Part Seven
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 re-created. 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.
PART SEVEN
1. Visualization is the process of making mental images, and the
image is the mold or model which will serve as a pattern from which
your future will emerge.
2. 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 any one but yourself; you are not limited as to cost or
material; draw on the Infinite for your supply, construct it in your
imagination; it will have to be there before it will ever appear
anywhere else.
3. Make the image clear and clean-cut, hold it firmly in the mind
and you will gradually and constantly bring the thing nearer to you.
You can be what "you will to be."
4. 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.
5. 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-storey building, has every line and detail pictured in
advance. The engineer, when he spans a chasm, first ascertains the
strength requirements of a million separate parts.
6. They see the end before a single step is taken; so you are 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.
7. 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.
8. We all recognize 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 is no difference in kind or quality, the only
difference is one of degree.
9. 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.
10. 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 did 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 held it there as a mental picture,
to be reconstructed and improved by his thought. "In this way," he
writes in the Electrical Experimenter. "I am enabled 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 devise works as I
conceived it should; in twenty years there has not been a single
exception."
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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 broadcloth
from shoddy.
14. 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.
15. Think of it! You have over five 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 called into 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.
16. 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.
17. 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 require 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.
18. 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 and
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.
19. Is it not wonderful that man has such tremendous power within
himself, such transcendental faculties concerning which he had 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.
20. There are many who have come to an understanding of this
wonderful power, and who make serious and conscientious efforts to
realize health, power and other conditions, and 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 and can come only when the cause is found.
21. Those who will give no attention to the world without will
seek only to ascertain the truth, will look only for wisdom, will
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 in noble purpose and courageous action.
22. 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 within. You
will come into a realization of your power to create ideals and
these ideals will be projected into the world of effect.
23. For instance, a man is in debt. He will be continually
thinking about the debt, concentrating on it, and as 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."
24. 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.
25. If the law operates perfectly to bring about poverty, lack
and 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.
26. 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
fifteen minutes goes and stirs up the earth to see if it is 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.
27. We must plant the seed and leave it undisturbed. This does
not mean that we are to sit down and do nothing, by no means; we
will do more and better work then 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.
28. Thought force is the most powerful means of obtaining
knowledge, and if 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.
29. Remember that thought is the fire that creates the steam that
turns the wheel of fortune, upon which your experiences depend.
30. Ask yourself a few questions and then reverently await the
response; do you not now and then feel the self with you? Do 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.
31. For your exercise this week, visualize your friend, see him
exactly as you last saw him, see the room, the furniture, recall the
conversation, now see his 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 the spirit of fun or excitement. Can you do all of this? If so,
your imagination is good, you are making excellent progress.
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