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Speaker 1: Napoleon Hill. This is an independent edition containing the original
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Speaker 1: Chapter 11 The Mystery of Sex Transmutation The Tenth Step
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Speaker 1: Toward Riches The meaning of the word transmute is, in
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Speaker 1: simple language, the changing or transferring of one element or
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Speaker 1: form of energy into another. The emotion of sex brings
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Speaker 1: into being a state of mind. Because of ignorance on
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Speaker 1: the subject, this state of mind is generally associated with
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Speaker 1: the physical. And because of improper influences, to which most
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Speaker 1: people have been subjected, in acquiring knowledge of sex, things
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Speaker 1: essentially physical have highly biased the mind. The emotion of
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Speaker 1: sex has back of it the possibility of three constructive potentialities.
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Speaker 1: They are the perpetuation of mankind, the maintenance of health.
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Speaker 1: As a therapeutic agency, it has no equal. The Transformation
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Speaker 1: of Mediocrity into Genius Through Transmutation Sex transmutation is simple
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Speaker 1: and easily explained. It means the switching of the mind
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Speaker 1: from thoughts of physical expression to thoughts of some other nature.
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Speaker 1: Sex desire is the most powerful of human desires. When
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Speaker 1: driven by this desire, men develop keenness of imagination, courage, willpower, persistence,
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Speaker 1: and creative ability unknown to them at other times. So
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Speaker 1: strong and impelling is the desire for sexual contact that
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Speaker 1: men freely run the risk of life and reputation to
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Speaker 1: indulge it. When harnessed, and redirected along other lines, this
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Speaker 1: motivating force maintains all of its attributes of keenness of imagination, courage, etc.,
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Speaker 1: which may be used as powerful creative forces in literature, art,
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Speaker 1: or in any other profession or calling, including, of course,
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Speaker 1: the accumulation of riches. The transmutation of sex energy calls
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Speaker 1: for the exercise of willpower, to be sure, but the
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Speaker 1: reward is worth the effort. The desire for sexual expression
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Speaker 1: is inborn and natural. The desire cannot and should not
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Speaker 1: be submerged or eliminated, but it should be given an
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Speaker 1: outlet through forms of expression which enrich the body, mind,
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Speaker 1: and spirit of man. If not given this form of outlet,
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Speaker 1: through transmutation, it will seek outlets through purely physical channels.
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Speaker 1: A river may be dammed and its water controlled for
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Speaker 1: a time, but eventually it will force an outlet. The
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Speaker 1: same is true of the emotion of sex. It may
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Speaker 1: be submerged and controlled for a time, but its very
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Speaker 1: nature causes it to be ever-seeking means of expression. If
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Speaker 1: it is not transmuted into some creative effort, it will
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Speaker 1: find a less worthy outlet. Fortunate indeed is the person
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Speaker 1: who has discovered how to give sex emotion an outlet
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Speaker 1: through some form of creative effort, for he has, by
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Speaker 1: that discovery, lifted himself to the status of a genius.
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Speaker 1: Scientific research has disclosed these significant facts. The men of
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Speaker 1: greatest achievement are men with highly developed sex natures, men
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Speaker 1: who have learned the art of sex transmutations, The men
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Speaker 1: who have accumulated great fortunes and achieved outstanding recognition in literature, art, industry, architecture,
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Speaker 1: and the professions were motivated by the influence of a woman.
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Speaker 1: The research from which these astounding discoveries were made went
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Speaker 1: back through the pages of biography and history for more
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Speaker 1: than 2,000 years. Wherever there was evidence available in connection
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Speaker 1: with the lives of men and women of great achievement,
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Speaker 1: it indicated most convincingly that they possessed highly developed sex natures.
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Speaker 1: The emotion of sex is an irresistible force, against which
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Speaker 1: there can be no such opposition as an immovable body.
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Speaker 1: When driven by this emotion, men become gifted with a
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Speaker 1: superpower for action. Understand this truth, and you will catch
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Speaker 1: the significance of the statement that sex transmutation will lift
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Speaker 1: one to the status of a genius. The emotion of
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Speaker 1: sex contains the secret of creative ability. Destroy the sex glands,
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Speaker 1: whether in man or beast, and you have removed the
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Speaker 1: major source of action. For proof of this, observe what
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Speaker 1: happens to any animal after it has been castrated. A
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Speaker 1: bull becomes as docile as a cow after it has
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Speaker 1: been altered sexually. Sex alteration takes out of the male,
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Speaker 1: whether man or beast, all the fight that was in him.
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Speaker 1: Sex alteration of the female has the same effect. The
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Speaker 1: Ten Mind Stimuli The human mind responds to stimuli through
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Speaker 1: which it may be keyed up to high rates of
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Speaker 1: vibration known as enthusiasm, creative imagination, intense desire, etc. The
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Speaker 1: stimuli to which the mind responds most freely are 1.
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Speaker 1: The desire for sex expression 2. Love 3. A burning
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Speaker 1: desire for fame, power, or financial gain, money. 4. Music. 5.
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Speaker 1: Friendship between either those of the same sex or those
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Speaker 1: of the opposite sex. 6. A mastermind alliance based upon
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Speaker 1: the harmony of two or more people who ally themselves
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Speaker 1: for spiritual or temporal advancement. 7. Mutual Suffering. such as
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Speaker 1: that experienced by people who are persecuted. 8. Autosuggestion 9.
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Speaker 1: Fear 10. Narcotics and Alcohol The desire for sex expression
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Speaker 1: comes at the head of the list of stimuli, which
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Speaker 1: most effectively step up the vibrations of the mind and
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Speaker 1: start the wheels of physical action. Eight of these stimuli
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Speaker 1: are natural and constructive. Two are destructive. The list is
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Speaker 1: here presented for the purpose of enabling you to make
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Speaker 1: a comparative study of the major sources of mind stimulation.
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Speaker 1: From this study, it will be readily seen that the
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Speaker 1: emotion of sex is, by great odds, the most intense
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Speaker 1: and powerful of all mind stimuli. This comparison is necessary
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Speaker 1: as a foundation for proof of the statement that transmutation
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Speaker 1: of sex energy may lift one to the status of
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Speaker 1: a genius. Let us find out what constitutes a genius.
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Speaker 1: Some wiseacre has said that a genius is a man
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Speaker 1: who wears long hair, eats queer food, lives alone, and
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Speaker 1: serves as a target for the joke makers. A better
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Speaker 1: definition of a genius is a man who has discovered
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Speaker 1: how to increase the vibrations of thought to the point
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Speaker 1: where he can freely communicate with sources of knowledge not
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Speaker 1: available through the ordinary rate of vibration of thought. The
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Speaker 1: person who thinks will want to ask some questions concerning
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Speaker 1: this definition of genius. The first question will be, how
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Speaker 1: may one communicate with sources of knowledge which are not
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Speaker 1: available through the ordinary rate of vibration of thought? The
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Speaker 1: next question will be, are there known sources of knowledge
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Speaker 1: which are available only to genii, and if so, what
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Speaker 1: are these sources, and exactly how may they be reached?
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Speaker 1: We shall offer proof of the soundness of some of
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Speaker 1: the more important statements made in this book, or at
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Speaker 1: least We shall offer evidence through which you may secure
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Speaker 1: your own proof through experimentation. And in doing so, we
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Speaker 1: shall answer both of these questions. Genius is developed through
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Speaker 1: the sixth sense. The reality of a sixth sense has
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Speaker 1: been fairly well established. This sixth sense is creative imagination.
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Speaker 1: The faculty of creative imagination is one which the majority
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Speaker 1: of people never use during an entire lifetime. and, if
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Speaker 1: used at all, it usually happens by mere accident. A
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Speaker 1: relatively small number of people use, with deliberation and purpose aforethought,
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Speaker 1: the faculty of creative imagination. Those who use this faculty
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Speaker 1: voluntarily and with understanding of its functions are genii. The
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Speaker 1: faculty of creative imagination is the direct link between the
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Speaker 1: finite mind of man and infinite intelligence. All so-called revelations,
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Speaker 1: referred to in the realm of religion, and all discoveries
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Speaker 1: of basic or new principles in the field of invention
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Speaker 1: take place through the faculty of creative imagination. When ideas
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Speaker 1: or concepts flash into one's mind through what is popularly
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Speaker 1: called a hunch, they come from one or more of
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Speaker 1: the following sources. 1. Infinite intelligence. 2. One's subconscious mind,
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Speaker 1: wherein is stored every sense impression and thought impulse, which
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Speaker 1: ever reached the brain through any of the five senses. 3.
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Speaker 1: From the mind of some other person who has just
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Speaker 1: released the thought or picture of the idea or concept
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Speaker 1: through conscious thought, or 4. From the other person's subconscious storehouse.
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Speaker 1: There are no other known sources from which inspired ideas
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Speaker 1: or hunches may be received. The creative imagination functions best
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Speaker 1: when the mind is vibrating, due to some form of
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Speaker 1: mind stimulation, at an exceedingly high rate. That is, when
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Speaker 1: the mind is functioning at a rate of vibration higher
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Speaker 1: than that of ordinary, normal thought. When brain action has
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Speaker 1: been stimulated through one or more of the ten mind stimulants,
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Speaker 1: it has the effect of lifting the individual far above
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Speaker 1: the horizon of ordinary thought and permits him to envision distance, scope,
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Speaker 1: and quality of thoughts not available on the lower plane,
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Speaker 1: such as that occupied while one is engaged in the
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Speaker 1: solution of the problems of business and professional routine. When
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Speaker 1: lifted to this higher level of thought through any form
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Speaker 1: of mind stimulation, An individual occupies, relatively, the same position
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Speaker 1: as one who has ascended in an airplane to a
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Speaker 1: height from which he may see over and beyond the
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Speaker 1: horizon line which limits his vision, while on the ground. Moreover,
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Speaker 1: while on this higher level of thought, the individual is
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Speaker 1: not hampered or bound by any of the stimuli which
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Speaker 1: circumscribe and limit his vision while wrestling with the problems
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Speaker 1: of gaining the three basic necessities of food, clothing, and shelter.
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Speaker 1: He is in a world of thought in which the ordinary,
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Speaker 1: workaday thoughts have been as effectively removed as are the
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Speaker 1: hills and valleys and other limitations of physical vision when
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Speaker 1: he rises in an airplane. While on this exalted plane
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Speaker 1: of thought, the creative faculty of the mind is given
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Speaker 1: freedom for action. The way has been cleared for the
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Speaker 1: sixth sense to function. It becomes receptive to ideas which
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Speaker 1: could not reach the individual under any other circumstances. The
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Speaker 1: sixth sense is the faculty which marks the difference between
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Speaker 1: a genius and an ordinary individual. The creative faculty becomes
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Speaker 1: more alert and receptive to vibrations originating outside the individual's
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Speaker 1: subconscious mind. The more this faculty is used and the
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Speaker 1: more the individual relies upon it and makes demands upon
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Speaker 1: it for thought impulses. This faculty can be cultivated and
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Speaker 1: developed only through use. That which is known as one's
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Speaker 1: conscience operates entirely through the faculty of the sixth sense.
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Speaker 1: The great artists, writers, musicians, and poets become great because
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Speaker 1: they acquire the habit of relying upon the still small
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Speaker 1: voice which speaks from within through the faculty of creative imagination.
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Speaker 1: It is a fact well known to people who have
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Speaker 1: keen imaginations that their best ideas come through so-called hunches.
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Speaker 1: There is a great orator who does not attain to
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Speaker 1: greatness until he closes his eyes and begins to rely
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Speaker 1: entirely upon the faculty of creative imagination. When asked why
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Speaker 1: he closed his eyes just before the climaxes of his oratory,
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Speaker 1: he replied, I do it because then I speak through
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Speaker 1: ideas which come to me from within. One of America's
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Speaker 1: most successful and best-known financiers followed the habit of closing
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Speaker 1: his eyes for two or three minutes before making a decision.
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Speaker 1: When asked why he did this, he replied, With my
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Speaker 1: eyes closed, I am able to draw upon a source
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Speaker 1: of superior intelligence. The late Dr. Elmer R. Gates of
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Speaker 1: Chevy Chase, Maryland, created more than 200 useful patents, many
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Speaker 1: of them basic, through the process of cultivating and using
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Speaker 1: the creative faculty. His method is both significant and interesting
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Speaker 1: to one interested in attaining to the status of genius.
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Speaker 1: in which category Dr. Gates unquestionably belonged. Dr. Gates was
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Speaker 1: one of the really great, though less publicized, scientists of
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Speaker 1: the world. In his laboratory, he had what he called
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Speaker 1: his personal communication room. It was practically soundproof and so
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Speaker 1: arranged that all light could be shut out. It was
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Speaker 1: equipped with a small table on which he kept a
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Speaker 1: pad of writing paper. In front of the table, on
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Speaker 1: the wall, was an electric push button which controlled the lights.
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Speaker 1: When Dr. Gates desired to draw upon the forces available
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Speaker 1: to him through his creative imagination, he would go into
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Speaker 1: this room, seat himself at the table, shut off the lights,
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Speaker 1: and concentrate upon the known factors of the invention on
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Speaker 1: which he was working, remaining in that position until ideas
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Speaker 1: began to flash into his mind in connection with the
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Speaker 1: unknown factors of the invention. On one occasion, ideas came
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Speaker 1: through so fast that he was forced to write for
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Speaker 1: almost three hours. When the thoughts stopped flowing and he
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Speaker 1: examined his notes, he found they contained a minute description
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Speaker 1: of principles which bad not a parallel among the known
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Speaker 1: data of the scientific world. Moreover, the answer to his
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Speaker 1: problem was intelligently presented in those notes. In this manner, Dr.
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Speaker 1: Gates completed over 200 patents, which had been begun, but
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Speaker 1: not completed, by half-baked brains. Evidence of the truth of
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Speaker 1: this statement is in the United States Patent Office. Dr.
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Speaker 1: Gates earned his living by sitting for ideas for individuals
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Speaker 1: and corporations. Some of the largest corporations in America paid
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Speaker 1: him substantial fees by the hour for sitting for ideas.
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Speaker 1: The reasoning faculty is often faulty because it is largely
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Speaker 1: guided by one's accumulated experience. Not all knowledge, which one
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Speaker 1: accumulates through experience, is accurate. ideas received through the creative
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Speaker 1: faculty are much more reliable, for the reason that they
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Speaker 1: come from sources more reliable than any which are available
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Speaker 1: to the reasoning faculty of the mind. The major difference
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Speaker 1: between the genius and the ordinary crank inventor may be
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Speaker 1: found in the fact that the genius works through his
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Speaker 1: faculty of creative imagination, while the crank knows nothing of
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Speaker 1: this faculty. The scientific inventor, such as Mr. Edison and Dr. Gates,
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Speaker 1: makes use of both the synthetic and the creative faculties
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Speaker 1: of imagination. For example, the scientific inventor, or genius, begins
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Speaker 1: an invention by organizing and combining the known ideas or
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Speaker 1: principles accumulated through experience, through the synthetic faculty, the reasoning faculty.
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Speaker 1: If he finds this accumulated knowledge to be insufficient for
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Speaker 1: the completion of his invention, He then draws upon the
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Speaker 1: sources of knowledge available to him through his creative faculty.
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Speaker 1: The method by which he does this varies with the individual,
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Speaker 1: but this is the sum and substance of his procedure. 1.
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Speaker 1: He stimulates his mind so that it vibrates on a
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Speaker 1: higher-than-average plane, using one or more of the ten mind
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Speaker 1: stimulants or some other stimulant of his choice. 2. He
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Speaker 1: concentrates upon the known factors, the finished part, of his invention,
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Speaker 1: and creates in his mind a perfect picture of unknown factors,
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Speaker 1: the unfinished part of his invention. He holds this picture
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Speaker 1: in mind until it has been taken over by the
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Speaker 1: subconscious mind, then relaxes by clearing his mind of all
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Speaker 1: thought and waits for his answer to flash into his mind.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes the results are both definite and immediate. At other times,
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Speaker 1: the results are negative, depending upon the state of development
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Speaker 1: of the sixth sense, or creative faculty. Mr. Edison tried
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Speaker 1: out more than 10,000 different combinations of ideas through the
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Speaker 1: synthetic faculty of his imagination before he tuned in through
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Speaker 1: the creative faculty and got the answer which perfected the
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Speaker 1: incandescent light. His experience was similar when he produced the
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Speaker 1: talking machine. There is plenty of reliable evidence that the
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Speaker 1: faculty of creative imagination exists. This evidence is available through
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Speaker 1: accurate analysis of men who have become leaders in their
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Speaker 1: respective callings, without having had extensive educations. Lincoln was a
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Speaker 1: notable example of a great leader who achieved greatness through
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Speaker 1: the discovery and use of his faculty of creative imagination.
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Speaker 1: He discovered and began to use this faculty as the
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Speaker 1: result of the stimulation of love which he experienced after
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Speaker 1: he met Anne Rutledge. a statement of the highest significance
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Speaker 1: in connection with the study of the source of genius.
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Speaker 1: The pages of history are filled with the records of
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Speaker 1: great leaders whose achievements may be traced directly to the
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Speaker 1: influence of women who aroused the creative faculties of their
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Speaker 1: minds through the stimulation of sex desire. Napoleon Bonaparte was
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Speaker 1: one of these. When inspired by his first wife Josephine,
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Speaker 1: he was irresistible and invincible. When his better judgment or
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Speaker 1: reasoning faculty prompted him to put Josephine aside, he began
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Speaker 1: to decline. His defeat and St. Helena were not far distant.
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Speaker 1: If good taste would permit, we might easily mention scores
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Speaker 1: of men, well known to the American people, who climbed
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Speaker 1: to great heights of achievement under the stimulating influence of
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Speaker 1: their wives, only to drop back to destruction after money
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Speaker 1: and power went to their heads, and they put aside
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Speaker 1: the old wife for a new one. Napoleon was not
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Speaker 1: the only man to discover that sex influence, from the
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Speaker 1: right source, is more powerful than any substitute of expediency,
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Speaker 1: which may be created by mere reason. The human mind
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Speaker 1: responds to stimulation. Among the greatest and most powerful of
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Speaker 1: these stimuli is the urge of sex. When harnessed and transmuted,
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Speaker 1: this driving force is capable of lifting men into that
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Speaker 1: higher sphere of thought which enables them to master the
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Speaker 1: sources of worry and petty annoyance which beset their pathway
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Speaker 1: on the lower plane. Unfortunately, only the genii have made
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Speaker 1: the discovery. Others have accepted the experience of sex urge
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Speaker 1: without discovering one of its major potentialities, a fact which
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Speaker 1: accounts for the great number of others as compared to
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Speaker 1: the limited number of genii. For the purpose of refreshing
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Speaker 1: the memory, in connection with the facts available from the
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Speaker 1: biographies of certain men, we here present the names of
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Speaker 1: a few men of outstanding achievement, each of whom was
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Speaker 1: known to have been of a highly sexed nature. The
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Speaker 1: genius which was theirs undoubtedly found its source of power
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Speaker 1: in transmuted sex energy. George Washington, Napoleon Bonaparte, William Shakespeare,
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Speaker 1: Abraham Lincoln, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Burns, Thomas Jefferson, Elbert Hubbard,
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Speaker 1: Elbert H. Gary, Oscar Wilde, Woodrow Wilson, John H. Patterson,
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Speaker 1: Andrew Jackson, Enrico Caruso. Your own knowledge of biography will
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Speaker 1: enable you to add to this list. Find, if you can,
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Speaker 1: a single man in all history of civilization who achieved
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Speaker 1: outstanding success in any calling who was not driven by
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Speaker 1: a well-developed sex nature. If you do not wish to
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Speaker 1: rely upon biographies of men not now living, take inventory
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Speaker 1: of those whom you know to be men of great
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Speaker 1: achievement and see if you can find one among them
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Speaker 1: who is not highly sexed. Sex energy is the creative
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Speaker 1: energy of all genii. There never has been and never
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Speaker 1: will be a great leader, builder, or artist lacking in
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Speaker 1: this driving force of sex. Surely no one will misunderstand
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Speaker 1: these statements to mean that all who are highly sexed
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Speaker 1: are genii. Man attains to the status of a genius
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Speaker 1: only when and if he stimulates his mind so that
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Speaker 1: it draws upon the forces available through the creative faculty
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Speaker 1: of the imagination. Chief among the stimuli with which this
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Speaker 1: stepping up of the vibrations may be produced is sex energy.
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Speaker 1: The mere possession of this energy is not sufficient to
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Speaker 1: produce a genius. the energy must be transmuted from desire
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Speaker 1: for physical contact into some other form of desire and
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Speaker 1: action before it will lift one to the status of
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Speaker 1: a genius. Far from becoming genii, because of great sex desires,
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Speaker 1: the majority of men lower themselves, through misunderstanding and misuse
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Speaker 1: of this great force, to the status of the lower animals.
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