- 1. visualization
- 3. Make the image clear and clean-cut, hold it firmly in the mind and you will gradually and constantly bring the thing nearer to you. You can be what “yo will to be.”
- 4. .. Work is necessary labor, hard mental labor, the kind of effort which so far are willing to put forth.
- 5. idealization
- 6. so you to picture in your mind what you want; you are sowing the seed, but before sowing any seed you want to know what the harvest is to be.
- 7. visualization … Thought will lead to action, action will develop methods, methods will develop friends, and friends will bring about circumstances, … Materialization.
- 10. .. Having first built up the idea in his imagination, he held it there as a mental picture.
- 11. .. you will develop the power of concentration which will enable you to exclude all thoughts except the ones which are associated with your purpose.
- 18. These three cannot fail to bring about Attainment, because the Earnest Desire is the feeling, the Confident Expectation is the thought, and the Firm Demand is the will, and, as we have seen, feeling gives vitality to thought and the will holds it steadily until the law of Growth brings it into manifestation.
- 21. .. This truth will find expression in noble purpose and courageous action.
- 24. Concentration on the things you want, not on the things you do not want. Think of abundance; idealize the methods and plans for putting the Law of Abundance into operation. Visualize the condition which the Law of Abundance creates; this will result in manifestation.
- 29. Remember that thought is the fire that creates the steam that turns the wheel of fortune, upon which your experiences depend.
- 30. Ask yourself a few questions and then reverently await the response; do you not now and then feel the self with you? Do you assert this self or do you follow the majority? Remember that majorities are always led, they never lead. It was the majority that fought, tooth and nail, against the steam engine, the power loom and every other advance or improvement ever suggested.
- 31. For your exercise this week, visualize your friend, see him exactly as you last saw him, see the room, the furniture, recall the conversation, now see his face, see it distinctly, now talk to him about some subject of mutual interest; see his expression change, watch him smile. Can you do this? All right, you can; then arouse his interest, tell him a story of adventure, see his eyes light up with the spirit of fun or excitement. Can you do all of this? Can you do all of this? If so, your imagination is good, you are making excellent progress.
Q & A
- what is visualization? the process of making mental pictures.
- What is the result of this method of thought? By holding the image or picture in mind, we can gradually but surely bring the ting nearer to us. We can be what we will be.
- What is idealization? It is a process of visualizing or idealizing the plans which will eventually materialize in our objective world.
- Why are clearness and accuracy necessary? because “seeing” creates “feeling” and “feeling” creates “being”. First the mental, then the emotional, then the illimitable possibilities of achievement.
- How are they obtained? Each repeated action renders the image more accurate than the former one.
- How is the material for the construction of your mental image secured? By millions of mental workers. Brain cells they are called.
- How are the necessary conditions for bringing about the materialization of your ideal in the objective world secured? By the Law of Attraction. The natural law by which all conditions and experiences are brought about.
- What three steps are necessary in order to bring this law into operation? Earnest Desire, Confident Expectation, Firm Demand.
- Why do many fail? Because they concentrate on loss, disease and disaster. The law is operating perfectly; teethings they fear are coming upon them.
- What is the alternative? Concentrate on the ideals which you desire to see manifested in your life.
Chapter 8
Q & A
- What is the imagination? A form of constructive thought. The light by which we penetrate new worlds of thought and experience. The mighty instrument by which every inventor or discoverer opened the way from precedent to experience.
- What is the result of imagination? The cultivation of the imagination leads to the development of the idea out of which you future will emerge.
- How may it be cultivated? By exercise; it must be supplied with nourishment or it cannot live.
- How does imagination differ from day dreaming? Day dreaming is a form of mental dissipation, while imagination is a form of constructive thought which must precede every constructive action.
- What are mistakes? The result of ignorance.
- What is knowledge? The result of man’s ability to think.
- What is the power with which successful men build? Mind is the very moving force with which they secure the persons and circumstances necessary to complete their plans.
- What pre-determines the result? The ideal held steadily in mind attracts the necessary conditions for its fulfillment.
- What is the result of a keen analytical observation? The development of imagination, insight, perception, and sagacity.
- To what do these lead? Opulence and harmony.
Chapter 9
- 2. Health, Wealth, and Love
- 4. To think correctly is therefore to enter into the “Secret Place of the Most High.”
- 7. To know the Truth is to be in harmony with the Infinite and Omnipotent power. To know the truth is, therefore, to connect yourself with a power which is irresistible and which will sweep away every kind of discord, in harmony, doubt or error of any kind, because the “Truth is might and will prevail.”
- 10. How then are we to know the truth in order to attach this mechanism which will relate us to the Infinite?
- 12. “I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious and happy” is therefore an exact scientific statement.
- 15. Visualization is the mechanism of the attachment which you require.
- 25. Whatever you desire for yourself, affirm it for others, and it will help you both. We reap what we sow.
Q & A
- What is the imperative condition of all well-being? Well doing .
- What is the condition precedent to every right action? Right thinking.
- What is the underlying condition necessary in every business transaction or social relation? To know the Truth.
- What is the result of a knowledge of the Truth? We can readily predict the result of any action that is based upon a true premise.
- What is the result of any action based upon a true premise? We can form no conception of the results which may ensue.
- How may we know the Truth? By a realization of the fact that Truth is the vital principle of the Universe and is therefore Omnipresent.
- What is the nature of Truth? It is spiritual.
- What is the secret of the solution to every problem? To apply spiritual Truth.
- What is the advantage of spiritual methods? They are always available.
- What are the necessary requirements? A recognition of the omnipotence of spiritual power and a desire to become the recipient of its beneficent effects “Though means life, since those who do not think do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.” A. B. Alcott.
Chapter 10
- 5. Organic and the inorganic
- 23. the things you seek are seeking you.
- What is Wealth? Wealth is the offspring of power.
- Of what value are possessions? Possessions are of value only as they confer power.
- Of what value is a knowledge of cause and effect? It enables men to plan courageously and execute fearlessly.
- How does life originate in the inorganic world? Only by the introduction of some living form. There is no other way.
- What is the connecting link between the finite and the Infinite? Thought
- Why is that so? Because the Universal can manifest only through individual.
- Upon what does causation depend? Upon polarity; a circuit must be formed; the Universal is the positive side of the battery of life, the individual is the negative, and thought forms the circuit.
- Why do many fail to secure harmonious conditions? They do not understand the law; there is no polarity; they have not formed the circuit.
- What is the remedy? A conscious recognition of the law of attraction with the intention of bring it into existence for a definite purpose.
- What will be the result? thought will correlate with its object and bring it into manifestation, because thought is a product of a spiritual man, and spirit is the creative Principle of the Universe. “A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.” Emerson
Chapter 11
- 9. Perturbations
- 23. apostolic: Apostle
- 25. “Believe that ye receive and ye shall receive.” “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen”, “The law of attraction is the law by which thought correlates with its object.”
- 33. Wisdom, then, is illuminated reasons, and this wisdom leads to humility, for humility is a large part of Wisdom.
- 35. the Bible, “Whatsoever things ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them and ye shall have them.”
Q & A
- What is inductive reasoning? The process of the objective mind by which we compare a number of separate instances with each other until we see the common factor which gives rise to them all.
- What has this method of studying accomplished? It has resulted in the discovery of a reign of law which has marked an epoch in human progress.
- What is it that guides and determines action? It is need, want and desire and desire which in the largest sense induce, guide and determine action.
- What is the formula for the unerring solution of every individual problems? We are to believe that our desire has already been fulfilled; its accomplishment will then follow.
- What great Teachers advocated it? Jesus, Plato, Swedenborg.
- What is the result of this thought process? We are thinking on the plane of the absolute and planting a seed, which if left undisturbed will germinate into fruition.
- Why is it scientifically exact? Because it is Natural Law.
- What is Faith? Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen.
- What is the Law of Attraction? the Law by which Faith is brought into manifestation.
- What importance do you attach to an understanding of this law? It has eliminated the elements of uncertainty and caprice from men’s lives and substituted law, reason, and certitude.