Secret of the Ages Robert Collier Original Text

The Secret of the Ages Robert Collier
1926
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Contents
Volume One !oreword " The #orld$s %reatest &isco'ery "" The %enie(of()our(*ind "ndex Volume Two """ The +rimal Cause ", &esire-The !irst .aw of %ain Volume Three , /laddin 0 Company ," See )ourself &oing "t ,"" 1/s / *an Thin2eth3 ,""" The .aw of Supply Volume Four "4 The !ormula of Success 4 1This !reedom3 4" The .aw of /ttraction 4"" The Three Re5uisites 4""" That 6ld #itch-7ad .uc2 Volume Five 4", )our 8eeds /re *et 4, The *aster of )our !ate 4," Unappropriated *illions 4,"" The Secret of +ower 4,""" This 6ne Thing " &o Volume Six 4"4 The *aster *ind 44 #hat &o )ou .ac29 44" The Sculptor and the Clay 44"" #hy %row 6ld9

Volume Seven 44""" The *edicine &elusion 44", The %ift of the *agi "ndex of Scriptural References and :uotations

.;<n'oi 1/ fire(mist and a planet= / crystal and a cell= / >ellyfish and a saurian= / ca'e where the ca'e men dwell? Then a sense of law and order= / face upturned from the clod? Some call it <'olution= /nd others call it %od 3 -Reprinted from The 8ew <ngland @ournal

Foreword "f you had more money than time= more millions than you 2new how to spend= what would be your pet philanthropy9 .ibraries9 Aospitals9 Churches9 Aomes for the 7lind= Crippled or /ged9 *ine would be 1Aomes3-but not for the aged or infirm For young married couples! " ha'e often thought that= if e'er " got into the 1+hilanthropic 7illionaire3 class= ";d li2e to start an <ndowment !und for helping young married couples o'er the rough spots in those first and second years of married life-especially the second year= when the real troubles come Ta2e a boy and a girl and a coBy little nest-add a cunning= healthy baby-and there;s nothing happier on %od;s green footstool 7ut instead of a healthy babe= fill in a fretful= sic2ly baby-a wan= tired= worn(out little mother-a worried= de>ected= heartsic2 father-and= there;s nothing more pitiful / nurse for a month= a few wee2s at the shore or mountains= a 1lift3 on that hea'y doctor;s bill-(any one of these things would spell A(<(/(,(<(8 to that tiny family 7ut do they get it9 8ot oftenC /nd the reason9 7ecause they are not poor enough for charity They are not rich enough to afford it themsel'es They belong to that great 1*iddle Class3 which has to bear the burdens of both the poor and the rich- and ta2e what is left for itself "t is to them that " should li2e to dedicate this boo2 "f " cannot endow libraries or colleges for them= perhaps " can point the way to get all good gifts for them !or men and women li2e them do not need 1charity3 - or e'en sympathy #hat they do need is inspiration-and opportunity-the 2ind of inspiration that ma2es a man go out and create his own opportunity /nd that= after all= is the greatest good one can do anyone !ew people appreciate free gifts They are li2e the man whom admiring townsfol2 presented with a watch Ae loo2ed it o'er critically for a minute Then-3#here;s the chain93 he as2ed 7ut a way to win for themsel'es the full measure of success they;'e dreamed of but almost stopped hoping for-that is something e'ery young couple would welcome with open arms /nd it is something that= if " can do it >ustice= will ma2e the 1<ternal Triangle3 as rare as it is today common= for it will enable husband and wife to wor2 together-not merely for domestic happiness= but for business success as well ROBERT COLLIER.

VOLUME ONE I The World’s Grea es !is"over# 1)ou can do as much as you thin2 you can= 7ut you;ll ne'er accomplish more? "f you;re afraid of yourself= young man= There;s little for you in store !or failure comes from the inside first= "t;s there if we only 2new it= /nd you can win= though you face the worst= "f you feel that you;re going to do it 3 -<&%/R / %U<ST D #hat= in your opinion= is the most significant disco'ery of this modern age9 The finding of dinosaur eggs on the plains of *ongolia= laid-so scientists assert-some 1E=EEE=EEE years ago9 The unearthing of the Tomb of Tutan2h(/men= with its matchless specimens of a bygone ci'iliBation9 The radioacti'e time cloc2 by which +rofessor .ane of Tufts College estimates the age of the earth at 1=2FE=EEE=EEE years9 #ireless9 The /eroplane9 *an(made thunderbolts9 8o-not any of these The really significant thing about them is that from all this 'ast research= from the study of all these bygone ages= men are for the first time beginning to get an understanding of that 1.ife +rinciple3 which-somehow= some way-was brought to this earth thousands or millions of years ago They are beginning to get an in2ling of the infinite power it puts in their hands-to glimpse the untold possibilities it opens up This is the greatest disco'ery of modern times-that e'ery man can call upon this 1.ife +rinciple3 at will= that it is as much the ser'ant of his mind as was e'er /laddin;s fabled 1genie(of(the(lamp3 of old? that he has but to understand it and wor2 in harmony with it to get from it anything he may need- health or happiness= riches or success To realiBe the truth of this= you ha'e but to go bac2 for a moment to the beginning of things D !rom 1/ Aeap o; .i'in; 3 The Reilly 0 .ee Co

In the Beginning "t matters not whether you belie'e that man2ind dates bac2 to the primiti'e ape(man of FEE=EEE years ago= or sprang full(grown from the mind of the creator "n either e'ent= there had to be a first cause-a creator Some power had to bring to this earth the first germ of life= and the creation is no less wonderful if it started with the lowliest form of plant life and wor2ed up through countless ages into the highest product of today;s ci'iliBation= than if the whole were created in six days "n the beginning= this earth was >ust a fire mist-six thousand or a billion years ago-what does it matter which9 The one thing that does matter is that some time= some way= there came to this planet the germ of life-the life principle that animates all nature-plant= animal= and man "f we accept the scientists; 'ersion of it= the first form in which life appeared upon earth was the humble algae-a >elly(li2e mass that floated upon the waters This= according to the scientists= was the beginning= the dawn of life upon the earth 8ext came the first bit of animal life- the lowly amoeba= a sort of >elly fish= consisting of a single cell= without 'ertebrae= and with 'ery little else to distinguish it from the water round about 7ut it had life-the first bit of animal life-and from that life= according to the scientists= we could trace e'erything we ha'e and are today /ll the millions of forms and shapes and 'arieties of plants and animals that ha'e since appeared are but different manifestations of life--formed to meet differing conditions !or millions of years this 1.ife %erm3 was threatened by e'ery 2ind of danger-from floods= from earth5ua2es= from droughts= from desert heat= from glacial cold= from 'olcanic eruptions -but to it each new danger was merely an incenti'e to finding a new resource= to putting forth .ife in some new shape To meet one set of needs= it formed the dinosaur-to meet another= the butterfly .ong before it wor2ed up to man= we see its unlimited resourcefulness shown in a thousand ways To escape danger in the water= it sought land +ursued on land= it too2 to the air To breathe in the sea= it de'eloped gills Stranded on land= it perfected lungs To meet one 2ind of danger it grew a shell !or another= a sting To protect itself from glacial cold= it grew fur= in temperate climates= hair Sub>ect to alternate heat and cold= it produced feathers 7ut e'er= from the beginning= it showed its power to meet e'ery changing condition= to answer e'ery creature need Aad it been possible to 2ill this 1.ife "dea=3 it would ha'e perished ages ago= when fire and flood= drought and famine followed each other in 5uic2 succession 7ut obstacles= misfortunes= cataclysms= were to it merely new opportunities to assert its power "n fact= it re5uired obstacles to awa2en it= to show its energy and resource The great reptiles= the monster beasts of anti5uity passed on 7ut the 1.ife +rinciple3 stayed=

changing as each age changed= always de'eloping= and always impro'ing #hate'er power it was that brought this 1.ife "dea3 to the earth= it came endowed with unlimited resource= unlimited energy= unlimited ."!<C 8o other force can defeat it 8o obstacle can hold it bac2 /ll through the history of life and man2ind you can see its directing intelligence-call it nature= call it pro'idence= call it what you will-rising to meet e'ery need of life The Purpose of E istence 8o one can follow it down through the ages without realiBing that the whole purpose of existence is %R6#TA .ife is dynamic-not static "t is e'er mo'ing forward-not standing still The one unpardonable sin of nature is to stand still= to stagnate The %iganotosaurus= that was o'er a hundred feet long and as big as a house? the Tyrannosaurus= that had the strength of a locomoti'e and was the last word in frightfulness? the +terodactyl or !lying &ragon-all the giant monsters of +rehistoric /ges-are gone They ceased to ser'e a useful purpose They did not 2now how to meet the changing conditions They stood stillstagnated-while the life around them passed them by <gypt and +ersia= %reece and Rome= all the great <mpires of anti5uity= perished when they ceased to grow China built a wall about her and stood still for a thousand years Today she is the football of the powers "n all nature= to cease to grow is to perish "t is for men and women who are not ready to stand still= who refuse to cease to grow= that this boo2 is written "t will gi'e you a clearer understanding of your own potentialities= show you how to wor2 with and ta2e ad'antage of the infinite energy all about you The terror of the man at the crossways= not 2nowing which road to ta2e= will be no terror to you )our future is of your own ma2ing !or the only law of infinite energy is the law of supply The 1.ife +rinciple3 is your principle To sur'i'e= to win through= and to triumphantly surmount all obstacles has been its e'eryday practice since the beginning of time "t is no less resourceful now than e'er it was )ou ha'e but to supply the urge= to wor2 in harmony with it= to get from it anything you may need !or if this 1.ife +rinciple3 is so strong in the lowest forms of animal life that it can de'elop a shell or a poison to meet a need? if it can teach the bird to circle and dart= to balance and fly? if it can grow a new limb on a spider to replace a lost one= how much more can it do for you- a reasoning= rational being= with a mind able to wor2 with this 1.ife +rinciple=3 with an energy and an initiati'e to urge it onC The e'idence of this is all about you Ta2e up some 'iolent form of exercise- rowing= tennis= and swimming= riding "n the beginning your muscles are wea2= easily tired 7ut 2eep on for a few days The 1.ife +rinciple3 promptly strengthens them= toughens them= to meet their new need &o rough manual labor-and what happens9 The s2in of your hands becomes tender= blisters= and hurts Geep it up= and does the s2in all wear off9 6n the contrary= the 1.ife +rinciple3 pro'ides extra thic2nesses= extra toughness- calluses= we call them-to meet your

need /ll through your daily life you will find this 1.ife +rinciple3 steadily at wor2 <mbrace it= wor2 with it= ta2e it to yourself= and there is nothing you cannot do The mere fact that you ha'e obstacles to o'ercome is in your fa'or= for when there is nothing to be done= when things run along too smoothly? this 1.ife +rinciple3 seems to sleep "t is when you need it= when you call upon it ur(gently= that it is most on the >ob "t differs from 1.uc23 in this= that fortune is a fic2le >ade that smiles most often on those who need her least Sta2e your last penny on the turn of a card- ha'e nothing between you and ruin but the spin of a wheel or the speed of a horse-and its a thousand to one 1.uc23 will desert youC 7ut it is >ust the opposite with the 1.ife +rinciple 3 /s long as things run smoothly= as long as life flows along li2e a song= this 1.ife +rinciple3 seems to slumber= secure in the 2nowledge that your affairs can ta2e care of themsel'es 7ut let things start going wrong= let ruin and disgrace stare you in the face- then is the time this 1.ife +rinciple3 will assert itself if you but gi'e it a chance The !Open" Ses#$e%& of Life There is a 8apoleonic feeling of power that insures success in the 2nowledge that this in'incible 1.ife +rinciple3 is behind your e'ery act Gnowing that you ha'e wor2ing with you a force= which ne'er yet has failed in anything it has underta2en= you can go ahead in the confident 2nowledge that it will not fail in your case= either The ingenuity= which o'ercame e'ery obstacle in ma2ing you what you are= is not li2ely to fall short when you ha'e immediate need for it "t is the reser'e strength of the athlete= the 1second wind3 of the runner= the power that= in moments of great stress or excite(ment= you unconsciously call upon to do the deeds which you e'er after loo2 upon as superhuman 7ut they are in no wise superhuman They are merely beyond the capacity of your conscious self /lly your conscious self with that sleeping giant within you= rouse him daily to the tas2= and those 1superhuman3 deeds will become your ordinary= e'eryday accomplishments # . Cain= of 6a2land= 6regon= writesH 1" 2now that there is such a power= for " once saw two boys= 16 and 1I years of age= lift a great log off their brother= who had been caught under it The next day= the same two boys= with another man and me= tried to lift the end of the log= but could not e'en budge it 3 Aow was it that the two boys could do at need what the four were unable to do later on= when the need had passed9 7ecause they ne'er stopped to 5uestion whether or not it could be done They saw only the urgent need They concentrated all their thought= all their energy on that one thing-ne'er doubting= ne'er fearing-and the genie which is in all of us waiting only for such a call= answered their summons and ga'e them the strength-not of two men= but of tenC "t matters not whether you are ban2er or lawyer= businessman or cler2 #hether you are the

custodian of millions= or ha'e to struggle for your daily bread This 1.ife +rinciple3 ma2es no distinction between rich and poor= high and low The greater your need= the more readily will it respond to your call #here'er there is an unusual tas2= where'er there is po'erty or hardship or sic2ness or despair= there is this ser'ant of your mind= ready and willing to help= as2ing only that you call upon him /nd not only is it ready and willing= but it is always /7.< to help "ts ingenuity and resource are without limit "t is *ind "t is thought "t is the Telepathy that carries messages without the spo2en or written word "t is the Sixth Sense that warns you of unseen dangers 8o matter how stupendous and complicated= nor how simple your problem may be-the solution of it is somewhere in *ind= in Thought /nd since the solution does exist= this *ental %iant can find it for you "t can G86#= and it can &6= e'ery right thing #hate'er it is necessary for you to 2now= whate'er it is necessary for you to do= you can 2now and you can do if you will but see2 the help of this genie(of(your(mind and wor2 with it in the right way

II The 'enie(of()our(Mind 1"t matters not how strait the gate= Aow charged with punishment the scroll= " am the *aster of my !ate? " am the Captain of my Soul 3 -A<8.<) !irst came the Stone /ge= when life was for the strong of arm or the fleet of foot Then there was the "ron /ge-and while life was more precious= still the strong lorded it o'er the wea2 .ater came the %olden /ge= and riches too2 the place of strength-but the poor found little choice between the sla'e dri'ers; whips of olden days and the grim weapons of po'erty and star'ation 8ow we are entering a new age-the *ental /ge-when e'ery man can be his own master= when po'erty and circumstance no longer hold power and the lowliest creature in the land can win a place side by side with the highest To those who do not 2now the resources of mind these will sound li2e rash statements? but science pro'es beyond 5uestion that in the wellsprings of e'ery man;s mind are unplumbed depths-undisco'ered deposits of energy= wisdom and ability Sound these depths-bring these treasures to the surface-and you gain an astounding wealth of new power !rom the rude catamaran of the sa'ages to the giant liners of today= carrying their thousands from continent to continent is but a step in the de'elopment of *ind !rom the lowly ca'e man= cow(ering in his burrow in fear of lightning or fire or water= to the engineer of today= ma2ing ser'ants of all the forces of 8ature= is but a measure of difference in mental de'elopment *an= without reasoning mind= would be as the mon2eys are-prey of any creature fast enough and strong enough to pull him to pieces /t the mercy of wind and weather / poor timid creature= li'ing for the moment only= fearful of e'ery shadow Through his superior mind= he learned to ma2e fire to 2eep himself warm? weapons with which to defend himself from the sa'age creatures round about? habitations to protect himself from the elements Through mind he con5uered the forces of 8ature Through mind he has made machinery do the wor2 of millions of horses and billions of hands #hat he will do next= no man 2nows= for man is >ust beginning to awa2en to his own powers Ae is >ust getting an in2ling of the unfathomed riches buried deep in his own mind .i2e the gold see2ers of JK9= he has panned the surface gra'el for the gold swept down by the streams 8ow he is starting to dig deeper to the pure 'ein beneath

#e bemoan the loss of our forests #e worry o'er our dwindling resources of coal and oil #e decry the waste in our factories 7ut the greatest waste of all= we pay no attention to-the waste of our own potential mind power +rofessor #m @ames= the world(famous Aar'ard psychologist= estimated that the a'erage man uses only 1EL of his mental power Ae has unlimited power-yet he uses but a tithe of it Unlimited wealth all about him-and he doesn;t 2now how to ta2e hold of it #ith %od(li2e powers slumbering within him= he is content to continue in his daily grind - eating= sleeping= wor2ing-plodding through an existence little more e'entful than the animals= while all of 8ature= all of life= calls upon him to awa2en= to bestir himself The power to be what you want to be= to get what you desire= to accomplish whate'er you are stri'ing for= abides within you "t rests with you only to bring it forth and put it to wor2 6f course you must 2now how to do that= but before you can learn how to use it= you must realize that you possess this power So our first ob>ecti'e is to get ac5uainted with this power !or +sychologists and *etaphysicians the world o'er= are agreed in this-that *ind is all that counts )ou can be whate'er you ma2e up your mind to be )ou need not be sic2 )ou need not be unhappy )ou need not be poor )ou need not be unsuccessful )ou are not a mere clod )ou are not a beast of burden= doomed to spend your days in unremitting labor in return for food and housing )ou are one of the .ords of the <arth= with unlimited potentialities #ithin you is a power= which= properly grasped and directed= can lift you out of the rut of mediocrity and place you among the <lect of the earth-the lawyers= the writers= the statesmen= the big business men-the &6<RS and the TA"8G<RS "t rests with you only to learn to use this power= which is yours-this *ind that can do all things )our body is for all practical purposes merely a machine= which the mind uses This mind is usually thought of as con(sciousness? but the conscious part of your mind is in fact the very smallest part of it. 8inety per cent of your mental life is subconscious= so when you ma2e acti'e use of only the conscious part of your mind you are using but a fraction of your real ability? you are running on low gear /nd the reason why more people do not achie'e success in life is because so many of them are content

to run on low gear all their li'es - on SUR!/C< <8<R%) "f these same people would only throw into the fight the resistless force of their subconscious minds they would be amaBed at their undreamed of capacity for winning success Conscious and subconscious are= of course= integral parts of the one mind 7ut for con'enience sa2e let us di'ide your mind into three parts-the conscious mind= the subconscious mind= and the "nfinite= Subliminal or Uni'ersal *ind The Conscious Mind #hen you say= 1" see-" hear-" smell-" touch=3 it is your conscious mind that is saying this= for it is the force go'erning the fi'e physical senses "t is the phase of mind with which you feel and reason-the phase of mind with which e'eryone is familiar "t is the mind with which you do business "t controls= to a great extent= all your 'oluntary muscles "t discriminates between right and wrong= wise and foolish "t is the generalissimo= in charge of all your mental forces "t can plan ahead-and get things done as it plans 6r it can drift along haphaBardly= a creature of impulse= at the mercy of e'ents-a mere bit of flotsam in the current of life !or it is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious and the Uni'ersal *ind )our conscious mind is the porter at the door= the watchman at the gate "t is to the conscious mind that the subconscious loo2s for all its impressions "t is on it that the subconscious mind must depend for the teamwor2 necessary to get successful results )ou wouldn;t expect much from an army= no matter how fine its soldiers= whose general ne'er planned ahead= who distrusted his own ability and that of his men= and who spent all his time worrying about the enemy instead of planning how he might con5uer them )ou wouldn;t loo2 for good scores from a ball team whose pitcher was at odds with the catcher "n the same way= you can;t expect results from the subconscious when your conscious mind is full of fear or worry= or when it does not 2now what it wants The one most important pro'ince of your conscious mind is to center your thoughts on the thing you want= and to shut the door on e'ery suggestion of fear or worry or disease "f you once gain the ability to do that= nothing else is impossible to you !or the subconscious mind does not reason inducti'ely "t ta2es the thoughts you send in to it and wor2s them out to their logical conclusion Send to it thoughts of health and strength= and it will wor2 out health and strength in your body .et suggestions of disease= fear of sic2ness or accident= penetrate to it= either through your own thoughts or the tal2 of those around you= and you are 'ery li2ely to see the manifestation of disease wor2ing out in yourself )our mind is master of your body "t directs and controls e'ery function of your body )our body is in effect a little uni'erse in itself= and mind is its radiating center-the sun that gi'es light and life to all your system= and around which the whole re'ol'es /nd your conscious thought is master of this sun center /s <mile CouM puts it-3The conscious can put the

subconscious mind o'er the hurdles 3 The Su*conscious Mind Can you tell me how much water= how much salt= how much of each different element there should be in your blood to maintain its proper specific gra'ity if you are leading an ordinary sedentary life9 Aow much and how 5uic2ly these proportions must be changed if you play a fast game of tennis= or run for your car= or chop wood= or indulge in any other 'iolent exercise9 &o you 2now how much water you should drin2 to neutraliBe the excess salt in salt fish9 Aow much you lose through perspiration9 &o you 2now how much water= how much salt= how much of each different element in your food should be absorbed into your blood each day to maintain perfect health9 8o9 #ell= it need not worry you 8either does any one else 8ot e'en the greatest physicists and chemists and math(ematicians 7ut your subconscious mind 2nows /nd it doesn;t ha'e to stop to figure it out "t does it almost automatically "t is one of those 1.ightning Calculators 3 /nd this is but one of thousands of such >obs it performs e'ery hour of the day The greatest mathematicians in the land= the most renowned chemists= could ne'er do in a year;s time the abstruse problems= which your subconscious mind= sol'es e'ery minute /nd it doesn;t matter whether you;'e e'er studied mathematics or chemistry or any other of the sciences !rom the moment of your birth your subconscious mind sol'es all these problems for you #hile you are struggling along with the three R;s= it is doing problems that would lea'e your teachers aghast "t super'ises all the intricate processes of digestion= of assimilation= of elimination= and all the glandular secretions that would tax the 2nowledge of all the chemists and all the laboratories in the land "t planned and built your body from infancy on up "t repairs it "t operates it "t has almost unlimited power= not merely for putting you and 2eeping you in perfect health but for ac5uiring all the good things of life "gnorance of this power is the sole reason for all the failures in this world "f you would intelligently turn o'er to this wonderful power all your business and personal affairs in the same way that you turn o'er to it the mechanism of your body= no goal would be too great for you to stri'e for &r %eo C +itBer sums up the power of the subconscious mind 'ery well in the followingH 1The subconscious mind is a distinct entity "t occupies the whole human body= and= when not opposed in any way= it has absolute control o'er all the functions= conditions= and sensations of the body #hile the ob>ecti'e NconsciousO mind has control o'er all of our 'oluntary functions and motions= the subconscious mind controls all of the silent= in( 'oluntary= and 'egetati'e functions 8utrition= waste= all secretions and excretions= the action of the heart in the circulation of the blood= the lungs in respiration or breathing= and all cell life= cell changes and de'elopment= are positi'ely under the complete control of the

subconscious mind This was the only mind animal had before the e'olution of the brain? and it could not= nor can it yet= reason inducti'ely= but its power of deducti'e reasoning is perfect /nd more= it can see without the use of physical eyes "t percei'es by intuition "t has the power to communicate with others without the aid of ordinary physical means "t can read the thoughts of others "t recei'es intelligence and transmits it to people at a distance &istance offers no resistance against the successful missions of the subconscious mind "t ne'er dies #e call this the Jsoul mind ; "t is the li'ing soul 3 "n 1+ractical +sychology and Sex .ife=3 by &a'id 7ush= &r #inbigler is 5uoted as going e'en further To 5uote himH 1"t is this mind that carries on the wor2 of assimilation and upbuilding whilst we sleep "t re'eals to us things that the conscious mind has no conception of until the consummations ha'e occurred "t can communicate with other minds without the ordinary physical means "t gets glimpses of things that ordinary sight does not behold "t ma2es %od;s presence an actual= realiBable fact= and 2eeps the personality in peace and 5uietness "t warns of approaching danger "t appro'es or disappro'es of a course of conduct and con'ersation "t carries out all the best things= which are gi'en to it= pro'iding the conscious mind does not intercept and change the course of its manifestation "t heals the body and 2eeps it in health= if it is at all encouraged 3 "t is= in short= the most powerful force in life= and when properly directed= the most beneficent 7ut= li2e a li'e electric wire= its destructi'e force is e5ually great "t can be either your ser'ant or your master "t can bring to you e'il or good The Re' #illiam T #alsh= in a new boo2 >ust published= explains the idea 'ery clearlyH 1The subconscious part in us is called the sub>ecti'e mind= because it does not decide and command "t is a sub>ect rather than a ruler "ts nature is to do what it is told= or what really in your heart of hearts you desire. 1The subconscious mind directs all the 'ital processes of your body )ou do not thin2 consciously about breathing <'ery time you ta2e a breath you do not ha'e to reason= decide= command The subconscious mind sees to that )ou ha'e not been at all conscious that you ha'e been breathing while you ha'e been reading this page So it is with the mind and the circulation of blood The heart is a muscle li2e the muscle of your arm "t has no power to mo'e itself or to direct its action 6nly mind= only something that can thin2= can direct our muscles= including the heart )ou are not conscious that you are commanding your heart to beat The subconscious mind attends to that /nd so it is with the assimilation of food= the building and repairing of the body "n fact= all the 'ital processes are loo2ed after by the subconscious mind 3 1*an li'es and mo'es and has his being3 in this great subconscious mind "t supplies the

1intuition3 that so often carries a woman straight to a point that may re5uire hours of cumbersome reasoning for a man to reach <'en in ordinary= e'ery(day affairs= you often draw upon its wonderful wisdom 7ut you do it in an accidental sort of way without realiBing what you are doing Consider the case of 17lind Tom 3 +robably you;'e heard or read of him )ou 2now that he could listen to a piece of music for the first time and go immediately to a piano and reproduce it +eople call that abnormal 7ut as a matter of fact he was in this respect more normal than any of us #e are abnormal because we cannot do it 6r consider the case of these 1lightning calculators3 of whom one reads now and then "t may be a boy se'en or eight years old? but you can as2 him to di'ide P=6K9 KQP by Q26 2F6I and he;ll gi'e you the result in less time than it would ta2e you to put the numbers down on a piece of paper )ou call him phenomenal )et you ought to be able to do the same yourself )our subconscious mind can &r Audson= in his boo2 1The .aw of +sychic +henomena=3 tells of numerous such prodigies Aere are >ust a few instancesH 16f mathematical prodigies there has been upwards of a score whose calculations ha'e surpassed= in rapidity and accuracy= those of the greatest educated mathematicians These prodigies ha'e done their greatest feats while but children from three to ten years old "n no case had these boys any idea how they performed their calculations= and some of them would con'erse upon other sub>ects while doing the sum Two of these boys became men of eminence= while some of them showed but a low degree of ob>ecti'e intelligence #hateley spo2e of his own gift in the following termsH 1There was certainly something peculiar in my calculating faculty "t began to show itself at between fi'e and six= and lasted about three years " soon got to do the most difficult sums= always in my head= for " 2new nothing of figures beyond numeration " did these sums much 5uic2er than anyone could upon paper= and " ne'er remember committing the smallest error #hen " went to school= at which time the passion wore off= " was a perfect dunce at ciphering= and ha'e continued so e'er since 3 1+rofessor Safford became an astronomer /t the age of ten he wor2ed correctly a multiplication sum whose answer consisted of thirty(six figures .ater in life he could perform no such feats 3 17en>amin Aall 7lyth= at the age of six= as2ed his father at what hour he was born Ae was told that he was born at four o;cloc2 .oo2ing at the cloc2 to see the present time= he informed his father of the number of seconds he had li'ed Ais father made the calculation and said to 7en>amin= J)ou are wrong 1P2=EEE seconds ; The boy answered= J6h= papa= you ha'e left out two days for the leap years 1I2E and 1I2K=; which was the case 3

1Then there is the celebrated case of Rerah Colburn= of whom &r Schofield writesH 1JRerah Colburn could instantaneously tell the s5uare root of 1E6=929 as Q2P= and the cube root of 26I=QQ6=12F as 6KF 7efore the 5uestion of the number of minutes in forty(eight years could be written he said 2F=22I=I1E Ae immediately ga'e the factors of 2KP=KIQ as 9K1 and 26Q= which are the only two? and being as2ed then for those of Q6=EIQ= answered none? it is a prime number Ae could not tell how the answer came into his mind Ae could not= on paper= do simple multiplication or di'ision ;3 The time will come when= as A % #ells en'isioned in his 1*en .i2e %ods=3 schools and teachers will no longer be necessary except to show us how to get in touch with the infinite 2nowledge our subconscious minds possess from infancy 1The smartest man in the world=3 says &r !ran2 Crane in a recent article in Liberty 1is the *an "nside 7y the *an "nside " mean that 6ther *an within each one of us that does most of the things we gi'e oursel'es credit for doing )ou may refer to him as 8ature or the Subconscious Self or thin2 of him merely as a !orce or a 8atural .aw= or= if you are religiously inclined= you may use the term %od 1" say he is the smartest man in the world " 2now he is infinitely more cle'er and resourceful than " am or than any other man is that " e'er heard of #hen " cut my finger it is he that calls up the little phagocytes to come and 2ill the septic germs that might get into the wound and cause blood poisoning "t is he that coagulates the blood= stops the gash= and wea'es the new s2in 1" could not do that " do not e'en 2now how he does it Ae e'en does it for babies that 2now nothing at all? in fact= does it better for them than for me 18o li'ing man 2nows enough to ma2e toenails grow= but the *an "nside thin2s nothing of growing nails and teeth and thousands of hairs all o'er my body? long hairs on my head and little fuBBy ones o'er the rest of the surface of the s2in 1#hen " practice on the piano " am simply getting the business of piano playing o'er from my conscious mind to my subconscious mindH in other words= " am handing the business o'er to the *an "nside 1*ost of our happiness= as well as our struggles and misery= come from this *an "nside "f we train him in ways of contentment= ad>ustment= and decision he will go ahead of us li2e a well trained ser'ant and do for us easily most of the difficult tas2s we ha'e to perform 3 &r @ung= celebrated ,iennese specialist= claims that the subconscious mind contains not only all the 2nowledge that it has gathered during the life of the indi'idual= but that in addition it contains all the wisdom of past ages That by drawing upon its wisdom and power the indi'idual may possess any good thing of life= from health and happiness to riches and success

)ou see= the subconscious mind is the connecting lin2 between the Creator and us= between Uni'ersal *ind and our conscious mind "t is the means by which we can appropriate to oursel'es all the good gifts= all the riches and abundance that Uni'ersal *ind has created in such profusion 7erthelot= the great !rench founder of modern synthetic chemistry= once stated in a letter to a close friend that the final experiments which led to his most wonderful disco'eries had ne'er been the result of carefully followed and reasoned trains of thought= but that= on the contrary= 1they came of themsel'es= so to spea2= from the clear s2y 3 Charles * 7arrows= in 1Suggestion "nstead of *edicine=3 tells us thatH 1"f man re5uires another than his ordinary consciousness to ta2e care of him while asleep= not less useful is this same psychical pro'ision when he is awa2e *any persons are able to obtain 2nowledge= which does not come to them through their senses= in the usual way= but arri'es in the mind by direct communication from another conscious intelligence= which apparently 2nows more of what concerns their welfare than their ordinary reason does " ha'e 2nown a number of persons who= li2e myself= could tell the contents of letters in their mail before opening them Se'eral years ago a friend of mine came to 7oston for the first time= arri'ing at what was then the +ro'idence railroad station in +ar2 S5uare Ae wished to wal2 to the .owell station on the opposite side of the city 7eing utterly ignorant of the streets as well as the general direction to ta2e= he confidently set forth without as2ing the way= and reached his destination by the most direct path "n doing this he trusted solely to Jinstincti'e guidance=; as he called it= and not to any hints or clews obtained through the senses 3 The geniuses of literature= of art= commerce= go'ernment= politics and in'ention are= according to the scientists= but ordinary men li2e you and me who ha'e learned somehow= some way= to draw upon their subconscious minds Sir "saac 8ewton is reported to ha'e ac5uired his mar'elous 2nowledge of mathematics and physics with no conscious effort *oBart said of his beautiful symphonies 1they >ust came to him 3 &escartes had no ordinary regular education To 5uote &r AudsonH 1This is a power which transcends reason= and is independent of induction "nstances of its de'elopment might be multiplied indefinitely <nough is 2nown to warrant the conclusion that when the soul is released from its ob>ecti'e en'ironment it will be enabled to percei'e all the laws of its being= to Jsee %od as Ae is=; by the perception of the laws which Ae has instituted "t is the 2nowledge of this power which demonstrates our true relationship to %od= which confers the warranty of our right to the title of Jsons of %od=; and confirms our inheritance of our rightful share of his attributes and powers-our heir ship of %od= our >oint heir ship with @esus Christ 3 6ur subconscious minds are 'ast magnets= with the power to draw from Uni'ersal *ind unlimited 2nowledge= unlimited power= unlimited riches

1Considered from the standpoint of its acti'ities=3 says #arren Ailton in 1/pplied +sychology=3 1the subconscious is that department of mind= which on the one hand directs the 'ital operations of the body= and on the other conser'es= sub>ect to the call of interest and attention= all ideas and complexes not at the moment acti'e in consciousness 16bser'e= then= the possibility that lies before you 6n the one hand= if you can control your mind in its subconscious acti'ities= you can regulate the operation of your bodily functions= and can thus assure yourself of bodily efficiency and free yourself of functional disease 6n the other hand= if you can determine >ust what ideas shall be brought forth from sub consciousness into consciousness= you can thus select the materials out of which will be wo'en your conscious >udgments= your decisions and your emotional attitudes 1To achie'e control of your mind is= then= to attain NaO health= NbO success= and NcO happiness 3 !ew understand or appreciate= howe'er= that the 'ast storehouse of 2nowledge and power of the subconscious mind can be drawn upon at will 8ow and then through intense concentration or 'ery acti'e desire we do accidentally penetrate to the realm of the subconscious and register our thought upon it Such thoughts are almost in'ariably realiBed The trouble is that as often as not it is our negati'e thoughts-our fears-that penetrate /nd these are realiBed >ust as surely as the positi'e thoughts #hat you must manage to do is learn to communicate only such thoughts as you wish to see realiBed to your subconscious mind= for it is exceedingly amenable to suggestion )ou ha'e heard of the man who was always bragging of his fine health and upon whom some of his friends decided to play a tric2 The first one he met one morning commented upon how badly he loo2ed and as2ed if he weren;t feeling well Then all the others as they saw him made similar remar2s 7y noontime the man had come to belie'e them= and before the end of the day he was really ill That was a rather glaring example 7ut similar things are going on e'ery day with all of us #e eat something that someone else tells us isn;t good for us and in a little while we thin2 we feel a pain 7efore we 2now it we ha'e indigestion= when the chances are that if we 2new nothing about the supposed indigestible properties of the food we could eat it the rest of our days and ne'er feel any ill effects .et some new disease be disco'ered and the symptoms described in the daily paper Aundreds will come down with it at once They are li2e the man who read a medical encyclopedia and ended up by concluding he had e'erything but 1housemaid;s 2nee 3 +atent medicine ad'ertisers realiBe this power of suggestion and cash in upon it Read one of their ads "f you don;t thin2 you ha'e e'erything the matter with you that their nostrums are supposed to cure= you are the exception and not the rule That is the negati'e side of it <mile CouM based his system on the positi'e side-which you suggest to your subconscious mind that whate'er ills it thin2s you ha'e are getting better /nd it is good psychology at that +roperly carried out it will wor2 wonders 7ut there arc better methods /nd " hope to be able to show them to you before we reach the end of this boo2 Suffice it now to say that your subconscious mind is exceedingly wise and powerful That it

2nows many things that is not in boo2s #hen properly used it has infallible >udgment= un( failing power "t ne'er sleeps ne'er tires )our conscious mind may slumber "t may be rendered impotent by anesthetics or a sudden blow 7ut your subconscious mind wor2s on= 2eeping your heart and lungs= your arteries and glands e'er on the >ob Under ordinary conditions= it attends faithfully to its duties= and lea'es your conscious mind to direct the outer life of the body 7ut let the conscious mind meet some situation with which it is unable to cope= and= if it will only call upon the subconscious= that powerful %enie will respond immediately to its need )ou ha'e heard of people who had been through great danger tell how= when death stared them in the face and there seemed nothing they could do= things went blac2 before them and= when they came to= the danger was past "n the moment of need= their subconscious mind pushed the conscious out of the way= the while it met and o'ercame the danger "mpelled by the subconscious mind= their bodies could do things absolutely impossible to their ordinary conscious sel'es !or the power of the subconscious mind is unlimited #hate'er it is necessary for you to do in any right cause= it can gi'e you the strength and the ability to do #hate'er of good you may desire= it can bring to you 1The Gingdom of Aea'en is within you 3 The Uni+ers#, Mind Aa'e you e'er dug up a potato 'ine and seen the potatoes clustering underneath9 Aow much of intelligence do you suppose one of these potatoes has9 &o you thin2 it 2nows anything about chemistry or geology9 Can it figure out how to gather carbon gas from the atmosphere= water and all the necessary 2inds of nutriment from the earth round about to manufacture into sugar and starch and alcohol9 8o chemist can do it Aow do you suppose the potato 2nows9 6f course it doesn;t "t has no sense )et it does all these things "t builds the starch into cells= the cells into roots and 'ines and lea'es-and into more potatoes 1@ust old *other 8ature=3 you;ll say 7ut old *other 8ature must ha'e a remar2able intelligence if she can figure out all these things that no human scientist has e'er been able to figure There must be an all(per'ading "ntelligence behind *other 8ature-the "ntelligence that first brought life to this planet-the "ntelligence that e'ol'ed e'ery form of plant and animal-that holds the winds in its grasp-that is all(wise= all(powerful The potato is but one small manifestation of this "ntelligence The 'arious forms of plant life= of animals= of manall are mere cogs in the great scheme of things 7ut with this difference—that man is an acti'e part of this Uni'ersal *ind That he parta2es of its creati'e wisdom and power and that by wor2ing in harmony with Uni'ersal *ind he can

do anything have anything= be anything There is within you-within e'eryone- this mighty resistless force with which you can perform underta2ings that will daBBle your reason= stagger your imagination There constantly resides within you a *ind that is all(wise= all(powerful= a *ind that is entirely apart from the mind which you consciously use in your e'eryday affairs yet which is one with it )our subconscious mind parta2es of this wisdom and power= and it is through your subconscious mind that you can draw upon it in the attainment of anything you may desire #hen you can intelligently reach your subconscious mind= you can be in communication with the Uni'ersal *ind Remember thisH the Uni'ersal *ind is omnipotent /nd since the subconscious mind is part of the Uni'ersal *ind= there is no limit to the things= which it can do when it is gi'en the power to act %i'en any desire that is in harmony with the Uni'ersal *ind and you ha'e but to hold that desire in your thought to attract from the in'isible domain the things you need to satisfy it !or mind does its building solely by the power of thought "ts creations ta2e form according to its thought "ts first re5uisite is a mental image= and your desire held with unswer'ing purpose will form that mental image /n understanding of this principle explains the power of prayer The results of prayer are not brought about by some special dispensation of +ro'idence %od is not a finite being to be ca>oled or flattered into doing= as you desire 7ut when you pray earnestly you form a mental image of the thing that you desire and you hold it strongly in your thought Then the Uni'ersal "ntelligence= which is your intelligence-6mnipotent *ind-= begins to wor2 with and for you= and this is what brings about the manifestation that you desire The Uni'ersal *ind is all around you "t is as all per'ading as the air you breathe "t encompasses you with as little trouble as the water in the sea encompasses the fish )et it is >ust as thoroughly conscious of you as the water would be= were it intelligent= of e'ery creature within it 1/re not two sparrows sold for a farthing9 /nd one of them shall not fall on the ground with(out your !ather 7ut the 'ery hairs of your head are all numbered !ear ye not= therefore= ye are of more 'alue than many sparrows 3 "t seems hard to belie'e that a *ind busied with the immensities of the uni'erse can consider such tri'ial affairs as our own when we are but one of the billions of forms of life which come into existence )et consider again the fish in the sea "t is no trouble for the sea to encompass them "t is no more trouble for the Uni'ersal *ind to encompass us "ts power= its thought= is as much at our disposal as the sunshine and the wind and the rain !ew of us ta2e ad'antage to the full of these great forces !ewer still ta2e ad'antage of the power of the Uni'ersal *ind "f you ha'e any lac2= if you are prey to po'erty or disease= it is because you do not belie'e or do not understand the power that is yours "t is not a 5uestion of the Uni'ersal gi'ing to you

"t offers e'erything to e'eryone- there is no partiality 1Ao= e'eryone that thirsteth= come ye to the waters 3 )ou ha'e only to ta2e 1#hosoe'er will let him ta2e of the water of life freely 3 1#ith all thy getting= get understanding=3 said Solomon /nd if you will but get understanding= e'erything else will be added unto you To bring you to a realiBation of your indwelling and unused power= to teach you simple= direct methods of drawing upon it= is the beginning and the end of this course

VOLUME T-O “And the earth was Without form and void And dar!ness was upon "he face of the deep. And the #pirit of $od moved %pon the face of the waters.& %<8<S"S 1H2 III The Pri$#, C#use This city= with all its houses= palaces= steam engines= cathedrals and huge= immeasurable traffic and tumult= what is it but a Thought= but millions of Thoughts made into one-a huge immeasurable Spirit of a Thought= embodied in bric2= in iron= smo2e= dust= +alaces= +arliaments= coaches= doc2s and the rest of itC 8ot a bric2 was made but some man had to thin! of the ma2ing of that bric2 SSC/R.).< !or thousands of years the riddle of the uni'erse has been the 5uestion of causation &id the egg come first= or the chic2en9 1The globe=3 says an <astern pro'erb= 1rests upon the howdah of an elephant The elephant stands upon a tortoise= swimming in a sea of mil2 3 7ut then what9 /nd what is life9 /s the +ersian poet puts it1#hat without as2ing= hither hurried whence= /nd without as2ing whither hurried hence93 "t has been said that e'ery man= consciously or unconsciously= is either a materialist or an idealist Certainly throughout the ages the schools of philosophy as well as indi'iduals ha'e argued and 5uarreled= but always human thought through one or the other of these channels 1has rolled down the hill of speculation into the ocean of doubt 3 The materialist= roughly spea2ing= declares that nothing exists but matter and the forces inherent therein The idealist declares that all is mind or energy= and that matter is necessarily unreal The time has come when people ha'e become dissatisfied with these unceasing theories= which get them nowhere /nd today= as the appreciation of a +rimal Cause becomes more clearly defined= the spiritual instinct asserts itself determinedly 1%i'e me a base of support=3 said /rchimedes= 1and with a le'er " will mo'e the world 3 /nd the base of support is that all started with mind. "n the beginning was nothing-a fire mist 7efore anything could come of it there had to be an idea= a model on which to build %niversal 'ind supplied that idea= that model Therefore the primal cause is mind <'erything

must start with an idea <'ery e'ent= e'ery condition= e'ery thing is first an idea in the mind of someone 7efore you start to build a house= you draw up a plan of it )ou ma2e an exact blueprint of that plan= and your house ta2es shape in accordance with your blueprint <'ery material ob>ect ta2es form in the same way *ind draws the plan Thought forms the blueprint= well drawn or badly done= as your thoughts are clear or 'ague "t all goes bac2 to the one cause The creati'e principle of the uni'erse is mind= and thought is the eternal energy 7ut >ust as the effect you get from electricity depends upon the mechanism to which the power is attached= so the effects you get from mind depend upon the way you use it #e are all of us dynamos The power is there-unlimited power 7ut we;'e got to connect it up to something-set it some tas2- gi'e it wor2 to do-else are we no better off than the animals The 1Se'en #onders of the #orld3 was built by men with few of the opportunities or facilities that are a'ailable to you They concei'ed these gigantic pro>ects first in their own minds= pictured them so 'i'idly that their subconscious minds came to their aid and enabled them to o'ercome obstacles that most of us would regard as insurmountable "magine building the +yramids of %iBeh= enormous stone upon enormous stone= with nothing but bare hands "magine the labor= the sweat= the heartbrea2ing toil of erecting the Colossus of Rhodes= between whose legs a ship could passC )et men built these wonders= in a day when tools were of the crudest and machinery was undreamed of= by using the unlimited power of *ind *ind is creati'e= but it must ha'e a model on which to wor2 "t must ha'e thoughts to supply the power There are in Uni'ersal *ind ideas for millions of wonders far greater than the 1Se'en #onders of the #orld 3 /nd those ideas are >ust as a'ailable to you as they were to the artisans of old= as they were to *ichael /ngelo when he built St +eter;s in Rome= as they were to the architect who concei'ed the #oolworth 7uilding= or the engineer who planned the Aell %ate 7ridge <'ery condition= e'ery experience of life is the result of our mental attitude #e can do only what we thin2 we can do #e can be only what we thin2 we can be #e can have only what we thin2 we can ha'e #hat we do= what we are= what we ha'e= all depend upon what we thin2 #e can ne'er express anything that we do not first ha'e in mind The secret of all power= all success= all riches= is in first thin2ing powerful thoughts= successful thoughts= and thoughts of wealth= of supply #e must build them in our own mind first #illiam @ames= the famous psychologist= said that the greatest disco'ery in a hundred years was the disco'ery of the power of the sub(conscious mind "t is the greatest disco'ery of all time "t is the disco'ery that man has within himself the power to control his surroundings that he is not at the mercy of chance or luc2 that he is the arbiter of his own fortunes that he can car'e out his own destiny Ae is the master of all the forces round about him /s @ames /llen puts itH

1&ream lofty dreams= and as you dream= so shall you become )our 'ision is the promise of what you shall one day be? your "deal is the prophecy of what you shall at last un'eil 3 !or matter is in the ultimate but a product of thought <'en the most material scientists admit that matter is not what it appears to be /ccording to physics= matter Nbe it the human body or a log of wood-it ma2es no difference whichO is made up of an aggregation of distinct minute particles called atoms Considered indi'idually= these atoms are so small that they can be seen only with the aid of a powerful microscope= if at all MATTE./0re#$ or .e#,it12 Until recently these atoms were supposed to be the ultimate theory regarding matter #e oursel'es -and all the material world around us-were supposed to consist of these infinitesimal particles of matter= so small that they could not be seen or weighed or smelled or touched indi'idually-but still particles of matter and indestructible 8ow= howe'er= these atoms ha'e been further analyBed= and physics tells us that they are not indestructible at all- that they are mere positi'e and negati'e buttons of force or energy called protons and electrons= without hardness= without density= without solidity= without e'en positi'e actuality "n short= they are 'ortices in the ether-whirling bits of energydynamic= ne'er static= pulsating with life= but the life is spiritual! /s one eminent 7ritish scientist put it- 1Science now explains matter by e(plaining it away!& /nd that= mind you= is what the solid table in front of you is made of= is what your house= your body= the whole world is made of—whirling bits of energy! To 5uote the 8ew )or2 )erald*"ribune of *arch 11= 1926H 1#e used to belie'e that the uni'erse was composed of an un2nown number of different 2inds of matter= one 2ind for each chemical element The disco'ery of a new element had all the interest of the unexpected "t might turn out to be anything= to ha'e any imaginable set of properties 1That romantic prospect no longer exists #e 2now now that instead of many ultimate 2inds of matter there are only two 2inds 7oth of these are really 2inds of electricity 6ne is negati'e electricity= being= in fact= the tiny particle called the electron= familiar to radio fans as one of the particles 'ast swarms of which operate radio 'acuum tubes The other 2ind of electricity is positi'e electricity "ts ultimate particles are called protons !rom these protons and electrons all of the chemical elements are built up "ron and lead and oxygen and gold and all the others differ from one another merely in the number and arrangement of the electrons and protons= which they contain That is the modern idea of the nature of matter * atter is really nothing but electricity.& Can you wonder then that scientists belie'e the time will come when man2ind through mind can control all this energy= can be absolute master of the winds and the wa'es= can literally follow the *aster;s precept-3"f ye ha'e faith as a grain of mustard seed= ye shall say unto this mountain= Remo'e hence to yonder place? and it shall remo'e? and nothing shall be impossible unto you 3

!or *odern Science is coming more and more to the belief that what we call matter is a force sub+ect wholly to the control of mind. Aow tenuous matter really is= is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that a single 'iolin string= tuned to the proper pitch= could start a 'ibration that would sha2e down the 7roo2lyn 7ridgeC 6ceans and mountains= roc2s and iron= all can be reduced to a point little short of the purely spiritual )our body is ,- per cent water= 1F per cent ash and phosphorusC /nd they in turn can be dissipated into gas and 'apor #here do we go from there9 "s not the answer that= to a great degree at least= and perhaps altogether= this world round about us is one of our mind;s own creating9 /nd that we can put into it= and get from it= pretty much what we wish9 )ou see this illustrated e'ery day / panorama is spread before you To you it is a beautiful picture? to another it appears a mere collection of roc2s and trees / girl comes out to meet you To you she is the embodiment of lo'eliness? to another all that grace and beauty may loo2 drab and homely / moonlit garden= with its fragrant odors and dew(drenched grass= may mean all that is charming to you= while to another it brings only thoughts of asthma or fe'er or rheumatism / color may be green to you that to another is red / prospect may be in'iting for you that to another is rugged and hard To 5uote 1/pplied +sychology=3 by #arren AiltonH 1The same stimulus acting on different organs of sense will produce different sensations / blow upon the eye will cause you to Jsee stars;? a similar blow upon the ear will cause you to hear an explosi'e sound "n other words= the 'ibratory effect of a touch on eye or ear is the same as that of light or sound 'ibrations 1The notion you may form of any ob>ect in the outer world depends solely upon what part of your brain happens to be connected with that particular ner'e(end that recei'es an impression from the ob>ect 1)ou see the sun without being able to hear it because the only ner'e(ends tuned to 'ibrate in harmony with the ether(wa'es set in action by the sun are ner'e(ends that are connected with the brain center de'oted to sight J"f=; says +rofessor @ames= Jwe could splice the outer extremities of our optic ner'es to our ears= and those of our auditory ner'es to our eyes= we should hear the lightning and see the thunder= see the symphony and hear the conductor;s mo'ements ; 1"n other words= the 2ind of impressions we recei'e from the world about us= the sort of mental pictures we form concerning it= in fact= the character of the outer world= the nature of the en('ironment in which our li'es are cast- all these things depend for each one of us simply upon how he happens to be put together= upon his indi'idual mental ma2e(up 3 "n short= it all comes bac2 to the old fable of the three blind men and the elephant To the one who caught hold of his leg= the elephant was li2e a tree

To the one who felt of his side= the elephant was li2e a wall To the one who seiBed his tail= the elephant was li2e a rope The world is to each one of us the world of his individual perceptions. )ou are li2e a radio recei'ing station <'ery moment thousands of impressions are reaching you )ou can tune in on whate'er ones you li2e-on >oy or sorrow= on success or failure= on optimism or fear )ou can select the particular impressions that will best ser'e you= you can hear only what you want to hear= you can shut out all disagreeable thoughts and sounds and experiences= or you can tune in on discouragement and failure and despair )ours is the choice )ou ha'e within you a force against which the whole world is powerless 7y using it= you can ma2e what you will of life and of your surroundings 17ut=3 you will say= 1ob>ects themsel'es do not change "t is merely the difference in the way you loo2 at them 3 +erhaps 7ut to a great extent= at least= we find what we loo2 for= >ust as= when we turn the dial on the radio= we tune in on whate'er 2ind of entertainment or instruction we may wish to hear /nd who can say that it is not our thoughts that put it there9 #ho= for the matter of that= can pro'e that our surroundings in wa2ing hours are not as much the creature of our minds as are our dreams9 )ou;'e had dreams many a time where e'ery ob>ect seemed >ust as real as when you were awa2e )ou;'e felt of the ob>ects= you;'e pinched yourself= yet still you were con'inced that you were actually living those dreams *ay not your wa2ing existence be largely the creation of your own mind= >ust as your dream pictures are9 *any scientists belie'e that it is= and that in proportion as you try to put into your surroundings the good things you desire= rather than the e'il ones you fear= you will find those good things. Certain it is that you can do this with your own body @ust as certain that many people are doing it with the good things of life They ha'e risen abo'e the conception of life in which matter is the master @ust as the most powerful forces in nature are the in'isible ones-heat= light= air= electricityso the most powerful forces of man are his in'isible forces= his thought forces /nd >ust as elec(tricity can fuse stone and iron= so can your thought forces control your body= so can they ma2e or mar your destiny The Phi,osopher3s Ch#r$ There was once a shrewd necromancer who told a 2ing that he had disco'ered a way to ma2e gold out of sand 8aturally the 2ing was interested and offered him great rewards for his secret The necromancer explained his process "t seemed 5uite easy= except for one thing 8ot once during the operation must the 2ing thin2 of the word /bracadabra "f he did= the charm was bro2en and the gold would not come The 2ing tried and tried to follow the directions= but he could not 2eep that word /bracadabra out of his mind /nd he ne'er made the gold &r #inbigler puts the same idea in another wayH 1"nspiration= genius= power= are often interfered with by the conscious mind;s interposing= by man;s failing to recogniBe his power= afraid to assist himself= lac2ing the faith in himself necessary to stimulate the subconscious so as to arouse the genius asleep in each 3

!rom childhood on we are assured on e'ery hand-by scientists= by philosophers= by our religious teachers= that 1ours is the earth and the fullness thereof 3 7eginning with the first chapter of %enesis= we are told that 1%od said= .et us ma2e man in our image= after our li2eness? and let them ha'e dominion o'er the fish of the sea= and o'er the fowl of the air= and o'er the cattle= and o'er all the earth-and o'er e'ery li'ing thing that mo'eth upon the earth 3 /ll through the 6ld and the 8ew Testament= we are repeatedly ad>ured to use these %od(gi'en powers 1Ae that be(lie'eth on me=3 said @esus= 1the wor2s that " do shall he do also? and greater wor2s than these shall he do 3 1"f ye abide in me= and my words abide in you= ye shall as2 what ye will= and it shall be done unto you 3 1!or 'erily " say unto you= that whosoe'er shall say unto this mountain= 7e thou remo'ed= and be thou cast into the sea? and shall not doubt in his heart= but shall belie'e that those things which he saith shall come to pass? he shall ha'e whatsoe'er he saith 3 1The 2ingdom of %od is within you 3 #e hear all this? perhaps we e'en thin2 we belie'e= but always= when the time comes to use these %od(gi'en talents= there is the 1doubt in our heart 3 7audouin expressed it clearlyH 1To be ambitious for wealth and yet always expecting to be poor? to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for= is li2e trying to reach east by tra'eling west There is no philosophy= which will help a man to succeed when he always doubts his ability to do so= and thus attracting failure 1)ou will go in the direction in which you face 1There is a saying that e'ery time the sheep bleats= it loses a mouthful of hay <'ery time you allow yourself to complain of your lot= to say= J" am poor? " can ne'er do what others do? " shall ne'er be rich? " ha'e not the ability that others ha'e? " am a failure? luc2 is against me?; you are laying up so much trouble for yourself 18o matter how hard you may wor2 for success= if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure= it will 2ill your efforts= neutraliBe your endea'ors= and ma2e success impossible 3 /nd that is responsible for all our failures #e are li2e the old lady who decided she wanted the hill behind her house remo'ed So she got down on her 2nees and prayed the good .ord to remo'e it The next morning she got up and hurried to the window The hill was still in its same old place 1" 2new itC3 she snapped 1" ga'e Aim his chance 7ut " 2new all the time there was nothing to this prayer business 3 8either is there= as it is ordinarily done +rayer is not a mere as2ing of fa'ors +rayer is not a paean of praise Rather prayer is a realiBation of the %od(power within you-of your right of dominion o'er your own body= your en'ironment= your business= your health= your prosperity "t is an understanding that you are 1heir of %od and co(heir with Christ 3 /nd that as such= no e'il has power o'er you= whereas you ha'e all power for good /nd 1good3 means not merely holiness %ood means happiness-the happiness of e'eryday people %ood means e'erything that is good in this world of ours-comforts and pleasures and prosperity for us= health and happiness for those dependent upon us There are no limits to 1%ood3 except those we put upon it oursel'es

#hat was it made 8apoleon the greatest con5ueror of his day9 +rimarily his magnificent faith in 8apoleon Ae had a sublime belief in his destiny= an absolute confidence that the obstacle was not made which 8apoleon could not find a way through= or o'er= or around "t was only when he lost that confidence= when he hesitated and 'acillated for wee2s between retreat and ad'ance= that winter caught him in *oscow and ended his dreams of world empire !ate ga'e him e'ery chance first The winter snows were a full month late in coming 7ut 8apoleon hesitated-and was lost "t was not the snows that defeated him "t was not the Russians "t was his loss of faith in himself The 4ingdo$ of 5e#+en 1The Gingdom of Aea'en is within you 3 Aea'en is not some far(away state-the reward of years of tribulation here Aea'en is right here-here and nowC #hen Christ said that Aea'en was within us= Ae meant >ust what Ae said-that the power for happiness= for good= for e'erything we need of life= is within each one of us That most of us fail to realiBe this Aea'en-that many are sic2ly and suffering= that more are ground down by po'erty and worry-is no fault of Ais Ae ga'e us the power to o'ercome these e'ils? Ae stands ready and waiting to help us use it "f we fail to find the way= the fault is ours To en>oy the Aea'en that is within us= to begin here and now to li'e the life eternal= ta2es only a fuller understanding of the +ower(that( is(within(us <'en now= with the limited 2nowledge at our command= we can control circumstances to the point of ma2ing the world without an expression of our own world within= where the real thoughts= the real power= resides Through this world within you can find the solution of e'ery problem= the cause for e'ery effect &isco'er it-and all power= all possession is within your control !or the world without is but a reflection of that world within )our thought creates the conditions your mind images Geep before your mind;s eye the image of all you want to be and you will see it reflected in the world without Thin2 abundance= feel abundance= 7<."<,< abundance= and you will find that as you thin2 and feel and belie'e= abundance will manifest itself in your daily life 7ut let fear and worry be your mental companions= thoughts of po'erty and limitation dwell in your mind= and worry and fear= limitation and po'erty will be your constant companions day and night )our mental concept is all that matters "ts relation to matter is that of idea and form There has got to be an idea before it can ta2e form /s &r Terry #alter saysH 1The impressions that enter the subconscious form indelible pictures= which are ne'er forgotten= and whose power can change the body= mind= manner= and morals? can= in fact= re'olutioniBe a personality 1/ll during our wa2ing hours the conscious mind= through the fi'e senses= acts as constant feeder to the subconscious? the senses are the temporal source of supply for the content of the soul mind? therefore it is most important that we 2now and realiBe definitely and explicitly that e'ery time we thin2 a thought or feel an emotion= we are adding to the content of this powerful mind= good or bad= as the case may be .ife will be richer or poorer for the thoughts

and deeds of today 3 )our thoughts supply you with limitless energy= which will ta2e whate'er form your mind demands The thoughts are the mold= which crystalliBes this energy into good= or ill according to the form you impress upon it )ou are free to choose which 7ut whiche'er you choose= the result is sure Thoughts of wealth= of power= of success= can bring only results commensurate with your idea of them Thoughts of po'erty and lac2 can bring only limitation and trouble 1/ radical doctrine=3 you;ll say= and thin2 me wildly optimistic 7ecause the world has been taught for so long to thin2 that some must be rich and some poor= that trials and tribulations are our lot That this is at best a 'ale of tears The history of the race shows that what is considered to be the learning of one age is ignorance to the next age &r <dwin < Slosson= <ditor of #cience #ervice. spea2ing of the popular tendency to fight against new ideas merely because they were new. saidH 1/ll through the history of science= we find that new ideas ha'e to force their way into the common mind in disguise= as though they were burglars instead of benefactors of the race 3 /nd <merson wroteH 1The 'irtue in most re5uest is conformity Self(reliance is its a'ersion "t lo'es not realities and creators= but names and customs 3 "n the ages to come man will loo2 bac2 upon the po'erty and wretchedness of so many millions today= and thin2 how foolish we were not to ta2e ad'antage of the abundance all about us .oo2 at 8ature? how profuse she is in e'erything &o you suppose the *ind that imaged that profuseness e'er intended you to be limited= to ha'e to scrimp and sa'e in order to e2e out a bare existence9 There are hundreds of millions of stars in the hea'ens &o you suppose the *ind= which could bring into being worlds without number in such prodigality intended to stint you of the few things necessary to your happiness9 #hat is money but a mere idea of mind= a to2en of exchange9 The paper money you ha'e in your poc2ets is supposed to represent so much gold or sil'er currency There are billions upon billions of this paper money in circulation= yet all the gold in the world amounts to only about TI=EEE=EEE=EEE #ealth is in ideas= not in money or property )ou can control those ideas through mind Reduced to the ultimate-to the atom or to the electron-e'erything in this world is an idea of mind /ll of it has been brought together through mind "f we can change the things we want bac2 into mental images= we can multiply them as often as we li2e= possessing all that we li2e

!To 5i$ Th#t 5#th&/ Ta2e as an example the science of numbers Suppose all numbers were of metal-that it was against the law to write figures for oursel'es <'ery time you wanted to do a sum in arithmetic you;d ha'e to pro'ide yourself with a supply of numbers= arrange them in their proper order= wor2 out your problems with them "f your problems were too abstruse you might run out of numbers= ha'e to borrow some from your neighbor or from the ban2 1Aow ridiculous=3 you say 1!igures are not things? they are mere ideas= and we can add them or di'ide them or multiply them or subtract them as often as we li2e /nybody can ha'e all the figures he wants 3 To be sure he can /nd when you get to loo2 upon money in the same way= you will ha'e all the money you want 1To him that hath shall be gi'en= and from him that hath not shall be ta2en away e'en that which he hath 3 To him that hath the right idea e'erything shall be gi'en= and from him who hath not that right idea shall be ta2en away e'erything he hath Thought externaliBes itself #hat we are depends entirely upon the images we hold before our mind;s eye <'ery time we thin2= we start a chain of causes= which will create conditions similar to the thoughts= which originated it <'ery thought we hold in our consciousness for any length of time becomes impressed upon our subconscious mind and creates a pattern= which the mind wea'es into our life or en'ironment /ll power is from within and is therefore under our own control #hen you can direct your thought processes= you can consciously apply them to any condition= for all that comes to us from the world without is what we;'e already imaged in the world within &o you want more money9 Sit you down now 5uietly and realiBe that money is merely an idea That your mind is possessed of unlimited ideas That being part of Uni'ersal *ind= there is no such thing as limitation or lac2 That somewhere= somehow= the ideas that shall bring you all the money you need for any right purpose are a'ailable for you That you ha'e but to put it up to your subconscious mind to find these ideas RealiBe that—believe it-and your need will be met 1#hat things so e'er ye desire= when ye pray= belie'e that ye recei'e it and ye shall ha'e it 3 &on;t forget that “believe that ye receive it.& This it is that images the thing you want on your subconscious mind /nd this it is that brings it to you 6nce you can image the belief clearly on your subconscious mind= 1whatsoe'er it is that ye as2 for ye shall ha'e it 3 !or the source of all good= of e'erything you wish for= is the Uni'ersal *ind= and you can reach it only through the subconscious /nd Uni'ersal *ind will be to you whate'er you belie'e it to be-the 2ind and lo'ing !ather whom @esus pictured= always loo2ing out for the well(being of his children-or the dread @udge that so many dogmatists would ha'e us thin2

#hen a man realiBes that his mind is part of Uni'ersal *ind= when he realiBes that he has only to ta2e any right aspiration to this Uni'ersal *ind to see it realiBed= he loses all sense of worry and fear Ae learns to dominate instead of to cringe Ae rises to meet e'ery situation= secure in the 2nowledge that e'erything necessary to the solution of any problem is in *ind= and that he has but to ta2e his problem to Uni'ersal *ind to ha'e it correctly answered !or if you ta2e a drop of water from the ocean= you 2now that it has the same properties as all the rest of the water in the ocean= the same percentage of sodium chloride The only difference between it and the ocean is in 'olume "f you ta2e a spar2 of electricity= you 2now that it has the same properties as the thunderbolt= the same power that mo'es trains or runs giant machines in factories /gain the only difference is in 'olume "t is the same with your mind and Uni'ersal *ind The only difference between them is in 'olume )our mind has the same properties as the Uni'ersal *ind= the same creati'e genius= the same power o'er all the earth= the same access to all 2nowledge Gnow this= belie'e it= use it= and 1yours is the earth and the fullness thereof 3 "n the exact proportion that you belie'e yourself to be part of Uni'ersal *ind= sharing in its all(power= in that proportion can you demonstrate the mastery o'er your own body and o'er the world about you9 /ll growth= all supply is from the world(within "f you would ha'e power= if you would ha'e wealth= you ha'e but to image it on this world within= on your subconscious mind= through belief and understanding "f you would remo'e discord= you ha'e but to remo'e the wrong images-images of ill health= of worry and trouble from within The trouble with most of us is that we li'e entirely in the world without #e ha'e no 2nowledge of that inner world which is responsible for all the conditions we meet and all the experiences we ha'e #e ha'e no conception of 1the !ather that is within us 3 The inner world promises us life and health= prosperity and happiness-dominion o'er all the earth "t promises peace and perfection for its entire offspring "t gi'es you the right way and the ade5uate way to accomplish any normal purpose 7usiness= labor= professions= exist primarily in thought /nd the outcome of your labors in them is regulated by thought Consider the difference= then= in this outcome if you ha'e at your command only the limited capacity of your conscious mind= compared with the boundless energy of the subconscious and the Uni'ersal *ind 1Thought= not money= is the real business capital=3 says Aar'ey S !irestone= 1and if you 2now absolutely that what you are doing is right= then you are bound to accomplish it in due season Thought is a dynamic energy with the power to bring its ob>ect out from the in'isible substance all about us *atter is inert= unintelligent Thought can shape and control <'ery form in which matter is today is but the expression of some thought= some desire= and some idea )ou ha'e a mind )ou can originate thought /nd thoughts are creati'e Therefore you can create for yourself that which you desire 6nce you realiBe this you are ta2ing a long step

toward success in whate'er underta2ing you ha'e in mind *ore than half the prophecies in the Scriptures refer to the time when man shall possess the earth= when tears and sorrow shall be un2nown= and peace and plenty shall be e'erywhere That time will come "t is nearer than most people thin2 possible )ou are helping it along <'ery man who is honestly trying to use the power of mind in the right way is doing his part in the great cause !or it is only through *ind that peace and plenty can be gained The earth is laden with treasures as yet undisco'ered 7ut they are e'ery one of them 2nown to Uni'ersal *ind= for it was Uni'ersal *ind that first imaged them there /nd as part of Uni'ersal *ind= they can be 2nown to you Aow else did the +rophets of old foretell= thousands of years ago= the aeroplane= the cannon= the radio9 #hat was the genius that enabled <Be2iel to argue from his potter;s wheel= his water wheel and the stro2e of the lightning to an airplane= with its wheels within wheels= dri'en by electricity and guided by man9 Aow are we to explain the descriptions of artillery in the /pocalypse and the astonishing declaration in the %ospels that the utterances of the chamber would be broadcast from the housetops9

!To the M#nner Born& !ew of us ha'e any idea of our mental powers The old idea was that man must ta2e this world as he found it Ae;d been born into a certain position in life= and to try to rise abo'e his fellows was not only the height of bad taste= but sacrilegious as well /n all(wise +ro'idence had decreed by birth the position a child should occupy in the web of organiBed society !or him to be discontented with his lot= for him to attempt to raise himself to a higher le'el= was tantamount to tempting +ro'idence The gates of Aell yawned wide for such scatterbrains= who were luc2y if in this life they incurred nothing worse than the ribald scorn of their associates That is the system that produced aristocracy and feudalism That is the system that feudalism and aristocracy stro'e to perpetuate The new idea-the basis of all democracies-is that man is not bound by any system= that he need not accept the world as he finds it Ae can rema2e the world to his own ideas "t is merely the raw material Ae can ma2e what he wills of it "t is this new idea that is responsible for all our in'entions= all our progress *an is satisfied with nothing Ae is constantly rema2ing his world /nd now more than e'er will this be true= for psychology teaches us that each one has within himself the power to become what he wills Learn to control your thought .earn to image upon your mind only the things you want to see reflected there )ou will ne'er impro'e yourself by dwelling upon the drawbac2s of your neighbors )ou will ne'er attain perfect health and strength by thin2ing of wea2(ness or disease 8o man e'er made a perfect score by watching his ri'al;s target )ou ha'e got to thin2 strength= thin2 health= thin2 riches To paraphrase +ascal- 16ur achie'ements today are but the sum of our thoughts of yesterday 3 !or thought is energy *ental images are concentrated energy /nd energy concentrated on any definite purpose becomes power To those who percei'e the nature and transcendency of force= all physical power sin2s into insignificance #hat is imagination but a form of thought9 )et it is the instrument by which all the in'entors and disco'erers ha'e opened the way to new worlds Those who grasp this force= be their state e'er so humble= their natural gifts e'er so insignificant= becomes our leading men They are our go'ernors and supreme lawgi'ers= the guides of the drifting host= which follows them as by an irre'ocable decree To 5uote %lenn Clar2 in the Atlantic 'onthly. 1#hate'er we ha'e of ci'iliBation is their wor2= theirs alone "f progress was made they made it "f spiritual facts were discerned= they discerned them "f >ustice and order were put in place of insolence and chaos= they wrought the change 8e'er is progress achie'ed by the masses Creation e'er remains the tas2 of the indi'idual 3

6ur railroads= our telephones= our automobiles= our libraries= our newspapers= our thousands of other con'eniences= comforts and necessities are due to the creati'e genius of but two per cent of our population /nd the same two per cent own a great percentage of the wealth of the country The 5uestion arises= who are they9 #hat are they9 The sons of the rich9 College men9 8o-few of them had any early ad'antages *any of them ha'e ne'er seen the inside of a college "t was grim necessity that dro'e them= and somehow= some way= they found a method of drawing upon their %enie(of (the(*ind= and through that inner force they ha'e reached success )ou don;t need to stumble and grope )ou can call upon your inner forces at will There are three steps necessaryH !irst= to realiBe that you ha'e the power? Second= to 2now what you want Third= to center your thought upon it with singleness of purpose To accomplish these steps ta2es only a fuller understanding of the +ower( that(is(within(you 7ut what is this power9 #here should you go to locate it9 "s it a thing= a place= an ob>ect9 Aas it bounds= form or material shape9 8oC Then how shall you go about finding it9 "f you ha'e begun to realize that there is a power within you= if you ha'e begun to arouse in your conscious mind the ambition and desire to use this power- you ha'e started in the pathway of wisdom "f you are willing to go forward= to endure the mental discipline of mastering this method= nothing in the world can hinder you or 2eep you from o'ercoming e'ery obstacle 7egin at once= today= to use what you ha'e learned /ll growth comes from practice /ll the forces of life are acti'e-peace->oy-power The unused talent decays 6pen the door17ehold " stand at the door and 2noc2? if /8) */8 hear my 'oice and open the door= " will come in to him= and will sup with him and he with me 3 So let us ma2e use of this dynamo= which is you. #hat is going to start it wor2ing9 )our Faith. the faith that is begotten of understanding !aith is the impulsion= the propulsion of this power within !aith is the confidence= the assurance= the enforcing truth= the 2nowing that the right idea of life will bring you into the reality of existence and the manifestation of the /ll power /ll cause is in *ind-and *ind is e'erywhere /ll the 2nowledge there is= all the wisdom there is= all the power there is= is all about you-no matter where you may be )our *ind is part of it )ou ha'e access to it "f you fail to a'ail yourself of it= you ha'e no one to blame but yourself !or= as the drop of water in the ocean shares in all the properties of the rest of the ocean water so you share in that all(power= all(wisdom of *ind "f you ha'e been sic2 and ailing= if po'erty and hardship ha'e been your lot= don;t blame it on 1fate 3 7lame yourself 1)ours is the earth and e'erything that;s in it 3 7ut you;'e got to ta!e it The power is therebut you must use it "t is round about you li2e the air you breathe )ou don;t expect others to do your breathing for you 8either can you expect them to use your *ind for you Uni'ersal

"ntelligence is not only the mind of the Creator of the uni'erse= but it is also the mind of */8= your intelligence= your mind 1.et this mind be in you= which was also in Christ @esusC3 So start today by G86#"8% that you can do anything you wish to do= ha'e anything you wish to ha'e= be anything you wish to be The rest will follow 1)e shall as2 what ye will and it shall be done unto you 3

IV 0esire/The First L#w of '#in 1/h= .o'eC Could Thou and " with !ate conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire= #ould we not shatter it to bits-and then Re(mold it nearer to the Aeart;s &esireC3 —"he /ubaiyat of 0mar 1hayyam. "f )6U had a fairy(wishing ring= what one thing would you wish for9 #ealth9 Aonor9 !ame9 .o'e9 #hat one thing do you desire abo'e e'erything else in life9 #hate'er it is= you can ha'e it #hate'er you desire wholeheartedly= with singleness of purpose-you can ha'e 7ut the first and all(important essential is to 2now what this one thing is 7efore you can win your heart;s desire= you;'e got to get clearly fixed in your mind;s eye what it is that you want "t may sound paradoxical= but few people do 2now what they want *ost of them struggle along in a 'ague sort of way= hoping-li2e *icawber-for something to turn up They are so ta2en up with the struggle that they ha'e forgotten-if they e'er 2new- what it is they are struggling for They are li2e a drowning man-they use up many times the energy it would ta2e to get them somewhere= but they fritter it away in aimless struggles - without thought= without direction= exhausting themsel'es= while getting nowhere )ou;'e got to 2now what you want before you stand much chance of getting it )ou ha'e an unfailing 1*essenger to %arcia3 in that %enie(of(your *ind-but )6U ha'e got to formulate the message /laddin would ha'e stood a poor chance of getting anything from his %enie if he had not had clearly in mind the things he wanted the %enie to get 2n the realm of mind. the realm in which is all practical power. you can possess what you want at once. 3ou have but to claim it. to visualize it. to bring it into actuality—and it is yours for the ta!ing. For the $enie*of*your*'ind can give you power over circumstances. )ealth. happiness and prosperity. And all you need to put it to wor! is an earnest. intense desire. Sounds too good to be true9 #ell= let us go bac2 for a moment to the start )ou are infected with that 1di'ine dissatisfaction with things as they are3 which has been responsible for all the great accomplishments of this world- else you would not ha'e gotten thus far in this boo2 )our heart is hungering for something better 17lessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness Nright(wise nessO for they shall be filled 3 )ou are tired of the worry and grind= tired of the deadly dull routine and daily tas2s that lead nowhere Tired of all the petty little ills and ailments that ha'e come to seem the lot of man here on earth /lways there is something within you urging you on to bigger things= gi'ing you no peace= no rest= no chance to be laBy "t is the same 1something3 that dro'e Columbus across the ocean? that dro'e Aannibal across the /lps? that dro'e <dison onward and upward from a

train boy to the in'enti'e wiBard of the century? that dro'e Aenry !ord from a poor mechanic at forty to probably the richest man in the world at sixty This 1something3 within you 2eeps telling you that you can do anything you want to do= be anything you want to be= ha'e anything you want to ha'e-and you ha'e a snea2ing suspicion that it may be right That 1something3 within you is your subconscious self= your part of Uni'ersal *ind= your %enie(of(the(brain *en call it ambition= and 1.uc2y is the man=3 says /rthur 7risbane= 1whom the &emon of /mbition harnesses and dri'es through life This wonderful little coachman is the champion dri'er of the entire world and of all history 1.uc2y you= if he is your dri'er 1Ae will 2eep you going until you do something worthwhile-wor2ing= running and mo'ing ahead “And that is how a real man ought to be driven. 1This is the little &emon that wor2s in men;s brains= that ma2es the blood tingle at the thought of achie'ement and that ma2es the face flush and grow white at the thought of failure 1<'ery one of us has this &emon for a dri'er= "8 )6UTA /T .</ST 1Unfortunately the ma>ority of us he gi'es up as 'ery poor= hopeless things= not worth dri'ing= by the time we reach twenty(fi'e or thirty 1Aow many men loo2 bac2 to their teens= when they were harnessed to the wagon of life with /mbition for a dri'er9 #hen they could not wait for the years to pass and for opportunity to come9 1"t is the duty of ambition to dri'e= and it is your duty to !eep Ambition alive and driving. 1"f you are doing nothing= if there is no dri'ing= no hurrying= no wor2ing= you may count upon it that there will be no results. 4othing much worthwhile in the years to come. 1Those that are destined to be the big men twenty years from now= when the ma>ority of us will be nobodies are those whom this demon is driving relentlessly. remorselessly. through the hot weather and the cold weather. through early hours and late hours. 1.uc2y )6U if you are in harness and dri'en by the &emon of /mbition 3 Suppose you have had disappointments= disillusionments along the way Suppose the fine point of your ambition has become blunted Remember= there is no obstacle that there is not some way around= or o'er= or through-and if you will depend less upon the 1E per cent of your abilities that reside in your conscious mind= and lea'e more to the 9E per cent that constitutes your subcon(scious= you can o'ercome all obstacles Remember this-there is no condition so hopeless= no life so far gone= that mind cannot redeem it

<'ery untoward condition is merely a lac! of something &ar2ness= you 2now= is not real "t is merely a lac2 of light Turn on the light and the dar2ness will be seen to be nothing "t 'an( ishes instantly "n the same way po'erty is simply a lac2 of necessary supply !ind the a'enue of supply and your po'erty 'anishes Sic2ness is merely the absence of health "f you are in perfect health= sic2ness cannot hurt you &octors and nurses go about at will among the sic2 without fear-and suffer as a rule far less from sic2ness than does the a'erage man or woman So there is nothing you ha'e to overcome. )ou merely ha'e to ac5uire something /nd always *ind can show you the way )ou can obtain from *ind anything you want= if you will learn how to do it 1" thin2 we can rest assured that one can do and be prac(tically what he desires to be=3 says !arnsworth in 1+ractical +sychology 3 /nd psychologists all o'er the world ha'e put the same thought in a thousand different ways 1"t is not will= but desire=3 says Charles # *ears= 1that rules the world 3 17ut=3 you will say= 1" ha'e had plenty of desires all my life ";'e always wanted to be rich Aow do you account for the difference between my wealth and position and power and that of the rich men all around me93 The M#gic Secret The answer is simply that you ha'e ne'er focused your desires into one great dominating desire )ou ha'e a host of mild desires )ou mildly wish you were rich= you wish you had a position of responsibility and influence? you wish you could tra'el at will The wishes are so many and 'aried that they conflict with each other and you get nowhere in particular )ou lac2 one intense desire= to the accomplishment of which you are willing to subordinate e'erything else &o you 2now how 8apoleon so fre5uently won battles in the face of a numerically superior foe9 7y concentrating his men at the actual point of contact! Ais artillery was often greatly outnumbered= but it accomplished far more than the enemy;s because instead of scattering his fire= he concentrated it all on the point of attac!! The time you put in aimlessly dreaming and wishing would accomplish mar'els if it were concentrated on one definite ob>ect "f you ha'e e'er ta2en a magnifying glass and let the sun;s rays play through it on some ob>ect= you 2now that as long as the rays were scattered they accomplished nothing 7ut focus them on one tiny spot and see how 5uic2ly they start something "t is the same way with your mind )ou;'e got to concentrate on one idea at a time. 17ut how can " learn to concentrate93 many people write me Concentration is not a thing to be learned "t is merely a thing to do )ou concentrate whene'er you become sufficiently interested in anything %et so interested in a ball game that you >ump up and down on your hat= slap a man you ha'e ne'er seen before on the bac2= embrace your nearest neighbor-that

is concentration 7ecome so absorbed in a thrilling play or mo'ie that you no longer realiBe the orchestra is playing or there are people around you-that is concentration /nd that is all concentration e'er is- getting so interested in some one thing that you pay no attention to anything else that is going on around you "f you want a thing badly enough= you need ha'e no worry about your ability to concentrate on it )our thoughts will >ust naturally center on it li2e bees on honey Aold in your mind the thing you most desire /ffirm it 7elie'e it to be an existing fact .et me 5uote again the words of the *aster= because there;s nothing more important to remember in this whole boo2 1Therefore " say unto you= what things so e'er ye desire= when ye pray= believe that ye receive them and ye shall ha'e them 3 /nd again " say= the most important part is the “believe that ye receive them.& )our subconscious mind is exceedingly amenable to suggestion "f you can truly belie'e that you ha'e recei'ed something= can impress that belief upon your subconscious mind= depend upon it= it will see that you ha'e it !or being a part of Uni'ersal *ind= it shares that Uni'ersal *ind;s all power 1The !ather that is within me= Ae doeth the wor2s 3 )our mind will respond to your desire in the exact proportion in which you belie'e 1/s thy faith is= so be it unto thee 3 The people who li'e in beautiful homes= who ha'e plenty to spend= who tra'el about in yachts and fine cars= are for the most part people who started out to accomplish some one definite thing. They had one clear goal in mind= and e'erything they did centered on that goal *ost men >ust >og along in a rut= going through the same old routine day after day= e2ing out a bare li'elihood= with no definite desire other than the 'ague hope that fortune will some day drop in their lap !ortune doesn;t often play such pran2s /nd a rut= you 2now= differs from a gra'e only in depth / life such as that is no better than the animals li'e #or2 all day for money to buy bread= to gi'e you strength to wor2 all the next day to buy more bread There is nothing to it but the daily search for food and sustenance 8o time for aught but worry and struggle 8o hope of anything but the surcease of sorrow in death )ou can ha'e anything you want-if you want it badly enough )ou can be anything you want to be= ha'e anything you desire= accomplish anything you set out to accomplish-if you will hold to that desire with singleness of purpose? if you will understand and 7<."<,< in your own powers to accomplish #hat is it that you wish in life9 "s it health9 "n the chapter on health " will show you that you can be radiantly well-without drugs= without tedious exercises "t matters not if you are crippled or bedridden or infirm )our body rebuilds itself entirely e'ery ele'en months )ou can start now rebuilding along perfect lines "s it wealth you wish9 "n the chapter on success " will show you how you can increase your income= how you can forge rapidly ahead in your chosen business or profession

"s it happiness you as2 for9 !ollow the rules herein laid down and you will change your whole outloo2 on life &oubts and uncertainty will 'anish= to be followed by calm assurance and abiding peace )ou will possess the things your heart desires )ou will ha'e lo'e and companionship )ou will win to contentment and happiness 7ut desire must be impressed upon the subconscious before it can be accomplished *erely conscious desire seldom gets you anything "t is li2e the daydreams that pass through your mind )our desire must be 'isualiBed= must be persisted in= must be concentrated upon= and must be impressed upon your subconscious mind &on;t bother about the means for accomplishing your desire-you can safely lea'e that to your subconscious mind "t 2nows how to do a great many things besides building and repairing your body "f you can 'isualiBe the thing you want= if you can impress upon your subconscious mind the belief that you have it. you can safely lea'e to it the finding of the means of getting it Trust the Uni'ersal *ind to show the way The mind that pro'ided e'erything in such profusion must >oy in seeing us ta2e ad'antage of that profusion 1!or herein is the !ather glorified-that ye bear much fruit 3 )ou do not ha'e to wait until tomorrow= or next year= or the next world= for happiness )ou do not ha'e to die to be sa'ed 1The Gingdom of Aea'en is within you 3 That does not mean that it is up in the hea'ens or on some star or in the next world "t means here and now! /ll the possibilities of happiness are always here and always a'ailable /t the open door of e'ery man;s life there lies this pearl of great price-the understanding of man;s dominion o'er the earth #ith that understanding and con'iction you can do e'erything= which lies before you to do= and you can do it to the satisfaction of e'eryone and the well being of yourself %od and good are synonymous /nd %od(good(is absent only to those who belie'e Ae is absent !ind your desire= impress it upon your thought= and you ha'e opened the door for opportunity /nd remember= in this new hea'en and new earth= which " am trying to show you= the door of opportunity is never closed. /s a matter of fact= you constantly ha'e all that you will ta!e. So 2eep yourself in a state of recepti'ity "t is your business to recei'e abundantly and perpetually The law of opportunity enforces its continuance and a'ailability 1<'ery good gift and e'ery perfect gift is from abo'e and cometh down from the !ather of light= with whom is no variableness. neither shadow of turning.& "nfinite *ind saith to e'ery man= 1Come ye to the open fountain 3 The understanding of the law of life will remedy e'ery discord= gi'ing 17eauty for ashes= the oil of >oy for mourning= and the garment of praise for the spirit of hea'iness 7elie'e that you share in that goodness and bounty /ct the part you wish to play in this life /ct healthy= act prosperous= and act happy *a2e such a showing with what you ha'e that you will carry the con'iction to your subconscious mind that all good and perfect gifts /R< yours Register health= prosperity and happiness on your inner mind and some fine morning soon you will wa2e to find that you are healthy= prosperous and happy= that you have your dearest wish in life

The Sou,3s Sincere 0esire &o you 2now what prayer is9 @ust an earnest desire that we ta2e to %od- to Uni'ersal *ind -for fulfillment /s *ontgomery puts it-3+rayer is the soul;s sincere desire. uttered or unex( pressed 3 "t is our Aeart;s &esire /t least= the only prayer that is worth anything is the prayer that as2s for our real desires That kind of prayer is heard. That kind of prayer is answered. *ere lip prayers get you nowhere "t doesn;t matter what your lips may say The thing that counts is what your heart desires= what your mind images on your subconscious thought= and through it on Uni'ersal *ind 1Thou= when thou prayest= be not as the hypocrites are? for they lo'e to pray standing in the synagogue and at the corners of the streets= that they may be seen of men ,erily " say unto you= they ha'e their reward 3 #hat was it these hypocrites that @esus spea2s of really wanted9 1To be seen of men 3 /nd their prayers were answered Their sincere desire was granted They were seen of men 1They ha'e their reward 3 7ut as for what their lips were saying= neither %od nor they paid any attention to it 1Thou= when thou prayest enter into thy closet= and when thou hast shut the door= pray to thy !ather which is in secret= and thy !ather which seeth in secret= shall reward thee openly 3 %o where you can be alone= where you can concentrate your thoughts on your one innermost sincere desire= where you can impress that desire upon your subconscious mind without distraction= and so reach the Uni'ersal *ind Nthe !ather of all thingsO 7ut e'en sincere desire is not enough by itself There must be 7<."<!= too 1#hat things so e'er ye desire= when ye pray= belie'e that ye recei'e them and ye shall ha'e them 3 )ou must realiBe %od;s ability to gi'e you e'ery good thing )ou must belie'e in his readiness to do it *odel your thoughts after the +salmists of old They first as2ed for that which they wanted= then 2illed all doubts and fears by affirming %od;s power and Ais willingness to grant their prayers Read any of the +salms and you will see what " mean So when you pray= as2 for the things that you want Then affirm %od;s readiness and Ais +ower to grant your prayer %lenn Clar2= in 1The Soul;s Sincere &esire=3 gi'es some wonderfully help(ful suggestions along these lines To 5uote himH 1!or money troubles= realiBeH There is no want in Aea'en= and affirmH 16ur Aea'enly !ather= we 2now that thy .o'e is as infinite as the s2y is infinite= and Thy #ays of manifesting that lo'e are as unaccountable as the stars of the hea'ens 1Thy +ower is greater than man;s horiBon= and Thy #ays of manifesting that +ower are more numerous than the sands of the sea 1/s Thou 2eepest the stars in their courses= so shalt Thou guide our steps in perfect harmony= without clash or discord of any 2ind= if we 2eep our trust in Thee !or we 2now Thou wilt 2eep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee= because he trusteth in Thee #e

2now that= if we ac2nowledge Thee in all our ways= Thou wilt direct our paths !or Thou art the %od of .o'e= %i'er of e'ery good and perfect gift= and there is none beside Thee Thou art omnipotent= omniscient= and omnipresent= in all= through all= and o'er all= the only %od /nd Thine is the Gingdom= and the +ower= and the %lory= fore'er= /men 1!or aid in thin2ing or writing= realiBeH There is no lac2 of ideas= and affirmH 1Thy wisdom is greater than all hidden treasures= and yet as instantly a'ailable for our needs as the 'ery ground beneath our feet 3 1!or happinessH There is no unhappiness in Aea'en= so affirmH 1Thy >oy is brighter than the sun at noonday and Thy #ays of expressing that @oy as countless as the sunbeams that shine upon our path 3 This is the 2ind of prayer the +salmists of old had recourse to in their hours of trouble-this is the 2ind of prayer that will bring you e'ery good and perfect gift *a2e no mista2e about this—prayer is effective. "t can do anything "t doesn;t matter how tri'ial your desires may be-if it is R"%AT for you to ha'e them= it is R"%AT for you to pray for them /ccording to a United +ress dispatch of *ay Q= 1926H 1+rayer belongs to the football field as much as to the pulpit= and a praying team stands a good chance of getting there=3 Tim .owry= 8orthwestern Uni'ersity football star= told a large church audience here 1@ust before the "ndiana(8orthwestern game last year=3 Tim said J#e worried a great deal about the outcome Then we saw that bunch of big hus2y "ndiana players coming toward us and we 2new something had to be done 5uic2ly 1J!ellows=; " said= J" belie'e in prayer and we better pray ; #e did and won a great 'ictory 1#hen the next game came= e'ery fellow prayed again 1)ou don;t need to thin2 that churches ha'e a copyright on prayer 3 "n 1+rayer as a !orce=3 / *aude Royden compares the man who trusts his desires to prayer with the swimmer who trusts himself to the waterH 1.et me gi'e you a 'ery simple figure which " thin2 may perhaps con'ey my meaning "f you are trying to swim you must belie'e that the sea is going to 2eep you afloat )ou must gi'e yourself to the sea There is the ocean and there are you in it= and " say to you= J/ccording to your faith you will be able to swimC; " 2now perfectly well that it is literally according to your faith / person who has >ust enough confidence in the sea and in himself to gi'e one little hop from the ground will certainly find that the water will lift him but not 'ery much? he will come down again +ersons who ha'e enough confidence really to start swimming but no

more= will not swim 'ery far= because their confidence is so 'ery small and they swim with such rapid stro2es= and they hold their breath to such an extent= that by and by they collapse? they swim fi'e or six= or twel'e or fourteen stro2es= but they do not get 'ery far= through lac2 of confidence 1+ersons who 2now with assurance that the sea will carry them if they do certain things= will swim 5uite calmly= serenely= happily= and will not mind if the water goes right o'er them J6h=; you say= Jthat person is doing the whole thingC; )e can6t do it without the sea! )ou might hypnotiBe people into faith? you might say= J)ou are now in the ocean? swim off the edge of this precipice; Nwhich is really a cliffO )ou might ma2e them do it= they might ha'e implicit faith in you= you might hypnotiBe them into thin2ing they were swimming? but if they swam off the edge of the cliff they would fall )ou can;t swim without the seaC " might say to you= J"t lies with you whether you swim or not= according to your faith be it unto you;? but if the sea is not there you can;t swim That is exactly what " feel about %od J/ccording to your faith be it unto you ; )es= certainly= if you try to swim in that ocean which is the lo'e of %od your faith will be rewarded= and according to your faith it will be to you "n exact proportion to your faith you will find the answer= li2e a scientific law There is not one atom of faith you put in %od that will not recei'e its answer 3 7ut rememberH you would not plant a 'aluable seed in your garden= and then= a day or a wee2 later= go out and dig it up to see if it were sprouting 6n the contrary= you would nourish it each morning with water "t is the same with your prayers &on;t plant the seed of your desire in your subconscious mind and then go out the next morning and tear it up with doubts and fears 8ourish it by holding in thought the thing you desire= by belie'ing in it= 'isualiBing it= S<<"8% it as an accomplished fact "f you as2 for my own formula for successful prayer= " would say1st Center your thoughts on the thing that you want ,isualiBe it *a2e a mental image of it )ou are planting the seed of &esire 7ut don;t be content with that +lanting alone will not ma2e a seed of corn grow "t has to be warmed by sunshine= nurtured by rain So with the seed of your &esire "t must be warmed by !aith= nurtured by constant 7elief Sost rd 2nd Read the 91 and the 2Q +salms= >ust as a reminder of %od;s power and Ais readiness to help you in all your needs Qrd &on;t forget to be than2ful= not merely for past fa'ors= but for the granting of this favor you are now as!ing! To be able to than2 %od for it sincerely= in ad'ance of its actual material mani( festation= is the finest e'idence of belief Kth 7<."<,<C +icture the thing that you want so clearly= see it in your imagination so 'i'idly= that for the moment= at least= you will actually 7<."<,< TA/T )6U A/,< "TC "t is this sincere con'iction= registered upon your subconscious mind= and through it upon Uni'ersal *ind that brings the answer to your prayers 6nce con'ince your subconscious mind that you A/,< the thing you want= and you can forget it and go on to your next problem *ind will attend to the bringing of it into being

VOLUME T5.EE V A,#ddin 6 Co$p#n1 17ut the feeble hands and helpless= %roping blindly in the dar2ness= Touch %od;s right hand in that dar2ness= /nd are lifted up and strengthened 3 -.68%!<..6# "t is not always the man who struggles hardest who gets on in the world "t is the direction as well as the energy of struggle that counts in ma2ing progress To get ahead-you must swim with the tide *en prosper and succeed who wor2 in accord with natural forces / gi'en amount of effort with these forces carries a man faster and farther than much more effort used against the current Those who wor2 blindly= regardless of these forces= ma2e life difficult for themsel'es and rarely prosper "t has been estimated by wise obser'ers that on the a'erage something li2e 9E per cent of the factors producing success or failure lie outside a man;s conscious efforts-separate from his daily round of details To the extent that he cooperates with the wisdom and power of Uni'ersal *ind he is successful= well and happy To the extent that he fails to cooperate= he is unsuccessful= sic2 and miserable /ll down the ages some ha'e been enabled to 1taste and see that the .ord is good 3 +rophets and Seers being blessed with the lo'ing 2indness of %od= ha'e proclaimed a %od of uni'ersal goodness sayingH 1The earth is full of the goodness of the .ord3? 1Thou wilt show me the path of life? in Thy presence is fullness of >oy 3 8ow we 2now that this "nfinite %ood is not more a'ailable to one than it is to all #e 2now that the only limit to it is in our capacity to recei'e "f you had a problem in mathematics to wor2 out= you would hardly gather together the necessary figures and lea'e them to arrange themsel'es in their proper se5uence )ou would 2now that while the method for sol'ing e'ery problem has been figured out= you ha'e got to wor! it The principles are there= but you ha'e got to apply them The first essential is to understand the principle-to learn how it wor2s-how to use it The second-and e'en more important part-is to /++.) that understanding to the problem in hand "n the same way= the +rinciple of "nfinite <nergy= "nfinite Supply= is e'er a'ailable 7ut that <nergy= that Supply= is static )ou;'e got to ma2e it dynamic )ou;'e got to understand the law )ou;'e got to apply your understanding in order to sol'e your problems of po'erty= discord= and disease

Science shows that it is possible to accomplish any good thing 7ut distrust of your ability to reach the goal desired often Uholds you bac2 and failure is the ine'itable result 6nly by understanding that there is but one power-and that this power is *ind= not circumstances or en'ironment-is it possible to bring your real abilities to the surface and put them to wor2 !ew deny that intelligence go'erns the uni'erse "t matters not whether you call this intelligence Uni'ersal *ind or +ro'idence or %od or merely 8ature /ll admit "ts directing power /ll admit that "t is a force for good= for progress 7ut few realiBe that our own minds are a part of this Uni'ersal *ind in >ust the same way that the rays of the sun are part of the sun "f we will wor2 in harmony with "t= we can draw upon Uni'ersal *ind for all power= all intelligence= in the same way that the sun;s rays draw upon their source for the heat and light they bring the earth "t is not enough to 2now that you ha'e this power )ou must put it into practice-not once= or twice= but e'ery hour and e'ery day &on;t be discouraged if at first it doesn;t always wor2 #hen you first studied arithmetic= your problems did not always wor2 out correctly= did they9 )et you did not on that account doubt the principle of mathematics )ou 2new that the fault was with your methods= not with the principle "t is the same in this The power is there Correctly used= it can do anything /ll will agree that the *ind= which first brought the .ife +rinciple to this earth-which imaged the earth= itself and the trees and the plants and the animals-is all(powerful /ll will agree that to sol'e any problem= to meet any need= *ind has but to realiBe the need and it will be met #hat most of us do not understand or realiBe is that we oursel'es= being part of Uni'ersal *ind= ha'e this same power @ust as the drop of water from the ocean has all the properties of the great bul2 of the water in the ocean @ust as the spar2 of electricity has all the properties of the thunderbolt /nd ha'ing the power= we ha'e only to realiBe it and use it to get from life any good we may desire "n the beginning all was 'oid-space-nothingness Aow did Uni'ersal *ind construct the planets= the firmaments= the earth and all things on and in it from this formless 'oid9 7y first ma!ing a mental image on which to build. That is what you= too= must do )ou control your destiny= your fortune= your happiness to the exact extent to which you can thin2 them out= ,"RU/."R< them= S<< them= and allow no 'agrant thought of fear or worry to mar their completion and beauty The 5uality of your thought is the measure of your power Clear= forceful thought has the power of attracting to itself e'erything it may need for the fruition of those thoughts /s # & #attles puts it in his 1Science of %etting Rich3H 1There is a thin2ing stuff from which all things are made and which= in its original state=

permeates= penetrates= and fills the interspaces of the uni'erse / thought in this substance produces the thing that is imagined by the thought *an can form things in his thought= and= by impressing his thought upon formless substance= can cause the thing he thin2s about to be created 3 The connecting lin2 between your conscious mind and the Uni'ersal is thought= and e'ery thought that is in harmony with progress and good= e'ery thought that is freighted with the right idea= can penetrate to Uni'ersal *ind /nd penetrating to it= it comes bac2 with the power of Uni'ersal *ind to accomplish it )ou don;t need to originate the ways and means The Uni'ersal *ind 2nows how to bring about any necessary results There is but one right way to sol'e any gi'en problem #hen your human >udgment is unable to decide what that one right way is= turn to Uni'ersal *ind for guidance )ou need ne'er fear the outcome= for if you heed its ad'ice you cannot go wrong /lways remember-your mind is but a conductor-good or poor as you ma2e it-for the power of Uni'ersal *ind /nd thought is the connecting energy Use that conductor= and you will impro'e its conducti'ity &emand much= and you will recei'e the more The Uni'ersal is not a niggard in any of its gifts 1/s2 and ye shall recei'e= see2 and ye shall find= 2noc2 and it shall be opened unto you 3 That is the law of life /nd the destiny of man lies not in po'erty and hardship= but in li'ing up to his high estate in unity with Uni'ersal *ind= with the power that go'erns the uni'erse To loo2 upon po'erty and sic2ness as sent by %od and therefore ine'itable= is the way of the wea2ling %od ne'er sent us anything but good #hat is more= Ae has ne'er yet failed to gi'e to those who would use them the means to o'ercome any condition not of Ais ma2ing Sic2ness and po'erty are not of Ais ma2ing They are not e'idences of 'irtue= but of wea2ness %od ga'e us e'erything in abundance= and he expects us to manifest that abundance "f you had a son you lo'ed 'ery much= and you surrounded him with good things which he had only to exert himself in order to reach= you wouldn;t li2e it if he showed himself to the world half(star'ed= ill(2empt and clothed in rags= merely because he was unwilling to exert himself enough to reach for the good things you had pro'ided 8o more= in my humble opinion= does %od *an;s principal business in life= as " see it= is to establish a contact with Uni'ersal *ind "t is to ac5uire an understanding of this power that is in him 1#ith all thy getting= get understanding=3 said Solomon 1Aappy is the man that findeth wisdom= /nd the man that getteth understanding !or the gaining of it is better than the gaining of sil'er /nd the profit thereof than fine gold She is more precious than rubiesH /nd none of the things thou canst desire are to be compared unto her .ength of days is in her right handH "n her left hand are riches and honor

Aer ways are ways of pleasantness= /nd all her paths are peace She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her /nd happy is e'ery one that retaineth her 3 —8roverbs. #hen you become conscious= e'en to a limited degree= of your oneness with Uni'ersal *ind= your ability to call upon "t at will for anything you may need= it ma2es a different man of you %one are the fears gone are the worries )ou 2now that your success= your health= your happiness will be measured only by the degree to which you can impress the fruition of your desires upon mind The toil and worry= the wearisome grind and the bac2brea2ing wor2= will go in the future as in the past to those who will not use their minds The less they use them= the more they will sweat /nd the more they wor2 only from the nec2 down= the less they will be paid and the more hopeless their lot will become "t is *ind that rules the world 7ut to use your mind to the best ad'antage doesn;t mean to toil along with the mere conscious part of it "t means hitching up your conscious mind with the *an "nside )ou= with the little 1*ental 7rownies=3 as Robert .ouis Ste'enson called them= and then wor2ing together for a definite end 1*y 7rowniesC %od bless themC3 said Ste'enson= 1#ho do one(half of my wor2 for me when " am fast asleep= and in all human li2elihood do the rest for me as well when " am wide awa2e and foolishly suppose that " do it myself " had long been wanting to write a boo2 on man;s double being !or two days " went about rac2ing my brains for a plot of any sort= and on the second night " dreamt the scene in &r @e2yll and *r Ayde at the window? and a scene= afterward split in two= in which Ayde= pursued= too2 the powder and underwent the change in the presence of his pursuer 3 *any another famous writers ha'e spo2en in similar strain= and e'ery man who has problems to sol'e has had li2e experiences )ou 2now how= after you ha'e studied a problem from all angles= it sometimes seems worse >umbled than when you started on it .ea'e it then for a while-forget it-and when you go bac2 to it= you find your thoughts clarified= the line of reasoning wor2ed out= your problem sol'ed for you "t is your little 1*ental 7rownies3 who ha'e done the wor2 for youC The flash of genius does not originate in your own brain Through intense concentration you;'e established a circuit through your subconscious mind with the Uni'ersal= and it is from "t that the inspiration comes /ll genius= all progress= is from the same source "t lies with you merely to learn how to establish this circuit at will so that you can call upon "t at need "t can be done 1"n the "nner Consciousness of each of us=3 5uotes &umont in 1The *aster *ind=3 1there are forces which act much the same as would countless tiny mental brownies or helpers who are anxious and willing to assist us in our mental wor2= if we will but ha'e confidence and trust

in them This is a psychological truth expressed in the terms of the old fairy tales The process of calling into ser'ice these "nner Consciousness helpers is similar to that which we constantly employ to recall some forgotten fact or name #e find that we cannot recollect some desired fact= date= or name= and instead of rac2ing our brains with an increased effort= we Nif we ha'e learned the secretO pass on the matter to the "nner Consciousness with a silent command= JRecollect this name for me=; and then go on with our ordinary wor2 /fter a few minutes-or it may be hours-all of a sudden= popC will come the missing name or fact before us-flashed from the planes of the "nner Consciousness= by the help of the 2indly wor2ers or Jbrownies; of those planes The experience is so common that we ha'e ceased to wonder at it= and yet it is a wonderful manifestation of the "nner Consciousness; wor2ings of the mind Stop and thin2 a moment= and you will see that the missing word does not present itself accidentally= or J>ust because ; There are mental processes at wor2 for your benefit= and when they ha'e wor2ed out the problem for you they gleefully push it up from their plane on to the plane of the outer consciousness where you may use it 1#e 2now of no better way of illustrating the matter than by this fanciful figure of the Jmental brownies=; in connection with the illustration of the Jsubconscious storehouse ; "f you would learn to ta2e ad'antage of the wor2 of these Subconscious 7rownies= we ad'ise you to form a mental picture of the Subconscious Storehouse in which is stored all sorts of 2nowledge that you ha'e placed there during your lifetime= as well as the impressions that you ha'e ac5uired by race inheritance-racial memory= in fact The information stored away has often been placed in the storage rooms without any regard for systematic storing= or arrangement= and when you wish to find something that has been stored away there a long time ago= the exact place being forgotten= you are compelled to call to your assistance the little brownies of the mind= which perform faithfully your mental command= JRecollect this for meC; These brownies are the same little chaps that you charge with the tas2 of wa2ing you at four o;cloc2 tomorrow morning when you wish to catch an early train-and they obey you well in this wor2 of the mental alarm( cloc2 These same little chaps will also flash into your consciousness the report= J" ha'e an engagement at two o;cloc2 with @ones;-when loo2ing at your watch you will see that it is >ust a 5uarter before the hour of two= the time of your engagement 1#ell then= if you will examine carefully into a sub>ect which you wish to master= and will pass along the results of your obser'ations to these Subconscious 7rownies= you will find that they will wor2 the raw materials of thought into shape for you in a comparati'ely short time They will analyBe= systematiBe= collate= and arrange in consecuti'e order the 'arious details of information which you ha'e passed on to them= and will add thereto the articles of similar information that they will find stored away in the recesses of your memory "n this way they will group together 'arious scattered bits of 2nowledge that you ha'e forgotten /nd= right here= let us say to you that you ne'er absolutely forget anything that you ha'e placed in your mind )ou may be unable to recollect certain things= but they are not lost- sometime later some associati'e connection will be made with some other fact= and loC the missing idea will be found fitted nicely into its place in the larger idea-the wor2 of our little brownies Remember Thompson;s statementH J"n 'iew of ha'ing to wait for the results of these unconscious processes= " Jha'e pro'ed the habit of getting together material in ad'ance= and

then lea'ing the mass to digest itself until " am ready to write about it ; This subconscious Jdigestion; is really the wor2 of our little mental brownies 1There are many ways of setting the brownies to wor2 8early e'eryone has had some experience= more or less= in the matter= although often it is produced almost unconsciously= and without purpose and intent +erhaps the best way for the a'erage person-or rather the ma>ority of persons-to get the desired results is for one to get as clear an idea of what one really wants to 2now-as clear an idea or mental image of the 5uestion you wish answered Then after rolling it around in your mind-mentally chewing it= as it were-gi'ing it a high degree of 'oluntary attention= you can pass it on to your Subconscious *entality with the mental commandH JAttend to this for me—wor! out the answer!; or some similar order This command may be gi'en silently= or else spo2en aloud- either will do Spea2 to the Subconscious *entality-or its little wor2ers->ust as you would spea2 to persons in your employ= 2indly but firmly Tal2 to the little wor2ers= and firmly command them to do your wor2 /nd then forget all about the matter-throw it off your conscious mind= and attend to your other tas2s Then in due time will come your answer-flashed into your consciousness -perhaps not until the 'ery minute that you must decide upon the matter= or need the information )ou may gi'e your brownies orders to report at such and such a time->ust as you do when you tell them to awa2en you at a certain time in the morning so as to catch the early train= or >ust as they remind you of the hour of your appointment= if you ha'e them all well trained 3 Aa'e you e'er read the story by Richard Aarding &a'is of 1The *an #ho Could 8ot .ose93 "n it the hero is intensely interested in racing Ae has studied records and 1dope3 sheets until he 2nows the history of e'ery horse bac2ward and forward The day before the big race he is reclining in an easy chair= thin2ing of the morrow;s race= and he drops off to sleep with that thought on his mind 8aturally= his subconscious mind ta2es it up= with the result that he dreams the exact outcome of the race That was mere fiction= of course= but if races were run solely on the speed and stamina of the horses= it would be entirely possible to wor2 out the results in >ust that way Unfortunately= other factors fre5uently enter into e'ery betting game 7ut the idea behind &a'is; story is entirely right The way to contact with your subconscious mind= the way to get the help of the 1*an "nside )ou3 in wor2ing out any problem isH !irst= fill your mind with e'ery bit of information regarding that problem that you can lay your hands on Second= pic2 out a chair or lounge or bed where you can recline in perfect comfort= where you can forget your body entirely Third= let your mind dwell upon the problem for a moment= not worrying= not fretting= but placidly= and then turn it o'er to the 1*an "nside )ou 3 Say to him-3This is your problem )ou can do anything )ou 2now the answer to e'erything #or2 this out for meC3 /nd

utterly relax &rop off to sleep= if you can /t least= drop into one of those half(sleepy= half( wa2eful re'eries that 2eep other thoughts from obtruding upon your consciousness= &o as /laddin did-summon your %enii= gi'e him your orders= then forget the matter= secure in the 2nowledge that he will attend to it for you #hen you wa2en= you will have the answer! !or whate'er thought= whate'er problem you can get across to your subconscious mind at the moment of dropping off to sleep= that 1*an "nside )ou=3 that %enie(of(your(*ind will wor2 out for you 6f course= not e'eryone can succeed in getting the right thought across to the subconscious at the first or the second attempt "t re5uires understanding and faith= >ust as the wor2ing out of problems in mathematics re5uires an understanding of and faith in the principles of mathematics 7ut 2eep on trying= and you #".. do it /nd when you do= the results are sure. "f it is something that you want= ,"SU/."R< it first in your mind;s eye= see it in e'ery possible detail= see yourself going through e'ery mo'e it will be necessary for you to go through when your wish comes into being 7uild up a complete story= step by step= >ust as though you were acting it all out %et from it e'ery ounce of pleasure and satisfaction that you can 7e than!ful for this gift that has come to you Then relax? go on to sleep if you can? gi'e the 1*an "nside )ou3 a chance to wor2 out the consummation of your wish without interference #hen you wa2en= hold it all pleasurably in thought again for a few moments &on;t let doubts and fears creep in= but go ahead= confidently= 2nowing that your wish is wor2ing itself out Gnow this= belie'e it-and if there is nothing harmful in it= "T #".. #6RG 6UTC !or somewhere in Uni'ersal *ind there exists the correct solution of e'ery problem "t matters not how stupendous and complicated= nor how simple a problem may appear to be There always exists the right solution in Uni'ersal *ind /nd because this solution does exist= there also exists the ability to ascertain and to pro'e what that solution is )ou can 2now= and you can do= e'ery right thing #hate'er it is necessary for you to 2now= whate'er it is necessary for you to do= you can 2now and you can do= if you will but see2 the help of Uni'ersal *ind and be go'erned by its suggestions Try this method e'ery night for a little while= and the problem does not exist that you cannot sol'e

VI See )ourse,f 0oing It )ou say big corporations scheme To 2eep a fellow down? They dri'e him= shame him= star'e him= too= "f he so much as frown %od 2nows " hold no brief for them? Still= come with me to(day /nd watch those fat directors meet= !or this is what they sayH 1"n all our force not one to ta2e The new wor2 that we planC "n all the thousand men we;'e hired #here shall we find a man93 -ST C./"R /&/*S D )ou;'e often heard it said that a man is worth T2 a day from the nec2 down Aow much he;s worth from the nec2 up depends upon how much he is able to S<< 1#ithout 'ision the people perish3 did not refer to good eyesight "t was the eyes of the mind that counted in days of old >ust as they do today #ithout them you are >ust so much power 1on the hoof=3 to be dri'en as a horse or an ox is dri'en /nd you are worth only a little more than they 7ut gi'en 'ision-imagination-the ability to 'isualiBe conditions and things a month or a year ahead? gi'en the eyes of the mind-there;s no limit to your 'alue or to your capabilities The locomoti'e= the steamboat= the automobile= the aeroplane-all existed complete in the imagination of some man before e'er they became facts The wealthy men= the big men= the successful men= en'isioned their successes in their minds; eyes before e'er they won them from the world !rom the beginning of time= nothing has e'er ta2en on material shape without first being 'isualiBed in mind The only difference between the sculptor and the mason is in the mental image behind their wor2 Rodin employed masons to hew his bloc2s of marble into the general shape of the figure he was about to form "hat was mere Thin2er 3 D!rom 1"t Can 7e &one 3 Copyright 1921= %eorge Sully mechanical labor. Then Rodin too2 it in hand and from that rough(hewn piece of stone there sprang the wondrous figure of 1The Company "hat was art! The difference was all in the imagination behind the hands that wielded mallet and chisel /fter Rodin had formed his masterpiece= ordinary wor2men copied it by the thousands

Rodin;s wor2 brought fabulous sums The copies brought day wages Concei'ing ideascreating something-is what pays= in sculpture as in all else *ere handwor2 is worth only hand wages 1The imagination=3 says %lenn Clar2 in 1The Soul;s Sincere &esire=3 1is of all 5ualities in man the most %od(li2e- that which associates him most closely with %od The first mention we read of man in the 7ible is where he is spo2en of as an Jimage ; J.et us ma2e man in our image= after our li2eness ; The only place where an image can be concei'ed is in the imagination Thus man= the highest creation of %od= was a creation of %od;s imagination 1The source and center of all man;s creati'e power-the power that abo'e all others lifts him abo'e the le'el of brute creation= and that gi'es him dominion= is his power of ma2ing images= or the power of the imagination There are some who ha'e always thought that the imagination was something= which ma2es(belie'e that which is not This is fancy-not imagination !ancy would con'ert that which is real into pretense and sham? imagination enables one to see through the appearance of a thing to what it really is 3 There is a 'ery real law of cause and effect= which ma2es the dream of the dreamer come true "t is the law of 'isualiBation-the law that calls into being in this outer material world e'erything that is real in the inner world "magination pictures the thing you desire ,"S"68 idealiBes it "t reaches beyond the thing that is= into the conception of what can be "magination gi'es you the picture ,ision gi'es you the impulse to ma2e the picture your own *a2e your mental image clear enough= picture it 'i'idly in e'ery detail= and the %enie(of( your(*ind will speedily bring it into being as an e'eryday reality That law holds true of e'erything in life There is nothing you can rightfully desire that cannot be brought into being through 'isualiBation Suppose there;s a position you want- the general manager(ship of your company See yourself->ust as you are now-sitting in the general manager;s chair See your name on his door See yourself handling his affairs as you would handle them %et that picture impressed upon your subconscious mind See itC 7elieve itC The %enie(of(your(*ind will find the way to ma2e it come true The 2eynote of successful 'isualiBation is thisH See things= as you would ha'e them be instead of as they are Close your eyes and ma2e clear mental pictures *a2e them loo2 and act >ust as they would in real life "n short= daydream- but day dream with a purpose Concentrate on the one idea to the exclusion of all others= and continue to concentrate on that one idea until it has been accomplished &o you want an automobile9 / home9 / factory9 They can all be won in the same way They are in their essence all of them ideas of mind= and if you will but build them up in your own mind first= stone by stone= complete in e'ery detail= you will find that the %enie(of(your( *ind can build them up similarly in the material world

1The building of a trans(continental railroad from a mental picture=3 says C # Chamberlain in 1The Uncommon Sense of /pplied +sychology=3 1gi'es the a'erage indi'idual an idea that it is a big >ob The fact of the matter is= the achie'ement= as well as the perfect mental picture= is made up of millions of little >obs= each fitting in its proper place and helping to ma2e up the whole 1/ s2yscraper is built from indi'idual bric2s= the laying of each bric2 being a single >ob which must be completed before the next bric2 can be laid 3 "t is the same with any wor2= any study To 5uote +rofessor @amesH 1/s we become permanent drun2ards by so many separate drin2s= so we become saints in the moral= and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres= by so many separate acts and hours of wor2ing .et no youth ha'e any anxiety about the upshot of his education whate'er the line of it may be "f he 2eeps faithfully busy each hour of the wor2ing day he may safely lea'e the final result to itself Ae can with perfect certainty count on wa2ing some fine morning= to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation= in whate'er pursuit he may ha'e singled out )oung people should 2now this truth in ad'ance The ignorance of it has probably engendered more discouragement and faintheartedness in youths embar2ing on arduous careers than all other causes ta2en together 3 Remember that the only limit to your capabilities is the one you place upon them There is no law of limitation The only law is of supply Through your subconscious mind you can draw upon uni'ersal supply for anything you wish The ideas of Uni'ersal *ind are as countless as the sands on the seashore Use them /nd use them la'ishly= >ust as they are gi'en There is a little poem by @essie 7 RittenhouseD that so well describes the limitations that most of us put upon oursel'es that " 5uote it hereH 1" bargained with .ife for a penny= /nd .ife would pay no more= howe'er " begged at e'ening when " counted my scanty store 1!or .ife is a >ust employer? Ae gi'es you what you as2= but once you ha'e set the wages= why= you must bear the tas2 1" wor2ed for a menial;s hire= 6nly to learn= dismayed= That any wage " had as2ed of .ife= .ife would ha'e paid 3 /im highC "f you miss the moon= you may hit a star <'eryone admits that this world and all the 'ast firmament must ha'e been thought into shape from the formless 'oid by some Uni'ersal *ind That same Uni'ersal *ind rules today= and it has gi'en to each form of life power to attract to itself whate'er it needs for its perfect growth The tree= the plant= and the animal-each one finds its need )ou are an intelligent= reasoning creature )our mind is part of Uni'ersal *ind /nd you

ha'e power to say what you re5uire for perfect growth &on;t be a niggard with yourself &on;t sell yourself for a penny #hate'er price you set upon yourself= life will gi'e So aim high &emand muchC *a2e a clear= distinct mental image of what it is you want Aold it in your thought ,isualiBe it= see it= and belie'e itC The ways and means of satisfying that desire will follow !or supply always comes on the heels of demand "t is by doing this that you ta2e your fate out of the hands of chance "t is in this way that you control the experiences you are to ha'e in life 7ut be sure to 'isualiBe only what you want The law wor2s both ways "f you 'isualiBe your worries and your fears= you will ma2e them real Control your thought and you will control circumstances Conditions will be what you ma2e them *ost of us are li2e factories where two( thirds of the machines are idle= where the wor2men mo'e around in a listless= dispirited sort of way= doing only the tenth part of what they could do if the head of the plant were watching and directing them "nstead of that= he is off idly dreaming or waiting for something to turn up #hat he needs is someone to point out to him his listless wor2men and idle machines= and show him how to put each one to wor2ing full time and o'ertime /nd that is what )6U need= too )ou are wor2ing at only a tenth of your capacity )ou are doing only a tenth of what you are capable of The time you spend idly wishing or worrying can be used in so directing your subconscious mind that it will bring you anything of good you may desire +hilip of *acedon= /lexander;s father= perfected the 1phalanx3-a triangular formation which enabled him to center the whole weight of his attac2 on one point in the opposing line "t dro'e through e'erything opposed to it "n that day and age it was in'incible /nd the idea is >ust as in'incible today Geep the one thought in mind= S<< it being carried out step by step= and you can 2nit any group of wor2ers into one homogeneous whole= all centered on the one idea )ou can accomplish any one thing )ou can put across any definite idea Geep that mental picture e'er in mind and you will ma2e it as in'incible as was /lexander;s phalanx of old D !rom 1The &oor of &reams=3 Aoughton= *uffin 0 CE = 7oston 1"t is not the guns or armament 6r the money they can pay= "t;s the close cooperation That ma2es them win the day "t is not the indi'idual 6r the army as a whole 7ut the e'erlasting team wor2 of e'ery bloomin; soul 3 – @ */S68 G864

The error of the ages is the tendency man2ind has always shown to limit the power of *ind= or its willingness to help in time of need 1Gnow ye not=3 said +aul= 1that ye are the temples of the .i'ing %od93 8o-most of us do not 2now it 6r at least= if we do= we are li2e the "ndian family out on the Chero2ee reser'ation 6il had been found on their land and money poured in upon them *ore money than they had e'er 2nown was in the world Someone persuaded them to build a great house= to ha'e it beautifully furnished= richly decorated The house when finished was one of the show places of that locality 7ut the "ndians= while 'ery proud of their showy house= continued to live in their old sod shac!C So it is with many of us #e may 2now that we are 1temples of the .i'ing %od 3 #e may e'en be proud of that fact 7ut we ne'er ta2e ad'antage of it to dwell in that temple= to proclaim our dominion o'er things and conditions #e ne'er a'ail oursel'es of the power that is ours The great +rophets of old had the forward loo2 Theirs was the era of hope and expectation They loo2ed for the time when the re'elation should come that was to ma2e men 1Sons of %od 3 1They shall obtain >oy and gladness= and sorrow and sighing shall flee away 3 @esus came to fulfill that re'elation 1/s2 and ye shall recei'e= that your >oy may be full 3 The world has turned in 'ain to matter and materialistic philosophy for deli'erance from its woes "n the future the only march of actual progress will be in the mental realm= and this progress will not be in the way of human speculation and theoriBing= but in the actual demonstration of the Uni'ersal= "nfinite *ind The world stands today within the 'estibule of the 'ast realm of di'ine intelligence= wherein is found the transcendent= practical power of *ind o'er all things 1#hat eye ne'er saw= nor ear e'er heard= #hat ne'er entered the mind of man- <'en all that %od has prepared for those who lo'e Aim 3

VII !As A M#n Thin7eth& 1/s / *an Thin2eth3 16ur remedies in oursel'es do lie #hich we ascribe to hea'en 3 -SA/G<S+</R< "n our great(grandfather;s day= when witches flew around by night and cast their spell upon all unluc2y enough to cross them= men thought that the power of sic2ness or health= of good fortune or ill= resided outside himself or herself #e laugh today at such benighted superstition 7ut e'en in this day and age there are few who realiBe that the things they see are but effects !ewer still who ha'e any idea of the causes by which those effects are brought about <'ery human experience is an effect )ou laugh= you weep= you >oy= you sorrow= you suffer or you are happy <ach of these is an effect= the cause of which can be easily traced 7ut all the experiences of life are not so easily traceable to their primary causes #e sa'e money for our old age #e put it into a ban2 or into safe bonds-and the ban2 brea2s or the railroad or corporation goes into a recei'ership #e stay at home on a holiday to a'oid ris2 of accident= and fall off a stepladder or down the stairs and brea2 a limb #e dri'e slowly for fear of danger= and a speeding car comes from behind and 2noc2s us into a ditch / man goes o'er 8iagara !alls in a barrel without harm= and then slips on a banana peel= brea2s his leg= and dies of it #hat is the cause bac2 of it all9 "f we can find it and control it= we can control the effect #e shall no longer then be the football of fate #e shall be able to rise abo'e the conception of life in which matter is our master There is but one answer The world without is a reflection of the world within #e image thoughts of disaster upon our subconscious minds and the %enie(of(our *ind finds ways of bringing them into effect-e'en though we stay at home= e'en though we ta2e e'ery possible precaution The mental image is what counts= be it for good or ill "t is a de'astating or a beneficent force= >ust as we choose to ma2e it To paraphrase Thac2eray-3The world is a loo2ing(glass= and gi'es bac2 to e'ery man the reflection of his own thought 3 !or matter is not real substance *aterial science today shows that matter has no natural eternal existence &r #illis R #hitney= in an address before the /merican Chemical Society on /ugust Ith= 192F= discussing 1*atter-"s There /nything "n "t93 stated= 1the most we 2now about matter is that it is almost entirely space "t is as empty as the s2y "t is almost as empty as a perfect 'acuum= although it usually contains a lot of energy 3 Thought is the only force @ust as polarity controls the electron= gra'itation the planets= tropism the plants and lower animals->ust so thought controls the action and the en'ironment of man /nd thought

is sub>ect wholly to the control of mind "ts direction rests with us #alt #hitman had the right of it when he said-38othing external to me has any power o'er me 3 The happenings that occur in the material world are in themsel'es neither cheerful nor sorrowful= >ust as outside of the eye that obser'es them colors are neither green nor red "t is our thoughts that ma2e them so /nd we can color those thoughts according to our own fancy #e can ma2e the world without but a reflection of the world within #e can ma2e matter a force sub>ect entirely to the control of our mind !or matter is merely our wrong 'iew of what Uni'ersal *ind sees rightly #e cannot change the past experience= but we can determine what the new ones shall be li2e #e can ma2e the coming day >ust what we want it to be #e can be tomorrow what we thin2 today !or the thoughts are causes and the conditions are the effects #hat is the reason for most failures in life9 The fact that they first thought failure? they allowed competition= hard times= fear and worry to undermine their confidence "nstead of wor2ing aggressi'ely ahead= spending money to ma2e more money= they stopped e'ery possible outlay= tried to 1play safe=3 but expected others to continue spending with them #ar is not the only place where 1The best defensi'e is a strong offensi'e 3 The law of compensation is always at wor2 *an is not at the caprice of fate Ae is his own fate 1/s a man thin2eth in his heart= so is he 3 #e are our own past thoughts= with the things that these thoughts ha'e attracted to us added on The successful man has no time to thin2 of failure Ae is too busy thin2ing up new ways to succeed )ou can;t pour water into a 'essel already full /ll about you is energy-electronic energy= exactly li2e that which ma2es up the solid ob>ects you possess The only difference is that the loose energy round about is unappropriated "t is still 'irgin gold-undisco'ered= unclaimed )ou can thin2 it into anything you wish-into gold or dross= into health or sic2ness= into strength or wea2ness= into success or failure #hich sha1l it be9 1There is nothing either good or bad=3 said Sha2espeare= 1but thin2ing ma2es it so 3 The understanding of that law will enable you to control e'ery other law that exists "n it is to be found the panacea for all ills= the satisfaction of all want= all desire "t is Creati'e *ind;s own pro'ision for man;s freedom Aa'e you e'er read 7asil Ging;s 1Con5uest of !ear39 "f you ha'en;t= do so by all means Aere is the way he 'isions the futureH 1Ta2ing Aim N@esusO as our standard we shall wor2 out= " 'enture to thin2= to the following points of progressH 1a The control of matter in furnishing oursel'es with food and drin2 by means more direct

than at present employed= as Ae turned water into wine and fed the multitudes with the loa'es and fishes 1b The control of matter by putting away from oursel'es= by methods more sure and less roundabout than those of today= sic2ness= blindness= infirmity= and deformity 1c The control of matter by regulating our atmospheric conditions as Ae stilled the tempest 1d The control of matter by restoring to this phase of existence those who ha'e passed out of it before their time= or who can ill be spared from it= as Ae Jraised; three young people from Jthe dead; and +eter and +aul followed Ais example 1e The control of matter in putting it off and on at will= as Ae in Ais death and resurrection 1f The control of matter in passing altogether out of it= as Ae in what we call Ais /scension into Aea'en 3 *ortals are healthy or unhealthy= happy or unhappy= strong or wea2= ali'e or dead= in the proportion that they thin2 thoughts of health or illness= strength or wea2ness )our body= li2e all other material things= manifests only what your mind entertains in belief "n a general way you ha'e often noticed this yourself / man with an ugly disposition Nwhich is a mental stateO will ha'e harsh= unlo'ely features 6ne with a gentle disposition will ha'e a smiling and serene countenance /ll the other organs of the human body are e5ually responsi'e to thought #ho has not seen the face become red with rage or white with fear9 #ho has not 2nown of people who became desperately ill following an outburst of temper9 +hysicians declare that >ust as fear= irritability and hate distort the features? they li2ewise distort the heart= stomach and li'er <xperiments conducted on a cat shortly after a meal showed that when it was purring contentedly= its digesti'e organs functioned perfectly 7ut when a dog was brought into the room and the cat drew bac2 in fear and anger= the 4(ray showed that its digesti'e organs were so contorted as to be almost tied up in a 2notC <ach of us ma2es his own world-and he ma2es it through mind "t is a commonplace fact that no two people see the same thing ali2e 1/ primrose by a ri'er;s brim= a yellow primrose was to him= and it was nothing more 3 Thoughts are the causes Conditions are merely effects #e can mould our surroundings and oursel'es by resolutely directing our thoughts towards the goal we ha'e in mind 6rdinary animal life is 'ery definitely controlled by temperature= by climate= by seasonal conditions *an alone can ad>ust himself to any reasonable temperature or condition *an alone has been able to free himself to a great extent from the control of natural forces through his understanding of the relation of cause and effect /nd now man is beginning to get a glimpse of the final freedom that shall be his from all material causes when he shall ac5uire

the complete understanding that mind is the only cause and that effects are what he sees 1#e moderns are unaccustomed=3 says one talented writer= 1to the mastery o'er our own inner thoughts and feelings That a man should be a prey to any thought that chances to ta2e possession of his mind= is commonly among us assumed as una'oidable "t may be a matter of regret that he should be 2ept awa2e all night from anxiety as to the issue of a lawsuit on the morrow= but that he should ha'e the power of determining whether he be 2ept awa2e or not seems an extra'agant demand The image of an impending calamity is no doubt odious= but its 'ery odiousness Nwe sayO ma2es it haunt the mind all the more pertinaciously= and it is useless to expel it )et this is an absurd position for man= the heir of all the ages= to be inH Aag( ridden by the flimsy creatures of his own brain "f a pebble in our boot torments us= we expel it #e ta2e off the boot and sha2e it out /nd once the matter is fairly understood= it is >ust as easy to expel an intruding and obnoxious thought from the mind /bout this there ought to be no mista2e= no two opinions The thing is ob'ious= clear and unmista2able "t should be as easy to expel an obnoxious thought from the mind as to sha2e a stone out of your shoe? and until a man can do that= it is >ust nonsense to tal2 about his ascendancy o'er nature= and all the rest of it Ae is a mere sla'e= and a prey to the bat(winged phantoms that flit through the corridors of his own brain )et the weary and careworn faces that we meet by thousands= e'en among the affluent classes of ci'iliBation= testify only too clearly how seldom this mastery is obtained Aow rare indeed to find a manC Aow common rather to disco'er a creature hounded on by tyrant thoughts Nor cares= or desiresO= cowering= wincing under the lash 1"t is one of the prominent doctrines of some of the oriental schools of practical psychology that the power of expelling thoughts= or if need be= 2illing them dead on the spot= must be attained 8aturally the art re5uires practice= but li2e other arts= when once ac5uired there is no mystery or difficulty about it "t is worth practice "t may be fairly said that life only begins when this art has been ac5uired !or ob'iously when= instead of being ruled by indi'idual thoughts= the whole floc2 of them in their immense multitude and 'ariety and capacity is ours to direct and dispatch and employ where we list= life becomes a thing so 'ast and grand= compared to what it was before= that its former condition may well appear almost ante(natal "f you can 2ill a thought dead= for the time being= you can do anything else with it that you please /nd therefore it is that this power is so 'aluable /nd it not only frees a man from mental torment Nwhich is nine(tenths at least of the torment of lifeO= but it gi'es him a concentrated power of handling mental wor2 absolutely un2nown to him before The two are co(relati'e to each other 3 There is no intelligence in matter- whether that matter be electronic energy made up in the form of stone= or iron= or wood= or flesh "t all consists of <nergy= the uni'ersal substance from which *ind forms all material things *ind is the only intelligence "t alone is eternal "t alone is supreme in the uni'erse #hen we reach that understanding= we will no longer ha'e cause for fear= because we will realiBe that Uni'ersal *ind is the creator of life only? that death is not an actuality-it is merely the absence of life-and life will be e'er(present Remember the old fairy story of how

the Sun was listening to a lot of earthly creatures tal2ing of a 'ery dar2 place they had found9 / place of Stygian blac2ness <ach told how terrifically dar2 it had seemed The Sun went and loo2ed for it Ae went to the exact spot they had described Ae searched e'erywhere 7ut he could find not e'en a tiny dar2 spot /nd he came bac2 and told the earth( creatures he did not belie'e there was any dar2 place #hen the sun of understanding shines on all the dar2 spots in our li'es= we will realiBe that there is no cause= no creator= no power= except good? e'il is not an entity-it is merely the absence of good /nd there can be no ill effects without an e'il cause Since there is no e'il cause= only good can ha'e reality or power There is no beginning or end to good !rom it there can be nothing but blessing for the whole race "n it is found no trouble "f %od Nor %ood -the two are synonymousO is the only cause= then the only effect must be li2e the cause 1/ll things were made by Aim? and without Aim was not anything made that was made 3 &on;t be content with passi'ely reading this Use itC +ractice itC <xercise is far more necessary to mental de'elopment that it is to physical +ractice the 1daily doBen3 of right thin2ing Stretch your mind to realiBe how infinitely far it can reach out= what boundless 'ision it can ha'e 7reathe out all the old thoughts of sic2ness= discouragement= failure= worry and fear 7reathe in deep= long breaths NthoughtsO of unlimited health and strength= unlimited happiness and success +ractice loo2ing forward- always loo2ing forward to something better-better health= finer physi5ue= greater happiness= bigger success Ta2e these mental breathing exercises e'ery day See how easily you will control your thoughts Aow 5uic2ly you will see the good effects )ou;'e got to thin2 all the time )our mind will do that anyway /nd the thoughts are constantly building-for good or ill So be sure to exhale all the thoughts of fear and worry and disease and lac2 that ha'e been troubling you= and inhale only those you want to see realiBed

VIII The L#w of Supp,1 1They do me wrong who say " come no more #hen once " 2noc2 and fail to find you in? !or e'ery day " stand outside your door= /nd bid you wa2e= and rise to fight and win 1#ail not for precious chances passed away= #eep not for golden ages on the waneC <ach night " burn the records of the day/t sunrise e'ery soul is born againC3 -#/.T<R */.68< D Aa'e you e'er run a race= or wor2ed at utmost capacity for a protracted period= or swum a great distance9 Remember how= soon after starting= you began to feel tired9 Remember how= before you had gone any great distance= you thought you had reached your limit9 7ut remember= too= how= when you 2ept on going= you got your second wind= your tiredness 'anished= your muscles throbbed with energy= you felt literally charged with speed and endurance9 Stored in e'ery human being are great reser'es of energy of which the a'erage indi'idual 2nows nothing *ost people are li2e a man who dri'es a car in low gear= not 2nowing that by the simple shift of a le'er he can set it in high and not merely speed up the car= but do it with far less expenditure of power The law of the uni'erse is the law of supply )ou see it on e'ery hand 8ature is la'ish in e'erything she does .oo2 at the hea'ens at night There are millions of stars there-millions of worlds-millions of suns among them Surely there is no lac2 of wealth or profusion in the *ind that could image all of these? no place for limitation thereC .oo2 at the 'egetation in the country round about you 8ature supplies all that the shrubs or trees may need for their growth and sustenanceC .oo2 at the lower forms of animal life-the birds and the wild animals= the reptiles and the insects= the fish in the sea Courtesy of *rs <lla *alone #atson 8ature supplies them bountifully with e'erything they need They ha'e but to help themsel'es to what she holds out to them with such la'ish hand .oo2 at all the natural resources of the world - coal and iron and oil and all metals There is plenty for e'eryone #e hear a lot about the exhaustion of our resources of coal and oil= but there is a'ailable coal enough to last man2ind for thousands of years There are 'ast oil fields practically untouched= probably others bigger still yet to be disco'ered= and when all these are exhausted= the extraction of oi1 from shale will 2eep the world supplied for countless more

years There is abundance for e'eryone 7ut >ust as you must strain and labor to reach the resources of your 1second wind=3 >ust so you must stri'e before you can ma2e manifest the law of supply in nature The -or,d Be,ongs to )ou "t is your estate "t owes you not merely a li'ing= but e'erything of good you may desire )ou;'e got to demand these things of it= though )ou;'e got to fear naught= dread naught= and stop at naught )ou;'e got to ha'e the faith of a Columbus= crossing an un2nown sea= holding a mutinous crew to the tas2 long after they had ceased to belie'e in themsel'es or in himand giving to the world a new hemisphere. )ou;'e got to ha'e the faith of a #ashington defeated= discredited= almost wholly deserted by his followers= yet holding steadfast in spite of all-and giving to America a new liberty. )ou;'e got to dominate- not to cringe 3ou6ve got to ma2e the application of the law of supply 1Consider the lilies how they grow 3 The flowers= the birds= all of creation= are incessantly acti'e The trees and flowers in their growth= the birds and wild creatures in building their nests and finding sustenance= are always wor2ing-but never worrying 1)our !ather 2noweth that ye ha'e need of these things 3 1/nd all these things shall be added unto you 3 "f all would agree to gi'e up worrying-to be industrious= but ne'er anxious about the outcome it would mean the beginning of a new era in human progress= an age of liberty= of freedom from bondage @esus set forth the uni'ersal law of supply when he said-3Therefore " say unto you= be not anxious for the morrow= what ye shall eat= or wherewithal ye shall be clothed-but see2 first the 2ingdom of %od= and all those things shall be added unto you.& #hat is this 1Gingdom of %od93 @esus tells us-3The Gingdom of %od is within you 3 "t is the 1!ather within you3 to which Ae so fre5uently referred "t is *ind-your part of Uni'ersal *ind 1See2 first the Gingdom of %od 3 See2 first an understanding of this +ower within you-learn to contact with it-to use it-1and all those things shall be added unto you 3 /ll riches ha'e their origin in *ind #ealth is in ideas-not money *oney is merely the material medium of exchange for ideas The paper money in your poc2ets is in itself worth no more than so many Russian rubles "t is the idea behind it that gi'es it 'alue !actory buildings= machinery= materials= are in themsel'es worthless without a manufacturing or a selling idea behind them Aow often you see a factory fall to pieces= the machinery rusts away= after the idea behind them ga'e out !actories= machines= are simply the tools of trade "t is the idea behind them that ma2es them go So don;t go out a(see2ing of wealth .oo2 within you for ideasC 1The Gingdom of %od is within you 3 Use it- purposefullyC Use it to TA"8G constructi'ely &on;t say you are thin!ing when all you are doing is exercising your faculty of memory /s &umont says in 1The *aster *ind3-1They are simply allowing the stream of memory to flow through their field of

consciousness= while the <go stands on the ban2s and idly watches the passing waters of memory flow by They call this Jthin2ing;= while in reality there is no process of thought under way 3 They are li2e the old mountaineer sitting in the shade alongside his cabin /s2ed what he did to pass the long hours away= he said-3#aal= sometimes " set and thin2? and sometimes " >ust set 3 &umont goes on to say= in 5uoting another writerH 1#hen " use the word Jthin2ing=; " mean thin!ing with a purpose. with an end in view. thin!ing to solve a problem " mean the 2ind of thin2ing that is forced on us when we are deciding on a course to pursue= on a life wor2 to ta2e up perhaps? the 2ind of thin2ing that was forced upon us in our younger days when we had to find a solution to a problem in mathematics? or when we tac2led psychology in college " do not mean Jthin2ing; in snatches= or holding petty opinions on this sub>ect and on that " mean thought on significant 5uestions= which lie outside the bounds of your narrow personal welfare This is the 2ind of thin2ing which is now so rare-so sadly neededC1 The Gingdom of %od is the Gingdom of Thought= of /chie'ement= of Aealth= of Aappiness and +rosperity 1" came that ye might ha'e life and ha'e it more abundantly 3 7ut you ha'e got to see! it )ou ha'e got to do more than ponder )ou ha'e got to thin!-to thin2 constructi'ely-to see2 how you may disco'er new worlds= new methods= new needs The greatest disco'eries= you 2now= ha'e arisen out of things= which e'erybody had seen= but only one man had 86T"C<& The biggest fortunes ha'e been made out of the opportunities= which many men had= but only one man %R/S+<& #hy is it that so many millions of men and women go through life in po'erty and misery= in sic2ness and despair9 #hy9 +rimarily because they ma2e a reality of po'erty through their fear of it They 'isualiBe po'erty= misery and disease= and thus bring them into being /nd secondly= they cannot demonstrate the law of supply for the same reason that so many millions cannot sol'e the first problem in algebra The solution is simple(S but they ha'e ne'er been shown the method They do not understand the law The essence of this law is that you must thin! abundance? see abundance feel abundance= believe abundance .et no thought of limitation enter your mind There is no lawful desire of yours for which= as far as mind is concerned= there is not abundant satisfaction /nd if you can 'isualiBe it in mind= you can realiBe it in your daily world 17lessed is the man whose delight is in the law of the .ordH /nd he shall be li2e a tree planted by the ri'ers of water= that bringeth forth his fruit in his seasonH his leaf also shall not wither? and whatsoe'er he doeth shall prosper 3 &on;t worry &on;t doubt &on;t dig up the seeds of prosperity and success to see whether they ha'e sprouted Aa'e faithC 8ourish your seeds with renewed desire Geep before your mind;s eye the picture of the thing you want 7<."<,< "8 "TC 8o matter if you seem to be in the clutch of misfortune= no matter if the future loo2s blac2 and dreary-!6R%<T )6UR !</RSC RealiBe that the future is of your own ma2ing There is no power that can 2eep you

down but yourself Set your goal !orget the obstacles between !orget the difficulties in the way Geep only the goal before your mind;s eye-and you6ll win itC @udge Troward= in his <dinburgh .ectures on *ental Science= shows the wayH The initial step= then= consists in determining to picture the Uni'ersal *ind as the ideal of all we could wish it to be= both to oursel'es and to b others= together with the endea'or to reproduce this ideal= howe'er imperfectly= in our own life? and this step ha'ing been ta2en= we can then cheerfully loo2 upon it as our e'er(present !riend= pro'iding all good= guarding from all danger= and guiding us with all counsel Similarly if we thin2 of it as a great power de'oted to supplying all our needs= we shall impress this character also upon it= and by the law of sub>ecti'e mind= it will proceed to enact the part of that special pro'idence which we ha'e credited it with being? and if= beyond general care of our concerns= we would draw to oursel'es some particular benefit= the same rule holds good of impressing our desire upon the uni'ersal sub>ecti'e mind /nd thus the deepest problems of philosophy bring us bac2 to the old statement of the lawH J/s2 and ye shall recei'e? see2 and ye shall find? 2noc2 and it shall be opened unto you ; This is the summing(up of the natural law of the relation between the &i'ine *ind and us "t is thus no 'ain boast that mental science can enable us to ma2es our li'es what we will /nd to this law there is no limit #hat it can do for us today it can do tomorrow= and through all that procession of tomorrows that loses itself in the dim 'istas of eternity 7elief in limitation is the one and only thing that causes limitation = because we thus impress limitation upon the creati'e principle? and in proportion as we lay that belief aside= our boundaries will expand= and increasing life and more abundant blessing will be ours 3 )ou are not wor2ing for some firm merely for the pittance they pay you )ou are part of the great scheme of things /nd what you do has its bearing on the ultimate result That being the case= you are wor2ing for Uni'ersal *ind= and Uni'ersal *ind is the most generous paymaster there is @ust remember that you can loo2 to it for all good things Supply is where you are and what you need &o you want a situation9 Close your eyes and realiBe that somewhere is the position for which you of all people are best fitted= and which is best fitted to your ability The position where you can do the utmost of good= and where life= in turn= offers the most to you RealiBe that Uni'ersal *ind 2nows exactly where this position is= and that through your subconscious mind you= too= can 2now it RealiBe that this is )6UR position= that it 8<<&S you= that it belongs to you= that it is right for you to ha'e it= that you are entitled to it Aold this thought in mind e'ery night for >ust a moment= then go to sleep 2nowing that your subconscious mind A/S the necessary information as to where this position is and how to get in touch with it *ind you-not #".. ha'e= but A/S The earnest realiBation of this will bring that position to you= and you to it= as surely as the morrow will bring the sun *a2e the law of supply operati'e and you find that the things you see2 are see2ing you %et firmly fixed in your own mind the definite con'iction that you can do anything you greatly want to do There is no such thing as lac2 of opportunity There is no such thing as only one opportunity )ou are sub>ect to a law of boundless and perpetual opportunity= and you can enforce that law in your behalf >ust as widely as you need 6pportunity is infinite and e'er present

7erton 7raley has it well expressed in his poem on 16pportunity3DH 1!or the best 'erse hasn;t been rhymed yet= The best house hasn;t been planned= The highest pea2 hasn;t been climbed yet= The mightiest ri'ers aren;t spanned? &on;t worry and fret= faint hearted= The chances ha'e >ust begun= !or the 7est >obs ha'en;t been started= The 7est wor2 hasn;t been done 3 8othing stands in the way of a will= which wants-an intelligence= which 2nows The great thing is to start 17egin your wor2=3 says /usonius 1To begin is to complete the first half The second half remains 7egin again and the wor2 is done 3 "t matters not how small or unimportant your tas2 may seem to be "t may loom bigger in Uni'ersal *ind than that of your neighbor= whose position is so much greater in the eyes of the world &o it well-and Uni'ersal *ind will wor2 with you 7ut don;t feel limited to any one >ob or any one line of wor2 *an was gi'en dominion o'er all the earth 1/nd %od said= .et us ma2e man in our image= after our li2enessH and let them ha'e dominion o'er the fish of the sea= and o'er the fowl of the air= and o'er the cattle= and o'er all the earth= and o'er e'ery creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth 3 /ll of energy= all of power= all that can exercise any influence o'er your life= is in your hands through the power of thought %od-good-is the only power there is )our mind is part of Ais mind Ae is 1the !ather that is within you that doeth the wor2s 3 So don;t put any limit upon Ais power by trying to limit your capabilities )ou are not in bondage to anything /ll your hopes and dreams can come true #ere you not gi'en dominion o'er all the earth9 /nd can anyone else ta2e this dominion from you9 /ll the mysterious psychic powers about which you hear so much today are perfectly natural " ha'e them )ou ha'e them They only await the time when they shall be allowed to assert their 'igor and pro'e themsel'es your faithful ser'itors 17e not afraidC3 Claim your inheritance The Uni'ersal *ind that supplies all wisdom and power is your mind /nd to the extent that you are go'erned by your understanding of its infinite law of supply you will be able to demonstrate plenty 1/ccording to your faith= be it unto you 3 1/nalyBe most of the great /merican fortunes of the past generation=3 says Advertising and #elling Fortnightly= 1and you will find that they were founded on great faiths 6ne man;s faith was in oil= another;s in land= and another;s in minerals 1The fortunes that are being built today are >ust as surely being built on great faiths= but there

is this differenceH the emphasis of the faith has been shifted Today it ta2es faith in a product or an opportunity= as it always did= but it ta2es faith in the public= in addition Those who ha'e the greatest faith in the public-the 2ind of faith possessed by Aenry !ord and A @ AeinB-and ma!e that faith articulate - build the biggest fortunes 3 !-#nted& There is one 5uestion that bothers many a man Should he stic2 to the >ob he has= or cast about at once for a better one The answer depends entirely upon what you are stri'ing for The first thing is to set your goal #hat is it you want9 / profession9 / political appointment9 /n important executi'e position9 / business of your own9 <'ery position should yield you three thingsH 1 2 Q Reasonable pay for the present Gnowledge= training= or experience that will be worth money to you in the future +restige or ac5uaintances that will be of assistance to you in attaining your goal

@udge e'ery opening by those three standards 7ut don;t o'erloo2 chances for 'aluable training= merely because the pay is small Though it is a pretty safe rule that the concern with up(to(the(minute methods that it would profit you to learn= also pays up(to(the(minute salaries Aold each >ob long enough to get from it e'ery spec2 of information there is in it Aold it long enough to learn the >ob ahead Then if there seems no li2elihood of a 'acancy soon in that >ob ahead= find one that corresponds to it somewhere else 8rogressC Geep going aheadC &on;t be satisfied merely because your salary is being boosted occasionally .earn something e'ery day #hen you reach the point in your wor2 that you are no longer adding to your store of 2nowledge or abilities= D !rom 1/ 7an>o at /rmageddon 3 Copyright 191P= %eorge A &oran Company you are going bac2ward= and it;s time for you to mo'e *o'e upward in the organiBation you are with if you can-but *6,<C )our actual salary is of slight importance compared with the 2nowledge and ability you add to your mind %i'en a full storehouse there= the salary or the riches will speedily follow 7ut the biggest salary won;t do you much good for long unless you;'e got the 2nowledge inside you to bac2 it up "t;s li2e a girl pic2ing her husband She can pic2 one with a lot of money and no brains= or she can pic2 one with no money but a lot of ability "n the former case= she;ll ha'e a high time for a little while= ending in a di'orce court or in her ha'ing a worthless young 1rounder3 on her hands and no money to pay the bills "n the other= the start will be hard= but she is li2ely to

end up with a happy home she has helped to build= an earnest= hard wor2ing husband who has 1arri'ed3- and happiness *oney ought to be a consideration in marriage-but ne'er the consideration 6f course it;s an easy matter to pic2 a man with neither money nor brains 7ut when it;s a choice of money or brains-ta2e the brains e'ery time +ossessions are of slight importance compared to mind %i'en the in5uiring= alert type of mind- you can get any amount of possessions 7ut the possessions without the mind are nothing 8ine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to any young couple is to ha'e to start out with little or nothing and wor2 out their sal'ation together #hat is it you want most from life9 "s it riches9 +icture yourself with all the riches you could use= with all the abundance that 8ature holds out with such la'ish hand e'erywhere #hat would you do with it9 &aydream for a while 7elie'e that you have that abundance now +ractice being rich in your own mind See yourself dri'ing that expensi'e car you ha'e always longed for= li'ing in the sort of house you ha'e often pictured= well(dressed= surrounded by e'erything to ma2e life worth while +icture yourself spending this money that is yours= la'ishly= without a worry as to where more is coming from= 2nowing that there is no limit to the riches of *ind +icture yourself doing all those things you would li2e to do= li'ing the life you would li2e to li'e= pro'iding for your lo'ed ones as you would li2e to see them pro'ided for #ee all this in your mind;s eye 7elieve it to be true for the moment 1now that it will all be true in the not('ery( distant future %et from it all the pleasure and en>oyment you can "t is the first step in ma2ing your dreams come true )ou are creating the model in mind /nd if you don;t allow fear or worry to tear it down= *ind will re(create that model for you in your e'ery(day life 1/ll that the !ather hath is yours=3 said @esus /nd a single glance at the hea'ens and the earth will show you that Ae has all riches in abundance Reach out mentally and appropriate to yourself some of these good gifts )ou;'e got to do it mentally before you can en>oy it physically 1JTis mind that ma2es the body rich=3 as Sha2espeare tells us See the things that you want as already yours Gnow that they will come to you at need Then .<T them come &on;t fret and worry about them &on;t thin2 about your ./CG of them Thin2 of them as )6URS= as belonging to you= as already in your possession .oo2 upon money as water that runs the mill of your mind )ou are constantly grinding out ideas that the world needs )our thoughts= your plans= are necessary to the great scheme of things *oney pro'ides the power 7ut it needs )6U? it needs your ideas= before it can be of any use to the world The !alls of 8iagara would be of no use without the power plants that line the ban2s The !alls need these plants to turn their power to account "n the same way= money needs your ideas to become of use to the world

So instead of thin2ing that you need money= realiBe that money needs )6U *oney is >ust so much wasted energy without wor2 to do )our ideas pro'ide the outlet for it= the means by which money can do things &e'elop your ideas? secure in the 2nowledge that money is always loo2ing for such an outlet #hen the ideas are perfected= money will gra'itate your way without conscious effort on your part= if only you don;t dam up the channels with doubts and fears 1!irst ha'e something good-then ad'ertiseC3 said Aorace %reeley !irst ha'e something that the world needs= e'en if it be only faithful= interested ser'ice- then open up your channels of desire= and dollars will flow to you /nd remember that the more you ha'e to offer-the more of riches will flow to you &ollars are of no 'alue except as they are used )ou ha'e seen the rich attac2ed time and again in newspapers and magaBines )ou ha'e read numberless articles and editorials against them )ou ha'e heard agitators declaim against them by the hour 7ut ha'e you e'er heard one of them say a single word against the richest man of them all-Aenry !ord9 " ha'en;t /nd why9 7ecause Aenry !ord;s idea of money is that it is something to be used-something to pro'ide more >obs= something to bring more comfort= more en>oyment= into an increasingly greater number of li'es That is why money flows to him so freely That is why he gets so much out of life /nd that is how you= too= can get in touch with "nfinite Supply RealiBe that it is not money you ha'e to see2= but a way to use money for the world;s ad'antage Find the needC .oo2 at e'erything with the 5uestion-Aow could that be impro'ed9 To what new uses could this be put9 Then set about supplying that need= in the absolute confidence that when you ha'e found the way= money will flow freely to and through you &o your part-and you can confidently loo2 to Uni'ersal *ind to pro'ide the means %et firmly in mind the definite con'iction that )6U C/8 &6 /8)TA"8% R"%AT TA/T )6U */) #"SA T6 &6 Then set your goal and let e'erything you do= all your wor2= all your study= and all your associations= be a step towards that goal To 5uote 7erton 7raleyD again1"f you want a thing bad enough To go out and fight for it= #or2 day and night for it= %i'e up your time and your peace and your sleep for it= "f only desire of it *a2es you 5uite mad enough 8e'er to tire of it= *a2es you hold all other things tawdry and cheap for it= "f life seems all empty and useless without it /nd all that you scheme and you dream is about it= "f gladly you;ll sweat for it=

!ret for it= plan for it= .ose all your terror of %od or man for it= "f you;ll simply go after that thing that you want= #ith all your capacity= strength and sagacity= !aith= hope and confidence= stern pertinacity= "f neither cold po'erty= famished and gaunt= 8or sic2ness nor pain of body or brain Can turn you away from the thing that you want= "f dogged and grim you besiege and beset it= 3ou6ll get it!& D !rom 1Things /s They /re 3 Copyright 1916= %eorge A &oran Company= 8ew )or2

VOLUME FOU. I8 The For$u,# of Success 16ne ship dri'es east= and another dri'es west= #ith the self(same winds that blow JTis the set of the sails= and not the gales #hich tells us the way they go 1.i2e the wa'es of the sea are the ways of fate /s we 'oyage along thru life JTis the set of the soul which decides its goal /nd not the calm or the strife 3 -<../ #A<<.<R #".C64 #hat is the eternal 5uestion= which stands up and loo2s you and e'ery sincere man s5uarely in the eye e'ery morning9 1Aow can " better my condition93 That is the real life 5uestion= which confronts you= and " will haunt you e'ery day till you sol'e it Read this chapter carefully and " thin2 you will find the answer to this important life 5uestion which you and e'ery man must sol'e if he expects e'er to ha'e more each *onday morning= after pay day= than he had the wee2 before To begin with= all wealth depends upon a clear understanding of the fact that mind-thought -is the only creator The great business of life is thin2ing Control your thoughts and you control circumstance @ust as the first law of gain is desire= so the formula of success is 7<."<! 7elie'e that you ha'e it-see it as an existent fact-and anything you can rightly wish for is yours 7elief is 1the substance of things hoped for= the e'idence of things not seen 3 )ou ha'e seen men= inwardly no more capable than yourself accomplish the seemingly impossible )ou ha'e seen others= after years of hopeless struggle? suddenly win their most cherished dreams /nd you;'e often wondered= 1#hat is the power that gi'es new life to their dying ambitions= that supplies new impetus to their >aded desires= that gi'es them a new start on the road to success93 That power is belief-faith Someone= something= ga'e them a new belief in themsel'es and a new faith in their power to winand they leaped ahead and wrested success from seemingly certain defeat &o you remember the picture Aarold .loyd was in two or three years ago= showing a country boy who was afraid of his shadow9 <'ery boy in the countryside bede'iled him Until one

day his grandmother ga'e him a talisman that she assured him his grandfather had carried through the Ci'il #ar and which= so she said= had the property of ma2ing its owner in'incible 8othing could hurt him= she told him= while he wore this talisman 8othing could stand up against him Ae belie'ed her /nd the next time the bully of the town started to cuff him around= he wiped up the earth with him /nd that was only the start 7efore the year was out he had made a reputation as the most daring soul in the community Then= when his grandmother felt that he was thoroughly cured= she told him the truth - that the 1talisman3 was merely a piece of old >un2 she;d pic2ed up by the roadside-that she 2new all he needed was faith in himself. belief that he could do these things

The T#,is$#n of N#po,eon Stories li2e that are common "t is such a well(established truth that you can do only what you thin2 you can= that the theme is a fa'orite one with authors " remember reading a story years ago of an artist-a mediocre sort of artist- who was 'isiting the field of #aterloo and happened upon a curious lump of metal half buried in the dirt= which so attracted him that he pic2ed it up and put it in his poc2et Soon thereafter he noticed a sudden increase in confidence= an absolute faith in himself= not only as to his own chosen line of wor2= but in his ability to handle any situation that might present itself Ae painted a great picture->ust to show that he could do it 8ot content with that= he en'isioned an empire with *exico as its basis= actually led a re'olt that carried all before it- until one day he lost his talisman And immediately his bubble burst. " instance this >ust to illustrate the point that it is your own belief in yourself that counts "t is the consciousness of dominant power within you that ma2es all things attainable 3ou can do anything you thin! you can This 2nowledge is literally the gift of the gods= for through it you can sol'e e'ery human problem "t should ma2e of you an incurable optimist "t is the open door to welfare 1eep it open-by expecting to gain e'erything that is right )ou are entitled to e'ery good thing Therefore expect nothing but good &efeat does not need to follow 'ictory )ou don;t ha'e to 12noc2 wood3 e'ery time you congratulate yourself that things ha'e been going well with you ,ictory should follow 'ictory-and it will if you 1let this mind be in you which was also in Christ @esus 3 it is the mind that means health and life and boundless opportunity and recompense 8o limitation rests upon you So don;t let any enter your life Remember that *ind will do e'ery good thing for you "t will remo'e mountains for you 17ring ye all the tithes into the storehouse= and pro'e me now herewith= saith the .ord of hosts= if " will not open you the windows of hea'en= and pour you out a blessing= that there shall not be room enough to recei'e it 3 7ring all your thoughts= your desires= your aims= your talents= into the Storehouse-the Consciousness of %ood= the .aw of "nfinite supply-and pro'e these blessings There is e'ery reason to 2now that you are entitled to ade5uate pro'ision <'erything that is in'ol'ed in

supply is a thing of thought 8ow reach out= stretch your mind= and try to comprehend unlimited thought. unlimited supply. &o not thin2 that supply must come through one or two channels "t is not for you to dictate to Uni'ersal *ind the means through which "t shall send "ts gifts to you There are millions of channels through which "t can reach you )our part is to impress upon *ind your need= your earnest desire= your boundless belief in the resources and the willingness of Uni'ersal *ind to help you +lant the seed of desire 8ourish it with a clear 'isualiBation of the ripened fruit #ater it with sincere faith 7ut lea'e the means to Uni'ersal *ind 6pen up your mind Clear out the channels of thought Geep yourself in a state of recepti'ity %ain a mental attitude in which you are constantly e(pecting good )ou ha'e the fundamental right to all good= you 2now 1/ccording to your faith= be it unto you 3 The trouble with most of us is that we are mentally laBy "t is much easier to go along with the crowd than to brea2 trail for oursel'es 7ut the great disco'erers= the great in'entors= the great geniuses in all lines ha'e been men who dared to brea2 with tradition= who defied precedent= who belie'ed that there is no limit to what *ind can do-and who stuc2 to that belief until their goal was won= in spite of all the sneers and ridicule of the wiseacres and the 1"t(can;t(be(done;rs 3 8ot only that= but they were ne'er satisfied with achie'ing >ust one success They 2new that the first success is li2e the first oli'e out of the bottle /ll the others come out the more easily for it They realiBed that they were a part of the Creati'e "ntelligence of the Uni'erse= and that the part shares all the properties of the whole /nd that realiBation ga'e them the faith to stri'e for any right thing= the 2nowledge that the only limit upon their capabilities was the limit of their desires Gnowing that= they couldn;t be satisfied with any ordinary success They had to 2eep on and on and on <dison didn;t sit down and fold his hands when he ga'e us the tal2ing machine or the electric light These great achie'ements merely opened the way to new fields of accomplishment 6pen up the channels between your mind and Uni'ersal *ind= and there is no limit to the riches that will come pouring in Concentrate your thoughts on the particular thing you are most interested in= and ideas in abundance will come flooding down= opening up a doBen ways of winning the goal you are stri'ing for 7ut don;t let one success-no matter how great-satisfy you The .aw of Creation= you 2now= is the .aw of %rowth )ou can;t stand still )ou must go forward-or be passed by Complacency - self(satisfaction - is the greatest enemy of achie'ement )ou must 2eep loo2ing forward .i2e /lexander= you must be constantly see2ing new worlds to con5uer &epend upon it= the power will come to meet the need There is no such thing as failing powers= if we loo2 to *ind for our source of supply The only failure of mind comes from worry and fear-or from disuse #illiam @ames= the famous psychologist= taught that 1The more mind does= the more it can

do 3 !or ideas release energy )ou can do more and better wor2 than you ha'e e'er done )ou can !now more than you 2now now )ou 2now from your own experience that under proper mental conditions of >oy or enthusiasm= you can do three or four times the wor2 without fatigue that you can ordinarily Tiredness is more boredom than actual physical fatigue )ou can wor2 almost indefinitely when the wor2 is a pleasure )ou;'e seen sic2ly persons= frail persons= who couldn;t do an hour;s light wor2 without exhaustion= suddenly buc2le down when hea'y responsibilities were thrown upon them= and grow strong and rugged under the load Crises not only draw upon the reser'e power you ha'e= but they help to create new power !It Cou,dn3t Be 0one& "t may be that you ha'e been deluded by the thought of incompetence "t may be that you ha'e been told so often that you cannot do certain things that you;'e come to belie'e you can;t Remember that success or failure is merely a state of mind 7elie'e you cannot do a thing-and you can;t Gnow that you can do it-and you will )ou must see yourself doing it. 1"f you thin2 you are beaten= you are? "f you thin2 you dare not= you don;t? "f you;d li2e to win= but you thin2 you can;t= "t;s almost a cinch you won;t? "f you thin2 you;ll lose= you;'e lost= !or out in the world you;ll find Success begins with a fellow;s will"t;s all in the state of mind 1!ull many a race is lost <re e'en a race is run= /nd many a coward fails <re e'en his wor2;s begun Thin2 big= and your deeds will grow= Thin2 small and you fall behind= Thin2 that you can= and you will? "t;s all in the state of mind 1"f you thin2 you are outclassed= you are? )ou;'e got to thin2 high to rise? )ou;'e got to be sure of yourself before )ou can e'er win a priBe .ife;s battle doesn;t always go To the stronger or faster man? 7ut sooner or later= the man who wins "s the fellow who thin2s he can 3 There;s a 'ast difference between a proper understanding of one;s own ability and a determination to ma2e the best of it-and offensi'e egotism "t is absolutely necessary for e'ery man to belie'e in himself= before he can ma2e the most of himself /ll of us ha'e

something to sell "t may be our goods= it may be our abilities= it may be our ser'ices )ou;'e got to belie'e in yourself to ma2e your buyer ta2e stoc2 in you at par and accrued interest )ou;'e got to feel the same personal solicitude o'er a customer lost= as a re'i'alist o'er a bac2slider= and hold special ser'ices to bring him bac2 into the fold )ou;'e got to get up e'ery morning with determination= if you;re going to go to bed that night with satisfaction There;s mighty sound sense in the saying that the entire world lo'es a booster The one and only thing you ha'e to win success with is *"8& !or your mind to function at its highest capacity= you;'e got to be charged with good cheer and optimism 8o one e'er did a good piece of wor2 while in a negati'e frame of mind )our best wor2 is always done when you are feeling= happy and optimistic /nd a happy disposition is the result-not the cause-of happy= cheery thin2ing Aealth and prosperity are the results primarily of optimistic thoughts 3ou ma2e the pattern "f the impress you ha'e left on the world about you seems faint and wea2= don;t blame fate-blame your patternC )ou will ne'er culti'ate a bra'e= courageous demeanor by thin2ing cowardly thoughts )ou cannot gather figs from thistles )ou will ne'er ma2e your dreams come true by cho2ing them with doubts and fears )ou;'e got to put foundations under your air castles= foundations of U8&<RST/8&"8% and 7<."<! )our chances of success in any underta2ing can always be measured by your 7<."<! in yourself /re your surroundings discouraging9 &o you feel that if you were in another;s place success would be easier9 @ust bear in mind that your real en'ironment is within you /ll the factors of success or failure are in your inner world 3ou ma2e that own inner world-and through it your outer world )ou can choose the material from which to build it "f you;'e not chosen wisely in the past= you can choose again now the material you want to rebuild it The richness of life is within you 8o one has failed so long as he can begin again Start right in and do all those things you feel you ha'e it in you to do /s2 permission of no man Concentrating your thought upon any proper underta2ing will ma2e its achie'ement possible )our belief that you can do the thing gi'es your thought forces their power !ortune waits upon you SeiBe her boldly= hold her-and she is yours She belongs rightfully to you 7ut if you cringe to her= if you go up to her doubtfully= timidly= she will pass you by in scorn !or she is a fic2le >ade who must be mastered= who lo'es boldness= who admires confidence / Roman boasted that it was sufficient for him to stri2e the ground with his foot and legions would spring up /nd his 'ery boldness cowed his opponents "t is the same with your mind Ta2e the first step= and your mind will mobiliBe all its forces to your aid 7ut the first essential is that you begin 6nce the battle is started= all that is within and without you will come to your assistance= if you attac2 in earnest and meet each obstacle with resolution 7ut you ha'e got to start things 1The .ord helps them that help themsel'es3 is a truth as old as man "t is= in fact= plain common sense )our subconscious mind has all power= but your conscious mind is the watchman at the gate 2t has got to open the door 2t has got to press the spring that releases the infinite energy 8o failure is possible in the accomplishment of any right ob>ect you may ha'e in life= if you but understand your power and will perse'eringly try to

use it in the proper way The men who ha'e made their mar2 in this world all had one trait in common(they believed in themselvesC 17ut=3 you may say= 1how can " belie'e in myself when " ha'e ne'er yet done anything worth while= when e'erything " put my hand to seems to fail93 )ou can;t= of course That is= you couldn;t if you had to depend upon your conscious mind alone 7ut >ust remember what one far greater than you said-3" can of mine own self do nothing The !ather that is within me-Ae doeth the wor2s 3 That same 1!ather3 is within you /nd it is by 2nowing that Ae is in you= and that through Aim you can do anything that is right= that you can ac5uire that belief in yourself which is so necessary Certainly the *ind that imaged the hea'ens and the earth and all that they contain has all wisdom= all power= and all abundance #ith this *ind to call upon= you 2now there is no problem too difficult for you to underta2e The !nowing of this is the first step Faith 7ut St @ames tells us-3!aith without wor2s is dead 3 So go on to the next step &ecide on the one thing you want most from life 8o matter what it may be There is no limit= you 2now= to *ind ,isualiBe this thing that you want See it= feel it= 7<."<,< in it *a2e your mental blueprint= and begin to build! Suppose some people &6 laugh at your idea Suppose Reason does say- 1"t can;t be doneC3 +eople laughed at %alileo They laughed at Aenry !ord Reason contended for countless ages that the earth was flat Reason said - or so numerous automoti'e engineers argued-that the !ord motor wouldn;t run 7ut the earth is round-and the twelfth or fifteenth million !ord is on the road .et us start right now putting into practice some of these truths that you ha'e learned #hat do you want most of life right now9 Ta2e that one desire= concentrate on it= and impress it upon your subconscious mind +sychologists ha'e disco'ered that the best time to ma2e suggestions to your subconscious mind is >ust before going to sleep= when the senses are 5uiet and the attention is lax So let us ta2e your desire and suggest it to your subconscious mind tonight The two prere5uisites are the earnest &<S"R<= and an intelligent= understanding 7<."<! Someone has said= you 2now= that education is three(fourths encouragement= and the encouragement is the suggestion that the thing can be done )ou 2now that you can ha'e what you want? if you want it badly enough and can belie'e in it earnestly enough So tonight= >ust before you drop off to sleep= concentrate your thought on this thing that you most desire from life 7<."<,< that you ha'e it S<< )6URS<.! possessing it !<<. yourself using it &o that e'ery night until you /CTU/..) &6 7<."<,< that you ha'e the thing you want #hen you reach that point= )6U W2LL )A9: 2"!

8 !This Freedo$& 1)e shall 2now the truth /nd the Truth shall ma2e you free 3 " ha'e heard that 5uotation e'er since " was a little child *ost of us ha'e 7ut to me it was ne'er anything much but a 5uotation-until a few years ago "t is only in the past se'eral years that " ha'e begun to get an in2ling of the real meaning of it-an understanding of the comfort bac2 of it +erhaps to you= too= it has been no more than a sonorous phrase "f so= you will be interested in what " ha'e since gotten from it To begin with= what is the 1truth3 that is so often referred to in all our religious teaching9 The truth about what9 /nd what is it going to free us from9 The truth as " see it now is the underlying reality in e'erything we meet in life There is= for instance= one right way to sol'e any gi'en problem in mathematics That one right way is the truth as far as that problem is concerned To 2now it is to free yourself from all doubt and 'ain imagining and error "t is to free yourself from any trouble that might arise through sol'ing the problem incorrectly "n the same way= there is but one 7<ST way of sol'ing e'ery situation that confronts you That 7<ST way is the truth To 2now it is to ma2e you free from all worry or trouble in connection with that situation !or if it is met in the R"%AT way= only good can come of it Then there is your body There is only one R"%AT idea of e'ery organism in your body 6ne C6RR<CT method of functioning for each of them /nd Uni'ersal *ind holds that R"%AT idea= that C6RR<CT method The functioning of your body= the rebuilding of each cell and tissue= is the wor2 of your subconscious mind "f you will constantly hold before it the thought that its model is perfection= that wea2ness or sic2ness or deformity is merely /7S<8C< of perfection-not a reality in itself-in short= if you will realiBe the "ruth concerning your body= your subconscious mind will speedily ma2e you free and 2eep you free from e'ery ill "t matters not what is troubling you today "f you will G86# that whate'er it may seem to be is merely the absence of the true idea= if you will realiBe that the only thing that counts is the truth that Uni'ersal *ind 2nows about your body= you can ma2e that truth manifest /ffirm the good= the true-and the e'il will 'anish "t is li2e turning on the light-the dar2ness immediately disappears !or there is no actual substance in dar2ness-it is merely absence of light 8or is there any substance in sic2ness or e'il-it is merely the absence of health or good That is the truth that was the mentality of @esus-what +aul describes as 1the mind= which was also in Christ @esus 3

@esus declared that 1we should 2now the truth= and the truth would ma2e us free 3 That truth was the power= which Ae exercised Ae had so perfect an understanding of truth that it ga'e Aim absolute dominion o'er e'il= enabled Aim to heal diseases of e'ery nature= e'en to raise the dead The power that Ae exercised then was not confined to Ais time= nor limited to Ais own immediate followers 1.o= " am with you always=3 Ae said= 1e'en unto the end of the world 3 /nd Ae is >ust as a'ailable to us now as Ae was to Ais own disciples 19EE years ago 1" ha'e gi'en you power to tread serpents and scorpions under foot and to trample on all the power of the enemy? and in no case shall anything do you harm 3 That gift was ne'er meant to be confined to Ais own disciples or to any other one group %od has ne'er dealt in special or temporary gifts Ae gi'es to all-to all who will accept-to all who ha'e an understanding heart /ll sic2ness= all po'erty= all sorrow= is the result of the incorrect use of some gift of %od= which in itself is inherently good "t is >ust as though we too2 the numbers that were gi'en us to wor2 out a problem= and put them in the wrong places The result would be incorrect= inharmonious #e would not be expressing the truth The moment we rearrange those numbers properly= we get the correct answer-harmony-the truthC There was nothing wrong with the principle of mathematics before- the fault was all with us= with our incorrect arrangement of the figures #hat is true of the principle of mathematics is true of e'ery principle The principle is changeless= undying "t is only our expression of the principle that changes as our understanding of it becomes more thorough .ightning held only terror for man until he made of electricity his ser'ant Steam was only so much waste until man learned to harness it !ire and water are the most destructi'e forces 2nown-until properly used= and then they are man;s greatest helpers There is nothing wrong with any gift of %od-once we find the way to use it The truth is always there if we can find the principle behind it The figures in mathematics are ne'er bad "t is merely our incorrect arrangement of them The great need is an open mind and the desire for understanding Aow far in the science of mathematics would you get if you approached the study of it with the preconcei'ed notion that two plus two ma2es fi'e= and nothing you heard to the contrary was going to change that belief9 1<xcept ye turn= and become as little children= ye shall not enter into the 2ingdom of hea'en 3 )ou must drop all your preconcei'ed ideas= all your pre>udices )ou must ne'er say-36h= that sounds li2e so(and(so " don;t want any of it 3 @ust remember that any great mo'ement must ha'e at least a grain of truth bac2 of it= else it could ne'er grow to any siBe See2 that grain of truth 7e open( minded Geep your eyes and ears open for the truth "f you can do this= you will find that new wordings= different interpretations= are but the outer shell )ou can still see the Truth beneath= the Christ that 1before /braham was= " am 3 The On,1 Power Ae who is loo2ing for wisdom= power= or permanent success= will find it only within *ind is

the only cause )our body is healthy or sic2 according to the images of thought you impress upon your subconscious mind "f you will hold thoughts of health instead of sic2ness= if you will banish all thoughts of disease and decay= you can build up a perfect body &r #illiam S +atten of 8ew )or2 says= 1To 2now and to understand the organiBation of mind and to recogniBe the action of mind is the first and the only re5uisite of a sound body 3 !or all disease starts in the mind "t may be in your own conscious mind= from reading of an epidemic or from meeting with circumstances which education has taught you will bring about disease "t may be suggested to your subconscious mind= as so fre5uently happens with young children= by the fears and worries and thoughts of contagion of those around you 7ut whiche'er it is= it is !</R that starts it )ou 'isualiBe= consciously or unconsciously= the disease that you fear= and because that is the image held before your thought= your body proceeds to build in accordance with that model )ou belie'e that disease is necessary= that you ha'e got to expect a certain amount of it )ou hear of it e'ery day= and subconsciously at least you are constantly in fear of it /nd through that 'ery fear you create it= when if you would spend that same amount of time thin2ing and belie'ing in the necessity of A</.TA= you would ne'er need to 2now disease %od does not send disease "t is not a 'isitation of +ro'idence "f it were= what would be the use of doctoring it9 )ou couldn;t fight against the power of %odC %od ne'er sent us anything but good Ae ne'er ga'e us disease #hen we allow disease to ta2e hold of us= it is because we ha'e lost touch with %od- lost the perfect model of us that Ae holds in mind /nd what we ha'e got to stri'e for is to get bac2 the belief in that perfect model-to forget the diseased image we are holding in our thought Remember the story of /lexander and his famous horse= 7ucephalus9 8o one could ride the horse because it was afraid of its shadow 7ut /lexander faced it towards the sun-and rode it without trouble !ace towards the sun and the shadows will fall behind you= too !ace towards the perfect image of e'ery organ= and the shadows of disease will ne'er touch you There is no germ in a draft capable of gi'ing you a cold There are no bacteria in exposure to the weather that can gi'e you a fe'er or pneumonia "t is you that gi'es them to yourself The draft doesn;t reason this out 8either does your body They are both of them merely phases of matter They are not intelligent "t is your conscious mind that has been educated to thin2 that a cold must follow exposure to a draft This it is that suggests it to your subconscious mind and brings the cold into being 7efore you decide again that you ha'e a cold= as2 yourself= who is it that is ta2ing this cold9 "t cannot be my nose= for it has no intelligence "t does only what my subconscious mind directs /nd anyway= how could my nose 2now that a draft of air has been playing on the bac2 of my nec29 "f it wasn;t my nose that decided it= what was it9 The only thing it can ha'e been is my mind #ell= if mind can tell me to ha'e a cold= surely it can stop that cold= too So let;s re'erse the process= and instead of holding before the subconscious mind images of colds and fe'ers= thin2 only of health and life and strength "nstead of trying to thin2 bac2 to disco'er how we 1caught3 cold= and thus strengthening the con'iction that we ha'e one= let us deny its existence and so 2noc2 the props out from under the creati'e faculties that are originating the

cold .et us hold before our subconscious mind only the perfect idea of nose and head and throat that is in Uni'ersal *ind .et us ma2e it use the Truth for its pattern= instead of the illusory ideas of conscious mind <'ery form of disease or sic2ness is solely the result of wrong thin2ing The primary law of being is the law of health and life #hen you recogniBe this= when you hold before your mind;s eye only a perfect body= perfect organisms functioning perfectly= you will 1realiBe the truth that ma2es you free 3 !arnsworth in his 1+ractical +sychology3 tells of a physician who has li'ed on a 'ery restricted diet for years while at home 7ut about once a year he comes to 8ew )or2 for a wee2 #hile here= he eats anything and e'erything that his fancy dictates= and ne'er suffers the least incon'enience /s soon as he gets home he has to return to his diet Unless he stic2s to his diet= he expects to be ill-and he is ill. 1/s a man thin2eth= so is he 3 #hat one expects to get he is apt to get= especially where health is concerned !or matter has no sensation of its own The conscious mind is what produces pain= is what feels= acts or impedes action !unctional disorders are caused by certain suggestions getting into the sub consciousness and remaining there They are not due to physical= but to mental causes-due to wrong thin2ing The basis of all functional disorders is in the mind= though the manifestation is dyspepsia= melancholia= palpitation of the heart= or any one of a hundred others There is nothing organically wrong with the body "t is your mental image that is out of ad>ustment Change the one and you cure the other "n this day of the gymnasium and the daily doBen= it may sound impractical to suggest that it is the mind= not the body= which needs the care 7ut " am far from being the first to suggest it There is a 'ery successful physician in .ondon whose teaching is that gymnastic exercise does more harm than good Ae contends that the only exercise necessary for the perfect de'elopment of the body is yawning and stretching " would go farther than that " would say that no physical exercise is essential to the perfect de'elopment of the body That since the only cause is mind= the principal good of exercise is that when we go through the motions we impress upon our subconscious mind the picture of the perfect figure that we would ha'e /nd that mental 'isualiBation is what brings the results )ou can get the same results without the physical exercise by 'isualiBing in your mind;s eye the figure of the man you want to be= by intensely desiring it= by 7<."<,"8% that you ha'e it )ou can win to perfect health by 2nowing that there is but one right idea in Uni'ersal *ind for e'ery organism in your body-that this right idea is perfect and undying-that you ha'e only to hold it before your subconscious mind to see it realiBed in your body "his is the truth that ma!es you free.

8I The L#w of Attr#ction !or life is the mirror of 2ing and sla'e JTis >ust what you are and do? Then gi'e to the world the best you ha'e= /nd the best will come bac2 to you -*/&<."8< 7R"&%<S The old adage that 1Ae profits most who ser'es best3 is no mere altruism .oo2 around you #hat businesses are going ahead9 #hat men are ma2ing the big successes9 /re they the ones who grab the passing dollar= careless of what they offer in return9 6r are they those who are stri'ing always to gi'e a little greater 'alue= a little more wor2 than they are paid for9 #hen scales are balanced e'enly= a trifle of extra weight thrown into either side o'erbalances the other as effecti'ely as a ton "n the same way= a little better 'alue= a little extra effort= ma2es the man or the business stand out from the great mass of mediocrity li2e a tall man among pigmies= and brings results out of all proportion to the additional effort in'ol'ed "t pays-not merely altruistically= but in good= hard= round dollars-to gi'e a little more 'alue than seems necessary= to wor2 a bit harder than you are paid for "t;s that extra ounce of 'alue that counts !or the law of attraction is ser'ice #e recei'e in proportion as we gi'e out "n fact= we usually recei'e in far greater proportion 1Cast thy bread upon the waters and it will return to you an hundred(fold 3 7ac2 of e'erything is the immutable law of the Uni'erse-that what you are but the effect )our thoughts are the causes The only way you can change the effect is by first changing the cause +eople li'e in po'erty and want because they are so wrapped up in their sufferings that they gi'e out thoughts only of lac2 and sorrow They expect want They open the door of their mind only to hardship and sic2ness and po'erty True-they hope for something better-but their hopes are so drowned by their fears that they ne'er ha'e a chance )ou cannot recei'e good while expecting e'il )ou cannot demonstrate plenty while loo2ing for po'erty 17lessed is he that expecteth much= for 'erily his soul shall be filled 3 Solomon outlined the law when he saidH 1There is that scattereth= and increaseth yet more? /nd there is that withholdeth more than is meet=

but it tendeth only to want The liberal soul shall be made fat? /nd he that watereth shall be watered also himself 3 The Uni'ersal *ind expresses itself largely through the indi'idual "t is continually see2ing an outlet "t is li2e a 'ast reser'oir of water= constantly replenished by mountain springs Cut a channel to it and the water will flow in e'er(increasing 'olume "n the same way= if you once open up a channel of ser'ice by which the Uni'ersal *ind can express itself through you= its gifts will flow in e'er increasing 'olume and )6U will be enriched in the process This is the idea through which great ban2ers are made / foreign country needs millions for de'elopment "ts people are hard wor2ing= but lac2 the necessary implements to ma2e their wor2 producti'e Aow are they to find the money9 They go to a ban2er-put their problem up to him Ae has not the money himself= but he 2nows how and where to raise it Ae sells the promise to pay of the foreign country Ntheir bonds= in other wordsO to people who ha'e money to in'est Ais is merely a ser'ice 7ut it is such an in'aluable ser'ice that both sides are glad to pay him liberally for it "n the same way= by opening up a channel between uni'ersal supply and human needs-by doing your neighbors or your friends or your customer;s ser'ice-you are bound to profit yourself /nd the wider you open your channel- the greater ser'ice you gi'e or the better 'alues you offer-the more things are bound to flow through your channel= the more you are going to profit thereby 7ut you;'e got to use your talent if you want to profit from it "t matters not how small your ser'ice-using it will ma2e it greater )ou don;t ha'e to retire to a cell and pray That is a selfish method-selfish concern for your own soul to the exclusion of all others *ere self( denial or asceticism as such does no one good )ou;'e got to &6 something= to US< the talents %od has gi'en you to ma2e the world better for your ha'ing been in it Remember the parable of the talents )ou 2now what happened to the man who went off and hid his talent= whereas those who made use of theirs were gi'en charge o'er many things That parable= it has always seemed to me= expresses the whole law of life The only right is to use all the forces of good The only wrong is to neglect or to abuse them 1Thou shalt lo'e the .ord thy %od This is the first and the greatest Commandment 3 Thou shalt show thy lo'e by using to the best possible ad'antage the good things Nthe 1talents3 of the parableO that Ae has placed in your hands 1/nd the second is li2e unto it Thou shalt lo'e thy neighbor as thyself 3 Thou shalt not abuse the good things that ha'e been pro'ided you in such prodigality= by using them against your neighbor "nstead= thou shalt treat him Nlo'e himO as he would treat you Thou shalt use the good about you for the ad'antage of all "f you are a ban2er= you;'e got to use the money you ha'e in order to ma2e more money "f you are a merchant= you;'e got to sell the goods you ha'e in order to buy more goods "f you

are a doctor= you must help the patient you ha'e in order to get more practice "f you are a cler2= you must do your wor2 a little better than those around you if you want to earn more money than they /nd if you want more of the uni'ersal supply= you must use that which you ha'e in such a way as to ma2e yourself of greater ser'ice to those around you 1#hosoe'er shall be great among you=3 said @esus= 1shall be your minister= and whosoe'er of you will be the chiefest= shall be ser'ant of all 3 "n other words= if you would be great= you must ser'e /nd he who ser'es most shall be greatest of all "f you want to ma2e more money= instead of see2ing it for yourself= see how you can ma2e more for others "n the process you will ine'itably ma2e more for yourself= too #e get as we gi'e- but we must gi'e first "t matters not where you start- you may be a day laborer 7ut still you can gi'e-gi'e a bit more of energy= of wor2= of thought= than you are paid for 1#hosoe'er shall compel thee to go a mile=3 said @esus= 1go with him twain 3 Try to put a little extra s2ill into your wor2 Use your mind to find some better way of doing whate'er tas2 may be set for you "t won;t be long before you are out of the common labor class There is no 2ind of wor2 than cannot be bettered by thought There is no method that cannot be impro'ed by thought So gi'e generously of your thought to your wor2 Thin2 e'ery minute you are at it-3"sn;t there some way in which this could be done easier= 5uic2er= better93 Read in your spare time e'erything that relates to your own wor2 or to the >ob ahead of you "n these days of magaBines and boo2s and libraries= few are the occupations that are not thoroughly co'ered in some good wor2 Remember in .orimer;s 1.etters of a Self(*ade *erchant to Ais Son=3 the young fellow that old %organ %raham hired against his better >udgment and put in the 1barrel gang3 >ust to get rid of him 5uic2ly9 7efore the month was out the young fellow had thought himself out of that >ob by persuading the boss to get a machine that did the wor2 at half the cost and with a third of the gang %raham >ust had to raise his pay and put him higher up 7ut he wouldn;t stay put 8o matter what the >ob= he always found some way it could be done better and with fewer people= until he reached the top of the ladder There are plenty of men li2e that in actual life They won;t stay down They are as full of bounce as a cat with a small boy and a dog after it Thrown to the dog from an upper window= it is using the time of falling to get set for the next >ump 7y the time the dog leaps for where it hit= the cat is up the tree across the street The true spirit of business is the spirit of that pluc2y old &anish sea captain= +eter Tordens2>old /ttac2ed by a Swedish frigate= after all his crew but one had been 2illed and his supply of cannon balls was exhausted= +eter boldly 2ept up the fight= firing pewter dinner( plates and mugs from his one remaining gun 6ne of the pewter mugs hit the Swedish captain and 2illed him= and +eter sailed off

triumphantC .oo2 around )6U now Aow can )6U gi'e greater 'alue for what you get9 Aow can you S<R,< better9 Aow can you ma2e more money for your employers or sa'e more for your customers9 Geep that thought e'er in the forefront of your mind and you6ll never need to worry about ma!ing more for yourself! A B,#n7 Chec7 There was an article by %ardner Aunting in a recent issue of 1Christian 7usiness=3 that was so good that " reprint it here entireH 1/ll my life " ha'e 2nown in a 'ague way that getting money is the result of earning it? but " ha'e ne'er had a perfect 'ision of that truth till recently Summed up now= the result of all my experience= pleasant and unpleasant= is that a man gets bac2 exactly what he gi'es out= only multiplied 1"f " gi'e to anybody ser'ice of a 2ind that he wants " shall get bac2 the benefit myself "f " gi'e more ser'ice " shall get more benefit "f " gi'e a great deal more= " shall get a great deal more 7ut " shall get bac2 more than " gi'e <xactly as when " plant a bushel of potatoes= " get bac2 thirty or forty bushels= and more in proportion to the attention " gi'e the growing crop "f " gi'e more to my employer than he expects of me= he will gi'e me a raise- and on no other condition #hat is more= his gi'ing me a raise does not depend on his fair(mindedness ( he has to gi'e it to me or lose me= because if he does not appreciate me somebody else will 17ut this is only part of it "f " gi'e help to the man whose des2 is next to mine= it will come bac2 to me multiplied= e'en if he apparently is a ri'al #hat " gi'e to him= " gi'e to the firm= and the firm will 'alue it= because it is teamwor2 in the organiBation that the firm primarily wants= not brilliant indi'idual performance "f " ha'e an enemy in the organiBation= the same rule holds? if " gi'e him= with the purpose of helping him= something that will genuinely help him= " am gi'ing ser'ice to the organiBation %reat corporations appreciate the peacema2er= for a prime re5uisite in their success is harmony among employees "f my boss is unappreciati'e= the same rule holds? if " gi'e him more= in ad'ance of appreciation= he cannot withhold his appreciation and 2eep his own >ob 1The more you thin2 about this law= the deeper you will see it goes "t literally hands you a blan2 chec2= signed by the *a2er of Uni'ersal .aw= and lea'es you to fill in the amount-and the 2ind-of payment you wantC *ediocre successes are those that obey this law a little way -that fill in the chec2 with a small amount-but that stop short of big 'ision in it "f e'ery employee would only get the idea of this law firmly fixed in him as a principle= not sub>ect to wa'ering with fluctuating moods= the success of the organiBation would be miraculous 6ne of my fears is apt to be that= by promoting the other fellow;s success= " am sidetrac2ing my own? but the exact opposite is the truth 1Suppose e'ery employee would loo2 at his own case as an exact parallel to that of his firm #hat does his firm gi'e for the money it gets from the public9 Ser'iceC Ser'ice in ad'anceC The better the ser'ice that is gi'en out= the more money comes bac2 #hat does the firm do to

bring public attention to its ser'ice9 "t ad'ertises? that is part of the ser'ice 8ow= suppose that "= as an employee= begin gi'ing my ser'ice to the firm in ad'ance of all hoped for payment Suppose " ad'ertise my ser'ice Aow do " do either9 " cannot do anything constructi'e in that firm;s office or store or plant or premises that is not ser'ice= from filing a letter correctly to mending the fence or pleasing a customer? from loo2ing up a word for the stenographer= to encouraging her to loo2 it up herself? demonstrating a machine to a customer or encouraging him to demonstrate it himself? from helping my immediate apparent ri'al to get a raise= to selling the whole season;s output /s for ad'ertising myself= " begin ad'ertising myself the moment " wal2 into the office or the store or the shop in the morning? " cannot help it <'erybody who loo2s at me sees my ad'ertisement <'erybody around me has my ad'ertisement before his eyes all day long So has the boss-my immediate chief and the head of the firm= no matter where they are /nd if " li'e up to my ad'ertising= nobody can stop me from selling my goods- my ser'icesC The more a man 2noc2s me= the more he ad'ertises me? because he calls attention to me? and ill am deli'ering something better than he says " am= the interested parties-my employers-will see it= and will not be otherwise influenced by what he says 1*ore than that= " must gi'e to e'ery human being " come in contact with= from my wife to the bootblac2 who shines my shoes? from my brother to my sworn foe Sometimes people will tell you to smile? but the smile " gi'e has got to be a real smile that li'es up to its ad'ertising "f " go around grinning li2e a Cheshire cat= the Cheshire(cat grin will be what " get bac2multipliedC "f " gi'e the real thing= ";ll get bac2 the real thing-multipliedC "f anybody ob>ects that this is a selfish 'iew to ta2e= " answer him that any law of sal'ation from anything by anybody that has e'er been offered for any purpose= is a selfish 'iew to ta2e The only unselfishness that has e'er been truly taught is that of gi'ing a lesser thing in hope of recei'ing a greater 18ow= why am " so sure of this law9 Aow can you be sure9 " ha'e watched it wor2? it wor2s e'erywhere )ou ha'e only to try it= and 2eep on trying it and it will pro'e true for you "t is not true because " say so= nor because anybody else says so? it is >ust true Theosophists call it the law of Garma? humanitarians call it the law of Ser'ice? businessmen call it the law of common sense? @esus Christ called it the law of .o'e "t rules whether " 2now it or not= whether " belie'e it or not= whether " defy it or not " can6t brea2 itC @esus of 8aBareth= without reference to any religious idea you may ha'e about Aim= without consideration as to whether Ae was or was not di'ine= was the greatest business *an that e'er li'ed= and he saidH J%i'e and ye shall recei'e-good measure= pressed down= sha2en together= running o'erC; /nd this happens to be so-not because Ae said it-but because it is the Truth= which we all= whether we admit it or not= worship as %od 8o man can honestly say that he does not put the truth supreme 1"t is the truth-the principle of gi'ing and recei'ing-only there are few men who go the limit on it 7ut going the limit is the way to unlimited returnsC 1#hat shall " gi'e9 #hat " ha'e= of course Suppose you belie'e in this idea-and suppose you should start gi'ing it out= the idea itself= tactfully= wisely= and li'ing it yourself in your organiBation

Aow long do you thin2 it will be before you are a power in that organiBation= recogniBed as such and getting pay as such9 "t is more 'aluable than all the cle'erness and special information you can possibly possess without it #hat you ha'e= gi'e-to e'erybody "f you ha'e an idea= do not sa'e it for your own use only? gi'e it "t is the best thing you ha'e to gi'e and therefore the thing best to gi'e-and therefore the thing that will bring the best bac2 to you " belie'e that if a man would follow this principle= e'en to his trade secrets= he would profit steadily more and more? and more certainly than he will by holding on to anything for himself Ae would ne'er ha'e to worry about his own affairs because he would be wor2ing on fundamental law .aw ne'er fails-and it will be easy for you to disco'er what is or is not law /nd if law is worth using part of the time= it is worth using all the time 1.oo2 around you first= with an eye to seeing the truth= and then put the thing to the test Through both methods of in'estigation you will find a blan2 chec2 waiting for you to fill in with Jwhatsoe'er you desire=; and a new way to pray and to get what you pray for 3

8II The Three .e9uisites 1#aste no tears Upon the blotted record of lost years= 7ut turn the leaf= and smile= oh smile= to see The fair white pages that remain for thee 1+rate not of thy repentance 7ut belie'e The spar2 di'ine dwells in theeH let it grow That which the up(reaching spirit can achie'e The grand and all creati'e forces 2now? They will assist and strengthen as the light .ifts up the acorn to the oa2(tree;s height Thou hast but to resol'e= and loC %od;s whole %reat uni'erse shall fortify thy soul 3 -<../ #A<<.<R #".C64 Sometime today or tomorrow or next month= in practically e'ery commercial office and manufacturing plant in the United States= an important executi'e will sit bac2 in his chair and study a list of names on a sheet of white paper before him )our name may be on it / position of responsibility is open and he is face to face with the old= old problem-3#here can " find the man93 The faces= the words= the wor2= the impressions of 'arious men will pass through his mind in 5uic2 re'iew #hat is the first 5uestion he will as2 concerning each9 1#hich man is strongest on initiati'e= which one can best assume responsibility93 6ther things being e5ual= TA/T is the man who will get the >ob !or the first re5uisite in business as in social life is confidence in yourself-!nowledge of your power %i'en that= the second is easy-initiati'e or the courage to start things. .ots of men ha'e ideas= but few ha'e the confidence in themsel'es or the courage to start anything #ith belief and initiati'e= the third re5uisite follows almost as a matter of course-the faith to go ahead and do things in the face of all obstacles 16h= %od=3 said .eonardo da ,inci= 1you sell us e'erything for the price of an effort 3 Certainly no one had a better chance to 2now than he /n illegitimate son= brought up in the family of his father= the misfortune of his birth made him the source of constant derision Ae had to do something to lift himself far abo'e the crowd /nd he did 1!or the price of an effort3 he became the greatest artist in "taly-probably the greatest in the world-in a day

when "taly was famous for her artists Gings and princes felt honored at being associated with this illegitimate boy Ae made the name he had no right to famous for his wor2 alone 1#or2 out your own sal'ation13 said +aul /nd the first re5uisite in wor2ing it out is 2nowledge of your power 1<'ery man of us has all the centuries in him 3-*orley /ll the ages behind you ha'e be5ueathed you stores of abilities= which you are allowing to lie latent Those abilities are stored up in your subconscious mind Call upon them Use them /s #hittier put it1/ll the good the past has had Remains to ma2e our own time glad 3 /re you an artist9 The cunning of a da ,inci= the s2ill of a Rembrandt= the 'ision of a Reynolds= is behind those fingers of yours Use the %enie(of(your(mind to call upon them /re you a surgeon= a lawyer= a minister= and an engineer= a businessman9 Geep before your mind;s eye the biggest men who ha'e e'er done the things you now are doing Use them as your model and not as your model simply= but as your inspiration Start in where they left off Call upon the innermost recesses of your subconscious mind= for their s2ill= their >udgment= their initiati'e RealiBe that you ha'e it in you to be as great as they RealiBe that all that they did= all that they learned= all the s2ill they ac5uired is stored safely away in Uni'ersal *ind and that through your subconscious mind you have ready access to it. The mind in you is the same mind that animated all the great con5uerors of the past= all the great in'entors= all the great artists= statesmen= leaders= business men #hat they ha'e done is but a tithe of what still remains to do-of what men in your day and your children;s day will do )ou can ha'e a part in it Stored away within you is e'ery power that any man or woman e'er possessed "t awaits only your call "n 1Thoughts on 7usiness=3 we readH 1"t is a great day in a man;s life when he truly begins to disco'er himself The latent capacities of e'ery man are greater than he realiBes= and he may find them if he diligently see2s for them / man may own a tract of land for many years without 2nowing its 'alue Ae may thin2 of it as merely a pasture 7ut one day he disco'ers e'idences of coal and finds a rich 'ein beneath his land #hile mining and prospecting for coal he disco'ers deposits of granite "n boring for water he stri2es oil .ater he disco'ers a 'ein of copper ore= and after that sil'er and gold These things were there all the time-e'en when he thought of his land merely as a pasture 7ut they ha'e a 'alue only when they are disco'ered and utiliBed 18ot e'ery pasture contains deposits of sil'er and gold= neither oil nor granite= nor e'en coal 7ut beneath the surface of e'ery man there must be= in the nature of things= a latent capacity greater than has yet been disco'ered /nd one disco'ery must lead to another until the man finds the deep wealth of his own possibilities Aistory is full of the acts of men who disco'ered somewhat of their own capacity? but history has yet to record the man who fully disco'ered all that be might ha'e been 3 <'erything that has been done= thought= gained= or been is in Uni'ersal *ind /nd you are a

part of Uni'ersal *ind )ou ha'e access to it )ou can call upon it for all you need in the same way you can go to your files or to a library for information "f you can realiBe this fact= you will find in it the 2ey to the control of e'ery circumstance= the solution of e'ery problem= the satisfaction of e'ery right desire 7ut to use that 2ey= you;'e got to bear in mind the three re5uisites of faith in your powers= initiati'e= and courage to start 1#ho would stand before a blac2board=3 says 1Science and Aealth=3 1and pray the principle of mathematics to sol'e the problem9 The rule is already established= and it is our tas2 to wor2 out the solution 3 "n the same way= all 2nowledge you can need is in Uni'ersal *ind= but it is up to you to tap that mind /nd without the three re5uisites you will ne'er do it 8e'er let discouragement hold you bac2 &iscouragement is the most dangerous feeling there is= because it is the most insidious %enerally it is loo2ed upon as harmless= and for that 'ery reason it is the more sinister !or failure and success are oftentimes separated by only the distance of that one word- &iscouragement There is an old(time fable that the de'il once held a sale and offered all the tools of his trade to anyone who would pay their price They were spread out on the table= each one labeledhatred= and malice= and en'y= and despair= and sic2ness= and sensuality ( all the weapons that e'eryone 2nows so well 7ut off on one side= apart from the rest= lay a harmless loo2ing= wedge(shaped instrument mar2ed 1&iscouragement 3 "t was old and worn loo2ing= but it was priced far abo'e all the rest #hen as2ed the reason why= the de'il repliedH 17ecause " can use this one so much more easily than the others 8o one 2nows that it belongs to me= so with it " can open doors that are tight bolted against the others 6nce " get inside " can use any tool that suits me best 3 8o one e'er 2nows how small is the margin between failure and success !re5uently the two are separated only by the width of that one word-discouragement /s2 !ord= as2 <dison= as2 any successful man and he will tell you how narrow is the chasm that separates failure from success= how surely it can be bridged by perse'erance and faith Culti'ate confidence in yourself Culti'ate the feeling that you /R< succeeding Gnow that you ha'e unlimited power to do e'ery right thing Gnow that with Uni'ersal *ind to draw upon= no position is too difficult= and no problem too hard 1Ae that belie'eth on me= the wor2s that " do shall he do also? and greater wor2s than these shall he do 3 #hen you put limitations upon yourself= when you doubt your ability to meet any situation= you are placing a limit upon Uni'ersal *ind= for 1The !ather that is within me= Ae doeth the wor2s 3 #ith that 2nowledge of your power= with that confidence in the unlimited resources of Uni'ersal *ind= it is easy enough to show initiati'e= it is easy enough to find the courage to

start things )ou ha'e a right to dominion o'er all things-o'er your body= your en'ironment= your business= your health &e'elop these three re5uisites and you will gain that dominion Remember that you are a part of Uni'ersal *ind= and that the part shares e'ery property of the whole Remember that= as the spar2 of electricity to the thunderbolt= so is your mind to Uni'ersal *ind #hate'er of good you may desire of life= whate'er 5ualification= whate'er position= you ha'e only to wor2 for it whole heartedly= confidently= with singleness of purpose-and you can get it

8III Th#t O,d -itch/B#d Luc7 1Aow do you tac2le your wor2 each day9 /re you scared of the >ob you find9 &o you grapple the tas2 that comes your way #ith a confident= easy mind9 &o you stand right up to the wor2 ahead 6r fearfully pause to 'iew it9 &o you start to toil with a sense of dread 6r feel that you;re going to do it9 1#hat is the thought that is in your mind9 "s fear e'er running through it9 "f so= >ust tac2le the next you find 7y thin2ing you;re going to do it 3 -<&%/R / %U<ST D Aas that old witch-bad luc2- e'er camped on your doorstep9 Aa'e ill health= misfortune and worry e'er seemed to dog your footsteps9 "f so= you will be interested in 2nowing that )6U were the procuring cause of all that trouble !or fear is merely creati'e thought in negati'e form Remember bac2 in 192E how fine the business outloo2 seemed= how e'erything loo2ed rosy and life flowed along li2e a song9 #e had crops worth ten billions of dollars #e had splendid utilities= great railways= almost unlimited factory capacity <'eryone was busy The go'ernment had a billion dollars in actual money The ban2s were sound The people were well employed #ages were good +rosperity was general "hen something happened. / wa'e of fear swept o'er the country The prosperity could not last +eople wouldn;t pay such high prices There was too much inflation #hat was the result9 /s @ob put it in the long ago= 1The thing that " greatly feared has come upon me 3 The prosperity 'anished almost o'er night !ailures became general Aundreds of thousands were thrown out of wor2 /nd all because of panic= fear JTis true that read>ustments were necessary JTis true that prices were too high= that in'entories were too big= that 'alues generally were inflated 7ut it wasn;t necessary to burst the balloon to let out the gas There are orderly natural processes of read>ustment that bring things to their proper le'el with the least harm to anyone 7ut fear-panic-2nows no reason "t brings into being o'ernight the things that it fears "t is

the greatest torment of humanity "t is about all there is to Aell Fear is. in short. the devil "t causes most of the sin= disaster= disease and misery of the world "t is the only thing you can put into business= which won;t draw di'idends in either fun or dollars "f you guess right= you don;t get any satisfaction out of it The real cause of all sic2ness is fear )ou image some disease in your thought= and your body proceeds to build upon this model that you hold before it )ou ha'e seen how fear ma2es the face pallid= how it first stops the beating of the heart= then sets it going at trip(hammer pace !ear changes the secretions !ear halts the digestion !ear puts lines and wrin2les into the face !ear turns the hair gray *ind controls e'ery function of the human body "f the thought you hold before your subconscious mind is the fear of disease= of colds or catarrh= of fe'er or indigestion= those are the images your subconscious mind will wor2 out in your body !or your body itself is merely so much matter-an aggregation of protons and electrons= >ust as the table in front of you is an aggregation of these same buttons of force= but with a different density Ta2e away your mind= and your body is >ust as inert= >ust as lifeless= and >ust as senseless= as the table <'ery function of your body= from the beating of your heart to the secretions in your glands= is controlled by mind The digestion of your food is >ust as much a function of your mind as the mo'ing of your finger So the all(important thing is not what food you put into your stomach= but what your mind decides shall be done with it "f your mind feels that certain food should ma2e you sic2= it will ma2e you sic2 "f= on the other hand= your mind decides that though the food has no nutriti'e 'alue= there is no reason why unintelligent matter should ma2e you sic2= mind will eliminate that food without harm or discomfort to you )our body is >ust li2e clay in the hands of a potter )our mind can ma2e of it what it will The clay has nothing to say about what form it shall ta2e 8either ha'e your head= your heart= your D!rom 1/ heap o; .i'in; 3 The Reilly 0 .ee Co lungs= your digesti'e organs anything to say about how conditions shall affect them They do not decide whether they shall be diBBy or diseased or lame "t is mind that ma2es this decision They merely conform to it /!T<R mind has decided it *atter has undergone any and e'ery condition without harm= when properly sustained by mind /nd what it has done once= it can do again #hen you understand that your muscles= your ner'es= your bones ha'e no feeling or intelligence of their own= when you learn that they react to conditions only as mind directs that they shall react= you will ne'er again thin2 or spea2 of any organ as imperfect= as wea2 or ailing )ou will ne'er again complain of tired bodies= aching muscles= or frayed ner'es 6n the contrary= you will hold steadfast to thoughts of exhaustless strength= of super(abundant 'itality= 2nowing that= as Sha2espeare said- 1There is nothing= either good or bad= but thin2ing ma2es it so 3 8e'er fear disaster= for the fear of it is an in'itation to disaster to come upon you !ear being

'i'id= easily impresses itself upon the sub(conscious mind /nd by so impressing itself= it brings into being the thing that is feared "t is the !ran2enstein monster that we all create at times= and which= created= and turns to rend its creator !ear that something you greatly priBe will be lost and the fear you feel with creates the 'ery means whereby you will lose it !ear is the &e'il "t is the ra'ening lion roaming the earth see2ing whom it may de'our The only safety from it is to deny it The only refuge is in the 2nowledge that it has no power other than the power you gi'e to it 5e -ho$ # 0re#$ 5#th Possessed )ou fear debt So your mind concentrates upon it and brings about greater debts )ou fear loss /nd by 'isualiBing that loss you bring it about The only remedy for fear is to 2now that e'il has no power-that it is a non(entity-merely a lac2 of something )ou fear ill health= when if you would concentrate that same amount of thought upon good health you would insure the 'ery condition you fear to lose !unctional disturbances are caused solely by the mind through wrong thin2ing The remedy for them is a not drug= but right thin2ing= for the trouble is not in the organs but in the mind !arnsworth in his 1+ractical +sychology3 tells of a man who had concei'ed the idea when a boy that the eating of cherries and mil2 together had made him sic2 Ae was 'ery fond of both= but always had to be careful not to eat them together= for whene'er he did he had been ill *r !arnsworth explained to him that there was no reason for such illness= because all mil2 sours anyway >ust as soon as it reaches the stomach /s a matter of fact it cannot be digested until it does sour Ae then treated the man mentally for this wrong association of ideas= and after the one treatment the man was ne'er troubled in this way again= though he had been suffering from it for forty( fi'e years "f you had delirium tremens= and thought you saw pin2 elephants and green alligators and yellow sna2es all about you= it would be a foolish physician that would try to cure you of sna2es 6r that would prescribe glasses to impro'e your eyesight= when he 2new that the animals round about you were merely distorted 'isions of your mind The indigestion that you suffer from= the colds that bother you-in short= each and e'ery 6ne of your ailments(is >ust as much a distorted idea of your mind as would be the sna2es of delirium tremens 7anish the idea and you banish the manifestation The 7ible contains one continuous entreaty to cast out fear !rom beginning to end= the admonition 1!ear not3 is insistent !ear is the primary cause of all bodily impairment @esus understood this and Ae 2new that it could be abolished Aence Ais fre5uent entreaty= 1!ear not= be not afraid 3 Struggle there is /nd struggle there will always be 7ut struggle is merely wrestling with trial #e need difficulties to o'ercome 7ut there is nothing to be afraid of <'erything is an effect of mind )our thought forces= concentrated upon anything= will bring that thing into

manifestation Therefore concentrate them only upon good things= only upon those conditions you wish to see manifested "hin! health= power= abundance= and happiness &ri'e all thoughts of po'erty and disease= of fear and worry= as far from your mind as you dri'e filth from your homes !or fear and worry is the filth of the mind that causes all trouble= that brings about all disease 7anish itC 7anish from among your associates any man with a negati'e outloo2 on life Shun him as you would the plague Can you imagine a 2noc2er winning anything9 Ae is doomed before he starts &on;t let him pull you down with him 1!ret not thyself=3 says the +salmist= 1else shalt thou be mo'ed to do e'il 3 That wise old +salmist might ha'e been writing for us today !or there is no surer way of doing the wrong thing in business or in social life than to fret yourself= to worry= to fume= to want action of some 2ind= regardless of what it may be Remember the .ord;s admonition to the "sraelites= 17e still-and 2now that " am %od 3 Aa'e you e'er stood on the shore of a calm= peaceful la2e and watched the reflections in it9 The trees= the mountains= the clouds= the s2y= all were mirrored there->ust as perfectly= as beautifully= as the ob>ects themsel'es 7ut try to get such a reflection from the oceanC "t cannot be done= because the ocean is always restless= always stirred up by winds or wa'es or tides So it is with your mind )ou cannot reflect the richness and plenty of Uni'ersal *ind= you cannot mirror peace and health and happiness= if you are constantly worried= continually stirred by wa'es of fear= winds of anger= tides of toil and stri'ing )ou must relax at times )ou must gi'e mind a chance )ou must realiBe that= when you ha'e done your best= you can confidently lean bac2 and lea'e the outcome to Uni'ersal *ind @ust as wrong thin2ing produces discord in the body= so it also brings on a diseased condition in the realm of commerce <xperience teaches that we need to be protected more from our fears and wrong thoughts= than from so(called e'il influences external to oursel'es #e need not suffer for another man;s wrong= for another;s greed= dishonesty= a'arice or selfish ambition 7ut if we hug to oursel'es the fear that we do ha'e to so suffer= ta2e it into our thought= allow it to disturb us= then we sentence oursel'es J#e are free to re>ect e'ery suggestion of discord= and to be go'erned harmoniously= in spite of what anything or anybody may try to do to us &o you 2now why old army men would rather ha'e soldiers of 1I or 2E than mature men of QE or KE9 8ot because they can march farther They can;tC 8ot because they can carry more They can;tC 7ut because when they go to sleep at night= they really sleep "hey wipe the slate clean! #hen they awa2en in the morning= they are ready for a new day and a new world 7ut an older man carries the ner'ous strain of one day o'er to the next Ae worriesC #ith the result that at the end of a couple of month;s; hard campaigning= the older man is a ner'ous wrec2 /nd that is the trouble with most men in business. "hey never wipe the slate clean! "hey worry! /nd they carry each day;s worries o'er to the next= with the result that some day the burden

becomes more than they can carry The B#rs of F#te !ear results from a belief that there are really two powers in this world ( %ood and <'il .i2e light and dar2ness #hen the fact is that <'il is no more real than dar2ness True= we lose contact with %ood at times #e let the clouds of fear and worry come between us and the sunlight of %ood and then all seems dar2 7ut the sun is still shining on the other side of those clouds= and when we dri'e them away= we again see its light RealiBing this= realiBing that %ood is e'er a'ailable if we will but turn to it confidently in our need= what is there to fear9 1!ear not= little floc2=3 said @esus= 1for it is the !ather;s good pleasure to gi'e you the 2ingdom 3 /nd again- 1Son= thou art e'er with me= and all that " ha'e is thine 3 "f this means anything= it means that the !ather is e'er a'ailable to all of us that we ha'e but to call upon Aim in the right way and our needs will be met "t doesn;t matter what those needs may be "f Uni'ersal *ind is the Creator of all= and if e'erything in the Uni'erse belongs to "t= then your business= your wor2= isn;t really yours-but the 1!ather;s 3 /nd Ae is >ust as much interested in its success= as long as you are wor2ing in accordance with Ais plan= as you can be <'eryone will admit that Uni'ersal *ind can do anything good <'eryone will admit that "t can bring to a successful conclusion any underta2ing "t may be interested in "f *ind created your business= if "t inspired your wor2= then "t is interested in its successful conclusion #hy not= then= call upon *ind when you ha'e done all you 2now how to do and yet success seems beyond your efforts #hy not put your problem up to *ind= secure in the belief that "t C/8 and #".. gi'e you any right thing you may desire9 " 2now that many people hesitate to pray for material things= but if Uni'ersal *ind made them= they must ha'e been made for some good purpose= and as long as you intend to use them for good= by all means as2 for them "f you can feel that your business= your wor2= is a good wor2= if you can be sure that it is ad'ancing the great Scheme of Things by e'er so little= you will ne'er again fear debt or lac2 or limitation !or 1The earth is the .ord;s and the fullness thereof 3 Uni'ersal *ind is ne'er going to lac2 for means to carry on "ts wor2 #hen @esus needed fish and bread= fish and bread were pro'ided in such abundance that a whole multitude was fed #hen Ae needed gold= the gold coin appeared in the fish;s mouth #here you are= *ind is= and where *ind is= there is all the power= all the supply of the uni'erse )ou are li2e the owner of a powerhouse that supplies electricity for light and heat and power to the homes and the factories around you There is unlimited electricity e'erywhere about you= but you ha'e got to set your dynamo going to draw the electricity out of the air and into

your power lines= before it can be put to practical account @ust so= there are unlimited riches all about you= but you ha'e got to set the dynamo of your mind to wor2 to bring them into such form as will ma2e them of use to yourself and the world So don;t worry about any present lac2 of money or other material things &on;t try to win from others what they ha'e %o where the money isC The material wealth that is in e'idence is so small compared with the possible wealth a'ailable through the right use of mind= that it is negligible by comparison The great rewards are for the pioneers .oo2 at Carnegie? at #oolworth? at !ordC <'ery year some new field of de'elopment is opened= some new world disco'ered Steam= gas= electricity= telegraphy= wireless= the automobile= and the aeroplaneeach opens up possibilities of new worlds yet to come / hundred years ago= people probably felt that e'erything had been disco'ered that could be disco'ered That e'erything was already 2nown that was li2ely e'er to be 2nown @ust as you may feel about things now= yet loo2 at the tremendous strides man2ind has ta2en in the past hundred years /nd they are as nothing to what the future holds for us= once man has learned to harness the truly unlimited powers of his subconscious mind There are billions of dollars worth of treasure under e'ery s5uare mile of the earth;s surface There are millions of ways in which this old world of ours can be made a better place to li'e Set your mind to wor2 locating some of this treasure= finding some of those ways &on;t wait for someone else to blaBe the trail 8o one remembers who else was on the #anta 'aria. but Columbus; name will be 2nown fore'erC Carnegie is said to ha'e made a hundred millionaires= but he alone became almost a billionaireC Aa'e you e'er read Gipling;s 1<xplorer93 1JThere;s no sense in going further-it;s the edge of culti'ation= So they said= and " belie'ed it - bro2e my land and sowed my crop- 7uilt my barns and strung my fences in the little border station Tuc2ed away below the foothills where the trails run out and stop 1Till a 'oice= as bad as Conscience= rang interminable changes on one e'erlasting #hisper day and night repeated-soH Jsomething hidden %o and find it %o and loo2 behind the RangesSomething lost behind the Ranges .ost and waiting for you %oC;3 )our mind is part and parcel of Uni'ersal *ind )ou ha'e the wisdom of all the ages to draw upon Use itC Use it to do your wor2 in a way it was ne'er done before Use it to find new outlets for your business= new methods of reaching people= new and better ways of ser'ing them Use it to unco'er new riches= to learn ways to ma2e the world a better place to li'e in Concentrate your thought upon these things= 2nowing that bac2 of you is the 'ast reser'oir of Uni'ersal *ind= that all these things are already 2nown to "t= and that you ha'e but to ma2e your contact for them to be 2nown to you

6ptimism based on such a realiBation is ne'er o'erconfidence "t is the >oyous assurance of absolute faith "t is the assurance that made #ilson for a time the outstanding leader of the world "t is the assurance that heartened .incoln during the blac2 days of the Ci'il #ar "t is the assurance that carried Aannibal and 8apoleon o'er the /lps= that left /lexander sighing for more worlds to con5uer= that enabled CorteB and his little band to con5uer a nation %rasp this idea of the a'ailability of Uni'ersal *ind for your daily needs= and your 'ision will become enlarged= your capacity increased )ou will realiBe that the only limits upon you are those you put upon yourself There will be no such thing then as difficulties and opposition barring your way E ercise )ou feed and nourish the body daily 7ut few people gi'e any thought to nourishing that far more important part-the *ind So let us try= each day= to set apart a few minutes time to gi'e the *ind a repast To begin with= rela(C Stretch out comfortably on a lounge or in an easy chair and let go of e'ery muscle= loosen e'ery bit of tension= forget e'ery thought of fear or worry Relax mentally and physically !ew people 2now how to relax entirely *ost of us are on a continual strain= and it is this strain that brings on physical disturbances-not any real wor2 we may do Aere is a little exercise that will help you to thoroughly relaxH Recline comfortably on a lounge or bed Stretch luxuriously first= then when you are settled at your ease again= lift the right leg a foot or two .et it drop limply Repeat slowly twice &o the same with the left leg #ith the right arm #ith the left arm )ou will find then that all your muscles are relaxed )ou can forget them and turn your thoughts to other things Try to realiBe the unlimited power that is yours Thin2 bac2 to the dawn of time= when *ind first imaged from nothingness the hea'ens and the earth and all that in them is Remember that= although your mind is to Uni'ersal *ind only as a drop of water to the ocean= this drop has all the properties of the great ocean? one in 5uality although not in 5uantity? your mind has all the creati'e power of Uni'ersal *ind 1/nd %od made man in Ais image= after Ais li2eness 3 Certainly %od ne'er manifested anything but infinite abundance= infinite supply "f you are made in Ais image= there is no reason why you should e'er lac2 for anything of good )ou can manifest abundance= too Round about you are the same electronic energy from which Uni'ersal *ind formed the hea'ens and the earth #hat do you wish to form from it9 #hat do you want most from life9 Aold it in your thought= 'isualiBe it= and S<< itC *a2e your model clear(cut and distinct 1 Remember= the first thing necessary is a sincere desire= concentrating your thought on one

thing with singleness of purpose 2 The second is 'isualiBation-S<< "8% )6URS<.! &6"8% "T-imaging the ob>ect in the same way that Uni'ersal *ind imaged all of creation Q 8ext is faith? 7<."<,"8% that you A/,< this thing that you want 8ot that you are %6"8% to ha'e it= mind you-but that you A/,< it K /nd the last is gratitude-gratitude for this thing that you ha'e recei'ed= gratitude for the power that enabled you to create it= gratitude for all the gifts that *ind has laid at your feet 1Trust in the .ord and 'erily thou shalt be fed 3 1&elight thyself also in the .ord= and Ae shall gi'e thee the desires of thy heart 3 1Commit thy way unto the .ord= and Ae Shall bring it to pass 3

VOLUME FIVE 8IV )our Needs Are Met 1/rise= E Soul= and gird thee up anew= Though the blac2 camel &eath 2neel at this gate? 8o beggar thou that thou for alms shouldst sue? 7e the proud captain still of thine own fate 3 -G<8)68 )ou;'e heard the story of the old man who called his children to his bedside to gi'e them a few parting words of ad'ice /nd this was the burden of it 1*y children=3 he said= 1" ha'e had a great deal of trouble in my life-a great deal of trouble -but most of it never happened.& #e are all of us li2e that old man 6ur troubles weigh us down-in prospect-Ubut we usually find that when the actual need arri'es= +ro'idence has de'ised some way of meeting it &r @ac5ues .oeb= a member of the Roc2efeller "nstitute= conducted a series of tests with parasites found on plants= which show that e'en the lowest order of creatures ha'e the power to call upon Uni'ersal Supply for the resources to meet any unusual need 1"n order to obtain the material=3 reads the report of the tests= 1potted rose bushes are brought into a room and placed in front of a closed window "f the plants are allowed to dry out= the aphides NparasitesO= pre'iously wingless= change to winged insects /fter the metamorphosis= the animals lea'e the plants= fly to the window and then creep upward on the glass 1"t is e'ident that these tiny insects found that the plants on which they had been thri'ing were dead= and that they could therefore secure nothing more to eat and drin2 from this source The only method by which they could sa'e themsel'es from star'ation was to grow temporary wings and fly= which they did 3 "n short= when their source of sustenance was shut off and they had to find the means of migrating or perish= Uni'ersal Supply furnished the means for migration "f Uni'ersal *ind can thus pro'ide for the meanest of its creatures= is it not logical to suppose that "t will do e'en more for us-the highest product of creation-if we will but call upon "t= if we will but ha'e a little faith9 ,iewed in the light of *ind;s response to the need of those tiny parasites= does it seem so unbelie'able that a sea should roll bac2 while a people marched across it dry( shod9 That a pillar of fire should lead them through the wilderness by night9 That manna should fall from hea'en= or water gush forth from a roc29 "n moments of great peril= in times of extremity= when the bra'e soul has sta2ed its all-those

are the times when miracles are wrought= if we will but ha'e faith That doesn;t mean that you should rest supinely at your ease and let the .ord pro'ide #hen you ha'e done all that is in you to do-when you ha'e gi'en of your best-don;t worry or fret as to the outcome Gnow that if more is needed= your need will be met )ou can sit bac2 with the confident assurance that ha'ing done your part? you can depend upon the %enie(of( your(*ind to do the rest #hen the little state of +alestine was in danger of being o'errun by <gypt on the one hand= or gobbled up by /ssyria on the other= its people were frantically trying to decide which horn of the dilemma to embrace= with which enemy they should ally themsel'es to sta'e off the other 1#ith neither=3 the +rophet "saiah told them= 1in calmly resting your safety lieth? in 5uiet trust shall be your strength 3 So it is with most of the great calamities that afflict us "f we would only 1calmly rest= 5uietly trust=3 how much better off we should be 7ut no-we must fret and worry= and nine times out of ten do the wrong thing /nd the more we worry and fret= the more li2ely we are to go wrong /ll of Uni'ersal *ind that is necessary to sol'e any gi'en problem= to meet any need= is where'er that need may be Supply is always where you are and what you need "t matters not whether it be sic2ness or trouble= po'erty or danger= the remedy is there= waiting for your call %o at your difficulty boldly= 2nowing that you ha'e infinite resources behind you= and you will find these forces closing around you and coming to your aid "t;s li2e an author writing a boo2 !or a long time he wor2s in a 2ind of mental fog= but let him perse'ere= and there flashes suddenly a light that clarifies his ideas and shows him the way to shape them logically /t the moment of despair= you feel a source of un2nown energy arising in your soul That doesn;t mean that you will ne'er ha'e difficulties &ifficulties are good for you They are the exercise of your mind )ou are the stronger for ha'ing o'ercome them 7ut loo2 upon them as mere exercise /s 1stunts3 that are gi'en you in order that you may the better learn how to use your mind= how to draw upon Uni'ersal Supply .i2e @acob wrestling with the /ngel= don;t let them go until they ha'e blessed you-until= in other words= you ha'e learned something from ha'ing encountered them Remember thisH 8o matter how great a catastrophe may befall man2ind= no matter how general the loss= you and yours can be free from it There is always a way of safety There is always an 1ar23 by which the understanding few can be sa'ed from the flood The name of that ar2 is understanding-understanding of your inner powers #hen the children of "srael were being led into the +romised .and= and @oshua had gi'en them their directions= they answered himH 1/ll that thou commandest us we will do= and whithersoe'er thou sendest us= we will go 6nly the .ord thy %od be with thee= as Ae was with *oses 3 They came to the ri'er @ordan= and it seemed an insurmountable barrier in their path= but @oshua commanded them to ta2e the /r2 of the Co'enant= representing %od;s understanding

with them= before them into the @ordan They did it= and 1the waters which came down from abo'e stood and rose up upon an heap /nd the priests that bare the /r2 of the Co'enant of the .ord stood firm on dry ground in the midst of @ordan= and all the "sraelites passed o'er on dry ground= until all the people were passed clean o'er @ordan 3 The Ar7 of the Co+en#nt /ll through the 6ld Testament= when war and pestilence= fire and flood= were the common lot of man2ind= there is constant assurance of safety for those who ha'e this understanding= this 1Co'enant3 with the .ord 17ecause thou hast made the .ord which is my refuge-e'en the *ost Aigh-thy habitation= there shall no e'il befall thee= neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling !or Ae shall gi'e Ais angels charge o'er thee to 2eep thee in all thy ways 3 That is Ais agreement with us-an agreement that gi'es us the superiority to circumstances= which men ha'e sought from time immemorial /ll that is necessary on our side of the agreement is for us to remember the infinite powers that reside within us= to remember that our mind is part of Uni'ersal *ind and as such it can foresee= it can guard against and it can protect us from harm of any 2ind #e need not run away from trials or try to become stoical towards them /ll we need is to bring our understanding to bear upon them- to 2now that no situation has e'er yet arisen with which Uni'ersal *ind- and through it our own mindwas not fully competent to deal To 2now that the right solution of e'ery problem is in Uni'ersal *ind #e ha'e but to see2 that solution and our trial is o'ercome 17ut where shall #isdom be found9 /nd where is the place of understanding9 /c5uaint now thyself with %od= and be at peace 3 "f e'il threatens us= if failure= sic2ness or accident seems imminent= we ha'e only to decide that these e'ils do not come from Uni'ersal *ind= therefore they are unreal and ha'e no power o'er us They are simply the absence of the right condition= which Uni'ersal *ind 2nows Refuse= therefore= to see them= to ac2nowledge them-and see2 through *ind for the right condition= which shall nullify them "f you will do this= you will find that you can appropriate from *ind whate'er you re5uire for your needs= when you re5uire it The greater your need= the more surely it will be met= if you can but realiBe this truth 1!ear not= little floc2=3 said @esus= 1for it is your !ather;s good pleasure to gi'e you the Gingdom 3 Remember that your thought is all(powerful That it is creati'e That there is no limitation upon it of time or space /nd that it is e'er a'ailable !orget your worries !orget your fears "n place of them= 'isualiBe the conditions you would li2e to see RealiBe their a'ailability &eclare to yourself that you already have all these things that you desire= that your needs have been met Say to yourselfH 1Aow than2ful " am that *ind has made all these good things a'ailable to me " ha'e e'erything that heart could desire to be grateful for 3 <'ery time you do this= you impress the thought upon your subconscious mind /nd the moment you can con'ince your subconscious mind of the truth of it-that moment your mind

will proceed to ma!e it true This is the way to put into practice the *aster;s ad'ice 17elie'e that ye R<C<",< it= and ye SA/.. A/,< it 3 There is no condition so hopeless= no cause so far gone= that this truth will not sa'e it Time and again patients gi'en o'er by their doctors as doomed ha'e made miraculous reco'eries through the faith of some lo'ed one 1" hope that e'eryone who reads this 7oo2 may gain as much from their first reading as " did=3 writes a happy subscriber from 8ew )or2 City 1" got such a clear understanding from that one reading that " was able to brea2 the mental chain holding a friend to a hospital bed= and she left the hospital in three days= to the 'ery great astonishment of the doctors handling the case 3 "n the same way= there are innumerable instances where threatened calamity has been warded off and good come instead The great trouble with most of us is= we do not believe #e insist upon loo2ing for trouble #e feel that the 1rainy day3 is bound to come= and we do our utmost to ma2e it a surety by 2eeping it in our thoughts= preparing for it= fearing it 1Cowards die many times before their deaths? the 'aliant ne'er taste of death but once 3 #e cross our bridges a doBen times before we come to them #e doubt oursel'es= we doubt our ability= we doubt e'eryone and e'erything around us= and our doubts sap our energy? 2ill our enthusiasm? rob us of success #e arc li2e the old lady who 1en>oys poor health 3 #e always place that little word 1but3 after our wishes and desires= feeling deep down that there are some things too good to be true #e thin2 there is a power apart from %ood= which can withhold blessings that should be ours #e doubt because we cannot see the way by which our desires can be fulfilled #e put a limit upon the good that can come to us 1+ro'e me now herewith= saith the .ord of Aosts=3 cried the +rophet *alachi= 1if " will not open you the windows of hea'en and pour you out a blessing that there shall not be room enough to recei'e it /nd all nations shall call you blessed= for ye shall be a delightsome land 3 3our mind is part of Uni'ersal *ind /nd Uni'ersal *ind has all supply )ou are entitled to= and you can ha'e= >ust as much of that supply as you are able to appropriate To expect less is to get less= for it dwarfs your power of recei'ing "t doesn;t matter what your longings may be= pro'ided they are right longings "f your little son has his heart set on a train and you feel perfectly able to get him a train= you are not going to hand him a picture boo2 instead "t may be that the picture boo2 would ha'e greater educational 'alue= but the lo'e you ha'e for your son is going to ma2e you try to satisfy his longings as long as those longings are not harmful ones "n the same way= Uni'ersal *ind will satisfy your longings= no matter how tri'ial they may seem= as long as they are not harmful ones 1&elight thyself also in the .ord= and Ae shall gi'e thee the desires of thine heart 3

"f we would only try to realiBe that %od is not some far(off &eity= not some stern @udge= but the beneficent force that we recogniBe as 8ature-the life +rinciple that ma2es the flowers bud= and the plants grow= that spreads abundance about us with la'ish band "f we could realiBe that Ae is the Uni'ersal *ind that holds all supply= that will gi'e us the toy of our childhood or the needs of maturity= that all we need to obtain from Aim our Aeart;s &esire is a right understanding of Ais a'ailability-then we would lose all our fears= all our worries= all our sense of limitation !or Uni'ersal *ind is an infinite= unlimited source of good 8ot only the source of general good= but the specific good things you desire of life To "t there is no big or little problem The remo'al of mountains is no more difficult than the feeding of a sparrow /nd to one-li2e the *aster-with a perfect understanding= the 1miracle3 of raising .aBarus from the dead re5uired no more effort than the turning of the water into wine Ae 2new that Uni'ersal *ind is all power-and there cannot be more than /.. Ae 2new that 1To 2now %od aright is life eternal 3 /nd @esus 2new %od aright= so was able to demonstrate this 2nowledge of life eternal in o'ercoming sin= disease and death !or it is one and the same law that heals sin= sic2ness= po'erty= heartaches= or death itself That law is the right understanding of &i'ine +rinciple 7ut what does this ability to perform 1miracles3 consist of9 #hat is the power or force by which we can pro'e this ability9 +erhaps the simplest way is to begin with the realiBation that Uni'ersal *ind is man;s wor2ing power The Science of Thought Can you stretch your mind a bit and try to comprehend this wonderful fact-that the /.. +6#<R!U.= /..( G86#"8%= <,<R./ST"8% CR</T6R and %o'ernor of the infinite uni'erse= 1#ho hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand= and meted out hea'en with the span= and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure= and weighed the mountains in scales= and the hills in a balance=3 is your wor2ing power9 "n proportion as we understand this fact= and ma2e use of it= in that same proportion are we able to perform our miracles )our wor2 is inspired to the extent that you realiBe the presence of Uni'ersal *ind in your wor2 #hen you rely entirely on your own conscious mind= your wor2 suffers accordingly 1" can of mine own self do nothing? for the wor2s which the !ather hath gi'en me to finish= the same wor2s that " do bear witness of me 3 The miracles of @esus bear witness of the complete recognition of %od the !ather as his wor2ing power /nd mind you= this inspiration= this wor2ing of Uni'ersal *ind with you= is a'ailable for all of your underta2ings *ind could not show "tself in one part of your life and withhold "tself from another= since "t is all in all <'ery rightly directed tas2= no matter how insignificant or menial it may appear to you= carries with it the inspiration of Uni'ersal *ind= since by the 'ery nature of omnipotence= "ts lo'e and bestowals must be uni'ersal and impartial= 1and whatsoe'er ye do= do it heartily as to the .ord 3

Too many of us are li2e the maiden in the old <astern legend / %enii sent her into a field of grain= promising her a rare gift if she would pic2 for him the largest and ripest ear she could find? Ais gift to be in proportion to the siBe and perfection of the ear 7ut he made this condition-she must pluc2 but one ear= and she must wal2 straight through the field without stopping= going bac2 or wandering hither and thither @oyously she started /s she wal2ed through the grain= she saw many large ears= many perfect ones She passed them by in scorn= thin2ing to find an extra(large= super(perfect one farther along +resently= howe'er= the soil became less fertile= the ears small and sparse She couldn;t pic2 one of theseC #ould now that she had been content with an ordinary(siBed ear farther bac2 7ut it was too late for that Surely they would grow better again farther onC She wal2ed on-and on-and always they became worse-;till presently she found herself at the end of the field- empty handed as when she set out! So it is with life <'ery day has its worthwhile rewards for wor2 well done <'ery day offers its chance for happiness 7ut those rewards seem so small= those chances so petty= compared with the big things we see ahead So we pass them by= ne'er recogniBing that the great position we loo2 forward to= the shining priBe we see in the distance= is >ust the sum of all the little tas2s= the heaped up result of all the little priBes that we must win as we go along )ou are not commanded to pic2 out certain occupations as being more entitled to the .ord;s consideration than others= but 1#hatsoe'er ye do 3 #hether it be in the exalted and idealistic realms of poetry= music and art= whether in the cause of religion or philanthropy= whether in go'ernment= in business= in science= or simply in household cares= 1whatsoe'er ye do3 you are entitled to and have all of inspiration at your bec2 and call "f you seem to ha'e less than all= it is because you do not utiliBe your gift 18ow he that planteth and he that watereth are one? and e'ery man shall recei'e his own reward according to his own labour !or we are labourer;s together with %od 3 1/ll things are yours? and ye are Christ;s and Christ;s is %od;s 3 Aow shall you ta2e ad'antage of this Uni'ersal Supply9 #hen next any need confronts you= when next you are in difficulties= close your eyes for a moment and realiBe that Uni'ersal *ind 2nows how that need can best be met= 2nows the solution of your difficulties )our sub( conscious mind= being part of the Uni'ersal *ind= can 2now this= too So put your problem up to your subconscious mind with the sublime confidence that it will find the solution Then forget it for a while #hen the time comes= the need will be met &r #inbigler corroborates the wor2ing out of this idea in the followingH 1Suggestions lodged in the mind can effect a complete change= morally and physically= if man2ind would become in spirit Jas a little child=; trusting in %od implicitly= the greatest power would be utiliBed in the establishment of health and e5uilibrium= and the results

would be untold in comfort= sanity= and blessing !or instance= here is one who is suffering from worry= fear= and the 'exations of life Aow can he get rid of these things and relie'e this suffering9 .et him go to a 5uiet room or place= twice a day= lie down and relax e'ery muscle= assume complete indifference to those things which worry him and the functions of the body= and 5uietly accept what %od= through this law of demand and supply= can gi'e "n a few days he will find a great change in his feelings= and the sufferings will pass away and life will loo2 bright and promising "nfinite wisdom has established that law? and its utiliBation by those who are worried and fearful will secure amaBing results in a short time 1The real reason for the change is found in the possibility of reco'ery by using the laws that %od has placed within our reach= and thus securing the co'eted health and power for all that we want and ought to do The subliminal life is the connecting lin2 between man and %od= and by obeying Ais laws= one;s life is put in contact with infinite resources and all that %od is able and willing to gi'e Aere is the secret of all the cures of disease= and the foundation for the possibility of a >oyful existence= happiness and eternal life Suggestion is the method of securing what %od gi'es= and the mind is the agent through which these gifts are recei'ed This is not a matter of theory= but a fact "f any one who is sic2 or who desires to he 2ept well will ha'e stated periods of relaxation= open(mindedness= and faith= he can pro'e the beneficial and un'arying result of this method 3

8V The M#ster of )our F#te 1/ cra'en hung along the battle;s edge= /nd thought= JAad " a sword of 2eener steelThat blue blade that the 2ing;s son bears=-but this blunt thing-C; /nd lowering crept away and left the field Then came the 2ing;s son= wounded= sore bestead /nd weaponless= and saw the bro2en sword= /nd ran and snatched it= and with battle(shout .ifted afresh he hewed his enemy down= /nd sa'ed a great cause that heroic day 3 -<&#/R& R6#./8& S".. D #here will you be at 6F9 !i'e men in six at the age of 6F are li'ing on charity @ust one in twenty is able to li'e without wor2ing at 6F That is what the /merican 7an2ers /ssociation found when it too2 one hundred healthy men at 2F and traced them to 6F These hundred were healthy to start with They all had the same chance for success The difference lay in the way they used their *"8&S 8inety(fi'e out of one hundred >ust do the tas2s that are set them They ha'e no faith in themsel'es-no initiati'e-none of the courage that starts things They are always directed or controlled by someone else /t 6F= where will you be9 &ependent or independent9 Struggling for a li'ing-accepting charity from someone else-or at the top of the heap9 “2 am the 'aster of my fate.& Until you ha'e learned that= you will ne'er attain life;s full success )our fate is in your own hands 3ou ha'e the ma2ing of it #hat you are going to be six months or a year from now depends upon what you thin2 today So ma2e your choice nowH /re you going to bow down to matter as the only power9 /re you going to loo2 upon your en'ironment as something that has been wished upon you and for which you are in no way responsible9 !rom J+oems=3 Aoughton= *uffin Co 6r are you going to try to realiBe in your daily life that matter is merely an aggregation of protons and electrons sub>ect entirely to the control of *ind= that your en'ironment= your success= your happiness= are all of your own ma2ing= and that if you are not satisfied with conditions as they you ha'e but to 'isualiBe them as you would ha'e them be in order to

change them9 The former is the easier way right now-the easy way that leads to the hell of po'erty and fear and old age 7ut the latter is the way that brings you to your Aeart;s &esire /nd merely because this +ower of Uni'ersal *ind is in'isible= is that any reason to doubt it9 The greatest powers of 8ature are in'isible .o'e is in'isible= but what greater power is there in life9 @oy is in'isible= happiness= peace= and contentment The radio is in'isible-yet you hear it "t is a product of the law go'erning sound wa'es .aw is in'isible= yet you see the manifestation of different laws e'ery day To run a locomoti'e= you study the law of applying power= and you apply that law when you ma2e the locomoti'e go These things are not the result of in'ention The law has existed from the beginning "t merely waited for man to learn how to apply it "f man had 2nown how to call upon Uni'ersal *ind to the right extent= he could ha'e applied the law of sound wa'es= the law of steam= ages ago "n'ention is merely a re'elation and an unfoldment of Uni'ersal #isdom That same Uni'ersal #isdom 2nows millions of other laws of which man has not e'en a glimmering )ou can call upon "t )ou can use that #isdom as your own 7y thin2ing of things as they might be instead of as they are you will e'entually find some great 8eed /nd to find a need is the first step towards finding the supply to satisfy that need )ou;'e got to 2now what you are after= before you can send the %enie(of(your *ind a(see2ing of it in Uni'ersal *ind The Acre of 0i#$onds )ou remember the story of the poor 7oer farmer who struggled for years to glean a li'elihood out of his roc2y soil= only to gi'e it up in despair and go off to see2 his fortune elsewhere )ears later= coming bac2 to his old farm= he found it swarming with machinery and lifemore wealth being dug out of it e'ery day than he had e'er dreamed existed "t was the great Gimberley &iamond *ineC *ost of us are li2e that poor 7oer farmer #e struggle along under our surface power= ne'er dreaming of the giant power that could be ours if we would but dig a little deeper-rouse that great "nner Self who can gi'e us more e'en than any acre of diamonds /s 6rison Swett *arden put itH 1The ma>ority of failures in life are simply the 'ictims of their mental defeats Their con'iction that they cannot succeed as others do= rob them of that 'igor and determination which self( confidence imparts= and they don;t e'en half try to succeed 1There is no philosophy by which a man can do a thing when he thin2s he can;t The reason why millions of men are plodding along in mediocrity today= many of them barely ma2ing a li'ing= when they ha'e the ability to do something infinitely bigger= is because they lac2

confidence in themsel'es They don;t belie'e they can do the bigger thing that would lift them out of their rut of mediocrity and po'erty? they are not winners mentally 1The way always opens for the determined soul= the man of faith and courage 1"t is the 'ictorious mental attitude= the consciousness of power= the sense of mastership= that does the big things in this world "f you ha'en;t this attitude= if you lac2 self(confidence= begin now to culti'ate it 1/ highly magnetiBed piece of steel will attract and lift a piece of unmagnetiBed steel ten times its own weight &emagnetiBe that same piece of steel and it will be powerless to attract or lift e'en a feather;s weight 18ow= my friends= there is the same difference between the man who is highly magnetiBed by a sublime faith in himself= and the man who is de(magnetiBed by his lac2 of faith= his doubts= his fears= that there is between the magnetiBed and the de(magnetiBed pieces of steel "f two men of e5ual ability= one magnetized by a divine self*confidence= the other demagnetiBed by fear and doubt= are gi'en similar tas2s= one will succeed and the other will fail The self( confidence of the one multiplies his powers a hundredfold the lac2 of it subtracts a hundredfold from the power of the other 3 Aa'e you e'er thought how much of your time is spent in choosing what you shall do= which tas2 you will try= which way you shall go9 <'ery day is a day of decision #e are constantly at crossroads= in our business dealings= our social relations= in our homes? there is always the necessity of a choice Aow important then that we ha'e faith in oursel'es and in that "nfinite intelligence within 1Commit thy wor2s unto the .ord= and thy thoughts shall be established 3 1"n all thy ways ac2nowledge him= and he shall direct thy paths 3 "n this e'er(changing material age= with seemingly complex forces all about us= we sometimes cry out that we are dri'en by force of circumstances )et the fact remains that we do those things= which we choose to do !or e'en though we may not wish to go a certain way= we allow oursel'es to pursue it because it offers the least resistance 1To e'ery man there openeth / way= and ways= and a way /nd the high soul climbs the high way= /nd the low soul gropes the lowH /nd in between= on the misty flats= The rest drift to and fro 7ut to e'ery man there openeth / high way and a low= /nd e'ery man decideth The way his soul shall go 3 -@6A8 64<8A/*

8ow= how about you9 /re you ta2ing acti'e control of your own thought9 /re you imaging upon your subconscious mind only such things= as you want to see realiBed9 /re you thin2ing healthy thoughts= happy thoughts= and successful thoughts9 The difference between the successful man and the unsuccessful one is not so much a matter of training or e5uipment "t is not a 5uestion of opportunity or luc2 "t is >ust in the way they each of them loo2 at things The successful man sees an opportunity= seiBes upon it= and mo'es upward another rung on the ladder of success "t ne'er occurs to him that he may fail Ae sees only the opportunity= he 'isions what he can do with it= and all the forces within and without him combine to help him win The unsuccessful man sees the same opportunity= he wishes that he could ta2e ad'antage of it= but he is fearful that his ability or his money or his credit may not be e5ual to the tas2 Ae is li2e a timid bather= putting in one foot and then drawing it swiftly bac2 again V and while he hesitates some bolder spirit dashes in and beats him to the goal 8early e'ery man can loo2 bac2- and not so far bac2 either with most of us-and say= 1"f " had ta2en that chance= " would be much better off now 3 )ou will ne'er need to say it again= once you realiBe that the future is entirely within your own control "t is not sub>ect to the whims of fortune or the capriciousness of luc2 There is but one Uni'ersal *ind and that mind contains naught but good "n it is no images of <'il !rom it comes no lac2 of supply "ts ideas are as numberless as the grains of sand on the seashore /nd those ideas comprise all wealth= all power= and all happiness )ou ha'e only to image 'i'idly enough on your subconscious mind the thing you wish= to draw from Uni'ersal *ind= the necessary ideas to bring it into being )ou ha'e only to 2eep in mind the experiences you wish to meet= in order to control your own future #hen !ran2 / ,anderlip= former +resident of the 8ational City 7an2= was a struggling youngster= he as2ed a successful friend what one thing he would urge a young man to do who was anxious to ma2e his way in the world 1.oo2 as though you ha'e already succeeded=3 his friend told him Sha2espeare expresses the same thought in another way -3/ssume a 'irtue if you ha'e it not 3 .oo2 the part &ress the part /ct the part 7e successful in your own thought first "t won;t be long before you will be successful before the world as well &a'id , 7ush= in his boo2 1/pplied +sychology and Scientific .i'ing=3 saysH 1*an is li2e the wireless operator *an is sub>ect to miscellaneous wrong thought currents if his mind is not in tune with the "nfinite= or if he is not 2eyed up to higher 'ibrations than those of negation

1/ man who thin2s courageous thoughts sends these courageous thought wa'es through the uni'ersal ether until they lodge in the consciousness of someone who is tuned to the same courageous 2ey Thin2 a strong thought= a courageous thought= a prosperity thought= and these thoughts will be recei'ed by someone who is strong= courageous and prosperous 1"t is >ust as easy to thin2 in terms of abundance as to thin2 in terms of po'erty "f we thin2 po'erty thoughts we become the sending and recei'ing stations for po'erty thoughts #e send out a Jpo'erty; mental wireless and it reaches the consciousness of some po'erty( stric2en Jrecei'er ; #e get what we thin2 1"t is >ust as easy to thin2 in terms of abundance= opulence and prosperity as it is to thin2 in terms of lac2= limitation and po'erty 1"f a man will raise his rate of 'ibration by faith currents or hope currents= these 'ibrations go through the Uni'ersal *ind and lodge in the consciousness of people who are 2eyed to the same tune #hate'er you thin2 is sometime= somewhere= recei'ed by a person who is tuned to your thought 2ey 1"f a man is out of wor2 and he thin2s thoughts of success= prosperity= harmony= position and growth= >ust as surely as his thoughts are things-as Sha2espeare says-someone will recei'e his 'ibrations of success= prosperity= harmony= position and growth 1"f we are going to be timid= selfish= penurious and picayunish in our thin2ing= these thought wa'es which we ha'e started in the uni'ersal ether will go forth until they come to a mental recei'ing station of the same caliber J7irds of a feather floc2 together=; and minds of li2e thin2ing are attracted one to the other 1"f you need money= all you ha'e to do is to send up your 'ibrations to a strong= courageous recei'ing station= and someone who can meet your needs will be attracted to you or you to him 3 #hen you learn that you are entitled to win-in any right underta2ing in which you may be engaged-you will win #hen you learn that you ha'e a right to a legitimate dominion o'er your own affairs= you will have dominion over them. The promise is that we can do all things through the *ind that was in Christ Uni'ersal *ind plays no fa'orites 8o one human being has any more power than any other "t is simply that few of us use the power that is in our hands The great men of the world are in no wise SU+<R 7eings They are ordinary creatures li2e you and me= who ha'e stumbled upon the way of drawing upon their subconscious mind-and through it upon the Uni'ersal *ind Spea2ing of Aenry !ord;s phenomenal success= his friend Thomas / <dison said of him-1Ae draws upon his subconscious mind 3 The secret of being what you ha'e it in you to be is simply thisH &ecide now what it is you want of life= exactly what you wish your future to be +lan it out in detail ,ision it from start to finish See yourself as you are now= doing those things you ha'e always wanted to do

*a2e them R</. in your mind;s eye-feel them= li'e them= belie'e them= especially at the moment of going to sleep= when it is easiest to reach your subconscious mind-and you will soon be seeing them in real life "t matters not whether you are young or old= rich or poor The time to begin is 86# "t is ne'er too late Remember those lines of /ppleton;sHD 1" 2new his face the moment that he passed Triumphant in the thoughtless= cruel throng" gently touched his arm-he smiled at meAe was the *an that 6nce " *eant to 7eC 1#here " had failed= he;d won from life= Success? #here " had stumbled= with sure feet he stood? /li2e-yet unali2e-we faced the world= /nd through the stress he found that life was good /nd "9 The bitter wormwood in the glass= The shadowed way along which failures passC )et as " saw him thus= >oy came to meAe was the *an that 6nce " *eant to 7eC 1#e did not spea2 7ut in his sapient eyes " saw the spirit that had urged him on= The courage that had held him through the fight Aad once been mine " thought= JCan it be gone9; Ae felt that unas2ed 5uestion-felt it so Ais pale lips formed the one(word answer= J8oC; 1Too late to win9 8oC 8ot too late for meAe is the *an that Still " *ean to 7eC3 D!rom 1The :uiet Courage 3 & /ppleton 0 Co = 8ew )or2

8VI Un#ppropri#ted Mi,,ions 1Somebody said that t couldn;t be done= 7ut he with a chuc2le replied That Jmaybe it couldn;t=; but he would be one #ho wouldn;t say so till he;d tried So he buc2led right in with the trace of a grin 6n his face "f he worried he hid it Ae started to sing as he tac2led the thing That couldn;t be done= and he did it 3 -<&%/R / %U<ST D The main difference between the mind of today and that of our great(great(grandfathers was that in their day conditions were comparati'ely static= whereas today they are dynamic Ci'iliBation ran along for centuries with comparati'ely little change *ost people li'ed and died in the places where they were born They followed their fathers; a'ocations Seldom= indeed= did one of them brea2 out of the class into which he had been born /lmost as seldom did they e'en thin! of trying to 8o wonder= then= that ci'iliBation made little progress Today we are in the presence of continual change *en are imbued with that di'ine unrest which is ne'er satisfied with conditions as they are= which is always stri'ing for impro'ement /nd thought is the 'ital force behind all this change )our ability to thin2 is your connecting lin2 with Uni'ersal *ind= that enables you to draw upon "t for inspiration= for energy= for power *ind is the energy in static form Thought is the energy in dynamic form /nd because life is dynamic-not static? because it is e'er mo'ing forward-not standing still? your success or failure depends entirely upon the 5uality of your thought !or thought is creati'e energy "t brings into being the things that you thin2 Thin2 the things you would see manifested= see them= believe them= and you can lea'e it to your subconscious mind to bring them into being )our mind is a mar'elous storage battery of power on which you can draw for whate'er things you need to ma2e your life what !rom 1The +ath to Aome 3 The Reilly 0 .ee Co you would ha'e it be "t has within it all power= all resource= all energy-but )6U are the one that must use it /ll that power is static unless you ma2e it dynamic "n the moment of creati'e thin2ing your conscious mind becomes a Creator-it parta2es of the power of Uni'ersal *ind /nd there is nothing static about one who shares that /ll(power The resistless .ife <nergy within him pushes him on to new growth= new aspirations @ust as the

sap flowing through the branches of the trees pushes off the old dead lea'es to ma2e way for the new life= >ust so you must push away the old dead thoughts of po'erty and lac2 and disease= before you can bring on the new life of health and happiness and unlimited supply This life is in all of us= constantly struggling for an outlet Repress it- and you die &octors will tell you that the only reason people grow old is because their systems get clogged The tiny pores in your arteries get stopped up )ou don;t throw off the old )ou don;t struggle hard enough= and the result is you fall an easy 'ictim to failure and sic2ness and death Remember the story of Sinbad the Sailor= and the 6ld *an of the Sea9 The 6ld *an;s weight was as nothing when Sinbad first too2 him on his shoulders= but he clung there and clung there= slowly but surely sapping Sinbad;s strength= and he would finally ha'e 2illed him as he had 2illed so many others if Sinbad= by calling to his aid all his mental as well as his physical resources= had not succeeded in sha2ing him off *ost of us ha'e some 6ld *an of the Sea riding us= and because he clings tightly and refuses to be easily sha2en off= we let him stay there= sapping our energies= using up our 'itality= when to rid us of him it is only necessary to call to our aid /.. our resources= mental as well as physical= for one supreme effort #hen a storm arises= the hardy mariner doesn;t turn off steam and drift helplessly before the wind That might be the easy way= but that way danger lies Ae turns on more steam and fights against the gale /nd so should you There is a something within you that thri'es on difficulties )ou priBe that more which costs an effort to win )ou need to blaBe new trails= to encounter unusual hardships= in order to reach your hidden mental resources= >ust as the athlete needs to exert himself to the utmost to reach his 1second wind 3 Aa'e you e'er seen a turtle thrown on its bac29 !or a while it threshes around wildly= reaching for something outside to ta2e hold of that shall put it on its feet @ust as we humans always loo2 for help outside oursel'es first= but presently he draws all his forces within his shell= rests a bit to regain his strength= and then throws his whole force to one side-legs= head= tail= and all-and over he goes! So it is with us #hen we realiBe that the power to meet any emergency is within oursel'es= when we stop loo2ing outside for help and intelligently call upon *ind in our need= we shall find that we are tapping "nfinite Resource #e shall find that we ha'e but to center all those resources on the one thing we want most-to get anything from life that it has /s <merson put it= when we once find the way to get in touch with Uni'ersal *ind we are1 owner of the sphere= 6f the Se'en stars and the solar year= 6f Caesar;s hand and +lato;s brain= 6f the .ord Christ;s heart and Sha2espeare;s strain 3

8VII The Secret of Power 1The great were once as you They whom men magnify today 6nce groped and blundered on life;s way #ere fearful of themsel'es= and thought 7y magic was men;s greatness wrought They feared to try what they could do? )et !ame hath crowned with her success The selfsame gifts that you possess -<&%/R / %U<ST D There is a woman in one of the big <astern cities whose husband died a year or two ago and left her nearly T1EE=EEE=EEE She has unlimited power in her hands-yet she uses none of it She has unlimited wealth-yet she gets no more from it than if it were in the thousands instead of millions She 2nows nothing of her power= of her wealth She is insane )ou ha'e >ust as great power in your hands-without this poor woman;s excuse for not using it )ou ha'e access to unlimited ideas= unlimited energy= and unlimited wealth The 16pen= SesameC3 is through your subconscious mind So long as you limit yourself to superficial conditions= so long as you are a mere 1hewer of wood or carrier of water3 for those around you who do use their minds= you are in no better position than the beasts of burden The secret of power is in understanding the infinite resources of your own mind #hen you begin to realiBe that the power to do anything= to be anything= to ha'e anything= is within yourself= then and then only will you ta2e your proper place in the world /s 7ruce 7arton has it in 1The *an #hom 8obody Gnows3- 1Somewhere= at some unforgettable hour= the daring filled Ais N@esusO heart Ae 2new that Ae was bigger than 8aBareth 3 +ublished by permission of The "nternational *agaBine Co NCosmopolitan *agaBineO Copyright= 1921

/gain in spea2ing of /braham .incoln= 7arton says-1"nside himself he felt his power= but where and when would opportunity come93 /nd later in the boo217ut to e'ery man of 'ision the clear 'oice spea2s 8othing splendid has e'er been achie'ed except by those who dared belie'e that something inside them was superior to circumstance.& 8o doubt @esus; friends and neighbors all ridiculed the idea of any such power within Aim @ust as most people today laugh at the thought of a power such as that within themsel'es So they go on with their daily grind= with the gaunt specters of sic2ness and need e'er by their side= until death comes as a welcome relief /re you going to be one of those9 6r will you listen to that inner consciousness of power and find the 1Gingdom of Aea'en that is within you 3 !or whate'er you become conscious of= will be 5uic2ly brought forth into tangible form &on;t >udge your ability by what you ha'e done in the past )our wor2 heretofore has been done with the help of your conscious mind alone /dd to that the infinite 2nowledge at the disposal of your subconscious mind= and what you ha'e done is as nothing to what you will do in the future !or 2nowledge does not apply itself "t is merely so much static energy )ou must con'ert it into dynamic energy by the power of your thought The difference between the T2F(a(wee2 cler2 and the T2F=EEE(a(year executi'e is solely one of thought The cler2 may ha'e more brains than the executi'e-fre5uently has in actual weight of gray matter Ae may e'en ha'e a far better education 7ut he doesn;t 2now how to apply his thought to get the greatest good from it "f you ha'e brains= use them "f you ha'e s2ill= apply it The world must profit by it= and therefore you #e all ha'e inspired moments when we see clearly how we may do great things= how we may accomplish wonderful underta2ings 7ut we do not belie'e in them enough to ma2e them come true /n imagination= which begins and ends in daydreaming= is wea2ening to character *a2e the daydreams come true *a2e them so clear and distinct that they impress themsel'es upon your subconscious mind There;s nothing wrong with daydreaming= except that most of us stop there #e don;t try to ma2e the dreams come true The great in'entor= Tesla= 1dreams3 e'ery new machine complete and perfect in e'ery particular before e'er he begins his model for it *oBart 1dreamed3 each of his wonderful symphonies complete before e'er he put a note on paper 7ut they didn;t stop with the dreaming They 'isualiBed those dreams= and then brought them into actuality. #e lose our capacity to ha'e 'isions if we do not ta2e steps to realiBe them +ower implies ser'ice= so concentrate all your thought on ma2ing your 'isions of great deeds

come true Thin2ing is the current that runs the dynamo of power To connect up this current so that you can draw upon uni'ersal supply through your subconscious mind is to become a Super(man &o this= and you will ha'e found the 2ey to the solution of e'ery problem of life

8VIII This One Thing I 0o 1Aow do you tac2le your wor2 each day9 &o you grapple the tas2 that comes your way #ith a confident= easy mind9 &o you start to toil with a sense of dread 6r feel that you;re going to do it9 1)ou can do as much as you thin2 you can= 7ut you;ll ne'er accomplish more? "f you;re afraid of yourself= young man= There;s little for you in store !or failure comes from the inside first= "t;s there= if we only 2new it= /nd you can win= though you face the worst= "f you feel that you;re going to do it 3 -<&%/R / %U<ST D Aow did the Sal'ation /rmy get so much fa'orable publicity out of the #ar9 They were a comparati'ely small part of the 1Ser'ices3 that catered to the boys 1o'er there=3 yet they carried off the lion;s share of the glory &o you 2now how they did it9 7y concentrating on >ust one thing- &6U%A8UTSC They ser'ed doughnuts to the boys- and they did it well /nd that is the basis of all success in business-to focus on one thing and do that thing well 7etter far to do one thing pre( eminently well than to dabble in forty Two thousand years ago= +orcius *arcus Cato became con'inced= from a 'isit to the rich and flourishing city of Carthage= that Rome had in her a ri'al who must be destroyed Ais countrymen laughed at him Ae was practically alone in his belief 7ut he persisted Ae concentrated all his thought= all his faculties= to that one end /t the end of e'ery speech= at the end of e'ery tal2= he centered his hearers; thought on what he was trying to put o'er by epitomiBing his whole idea in a single sentence- 1Carthage must be destroyedC3 And ;arthage was destroyed. !rom 1/ Aeap o; .i'in; 3 The Reilly 0 .ee Co "f one man;s concentration on a single idea could destroy a great nation= what can you not do when you apply that same principle to the building of a business9 " remember when " was first learning horsemanship= my instructor impressed this fact upon meH 1Remember that a horse is an animal of one idea )ou can teach him only one thing at a time 3

.oo2ing bac2= ";d say the only thing wrong with his instruction was that he too2 in too little territory Ae need not ha'e confined himself to the horse *ost humans are the same way "n fact= you can put /.. humans into that class if you want a thing done well !or you cannot di'ide your thought and do >ustice to any one of the different sub>ects you are thin2ing of )ou;'e got to do one thing at a time The greatest success rule " 2now in business-the one that should be printed o'er e'ery man;s des2= is-1This 6ne Thing " &o 3 Ta2e one piece of wor2 at a time Concentrate on it to the exclusion of all else "hen finish it! &on;t half(do it= and lea'e it around to clutter up your des2 and interfere with the next >ob &ispose of it completely +ass it along where'er it is to go 7e through with it and forget it! Then your mind will be clear to consider the next matter 1The man who is +erpetually hesitating which of two things he will do first=3 says #illiam #irt= 1will do neither The man who resol'es= but suffers his resolution to be changed by the first counter(suggestion of a friend- who fluctuates from plan to plan and 'eers li2e a weather(coc2 to e'ery point of the compass with e'ery breath of caprice that blows-can ne'er accomplish anything real or useful "t is only the man who first consults wisely= then resol'es firmly= and then executes his purpose with inflexible perse'erance= undismayed by those petty difficulties that daunt a wea2er spirit= that can ad'ance to eminence in any line 3 <'erything in the world= e'en a great business= can be resol'ed into atoms /nd the basic principles behind the biggest business will be found to be the same as those behind the successful running of the corner newsstand The whole practice of commerce is founded upon them /ny man can learn them= but only the alert and energetic can apply them The trouble with most men is that they thin2 they ha'e done all that is re5uired of them when they ha'e earned their salary #hy= that;s only the beginning Up to that point= you are wor2ing for someone else !rom then on= you begin to wor2 for yourself Remember= you must give to get and it is when you gi'e that e(tra bit of time and attention and thought to your wor2 that you begin to stand out abo'e the crowd around you 8or'al Aaw2ins= for many years %eneral *anager of Sales for the !ord *otor Company= wrote= 1the greatest hunt in the !ord business right now is the */8 hunt 3 /nd big men in e'ery industrial line echo his words J#hen it comes to a >ob that needs real ability= they are not loo2ing for relati'es or friends or men with 1pull 3 They want a */8-and they will pay any price for the right man 8ot only that= but they always ha'e a weather eye open for promising material /nd the thing they 'alue most of all is "8"T"/T",< 7ut don;t try to impro'e the whole wor2s at once Concentrate on one thing at a time +ic2 some one department or some one process or some one thing and focus all your thought upon it 7ring to bear upon it the limitless resources of your subconscious mind Then prepare a definite plan for the de'elopment of that department or the impro'ement of that

process ,erify your facts carefully to ma2e sure they are wor2able "hen-and not till then present your plan "n 1Thoughts on 7usiness=3 you readH 1*en often thin2 of a position as being >ust about so big and no bigger= when= as a matter of fact= a position is often what one ma2es it / man was ma2ing about T1=FEE a year out of a certain position and thought he was doing all that could be done to ad'ance the business The employer thought otherwise= and ga'e the place to another man who soon made the position worth TI=EEE a year- at exactly the same commission 1The difference was in the man-in other words= in what the two men thought about the wor2 6ne had a little conception of what the wor2 should be= and the other had a big conception of it 6ne thought little thoughts= and the other thought big thoughts 1The standards of two men may differ= not especially because one is naturally more capable than the other= but because one is familiar with big things and the other is not The time was when the former wor2ed in a smaller scope himself= but when he saw a wider 'iew of what his wor2 might be he rose to the occasion and became a bigger man "t is >ust as easy to thin2 of a mountain as to thin2 of a hill-when you turn your mind to contemplate it The mind is li2e a rubber band - you can stretch it to fit almost anything= but it draws in to a smaller scope when you let go 1*a2e it your business to 2now what is the best that might be in your line of wor2= and stretch your mind to concei'e it= and then de'ise some way to attain it 17ig things are only little things put together " was greatly impressed with this fact one morning as " stood watching the wor2men erecting the steel framewor2 for a tall office building / shrill whistle rang out as a signal= a man o'er at the engine pulled a le'er= a chain from the derric2 was lowered= and the whistle rang out again / man stooped down and fastened the chain around the center of a steel beam= stepped bac2 and blew the whistle once more /gain the le'er was mo'ed at the engine= and the steel beam soared into the air up to the sixteenth story= where it was made fast by little bolts 1The entire structure= great as it was= towering far abo'e all the neighboring buildings= was made up of pieces of steel and stone and wood= put together according to a plan The plan was first imagined= then penciled= then carefully drawn= and then followed by the wor2men "t was all a combination of little things 1"t is encouraging to thin2 of this when you are confronted by a big tas2 /emember that it is only a group of little tas!s. any of which you can easily do "t is ignorance of this fact that ma2es men afraid to try 3 6ne of the most essential re5uisites in the accomplishment of any important wor2 is patience 8ot the patience that sits and folds its hands and waits- *icawber li2e-for something to turn up 7ut the patience that ne'er >eopardiBes or upsets a plan by forcing it too soon The

man who possesses that 2ind of patience can always find plenty to do in the meantime *a2e your plan-then wait for the opportune moment to submit it )ou;d be surprised to 2now how carefully big men go o'er suggestions from subordinates= which show the least promise 6ne of the signs of a really big man= you 2now= is his eagerness to learn from e'eryone and anything There is none of that 12now it all3 about him that characteriBed the %erman general who was gi'en a boo2 containing the strategy by which 8apoleon had for fifteen years 2ept all the armies of <urope at bay 1";'e no time to read about bygone battles=3 he growled= thrusting the boo2 away= 1" ha'e my own campaign to plan 3 There is priceless wisdom to be found in boo2s /s Carlyle put it-3/ll that man2ind has done= thought= gained or been-it is lying in matchless preser'ation in the pages of boo2s 3 The truths which man2ind has been laboriously learning through countless ages= at who 2nows what price of sweat and toil and star'ation and blood-all are yours for the effort of reading them /nd in business= 2nowledge was ne'er so priceless or so easily ac5uired 7oo2s and magaBines are filled with the hows and whys= the rights and wrongs of buying and selling= of manufacturing and shipping= of finance and management They are within the reach of anyone with the desire to G86# 8othing pays better interest than >udicious reading The man who in'ests in more 2nowledge of his business than he needs to hold his >ob= is ac5uiring capital with which to get a better >ob /s old %orgon %raham puts it in 1The .etters of a Self(*ade *erchant To Ais Son31" ain;t one of those who belie'e that a half 2nowledge of a sub>ect is useless= but it has been my experience that when a fellow has that half 2nowledge= he finds it;s the other half which would really come in handy 1#hat you 2now is a club for yourself= and what you don;t 2now is a meat(ax for the other fellow That is why you want to be on the loo2(out all the time for information about the business and to nail a fact >ust as a sensible man nails a mos5uito-the first time it settles near him 3 The demands made upon men in business today are far greater than in any pre'ious generation To meet them= you;'e got to use your talents to the utmost )ou;'e got to find in e'ery situation that confronts you= the best= the easiest and the 5uic2est way of wor2ing it out /nd the first essential in doing this is to plan your wor2 ahead )ou;d be surprised at how much more wor2 you can get through by carefully planning it= and then ta2ing each bit in order and disposing of it before starting on the next /nother thing-once started at wor2= don;t let down Geep on going until it is time to 5uit )ou 2now how much power it ta2es to start an auto that is standing motionless 7ut when

you get it going= you can run along in high at a fraction of the expenditure of gas "t is the same way with your mind #e are all mentally laBy #e hate to start using our minds 6nce started= though= it is easy to 2eep along on high= if only we won;t let down !or the moment we let down= we ha'e that starting to do all o'er again )ou can accomplish ten times as much= with far less effort or fatigue= if you will 2eep right on steadily instead of starting and stopping= and starting and stopping again ,olumes ha'e been written about personal efficiency= and general efficiency= and e'ery other 2ind of efficiency in business 7ut boiled down= it all comes to thisH 1-Gnow what you want 2-/nalyBe the thing you;'e got to do to get it Q-+lan your wor2 ahead K-&o one thing at a time F-!inish that one thing and send it on its way before starting the next 6-6nce started= G<<+ %6"8%C /nd when you come to some problem that 1stumps3 you= gi'e your subconscious mind a chance !rederic2 +ierce= in 16ur Unconscious *ind=3 gi'es an excellent method for sol'ing business problems through the aid of the subconsciousH 1Se'eral years ago= " heard a successful executi'e tell a group of young men how he did his wor2= and included in the tal2 was the ad'ice to prepare at the close of each day;s business= a list of the ten most important things for the next day To this " would addH Run them o'er in the mind >ust before going to sleep= not thoughtfully= or with elaboration of detail= but with the sure 2nowledge that the deeper centers of the mind are capable of 'iewing them constructi'ely e'en though conscious attention is surrendered in sleep 1Then= if there is a particular problem which seems difficult of solution= re'iew its features lightly as a last game for the imaginati'e unconscious to play at during the night &o not be discouraged if no immediate results are apparent Remember that fiction= poetry= musical composition= in'entions= innumerable ideas= spring from the unconscious= often in forms that gi'e e'idence of the highest constructi'e elaboration 1%i'e your unconscious a chance %i'e it the material= and stimulate it with 2eenly dwelt(on wishes along fran2 <go *aximation lines "t is a habit which= if persisted in= will sooner or later present you with some 'ery 'aluable ideas when you least expect them 3 " remember reading of another man- a genius at certain 2inds of wor2-who= whene'er an especially difficult problem confronted him= 1slept on it 3 Ae had learned the tric2 as a child Unable to learn his lessons one e'ening= he had 2ept repeating the words to himself until he doBed in his chair= the boo2 still in his hands #hat was his surprise= on being awa2ened by his father a few minutes later to find that he 2new them perfectlyC Ae tried it again and again on succeeding e'enings= and almost in'ariably it wor2ed 8ow= whene'er a problem comes

up that he cannot sol'e= he simply stretches out on a lounge in his office= thoroughly relaxes= and lets his subconscious mind solve the problem!

VOLUME SI8 8I8 The M#ster Mind 16ne who ne'er turned his bac2 but marched breast forward= 8e'er doubted clouds would brea2= 8e'er dreamed though right were worsted #rong would triumph= Aeld we fall to rise= are baffled to fight better= Sleep to wa2e 3 -7R6#8"8% /mong your friends there is one of those men who doesn;t ha'e much use for the word 1can;t 3 )ou mar'el at his capacity for wor2 )ou;ll admire him the more the longer you 2now him )ou;ll always respect him !or he not only has made good= but he always will ma2e good Ae has found and appropriated to himself the 1Talisman of 8apoleon3-absolute confidence in himself. The world lo'es a leader /ll o'er the world= in e'ery wal2 of life= people are eagerly see2ing for some one to follow They want some one else to do their thin2ing for them? they need some one to hearten them to action? they li2e to ha'e some one else on whom to lay the blame when things go wrong? they want some one big enough to share the glory with them when success crowns his efforts 7ut to instill confidence in them= that leader must ha'e utter confidence in himself / Roose'elt or a *ussolini who did not belie'e in himself would be inconcei'able "t is that which ma2es men in'incible - the Consciousness of their own +ower They put no limit upon their own capacities - therefore they ha'e no limit !or Uni'ersal *ind sees all= 2nows all= and can do all= and we share in this absolute power to the exact extent to which we permit oursel'es 6ur mental attitude is the magnet that attracts from Uni'ersal *ind e'erything we may need to bring our desires into being #e ma2e that magnet strong or wea2 as we ha'e confidence in or doubt of our abilities #e draw to oursel'es unlimited power or limit oursel'es to humble positions according to our own beliefs / long time ago <merson wroteH 1There is one mind common to all indi'idual men <'ery man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same Ae that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate #hat +lato has thought= he may thin2? what a saint has felt= he may feel? what at any time has befallen any man= he can understand #ho hath access to this Uni'ersal *ind. is a party to all that is or can be done= for this is the only and

so'ereign agent 3 The great %erman physicist= 8ernst= found that the longer an electric current was made to flow through a filament of oxide of magnesium= the greater became the conducti'ity of the filament "n the same way= the more you call upon and use your subconscious mind= the greater becomes its conducti'ity in passing along to you the infinite resources of Uni'ersal *ind The wisdom of a Solomon= the s2ill of a *ichael /ngelo= the genius of an <dison= the daring of a 8apoleon= all may be yours "t rests with you only to form the contact with Uni'ersal *ind in order to draw from it what you will Thin2 of this power as something that you can connect with any time "t has the answer to all of your problems "t offers you freedom from fear= from worry= from sic2ness= from accident 8o man and no thing can interfere with your use of this power or diminish your share of it 8o one= that is= but yourself &on Carlos *usser expresses it well in 1)ou /re3H 17ecause of the law of gra'itation the apple falls to the ground 7ecause of the law of growth the acorn becomes a mighty oa2 7ecause of the law of causation= a man is Jas he thin2eth in his heart ; 8othing can happen without its ade5uate cause 3 Success does not come to you by accident "t comes as the logical result of the operation of law *ind= wor2ing through your brain and your body= ma2es your world That it is not a better world and a bigger one is due to your limited thoughts and beliefs They dam bac2 the flood of ideas that *ind is constantly stri'ing to manifest through you %od ne'er made a failure or a nobody Ae offers to the highest and the lowest ali2e= all that is necessary to happiness and success The difference is entirely in the extent to which each of us /,/".S himself of that generosity There is no reason why you should hesitate to aspire to any position= any honor= any goal= for the *ind within you is fully able to meet any need "t is no more difficult for it to handle a great problem than a small one *ind is >ust as much present in your little e'eryday affairs as in those of a big business or a great nation &on;t set it doing trifling sums in arithmetic when it might >ust as well be sol'ing problems of moment to yourself and the world #tart something! Use your initiati'e %i'e your mind something to wor2 upon The greatest of all success secrets is initiati'e "t is the one 5uality which more than any other has put men in high places Concei'e something Concei'e it first in your own mind *a2e the pattern there and your subconscious mind will draw upon the plastic substance or energy all about you to ma2e that model real &ri'e yourself !orce yourself "t is the dreamer= the man with imagination= who has made the

world mo'e #ithout him= we would still be in the Stone /ge %alileo loo2ed at the moon and dreamed of how he might reach it The telescope was the fruition of that dream #att dreamed of what might be done with steam-and our great locomoti'es and engines of today are the result !ran2lin dreamed of harnessing the lightning -and today we ha'e man(made thunderbolts "nitiati'e= plus imagination= will ta2e you anywhere "magination opens the eyes of the mind= and there is nothing good you can imagine there that is not possible of fulfillment in your daily life "magination is the connecting lin2 between the human and the &i'ine= between the formed uni'erse and formless energy "t is= of all things human= the most %od(li2e "t is our part of &i'inity Through it we share in the creati'e power of Uni'ersal *ind Through it we can turn the drabbest existence into a thing of life and beauty "t is the means by which we a'ail oursel'es of all the good= which Uni'ersal *ind is constantly offering to us in such profusion "t is the means by which we can reach any goal? win any priBe #hat was it ga'e us the submarine= the aeroplane= wireless= electricity9 "magination #hat was it that enabled man to build the Simplon Tunnel= the +anama Canal= the Aell %ate span9 "magination #hat is it that ma2es us successful and happy= or poor and friendless9 "magination-or the lac2 of it "t was imagination that sent Spanish and <nglish and !rench ad'enturers to this new world "t was imagination that urged the early settlers westward-e'er westward "t was imagination that built our railroads= our towns= and our great cities +arents foolishly try to discourage imagination in their children= when all it needs is proper guidance !or imagination forms the world from which their future will ta2e its shape Restrain the one and you constrict the other &e'elop the one in the right way= and there is no limit to the other Uncontrolled= the imagination is li2e a rudderless ship 6r e'en= at times= li2e the lightning 7ut properly controlled= it is li2e the ship that carries riches from port to port 6r li2e the electric current= carrying unlimited power for industry and progress &o you want happiness9 &o you want success9 &o you want position= power= and riches9 2mage them! Aow did %od first ma2e man9 1"n his image created Ae him 3 Ae 1imaged3 man in Ais *ind /nd that is the way e'erything has been made since time began "t was first imaged in *ind That is the way e'erything you want must start-with a mental image So use your imaginationC +icture in it your Aeart;s &esire "magine it-daydream it so 'i'idly= so clearly= that you will actually 7<."<,< you A/,< it "n the moment that you carry this con'iction to your subconscious mind-in that moment your dream will become a reality "t may be a while before you realiBe it= but the important part is done )ou ha'e

created the model )ou can safely lea'e it to your subconscious mind to do the rest #hen @esus ad>ured Ais disciples- 1#hatsoe'er ye desire= when ye pray= belie'e that ye R<C<",< it=3 Ae was not only telling them a great truth= but he was teaching what we moderns would call excellent psychology as well !or this 1belief3 is what acts upon the subconscious mind "t is through this 1belief3 that formless energy is compressed into material form <'ery man wants to get out of the rut= to grow= to de'elop into something better Aere is the open road-open to you whether you ha'e schooling= training= position= wealth= or not Remember thisH )our subconscious mind 2new more from the time you were a baby than is in all the boo2s in all the colleges and libraries of the world So don;t let lac2 of training= lac2 of education= hold you bac2 )our mind can meet e'ery need -and will do so if you gi'e it the chance The /postles were almost all poor men= uneducated men= yet they did a wor2 that is une5ualled in historical annals @oan of /rc was a poor peasant girl= unable to read or write-yet she saved France! The pages of history are dotted with poor men= uneducated men= who thought great thoughts= who used their imaginations to master circumstances and became rulers of men *ost great dynasties started with some poor= obscure man 8apoleon came of a poor= humble family Ae got his appointment to the *ilitary /cademy only through 'ery hard wor2 and the pulling of many political strings <'en as a Captain of /rtillery he was so po'erty(stric2en that he was unable to buy his e5uipment when offered an appointment to "ndia 7usiness today is full of successful men who ha'e scarcely the rudiments of ordinary education "t was only after he had made his millions that /ndrew Carnegie hired a tutor to gi'e him the essentials of an education So it isn;t training and it isn;t education that ma2es you successful These help= but the thing that really counts is that gift of the %ods-;reative 2magination! )ou ha'e that gift Use itC *a2e e'ery thought= e'ery fact= that comes into your mind pay you a profit. *a2e it wor2 and produce for you Thin2 of things-not as they are but as they *"%AT be *a2e them real= li'e and interesting &on;t merely dream-but ;/:A":C Then use your imagination to ma2e that CR</T"68 of ad'antage to man2ind-and= incidentally= yourself

88 -h#t 0o )ou L#c72 1" read the papers e'ery day= and oft encounter tales which show there;s hope for e'ery >ay who in life;s battle fails ";'e >ust been reading of a gent who >oined the has(been ran2s= at fifty years without a cent= or credit at the ban2s 7ut undismayed he buc2led down= refusing to be beat= and captured fortune and renown? he;s now on <asy Street *en say that fellows down and out ne;er lea'e the roc2y trac2= but facts will show= beyond a doubt= that has(beens do come bac2 " 2now= for " who write this rhyme= when forty(odd years old= was down and out= without a dime= my whis2ers full of mold 7y blac2 disaster " was trounced until it >arred my spine? " was a failure so pronounced " didn;t need a sign /nd after " had soa2ed my coat= " said Nat forty(threeO= J";ll see if " can catch the goat that has escaped from me ; " labored hard? " strained my dome= to do my daily grind= until in triumph " came home= my billy goat behind /nd any man who still has health may with the winners stac2= and ha'e a chance at fame and wealth-for has(beens do come bac2 3 -#/.T */S68 D &o you 2now why it is that the 7olshe'i2i are so opposed to religion9 7ecause religion= as it is commonly accepted= teaches man resignation to conditions as they are-teaches= in effect= that %od created some men poor and some rich That this une5ual distribution is a perfectly natural thing /nd that we must not rail against it because it will all be made right in the next world 8apoleon= in his early @acobin days= denounced religion for that 'ery reason 7ut when he had won to power= when he planned to ma2e himself <mperor= then he found he had need for that religion= and re(established the Church in !rance !or= he reasoned= how can people be satisfied without religion9 "f one man is star'ing= near another who is ma2ing himself sic2 by eating too much= how can you expect to 2eep the star'ing one resigned to his fate unless you teach him it will all be made right in some indefinite future state9 6rganiBed society could not exist= as he planned it= without some being rich and some poor= and to 2eep the poor satisfied= there must be an authority to declare-3%od wills it thus 7ut >ust be patient "n the hereafter all this will be different )6U will be the ones then to occupy the places of honor 3 Religion= in other words-as it is ordinarily taught-is a fine thing to !eep the common people satisfied! 7ut Christianity was ne'er meant for a weapon to 2eep the rich wealthy and secure= the poor satisfied and in their proper place 6n the contrary= Christianity as taught by @esus opened the way to all %ood /nd Christianity as it was practiced in its early years was an idealiBed

form of Socialism that benefited each and all 8o one was wealthier than his neighbors= it is true-but neither was any po'erty(stric2en Theirs was the creed of the Three *us2eteers -1/11 for one= and one for allC3 1/s2 and ye shall recei'e=3 said @esus 1See2 and ye shall find 3 That was not directed to the rich alone That was to /.. men +ro'idence has ne'er made a practice of pic2ing out certain families or certain indi'iduals and fa'oring them to the detriment of other people-much as some of our 1leading families3 would ha'e us belie'e it "t is only man that has arrogated to himself that pri'ilege #e laugh now at the 1di'ine right of Gings 3 "t is >ust as ridiculous to thin2 that a few ha'e the right to all the good things of life= while the many ha'e to toil and sweat to do them ser'ice To 5uote Rumbold;s last words from the scaffold-3" ne'er could belie'e that +ro'idence had sent a few men into the world ready booted and spurred to ride= and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden 3 There is nothing right in po'erty 8ot only that= but there is nothing meritorious in po'erty The mere fact that you are poor and ground down by fear and worry is not going to get you any forwarder in the hereafter 6n the contrary= your soul is li2ely to be too pinched by want= too star'ed and shri'eled to be able to expand 1The Gingdom of Aea'en is within you3 to me that means that Aea'en is here and now That if we want any happiness from it we;'e got to get it as we go along ";'e ne'er been much of a belie'er in accepting these promissory notes for happiness <'ery time one of them falls due= you find you >ust ha'e to renew it for another six months or a year= until one of these days you wa2e up and find that the ban2 has busted and all your notes are not worth the paper they are written on The Cumaean Sibyl is said to ha'e offered Tar5uin the +roud nine boo2s for what he thought an exorbitant sum So he refused She burned three of the boo2s= and placed the same price on the
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six as on the original nine /gain he refused She burned three more boo2s= and offered the remainder for the sum she had first as2ed This time Tar5uin accepted The boo2s were found to contain prophecies and in'aluable directions regarding Roman policy= but alas= they were no longer complete So it is with happiness "f you ta2e it as you go along= you get it in its entirety 7ut if you 2eep putting off the day when you shall en>oy it-if you 2eep ta2ing promissory notes for happiness-e'ery day will mean one day less of it that you will ha'e )et the cost is >ust the same

The purpose of existence is %R6#TA )ou can;t grow spiritually or mentally without happiness /nd by Aappiness " don;t mean a timid resignation to the 1#ill of %od 3 That so( called 1#ill of %od3 is more often than not either pure laBiness on the part of the resigned one or pure cussedness on the part of the one that is 1putting something o'er3 on him "t is the most sanctimonious expression yet de'ised to excuse some condition that no one has the energy or the ability to rectify 8o-by Aappiness " mean the e'eryday en>oyment of e'eryday people " mean lo'e and laughter and honest amusement <'ery one of us is entitled to it <'ery one of us can ha'e it -if he has the #".. and the <8<R%) to get out and get it for himself @oyless wor2= small pay= no future= nothing to loo2 forward to-%od ne'er planned such an existence "t is man(made-and you can be man enough to unma2e it as far as you and yours are concerned %od ne'er made any man poor any more than Ae made any man sic2 .oo2 around you /ll of 8ature is bountiful 6n e'ery hand you see profusion-in the trees= in the flowers= in e'erything that Ae planned The only .aw of 8ature is the law of Supply +o'erty is unnatural "t is man(made= through the limits man puts upon himself %od ne'er put them there any more than Ae showed partiality by gi'ing to some of Ais children gifts and blessings= which Ae withheld from others Ais gifts are >ust as a'ailable to you as to any man on earth The difference is all in your understanding of how to a'ail yourself of the infinite supply all about you Ta2e the worry clamps off your mentality and you will ma2e the po'erty clamps loosen up from your finances )our affairs are so closely related to your consciousness that they too will relax into peace= order= and plenty &i'ine ideas in your spiritual consciousness will become acti'e in your business= and will wor2 out as your abundant prosperity /s &a'id , 7ush says in 1/pplied +sychology and Scientific .i'ing3- 1Thoughts are things? thoughts are energy? thoughts are magnets which attract to us the 'ery things which we thin2 Therefore= if a man is in debt= he will= by continually thin2ing about debt= bring more debts to him !or thoughts are causes= and he fastens more debts on to himself and actually creates more obligations by thin2ing about debts 1Concentrate and thin2 upon things that you want? not on things which you ought not to ha'e Thin2 of abundance= of opulence= of plenty= of position= harmony and growth= and if you do not see them manifested today= they will be realiBed tomorrow "f you must pass through straits of life where you do not outwardly see abundance= 2now that you ha'e it within= and that in time it will manifest itself 1" say= if you concentrate on debt= debt is what you will ha'e? if you thin2 about po'erty= po'erty is what you will recei'e "t is >ust as easy= when once the mind becomes trained= to

thin2 prosperity and abundance and plenty= as it is to thin2 lac2= limitation and po'erty 3 +rosperity is not limited to time or to place "t manifests when and where there is consciousness to establish it "t is attracted to the consciousness that is free from worry= strain= and tension So ne'er allow yourself to worry about po'erty 7e careful? ta2e ordinary business precautions of course 7ut don;t center your thought on your troubles The more you thin2 of them= the more tightly you fasten them upon yourself Thin2 of the results you are after-not of the difficulties in the way *ind will find the way "t is merely up to you to choose the goal= and then 2eep your thought steadfast until that goal is won The greatest short cut to prosperity is to L29: 2"! +rosperity attracts +o'erty repels To 5uote 6rison Swett *arden-1To be ambitious for wealth and yet always expecting to be poor= to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for= is li2e trying to reach <ast by tra'eling #est There is no phi1osophy which will help a man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so= and thus attracting failure 3 /gainH 18o matter how hard you may wor2 for success= if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure it will 2ill your efforts= neutraliBe your endea'ors= and ma2e success impossible 3 The secret of +rosperity lies in so 'i'idly imaging it in your own mind that you literally exude prosperity )ou feel prosperous= you loo2 prosperous= and the result is that before long you /R< prosperous " remember seeing a play a number of years ago that was based on this thought / young fellow-a chronic failure-was persuaded by a friend to carry a roll of T1EEE counterfeit bills in his poc2et= and to show them= unostentatiously= when the occasion offered 6f course= e'eryone thought he had come into some legacy The natural inference was that anyone who carried fifty or a hundred thousand dollar bills in his poc2ets must ha'e a lot more in the ban2 6pportunities floc2ed to him 6pportunities to ma2e good 6pportunities to ma2e money Ae made goodC #ithout ha'ing to spend any of this spurious money of his !or most business today is done on credit " 2now many wealthy men who seldom carry anything but a little change in their poc2ets for tips <'erything they do= e'erything they buy= is 1Charged 3 /nd big deals are put through in the same way "f a man is belie'ed to ha'e plenty of money= if he has a reputation for honesty and fair dealing= he may put through a transaction running into six or se'en figures without paying one cent down The thing that counts is not the amount of your balance at the 7an2= but what others TA"8G of you= the "*/%< you ha'e created in your own and in others minds #hat do you lac29 #hat thing do you want most9 RealiBe that before it or any other thing can be= it must first be imaged in *ind RealiBe= too= that when you can close your eyes and actually S<< that thing= you have brought it into being-you ha'e drawn upon that in'isible

substance all about you-you ha'e created something Aold it in your thought= focus your mind upon it= 17<."<,< TA/T )6U A/,< "T3- and you can safely lea'e its material manifestation to the %enie(of(your(*ind %od is but another name for the in'isible= e'erywhere present= and Source(of(things 6ut of the air the seed gathers the essences which are necessary to its bountiful growth? out of the in'isible ether our minds gather the rich ideas that stimulate us to underta2e and to carry out enterprises that bring prosperity to us .et us see with the eye of the mind a bountiful har'est? then our minds will be 5uic2ened with ideas of abundance= and plenty will appear= not only in our world= but also e'erywhere 1/s the rain cometh down and the snow from hea'en= and returneth not thither= but watereth the earth= and ma2eth it bring forth and bud= and gi'eth seed to the sower and bread to the eater? so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouthH it shall not return unto me 'oid= but it shall accomplish that which " please= and it shall prosper in the thing whereto " sent it 3-"saiah

88I The Scu,ptor #nd the C,#1 1<ternal mind the +otter is= /nd thought the eternal clay The hand that fashions is di'ine? Ais wor2s pass not away %od could not ma2e imperfect man Ais model "nfinite= Unhallowed thought Ae could not plan-.o'e;s wor2 and .o'e must fit 3 -/."C< &/)T68 #hen you step into your office on *onday morning= no doubt you ha'e dreams of wonderful achie'ement )our step is firm= your brain is clear and you ha'e carefully thought out >ust #A/T you will do and A6# you will accomplish big things in your business +erhaps the 'ery plans you ha'e in mind will influence your whole business career= and you ha'e 'isions of the dollars that will be yours rolling into your ban2 account 7ut do these dreams come true9 /re you always able to put through what you had planned to do-does your day;s wor2 ha'e the snap and power you imagined it would ha'e9 /re you e'er forced to admit that your dreams of big accomplishment are often shattered because of 1fagged ner'es3 and lac2 of energy= because you ha'e not the 1pep39 Aow easy it is to thin2 bac2 and see how success was in your grasp if only you had felt e5ual to that extra bit of effort= if only you had had the 1pep=3 the energy to reach out and ta2e it The great men of the world ha'e been well men= strong men Sic2ness and hesitancy go hand in hand Sic2ness means wea2ness= 5uerulous ness= lac2 of faith= and lac2 of confidence in oneself and in others 7ut there is no real reason for sic2ness or wea2ness= and there is no reason why you should remain wea2 or sic2 if you are so afflicted now Remember the story of the sculptor +ygmalion9 Aow he made a statue of marble so beautiful that e'ery woman who saw it en'ied it9 So perfect was it that he fell in lo'e with it himself= hung it with flowers and >ewels= spent day after day in rapt admiration of it= until finally the gods too2 pity upon him and breathed into it the breath of life There is more than +agan mythology to that story There is this much truth in it-that any man can set before his mind;s eye the image of the figure he himself would li2e to be= and then breathe the breath of life into it merely by 2eeping that image before his subconscious mind as the model on which to do its daily building !or health and strength are natural "t is ill health and wea2ness that are unnatural )our

body was meant to be lithe= supple= muscular= and full of red(blooded energy and 'itality / clear brain= a powerful heart= a massi'e chest= wrists and arms of steel-all these were meant for you-all these you can ha'e if you will but !now= and feel= and thin! aright @ust ta2e stoc2 of yourself for a moment /re your muscles tough= springy and full of 'im9 &o they do all you as2 of them-and then beg for more9 Can you eat a good meal-and forget it9 "f you can;t= it;s your own fault )ou can ha'e a body ali'e with 'itality= a s2in smooth and fine of texture= muscles supple and 'irile )ou can be the man you ha'e always dreamed of being= without arduous dieting= without tiresome series of exercises= merely by following the simple rules herein laid down !or what is it that builds up the muscles= puts energy and 'itality into your system= gi'es you the pep and 'igor of youth9 2s it e(ercise< Then why is it that so many day laborers are poor= wea2= anemic creatures= forced to lay off from one to three months e'ery year on account of sic2ness9 They get plenty of exercise and fresh air #hy is it that so many athletes die of tuberculosis or of wea2 hearts9 They get the most scientific exercise year in and year out @ust the other day " read of the sudden death of *artin / &elaney= the famous trainer= 2nown all o'er the country as a physical director Ae taught thousands how to be strong= but 1/thletic Aeart3 2illed him at FF +assersby saw him running for a car= then suddenly topple o'er dead 1<xercise as a panacea for all human ills is dangerously o'errated=3 &r Charles * #harton= in charge of health and physical education at the Uni'ersity of +ennsyl'ania= said today N*arch 2E= 1926O= according to an /ssociated +ress dispatch &r #harton= who has been a trainer of men for thirty years and was an all(/merican guard on the +ennsyl'ania football team in 1I9F and 1I96= declared the search for the fountain of youth by exercise and diet has been commercialiBed to a point of hysteria 1Some one should cry a halt against this wild scramble for health by Unnatural means=3 said &r #harton 1This indiscriminate adoption of se'ere physical training destroys the health of more people than it impro'es 3 &r #harton said he was appalled by the amount of physical defects and wea2nesses de'eloped by o'erindulgence in athletics by students in preparatory schools 1" 2now " am presenting an unpopular 'iewpoint= and it may sound strange coming from a physical director 1"n gymnasium wor2 at the Uni'ersity of +ennsyl'ania we try to place our young men in sports which they will en+oy= and thus get a physical stimulation from rela(ed play.& 2s it diet< Then why is it that so many people you 2now= who ha'e been dieting for years= are still such poor= flabby creatures9 &oesn;t it always wor2= or is it merely a matter of guess( wor2(and those were the cases where no one happened to guess right9 #hy is it that doctors

disagree so on what is the correct diet9 !or years we ha'e been taught to forswear too much meat !or years we ha'e been told that it causes rheumatism and gout and hardening of the arteries-and a doBen or more other ailments 8ow comes &r #oods Autchinson-a noted authority= 5uoted the world o'er-and saysH 1/ll the silly old pre>udice against meat= that it heated the blood Nwhate'er that meansO and produced uric acid to excess= hardened the arteries= inflamed the 2idneys= caused rheumatism= etc = has now been pro'ed to be pure fairy tales= utterly without foundation in scientific fact 1Red meats ha'e nothing whate'er to do with causing gout and rheumatism= because neither of these diseases is due to foods or drin2s of any sort= but solely to what we call local infections .ittle poc2ets of pus NmatterO full of robber germs-mostly streptococci-around the roots of our teeth= in the pouches of our tonsils= in the nasal passages and sinuses of our foreheads and faces opening into them? 6ur belief now isH J8o poc2ets of pus= no rheumatism or gout ; !ood of any 2ind has absolutely nothing to do with the case 16n the other hand= the 'ery worst cases on record in all medical history of hardening and turning to lime NcalcificationO of the arteries all o'er the body= and in the 2idneys and intestines particularly= ha'e been found in Trappist and certain orders of 6riental mon2s who li'e almost exclusi'ely upon starch and-that is= peas= beans= and lentils= and abstain from meat entirely 3 Then what is right9 2s it the combination of diet and e(ercise< 7ut surely the patients in sanitariums and similar institutions would ha'e e'ery chance to get >ust the right combination= yet how often you see them come out little= if any= better off than when they went in 8o 8one of these is the answer /s a matter of fact= the principal good of either diet or exercise is that it 2eeps before the patient;s mind the R<SU.T he is wor2ing for= and in that way tends to impress it upon his subconscious mind That is why physical culturists always urge you to exercise in front of a mirror "f results are achie'ed= it is *"8& that achie'es them -not the mo'ements you go through or the particular 2ind of food you eat Understand= " don;t as2 you to stop exercising / reasonable amount of light= pleasant exercise is good for you mentally and physically "t de'elops your will power "t helps to impress upon your subconscious mind the image you want to see realiBed in your body /nd it ta2es your mind off your troubles and worries= centering your thoughts instead upon your desires? >ust where your thoughts should always be 6utdoor exercise= tennis= horsebac2= swimming-any sort of acti'e game- is the best rest there is for a tired mind !or mental tiredness comes from a too steady contemplation of ones problems /nd anything that will ta2e ones mind completely off them= and gi'e the subconscious time to wor2 out the solution= is good That is why it so often happens that you go bac2 to your wor2 after a day of play-not merely refreshed= but with so clear a mind that

the problems= which before seemed insurmountable are but as child;s play to you )ou who en'y the rosy chee2 and spar2ling eye of youth= who awa2e in the morning weary and un(refreshed= who go to your daily tas2s with fagged brain and hea'y tread->ust remember that +erfect )outh or +erfect Aealth is merely a state of mind There is only one thing that puts muscles on your bones There is only one thing that 2eeps your organs functioning with precision and regularity There is only one thing that builds for you a perfect body That one thing is your subconscious mind <'ery cell and tissue= e'ery bone and sinew= e'ery organ and muscle in your entire body is sub>ect to the control of your subconscious mind /s it directs= so they build or function True= that subconscious mind accepts suggestions from your conscious mind Aold before it the thought that the exercise you are ta2ing is building muscle upon your arms or shoulders= and your subconscious mind will fall in readily with the suggestion and strengthen those muscles Aold before it the thought that some particular food gi'es you unusual energy and 1pep=3 and the subconscious mind will be entirely agreeable to producing the added 'igor 7ut ha'e you e'er noticed how some sudden >oy Nwhich is entirely a mental stateO energiBes and re'italiBes you-more than all the e(ercise or all the tonics you can ta!e< Aa'e you e'er noticed how martial music will relie'e the fatigue of marching men9 Aa'e you e'er noticed how sorrow Nwhich is entirely a mental stateO will depress and de'italiBe you. regardless of any amount of e(ercise or health foods you may ta!e< <ach of us has within him all the essentials that go to the ma2ing of a Super(*an 7ut so has e'ery acorn the essentials for ma2ing a great oa2 tree= yet the @apanese show us that e'en an oa2 may be stunted by continual pruning of its shoots 8egati'e and wea2 thoughts= thoughts of self(doubt= of mistrust= continually prune bac2 the 'igorous life e'er see2ing so 'aliantly to show forth the= splendor and strength of the radiant inner self Choose what you will beC )our responsibility is to thin2= spea2= act the true inner self )our pri'ilege is to show forth in this self= the fullness of peace and plenty Geep steadfastly in mind the idea of yourself that you want to see realiBed )our daily= hourly= and continual idea of yourself= your life= your affairs= your world= and your associates= determines the har'est= the showing forth .oo2 steadfastly to your highest ideal of self= and your steadfast and lofty ideal will draw forth blessing and prosperity not only upon you= but also upon all who 2now you !or mind is the only creator= and thought is the only energy /ll that counts is the image of your body that you are holding in your thought "f heretofore that image has been one of wea2ness= of ill health= change it now- T6&/) Repeat to yourself= the first thing upon awa2ening in the morning and the last thing before going to sleep at night-3*y body was made in the image and li2eness of %od %od first imagined it in its entirety= therefore e'ery cell and bone and tissue is perfect= e'ery organ and muscle performing its proper function That is the only model of me in Uni'ersal *ind That is the only model of me that my

Subconscious *ind 2nows Therefore= since *ind- %od-is the only creator= that is the only model of me that " can ha'eC3

88II -h1 'row O,d2 1/nd *oses was an hundred and twenty years old when he diedH his eye was not dim= nor his natural force abated 3 Remember how you used to plough through great masses of wor2 day after day and month after month= cheerily= enthusiastically= with ne'er a sign of tiring or ner'ous strain9 Remember how you used to en>oy those e'enings= starting out as fresh from your office or shop as if you hadn;t >ust put a hard day;s wor2 behind you9 8o doubt you;'e often wondered why you can;t wor2 and en>oy yourself li2e that now= but solaced yourself with the moth(eaten fallacy that 1/s a man grows older he shouldn;t expect to get the same fun out of life that he did in his earlier years 3 +oor old exploded ideaC )outh is not a matter of time "t is a mental state )ou can be >ust as bris2= >ust as acti'e= >ust as light(hearted now as you were ten or twenty years ago %enuine youth is >ust a perfect state of health )ou can ha'e that health= and the boundless energy and capacity for wor2 or en>oyment that go with it )ou can cheat time of ten= twenty or fifty years-not by ta2ing thought of what you shall eat or what you shall drin2= not by diet or exercise= but solely through a right understanding of what you should expect of your body 1"f only " had my life to li'e o'er againC3 Aow often you ha'e heard it said Aow often you ha'e thought it 7ut the fact is that you C/8 ha'e it )ou can start right now and li'e again as many years as you ha'e already experienced Aealth= physical freedom and full 'igor need not end for you at QF or KE-nor at 6E or PE /ge is not a matter of years "t is a state of mind "n an address before the /merican Sociological Society a few months ago &r Aornell Aart of 7ryn *awr predicted that-17abies born in the year 2EEE will ha'e something li2e 2EE years of life ahead of them= and men and women of 1EE years will be 5uite the normal thing 7ut instead of being wrin2led and crippled= these centenarians will be in their 'igorous prime 3 Thomas +arr= an <nglishman= li'ed to be 1F2 years old= and was sufficiently hale and hearty at the age of 12E to ta2e unto himself a second wife <'en at 1F2= his death was not due to old age= but to a sudden and drastic change in his manner of life /ll his days he had li'ed upon simple fare= but his fame reaching the Ging= he was in'ited to .ondon and there feasted so la'ishly that he died of it "n a dispatch to the 8ew )or2 Times on !ebruary 1Kth last= " read of an /rab now in +alestine= one Salah *ustapha Salah /bu *usa= who at the age of 1EF is growing his third set of teeth!

There is an ancient city in "taly= which can be approached by sea only through a long stretch of shallow water full of roc2s and cross currents There is one safe channel= and it is mar2ed by posts "n the days of the Sea Ro'ers the city used to protect itself by pulling up the posts whene'er a ro'er ho'e in sight *an2ind has ta2en to planting posts along its way to mar2 the flight of time <'ery year we put in a new one= heedless of the fact that we are thus mar2ing a clear channel for our /rchenemy= /ge= to enter in from the sea of human belief 7ut the fact is that there is no natural reason for man to grow old as soon as he does= no biological reason for him to grow old at all! #hy is it that the animals li'e eight to ten times their maturity= when man li'es only about twice his9 #hy9 7ecause man hastens decrepitude and decay by holding the thought of old age always before him &r /lexis Carrel= 8oble +riBe winner and member of the Roc2efeller "nstitute= has demonstrated that li'ing cells ta2en from a body= properly protected and fed= can be 2ept ali'e indefinitely 8ot only that= but they growC "n 1912 he too2 Sonic tissue from the heart of an embryo chic2 and placed it in a Culture medium "t is li'ing and growing yet Recently &r Carrel showed a mo'ing picture of these li'ing cells before the /merican "nstitute of <lectrical <ngineers They grow so fast that they double in siBe e'ery twenty(four hours= and ha'e to be trimmed dailyC The cells of your being can be made to li'e indefinitely when placed outside your body Single(celled animals ne'er die a natural death They li'e on and on until something 2ills them 8ow scientists are beginning to wonder if multi(cellular animals li2e man really need to die Under the title= 1"mmortality and Re>u'enation in *odern 7iology=3 * *etalni2o'= of the +asteur "nstitute= has >ust published a 'olume that should be read by all those who ha'e decided that it is necessary to grow old and die Aere is the first sentence of the concluding chapter of the boo2H 1#hat we ha'e >ust written forces us to maintain our con'iction that immortality is the fundamental property of li'ing organisms 3 /nd further onH 16ld age and death are not a stage of earthly existence /nd that= mind you= is set forth under the aegis of a scientific establishment that has no e5ual in the world= and of a scholar uni'ersally respected

/s the =ournal of 8aris says in re'iewing the articleH 1*ost religious and philosophic systems assert the immortality of the soul 7ut the positi'e sciences ha'e shown themsel'es more s2eptical on this point This idea seems to them 5uite contradictory to all that we 2now= or thin2 we 2now= of animal life /nimal life originates as a tiny germ= which becomes an embryo= de'eloping into an adult organism= which grows old and finally dies This means the disappearance of all the faculties of life that so clearly distinguish it from an inanimate ob>ect There is no scientific e'idence to show that at this moment the Jsoul; does not disappear with the body= and that it continues its existence separately 7iologists cannot e'en concei'e the possibility of separation of soul and body= so strong and indissoluble are the bonds that unite all our psychic manifestations with our bodily life !or them an immortal soul only can exist in an immortal body #hat if it were so9 #hat if our organism is really indestructible9 "t is this that * *etalni2oy attempts scientifically to pro'e 1&eath is a permanent and tangible phenomenon only in the case of man and the higher animals "t is not so for plants and for the simpler forms of animal life= the protoBoans These last= composed often of a single cell= >ust obser'able under the microscope= are howe'er without the chief faculties that characteriBes the higher animals They mo'e about by means of 'ibratory hair(li2e processes= sustain themsel'es= see2 their food= hunt animals still smaller than themsel'es= react to irritations of different 2inds= and multiply 7ut this multiplication is not effected by means of special organs= as among the higher animals= but by the di'ision of the whole organism into two e5ual parts The common infusorians= which abound in fresh water= thus di'ide once or twice e'ery twenty(four hours <ach daughter cell continues to li'e li2e the mother cell= of which it is the issue? it feeds= grows= and di'ides in its turn /nd ne'er= in this constantly renewed cycle in their li'es= do we find the phenomenon of natural death= so characteristic and so uni'ersal in the higher animals The infusorium is sub>ect only to accidental death= such as we can cause by the addition of some poisonous element to the water in which it li'es= or by heat 1<xperiments along this line were made long ago The first were by de Saussure= in 16P9 Aa'ing put an infusorium in a drop of water= he saw it di'ide under his eye !our days later it was impossible to count the number of creatures Aowe'er= some authors thought that this reproducti'e facility was not unlimited *aupas himself= who made a minute study of it forty years ago and succeeded in obser'ing PEE successi'e generations of a single species= thought that it was finally sub>ect to old age and to death 17ut the more recent wor2s of @ou2o's2y at Aeidelberg= of Goulaghine at +etrograd= of Cal2ins in <ngland= of #eissmann= and still others= lead to an opposite opinion The degeneration obser'ed by these wor2ers was due to autointoxication= caused by not renewing the culture medium 1&ecisi'e experiments were made in Russia= Jdating from 19EP= by #oodruff and by * *etalni2oy himself 7egun at Tsars2oe Selo= they continued until the tragic hours of the 191P re'olution= and were renewed at the Uni'ersity of Crimea These in'estigators too2 an

infusorium found in an a5uarium= the +aramoecium caudatum= whose characteristics are well determined= and in thirteen years= in 192E= they had obtained F=EEE successi'e generations 1Thus we are bound to say that a unicellular body possesses within itself the power of immortality 1/nd we oursel'es are made up only by the >uxtaposition of simple cells 3 The Fount#in of )outh !our hundred years ago +once de .eon set sail into the mysteries of an un2nown world in search of the !ountain of )outh= when all the time the secret of that fountain was right within himself !or the fact is= that no matter how many years ha'e passed since you were born= you are only eleven months old today! )our body is constantly renewing itself The one thing about it you can be surest of is CA/8%< <'ery one of the millions of cells of which it is composed is constantly being renewed <'en your bones are daily renewing themsel'es in this way These cells are building-building- building <'ery day they tear down old tissue and rebuild it with new There is not a cell in your body= not a muscle or tissue= not a bone= that is more than ele'en months oldC #hy then should you feel age9 #hy should you be any less spry= any less cheerful= than these youngsters around you that you ha'e been en'ying9 The answer is that you need not-if you will but realiBe your )6UTA!U.8<SS <'ery organ= e'ery muscle= tissue and cell of your body is sub>ect to your subconscious mind They rebuild exactly as that mind directs them #hat is the model you are holding before your mind;s eye9 "s it one of age= of decrepitude9 That is the model that most men use= because they 2now no better That is the result that you see imaged upon their bodies 7ut you need not follow their outworn models )ou can hold before your mind;s eye only the 'ision of youth= of manly 'igor= of energy and strength and beauty and that is the model that your cells will use to build upon. &o you 2now what is responsible for the whole difference between )outh and /ge9 @ust one thing )outh loo2s forward always to something better /ge loo2s bac2ward and sighs o'er its 1lost3 youth "n youth we are constantly growing #e G86# we ha'e not yet reached our prime #e 2now we can expect to continually "*+R6,< #e loo2 forward to e'er(increasing physical powers #e loo2 forward to a finer= more perfect physi5ue #e loo2 forward to greater mental alertness #e ha'e been educated to expect these things Therefore we 7<."<,< we shall get them-and we %<T themC 7ut what happens after we get to be thirty or forty years of age9 #e thin2 we ha'e reached our prime #e ha'e been taught that we can no longer loo2 forward to greater growth-that all we can hope for is to 1hold our own3 for a little while= and then start swiftly downward to

old age and decay Aistory shows that no nation= no institution and no indi'idual can continue for any length of time to merely 1hold his own 3 )ou must go forward-or bac2 )ou must mo'e-or life will pass you by )ours is the choice if you will realiBe that there is ne'er any end to %R6#TA- that your body is constantly being rebuilt-that perfection is still so far ahead of you that you can continue %R6#"8% towards it indefinitely-you need ne'er 2now age )ou can 2eep on growing more perfect= mentally and physically= e'ery day <'ery minute you li'e is a minute of Conception and rebirth )ou may be wea2 and anemic )ou may be crippled or bent 8o matterC )ou can start today to rebuild along new lines "n ele'en months at the most= e'ery one of those wea2 and de'italiBed cells= e'ery one of those bent and crippled bones= will be replaced by new= strong= 'igorous tissue .oo2 at /nnette Gellerman-crippled and deformed as a child-yet she grew up into the world;s most perfectly formed woman .oo2 at Roose'elt-wea2 and anemic as a young man -yet he made himself the en'y of the world for boundless 'igor and energy /nd they are but two cases out of thousands " could 5uote *any of the world;s strongest men were wea2lings in their childhood "t matters not what your age= what your condition- you can start now renewing your youth= growing daily nearer the model of )6U that is imaged in Uni'ersal *ind /rthur 7risbane says that at the age of IF %eorge ! 7a2er is doing the wor2 of ten men That is what e'ery man of IF ought to be doing= for he should ha'e not only the physical 'igor and strength and enthusiasm of 21= but combined with them he should ha'e the s2ill and experience= the ripened >udgment of IF There is no more despairing pronouncement than the belief of the a'erage man that he matures only to begin at once to deteriorate and decay #hen the actual fact is= as stated in a recent utterance by the eminent &r Aammond= there is no physiological reason why a man should die Ae asserted-and the statement is corroborated by scientists and physiologiststhat the human body possesses inherent capacity to renew and continue itself and its functions= indefinitelyC )our body wears out9 6f course it does->ust as all material things do 7ut with this difference your body is being renewed >ust as fast as it wears outC Aa'e you damaged some part of it9 &on;t worry &own inside you is a chemical laboratory= which can ma2e new parts >ust as good or better than the old Up in your subconscious mind is a *aster Chemist with all the formulas of Uni'ersal *ind to draw upon= who can 2eep that chemical laboratory of yours ma2ing new parts >ust as fast as you can wear out the old 7ut that *aster Chemist is li2e all of us-li2e you Ae is inclined to laBy a bit on the >ob-if you let him Try to relie'e him of some of his functions- and he won;t bother about them further Ta2e to the regular use of drugs or other methods of eliminating the waste matter from the body= and your *aster Chemist will figure that your conscious mind has ta2en o'er this duty from him-and he will lea'e it thereafter to your conscious mind .ead him to

belie'e that you no longer expect him to rebuild your body along such perfect lines as in youth-and he will slow down in his wor2 of remo'ing the old= worn(out tissues= and of replacing them with new= better material The result9 /rteries clogged with worn(out cells Tissues dried and shrun2en @oints stiff and crea2y "n short-6ld /ge The fault is not with the *aster Chemist "t is with you )ou didn;t hold him to the >ob #hen a business or an enterprise or an expedition fails= it is not the ran2 and file who are to blameit is the directing head Ae didn;t gi'e his men the right plans to wor2 on Ae didn;t supply the proper leadership Ae didn;t 2eep them 2eyed up to their best wor2 #hat would you thin2 of an engineer who= with the best plans in the world= the best material with which to build= threw away his plans when he was half through with the >ob and let his men do as they pleased= ruining all his early wor2 and all his fine material by putting the rest of it together any which way9 )et that is what you do when you stop .66G"8% !6R#/R& at QE or KE= and decide thereafter to >ust grow old any which way )ou throw away the wonderful model on which you ha'e been building= you ta2e the finest material in the world= and let your wor2men put it together any way they li2e "n fact= you do worse than that )ou tell them you don;t expect much from them any more That any sort of a patched up >ob they put together after that will be about as good as you can loo2 for *an ali'eC #hat would you expect from ordinary wor2men to whom you tal2ed li2e that9 )our inner wor2men are no different )ou will get from them >ust what you loo2 for-no more= no less 1)our time of life3 should be the best time you ha'e yet 2nown The engineer who has built forty bridges should be far more proficient than the one who has built only a few The model you are passing on to your *aster Chemist now ought to be a 'astly more perfect model than the one you ga'e to him at twenty "nstead of feeling that your heart is gi'ing out and your stomach wea2= you ought to be boasting of how much better a heart you are now ma2ing than a few years ago= how much more perfectly your stomach is functioning than before you learned that you were its boss 6f one thing you can be sure %od ne'er decreed a law of decay and death "f there is any such law= it is man(made-and man can unma2e it The .ife +rinciple that came to this planet thousands or millions of years ago brought no &eath +rinciple with it !or death is li2e dar2ness-it is nothing in itself &eath is merely the absence of life= >ust as dar2ness is merely the absence of light Geep that life surging-strongly "n the 7oo2 of #isdom= of the /pocryphal writings= you readH 1!or %od made not death? neither hath Ae pleasure in the destruction of the li'ing 1!or Ae created all things that they might ha'e being? and the generati'e powers of the world are health(some= and there is no poison of destruction in them= nor hath death dominion

upon the earth 1!or righteousness is immortalH 17ut ungodly men with their wor2s and words called death unto them 1!or %od created man to be immortal= and made Aim to be an image of Ais own proper being 17ut by the en'y of the de'il came death into the world 3 1#hosoe'er li'eth and belie'eth in me Nunderstandeth meO=3 said @esus= 1shall ne'er die 3 /nd again-1"f a man 2eep my saying= he shall ne'er see death 3 Uni'ersal *ind 2nows no imperfection-no decay-no death "t does not produce sic2ness and death "t is your conscious mind that has decreed these e'ils 7anish the thought-and you can banish the effect .ife was ne'er meant to be measured by years " remember reading a story of a tra'eler who had >ourneyed to a land of perpetual sun Since there was no sunrise and no sunset= no moons or changing seasons= there was no means of measuring time Therefore to the inhabitants of that land= time did not exist /nd ha'ing no time= they ne'er thought to measure ages and conse5uently ne'er grew old .i2e organisms with a single cell= they did not die except by 'iolence There is more truth than fiction to that idea The measurement of life by the calendar robs youth of its 'igor and hastens old age "t reminds me of the days of our grandparents= when a woman was supposed to doff her hat and don a bonnet at KE /nd donning a bonnet was li2e ta2ing the 'eil She was supposed to retire to her chimney corner and ma2e way for the younger generation *en and women ought to grow with years into greater health= broader >udgment= and mature wisdom "nstead of becoming atrophied= and dead to all new ideas= their minds should through practice hold e'er(stronger images before them of youthful 'igor and freshness The +salmist says-17ut thou art the same= and thy years shall ha'e no end 3 8o one need retire to the chimney corner= no matter how many years ha'e passed o'er his head )ears should bring wisdom and greater health-not decrepitude *any of the world;s famous men did their greatest wor2 long after the age when most men are in their gra'es Tennyson composed the immortal lines of 1Crossing the 7ar3 at the age of IE +lato still had pen in hand at I1 Cato learned %ree2 at the same age Aumboldt completed his 1Cosmos3 in his ninetieth year= while @ohn #esley at I2 said-1"t is twel'e years now since " ha'e felt any such sensation as fatigue 3 )ou are only as old as your mind <'ery function= e'ery acti'ity of your body= is controlled by your mind )our 'ital organs= your blood that sends the material for rebuilding to e'ery cell and tissue= the processes of elimination that remo'e all the bro2en down and waste material= all are dependent for their functioning upon the energy deri'ed from your mind The human body can be compared to an electric transportation system #hen the dynamo runs at full power e'ery car speeds along= and e'erything is handled with precision 7ut let

the dynamo slow down and the whole system lags That dynamo is your mind= and your thoughts pro'ide the energy that runs it !eed it thoughts of health and 'igor and your whole system will reflect energy and 'itality !eed it thoughts of decrepitude and age= and you will find it slowing down to the halting pace you set for it )ou can grow old at QE )ou can be young at 9E "t is up to you #hich do you choose9 "f you choose youth= then start this minute renewing your youth !ind a picture-or= better still= a statuette-of the man you would li2e to be= the form you would li2e to ha'e Geep it in your room #hen you go to bed at night= visualize it in your mind;s eye-hold it in your thought as 30%-as the man 30% A/: $024$ "0 7:! "he =ournal of :ducation had the idea in their story of 1The +rince and the Statue3 in a recent issueH 1There was once a prince who had a croo2ed bac2 Ae could ne'er stand straight up li2e e'en the lowest of his sub>ects 7ecause he was a 'ery proud prince his croo2ed bac2 caused him a great deal of mental suffering 16ne day he called before him the most s2ilful sculptor in his 2ingdom and said to himH J*a2e me a noble statue of myself= true to my li2eness in e'ery detail with this exceptionma2e this statue with a straight bac2 " wish to see myself as " might ha'e been 1!or long months the sculptor wor2ed hewing the marble carefully into the li2eness of the prince= and at last the wor2 was done= and the sculptor went before the prince and saidH JThe statue is finished? where shall " set it up9; 6ne of the courtiers called outH JSet it before the castle gate where all can see it=; but the prince smiled sadly= and shoo2 his head JRather=; said he= Jplace it in a secret noo2 in the palace garden where only " shall see it ; The statue was placed as the prince ordered= and promptly forgotten by the world= but e'ery morning= and e'ery noon= and e'ery e'ening the prince stole 5uietly away to where it stood and loo2ed long upon it= noting the straight bac2 and the un(lifted head= and the noble brow /nd each time he gaBed= something seemed to go out of the statue and into him= tingling in his blood and throbbing in his heart 1The days passed into months and the months into years? then strange rumors began to spread throughout the land Said oneH JThe prince;s bac2 is no longer croo2ed or my eyes decei'e me ; Said anotherH JThe prince is more noble(loo2ing or my eyes decei'e me ; Said anotherH J6ur prince has the high loo2 of a mighty man=; and these rumors came to the prince= and he listened with a 5ueer smile Then went he out into the garden to where the statue stood and= behold= it was >ust as the people said= his bac2 had become as straight as the statue;s= his head had the same noble bearing? he was= in fact= the noble man his statue proclaimed him to be 3 / no'el idea9 8ot at allC 2=FEE years ago= in the %olden /ge of /thens= when its culture led

the world= %recian mothers surrounded themsel'es= with beautiful statues that they might bring forth perfect children and that the children in turn might de'elop into perfect men and women <le'en months from now you will ha'e an entirely new body= inside and out 8ot a single cell= not a single bit of tissue that is now in you will be there then #hat changes do you want made in that new body9 #hat impro'ements9 %et your new model clearly in your mind;s eye +icture it ,"SU/."R< itC .oo2 !6R#/R& daily to a better physi5ue= to greater mental power %i'e that model to your Subconscious *ind to build upon-and before ele'en months are out= that model W2LL 7: 30%!

VOLUME SEVEN 88III The Medicine 0e,usion 1" find the medicine worse than the malady 3 -SA/G<S+</R< #e are getting rid of the drug illusion=3 declared &r #oods Autchinson= the noted medical writer of /merica= at a luncheon gi'en on @une 6= 192F= by the <nglish( Spea2ing Union to PEE /merican and Canadian doctors assembled in .ondon= <ngland 1#e are willing e'en to subscribe to the dictum of 6li'er #endell Aolmes=3 the doctor added= 1that if 99 per cent of all drugs we possess were thrown into the sea it would be a good thing for the human race= but rather hard on the fishes 3 Sir /rbuthnot .ane= Surgeon to Ging %eorge= seconded &r Autchinson;s remar2s 1They might say=3 he went on= 1that he was trying to establish a Jsuicide club; for doctors "t practically came to that= because as the public became educated in matters of health the medical profession might disappear "t was in fact an anomaly that a medical profession should exist "f people were healthy= there was no reason to ha'e doctors at all 3 Twenty(fi'e years ago= the charms of the +atent *edicine fa2ir and the incantations of the "ndian *edicine *an were in the heyday of their popularity So long as you tal2ed about their aches and pains= their diseases and ailments= people would buy any 2ind of a nostrum that an unscrupulous fa2ir chose to palm off upon them +atent medicine manufacturers made fabulous fortunes selling cheap whis2y adulterated with burnt sugar and water= under a hundred different names for T1 EE the bottle )ou could hardly pic2 up a magaBine or newspaper without seeing a doBen of their lurid ads The day of the "ndian *edicine *an and street(corner fa2ir has passed /nd for a time= than2s to the crusade against them led by ;ollier6s= and bac2ed by a number of other reputable magaBines= patent medicine manufacturers suffered an eclipse 7ut they are bac2 again today in a more respectable guise +ic2 up almost any small town paper and you will find a doBen 1so'ereign remedies3 for tired women or fretful children or run(down men Concoctions= most of them= containing >ust enough alcohol to gi'e you a pleasant sense of stimulation= enough burnt sugar to color them-and a whole lot of water 7ut if that were all= no great harm would be done "f the peddling of drugs depended entirely -or e'en mostly-on +atent *edicine ad'ertisers= the end of it would soon be in sight 7ut it doesn;t The worst offenders of all are the ones who= of all people= should 2now better-some of the doctors Understand= " don;t mean all of them /nd " don;t mean the best of them There are thousands of them li2e &r #oods Autchinson who ha'e the courage to get up and say that

medicine itself cannot cure disease That it ne'er has cured disease That 8ature is the only Aealer &rugs can gi'e you temporary relief from pain-yes They can cleanse-yes 7ut as for curing anything= the drug is not made that can do it The principal good that the administering of a drug has is in its effect upon the mind of the patient *en ha'e been taught for so many years that drugging is the only way to cure disease= that when you gi'e them something= they 7<."<,< they are going to be cured= and to the extent that they belie'e= they /R< CUR<& The best proof of that is to let two patients suffering from the same complaint go to two different physicians-the one a doctor of the regular school= the other a homeopath The regular doctor will administer a dose containing ten thousand times as much of the mother drug as the homeopath "n fact= there is so slight a trace of any drug in the homeopath;s prescription that it might be called none at all )et it fre5uently happens that his patient will respond >ust as readily to his denatured dose as the other will to his drug &r %our= in a recent issue of 8earson6s 'agazine= saidH 1/ few years ago there appeared an article in the Atlantic 'onthly written by a young woman physician who was with the Red Cross in Russia "mmediately following the Gerens2y re'olution= the Russian peasants who= for the first time in their li'es= found that they could 2eep what they earned= began to thin2 of going to doctors for ailments which had afflicted them for years= but which they could ne'er before afford to ha'e treated #ithin two wee2s; time this young physician exhausted her supply of medicine 7ut the rush of peasant patients continued and she was reduced to the placebo idea of administering colored waters with a slight amount of a single drug(5uinine= if " recall correctly !or se'eral wee2s she obtained such wonderful results in e'ery concei'able form of affliction that she said her faith in specific medication was completely lost 3 "n a dispatch from Rome to the 8ew )or2 )erald*"ribune= under date of @une 1F= 1926= " readH 1Under the s2eptical eyes of local doctors &on .uigi %arofalo= a priest in the :uarto sector of 8aples= alleges that he is curing all the ills that flesh is heir to= from pneumonia to bro2en bones= by a practical application of the theory deri'ed from the text= J*an is of dust and to dust he shall return ; &on .uigi argues that from a homeopathic 'iew point dust should be a curati'e element So from dust ta2en from the reddish earth near +oBBnoli= which contains traces of sulphur and copper= he ma2es pills for the afflicted= but he contends that any other earth will do 1The cures= most of which ha'e been effected by means of the red earth= include the healing of bro2en limbs= tubercular cases= toothache= internal lesions= heart diseases= mumps= paralysis and fe'ers 3 6f course= it is not to be inferred from this that reliance can be placed upon red earth-or any other 2ind of earth-to cure you of any ill 7ut it shows that e'en so common? ordinary a thing as a bit of dirt can be used to arouse people from the lethargic condition in which sic2ness so fre5uently lea'es them= and gi'es them the power to help themsel'es

Ta2e another case )our doctor prescribes regular doses of some drug )ou ta2e it once "t has the desired effect )ou ta2e it again The effect is not 5uite so pronounced )ou 2eep it upand in a short time the drug seems to have lost its efficacy. #hy9 The same chemical elements are there /nd if you mix the same chemical elements in a retort= you will get the same results whether you do it once or a thousand times #hy doesn;t it wor2 the same way with drugs and your body9 7ecause the strongest factor in bringing about the desired effect in the beginning was your 7<."<!-yours and that of your doctor 7ut as you 2ept on and on= your belief began to falter= until presently it died away altogether )ou may ha'e hoped= but the acti'e belief suggestions to your subconscious mind had stopped carrying con'iction &r Richard C Cabot= +rofessor of *edicine at Aar'ard Uni'ersity= in a recent address= declared= 1three(5uarters of all illnesses are cured without the 'ictims e'en 2nowing they ha'e had them 1+roof of this contention is to be found in post(mortem examinations= which time after time re'eal indelible and unmista2able traces of disease which the sub>ect has con5uered all un2nowingly 8inety per cent of all typhoid cures itself= as does PF per cent of all pneumonia "n fact= out of a total of 21F diseases 2nown to medical science= there are only about eight or nine which doctors con5uer-the rest con5uer themsel'es 3 Ae went on to say that-3"f nature= assisted by the proper mental and emotional moods= is capable of curing an ulcer in three or four wee2s= why isn;t it possible for the same force to heal a similar ulcer in a few minutes= when the curati'e processes ha'e been speeded up abnormally93 %reat physicians ha'e= on numerous occasions= maintained that there is no science in medicating people "n +re'enti'e *edicine-yes "n Surgery "n 6bstetrics "n a score of different lines that fall under the heading of the medical profession 7ut the art of drugging is little ahead of where it was in the *iddle /ges= when <gyptian mummies were in great demand among druggists and 1powdered +haraoh3 was considered the greatest remedy for any ill that flesh was heir to <'ery day brings the disco'ery of some new drug= and the conse5uent dictum that the remedy pre'iously prescribed was all a mista2e-that it had little or no real 'alue whate'er 6ne doctor saysH 1/ medicine that will not 2ill you if you ta2e an o'erdose is no good 3 /notherH 1The most prominent doctors now claim that there is not a single drug that will do what it has been prescribed for in the past 3 &r &ouglas #hite= writing in "he ;hurchman= sums it up thusH 1/ll cure of e'ery disease is spiritual Aealing can ne'er be imposed from without by either the surgeon or physician? it is the li'ing organism which= helped by the s2ill of the one or the other= is enabled to wor2 its way bac2 to health The whole principle of healing in all cases is

the vis medicatri( naturae. /nd when we spea2 of nature= we are only personifying the principle of life which Christians call %od 3 "n the 'edical /ecord of September 2F= 192E= &r @oseph 7yrne= +rofessor of 8eurology at !ordham Uni'ersity *edical School= saidH 1/t a conser'ati'e estimate it may be admitted that of all the ailments for which relief is sought= 9EL or o'er are self limited and tend to get well "t may also be admitted that in o'er 9EL of all human ailments= the psychic is the dominating factor 3 "n other words= *ind is the Aealer &rugs can sometimes ma2e its wor2 easier by remo'ing obstructions= by 2illing off parasites 7ut the regular use of drugs is far more li2ely to harm than to heal #e might well 5uote to the druggists the old Aindoo pro'erbH 1%od gi'es the mango? The farmer plants the seed %od cures the patient? The doctor ta2es the fees 3 "n the %reat #ar= the one drug that most pro'ed its worth was "odine /nd what is "odine9 / cleanser "t 2illed germs "t cleansed wounds 7ut it has no healing power /nd no healing was expected of it "t did all that was as2ed "t cauteriBed-cleansed so that 8ature N*indO could do its own healing= unobstructed That would seem to be the most that should be expected of any drug-2ill the germs of sic2ness or disease= cleanse so that 8ature can then more easily do its rebuilding /nd that is where the use of drugs should stop *ind wor2s best when it is interfered with least-when we throw oursel'es entirely upon it for Support= rather than share the responsibility with some outside agency &r 7urnett Rae= a well(2nown <nglish specialist= addressing a large audience on the sub>ect of 1Spiritual Aealing and *edical Science=3 said the term 1spiritual healing3 was sometimes used in a manner which seemed to imply that there was a form of healing which was of a non(spiritual character= and that spiritual healing was incompatible with= or opposed to= medical practice Aealing could ne'er be regarded as a purely physical process Ae would go so far as to say that healing was always effected through the control of the mind= and medicinal remedies only set the machinery of the mind in motion #e are too apt to thin2 of medical science as concerned with drugs or appliances and operations "hese might completely pass away during the ne(t twenty or fifty years. "t is not through drugs that the medical profession has done so much of good for the world "t is not through drugs that they ha'e impro'ed the general health= cleaned up plague spots= cut down infant mortality= and lengthened the a'erage life expectancy of man2ind by fifteen years "t is by scotching disease at its 'ery source "t is by getting rid of artificially created unwholesome conditions= getting bac2 to natural wholesome conditions

#hat is it causes typhus9 !ilth-an entirely unwholesome condition= man(made /nd how do doctors pre'ent the spread of typhus9 7y cleaning up-by getting bac2 to natural wholesome conditions #hat is it causes typhoid9 "mpure water /nd its pre'ention is simply the purifying of the water-getting bac2 to natural wholesome supply )ellow fe'er has been practically stamped out of existence Typhus is almost a forgotten plague= except in such bac2ward places as parts of Russia and /sia *alaria has been con5uered /nd doctors predict that in another generation tuberculosis will be an almost forgotten malady Aow were these wonderful results brought about9 8ot through drugs-but by cleaning upC Cleaning out swamps and filth +urifying water 7uilding drainage systems *a2ing e'erything round about as clean and wholesome as 8ature herself Cleanliness-+urity-SunshineC %od ga'e us in abundance all that is necessary for perfect health-clean air= pure water= clear sunshine /ll we need to do is to 2eep these pure and clean= and to use all we possibly can of them The greatest good the medical profession has done man2ind is in disco'ering the 'alue of these gifts of %od and showing us how to use them The Chinese ha'e long had the right idea-they pay their physicians to 2eep them well= not to cure them of sic2ness /nd the thing that made the reputation of such men as %orgas= Reed= !lexner= Carrel= was not their cure of disease-but their prevention of it That way lies the future of medicine- bringing our surroundings bac2 to the natural wholesome conditions for which we were created That way lies health and happiness for all -cleanliness inside and out= clean air= pure water= plenty of sunshine-and right thin!ingC "n the next Chapter= " shall try to show you how you can apply the illimitable power of *ind hopefully towards the successful treatment of disease

88IV The 'ift of the M#gi 1Sweep up the debris of decaying faiths? Sweep down the cobwebs of worn(out beliefs= /nd throw your soul wide open to the light 6f Reason and of Gnowledge 7e not afraid To thrust aside half(truths and grasp the whole 3 -<../ #A<<.<R #".C64 /ll o'er the world= sic2= wea2 and de'italiBed men and women are searching for health and strength 7y the hundreds of thousands= they drag their weary and aching bones around= or languish on sic2 beds= waiting for someone to bring health to them cor2ed up in a bottle 7ut real= lasting health was ne'er found in pillboxes or medicine bottles There is one method -and only one- by which it can be gained and 2ept That method is by using the power of the Subconscious *ind !or a long time the doctors pooh(poohed any such idea Then as the e'idence piled up= they grudgingly admitted that ner'ous troubles and e'en functional disorders might be cured by mind <'en now there are some who= as 7ernard Shaw put it= 1Aad rather bury a whole hillside ethically than see a single patient cured unethically They will gi'e credit to no method of healing outside the tenets of their own school 3 )et= as #arren Ailton has it in 1/pplied +sychology3H 1/ll the literature of medicine= whether of ancient or modern times= abounds in illustrations of the power of the mind o'er the body in health and in disease /nd medical Science has always based much of its practice on this principle 8o reputable school of medicine e'er failed to instruct its students in practical applications of the principle of mental influence at the bedside of their patients / bris2 and cheery manner= a hopeful countenance= a supremely assured and confident demeanor-these things ha'e always been regarded by the medical profession as but second in importance to sanitation and material remedies? while the value of the sugar*coated bread pill when the diagnosis was uncertain. has long been recognized. 1The properly trained nurse has always been expected to supplement the efforts of the attending physician by summoning the mental forces of the patient to his aid She= therefore= surrounds the patient with an atmosphere of comfortable assurance /nd by constantly ad'ising him of his satisfactory progress toward speedy reco'ery she see2s to instill hope= confidence and mental effort 1To 5uote &r &idamaH Jthe ideal physician irradiates the sic2 chamber with the light of his cheerful presence Ae may not be hilarious-he is not indifferent-but he has an irrepressible

good(nature which lifts the patient out of the slough of despond and places his feet on the firm land of health "n desperate cases= e'en a little harmless le'ity may be beneficial / well( timed >est may brea2 up a congestion? a pun may add pungency to the sharpest stimulant ; &r 6li'er #endell Aolmes reduced this principle to its cash e5ui'alent when he said that a cheerful smile might be worth fi'e thousand dollars a year to a physician 1Today= psychotherapy= or the healing of bodily disease by mental influence= has the un5ualified endorsement of the /merican Therapeutic Society= the only national organiBation in /merica de'oted exclusi'ely to therapeutics "t has the enthusiastic support of men of such recogniBed international leadership in the scientific world and in the medical profession as !reud= @ung= 7leuler= 7reuer= +rince= @anet= 7abins2i= +utnam= %errish= Sidis= &ubois= *unsterberg= @ones= 7rill= &onley= #aterman and Taylor 1The present attitude of reputable science toward the principle that the mind controls all bodily operations is= then= one of positi'e con'iction The world;s foremost thin2ers accept its truth The interest of enlightened men and women e'erywhere is directed toward the mind as a powerful curati'e force and as a regenerati'e influence of hitherto undreamed(of resource 3 The more progressi'e physicians e'erywhere now admit that there is practically no limit to how far mind can go in the cure of disease /s &r #alsh of !ordham Uni'ersity puts itH 1/nalysis of the statistics of diseases cured by mental influence shows that its results ha'e been more stri2ingly manifest in organic than in the so(called ner'ous or functional diseases 3 <'eryone admits that the mind influences the body somewhat? for e'eryone has seen others grow pale with fear= or red with anger <'eryone has felt the stopping of the heartbeats at some sudden fright= the 5uic2ened breathing and the thumping of the heart caused by excitement These and a hundred other e'idences of the influence of mind o'er matter are common to all of us= and e'eryone will admit them 7ut e'eryone does not 2now that our whole bodies seem to be nothing more or less than the outward expression of our thought #e sit in a draught= and education teaches us we should ha'e a cold or fe'er So we have a cold or fe'er #e eat something which we ha'e been told is indigestible= and immediately we are assailed with pains #e see another yawn= and our impulse is to follow suit "n the same way= when we hear of sic2ness round about us= the fear of it 'isualiBes it in our own minds and we= too= ha'e it The fear of these things seems to bring them about= the mental suggestion sent through to our subconscious minds #e ha'e been educated in a medical age to thin2 that most diseases are infectious or contagious So the mere sight of a diseased person ma2es most of us withdraw into oursel'es li2e a turtle within his shell #e fear we shall catch it-when one of the great dangers of disease is that 'ery fear of it !or years it has been accepted as an ac2nowledged fact that anyone trapped in a mine or other air(tight compartment would presently die of carbon dioxide poisoning-lac2 of oxygen 8ow comes Aoudini to pro'e that death for lac2 of oxygen is not necessary at allC 1!ear= and not poisoning by carbon dioxide= causes the death of miners and others trapped in air(tight compartments=3 in the opinion of Aoudini= according to an /ssociated +ress dispatch of /ugust 6= 1926

Aoudini had himself sun2 in a sealed coffin in a swimming pool= without chance for a breath of outside air to reach him= and stayed there for an hour and a half= although= according to all pre'ious scientific belief= he should ha'e been dead at the end of four minutes )et &r # @ *cConnell of the United States &epartment of *ines= who examined Aoudini before and after the experiment= reported no mar2ed physical reactions from the test= and Aoudini himself said he felt only a slight diBBiness when he was released from the coffinC 1/nyone can do it=3 said Aoudini 1The important thing is to believe that you are safe.& The Chinese ha'e a saying that when the plague comes= F=EEE people may die of the plague= but FE=EEE will die of the fear of it &id you e'er hurt a limb= or a finger= so that you thought you couldn;t mo'e it9 /nd then= under the stress of some sudden emotion= forget all about the hurt and presently wa2e to find yourself using the finger or the limb >ust as readily and as painlessly as though there had ne'er been anything wrong with it9 " ha'e before me a clipping from the 8ew )or2 "imes of *arch 29= 192F= telling of a cripple who had been paralyBed for six years= but under the spur of sudden fear= he ran up a stairway unaided= without crutch or cane Ae had been treated in a number of hospitals= but because of an in>ury to his spine recei'ed in an auto accident= had been unable to wal2 without crutches or canes for six years The patient in the bed next his own suddenly went craBy and attac2ed him= and in his fear this paralytic leaped from his bed and ran up a flight of stairs /ccording to the report= the sudden fright cured him! Ta2e the miracles of .ourdes= or of St /nne of 7eaupre= or of any of the doBens of shrines that dot the world #hat is it that affects the cures9 Two things->esire and Faith 1#hat wouldst thou that " should do unto thee93 the Sa'iour as2ed the blind man who 2ept following and crying out to him 1.ord that " should recei'e my sight 3 /nd again of the cripple at the +ool of 7ethesda @esus as2ed-3#ouldst thou be made whole93 Sounds li2e foolish 5uestioning= doesn;t it9 7ut you remember the story of the famous Saint of "taly= who tra'eled from town to town healing the lame= the halt= and the blind / pilgrim hastening to a town where the Saint was expected met two lame beggars hurrying away Ae as2ed them the reason for their haste= to be told= to his astonishment= it was because the Saint was coming to town /s they put it-1Ae will surely heal us= and where will our li'elihood be then93 So it is with many people today-not beggars= mind you-but people in e'ery wal2 of life They ha'e become so wedded to their ailments? they 1en>oy poor health3 so thoroughly= that they are secretly a bit proud of it Ta2e away their complaints and they would be lost without them )ou must ha'e the sincere desire first. That is prayer Then the faith-the 2ind of faith that @esus meant when he said-1#hatsoe'er ye as2 for when ye pray= belie'e that ye receive it= and ye shall have it.& *ind you= not 1belie'e ye are going to recei'e it 3 17elie'e that ye receive

it3-now-this 'ery minute Gnow that the R</. you= the image of you held in Uni'ersal *ind-in short= the "ruth concerning e'ery organ in your body-is perfect “1now the "ruth.& 7elie'e that you A/,< this perfect image 6n the day that you can truly belie'e this-carry this sincere con'iction to your subconscious mind-on that day you #".. 7< perfect This is the faith that @esus meant when he said-1Thy faith hath made thee whole 3 This is the faith that is responsible for the miracles of .ourdes= for miraculous healings e'erywhere "t matters not whether you be Catholic or +rotestant= @ew or %entile &esire and faith such as these will heal you / month or two ago " read in the newspapers of a farmer= blind for two years= who went out in the field and prayed= 1that he should recei'e his sight 3 /t the end of the second day= his sight was completely restored Ae was a +rotestant Ae went to no shrine->ust out under the s2y and prayed to %od Today " ha'e before me a clipping from the 8ew )or2 #un of !ebruary 2Q= 1926= telling of +atrolman &ennis 6;7rien of the @ersey City police force= who at the end of a 8o'ena to 6ur .ady of Aelp at the *onastery of St *ichael;s in Union City= reco'ered the use of his legs= which had been paralyBed since the time= two years before= when a bullet had entered the base of his spine= se'ering the cord of motor and sensory ner'es Ae was a Catholic Then here is one from the 8ew )or2 #un of @une 26= 1926= telling how *iss <lsie *eyer of the 7ronx= 8ew )or2= was healed overnight of a tumorous growth that had troubled her for monthsH 1" realiBed last fall that there was an unusual growth on my body=3 she said 1"t might ha'e resulted from the strain of lifting a trun2 " wanted to 2now what it was= and " first went to a doctor= who informed me it was a tumorous growth and li2ely to become serious 17ut " would not be frightened and refused to recei'e any medical remedies in the way of cure " ha'e been a belie'er in faith healing and member of the Unity Society= a branch of the 8ew Thought organiBation= for a number of years= so " went to a 8ew Thought practioner #hile this seemed to help me= the tumorous growth remained " guess my faith wasn;t strong enough at the time That was last fall 1" came to the congress with the same growth= apparently unaffected by any attempts to cure it 7ut after attending the healing meeting at the congress yesterday " left with firm faith that " would get the healing " had as2ed for #hen " retired " noticed the tumor was still on my body= but when " awo2e this morning it had disappeared 3 The chronicles of e'ery religion are full of >ust such miracles /nd the reason for them is the same in e'ery case- prayer and faith %i'en these= no healing is impossible Suppose we go bac2 for a moment to the lowly /moeba= the first bit of animal life upon the earth " 2now not whether you are !undamentalist or <'olutionist The facts are a bit harder

to pro'e from the <'olution side of it= so let us argue from that angle The /moeba= as you will recall from Chapter "= is the lowest form of animal life 2nown to scientists= a sort of >elly(fish with but a single cell-without brains= without intelligence= possessing only ."!< 8o one would e'er contend that this >ellyfish could impro'e itself 8o one would argue that it de'eloped the next form of life out of its own mind or ideas )et= according to science= the next form of life did de'elop from this >elly(li2e mass The /moeba certainly was not responsible for doing it /nd it couldn;t de'elop itself So the conclusion is forced upon us that some outside "ntelligence must ha'e done it 7ut there were no other li'ing creatures The /moeba was alone of all animal life upon the planet The condition of the water and atmosphere was such that few if any other forms of animals could ha'e sustained life at that time So the "ntelligence= which de'eloped the next form of animal life= must ha'e been the same that created the /moeba-that first brought ."!< to this +lanet That "ntelligence is 'ariously called %od= +ro'idence= 8ature= the .ife +rinciple= *ind= etc !or our purposes here let us call it Uni'ersal *ind Aa'ing formed life here on earth= Uni'ersal *ind proceeded to de'elop it Starting with a single cell= "t built cell upon cell= changing each form of life to meet the different conditions of atmosphere and en'ironment that the cooling of the earth crust brought about #hen the multi(cellular structure became complicated= "t ga'e a brain to it to direct the different functions= >ust as you put a 1go'ernor3 on a steam engine #hen land appeared and the receding tides left certain animals high and dry for periods of hours= "t ga'e these both lungs and gills-the one for the air= the other for the water #hen the creatures began to prey upon one another= "t ga'e one speed= another a shell= a third an in2(li2e fluid= that each in its own way might escape and sur'i'e 7ut always "t progressed <ach new stage of life was an impro'ement o'er the pre'ious one /nd always "t showed "ts resourcefulness= "ts ability to meet /8) need !inally= as the culmination of all "ts efforts= "t made */8-a creature endowed not only with a brain li2e that of the lower animals= but with the power of reason-1made in Ais image and li2eness=3 sharing "nfinite "ntelligence- himself a Creator and a part of Uni'ersal *ind /ll through the creation-from the time of the one(celled /moeba right up to *an-e'ery scientist will admit that the directing intelligence of Uni'ersal *ind was on the >ob e'ery minute= that "t formed the models on which each new and different 2ind of animal was made= that each of these models was perfect-the one model best fitted to cope with the conditions it had to confront Certainly when "t came to *an= "t is not li2ely to ha'e been any less successful in forming a perfect model than it was in ma2ing the tiger or the elephant So we can ta2e it= " assume= that all will admit that *an as formed by Uni'ersal *ind is perfect-that the idea of *an as it exists in Uni'ersal *ind is perfect in e'ery particular

/nd Uni'ersal *ind= from the 'ery beginning= has ne'er ta2en a step bac2ward= has ne'er stood still /lways it has +R6%R<SS<& So it would seem safe to assume that man is not going bac2ward now-that he is a more perfect creature than he was F=EEE= 1E=EEE or 1EE=EEE years ago-that he is constantly drawing nearer and nearer the li2eness of his Creator The next step seems >ust as logical "f there was inherent in e'en the earliest and lowest forms of life the power to de'elop whate'er means was re5uisite to meet each new emergency= such as a shell or lungs or legs or wings-if this power is still inherent in the lower forms of life such as the +lant +arasites referred to in a pre'ious chapter= does it not seem a certainty that we ha'e the same power within oursel'es= if only we 2new how to call it forth9 @esus pro'ed that we ha'e= and his disciples and followers added still further proof /fter the third century of the Christian era= that power was allowed to lapse through disuse= but of late years thousands ha'e been ta2ing ad'antage of it for themsel'es and for others through psychology or religion / new Church has been founded upon the words of @amesH 1!aith without #6RGS is dead 3 "t differs from most Churches in that it teaches that @esus meant /.. that he said when he commanded his disciples to-1%o= preach= saying= the 2ingdom of hea'en is at hand )eal the sic!. cleanse the lepers= raise the dead= cast out de'ils? freely ye ha'e recei'ed= freely gi'e 3 The sic2= the lame= the halt and the blind ha'e floc2ed to it literally by the hundred thousands That thousands ha'e been cured is beyond dispute That many were cases= which had been gi'en up by the medical fraternity= the doctors 5uite fran2ly admit /nd the basis of all these cures is that there is nothing miraculous about the cure of disease at all That it is 1&i'inely 8atural 3 That it re5uires merely understanding That *ind is the only Creator /nd that the only image Uni'ersal *ind holds of your body is a perfect image= neither young nor old= but full of health= of 'igor= of beauty and 'itality That all you ha'e to do when assailed by disease is to go bac2 to Uni'ersal *ind for a new conception of its perfect image-for the Truth concerning your body @ust as you would go bac2 to the principle of mathematics for the Truth concerning any problem that wor2ed out incorrectly #hen you can ma2e your subconscious mind copy after this Uni'ersal image- the "ruthinstead of the diseased image you are holding in your thoughts= your sic2ness will 'anish li2e the mere dream it is &oes that sound too deep9 Then loo2 at it this wayH #hen you thin2 an organ is diseased= it is your conscious mind that thin2s this "ne'itably it sends this thought through to your subconscious mind= and the latter proceeds to build the cells of that organ along this imperfect= diseased model Change the model-in other words= change your belief-and your subconscious mind will go bac2 again to building along right lines )our body= you 2now= is simply an aggregation of millions upon millions of protons and

electrons= held together by mind They are the uni'ersal substance all about us= the plastic clay from which the sculptor *ind shapes the forms you see To 5uote the 8ew )or2 #unH 1*an;s body is made up of trillions of miniature solar systems= each with whirling planets and a central sun These tiny systems are the atoms of modern Science The atoms of all elements are made up of protons and electrons in 'arying 5uantities and arranged in 'arious ways 17ut what are protons and electrons9 1The masters of physics ha'e succeeded in weighing and measuring them #e 2now that they carry the smallest possible charges of electricity= and we are learning much about the way they beha'e? but students are beginning to doubt that they ha'e real substance that they are anything one could hit with a .illiputian hammer &r A % %ale of the Uni'ersity of Chicago= addressing the 6hio /cademy of Science the other day= said there was good reason to belie'e? that electrons were composed entirely of electricity and that their mass or weight was only a manifestation of electrical force /ccording to this 'iew= nothing e(ists in the %niverse e(cept electricity-and perhaps ether 3 )our subconscious mind parta2es of the creati'e power of *ind and because of that= it is daily= hourly= changing the particles of electrical energy= which constitute your body= to conform to the image you hold before it The clay cannot reply to the sculptor 8o more can these tiny particles of electricity )our body has nothing to say as to whether it shall be diseased or crippled "t is *"8& that decides this @esus understood this= and it was on the basis of this understanding that he was able to cure any and all manner of disease Ae was not a magician or occult wonder(wor2er= aiming to set aside the laws of nature Ae was a T</CA<R= demonstrating those laws Ae didn;t pic2 the learned Scribes and +harisees and let them in on the secret of his wonder wor2ing 6n the contrary= the men he chose were simple fisher fol2= and to them he ga'e the U8&<RST/8&"8% that enabled them= too= to cure the sic2= the halt and the blind !or what is sic2ness9 /n illusion= a mortal dream-merely the absence of health 7ring bac2 that health image= and the sic2ness immediately disappear Uni'ersal *ind ne'er created disease The only image it 2nows of man is the Truth-the perfect image The only idea it has of your body is a perfect= healthy idea 1!or %od is of purer eyes than to behold e'il 3 Then where does disease come from9 #ho created it9 4o one did "t is a mere illusion->ust as= if you thin2 a pin is stic2ing you= and you concentrate your thought on the pain= it becomes unbearable )et when you in'estigate= you find that no pin was stic2ing you at all-merely a hair= or bit of cinder lodged against the s2in Aow often ha'e you had some fancied pain= only to ha'e it promptly disappear when your physician assured you there was nothing wrong with you at all "t would be the same way with all sic2ness= all pain= if you would understand that it is merely fear or suggestion wor2ing on your conscious mind= and that if you will deny this belief of pain or sic2ness= your subconscious mind will speedily ma2e that

denial good &on;t render that mind impotent by thoughts of fear= doubt and anxiety "f you do= it is going to get li2e a wor2ing crew= which is constantly being stopped by stri2es or wal2outs or changes of plans "t will presently get discouraged and stop trying To 5uote &r %eorge < +itBer again-1"n proper= healthy or normal conditions of life= the ob>ecti'e mind and the sub>ecti'e mind act in perfect harmony with each other #hen this is the case= healthy and happy conditions always pre'ail 7ut these two minds are not always permitted to act in perfect harmony with each other? this brings mental disturbances? excites physical wrongs= functional and organic diseases 16ur unconscious is a tremendous storage plant full of potential energy which can be expended for beneficial or harmful ends .i2e e'ery apparatus for storing up power= it can be man;s most precious ally= if man is familiar with it and= hence= not afraid of it "gnorance and fear= on the other hand= can transform a li'e electric wire into an engine of destruction and death 3 <'en as long ago as 8apoleon;s day= men had begun to get an in2ling of this 1Thin2 that you are well=3 said the astute Tallyrand= 1instead of thin2ing that you are sic2 3 /nd the formula of the :ua2ers is that an energetic soul is 1master of the body which it lo'es 3 So 2eep in mind the one basic fact that co'ers the whole ground - that 'ind is all. There is no other cause #hen you dri'e the belief in disease from your subconscious mind= you will dri'e away the pain and all the other symptoms with it !ew sic2 people ha'e any idea how much they can do for themsel'es There is an old saying that e'ery man is 1a fool or his own physician at KE 3 #hen the science of *ind is more generally understood= that saying will become literally true <'ery man will find within himself the *ind= which 1healeth all thy diseases 3 !or e'ery function of your body is go'erned by your mind #hen sic2ness or pain assails you= deny it! Cling steadfastly to the one idea that co'ers all-that Uni'ersal *ind made your e'ery organ perfect? that the only image of each organ now in Uni'ersa1 *ind is this perfect image? and that this perfect idea is endowed with resources sufficient to meet any need @esus; command- 17e ye therefore perfect= e'en as your father in Aea'en is perfect=3-was meant to be ta2en literally /nd it can be followed literally if we will model our bodies upon the image Ae holds of us in Uni'ersal *ind #e are all sculptors= you 2now= but instead of marble or clay= our material is the plastic energy-protons and electrons-of which we and e'erything in this world about us are made #hat are you ma2ing of it9 #hat image are you holding in mind9 "mages of sic2ness9 6f po'erty9 6f .imitation9 Then you are reproducing these in your life 7anish themC !orget themC 8e'er let them enter your thought= and they will ne'er again manifest themsel'es in your life )ou admit that mind influences your body to some extent= but you thin2 your physical

organs hold the preponderance of power So you depend upon them= and ma2e yourself their sla'e 1Gnow ye not=3 says +aul= 1that to whom ye yield yoursel'es ser'ants to obey= his ser'ants ye are to whom ye obey93 7y holding before yourself the thought that your organs are the masters= you ma2e them your master= and depri'e yourself of the directing intelligence of your subconscious mind #hen an organ ceases to function properly= you try to doctor it= when the part that needs attention is your mind "f you are running an electric machine= and the current becomes wea2 or is switched off= you don;t ta2e the machine part= or oil it or tamper with it to ma2e it run better )ou go to the source of the rower to find what is wrong there "n the same way= when anything seems wrong with the functioning of your body= the place to in'estigate is your subconscious mind )our stomach has no intelligence= nor your heart= nor your li'er= nor any other of your organs )our li'er= for instance= could ne'er figure out how much sugar should be turned into your blood e'ery minute to 2eep your bodily temperature at 9I degrees= when you are sitting in a room that is warmed to only 6F degrees "t doesn;t 2now how much more sugar is re5uired to 2eep that temperature normal when you go out into a dri'ing gale 1E below Bero )et it supplies the re5uisite amount-neither too much nor too little /nd it does it instantaneously #here does it get the information9 3ou don;t 2now it 8o mortal man could figure it out in a year;s time 2t gets it from your subconscious mind. "t gets both the information and the directions to use it /nd e'ery other of your bodily organs gets its information in the same place )our muscles are not self(acting Ta2e away mind and those muscles are >ust li2e any other bit of matterlifeless= inert They ha'e nothing to say as to what they shall do They merely obey the behests of mind Aa'e you e'er seen one of those great presses at wor2 in a newspaper plant9 They seem almost human in their intelligence /t one end= great rolls of paper feed in /t the other= out comes the finished newspaper= folded= ready for deli'ery <'erything is automatic <'erything as perfect as machinery can be made The 1fingers3 that fold the papers seem almost lifeli2e in their deftness 7ut shut off the life(gi'ing electric current-and what happens9 The machinery is powerless Ta2e away the directing human intelligence= and how long before that wonderful machine would be a mass of scrap-mere bits of steel and rubber9 Aow long could it function of itself9 So it is with your body / wonderful mechanism-the most complicated= yet the most perfect in the world 7ut switch off the current of your mental dynamo? ta2e away the intelligence that directs the wor2ing of your e'ery organ= and what is left9 / bit of bone and flesh-inert and useless "n the final analysis= your body is merely a piece of mechanism-dependent entirely upon mind "t has no power= no 'olition= of its own "t does as mind tells it to= insofar as mind

belie'es itself to be the *aster )our eyes= for instance= are merely lenses= which transmit light from the outer world to the brain within They contract or elongate= they open or close= >ust as mind directs /nd mind= in its turn= 2eeps them constantly nourished with new= life(gi'ing blood= replacing old tissue= old cells= as fast as they wear out= rebuilding e'er= so that your eyes may continue to function perfectly as long as your conscious mind is dependent upon them for its impressions of outer ob>ects "t doesn;t matter how old you may be or how much you use them )our eyes are li2e any other muscles of your body-they impro'e in strength with use %i'e them but enough rest inter'als for mind to repair and rebuild the used tissue= 2eep before your subconscious mind the perfect image of eyes on which you expect it to rebuild= and you need ne'er fear glasses= you need ne'er worry about 1your eyes going bac2 on you 3 #hat is it happens when your muscles refuse to wor2-fail to perform their functions properly9 )ou are what has happened )ou ha'e switched off the current from some particular part )ou ha'e been holding the belief so long and so firmly that the muscles ha'e the preponderance of power that your subconscious mind has come to belie'e it= too /nd when the ner'e or muscle suffers an in>ury= the subconscious mind-at the suggestion of your conscious mind-gi'es up all dominion o'er it /ll disease= all sic2ness= all imperfections of the human body are due to this one cause-your belief that your body is the master= that it can act= that it can catch cold= or become diseased= without the consent of mind This is the procuring cause of all suffering 6ne disease is no different from another in this They are all due to that one erroneous belief "f you will deny the power of your body o'er your mind= you can destroy all fear of disease /nd when the fear goes= the foundation of the disease is gone The way to begin is to refuse to believe or to heed any complaint from your body Aa'e no fear of climate or atmosphere= of dampness or drafts "t is only when you belie'e them unhealthy that they are so to you #hen your stomach sends a report of distress= when it tells you that something you ha'e eaten is disagreeing with it= treat it as you would an unruly ser'ant Remind it that it is not the >udge of what is or is not good for it That it has no intelligence That it is merely a channel through which the food you gi'e it passes for certain treatment and selection That if the food is not good it has but to pass it through to the eliminatory organs as speedily as may be )our stomach is entirely capable of doing this <'ery organ you ha'e is capable of withstanding any condition-gi'en the right state of mind to direct it The only reason that they succumb to sic2ness or disease or in>ury is because you tell them to *en ha'e fallen from great heights without in>ury *en ha'e ta2en the most deadly poison without harm *en ha'e gone through fire and flood and pestilence with not a scratch to show /nd what men ha'e done once they can do again The fact that it has been done shows that your body does not need to suffer in>ury from these conditions /nd if it does not need to= then it would seem that the only reason it ordinarily suffers is because your fear of in>ury is the thought you are holding before your subconscious mind and therefore that is the thought that it images on

your body "n a dispatch from Stoc2holm to the 8ew )or2 )erald*"ribune dated @anuary 1I= 1926= " read that &r Aenry *ar2us and &r <rnest Sahigren= Stoc2holm scientists= ha'e been able= through hypnotic suggestion= to offset the effect of poisons on the human system to a mar2ed degree The scientists put three sub>ects into hypnotic sleep and then administered drugs= carefully recording the effects on blood pressure and pulse= both with and without 1suggestion 3 #hen a drug= which acts to increase blood pressure= was administered without 1suggestion=3 the blood pressure readings ranged between 1E9 to 1QE and pulse readings from FK to 1EE 7ut when the drug was administered with the 1suggestion3 to the mind of the patient that it was merely so much harmless water= the blood pressures were from 1EP to 116 and pulse readings all less than 6P !rom which one would >udge that it was the patient;s belief= which affected him= far more than any power in the drug 7ear this in mind when anyone tells you that certain foods are not good for you )ou can eat what you li2e= if you do it in moderation @ust remember-no matter what you may eat-if you relish it= if you 7<."<,< it to be good for you= it will be good for you! 7ut= you may say= is not this li2e the tenets of a well(2nown religion9 #hat of that9 "f another has unco'ered certain fundamental truths why not use them= regardless of whether or not we agree with the philosophy from which they are ta2en To 5uote again from &r Richard C Cabot of the Aar'ard *edical SchoolH 1There need be no conflict There is opportunity for all sincere= humble(minded effort .et us ha'e no persecutions and no interference with the spread of truth and light from any source "ndictments against mo'ements as powerful and sincere as Christian Science and +re'enti'e *edicine are anachronistic .et us all get busy along our own lines J#ith malice towards none= with charity for all= let us bind up the nation;s wounds ;3 "t has often seemed to me that if all the churches would ta2e a leaf out of the boo2 of ordinary 7usiness +ractice= forget their differences o'er dogma= and simply profit by the example that *ary 7a2er <ddy= &isco'erer and !ounder of Christian Science= has gi'en them of building up an enormous following almost o'ernight= they would be much the better off thereby !or what was it brought men and women into the Church in such 'ast numbers in the early day of Christianity9 )ealingC #hat was responsible for the phenomenal growth of the Christian Science Church9 The healing of thousands of people of any and e'ery 2ind of ill #hat is it that people go to any Church for9 To pray-and to find how to get an answer to their prayers. Show them the way to do this= show them the way to heal themsel'es of all their ills and lac2s= and you will need to worry no more about the crowded theaters and the empty churches 1"f this be treason= ma2e the most of it 3

The moment any symptom of illness shows in your body= 'igorously deny its existence Say to yourself-1*y body has no intelligence 8either has any germ of disease Therefore neither my body nor the disease can tell me " am sic2 *ind is the only cause /nd *ind has not directed them to ma2e me sic2 The only image of my body that *ind 2nows is a perfect= 'igorous= healthy image /nd that is the only image " am going to build on 3 Then forget the image of disease "t is only an illusion= and can be dispelled li2e any other illusion Geep in your mind;s eye the image of perfect health= of 'igorous= boundless 'itality )our body cannot say it is sic2 Therefore when the belief of sic2ness assails you= it must come either from your conscious mind or from outside suggestion "n either e'ent= it is your >ob to see that no belief of sic2ness reaches your subconscious mind= that no fear of it= no thought of it= is imaged there To treat one who has already succumbed to the belief of sic2ness= explain to him= as " ha'e explained to you here= that his body has no power for sic2ness or for health= any more than a log of wood has That his body is merely an aggregation of millions of electrons-particles of electrical energy= really- sub>ect wholly to his mind That these particles of energy ha'e neither substance nor intelligence? that they are constantly changing? and that the forms they ta2e depend entirely upon the images he holds in his own mind Ais body is= in short= a mental concept "t is an exact reflection of the thought he is holding in mind of it "f he has been sic2= it is because he has been holding sic2ly= wea2 and unhealthy thoughts in his mind "f he wishes to get well= it is first necessary for him to change his thought "nstead of doctoring the machine= he is to go direct to the powerhouse and change the current .et him repeat to himself= night and morning= this little formulaH 1There is no permanence to matter The one surest thing about it is change.& <'ery cell= e'ery tissue in my body is constantly being renewed The old= worn out tissues are being torn down and carried away 8ew= perfect ones are replacing them /nd the model on which those new organisms are being re(built is the perfect model that is held in &i'ine *ind 1!or %od made man in Ais image That image was perfect then-is perfect now "t is the only image that &i'ine *ind 2nows of me "t is the only image on which my subconscious mind is e'er again going to pattern its re(building <'ery minute of e'ery day " am growing more and more into the image of %od-the "rue Li!eness Ae holds of me in Ais thought 3 "f he will do that= if he will bear in mind that matter as such has no feeling= no intelligence? that it is the mind that feels= the mind that directs= and therefore he has nothing to fear from any external causes= his fear of the disease will 'anish /nd the patient does not exist who will not speedily reco'er when his fear of the disease is gone 1,erily= 'erily= " say unto you=3 said @esus= 1if a man 2eep my saying= he shall ne'er see death 3 /nd again-1This is the life eternal 3 12s=3 you will notice= not 1shall be 3

1The subconscious mind is %od;s way of utiliBing Ais energy=3 says the Re' #illiam T #alsh= Rector of St .u2e;s Church= 8ew )or2 City= in his boo2 1Scientific Spiritual Aealing 3 1%od e'ol'ed the subconscious mind "t is Ais gift to us li2e all else that we possess= and because it is from Aim we should gi'e than2s and learn to use it intelligently 1%od has so fashioned us that we do not ha'e to gi'e conscious attention to the 'ital processes Ae has gi'en us what is called the subconscious mind= which loo2s after all the 'ital functions This mind can recei'e commands from us and has wonderful ability to carry them out= for it is a law that every thought tends to realize itself subconsciously in the body 1"f you allow e'il thoughts to remain= they are recei'ed by the subconscious which tends to realiBe them in the body >ust as much as though they were good= wholesome= health(gi'ing spiritual thoughts !or remember= the subconscious does not reason and >udge "t only recei'es and obeys 3 #hen you ha'e an accident= don;t immediately thin2 that you must be hurt 6n the contrary= deny at once that you can be hurt The denial will ta2e away the creati'e power of your thought from any damaging condition *ore than that= if you will immediately call to mind the fact that the only image of your body that Uni'ersal *ind holds is a perfect image= and that this is the image on which your subconscious mind is building= you will findH that this subconscious mind will speedily rebuild any damaged parts in accordance with that image /s a matter of fact= if we could thoroughly realiBe that our bodies are made up merely of 'ortices of energy sub>ect wholly to the control of mind= it should hurt us no more to run a 2nife through them than it does to run it through water The water immediately resumes the shape of the 'essel that holds it @ust so= our bodies should immediately resume the shape that mind holds them in 7ut e'en with our present imperfect understanding= we can perform what the uninitiated would call miracles with our bodies /nd each 'ictory we win gi'es us a bit more of power o'er them To con5uer one diseased condition ma2es it easier to ward off or to con5uer other diseased conditions The body cannot oppose us "t is only the bias of education and the suggestions of those about us that we ha'e to combat There is no necessity for disease There is no necessity e'en for fatigue 1They that wait upon the .ord shall run and not be weary? and they shall wal2 and not faint 3 Those words from Aoly #rit were meant literally-and they can be applied literally if you will go'ern your body by mind= and not let custom and popular belief ma2e your body the master #hate'er it is right for you to do= you can do without fear= no matter if it entails long(continued toil= hardship or danger &epend upon it= your mind can call to your aid all the forces of 8ature if they are necessary to your emergency 1Therefore " say unto you=3 5uotes the *aster= 1ta2e no thought for your life= what ye shall eat= or what ye shall drin2? nor yet for your body= what ye shall put on "s not the life more than meat and the body than raiment93

&iet= exercise and rules of health ne'er 2ept any one well of themsel'es 6ften they attract the mind to the sub>ect of sic2ness and thereby foster it &ieting is good insofar as it pre'ents gluttony Temperance is >ust as important in eating as in the drin2ing of alcoholic li5uor 7ut you can eat in moderation anything you li2e= anything that you relish and 7<."<,< to be good for you= without fear of its disagreeing with you Reasonable exercise= too= is fine for both the body and the mind +ro'ided you do not ma2e a fetish of it "t isn;t the exercise that 2eeps you well-it is the mental image you hold in your thought The exercise merely helps to impress that mental image on your subconscious mind <lectrical treatments= s2in tonics= alcohol rubs= etc = all are useful only to the extent that they center the attention of the subconscious mind upon the parts affected <xactly the same results= e'en to that pleasant little tingling of the s2in= can be affected by mind alone " remember reading an article by *rs ,ance Cheney= telling how she cured herself of paralysis of the legs in >ust that way /fter lying for months under the care of doctors and masseurs= she tired of them and decided to depend entirely upon mind So= se'eral times a day= she would utterly relax in e'ery ner'e and muscle= and then consciously send her thought down along the ner'es of her legs to her feet +resently there would be that little tingling sensation in her feet-e'idence of increased circulation-followed after a time by a feeling of drowsiness / few wee2s of these treatments completely restored the use of her legs The same effort can be made to throw off any physical trouble +ut your hand upon the part affected Try to 'isualiBe that organ= as it should be See it functioning perfectly 7<."<,< that it "S wor2ing normally againC )our thought brings the blood to the affected part= clears up the trouble= pro'ides new cells= new tissue= while your belief that the organ "S functioning properly will bring about that normal condition This is a treatment= howe'er= that must be used with discretion= for to consciously interfere in the regular functioning of the body without any real need for such interference results in confusion rather than help "t is li2e going down a flight of stairs rapidly +ay no attention to the mo'ement of your feet= and they flit o'er the steps with ne'er a sign of hesitancy or faltering 7ut try to watch them step by step= and you will either ha'e to slow up or you will presently miss a step= stumble or fall 1The centipede was happy 5uite= Until the toad= for fun= Said= J+ray= which leg goes after which9; This stirred his mind to such a pitch= Ae lay distracted in a ditch= Considering how to run 3 There is one rule that will help anyone 2eep healthy That rule is to forget your ner'es= throw away your pills and your medicine bottles= and hold before your mind;s eye only the perfect image that Uni'ersal *ind has of your body That is the surest way to 2eep free from

sic2ness /nd if you are already sic2= the same rule applies Gnow that Uni'ersal *ind ne'er created disease-which it is but an illusion of your conscious mind Gnow that mind is the only creator that as Sha2espeare puts it= 1There is nothing= either good or bad= but thin2ing ma2es it so 3 Gnow that you ha'e the say as to what that thin2ing shall be Gnow= therefore= that by holding a perfect image of your body in your thoughts you can ma2e your body perfect Aa'e you e'er cut your finger9 #ho was it coagulated the blood= stopped the gash= wo'e new s2in9 #ho was it called upon the little phagocytes to come and 2ill the septic germs9 8ot your conscious mind= certainly *ost people don;t e'en 2now there are 1any such animals 3 Their conscious minds don;t 2now the first thing about healing #hence comes the information9 #hence the directing genius9 #here but from the same intelligence that 2eeps your heart and lungs on the >ob while you sleep= that regulates your li'er and your 2idneys= that attends to all the functions of your body9 That intelligence is your subconscious mind #ith the proper co(operation on your part= your subconscious mind will attend to these duties indefinitely= 2eeping your e'ery organ perfect= your e'ery function regular as cloc2wor2 7ut it is exceedingly amenable to suggestion #orry about sic2ness or contagion= hold before it the thought that you are getting old= or that some organ is becoming feeble= and it will be perfectly agreeable to bringing about the condition you suggest Con'ince it that there is no danger from contagion= hold before it the thought of health and strength= and it will be >ust as prompt in manifesting them So what you must realiBe is thisH 7efore anything can be made= there must be a model for it in mind 7efore a house can be built= there must be a plan= a blueprint from which to build 7efore you were created= Uni'ersal *ind held in thought the model on which you were made That model was perfect then-is perfect now The only idea of you that Uni'ersal *ind 2nows is a perfect model= where e'ery cell and organism is formed along perfect lines True= many of us ha'e built up imperfect models in our own thoughts= but we can get rid of them >ust as rapidly as we get rid of the fear of them )our body is changing e'ery moment <'ery cell= e'ery organism= is constantly being rebuilt #hy rebuild along the old= imperfect lines9 #hy not build on the lines held in the thought of Uni'ersal *ind9 )ou C/8 do itC 7ut the essence of it lies in the words of the *asterH 1#hatsoe'er things ye desire when ye pray= belie'e that ye R<C<",< them= and ye SA/.. A/,< them 3 "t matters not what your ailment may be "t will respond to that treatment Suppose= as an example= that your stomach has been troubling you= that you cannot eat what you would li2e= that you cannot assimilate your food= that you are wea2 and ner'ous is conse5uence <'ery morning when you awa2e= and e'ery night >ust before you drop off to sleep say to yourself1*y stomach has neither intelligence nor feeling "t functions only as mind directs it

Therefore " need ha'e no worry about its being wea2 or diseased= for the only image that *ind 2nows of stomach is "ts perfect image /nd that perfect image can assimilate or remo'e anything " may put into it "t is perfect= as e'erything that Uni'ersal *ind ma2es is perfect /nd being perfect= it can do anything right " may as2 of it without fear or anxiety 3 Concentrate on the one organ at a time= and repeat this formula to yourself night and morning Say it= feel it= 7<."<,< it-and you can do what you please with that organ 1/s thy faith is= so be it done unto thee 3 !Suffer Litt,e Chi,dren to Co$e Unto Me& 1" can belie'e all you say about my fears and worries being responsible for my Jown illnesses=3 write many people= 1but how about infants and little children9 They ha'e no fear #hy do they sic2en and die93 #hat many people do not understand is that the subconscious mind is >ust as amenable to suggestion from those round about you as it is from your own conscious mind 6therwise you would be in no danger from anything you did not consciously 2now of /nd the more ignorant you were= the safer you would be Suppose= for instance= you too2 a draught of what you belie'ed to be pure 1bootleg3 whis2y= but which in reality was no more than wood alcohol *any others ha'e done it )our conscious mind would expect no harm from it- any more than did theirs )ou would ha'e no fear of the result 8o more did they So= you would say= you should experience no harm )et you would probably die-or at least go blind-as ha'e these others #hy9 7ecause your subconscious mind would 2now the wood alcohol for what it is )our own conscious belief= and the preponderance of opinion of those about you= has instilled the con'iction in your subconscious mind that wood alcohol is dire poison Therefore when you pour this poison into your system - e'en though you do not consciously recogniBe it as such-your subconscious mind proceeds to bring about the effects you would logically expect such a poison to produce "t is the same with contagion= with the hundreds of diseases which most people scarcely 2now the names of= but to which they are constantly falling 'ictims They don;t 2now they ha'e been exposed to contagion They don;t 2now that their systems are in such condition that certain diseases logically follow 7ut their subconscious minds do 2now it /nd they ha'e so thoroughly educated those minds to belie'e in the necessity for ill health= in the ine'itability of sic2ness under certain conditions that the subconscious proceed to wor2 out the contagion or the condition to its logical conclusion %rown people can change these subconscious con'ictions by the proper counter(suggestions= consciously gi'en 7ut young children cannot reason They accept the beliefs that are held by the generality of man2ind= or that are strongly suggested to them by those nearest to them That is why babies and young children fall such easy 'ictims to the fears of disease and contagion of their parents and those about them That is why worry o'er a seeming epidemic so often results in the children catching it= e'en when they ha'e apparently been in no way exposed to the contagion 1*an=3 says a famous writer= 1often has fear stamped upon him before his entrance into the

outer world? he is reared in fear? all his life is passed in bondage of fear of disease and death and thus his whole mentality becomes cramped= limited= and depressed= and his body follows its shrun2en pattern and specification "S "T 86T SU+R"S"8% TA/T A</.TA <4"STS /T /..9 8othing but the boundless &i'ine .o'e= exuberance= and 'itality= constantly poured in= e'en though unconsciously to us= could in some degrees neutraliBe such an ocean of morbidity 3 7ut the remedy is >ust as simple Gnow that your children are primarily children of %od That the image Ae holds of them is perfect Ais perfect image has within itself e'ery power necessary to ward off disease of any 2ind +ut your children acti'ely under Ais care Throw the responsibility upon Aim &epend upon it= when you do this in the right way= no harm can come near them #hene'er fear assails you= whene'er your children are exposed to danger or contagion= realiBe that 1Ae shall gi'e Ais angels Nhis thoughtsO charge o'er them= to lead them in all their ways 3 "f your children are sic2 or ailing= read these thoughts aloud to them >ust as though you were tal2ing to a grown person 6nly address yourself to their subconscious minds Read o'er the past few pages Repeat to them the little formula outlined abo'e= adapting it to their own particular need /bo'e all= 7<."<,< itC )our faith will wor2 >ust as great wonders for your children as for yourself 8e'er doubt 8e'er fear %o at your problem >ust as you would approach a difficult problem in mathematics "n mathematics= you 2now that the problem does not exist for which you cannot find the solution= pro'ided you follow the rules and wor2 in the right way /s long as you do your part= the principle of mathematics will do the rest "t is the same in all of life &on;t worry &on;t fret %o at your problem in the right way= no matter how difficult it may seem? follow the rules herein laid down= and you can confidently loo2 to the +rinciple of 7eing to bring you the answer L 3En+oi 1The Gingdom of Aea'en is li2e unto a treasure hid in a field? the which when a man hath found= he hideth= and for >oy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath= and buyeth that field 3 This field is your own consciousness-a treasure you find within yourself -= which others cannot see 7ut you 2now it for the in(dwelling Spirit-1the !ather within you3-and are willing to sell all that you ha'e because this treasure is worth more than all other possessions "f you ha'e begun to realiBe this treasure= and use it e'en in a small way= the most wonderful thing that can happen to anyone on this planet has happened to you #hat does it mean9 "t means that an ordinary human being= afflicted with all the sufferings and fears and worries and superstitions of the a'erage man= has learned the .aw of 7eing "t means that he has ac5uired a power abo'e all that of his would(be destroyers "t means that he has put his foot upon the Roc2 of .ife that the &oorway of Aea'en is open before him= that all of %ood is as free to him as the air he breathes

1There hath not failed one word of all Ais good promises 3 1/nd we declare unto you glad tidings= how that the promise which was made unto the fathers= %od hath fulfilled the same unto us 3 Surely we ha'e e'ery reason to be grateful for all the good round about us Surely we should be than2ful for the infinite power that has been gi'en to us /nd being truly grateful= by the way= is the surest e'idence of real faith that there is !aith= you 2now= is 1the substance of things hoped for= the e'idence of things not seen=3 Remember= when @esus raised .aBarus from the dead= how Ae first prayed= and then than!ed the Father for answering )is 8rayer< There was not yet any material e'idence that the prayer had been answered 7ut @esus had perfect faith in the !ather /nd it was >ustified "mmediately Ae had gi'en than2s= .aBarus came forth from the tomb! The world today is so much more wonderful than it was to former generations *an2ind has begun to glimpse its illimitable powers The whole world is plastic and sensiti'e to new ideas The soul of man is finding itself= and learning its relation to the "nfinite The 'eil between the 'isible and the in'isible is being drawn aside Through seeing the 1!ather do the wor2s=3 we are becoming more assured of our own power= beginning to assert 1the !ather that is within us 3 #e 2now that= gi'en the right understanding= the wor2s that @esus did we can do also #e recogniBe his 1miracles3 as di'inely natural laws= part of %od;s continuous plan So let us go with Aim unto the *ount of ,ision= ta2ing as our motto Ais words-1See that thou ma2e all things according to the pattern showed thee in the *ount 3

IN0E8 OF SC.IPTU.AL .EFE.ENCES AN0 :UOTATIONS These passages are 5uoted from the Ging @ames ,ersion of the 7ible /uthoriBed= Re'ised= and from 'arious modern translations /ccording to your faith-*atthew 9H29= 'ol ii= 'ol iii= 'ol i'= 'ol 'ii /c5uaint now thyself with Aim-@ob 22H21= 'ol ' /ll things are yours-" Corinthians QH22= 2Q= 'ol ' /ll that thou commandest us-@oshua 1H16= 1P= 'ol ' /ll things were made by Aim-@ohn 1HQ= 'ol iii= /nd %od said= .et us ma2e man-%enesis 1H26= 2P= 'ol ii= 'ol iii= 'ol i'= 'ol '= 'ol 'i= 'ol 'ii /nd *oses was an hundred and-&euteronomy QKHP= 'ol 'i= /nd whatsoe'er ye do= do it heartily-Colossians QH2Q= 'ol ' /nd the second is li2e unto it-*atthew 22HQ9= 'ol i' /nd we declare unto you glad-The /cts 1QHQ2= QQ= 'ol 'ii /nd when thou prayest= be not-*atthew 6HF= 'ol ii /re not two sparrows sold-*atthew 1EH29= QE= Q1= 'ol i /s2 and it shall be gi'en-*atthew PHP= 'ol iii /s2 and ye shall recei'e-@ohn 16H2K= 'ol iii= 'ol 'i /s a man thin2eth in his heart-+ro'erbs 2QHP= 'ol iii= 'ol i'= 'ol '= 'ol 'i /s the rain cometh down and-"saiah FFH1E= 'ol 'i 7eauty for ashes= the oil of >oy-"saiah 61HQ= 'ol ii 7ecause thou hast made the .ord-+salms 91H9= 1E= 11= 'ol ' 7efore /braham was= " am-@ohn IHFI= 'ol i' 7ehold " stand at the door-Re'elation QH2E= 'ol ii 7ehold= the 2ingdom of %od(.u2e 1PH21= 'ol i= 'ol ii= 'ol iii= 'ol '= 'ol 'i 7elie'e that ye recei'e it-*ar2 11H2K= 'ol '= 'ol 'i= 7elo'ed now are we the sons-" @ohn QH2= 'ol i 7e not afraid-*atthew 1KH2P= 'ol iii 7e still= and 2now that " am %od-+salms K6H1E= 'ol i' 7e ye therefore perfect-*atthew FHKI= 'ol 'ii 7lessed are they which do hunger-*atthew FH6= 'ol ii 7lessed is the man whose delight-+salms 1H2= Q= 'ol iii 7ut thou are the same-+salms 1E2H2P= 'ol 'i 7ut thou= when thou prayest-*atthew 6H6= 'ol ii= 7ut where shall wisdom be found9-@ob 2IH12= 'ol ' Cast thy bread upon the waters-<cclesiastes 11H1= 'ol i' Come ye to the open fountain-Re'elation PH1P Commit thy wor2s unto the .ord-+ro'erbs 16HQ= 'ol ' Consider the lilies-.u2e 12H2P= 'ol iii &elight thyself also in the .ord-+salms QPHK= 'ol ' &o men gather figs of thistles9 -*atthew PH16= 'ol i' <'ery good gift and e'ery perfect-@ames 1H1P= 'ol ii

<xcept ye turn and become as-*atthew 1IHQ= 'ol i' !aith without wor2s-@ames 2H1P= 'ol i'= 'ol 'ii !ear not little floc2-.u2e 12HQ2= 'ol i' !or %od made not death-/pocrypha= 7oo2 of #isdom 1H1Q= 1I= 'ol 'i !or herein is the !ather glorified-@ohn 1FHI= 'ol iii Ae shall gi'e Ais angels charge-+salm F 91H11= 'ol 'ii Ae that belie'eth on me-@ohn 1KH12= 'ol ii 'ol i' Aewers of wood-@oshua 9H2P= 'ol ' Ao= e'ery one that thirsteth-"saiah FFH1= 'ol i " came that ye might ha'e life-@ohn 1EH1E= 'ol iii " can of mine 6wn self-@ohn FHQE= @ohn 1KH1E= 'ol ii= 'ol i'= 'ol '= "f ye ha'e faith as a grain-*atthew 1PH2E= 'ol ii "f ye abide in me and my words-@ohn 1FHP= 'ol ii "f a man 2eep my saying= he shall-@ohn IHF1= 'ol 'i " ha'e gi'en you power-.u2e 1EH19= 'ol i' "n all thy ways ac2nowledge-+ro'erbs QH6= 'ol ' "n returning and rest-"saiah QEH1F= 'ol ' @acob wrestles with the angel-%enesis QKH2K(26= 'ol ' Gnow that ye are the temple-" Corinthians QH16= 'ol iii Gnow ye not that to whom ye yield-Romans 6H16= 'ol 'ii .aBarus raised from the dead-@ohn 11H1(KK= 'ol '= 'ol 'ii .et this mind be in you-+hilippians 2HF= 'ol ii= 'ol i' .o " am with you always-*atthew 2IH2E= 'ol i' .ord that " may recei'e-.u2e 1IHK1= 'ol 'ii 8ow he that planteth and he-" Corinthians= QHI(9= 'ol ' 8inety(first +salm-'ol iii E taste and see that the .ord-+salms QKHI= 'ol iii +rophetic sons of %od-Aosea 1H1E= 'ol iii See that thou ma2e all things-Aebrews IHF= 'ol 'ii See2 ye first the 2ingdom-*atthew PHQQ= 'ol iii Son thou art e'er with me-.u2e 1FHQ1= 'ol iii= 'ol i' Suffer the little children-*ar2 1EHK= 'ol 'ii The earth is full of the-+salms QQHF= 'ol iii The earth is the .ord;s-+salms 2KH1= 'ol i' The !ather that dwelleth in me-@ohn 1KH1E= 'ol iii= 'ol 'ii The 2ingdom of hea'en is li2e-*atthew 1QHKK= 'ol 'ii The loa'es and fishes-.u2e 9H12(1P= 'ol i' The manna from hea'en-<xodus 16H1F= 'ol ' The mount of ,ision-<xodus 2KH1Q= 1I= 'ol 'ii The pillar of fire-<xodus 1QH21= 'ol ' The sea rolled bac2-<xodus 1KH21(22= 'ol ' The substance of things-Aebrews 11H1= 'ol i'= 'ol 'ii The thing that " greatly-@ob QH2F= 'ol i' The tribute money-*atthew 1PH2P= 'ol i' The water from the roc2-<xodus 1PH6= 'ol '

The water turned into wine-@ohn 2H1= 'ol ' The waters which came down-@oshua QH16(1P= 'ol ' Therefore " say unto you-*atthew 6HQ1(QQ= 'ol iii= 'ol 'ii There hath not failed one-" Gings IHF6= 'ol 'ii There is that scattereth-+ro'erbs 11H2K= 'ol i' They that wait upon the .ord= shall win-"saiah KEHQ1= 'ol 'ii They shall obtain >oy and-"saiah QFH1E= 'ol iii This is life eternal-@ohn 1PHQ= 'ol 'ii This one thing " do-+hilippians QH1Q= 'ol ' Thou art of purer eyes than to behold-Aaba22u2 1H1Q= 'ol 'ii Thou shall lo'e the .ord-*atthew 22HQP= QI= 'ol i' Thou wilt show me the path-+salms 16H11= 'ol iii Thy faith bath made thee whole-.u2e IHKI= 'ol 'ii To him that hath-*atthew 2FH29= 'ol ii To 2now aright is life-@ohn 1PHQ= 'ol ' Trust in the .ord and-+salms QPHQ= 'ol i' Twenty(third psalm-'ol ii ,erily= 'erily " say unto you-@ohn IHF1= 'ol 'ii #e shall see Aim as he is-" @ohn QH2= 'ol i #hat eye ne'er saw-" Corinthians 2H9= 'ol iii #hat things so(e'er ye-*ar2 11H2K= 'ol ii= 'ol '= 'ol 'i= 'ol 'ii #hat wouldst thou that "-*ar2 1EHF1= 'ol 'ii #here there is no 'ision-+ro'erbs 29H1I= 'ol iii #ho hath measured the waters-"saiah KEH12= 'ol ' #ho healeth all thy diseases-+salms 1EQHQ= 'ol 'ii= page F9Q #hosoe'er shall be great-*atthew 2EH26= 2P= 'ol i' #hosoe'er li'eth and belie'eth-@ohn 11H26= 'ol 'i #hosoe'er shall compel thee-*atthew FHK1= 'ol i' #hosoe'er will let him ta2e-Re'elation 22H1P= 'ol i #ith all thy getting-+ro'erbs K P= 'ol i= page PE? 'ol iii #or2 out your own sal'atioii-+hilippians 2H12= 'ol i' #ouldst thou be made whole-@ohn FH16= 'ol 'ii )e shall as2 what ye will-@ohn 1FHP= 'ol ii )e shall 2now the truth-@ohn IHQ2= 'ol i'= 'ol 'ii )our !ather 2noweth that ye-.u2e 12HQE= 'ol iii