where it is no matter who is affected

you have no patient but yourself you have nothing to do but to convince yourself of the truth which you desire to see manifested this is an exact scientific statement in accordance with every system of metaphysics and existence and no permanent results are ever secured in any other way every form of concentration forming mental images argument and auto suggestion are all simply methods by which you are unable to realize the truth if you desire to help someone to destroy some form of lack limitation or error the correct method is not to think of the person whom

you wish to help the intention to help them is entirely sufficient as this puts you in mental touch with the person then drive outs of your own mind any belief of lack limitation disease danger difficulty or whatever the trouble might be as soon as you have succeeded in doing this the result will have been accomplished the person will be free but remember that thought is creative and consequently every time you allow your thought to rest on any inharmonious condition you must realize that such conditions are apparent only they have no reality that spirit is the

only reality and it can never be less than perfect our thought is a form of energy a rate of vibration but a thought of the truth is the highest rate of vibration known and consequently destroys every form of error in exactly the same way that light destroys darkness no form of error can exist when the truth appears so that your entire mental work consists in coming into an understanding of the truth this will enable you to overcome every form of lack limitation or disease of any kind we can get no understanding of the truth from

the world without the world without is relative only truth is absolute we must therefore find it in the world within to train the mind to see truth only is to express true conditions only our ability to do this will be an indication as to the progress we are making the absolute truth is that the I is perfect and complete the real I is spiritual and can therefore never be less than perfect it can never have any lack limitation or disease The Flash of Genius does not have origin in the molecular motion of the brain it

is inspired by the ego the spiritual eye which is one with the universal mind and it is our ability to recognize this Unity which is the cause of all your inspiration all genius these results are far-reaching and have effect upon Generations yet to come they are the pillars of fire which Mark the path that Millions follow truth is not the result of logical training or of experimentation or even of observation it is the product of a developed consciousness truth within a Caesar manifests in a Caesar's deportment in his life and his action his influence upon

social forms and progress your life and your actions and your influence in the world will depend upon the degree of Truth which you are unable to perceive for truth will not manifest in creeds but in conduct truth manifests in character and the character of a man should be the interpretation of his religion or what to him is truth and this will in turn be evidenced in the character of his possessions if a man complains of the drift of his fortune he is just as unjust to himself as if he should deny rational truth though it

stand patient and irrefutable our environment and the innumerable circumstances and accidents of Our Lives already exist in the subconscious personality which attracts to itself the mental and physical material which is congenial to its nature thus our future being determined from our present and if there should be apparent Injustice in any feature or phase of our personal life we must look within for the cause try to discover the mental fact which is responsible for the outward manifestation it is this truth which makes you free and it is the conscious knowledge of this truth which will enable

you to overcome every difficulty the conditions with which you meet in the world without are invariably the result of the conditions obtaining in the world within therefore it follows with scientific accuracy that by holding the perfect ideal in mind you can bring about ideal conditions in your environment if you see only the incomplete the imperfect the relative The Limited these conditions will manifest in your life but if you train your mind to see and realize the spiritual ego the I which is forever perfect and complete harmonious wholesome and healthful conditions only will be manifested as

thought is creative and the truth is the highest and most perfect thought which anyone can think it is self-evident that to think the truth is to create that which is true and it is again evident that when truth comes into being that which is false must cease to be the universal mind is the totality of all mine which is in existence spirit is mind because spirit is intelligent the words are therefore synonymous the difficulty with which you have to contend is to realize that mind is not individual it is omnipresent it exists everywhere in other

words there is no place where it is not it is therefore Universal men have heretoford generally use the word God to indicate this Universal creative principle but the word God does not convey the right meaning most people understand this word to mean something outside of themselves well exactly the contrary is the fact it is our very life without it we would be dead we would cease to exist the minute the spirit leaves the body we are as nothing therefore spirit is really all there is of us now the only activity which the spirit possesses is

the power to think therefore thought must be creative because spirit is creative this creative power is impersonal and your ability to think is your ability to control it and make use of it for the benefit of yourself and others when the truth of this statement is realized understood and appreciated you will have come into possession of the master key but remember that only those who are wise enough to understand broad enough to weigh the evidence firm enough to follow their own judgment and strong enough to make the sacrifice exacted may enter and partake this week

try to realize that this is truly a Wonderful World in which we live that you are a wonderful being that many are Awakening to a knowledge of the truth and as fast as they awake and come into a knowledge of the things which have been prepared for them they too realize that I hath Not Seen Nor Ear heard neither hath it entered into the heart of man the splendors which exist for those who find themselves in the promised land they have crossed the river of judgment and have arrived at the point of discrimination between the

true and the false and have found that all they ever willed or dreamed was but a faint concept of the dazzling reality though an inheritance of Acres may be bequeathed an inheritance of knowledge and wisdom cannot the wealthy man May pay others for doing his work for him but it is impossible to get his thinking done for him by another or to purchase any kind of self-culture s smiles questionnaire part 24. upon what principle does the theory and practice of every system of metaphysics in existence depend upon a knowledge of the truth concerning yourself and

the world in which you live what is the truth concerning yourself the real I or ego is spiritual and can therefore never be less than perfect what is the method of destroying any form of error to absolutely convince yourself of the truth concerning the condition which you wish to see manifested can we do this for others the universal mind in which we live and move and have our being is one and indivisible it is therefore just as possible to help others as to help yourself what is the universal mind the totality of all mind in

existence where is the universal mind the universal mind is omnipresent it exists everywhere there is no place where it is not it is therefore within us it is the world within it is our spirit our life what is the nature of the universal mind it is spiritual and consequently creative it seeks to express itself in form how may we act on the Universal Mind our ability to think is our ability to act on the universal mind and bring it into manifestation for the benefit of ourselves or others what is meant by thinking clear decisive calm

deliberate sustained thought with a definite end in view what will be the result you will also be able to say it is not that I do with the works but the father that dwelleth within me he doeth the works you will come to know that the father is the universal mind and that he does really and truly dwell within you in other words you will come to know that the wonderful promises made in the Bible are fact not fiction and can be demonstrated by anyone having sufficient understanding temples have their sacred images and we see

what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind but in truth the ideas and images in men's minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them and to these they all pay universally a ready submission Jonathan Edwards additional questions and answers in referring to the subconscious and conscious minds or the objective and subjective which is the technically correct expression we have two minds which although related are distinct or we have one mind with two distinct functions the correct expression is we have one mind with two distinct functions there are not two minds

are the devil in religion the negative in science and the bad and philosophy merely imaginary manifestations of thought energy or shall we class them as wrong yet real manifestations in all that we have and are all of our powers come from one Eternal source to what must we attribute these imaginary entities these are not imaginary entities they are simply perversions if you use electricity for light you call it good if you grasp a wire which has not been properly insulated and it kills you it is not for that reason bad or evil you are simply

careless or ignorant of the laws governing electricity for the same reason the one infinite power which is the source of all power manifests in your life either as good or as evil as you make use of it constructively or destructively it's not the master key idea of God pantheistic this depends entirely upon your idea of pantheism pantheism is a loose term and may be interpreted in various ways for instance pantheism conceives the universe to be one Eternal involuntary evolution of an infinite being as contrasted with atheism which is a positive denial of the Divine imminence

and agnosticism as a dogmatic doubt of the existence of God is this right truth is absolute but conception of Truth varies with the individual Consciousness therefore no one can say when the ultimate truth has been reached because no one can say when the individual Consciousness has been developed to the point where further development is impossible yes truth is absolute but the conception of Truth varies with the individual Consciousness on the other hand truth is not a matter of belief it is a matter of demonstration it is not a question of authority but a question of

perception since the real I is spiritual and therefore Perfect Since it controls and directs both the body and mind how is it that we see such imperfect results we see no imperfect results we see nothing but perfection Perfection means that the law operates with immutable precision spiritual law always operates perfectly if the individual thinks constructively results are constructive harmonious if he thinks destructively he reaps exactly what he sows the law works perfectly we see no imperfect results whatever we may freely choose what we think but the result of our thought is governed by an immutable

law what is life is that quality or principle of the universal energy which manifests in so-called organic objects is growth and voluntary activity and which is usually coexistent in some degree with some manifestation of that same Universal energy as the quality or principle termed intelligence you must understand that there is only one supreme principle evading all comprehension of its essential nature it is the absolute man can think only in terms of the relative therefore he sometimes defines it as the universal intelligence the universal substance as ether life mind Spirit energy truth love Etc his particular

definition at any moment is governed by the particular relationship of the phenomena of being in which he thinks of this principle at that moment how is the law governing success or Prosperity placed in operation the human brain is the finest and most vibrant mechanism in existence every time you think you send a message into the formless energy from which and by which all things are created this starts a train of causation which relates with the things that correspond with the image of your thought if your thought is sufficiently refined and concentrated you will be placed

in harmony with the object of your thought quickly if not more time will be required most persons are busily engaged in concentrating upon lack limitation loss and in harmony of every kind and they are therefore attracting these conditions a few are busily engaged in concentrating upon success prosperity and harmonious conditions generally and find that their environment reflects the quality of their thought how is prayer answered the universal mind the omnipotent power the Supreme Being does not change the modus operandi of the universe in order to comply with our requests nor does it make exception but

it does ACT through well-known laws and these laws can be placed into operation consciously or unconsciously by accident or design it is the operation of this marvelous Law of Attraction which has caused men in all ages and in all times to believe that there must be a personal being who responded to their petitions and manipulated events in order to meet their demands you correctly state that possession depends on use how can this fact be best explained to show that this is the only way in which to acquire a reservoir of power possession Etc to draw

on in time of emergency Etc by illustration a man desires to strengthen his arm he wishes it to become powerful he does not conserve what strength he has in the arm by biting it to his side if he did this he would soon lose with strength he already had on the contrary he begins to use it he begins to exercise it and he finds that the more he uses it the more strength is secured the more he gives of his strength the more he gets the same rule applies in regard to mental and spiritual strength

unless we are willing to think we shall have to work and the less we think the more we shall work and the less we shall get for our work is it possible to conceive of a world in which there are no viewers of wood thought has taken much drudgery out of work but much so-called scientific management and efficiency in Engineering Systems look upon millions of human beings as mere machines capable of making so many motions less or more per hour to labor is to serve and all service is Honorable but a humor of wood contemplates

blind service instead of intelligence service labor is the creative Instinct and manifestation owing to the changes which have taken place in the industrial world the creative instinct no longer finds expression a man cannot build his own house he cannot even make his own garden he can by no means direct his own labor he is therefore deprived of the greatest joy which can come to man The Joy of achieving of creating of accomplishing and so this great power is perverted and turned into destructive channels he can construct nothing for himself so he begins to destroy the

works of his more fortunate fellows labor is however finding that the universe is not a chaos but a cosmos that it is governed by immutable laws that every condition is the result of a cause and that the same cause invariably produces the same effect it is finding that these causes are mental that thought predetermines action it is finding that constructive thought brings about constructive conditions and destructive thought brings about destructive conditions you say that life is an unfoldment not accretion what comes to us in the world without is what we already possess in the world

within do you not take into consideration knowledge a person acquires from books experience Etc you can derive absolutely no benefit from books experiences environment or anything else until you have created brain cells capable of receiving the thought your world within is an exact correspondence of your world without suppose for the moment that you are unfamiliar with the Hebrew language a book might be given to you in the most beautiful thoughts written in the most wonderful language but it would mean nothing to you until you had made yourself acquainted with the Hebrew language and so with

everything else no thought no idea no experience has any value for us until we are capable of receiving it for this reason the same thought would make absolutely no impression upon one man while it would be received with amazement and Delight by another the first man has formed no brain cells capable of receiving it second man is ready for it he understands the Beauties contained in the idea is it correct to say that true religion and true science are twins and that the death of one means the death of the other why true science and

True Religion are certainly twins there can be no death for either because what is true cannot die the essential characteristic of Truth is steadfast Fidelity to order and law the mind takes offense at every phenomena of both inner and outer experience which appears to contract that steadiness and consistency which it regards as the very essence of Truth you will see that this applies to both science and religion what is true in science must be true in religion there cannot be a scientific truth and a religious truth all truth is one and indivisible how do materialism

and spiritualism find Harmony in the Master Key System the Master Key System teaches that there is but one principle one power that everything which exists is a materialization of this one power the power itself is spiritual but the manifestation of the power is material one is subjective and the other is objective two phases of one being we find this everywhere in nature man is a spiritual being but he also has a material body Spirit must manifest upon the objective plane in an objective manner spiritualism in this sense has nothing whatever to do with what is

usually considered spiritualistic phenomena what explanation is to be given of the fact that although a great majority of the people not only in the United States but throughout Europe are sick of war and when only peace and a return to prosperous normal conditions that the return of the desired normal prosperous conditions is such a slow hard process there is of course as you say no desire on the part of anyone from more war just as there is no desire for poverty crime or for any other destructive condition but there is on the other hand a

conscious and subconscious desire for the things which bring about war destruction poverty and crime and this lust of power or separation is the old question of who is to be the greatest in the Kingdom the law is not a respecter of persons this is true concerning Nations as well as individuals Nations as well as individuals will eventually learn that force can always be met with equal if not Superior force and for this reason can never be the determining factor of any situation objective Harmony can only come as a result of subjective Harmony and subjective Harmony

can only come as a result of vision understanding and perception in the Acme of achievement aimed at by the Master Key System how is it possible to ignore theology a few centuries ago it was thought that we must choose between the Bible and Galileo 50 years ago it was thought that we must choose between the Bible and Darwin but as Dean WR inch of Saint Paul's Cathedral London says every educated man knows that the main facts of organic evolution are firmly established and that they are quite different from the Legends Borrowed by the ancient Hebrews

from the Babylonians we are not required to do violence to our Reason by rejecting the assured results of modern research traditional Christianity must be simplified and spiritualized it is at present encumbered by bad science and caricatured by bad economics and the more convinced we are of this the less disposed we shall be to stake the existence of our faith on superstitions which are the religion of the irreligious and the science of the unscientific what is the meaning of the statement only five percent have the vision to Annex the Strategic position to see and feel a

thing before it happens 95 of the people are busy attempting to change effects something happens which they do not like and they try to change the situation they soon find that they are simply changing one form of distress for another the other five percent are busily engaged with causes they know that in order to make any permanent change it is the cause which they must seek they soon find that the cause is within their control it is the five percent that do the thinking and the 95 percent which merely accept the thought of others it

is those only who think who can see and feel a thing before it happens what more explicitly is to be understood by the term polarity as applied to the mental process polarity is the tendency or inclination of a thought or feeling in a particular direction when we think along certain lines continuously the thought becomes polarized we can see other and different points of view with difficulty or not at all what is truth truth is the imperative condition of all well-being to be sure to know the truth and to stand confidently on it is a satisfaction

beside which no other is comparable truth is the underlying Verity the condition precedent in every business or social relation truth is the only Solid Ground in a world of conflict and doubt and danger Every Act not in harmony with truth whether through ignorance or design cuts the ground from under our feet leads to Discord inevitable loss and confusion for while the homeless mind can accurately foretell the result of every correct action the greatest most profound and penetrating mind loses its way hopelessly and can form no conception of the results due to a departure from correct

principles how are germs created creation consists in the art of combining forces which have an affinity for each other and the proper proportion thus oxygen and hydrogen combined in the proper proportions produce water oxygen and hydrogen are both invisible gases but water is visible germs however have life they must therefore be the product of something which has life or intelligence spirit is the only creative principle in the universe and thought is the only activity which Spirit possesses therefore germs must be the result of a mental process a thought Goes Forth from The Thinker it meets

other thoughts for which it has an affinity they coalesce and form a nucleus for other similar thoughts this nucleus sends out calls into the formless energy wherein all thoughts and all things are held in solution and soon the thought is clothed in a form of accordance with the character given to it by The Thinker a million men in the agony of death and torture on the battlefield send out thoughts of hatred and distress soon another million men die from the effect of a germ called influenza none but the experienced metaphysician knows when and how the

deadly germ came into existence as there are an infinite variety of thoughts so there are an infinite variety of germs constructive as well as destructive but neither the constructive nor the destructive germ will germinate and flourish until it finds congenial soil in which to take root what has given rise to the idea of reincarnation The Germ Plasma in each generation always contains the sum of all that has passed before it the nucleus of every cell contains the chromosome and these reproduce the species nature and condition according to definite law each chromosome microscopically small as it

is contains the elements of every other cell that forms the many kinds of cells in a matured body plus characteristics of species plus characteristics of form and appearance plus family resemblance plus nature plus mind plus matured Tendencies plus everything that makes personality and individuality we are then physically exactly what our forefathers were plus environment and education it is this persistency of the identity of the individual chromosome from generation to generation which has given rise to the idea of reincarnation what is black magic the idea that there is a phenomenon called Blackmagic is attributable to credulity

Superstition and a lack of understanding of the laws governing in the mental world all thoughts and all things are held in solution in the Universal Mind the individual may open his mental Gates and thereby become receptive to thoughts of any kind or description if he thinks that there are magicians witches or Wizards who are desirous of injuring him he is thereby opening the door for the entrance of such thoughts and he will be able to say with job the things I feared have come upon me if on the contrary he thinks that there are those

who are desirous of helping him he thereby opens the door for such help and he will find that as thy faith is so be it unto thee is as true today as it was two thousand years ago I do not seem to grasp fully the application of the law of vibration to the thought world how for instance are we to change the rate of vibration here in what direction shall it be changed to produce best results every thought changes the rate of vibration as you are unable to think greater deeper higher and more forceful thoughts

the brain cells are refined they become more powerful and they are unable to receive finer vibrations this is not only true in the mental and spiritual world but in the physical world as the ear becomes trained in music it is enabled to receive finer vibrations until the trained musician can hear harmonies of sound of which the ordinary person is entirely unaware amid the seeming chaos of present-day conditions it is not easy to discern the coming of that dawn of which all the great ones of Earth have foretold the second coming or the millennium one of

the characteristic signs of a general Awakening is the optimism shining through the midst of doubt and unrest this optimism is taking the form of Illumination as the illumination becomes General fear anger doubt selfishness and greed pass away we are not looking for the Christ child but the Christ Consciousness we are anticipating a more General realization of the truth which is to make men free that there may be one man or one woman who shall first realize this truth in the new era is barely possible but the preponderance of evidence is for a more General Awakening

to the light of Illumination you speak about the originating mind that forms upholds sustains and creates all there is does this explain the source from which comes man's ability to think lack to think war and crime Etc yes this includes man's ability to think lack war and crime if he can think constructive thought he can also think destructive thought but as soon as man learns that thinking is a creative process that we are creators not creatures he will discontinue the process of thinking Destruction for himself and his fellows you are without doubt correct in stating

that Carlisle's attitude of hatred of the bad was not conducive toward his own best development on the other hand what should be the attitude toward the giant evils of the day such as War graft murder Vice theft and the like is it not often true that a tearing down a clearing away of the brush piles so to speak must precede constructive work no it is not true the tearing down process is not at all necessary we do not need to laboriously shovel the darkness out of a room before letting in the light on the contrary

all that is necessary is to turn on the light and the Darkness vanishes likewise if but one-tenth of one percent of the money and effort was spent in constructive work that is now being spent in destructive work the giant evils of the day to which you refer would disappear as if by Magic the unit of the nation is the individual the government represents only the average intelligence of the units compromising that Nation therefore our work is with the unit when the thought of the individual has been changed the collective thought will take care of itself

but we try to reverse the process we try to change governments instead of individuals which cannot be done but with a little intelligent organized effort the present destructive thought could be readily changed into constructive thought this recording is a production of the master key Society copyright 2021 master key Society