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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
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