Part Twenty-One
It is my privilege to enclose Part Twenty-One. 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 Master Mind
is to think big thoughts.
In paragraph 8 you will 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 credulity 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 TWENTY-ONE
1. 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!
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. The result of this discovery is nothing less than marvelous,
and means that mind is extraordinary in quality, limitless in
quantity, and contains possibilities without number. To become
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.
5. 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.
6. Large ideas have a tendency to eliminate all smaller ideas so
that it 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 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.
7. This is one of the secrets of success, one of the methods of
organizing victory, one of the accomplishments of the Master-Mind.
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.
8. When we realize these facts concerning mind we understand how
we may bring 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 wave into the life and environment of the
individual.
9. 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.
10. From this science we learn 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.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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 is 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
persons, things and conditions, or, the experiences with which we
meet in life.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. 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 beings to grow, the result is
practically assured.
17. 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.
18. An illustration of how these mind forces operate is suggested
by the method in which all our habits are formed. We do a thing,
then 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 stop 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.
19. There is no limit to what this law can do for you; dare to
believe in your own idea; remember that Nature is plastic to the
ideal; think of the ideal as an already accomplished fact.
20. 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 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.
21. 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; on 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.
22. 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.
23. That we are in a period of transition is evidenced by the
unrest which is everywhere apparent. The complaint of humanity is as
a roll of heaven's artillery, commencing with low and threatening
notes and increasing until the sound is sent from cloud to cloud,
and the lightning splits the air and earth.
24. The sentries 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 and 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.
25. 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.
26. 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 by 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
law-makers; herein is the gist of the social crime of every form of
privilege and personal inequality, the institutionalizing of the
fatalistic doctrine of Divine election.
27. The Divine Mind is the Universal Mind; it 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 to 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.
28. 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 to chance.
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