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THOUGHT-FORCE: Attract Wealth, Success & Influence with the Secret Law of Attraction - William Walker Atkinson · THE SECRET LAW OF ATTRACTION: Manifest Wealth, Success & Abundance

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  Speaker 1: Thought force in business and everyday life. A series of
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  Speaker 1: lessons in personal magnetism, psychic influence, thought force, concentration, will power,
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  Speaker 1: and practical mental science by William Walker Atkinson, nineteen hundred.
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  Speaker 1: Lesson one, Salutatory theories are but mighty soap bubbles with
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  Speaker 1: which the grown up children of science amuse themselves. The
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  Speaker 1: majority of writers upon this subject have devoted nearly all
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  Speaker 1: their efforts, as well as their space, to proving first
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  Speaker 1: that personal magnetism really existed, and secondly that the phenomenon
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  Speaker 1: was best accounted for by some pet theory of their own.
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  Speaker 1: Some attribute the power of influencing men to the use
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  Speaker 1: of a vegetarian diet, notwithstanding the fact that some of
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  Speaker 1: the most magnetic individuals make graveyards of their stomachs. Others
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  Speaker 1: insist that in celibacy and abstinence from sexual intercourse may
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  Speaker 1: be found the secret, notwithstanding the fact that the majority
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  Speaker 1: of magnetic individuals do not differ in their sexual customs
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  Speaker 1: from their less magnetic brothers. Others hold that the magnetic
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  Speaker 1: force abounds in the air around us, and that therefore
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  Speaker 1: deep breathing will enable us to absorb great quantities of
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  Speaker 1: the vital fluid, charging ourselves with the force in the
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  Speaker 1: manner of the storage battery, and so on, each with
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  Speaker 1: his little pet theory. Now I have no fault to
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  Speaker 1: find with the systems above mentioned. Although not a strict vegetarian,
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  Speaker 1: I sympathize with those of that belief. Although not leading
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  Speaker 1: a life of celibacy, I see much good in the
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  Speaker 1: doctrine of continence, and there can be no two opinions
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  Speaker 1: as to the merits of chastity. Whilst not accepting the
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  Speaker 1: theory of the absorption of magnetic force from the Earth's atmosphere,
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  Speaker 1: I am a firm advocate of and believer in deep breathing,
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  Speaker 1: and believe that if the same was universally practiced, much
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  Speaker 1: sickness and physical weakness would disappear from them birth. All
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  Speaker 1: these things are good, but a little reflection will show
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  Speaker 1: anyone that they are not the prime factors in the
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  Speaker 1: production of the quality known as personal magnetism. The writers
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  Speaker 1: on the subject usually conclude by telling their readers of
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  Speaker 1: the wonderful possibilities open to anyone who can acquire this
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  Speaker 1: power and learn how to use it. They, however, say
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  Speaker 1: little or nothing of how this force may be acquired.
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  Speaker 1: That is, beyond stating their theories. They deliver discourses, but
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  Speaker 1: do not instruct. They are preachers, not teachers. They dwell
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  Speaker 1: upon theories and neglect facts. The real progress in this
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  Speaker 1: branch of scientific research has been made not by writers
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  Speaker 1: or theorists, but by a few earnest investigators, who have
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  Speaker 1: conducted numberless experiments, and have explored every avenue of information,
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  Speaker 1: and who have brought this wonderful subject out of the
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  Speaker 1: realms of mere speculation and placed it upon a scientific basis.
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  Speaker 1: The writer has been a close student and investigator of
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  Speaker 1: this subject for many years, and the present work is
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  Speaker 1: an attempt to give to his students some of the
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  Speaker 1: fundamental principles derived from the investigations and practical experiments of
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  Speaker 1: himself and his co workers in this field. Our lessons, therefore,
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  Speaker 1: will be confined so far as is possible, to statements
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  Speaker 1: of proven facts and practical instruction, touching upon theory only
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  Speaker 1: when absolutely necessary. In my opinion, I would insult your
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  Speaker 1: intelligence if I were to present to you an elaborate argument,
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  Speaker 1: the purpose of which would be an attempt to prove
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  Speaker 1: the existence of that wonderful force latent in man developed
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  Speaker 1: by the few but possible of acquirement by all that
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  Speaker 1: mysterious quality called, for want of a better name, personal magnetism.
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  Speaker 1: To set out to prove its existence would be akin
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  Speaker 1: to an attempt to convince the average intelligent man of
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  Speaker 1: the fact that the magnet influences the needle, that the
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  Speaker 1: X rays penetrate the body of man, or a still
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  Speaker 1: more solid object, That a message be conveyed by electricity
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  Speaker 1: along a beam of light, or even by wireless telegraphy
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  Speaker 1: through the air, without the need of any other medium.
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  Speaker 1: Every intelligent person is aware of the existence of the
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  Speaker 1: above mentioned phenomena, and does not need to have the
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  Speaker 1: same demonstrated to him. If he is interested in the
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  Speaker 1: subject at all, he wishes to be taught how to
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  Speaker 1: operate these forces, so that he may be able to
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  Speaker 1: reproduce the experiments himself. This is equally true of the
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  Speaker 1: student of personal magnetism. He has long since learned that
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  Speaker 1: such a force exists. He sees it around him every day,
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  Speaker 1: and knows of the wonders that are accomplished by its aid.
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  Speaker 1: He possibly is aware that he has developed the force
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  Speaker 1: to a certain degree, and what he wants, in any event,
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  Speaker 1: is to become acquainted with the means whereby he can
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  Speaker 1: fully develop and intelligently use the force latent within him.
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  Speaker 1: I therefore shall make no attempt to demonstrate the existence
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  Speaker 1: of this force, believing it to be self evident. I
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  Speaker 1: also intend to avoid a tiresome discussion of the numerous
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  Speaker 1: theories which have been advanced to account for the phenomenon
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  Speaker 1: of personal magnetism. I have no pet theory to advance.
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  Speaker 1: I will endeavor to teach you how to obtain results,
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  Speaker 1: and you can then read up on the subject of theories,
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  Speaker 1: or possibly formulate a new theory of your own. I
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  Speaker 1: will state briefly my own conception of the cause underlying
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  Speaker 1: the phenomena alluded to in this work, but I shall
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  Speaker 1: not attempt to force my views upon you. You are
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  Speaker 1: at liberty to accept or reject any theory, as the
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  Speaker 1: result in no way depends upon any special form of belief.
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  Speaker 1: Many of those who have obtained the best results have
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  Speaker 1: discarded one theory after another, and now say that they
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  Speaker 1: do not attempt to explain the real cause underlying the results,
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  Speaker 1: being content to work on without a dogmatic theory so
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  Speaker 1: long as they know how to obtain the results. With
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  Speaker 1: this explanation, I will leave the land of theory and
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  Speaker 1: enter into the realm of practice, and will endeavor to
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  Speaker 1: so instruct you along the lines of the development and
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  Speaker 1: use of this mighty force, that you may reproduce the
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  Speaker 1: results already obtained by others, and perhaps may become investigators
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  Speaker 1: and leaders in the work of blazing the way through
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  Speaker 1: the woods of superstition and mystery with which the subject
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  Speaker 1: has been surrounded so long. I will ask you to
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  Speaker 1: accept nothing that you cannot prove epigraph. The nearer to
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  Speaker 1: the practical men keep. The less they deal in vague
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  Speaker 1: and abstract things, the less they deal in huge, mysterious words,
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  Speaker 1: the mightier is their power. The simple peasant who observes
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  Speaker 1: a truth and from the fact deduces principle, adds solid
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  Speaker 1: treasure to the public wealth. The theorist who dreams a
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  Speaker 1: rainbow dream and calls hypothesis philosophy at best, is but
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  Speaker 1: a paper financier who palms his specious promises for gold.
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  Speaker 1: Facts are the basis of philosophy. Philosophy the harmony of facts.
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  Speaker 1: Thomas L. Harris in Lyrics of a Golden Age preface
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  Speaker 1: in Justice to Myself, I think it well to state
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  Speaker 1: that this work has been somewhat hastily prepared from the
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  Speaker 1: notes used by me in serch of my lectures. The
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  Speaker 1: lessons given here in practically being the syllabi of the
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  Speaker 1: said lectures. In the lectures and in this work, my
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  Speaker 1: one and only purpose has been to acquaint the student
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  Speaker 1: with the means of developing and effectively using the mighty
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  Speaker 1: forces latent within him, personal magnetism and psychic influence. To
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  Speaker 1: this end, I have sacrificed all pretensions to literary style,
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  Speaker 1: all attempts to secure felicity of diction. I felt that
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  Speaker 1: I had a message to deliver, and I endeavored to
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  Speaker 1: deliver it promptly, clearly, and plainly, without any attempt at
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  Speaker 1: fine writing. If a homely word seemed to express my thought,
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  Speaker 1: I used it. If a slang term or semi slang
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  Speaker 1: phrase seemed to fit in in it went. I trust
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  Speaker 1: that my critics will spare themselves the trouble of pointing
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  Speaker 1: out my many defects of style and composition. I fully
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  Speaker 1: realize these things. I have subordinated everything else in my
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  Speaker 1: endeavor to make this work plain and practical. This is
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  Speaker 1: an explanation, not an apology. With the above understanding between us,
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  Speaker 1: I submit this little work to your kind consideration. Whilst
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  Speaker 1: fully cognizant of its defects, I still feel that it
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  Speaker 1: will be helpful to some of the many thought force
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  Speaker 1: in business and every day life who are endeavoring to
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  Speaker 1: overcome unfavorable environments, that it may serve as a guide
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  Speaker 1: post pointing out the path to better things. I feel
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  Speaker 1: that it will do its share of the work of
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  Speaker 1: removing fear thought from the minds of men, of replacing
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  Speaker 1: I can't with I can and I will. I feel
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  Speaker 1: that it must do these things, for it contains within
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  Speaker 1: it the germs of a mighty truth. William Walker Atkinson, Chicago,
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  Speaker 1: December fourth, nineteen hundred lesson two the nature of the force.
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  Speaker 1: To the minds of most people. The term personal magnetism
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  Speaker 1: conveys the idea of a current radiating from the person
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  Speaker 1: of the magnetic individual, drawing to him all those within
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  Speaker 1: the radius of his magnetic force. This idea, whilst on
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  Speaker 1: the whole arooneus, still contains within it the germ of
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  Speaker 1: the real truth. There is a current of attracting force
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  Speaker 1: radiating from man, but it is not a magnetic force.
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  Speaker 1: In so far as the term magnetism implies some connection
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  Speaker 1: with the lodestone or electricity. The human magnetic current, whilst
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  Speaker 1: bearing some resemblance to these two familiar forces in its effects,
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  Speaker 1: has no real connection with them, so far as is
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  Speaker 1: concerned its origin or intrinsic nature. That which we call
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  Speaker 1: personal magnetism is the subtle current of thought waves or
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  Speaker 1: thought vibrations projected from the human mind. Every thought created
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  Speaker 1: by our minds is a force of greater or lesser intensity,
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  Speaker 1: varying in strength according to the impetus imparted to it
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  Speaker 1: at the time of its creation. When we think, we
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  Speaker 1: send from us a subtle current which travels along like
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  Speaker 1: a ray of light, and has its influence on the
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  Speaker 1: minds of others, who are often far removed from us
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  Speaker 1: by space. A forceful thought will go on its errand
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  Speaker 1: charged with a mighty power, and will often beat down
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  Speaker 1: the instinctive resistance of a the minds of others to
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  Speaker 1: outside impressions, Whilst a weak thought will be unable to
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  Speaker 1: obtain an entrance to the mental castle of another, unless
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  Speaker 1: that castle be but poorly guarded. Repeated thoughts along the
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  Speaker 1: same lines, sent one after the other, will often effect
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  Speaker 1: an entrance, where a single thought wave, although much stronger,
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  Speaker 1: will be repulsed. It is an exhibition of a physical
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  Speaker 1: law in the psychical world, and exemplifies the old saying
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  Speaker 1: about steady dripping wearing away a stone. We are all influenced,
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  Speaker 1: much more than we are aware by the thoughts of others.
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  Speaker 1: I do not mean by their opinions, but by their thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: A great writer on the subject very truly says, thoughts
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  Speaker 1: are things. They are things, and most powerful things at that.
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  Speaker 1: Unless we understand this fact, we are at the mercy
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  Speaker 1: of a mighty force of whose nature we know nothing,
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  Speaker 1: and whose very existence many of us deny. On the
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  Speaker 1: other hand, if we understand the nature and laws governing
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  Speaker 1: this wonderful force, we can master it and render it
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  Speaker 1: our instrument and assistant. Every thought created by us, weak
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  Speaker 1: or strong, good or bad, healthy or unhealthy, sends out
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  Speaker 1: its vibratory waves, which affect, to a greater or lesser extent,
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  Speaker 1: all with whom we come in contact, or who may
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  Speaker 1: come within the radius of our thought vibrations. Thought waves
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  Speaker 1: are like the ripples on a pond caused by the
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  Speaker 1: casting in of a pebble. They move in constantly widening circles,
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  Speaker 1: radiating from a central point. Of course, if an impulse
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  Speaker 1: projects the thought waves forcibly toward a certain object, its
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  Speaker 1: force will be felt more strongly at that point. Besides
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  Speaker 1: affecting others, our thoughts affect us not only temporarily but permanently.
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  Speaker 1: We are what we think ourselves into being. The biblical
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  Speaker 1: statement that as a man thinks in his heart, so
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  Speaker 1: is he is literally correct. We are all creatures of
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  Speaker 1: our own mental creating. You know how easy see it
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  Speaker 1: is to think yourself into a blue state of mind
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  Speaker 1: or the reverse. But you do not realize that repeated
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  Speaker 1: thought upon a certain line will manifest itself not only
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  Speaker 1: in character, which it certainly does, but also in the
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  Speaker 1: physical appearance of the thinker. This is a demonstrable fact,
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  Speaker 1: and you have but to look around you to realize it.
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  Speaker 1: You have noticed how a man's occupation shows itself in
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  Speaker 1: his appearance and general character. What do you suppose occasions
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  Speaker 1: this phenomenon? Nothing more nor less than that thought. If
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  Speaker 1: you ever have changed your occupation, your general character in
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  Speaker 1: appearance kept pace with your changed habits of thought. Your
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  Speaker 1: new occupation brought out a new train of thought, and
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  Speaker 1: thoughts take form in action. You may have never taken
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  Speaker 1: this view of the matter. But it is true nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: and you may find ample proof of its correctness by
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  Speaker 1: merely looking around you. A man who thinks energy manifests energy.
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  Speaker 1: The man who thinks courage manifests courage. The man who
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  Speaker 1: thinks I can and I will gets there, while the
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  Speaker 1: I can't man gets left. You know that to be true. Now,
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  Speaker 1: what causes the difference? Thought? Just plain every day thinking?
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  Speaker 1: That's all. Of course, the action follows the thought. But
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  Speaker 1: why just because it cannot help itself? Action follows as
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  Speaker 1: the natural result of vigorous thinking. You think in earnest
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  Speaker 1: and action does the rest. Thought is the greatest thing
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  Speaker 1: in the world. If you do not know it now,
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  Speaker 1: you will before you are through with this course of lessons.
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  Speaker 1: You may say that this is no new thing to you,
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  Speaker 1: that you knew all about making up your mind and
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  Speaker 1: all that sort of thing long ago. Then why did
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  Speaker 1: you not put it into practice and make something of yourself.
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  Speaker 1: I will tell you the trouble you thought I can't
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  Speaker 1: instead of I can. Now, I am going to change
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  Speaker 1: that I can't into a big I can and a
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  Speaker 1: bigger I will. That is what I am here for,
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  Speaker 1: and I intend to make you over Before I am
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  Speaker 1: through with you. I suppose that you thought I would
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  Speaker 1: give you an elaborate transcendental discourse on things away up
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  Speaker 1: in the clouds, and hope that I would tell you
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  Speaker 1: how to charge yourself up with a lot of magnetism,
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  Speaker 1: so that you would be able to light the gas
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  Speaker 1: with the tips of your fingers, or draw everybody to
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  Speaker 1: you like a piece of steel to a magnet. Now,
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  Speaker 1: didn't you, Well, I am not, But I intend to
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  Speaker 1: tell you how you can generate in yourself a force
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  Speaker 1: compared with which magnetism is weak, A force that will
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  Speaker 1: make a man of you, A force that will make
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  Speaker 1: you realize that I am within you, a power that
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  Speaker 1: will enable you to be a man of strong personal qualities,
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  Speaker 1: a man of influence, a successful man. I will tell
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  Speaker 1: you how you can acquire that which you have been
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  Speaker 1: calling personal magnetism, providing you will start at it in earnest.
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  Speaker 1: It is worth working for, and when you feel your
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  Speaker 1: new strength developing within you, you would not exchange your
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  Speaker 1: newfound knowledge for a fortune. Why you feel a little
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  Speaker 1: stronger already, don't you? Of course you do. I never
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  Speaker 1: have talked five minutes to a class of students about
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  Speaker 1: I can and I will, and about the eye am
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  Speaker 1: within them, without their throwing back their shoulders, raising their heads,
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  Speaker 1: taking a long breath, and looking me square in the eyes,
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  Speaker 1: as a man or woman should. It was thought manifesting
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  Speaker 1: itself in action. Do you see the point? I had
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  Speaker 1: planted the little seat of self knowledge, and it had
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  Speaker 1: begun to sprout. Before I conclude this lesson, I wish
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  Speaker 1: to direct your attention to one other very important thing
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  Speaker 1: about thought, and that is the adductive power of thought.
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  Speaker 1: Pay attention to this, please, as it is of the
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  Speaker 1: highest importance. Avoiding all attempts at a scientific explanation and
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  Speaker 1: keeping away from technical terms, I will state the matter concisely. Thus,
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  Speaker 1: thoughts attract like thoughts. The good thoughts attracts other good thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: The bad thoughts, the bad thought of strength, likewise thoughts
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  Speaker 1: of discouragement and doubt follow the rule, and so on
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  Speaker 1: through the entire gamut of thoughts. Your thought attracts to
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  Speaker 1: it the corresponding thought of others, and increases your stock
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  Speaker 1: of that particular kind of thought. Do you see the point?
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  Speaker 1: Think fear thoughts, and you draw to yourself all the
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  Speaker 1: fear thought in that neighborhood. The harder you think it,
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  Speaker 1: the greater supply of undesirable thought flocks to you. Think
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  Speaker 1: I am fearless, and all the courageous thought force within
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  Speaker 1: your radius will move towards you and will aid you
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  Speaker 1: try it. That is, try the latter. Don't think fear thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know that fear in its oldest child worry
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  Speaker 1: are at the bottom of more misery, more unhappiness, more
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  Speaker 1: failures than anything else in the world. Fear and hate
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  Speaker 1: are the parents of all the vile thoughts. I will
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  Speaker 1: go into this matter with you at greater length in
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  Speaker 1: subsequent lessons, but let me urge upon you now with
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  Speaker 1: all that the earnestness of which I am capable to tear
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  Speaker 1: out those vile weeds. Fear and hate. Tear them out
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  Speaker 1: by the roots. They spoil the whole garden and breed
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  Speaker 1: hosts of other weeds, such as worry, doubt, timidity, lack
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  Speaker 1: of self respect, jealousy, spite, malice, envy, slander, and morbid ideas.
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  Speaker 1: I am not trying to preach you a sermon, but
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  Speaker 1: I know that these vile thoughts are hindering your progress,
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  Speaker 1: and you will realize it too if you will stop
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  Speaker 1: to think for a moment, open the blinds, and let
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  Speaker 1: the pure sunshine of bright, cheerful and happy thoughts pour in,
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  Speaker 1: and the microbes of doubt and despair and failure will
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  Speaker 1: leave and seek more congenial quarters. If you were my
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  Speaker 1: dearest friend, and I knew that this message would be
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  Speaker 1: my last on earth, I would shout to you as
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  Speaker 1: loud as my vocal organs would permit. Let go of
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  Speaker 1: fear and hate, thoughts lessen three, how thought force can
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  Speaker 1: aid you. I am addressing you upon the supposition that
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  Speaker 1: you are desired of developing the forces within you for
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  Speaker 1: the purpose of attaining success. Success in life depends very
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  Speaker 1: materially upon the possession of the quality of attracting and
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  Speaker 1: influencing our fellow men. No matter what other qualities you
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  Speaker 1: may possess, you are handicapped by a lack of that
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  Speaker 1: subtle force which we are in the habit of calling
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  Speaker 1: personal magnetism. Look around you and you will see that
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  Speaker 1: nearly every man who has arrived is possessed of the
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  Speaker 1: ability to attract, persuade, influence, or control his fellows. They
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  Speaker 1: are all what is known as strong men. There are
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  Speaker 1: a few exceptions to this great rule, and these exceptions
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  Speaker 1: only go to prove the rule itself. These exceptions are
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  Speaker 1: usually found among men who have demonstrated their success along
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  Speaker 1: the lines of art, scientific research, invention, literary work, et cetera.
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  Speaker 1: And it will readily be seen that their success, from
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  Speaker 1: the very nature of things depends more upon a close
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  Speaker 1: concentrated plotting, research, or effort, rather than a upon push energy, force,
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  Speaker 1: and knowledge of human nature or ability to handle man.
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  Speaker 1: These men are successful in their own lines of endeavor,
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  Speaker 1: but as a rule, the results of their labor are
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  Speaker 1: reaped by others of a more worldly turn of mind.
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  Speaker 1: If these burners of midnight oil meet with financial success,
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  Speaker 1: it is because some more positive man has taken charge
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  Speaker 1: of the business and of their work and pushed it through,
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  Speaker 1: in which case the said positive man usually reaps the
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  Speaker 1: lion's share. This being the true state of affairs. I
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  Speaker 1: am justified in regarding success as meaning the attaining of
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  Speaker 1: financial reward, and that must depend largely upon the personal
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: magnetism of the seeker of success. The inventor, student, writer,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: and scientist can be greatly benefited by an understanding of
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: the intelligent use of the powers of mental control. But
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: to the man among men, remains the privilege of securing
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  Speaker 1: the best results of that wonderful power, for it brings
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: him not only success but also its material manifestations. Money
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: money regarded as mere money, is not a high ideal,
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  Speaker 1: but regarded as the means of surrounding ourselves with the
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  Speaker 1: best things of life, it becomes no unworthy goal for
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  Speaker 1: human endeavor. I therefore feel justified in treating it as
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  Speaker 1: the end to be sought after. To repeat success in
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: life depends largely upon our ability to interest, attract, influence,
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  Speaker 1: and control our fellow men. I do not think that
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  Speaker 1: you will require any argument upon that point, that is,
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  Speaker 1: if you have had any acquaintance whatever with the world
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: of men and affairs. The next thing is to learn
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: how this wonderful and valuable power may be acquired. The
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: answer is by the mastery of the law of mental control.
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  Speaker 1: That is the secret of not only personal magnetism, but
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  Speaker 1: also of success in life and of happiness as well.
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  Speaker 1: To the man or woman who masters this law, the
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: world is an oyster to be opened and enjoyed in comfort.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Even he who lacks the application and perseverance to follow
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  Speaker 1: up the exercises for the development of his latent power
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  Speaker 1: will be stronger and more positive from a mere acquaintance
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  Speaker 1: with the subject. This is all very well, you say,
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  Speaker 1: but tell us how we may develop this power. That
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: is just what I am doing now. I am leading
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: you up to an understanding of the theory by easy steps.
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  Speaker 1: I wish the idea to unfold naturally, so as to
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: avoid giving you mental dyspepsia. Now for a summing up
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: of the general theory before I take up the subject
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  Speaker 1: in detail. I have told you that the power of
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: thought could be used in a number of ways in
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  Speaker 1: the direction of influencing men in gaining success. I have
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: given you an idea of how thought operates in the
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: direction named before proceeding to our next lesson, I think
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: it well to again call your attention to the several
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: different ways in which thought can aid you in attaining
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: success through the influencing of men. Thought will aid you
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: in the following manner, one by the use of your
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: positive thought force in the direction of directly influencing men
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  Speaker 1: in person through the law of suggestion. By this I
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: mean that you will be able to interest men in
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  Speaker 1: your schemes and plans, enlist their aid, secure their patronage,
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  Speaker 1: and influence them generally. This faculty natural to some men,
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  Speaker 1: can be acquired by any man or woman who has
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  Speaker 1: the will, power and perseverance to develop it within them.
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  Speaker 1: Most students of the subject are desirous of acquiring knowledge
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: of this branch of mental control before the other phases
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  Speaker 1: of the subject, and I therefore will take it up
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  Speaker 1: in my next lesson. Two. By the power of direct
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: thought vibrations set in motion by your mind, which will
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: exert a powerful effect upon the minds of others unless
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: they understand the secret of guarding against these forces and
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: rendering themselves positive to others. An understanding of this law
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: will also enable you to present a positive mental attitude
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: towards the thought waves emanating from the minds of others. Three.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: By the power of the adductive qualities of thought, which
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: works upon the theory like attracts like. By holding certain
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: thoughts constantly in your mind, you attract to you thoughts
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: and influences of like nature from the great body of
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: thoughts surrounding us, unseen but all powerful. This power is
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: one of the strongest forces in nature, and if properly used,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: will attract assistance from the most unexpected quarters. Thoughts are
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: things and possess a wonderful power of attracting to themselves
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: other thought waves of the same vibratory pitch and quality.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: For by the power of thought in shaping your character
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: and temperament to meet the requirements of your organization, you
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: lack certain qualities needful for your success. You know it
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: as well, if not better, than anyone else. But you
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: have been deluded by a belief that these shortcomings were
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: a part of you, and that the leopard cannot change
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: his spots to you. The study of the law of
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: mental control comes as a mighty ally, for you can
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: overcome these deficiencies and can acquire new characteristics and qualities,
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  Speaker 1: as well as learning how to strengthen those which you
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: have already. I will endeavor to start you upon the
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: right road by this series of lessons. I will print
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  Speaker 1: out the way for you, but you must do the
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: work yourself. Every man must work out his own salvation.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: In this study, as in every other branch of human
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: endeavor lesson for direct psychic influence. In this and the
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: next lesson, I will endeavor to make plain to you
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  Speaker 1: the process whereby an individual exerts an influence over his
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: fellow men in a personal interview, and interests them in
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  Speaker 1: his schemes and plans, and lists their aid and support,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: secures their patronage, and influences them. Generally, we all know
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: men who are able to accomplish these results, and yet
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: we content ourselves with wondering at their strange power without
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: endeavoring to acquire it. The art of influencing men or
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: women whilst we are in their presence of necessity includes
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: the other several methods of mental influence mentioned in the
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: preceding lessons, and partakes of the nature of each. It
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: is difficult to speak intelligently of this phase of mental
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: influences without covering the entire ground intended to be explained
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: in subsequent lessons. I must content myself with a general
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: reference to these several different branches of the subject, as
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: you will meet them later on, at which time I
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: will take them up at greater length. I would suggest
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: that after completing this series of lessons, you take up
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: this particular lesson again and go over it carefully a
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: second time. You will have a much clearer idea of
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: the subject then, and many things which now seem more
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: or less vague and unsatisfactory will appear clear and easily understood.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: In influencing men who we meet face to face, we
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: affect them in a number of ways, which may be
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: roughly summed up in three forms, viz. One by direct
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: suggestion through the voice, manner, appearance, and I. This includes
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: not only voluntary suggestions on our part, but also the
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: suggestions made involuntarily by every earnest man. Two by thought
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  Speaker 1: waves directed to the other person by a voluntary effort
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  Speaker 1: of our mind. Three by the adductive quality of thought
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  Speaker 1: resulting from the process of controlled thought of which I
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: spoke in the preceding lesson. This force, once generated, operates
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: involuntarily and constitutes the most striking phase of what we
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: call personal magnetism. In this lesson, I shall confine myself
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: to the first mentioned form of personal influence, and will
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: take up the succeeding forms in subsequent lessons. It is
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: a most difficult task to give an intelligent, comprehensive idea
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: of the subject of suggestion in the limited space at
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: my disposal. If the student has acquainted himself with the
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: principles underlying hypnotism or hypnotic suggestion, he will readily understand
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: just what I mean when I say suggestion to those
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: who have not had this advantage, I will say that
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: a suggestion is an impressioniously or unconsciously received through any
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: of our senses. We are constantly accepting or rejecting suggestions,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: the acceptance or rejection depending upon the degree of suggestibility
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: in ourselves, the degree being caused by the development or
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: cultivation of the non receptive qualities of the mind. We
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: cannot attempt to go deeply into the subject of what
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: is known as the dual mind in man, which has
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: been variously designated as the objective and subjective minds, the
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: voluntary and involuntary minds, the conscious and subconscious minds, et cetera.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: If the student is desirous of acquainting himself fully with
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: this subject, I would suggest that he take up some
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: good work on hypnotism or hypnotic suggestion. There are several
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: good books on this subject, but I would suggest the
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: occult books published by the Library Shelf known as Series A, B, C,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: and D, which are courses of instruction in the basic
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: principles of personal magnetism, hypnotism, suggestion, and kindred branches of
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: psychic research, in order that the student may grasp the
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  Speaker 1: idea that I wish to convey regarding the use of
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: suggestion as a means of exerting personal influence, I would
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: have him understand that the mind has two general functions, which,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: following the terms used by me and my other writings,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: are known as the active function and the passive function, respectively.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: The active function does the voluntary, volitional thinking and also
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: manifests what we call will power. It is the function
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: used frequently by the active, energetic, vigorous, wide awake man
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: in his busy moments. The passive function does the instinctive, automatic,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: involuntary thinking, exhibiting no will power and manifesting on entirely
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: contrary lines from the active function. The passive function is
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: a most valuable servant of man and really performs the
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: greater part of his mental work, doing all the drudgery
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: and fulfilling its allotted task without receiving praise or thanks.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: It works uncomplainingly and apparently with without an effort, and
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: never seems to tire. The active function, on the other hand,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: works only at the promptings of the will and uses
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: up a greater amount of nervous force than its passive brother.
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  Speaker 1: It does the energetic, active work of the mind and
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: tires after a great deal of effort and cries out
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: for rest. You are conscious of more or less effort
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: when you employ the active function, but not so when
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: you use the easy going, faithful, good natured passive function.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: I think that you understand the distinctive features of these
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: two functions from this brief explanation. Some persons do nearly
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: all their thinking along passive lines. Such persons find it
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: too much of a task to do their own thinking,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: and prefer the ready made thought of others to that
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: of their own production. They are practically human sheep. They
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: are very credulous and will accept almost any statement made
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: to them in an earnest, positive manner. These people are
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: very suggestible and are practically at the mo mercy of
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: those of a more active mind. They find it hard
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: to say no, and are inclined to say yes if
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: it is easier and requires less thinking. Others are not
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: quite so suggestible, and some are scarcely suggestible at all
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: at times. But the latter, when they relax and give
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: their active functions a rest, are much more suggestible than
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  Speaker 1: at other times. To enable you to form a mental
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: picture of the two functions for the purpose of carrying
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  Speaker 1: out the instructions given in this course. I will ask
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: you to imagine a pair of twins who are associated
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: as partners in a business enterprise. They look exactly alike,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: but have very different qualities, and each one is well
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: fitted for the performance of the special duties which he
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: has undertaken. They share equally in the profits and losses
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: of the business. The passive brother attends to receiving goods,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: filling orders, packing goods, keeping the stick in order, et cetera,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: while the active brother attends to selling the goods. The
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: general management of affairs, financiering, pushing things along, and in short,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: is the executive of the concern and its active spirit.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: When it comes to the buying of goods, however, both
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  Speaker 1: brothers take a hand. The passive brother is a good natured, easygoing,
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  Speaker 1: dead easy sort of fellow, applauding, automatic, mechanical sort of man.
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  Speaker 1: He is somewhat set in his notions, rather superstitious and bigoted,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: but very credulous and apt to believe almost anything one
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: may tell him, providing the new statement does not directly
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: conflict with some of his preconceived notions. To get a
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: radically new idea into his head, it is necessary to
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: insinuate it into him by degrees. He is in the
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: habit of deferring to the opinions of his brother when
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: the latter is around, and in his brother's absence, to
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: the opinions of other people. He will be apt to
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: grant you any favor or give you almost anything you ask,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: providing you make the request in a firm, confident manner.
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  Speaker 1: He is afraid of hurting your feelings by a refusal,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: and will promise you anything to get rid of you
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: and to avoid giving you a positive refusal. You can
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: sell him almost anything if his brother is not watching him.
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  Speaker 1: If you go about it right, all you have to
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: do is to put on a bold, confident front and
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: take things for granted. You know the type. The active brother, however,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: is a very different sort of a fellow. He is
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: a suspicious, watchful, wide awake, hard as Nail's sort of individual.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: There is no nonsense about him. He finds it necessary
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: to keep a close watch on his passive brother in
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: order that the interests of the firm do not suffer.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: The passive brother is always getting stuck by somebody or
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: on something, and really need some sort of a guardian,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: And if the active fellow happens to take a nap
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: or be too busy with his work to keep an
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: eye on the passive brother, something is sure to happen
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: to the latter. The active partner, accordingly, is not inclined
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  Speaker 1: to allow you to meet the passive brother until he
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: knows you pretty well or thinks that you have no
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: designs on the easy fellow. He watches you carefully and
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: inquires into your business and tries to find what you
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: are up to before he will allow you to see
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: the other partner. If he thinks that you have designs
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: on the easy fellow, he will tell you that his
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: easy brother is out, et cetera. Even if he allows
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: you to see his brother, he will watch every motion
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  Speaker 1: and listen to every word. And in case he thinks
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: that you are trying to play some sort of a
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: game on the easy man, he will put his foot
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: down on the scheme and call the deal off. He
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: considers every proposition and accepts it if reasonable, or rejects
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: it if not. He grows less suspicious when he becomes
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: accustomed to your presence, and may even grow to have
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: considerable confidence in you. He also may be entertained and amused,
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: at which times he relaxes his vigilance and grows less suspicious.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: If his suspicions are once allayed, you may be able
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: to get in a word with the other brother, in
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: which case you have made a great advance. For the
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: easy brother, once acquainted with you, will himself contrive to
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: make the next meeting easier. He feels lonesome and chafes
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: under the restraint imposed upon him by his brother, and
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: when he once makes your acquaintance, he will be on
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: the lookout for another chance to have a chat with you.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: The first step is the hardest. Please remember that the
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: mind of every man or woman is a partnership composed
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: of functions represented by the two characters with which I
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: have just endeavored to acquaint you. There is a difference, however,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: infirms the passive partner is pretty much the same in
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: all cases, although in some he manages to have his
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: own way more and in others he is kept still
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: further in the background, the difference being caused by the
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: degree of positiveness in the active partner. There is a
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: great difference in these active partners. Some of them are
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: splendid examples of prudence, watchfulness and sagacity, whilst others possess
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: these qualities in a lesser degree, and some are nearly
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: as easy as their passive brothers. Some of them can
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: be bulldozed, others coaxed, others flattered, and others tired out
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: into relaxing their vigilance. Some of them get so interested
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: in something that they do not notice that the visitor
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: is getting well acquainted with the passive brother, and may
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: even allow him to give an order for goods. Each
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: one has his own peculiarities, his weaknesses. As a man
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: is no stronger that his weakest point. The obvious rule
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: is to find that weakest point and direct the attack
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: right there. You will readily see that the main thing
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: to be accomplished is to elude the vigilance of the
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: active partner. There are many ways of doing this. The
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: thing to do is to find out the best way.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: If one way does not work, try another. If you
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: keep at it, you will win eventually. Faint heart never won,
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: fair lady, It can be done if it is gone
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: about properly. It is done every day. It is easy
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: with some and hard with others. But it can be
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: done with all of these. Watchful partners, if you will
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: only keep pegging away at it, never take no for
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: an answer. Pursue the same plan in business that you
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: would if you were courting the girl you loved in
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: the latter case at No. Or two or a dozen
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: for that matter, would not count. Pursue the same tactics
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: in your business, and you will win the day. Fortune
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: is feminine, you know, and possesses all of the characteristics
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: of the sex. Suggestions gain force by repetition. A man
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: may reject a proposition when first made, but upon hearing
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: the same thing over and over again, he will get
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: to believe it. No wonder you believe it yourself from
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: the mere repetition of it, and why shouldn't he. Moreover,
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: a suggestion may produce no apparent effect at the time
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: it is given, but may be like the seed planted
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: in fertile soil, which will have sprouted by the time
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: you come again. By talking properly to the active partner
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: and getting him interested, you have enabled the passive brother,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: actuated by curiosity of which he has a full share,
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: to draw near and overhear your conversation. He will often
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: think over the overheard words after you have gone, and
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: the next time you come, he will manage to get
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: an interview with you. In spite of his stern brother.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Love laughs at Locksmith's, and so does the passive fellow
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: at his brother. Sometimes you should carry the above mental
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: picture of the two functions of the mind, the active
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: partner and his passive brother. With this picture in your mind,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: you will be able to direct your suggestions to the
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: best advantage, and also to guard yourself against the suggestions
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: of others. In influencing a man with whom you come
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: in personal contact, you will not have to depend entirely
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: upon the power of suggestion. In overcoming the watchfulness of
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: the active partner of his mind. You will be aided
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: by two powerful allies, i e. Direct thought waves consciously
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: projected by your mind, and by the involuntary adductive qualities
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: of thought. These powers can be highly developed by the
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: exercises which will be given you during this course of lessons.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: You will also learn how to acquire characteristics calculated to
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: aid you in making a good impression upon the active brother,
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: who is apt to be impressed by external appearances. There
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: is one thing which you must learn, however, and that
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: is confidence and a belief in your ability to master
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: this subject. It is like a boy learning to swim.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: The swimming power is inherent in every boy, but he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't believe it. As soon as he believes that he
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: can swim, he swims. But so long as he believes
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: that he can't, he cannot. He may improve in the
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: art of swimming by practice, but he had the swimming
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: power in him from the beginning, and all he needed
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: was belief. You have within you the art of influencing others,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: But until you believe it and have confidence, you will
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: find it hard work. You can do it and have
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: but to strike out. You can begin on easy exercises
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: at first, but you must have confidence from the start.
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  Speaker 1: Some men discover this by accident and do not know
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  Speaker 1: the reason of their success. You know the reason now,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: and can do as well and better than the man
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: who has stumbled upon the truth. Lessen five a little
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: worldly wisdom. For the convenience of explanation, I will continue
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: this illustration, which is quite applicable to the real state
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: of affairs. This active partner is a particular old fellow
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: and needs considerable humoring and careful handling. He is influenced
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: to some extent by the conversation, appearance, manner, voice, eye,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: et cetera. And each active partner has his own tastes
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: and peculiarities, although there are some things which they all
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: have in common. As to conversation, we should, if possible,
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: ascertain what interests the old fellow. If you please him
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: in this respect, he is apt to lose sight of
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: his duties as guardian of his easy brother. You should
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: therefore learn to talk to him about things in which
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: he is interested. But do not make the mistake of
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: talking too much. Give the old man a chance. You
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: should talk until you get him well started on a
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: favorite topic, and then you keep quiet. You should cultivate
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: the art of listening, for it is one of the
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: most valuable accomplishments in the world. Many a man or
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: woman has risen to a high position simply by being
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: a good listener. You may remember the old tale told
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: of Thomas Carlyle. A visitor once called on him, and,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: being a good listener and a student of human nature
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: as well, managed to get him started talking on a
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: favorite subject. Carlyle talked for over three hours without giving
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: the visitor the chance to get in a word edgewise.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: When the caller at last rose to depart. Carlyle accompanied
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: him to the door in a surprisingly good humor and
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: bade him good bye, saying, come again, man, We've had
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: a most delightful conversation. Do you see the point. Listen
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  Speaker 1: attentively to the old active partner, and act as if
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: each of his words was a bright golden dollar fresh
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  Speaker 1: from the mint. But do not fall under the influence
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  Speaker 1: of his spell. Pay earnest attention to what he says,
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: but do not let his thoughts produce any real impression
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: upon you or else he will be selling goods to
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: your passive partner. Keep yourself positive, not negative, for you
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: will have a word to say to the easy brother
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  Speaker 1: after the old fellow becomes intoxicated with the exuberance of
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: his own verbosity and relaxes his vigilance. By all means,
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: cultivate the art of intelligent listening. As to appearance, I
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: would advise you to avoid the two extremes of flashiness
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: and dowdiness, respectively. Keep in the middle of the road.
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: You should particularly avoid clothing calculated to attract special attention,
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: either by its extreme style or the reverse. The apparel
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: should be simple, neat, and clean. Do not wear a
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: shabby hat or shoes, for these things are especially noticeable.
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  Speaker 1: A man with a good hat and neat well cleaned
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: shoes may pass muster even with well worn clothes if clean,
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: whilst with a shabby hat or muddy or shabby shoes,
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: the effect of even a fine suit of clothes is lost.
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  Speaker 1: Always wear clean linen. These things count ases shew the
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: use of strong perfumes. To most men's, strong perfumes are
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: an abomination. It is scarcely necessary to add that personal
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: cleanliness is an important prerequisite for obtaining a favorable hearing
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: with the majority of active partners, even though they be
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: not so particular themselves. Your manner should be pleasant and cheerful,
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: yet not frivolous. A certain degree of reserve is desirable.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: Your temper, of course, should be well under control. Anger
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: is a sign of weakness, not strength, and the angry
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: man is always placed at a disadvantage. You should be
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: absolutely fearless, both physically and morally, the latter being the
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: rarer quality. If you are quick tempered or act to
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: give way to a fear of misfortune or worry, et cetera.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: You should pay particular attention to the lesson on character
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: building and correct these defects. Your manner should convey the
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: idea of self respect, but should likewise show a delicate
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: consideration for the feelings, likes and dislikes of others. If
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: you lack the latter quality, you should cultivate it by
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: all means, as it is of paramount importance in creating
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: friends and in gaining the favor of active partners, the
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: latter being only human in spite of their rough exteriors.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: If you will carry in your mind this thought I
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: act toward you as I would like you to act
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: toward me, and make the thought take form in action,
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: you will acquire this valuable quality. Cultivate a frank, open manner.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: Most people like it. Be earnest when you talk. It
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: not only holds the attention of the people to whom
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: you are talking, but is a valuable aid to you
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: in having your suggestions accepted, and besides, is an important
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: factor in imparting force to your thought vibrations. Cultivate a firm, honest,
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: manly handshake. Nobody likes to have thrust upon him a flabby,
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: limp hand you don't yourself, do not forget this. If
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: you have not the proper handshake, start to work and
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: get it at once. Shake hands with everyone as if
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: you were your best girl's millionaire father, and then look
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: people square in the eye. I will have more to
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: say about the power of the eye in the next lesson,
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: but I wish to call your attention to it. In
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: connection with the hearty hand shake. The two go together.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: Cultivate an agreeable tone of voice, avoiding a mumbling utterance
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: on the one hand and a loud, boisterous tone on
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: the other. An excellent rule is to pitch the voice
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: to the tone of the party with whom you are conversing,
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: providing always that you do not shout in order to
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: keep pace with the other person. If the the other
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: man shouts, keep your own voice even and subdued, and
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: he will soon drop to your pitch. This, by the way,
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: is a good plan to adopt with a person who
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: is excited and is attempting to give you a good
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: tongue lashing. In such a case, keep your temper and
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: see that your voice is subdued and steady, and you
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: will find the voice of the other man or woman
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: gradually dropping down to your pitch as he lowers his voice.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: His temper subsides, and he feels ashamed, and you have
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: won the day. Try it. There is much in the voice.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: A flexible, well modulated voice is most pleasing and wins
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: many victories for its fortunate possessor. Let your voice express
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: the shade of feeling which you wish to convey. This
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: is one of the most potent forms of suggestion. An
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: expressive voice is one of the principal tools of the
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: successful suggestionist. The student must not despair if he lacks
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: some of the important requisites to success above mentioned. He
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: should know that every one of these gifts is within
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: his reach if he will but take the trouble to
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: acquire it. I explain this point fully in the lesson
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: on character building. Another very important medium of influencing others,
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: including our old active partner, is the eye, the human eye,
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: who does not know its power, and yet how few
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: know how to acquire the secret of its use. One
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: could write volumes upon its power as a weapon of
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: offense and defense, and its aid in influencing man and
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: the lower animals, and yet not begin to exhaust the subject.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: I will devote our next lesson to an explanation of
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: the use of the eye as an influencing medium, how
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: to acquire the magnetic gaze, and how to avoid the
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: influence of the eyes of others. Lesson six. The power
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: of the eye. The eye is one of the most
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: potent means of influencing others. It not only serves to
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: hold the attention of the person to whom you are talking,
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: thereby rendering it ease easier to impress your suggestions upon him.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: But it is also a power in itself, which, when
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: properly used, is the means of impressing your will upon another.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: It attracts, fascinates, and holds spellbound the active partner, and
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: gives you a chance to talk with the easygoing brother.
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  Speaker 1: The eye of the man who has mastered the law
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: of mental control is a powerful weapon. It conveys the
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: strong mental vibrations direct to the mind of the other
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: party at short range. You have heard of the power
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: of the human eye over wild beasts and savages, and
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: many of you have met with men who seem to
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: look clear through you, and whose steady gaze was almost unbearable.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: I will give you a few exercises in our next
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: lesson which will aid you in acquiring what is known
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: as the magnetic gaze, a most important acquisition for the
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: student of personal influence. In this lesson, I will assume
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: that you have already acquired the magnetic gaze. The proper
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: use of the eye in interviews with other persons will
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: enable you to exit an influence over them, something akin
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: to fascination or hypnotic attraction. This is the result of
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: strong mental vibrations conveyed at short range by means of
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: the magnetic gaze of the trained eye. You, of course,
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: will be governed by the circumstances of each particular case,
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: and it is difficult to give you general directions applicable
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: to all cases. You must adapt these general instructions to
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: suit the emergencies of each particular case. As it arises,
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: one of the most important things about the beginning of
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: an interview is that you should look the other person
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: squarely in the eye with a firm, steady magnetic gaze.
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: You need not stare at him, but your gaze must
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: be steady and firm and indicative of strong will power
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: and concentration. During the conversation, you may change the direction
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: of your gaze, but whenever you make a proposition, statement,
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: or request, or whatever you wish to impress him strongly.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: You must direct, affirm, steady magnetic gaze towards him, looking
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: him straight in the eye. This is highly important and
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: must not be neglected. When you are talking business, have
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: an earnest, determined look or manner, and hold the other
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: man's attention. If you have a request to make, make
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: it in a clear, dignified, earnest manner, keeping your eyes
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: fixed upon his and willing at the same time that
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: he will do as you say. By all means prevent
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: him from looking away from you. At this point, you
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: must hold his attention at all hazards. If you have
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: his whole attention, the active brother will be too much
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: engrossed to bother about his easy brother, and the latter
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: will draw near and hear what you are saying. If
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: the other party avoids your gaze, you can sometimes regain
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: his attention by looking away yourself, watching him all the
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: time out of the corner of your eye, and as
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: soon as he finds that you are looking the other way,
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: he will be apt to steal a glance at you.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: You must watch for this stolen glance, and the moment
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: you find as I turned towards your face, you must
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: quickly turn your eye and give him a quick, sharp,
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: determined look, keeping your eyes fastened upon his and holding
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: his look by an effort of the will. Right here
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: is a good point for you to drive in your
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: little nail. You have him at a disadvantage, and the
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: psychological moment has arrived for driving in a strong suggestion.
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: If you cannot get him to look at you in
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: the way above mentioned, it is a very good plan
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: to have something to show him, a sample picture or
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: some other object appertaining to your business. You will find
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: that after he looks at the object shown him, he
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: will raise his eyes to yours. He will do this
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: every time, and you must be ready for him with
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: a firm magnetic gaze and a strong suggestion. If you
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: can keep a man's attention and can manage to look
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: squarely at him during the interview, you will surely influence
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: him to a greater or lesser extent, unless he is
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: well posted on this subject, in which case it will
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: be very difficult to influence him by direct means. Very
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: few people, however, possess this knowledge, and you need not
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: figure that element into the ordinary calculation. You may find
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: that the other man will begin to feel that you
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: are gaining some sort of influence over him, and he may,
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: in self defense, endeavor to terminate the interview. This you
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: must not permit, for you have gained an influence and
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: you must follow it up. Do not leave him until
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: you get what you came for. In this connection, it
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: may be well to suggest to you that inasmuch as
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: it is difficult for any one to reason were deliberate
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: clearly whilst they are under the influence of the magnetic
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: gaze of another, it will be well for you to
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: guard yourself against the use of this power at the
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: hands of any one else possessing the secret. You must
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: preserve a positive mental attitude when you find that someone
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: is trying to influence you, and hold the thought firmly
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: that you are strong and beyond such influence. This mental
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: attitude will protect you, and you must of course reverse
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: the instructions given you for influencing others. If a man
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: is endeavoring to interest you in a proposition, do not
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: allow him to hold your gaze uninterruptedly during the conversation.
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: You may, without seeming to avoid his gaze, look away
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: reflectively at intervals in an easy way. This will give
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: you time to reflect a little and maintain your balance.
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: When he makes you a proposition, look away from him
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: in a deliberative manner, as if you are carefully considering
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: every word that he is saying. If he manages to
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: drive in a sudden suggestion or proposition when he holds
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: your eye, do not answer him until you have taken
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: your eyes away for a minute and regained your positive balance.
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: Then if your answer is no, look him square in
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: the eye with a positive glance and say you're no,
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: firmly and deliberately, but of course politely when in doubt
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: say no. Keep a sharp lookout for insidious suggestions given
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: at a psychological moment, for there is where much of
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: the danger lies. Let your own active partner be alive
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: to his duties, and do not let the other fellow
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: get in a word with your passive partner. They will
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: want to get a word with each other, but you
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: must put down your active foot on it. The man
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: who is doing the talking, if he understands his business,
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: always is the positive factor in a conversation. Whilst the
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: listener is more or less passive, the more intently and
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: earnestly he listens, the more passive he is. The positive
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: is stronger than the negative, and people should always be
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: on their guard to avoid having positive suggestions forced upon
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: them when they are in a negative condition. You should
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: learn to give suggestions in an earnest, firm, positive manner,
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: your voice showing that you expect them to be acted upon,
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: and your mind assuming the belief that such will be
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: the case. If you have not this desirable quality, you
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: should take a few lessons from some good suggestor and
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: practice on his subjects. The experience thus gained will be
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: most useful. It is almost impossible to convey in a
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: written lesson the manner and tone of voice best adapted
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: for this purpose, which information I always impart to my
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: personal classes by means of actual experiments under my supervision.
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: If you will form a mental picture of what is
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: implied by the two words confident earnestness, you will be
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: able to grasp the idea I intend to convey when
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: I tell you to make your suggestions in the proper manner.
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: The lesson on concentration will also aid you in this respect.
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: Our next lesson will be devoted to the magnetic gaze.
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: Lesson seven. The magnetic gaze what is known as the
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: magnetic gaze is the expression of a strong mental demand
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: by means of the eye, whose nerves and muscles have
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: been trained for the work, and which is thereby enabled
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: to maintain a firm, steady, positive gaze. The production of
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: the mental effort will be explained in a subsequent lesson,
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: and we will now speak only of the eye itself.
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: The following exercises are very important, and I trust that
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: the student will closely follow the same. By the practice
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: of these exercises, you will be able in a short
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: time to acquire a gaze which will be felt by others,
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: and by continued practice, you will so develop this faculty
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: that few will be able to withstand your gaze. This
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: is a most interesting study, and you will have the
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: pleasure of seeing the increase of the power of your
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: eye manifested by the people with whom you come in contact.
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: You will soon find that people will become restless and
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: uneasy beneath your gaze, and some will manifest indications of
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: something akin to fear if you concentrate your gaze upon
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: them for a few seconds. When once you have mastered
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: this accomplishment and have acquired the strong magnetic gaze, you
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: would not part with your gift for a large sum
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: of money. You should not content yourself with merely performing
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: the exercises given below, but should experiment on persons with
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: whom you come in contact and note the results. You
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: can acquire a perfect working knowledge of the power of
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: the eye only by experiment upon live subjects. Exercises Exercise one.
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: Take a piece of white writing paper about six inches square,
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: upon which you have drawn a circle about the size
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: of a silver quarter dollar. The circle then being filled
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: in with black ink, so that the spot will stand
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: out black and distinct upon the white background. Pin the
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: paper upon the wall at about the height of your eyes.
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: When you are seated, place your chair in the middle
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: of the room and seat yourself directly facing the paper.
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: Fix your eyes steadily upon the black spot, and gaze
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: at it firmly, without winking, for one minute. After resting
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: the eyes, practice the exercise again. Repeat five times. With
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: the chair in its original place, move your paper three
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: feet to the right of its original position, seat yourself
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: and fix your gaze on the wall directly in front
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: of you. Then, without moving the head, cast the eyes
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: to the right and gaze steadily on the spot for
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: one minute. Repeat four times. Then placing the paper on
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: the wall three feet to the left of its original position,
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: gaze steadily at the spot for one minute, repeat five times.
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: Continue this exercise for three days, and then increase the
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: time of the gaze to two minutes. At the end
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: of three more days, increase the time to three minutes,
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: and so on, increasing the time one minute every three days.
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: Some persons have acquired the power of gazing steadily for
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: twenty or thirty minutes without winking or having their eyes
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: fill with water, but I do not advise extending the
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  Speaker 1: limit beyond fifteen minutes. The man who can maintain the
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  Speaker 1: gaze for fifteen minutes can direct as powerful a gaze
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: as he who has attained the thirty minute record. This
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: exercise is the most important one, and if faithfully followed up,
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: will enable you to gaze steadily and earnestly at any
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: one with whom you are talking. It will impart a strong,
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  Speaker 1: masterful expression to the eye, and enable you to maintain
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: a steady gaze which few will be able to withstand.
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: Dogs and other animals will quail before your gaze, and
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: its effect will manifest ITSNSLF also in numerous other ways.
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  Speaker 1: The practice of the exercises is somewhat tedious, but anyone
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  Speaker 1: will be amply repaid for the time and trouble bestowed
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  Speaker 1: upon it. If you are practicing hypnotism, you will find
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  Speaker 1: this gaze most helpful to you. It will have the
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  Speaker 1: further effect of causing the eye to appear fuller by
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: increasing the space between the eyelids. Exercise two. You may
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: supplement the first exercise with the following, which will add variety,
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: relieve the monotony, and accustom you to gaze into the
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: eyes of others without embarrassment. Stand in front of your
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: mirror and gaze into the reflection of your own eyes
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: in the manner mentioned in exercise number one. Increase the
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: time as in the previous exercise. This exercise will accustom
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: you to bear the gaze of others and also will
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: enable you to obtain the best expression of the eye,
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: and in other ways will be useful to you. It
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: will enable you to see the growth and development of
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: the characteristic expression of your eye when it is acquiring
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: the magnetic gaze. By all means, practice this exercise systematically.
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  Speaker 1: Some authorities prefer this exercise to the preceding one, but
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: in my opinion, the best results are obtained by a
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  Speaker 1: combination of the two. Exercise three. Stand erect facing the
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  Speaker 1: wall at a distance of three feet. Place your sheet
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: of paper in front of you, with the spot directly
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: in front of the eyes. Fix your gaze upon the spot,
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: and then move your head around in a circle, keeping
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: your gaze fixed upon the spot. As this exercise causes
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: the eyes to roll around and keeping the gaze steady,
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: the nerves and muscles receive considerable exercise. Vary the exercise
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: by circling the head in different directions. Use this exercise
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: mildly at first and avoid tiring the eyes. Exercise four.
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  Speaker 1: Stand with your back against the wall and facing toward
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  Speaker 1: the opposite wall. Shift your game raze rapidly from one
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  Speaker 1: point of the wall to another right, left, up, down, zigzag, circle,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera. This exercise should be discontinued and the eyes
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: begin to feel tired. The best plan for concluding the
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: exercise being to gaze intently at one point which will
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: rest the eyes after the previous motion. This exercise is
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  Speaker 1: calculated to strengthen the muscles and nerves of the eye.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: Exercise five. After having acquired a firm gaze, you will
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  Speaker 1: gain confidence by persuading a friend to allow you to
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  Speaker 1: practice your gaze upon him. Place your friend in a
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: chair opposite your own, sit down, and gaze calmly, steadily,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: and firmly into his eyes, instructing him to look at
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  Speaker 1: you as long as he can. You will find that
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: you will easily tire him out, and that by the
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: time he cries enough, he will be in an almost
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  Speaker 1: hypnotic condition. If you have a hypnotic subject, he or
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: she will answer still better. You also may try the
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  Speaker 1: strength of your gaze on a dog, cat, or other animal,
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  Speaker 1: provided that you are able to induce it to stand
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  Speaker 1: still or lie still. You will find, however, that most
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: animals will move away or turn the head in order
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  Speaker 1: to avoid your steady gaze. You, of course, will distinguish
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: between a steady, calm gaze and an impudent stare. The
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: first is indicative of the man of strong psychical power,
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  Speaker 1: whilst the latter denotes the cat. You will find at
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: first that you are strong. Steady gaze may somewhat disconcert
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: those with whom you come in contact, and may embarrass
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: those at whom you are directing your gaze, causing them
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: to become uneasy and rattled, you will soon accustom yourself
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: to your new power, and will use it discreetly so
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  Speaker 1: as to avoid embarrassment to others, whilst producing an effect
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  Speaker 1: on them. I would caution you against discussing or speaking
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  Speaker 1: of your eye exercises or practice of personal magnetism to others,
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  Speaker 1: as that course would result only in making people suspicious
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  Speaker 1: of you, and in other ways proving a sealerious detriment
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: to the proper use of your powers of influencing people.
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  Speaker 1: Keep your own secrets and let your force manifest itself
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  Speaker 1: by results, not by boasting. In addition to these reasons,
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: there are good occult reasons why you should keep your
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  Speaker 1: own counsel about your new accomplishments. A neglect to observe
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: this advice will be a source of regret to you.
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  Speaker 1: Take your time in practicing these exercises, and do not
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: rush things unduly. Follow Nature's rule, and develop your powers
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: gradually but surely. Lesson eight the volic force. In the
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: preceding lessons, I have given you an explanation of the
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: manner whereby one person may attract another in a personal
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: interview by means of the power of suggestion, et cetera.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: The person, thus making the impression upon another, is aided
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: in his work by two other forces. The first of
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: these assisting forces is what is known as the adductive
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: quality of thought, of which I will speak in subsequent lessons.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: The second is the volative influence of the mind of
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: one person over the mind of another. There is a
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: marked difference in these two several manifestations of the power
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: of the mind. In the first instance, the adductive quality
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: of thought, once being set in motion, affects others without
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: a conscious effort of your mind, your mere thinking strongly
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: of certain things, setting a mighty force in motion which
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: influences others. In the case of relation, the mental vibrations
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: are sent out and impelled by the conscious exercise of
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: the will power of the sender, and are directed towards
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: some special object. When the impelling power is withdrawn, the
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: vibration cease. I find no term in general use which
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: is especially applicable to this form of thought force, And
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: as I do not desire to continue speaking of it
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: as the conscious effort of the will producing thought vibrations
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: and impelling the same toward a given object, I am
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: driven by necessity to the coining of a name to
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  Speaker 1: express this idea. I shall accordingly hereafter use the term
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: volation to indicate the idea above defined, the said word
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: being derived from the Latin word volas the will. This
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: word must not be confounded with volition, meaning the free
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: exercise of the will in making a choice. I shall
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: also use the term volic from the same source, meaning
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: of the will. The volic power is one of nature's
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: most potent forces, and at the same time is the
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: least understood. It is exerted more or less unconsciously by
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: all men. Some are aware of its effects without understanding
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: the laws of its production and development. It may be
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: greatly increased by intelligent practice and training, if one will
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: devote to the task the necessary time and effort. I
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: will give you exercises for the proper development of this
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: power in the lesson on concentration. To be able to
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: make intelligent use of the volic force, it is necessary
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: to understand the real nature of the will. And to
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: understand the real nature of the will, you must realize
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: what is the real man. Many of us have been
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: in the habit of thinking of the ego, the I
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: of ourselves as merely the physical body. This is the
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: materialistic point of view. Others think of their I as
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: a mental creature, having control of the body and having
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: his abode in the brain. This is partially correct, but
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: is only half the truth. Others realize that there is
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: a higher self in man, and a few have recognized
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: that higher self and live in accord with its dictates.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: The real ego or I, is as much higher than
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: mind as mind is higher than the body, and both
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: body and mind are subordinate to it. Both are its
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: tools and are used for its work when it sees
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: fit to use them. The real self is that which
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: we feel when in times of reverie and introspection we
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: think or say I am. All of us have felt
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: this consciousness of the real self at certain times in
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: our lives, but have failed to realize its full importance.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: Lay down this book for a few moments, and relaxing
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: the muscles of your body, in assuming a passive state
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: of mind, think quietly and calmly on the words I am,
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: and endeavor to picture your real self superior to both
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: mind and body. If you have secured the proper state
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: of mind and body, you will perceive a glimmer of
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: the presence of the real self. Within you continue the practice,
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: it will awaken in your mind a perception of the truth.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: Nothing can injure or destroy the rayal self. The body
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: and mind may pass away, but the I Am is
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: eternal and impregnable to harm. It is powerful, and when
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: the mind has learned to adapt itself to its influence,
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: man becomes like another being and acquires hitherto unknown powers.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: The purpose of this series of lessons does not permit
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: me to dwell at length upon this subject. Its importance
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: demands the work of many volumes to do it, even
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: faint justice. But I wish at this point to direct
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: the attention of the student to this vital truth with
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: all the earnestness of which I am capable. Take whatever
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: view you wish regarding the instructions given you in this course,
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: accept its teachings or reject them as you see fit.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: But let this one thought sink deeply into your mind.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: The I Am is your real self. When your mind
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: recognizes its master, you will have learned the secret of life.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: I have planted this thought seed in your mind, and
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: it will grow and evolve into a beautiful plant, bearing
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: a flower whose fragrance will surpass that of Earth's fairest
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: blossoms when its leaves unfold and show the flower in
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: all its beauty. Then will you know that you have
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: found yourself Lord of a thousand worlds? Am I and
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: I reign since time began, and night and day in
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: cyclic sway shall pass while their deeds I scan, Yet
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: time shall cease. Ere I find release? For I am
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: the soul of man. Charles h or that which we
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: mean when we say the will is a manifest station
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: of the im of the individual, bearing nearly the same
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: relation to it that thought does to the mind. When
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: we speak of developing the will, we really mean the
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: developing of the mind to recognize and be controlled by
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: the will. The will is strong enough it does not
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: need developing. This is contrary to the generally accepted doctrine,
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: but it is correct. Nevertheless, a strong will current is
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: flowing over the psychic wires, but you must learn to
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: raise the trolley poll to the wire before you are
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: able to move the mental car. Man thinks along two
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: different lines. One class of thinking, which we have called
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: passive mentation, is little more than instinctive effort. It sort
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: of thinks itself and requires little or no volic force
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: For its production. Another class of mental effort, which we
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: will call active mentation, is produced by a greater or
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: lesser demand of the mind upon the power of the will.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: I can merely call your attention to this fact, as
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: a detailed treatment of the matter is without the scope
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: of this work. I have gone deeper into the matter
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: in some of my other writings to which I must
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: refer you. In this work I am called upon to
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: teach how and not why, and therefore I do not
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: care to take you beyond the border of the realm
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: of theory. The more man thinks along the lines of
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: active mentation, the stronger and more forceful are his thoughts.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: The reverse is, of course, likewise true. The man who
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: understands the law of mental control is placed at an
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: immense advantage over his brother who follows the calf path
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: of passive mental effort. Thoughts of all kinds are projected
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: by the mind, and their vibrations go out from the individual,
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: influencing others to a greater or lesser degree according to
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: the force of the impelling effort. Passive thoughts are less
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: powerful than active thoughts, but the former, if constantly repeated,
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: have much force. It will be seen readily that in
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: order to produce a direct effect upon the mind of
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: another by thought, vibrations and effort of volation is required.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: The stronger the effort, the stronger the effect. The next
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: lesson will be devoted to the subject of the exercise
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: of the power of volation. Lesson nine direct volation. The
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: exercise of volation differs very materially in degree among different men.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: It may be stated broadly that a man exerts an
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: influence over other men in an exact ratio to his
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: measure of volation. The leader of men has developed this
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: power to a comparatively high degree, although perhaps unconsciously and
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: without a knowledge of the workings of the mighty force
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: which is operating in his behalf. Many such men frankly
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: admit that they are unable to explain or account for
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: their power over men. They know that they have some
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: sort of power, but are ignorant of its nature or laws.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: Napoleon is a striking example of the man of highly
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: developed volation. His will was imposed upon millions of men
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: who obeyed his commands, and he accomplished results little short
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: of miraculous. From remarks dropped by him, it seems probable
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: that he had at least a faint idea of the
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: force at his command, and he acted in accordance therewith
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: for a while. He afterwards attempted to misuse his power,
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: lost sight of the source of his strength, neglected its laws,
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: and fell. You will notice that all successful men instinctively
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: feel the light strongly. They have faith in themselves and
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: frequently feel that they have a special providence overlooking their affairs. They,
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: like Napoleon, feel that they have a star of destiny.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: This is an instinctive recognition of the I Am. They
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: have but a glimpse of the truth and have made
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: the most of it. Their strong desire for power, fame,
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: or riches pushing them on and causing them to instinctively
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: avail themselves of the powerful aid of the ego. There
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: are many who recognize the power of the I Am,
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: some of whom understand its law. And yet these men
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: do not assert themselves in the struggle for material reward.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: They have the power within them, but desire is not there.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: They are content with the lesser material rewards and are
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: not willing to pay the price of what is known
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: as success or the mastery of men. Many men who
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: have mastered the occult power, scorn wealth, position, and fame,
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: and exert no desire for them, feeling that these things
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: are unworthy of their powers, and preferring to use the
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: forces at their command for what they consider higher aims.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: They say, with the prophet vanity vanity all is vanity,
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: and with puck, what fools these mortals be? The law
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: of compensation seems to even all things, and wealth, power
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: and position do not always bring happiness. The old sayings
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: uneasy the head that wears the crown, and there is
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: no rose without its thorn are literally true. However, I
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: do not propose preaching a sermon on life, nor do
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: I wish to point a moral Every individual must choose
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: for himself, and no man can decide for another. I say, however,
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: that whatever you do, do it right. There is only
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: one way to do things, and that is to do them.
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: You must put your hand to the plow and look
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: not backward, Select your goal, and then move straight toward it,
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: sweeping from your path all obstacles. To accomplish your aim,
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: you must have desire strongly present, and must recognize your
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: real self the I am. In order to exert what
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: is generally known as will power, in the furtherance of
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: your plans. In the preceding lesson, I have defined volation
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: as the conscious effort of the will producing thought vibrations
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: and impelling them toward a given object. The vibratory force
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: may be exerted in the ordinary way at short range
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: upon the occasion of a personal interview. It also may
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: be exerted in a much less understood way by means
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: of long range vibrations, some times called telepathy. The first
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: form is quite common, and we all have seen exhibitions
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: of it. The second form is somewhat rare, and those
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: who understand it best have but little to say about it.
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: It is practiced quietly, however, by many more persons than
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: we usually dream of. In that connection. We see mild
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: examples of it in what is known as telepathy or
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: thought transference, mind reading, et cetera. But these exhibitions are
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: usually given by those who understand the subject very imperfectly.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: I know several persons who have developed this power to
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: a wonderful degree, and in no case will they consent
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: to an exhibition of their powers to any but a
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: few chosen friends with whom they are in perfect sympathy,
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: and who happen to be likewise familiar with the subject.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: These people know the real nature of the power of
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: which they are making use, and will not degrade it
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: by making it the subject of an ordinary show. They
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: are content with their knowledge and seek to convince no
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: one else. They are not looking for converts, and in
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: fact discourage any attempt to make public their occult knowledge,
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: believing that the time is not yet ripe for such publicity,
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: and that its promulgation at this time would result in
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: its misuse. The prime requisite for the acquirement of the
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: art of elation is the recognition of the power of
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: the real self the I am. The more complete the recognition,
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: the greater the power. I cannot give you specific directions
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: for acquiring this faculty of recognition. You must feel it
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: rather than reason it out. You will not be in
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: doubt as to whether you are on the right track.
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: You will realize it at once. As near as I
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  Speaker 1: can express it to you is to say that you
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  Speaker 1: will feel that your body is as a suit of clothes, which,
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  Speaker 1: whilst covering you temporarily, is not you. That you are
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  Speaker 1: separate in a part from your body and superior to it,
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  Speaker 1: although for the time being connected with it, you will
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  Speaker 1: realize that even your mind is not you, but that
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  Speaker 1: it is merely the instrument through which you manifest yourself,
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  Speaker 1: and which, being imperfect, prevents the complete expression of your
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  Speaker 1: real self. In short, when you say or think I am,
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  Speaker 1: you are conscious of the existence of your real self
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  Speaker 1: and feel the growth of a new sense of power
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  Speaker 1: within you. This recognition of the self may be but faint,
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  Speaker 1: but encourage it and it will grow, And whilst growing,
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  Speaker 1: will manifest itself to your mind, by impressing upon the
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  Speaker 1: latter the knowledge of the proper plan for further development.
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  Speaker 1: It is an example of to him who hath shall
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  Speaker 1: be given, and to him who hath not shall be
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  Speaker 1: taken away, even that which he hath. The mere calling
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  Speaker 1: of the attention to the fact may awaken the recognition
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  Speaker 1: in some, whilst others will find it necessary to reflect
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  Speaker 1: upon the idea and awaken to a recognition of the truth.
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  Speaker 1: More slowly, some will not feel the truth. To such,
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  Speaker 1: I say, the time is not yet ripe for your
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  Speaker 1: recognition of this great truth. But the seed is planted,
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  Speaker 1: and the plant will appear in time. This may seem
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  Speaker 1: like the variest nonsense to you now, but the time
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  Speaker 1: will come when you will admit its literal correctness. To
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  Speaker 1: those who feel the first indications of the awakening of
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  Speaker 1: the real self, I say, carry the thought with you,
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  Speaker 1: and it will unfold like the lotus, naturally and gradually.
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  Speaker 1: The truth, once recognized, cannot be lost, and there is
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  Speaker 1: no standing still in nature. To those who recognize the truth,
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  Speaker 1: I would like to say more, but this is not
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  Speaker 1: the place. The practice of concentration, as explained in a
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  Speaker 1: subsequent lesson, will enable anyone to develop this idea of
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  Speaker 1: the real self. The thought I am held in the
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  Speaker 1: silence whilst you are concentrating, will grow stronger and stronger
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  Speaker 1: to exercise the power of volation in influencing others. In
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  Speaker 1: a personal interview, you have merely to make a strong
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  Speaker 1: mental demand of the other person, accompanied with the consciousness
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  Speaker 1: of your right to do so, and the belief that
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  Speaker 1: your command will be obeyed. You must fully expect that
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  Speaker 1: your command will be obeyed. In all mental processes, the
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  Speaker 1: earnest expectation is a prime factor in producing the effect.
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  Speaker 1: If you have only a faint, half hearted expectation, you
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  Speaker 1: will have only half way results. You will realize the
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  Speaker 1: reason for this after you have completed this course, the
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  Speaker 1: matter being explained in subsequent lessons. Now, do not understand
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  Speaker 1: that you will be able to approach any one and,
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  Speaker 1: by simply willing, in expecting the results, make that person
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  Speaker 1: do just what you will. You could do all of
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  Speaker 1: this if the person had no power of mental resistance,
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  Speaker 1: no volic force of his own, to counteract yours. Some persons,
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  Speaker 1: unfortunately for themselves, have but little volic force, and are
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  Speaker 1: but puppets in the hands of those who know the
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  Speaker 1: secret of personal influence. Others have a little more of
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  Speaker 1: the force, and so on, until the high stages are reached.
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  Speaker 1: I do say, however, that you will obtain some degree
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  Speaker 1: of success from this plan from every person with whom
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  Speaker 1: you come in contact, the degree of success depending entirely
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  Speaker 1: upon the degree of volic force of the other person
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  Speaker 1: as compared with you own. You will understand this better
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  Speaker 1: after a few trials. Do not hesitate about commencing to
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  Speaker 1: practice this form of mental influence at once. You will
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  Speaker 1: improve by practice, and will grasp the theory better from
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  Speaker 1: having put it into practice. Remember the boy not being
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  Speaker 1: able to swim until he believed he could and tried.
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  Speaker 1: You should, of course use relation in connection with the
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  Speaker 1: power of suggestion, as explained in preceding lessons, you will
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  Speaker 1: be able to concentrate your powers of command by observing
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  Speaker 1: the exercises given in the lesson on concentration. In other lessons,
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  Speaker 1: I will explain why these occult powers should not be
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  Speaker 1: used for any evil purposes or in working harm to
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  Speaker 1: any one. But I think it well at this point
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  Speaker 1: to caution students against any misuse of this power. Such practices,
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  Speaker 1: besides being wrong morally, will result to the disadvantage of
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  Speaker 1: the practitioner, and if persisted in, will wreck his prospects
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  Speaker 1: in the end. He may be successful temporarily, but the
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  Speaker 1: result in the end will be disastrous. There are good
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  Speaker 1: occult reasons for this, and I hope that my warnings
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  Speaker 1: will be heeded by any one reading this course. There
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  Speaker 1: is no harm in using this knowledge and information toward
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  Speaker 1: promoting your legitimate business interests and your welfare, providing always
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  Speaker 1: that no harm is inflicted on the person influenced. You
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  Speaker 1: may influence a man to deal with you, and if
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  Speaker 1: you treat him fairly, you are making no misuse of
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  Speaker 1: your powers. But on the other hand, if you should
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  Speaker 1: influence a man for the purpose of swindling or cheating him,
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  Speaker 1: or doing him other harm. You commit a great wrong
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  Speaker 1: for which you will some day suffer in proportion to
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  Speaker 1: the wrong perpetrated. I am not speaking of punishment in
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: a future life, but right here in this world. As
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: ye sow, so shall reap holds good. In this case,
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  Speaker 1: there is very little likelihood of your misusing your powers
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  Speaker 1: of elation, for when you attain them fully, you will
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  Speaker 1: instinctively recoil from the idea of working evil by means
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  Speaker 1: of your new found strength. There are, however, a few
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  Speaker 1: men in the world who, like Satan, use their mighty
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  Speaker 1: power for evil. But like Satan, these men are doomed
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  Speaker 1: to extreme misery and unhappiness. They are like fallen gods.
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  Speaker 1: The best exercise for the development of relation is, of
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  Speaker 1: course concentration, but it may be interesting to the student
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  Speaker 1: to be able to try his hand on a few
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  Speaker 1: simple tests so as to gain confidence in himself. I
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  Speaker 1: append a few exercises for this purpose. Many others will
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  Speaker 1: readily occur to the student. Try only easy tests at first,
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  Speaker 1: and then gradually work up to more difficult feats. Practice
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  Speaker 1: makes perfect. Let me say here that when you will anything,
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  Speaker 1: do not get the notion that you must frown or
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  Speaker 1: clinch your fists, or anything of that sort. The force
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  Speaker 1: is attained by a calm, undisturbed attitude, the willing being
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  Speaker 1: done in the form of a calm, earnest demand, and
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  Speaker 1: the thought that what you expect will occur. The earnest
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  Speaker 1: expectation is the secret. You will soon get the knack
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  Speaker 1: of it. Do not be discouraged, but keep at it
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  Speaker 1: until you get things working smoothly. In our next lesson,
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  Speaker 1: we will take up the subject of long range volation,
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  Speaker 1: or more properly, telepathic volation exercises. Exercise one, whilst walking
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  Speaker 1: down the street, fix your attention upon some one walking
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  Speaker 1: just ahead of you. A distance of at least six
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  Speaker 1: to ten feet should separate you, and a greater distance
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  Speaker 1: is no obstacle. Fasten a firm, steady, earnest gaze upon
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  Speaker 1: your subject, focusing the gaze upon the back of his neck,
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  Speaker 1: just at the base of the brain, whilst gazing firmly
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  Speaker 1: at this point well that the subject shall turn his
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  Speaker 1: head and look around in your direction. A little practice
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: is required to perfect yourself in this exercise, but after
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: you once acquire the knack of it, you will be
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  Speaker 1: surprised at the percentage of people whom you can affect
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  Speaker 1: in this way. Women seem to be more highly susceptible
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  Speaker 1: to this mental influence than are men. Exercise two, fix
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  Speaker 1: your gaze upon some one sitting ahead of you in church, theater, concert,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera. Focusing your gaze upon the same point as
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  Speaker 1: in a previous exercise, and will that the person shall
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  Speaker 1: look around. You will notice that the subject will fidget
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  Speaker 1: around in his seat, appear more or less uncomfortable, and
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  Speaker 1: finally half turn in his seat and direct a quick
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  Speaker 1: glance in your direction. This experiment will prove more successful
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  Speaker 1: with persons whom you know than with strangers. The better
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: you know the person, the quicker the influence will manifest itself.
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  Speaker 1: The two exercises just given can be indefinitely multiplied by
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  Speaker 1: the ingenuity of the student. The principle is the same
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  Speaker 1: in all cases, the concentrated gaze and strong earnest expectant,
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  Speaker 1: willing or demanding the result being the prime factors in
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  Speaker 1: producing the phenomenon. You, of course realize that the concentrated
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  Speaker 1: will power can be developed by the practice of the
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  Speaker 1: exercises given, and in the lesson on concentration. If you
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  Speaker 1: find difficulty in producing the above results, you will know
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: that your powers of concentration are not sufficiently developed, and
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: you will accordingly perfect yourself in this respect. Exercise three.
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  Speaker 1: Select some person who may be seated on the opposite
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  Speaker 1: side of a street car from you, but several seats
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  Speaker 1: to the right or left of the point directly opposite you.
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  Speaker 1: You may look straight ahead, so as to appear as
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  Speaker 1: if you were not looking at the other party, but
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  Speaker 1: you will be conscious of his presence and will see
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  Speaker 1: him out of the corner of your eye. Direct a
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: strong mental demand toward him, willing and expecting that he
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: will look in your direction. If you manage it properly,
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  Speaker 1: you will find that in a few moments the party
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  Speaker 1: will suddenly glance in your direction. Sometimes the glance will
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  Speaker 1: be directed in a seemingly unconscious manner, just as if
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  Speaker 1: the party had merely felt a passing fancy to look
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  Speaker 1: at you, whilst in other cases the glance will be
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  Speaker 1: shot at you suddenly and sharply, as if the party
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  Speaker 1: had been conscious of a mental call. The person obeying
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: the call often will look embarrassed and somewhat sheepish when
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  Speaker 1: he meets your full magnetic gaze which you have directed
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  Speaker 1: upon him when he turned his eyes in your direction.
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  Speaker 1: Exercise for when talking with a person and he seems
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  Speaker 1: to hesitate in the choice of a word, glance sharply
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  Speaker 1: at him and give him a strong mental suggestion of
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  Speaker 1: a word. In many cases he will immediately repeat the
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  Speaker 1: word which you have suggested. Your word must be appropriate,
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  Speaker 1: as otherwise his passive mind may hesitate about using it,
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  Speaker 1: and his active mind will step in and insert another word.
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  Speaker 1: Some students have tried this experiment in the case of
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  Speaker 1: a public speaker, preacher, et cetera, and have related many
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: amusing instances in their experience. I remember reading a work
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: translated from the German in which is mentioned the case
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: of a youth whose powers of concentration and volation were
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: most highly developed. He was a student at a leading college, and,
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: being more interested in athletic sports than in study, ran
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: a great risk of falling behind in his work. Having
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: discovered his powers accidentally, he contrived a plan in the
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  Speaker 1: furtherance of which he would commit to memory but a
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  Speaker 1: few answers in each lesson. When the professor would start
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: to quiz him, he would send forth strong vibrations, willing
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  Speaker 1: the prof to select certain questions the answers to which
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  Speaker 1: he had memorized, the result being that he stood well
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: up in each class. The German writer, however, went on
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  Speaker 1: to say that his plan failed the young man in
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: his examination, as the final questions being prepared by the
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: faculty and submitted in writing, the student had no opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to try the willing game on the day of the examination.
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  Speaker 1: Exercise five. An interesting experiment is that of willing the
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  Speaker 1: movement of a person in a certain direction. This can
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  Speaker 1: be tried when walking behind a person on the street.
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: By focusing the gaze as instructed. When the person approaches
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: another person walking in the opposite direction, you may will
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: the subject to turn either to the right or left
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: in passing the other person. You may also try this
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: experiment in the case of a person approaching you in
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: the street. In this case, you should walk straight ahead,
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: turning neither to the right nor to the left, keeping
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: your gaze fixed on the approaching party, and making a
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: mental command that he turned to the right or left
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: as you will. Exercise six. Stand at your window and
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: fix your eyes upon an approaching person at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: willing that he turn his head and look at you
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: whilst passing, you will find that he will obey your
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: mental attraction seven times out of ten. Providing your powers
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: of concentration are sufficiently well developed, even without the practice
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: of the concentration exercises, you will be able to influence
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  Speaker 1: passers by sufficiently often to satisfy you that there is
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  Speaker 1: something in it. You will be able to obtain better
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: results in this particular experiment if you will stand at
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  Speaker 1: a first floor window rather than at a window higher
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  Speaker 1: from the ground, the motion of obeying the impulse and
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: merely turning the head being so much easier than the
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: motion of looking up to a second or third floor window,
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: the percentage of results obtained by the first plan will
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: greatly exceed those of the latter one. This exercise may
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: be varied by the plan of compelling the attention of
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: a person seated at a window which you are passing,
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: and so on. When you once begin to practice these exercises,
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  Speaker 1: you will find it so fascinating that you will invent
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: new plans of testing your power. You being governed by
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: the particular circumstances of the occasion. These exercises will do
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: much to develop confidence in your powers, and to aid
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: you in acquiring the knack of sending out the vibratory impulses.
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: They are, of course more or less trifling in their natures,
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  Speaker 1: and unworthy of the exercise of the mental powers except
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: as a means of practice. They should not be used
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: merely for the amusement of the student, and never for
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: the amusement of his friends. One should never trifle with
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: these mighty forces, nor exhibit them for the gratification of
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: the vulgar curiosity of others. The student who grasps the
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: real significance of the law of mental control will have
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: little or no desire to parade his knowledge lesson ten
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: telepathic volation. I will not attempt to take up your
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: time in endeavoring to convince you of the existence of telepathy.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: Psychic science has made such wonderful strides of late that
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: not only are its students fully aware of the truth
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: of telepathy, but the general public as well, are fully
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: posted on the subject and generally accepted as an established
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: fact as readily as they do the X rays or
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: wireless telegraphy. In fact, the public has always believed in
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: a general way in thought transference, and the recent scientific
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: experiments in telepathy have but served to confirm many people
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: in beliefs which have been always entertained by them. The
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: purpose of this lesson, therefore, is not to convince you
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: of the fact that telepathy or thought transference is an
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 1: existent fact, but to give you an idea of the
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: proper means of using the same to your own advantage.
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: Every thought, whether voluntary or involuntary, causes thought waves or
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: vibrations to be projected into space, which vibrations affect the
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: minds of others to a greater or lesser degree. There
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: is a way to project thought vibrations toward another person
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: in a straight line, and thereby attract his attention to you.
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  Speaker 1: This plan, compared to the ordinary plan of undirected projection
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: of thought waves, is as a rifle ball compared to
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: a load of mustard seed shot. The rifle ball is
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 1: vastly superior, providing you aim straight. Some masters of mental
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: science have attained a wonderful proficiency in the art of
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: telepathic relation, and some of the results secured by them
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 1: would be deemed incredible by those not familiar with the
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 1: laws of directed thought vibration. These results have been accomplished
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: only by years of study, experiment, and the leading of
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: a life far different from that of ordinary men. I
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 1: fancy that very few of my readers would care to
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 1: pay the price of such attainments. It is well, perhaps,
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: that this power is not easily acquired, as otherwise many
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: might master it and use it for unworthy purposes. I
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: am in the confidence of some of the masters of
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: this wondrous power, and have witnessed many startling exhibitions of
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: thought transference. But as the promise of secrecy was exacted
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: from me by these friends, my lips are of course sealed.
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: Outside of these considerations, it would be a very doubtful
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: wisdom to spread broadcast information of this nature, which would
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: place within the means of unscrupulous persons the power to
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: work their wills upon their fellow men. Even as it is,
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: fragments of this occult knowledge have leaked out and have
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: been misused. Some have stumbled by accident upon some of
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 1: the first principles, and have pursued the matter as far
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 1: as their limited knowledge would permit, often securing results which
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: both surprised and startled them. However, the purpose of this
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: course of instruction is not to attempt to make its
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: students venerable masters of occult lore, mystics, yogis, or wonder workers,
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: but merely to give them a working knowledge of the
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: laws of personal influence by means of the exercise of
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: the powers of the mind, in short, personal magnetism. This
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: being the case, I shall not dwell upon the wonderful
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 1: phenomena produced at will by the masters of this science,
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: but will proceed to give you an idea of the
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: first principles in practice of telepathic relation, which will be
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: useful to you in your everyday life. I shall not
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 1: attempt to carry you further than the mere compelling the
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: attention of the person whom you wish to influence, even
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: if you are hundreds of miles removed from that person.
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: If you wish to pursue the subject further by reading
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: an experiment, you are at liberty to do so. But
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: I warn you that you will find the attainment of
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: the higher degrees of this science no easy task. The
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: primary degrees which I will now teach you are quite
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: easy of attainment when the theory is once understood, and
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: need only practice to me make perfect. As I have
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: said before, all thoughts produce vibrations which spread like ripples
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  Speaker 1: on a pond produced by the casting in of a pebble,
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  Speaker 1: They affect people in all directions. If, however, you throw
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  Speaker 1: the pebble along the surface of the water, the ripples
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  Speaker 1: will manifest their energy in the direction in which the
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  Speaker 1: stone travels. So it is with the vibrations of telepathic
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  Speaker 1: relation as compared with the vibrations of ordinary thought. For instance,
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 1: suppose that you wish to attract the attention of any
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  Speaker 1: person whom you are desirous of interesting in your behalf.
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  Speaker 1: You may think earnestly of your desire to interest him,
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  Speaker 1: and if you have read something of mental science, you
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  Speaker 1: may picture him as being interested in you. By so doing,
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  Speaker 1: you will undoubtedly send forth strong thought vibrations in all directions,
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  Speaker 1: some of which will reach your man, may affect him
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  Speaker 1: to a greater or lesser degree, depending materially upon your
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  Speaker 1: degree of positiveness toward him. At the best, he receives
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  Speaker 1: no stronger impult than does any other person in any
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  Speaker 1: way connected with you. But on the other hand, if
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: you so arrange your mental telepathic apparatus that the strong
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: vibratory impulse travels in a straight line to the desired person,
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: the message will be received far more clearly, the impact
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 1: of the vibrations will be much stronger. In order to
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: produce the best results, you should practice the exercises in
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 1: concentration given in this course. You will be able to
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  Speaker 1: produce some results without a knowledge of concentration, but with
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  Speaker 1: it you have tenfold power. I will assume that you
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: have acquired a working knowledge of concentration and have practiced
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 1: the exercises now for the production of results. You expect
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  Speaker 1: to have an interview with a man in a few days,
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  Speaker 1: in which you hope to interest him in your plans
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  Speaker 1: and enterprises. This man is perhaps a stranger to you,
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  Speaker 1: or at least is indifferent to you, and there exists
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  Speaker 1: no attraction on his part towards you. You know that
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  Speaker 1: you will be able to influence him by the man
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  Speaker 1: methods already explained, but you wish, if possible, to open
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  Speaker 1: up direct communication with him before the interview, to get
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  Speaker 1: en rapport with him at a distance. You are perfectly
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: right in feeling that your chances of success will be
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  Speaker 1: improved by these means, as once you manage to get
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  Speaker 1: en rapport with a man or woman, you have gained
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  Speaker 1: an important point for that person. Cannot help feeling an
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  Speaker 1: interest in you, thereafter, perhaps a strong interest. The best
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  Speaker 1: plan for you to pursue under the above circumstances is
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  Speaker 1: to establish a mental rapport with your man by means
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 1: of telepathic volation. Your first step is to get by
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  Speaker 1: yourself in some quiet place and either lie down or
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: sit down in an easy chair. Get at ease and
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  Speaker 1: relax every muscle let go of your body until you
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: are as limp as a damp cloth and are scarcely
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: conscious of having a body. Calm yourself and secure a passive,
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  Speaker 1: RESTful frame of mind, thinking of nothing outside of yourself
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  Speaker 1: and above everything else, shut out all disturbing fear thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: You will be able to do this easily by concentration.
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  Speaker 1: After you have secured the proper conditions, think intently but
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  Speaker 1: calmly of the other party. Do not frown or clinch
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  Speaker 1: your fists in your efforts to think, but remain passive
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  Speaker 1: and relaxed. The effort must be a calm, steady mental effort.
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  Speaker 1: You will be assisted by the closing of the eyes
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  Speaker 1: and the production of a mental image of the person
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  Speaker 1: with whom you wish to get a rapport. If you
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  Speaker 1: have never seen this person, make the mental figure without
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  Speaker 1: distinct features. After a few trials, you will notice that
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  Speaker 1: the mental picture seems more real to you. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: you realize that in some way you are in mental
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  Speaker 1: contact with the other person. When this stage is attained,
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 1: then you will let your mind dwell on your wishes
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  Speaker 1: in regard to this person and imagine him doing as
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: you wish. Your principal mind picture, however, must be that
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  Speaker 1: of the man himself, as this holds the connection between you.
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  Speaker 1: That day dreams of his acting as you wish, merely
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  Speaker 1: shaping the lesser thought waves. These lesser thought waves are
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  Speaker 1: of course moving in circles in all directions, but are
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  Speaker 1: reaching your man with much greater force than usual. The
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  Speaker 1: direct line of communication being open, you will improve greatly
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  Speaker 1: by practice and experiment. The best results are obtained when
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  Speaker 1: you get the impression of looking through a long tube
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  Speaker 1: about one foot in diameter, you being at one end
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  Speaker 1: and your man at the other. This impression, which can
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  Speaker 1: be acquired by concentration, is an indication of perfect rapport
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  Speaker 1: and indicates that you have succeeded in shutting out all
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  Speaker 1: outside impressions and have opened up the psychic line of communication.
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  Speaker 1: When you attain this stage, you may rest assured that
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  Speaker 1: you are making a strong impression unless the man at
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  Speaker 1: the other end of the psychic tube understands the law
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  Speaker 1: of mental control and has felt an indication of thought
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 1: vibrations being directed towards him, in which case he will
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  Speaker 1: assume a positive mental state. The more passive the other
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: man may be at that moment, the better will be
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: the results. A little practice will develop this power, and
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  Speaker 1: you will get the impression of the tube more clearly
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: and will form a much clearer mental picture of the
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  Speaker 1: other person. Some little practice may be required before you
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 1: can obtain this mental impression of the long tube, although
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: some students seem to be able to produce it fairly well.
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  Speaker 1: At the first trial, you, of course, will have secured
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: the necessary passive condition in yourself. The next step is
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: to produce the mental impression of the tubular connection. This
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 1: will appear first as a faint shadowy ring, which by
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  Speaker 1: degrees will become more distinct and will resolve itself into
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  Speaker 1: the shape of an open end of a tube. The
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: tube will then lengthen out, and later on you will
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  Speaker 1: be able to see clear along its enormous length. You
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: may obtain this result in a few experiments, and, on
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 1: the other hand, may be required to practice at a
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 1: number of times. It seems to be greatly a matter
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 1: of obtaining the knack of forming the mental picture. You
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 1: can obtain good results without the production of the tubular effect,
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: but the best results seem to be obtained by those
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 1: who can produce this effect. I may as well tell
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: you at this point that you should cultivate the positive
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  Speaker 1: mental attitude, as it will enable you to obtain much
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: better results and will prevent you being influenced by the
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: exercise of relation on the part of others. If you
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: feel an indication of outside influence, you have merely to
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: form the thought recognizing the I am, which will impart
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 1: a feeling of psychical strength to you at once and
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: render you impervious to the vibrations. By a full appreciation
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: recognition of the higher self, you will surround yourself with
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  Speaker 1: a thought aura which will protect you without any voluntary
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  Speaker 1: effort of the mind from outside mental influences. Until you
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  Speaker 1: fully acquire this recognition, you merely have to hold the
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: thought for a moment assert your real self by the
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 1: affirmation I am, accompanied with the mental conception of the
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: real self a mental image of yourself surrounded by a
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: protecting thought aura which deflects the vibrations of others, will
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: of itself create an aura of moderate proportions, which will
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: last as long as you hold the thought, and will
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: act as a perfect defense against outside vibrations. You should
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: practice the production of these mental pictures, as the result
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 1: will be of great value to you. If you ever
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 1: feel that you wish to be alone and able to
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: think without taking the opinions of others into consideration, just
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: sit down and shut out the vibrations as above stated,
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: and you will be surprised at the clearness of thought
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 1: which will result. I will tell you in my next
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 1: lesson about the influence of thought vibrations, but it may
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: be as well to say here that the thought vibrations
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: of others, even when not directed at us, move in
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: widening circles, affecting us all. More or less. Nature has
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: provided us with instinctive powers of resistance. But nevertheless we
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 1: are affected more or less by the thought vibrations of others,
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 1: and what we think are our opinions are often merely
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 1: the consensus of the opinions of others with whom we
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 1: are surrounded. The change of residence by a man may
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 1: result in his changing his views of religion, politics, ethics,
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 1: et cetera, to correspond with the general impressions of his
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 1: new environment, the change being wrought by the effect of
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 1: the combined thought waves of his new neighbors. A little
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 1: reflection will remind you of numerous instances of this phenomena.
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 1: Waves of popular feeling will sweep over a country, arousing
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 1: nearly every one, and then will die out as suddenly
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 1: as they came. A peaceable crowd may be converted into
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 1: a savage mob, and so on, the emotions and opinions
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 1: of a man being molded to a greater or lesser
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  Speaker 1: degree by the quality of the thought waves reaching him.
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  Speaker 1: You will readily see how valuable is the knowledge which
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: will enable you to shut out these outside impressions at will,
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 1: and allow you to be governed entirely by your own reason, judgment,
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 1: or intuition. Do not pass by this matter lightly, for
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 1: the time may come when this knowledge will be of
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  Speaker 1: incalculable benefit to you. There are times in which clear
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 1: thinking is of vital importance to every man. A powerful
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: pressure may be brought on you to do a certain thing,
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 1: and you are undecided just how to act. You need
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 1: your best thought at this point, and the way to
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 1: get it is to surround yourself with the protecting thought Aura,
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 1: and whilst secure in your own mental castle, decide what
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 1: is best to be done. Many of your best decisions
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 1: will be made in this way by all means acquire
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 1: the art. I have digressed somewhat in my desire to
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 1: instruct you in the means of defense, and we will
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 1: now resume our discussion of offensive methods. We will suppose
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: that you have followed the instructions regarding the opening up
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 1: of direct mental connections with your man by means of
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 1: telepathic volation. When later on you come into his presence,
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 1: you will find that he seems to evince more interest
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 1: in you than formerly. He will act as if he
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 1: is better acquainted with you and has known you for years,
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 1: and will consequently as you to feel more at home
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 1: with him than usual. I do not mean to say
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 1: that he will of necessity do just what you have
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 1: willed that he should. You have not advanced that far,
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 1: but he will show a disposition to meet you half way,
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 1: and matters will progress much more smoothly than might have
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 1: been expected. Of course, a repetition of the exercise of
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 1: telepathic volation will tend to geaze up matters. Still more,
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 1: do not be discouraged at seeming failures, but keep at it,
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 1: and success will come when you least expect it. In
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 1: all interviews, maintain a fearless, confident frame of mind, and
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 1: do not forget to use the power of your eye.
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 1: The latter often reopens the connection previously established by telepathic volation,
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 1: re establishes the rapoort conditions, and makes the balance of
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 1: the interview much more in conformity with your desires. You
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 1: must be governed by circumstances and must learn to apply
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 1: the above stated methods to widely differing conditions. The above
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 1: example is given you merely as an illustration, but its
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 1: principles are correct and may be applied with appropriate variations,
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 1: to any case in which you wish to influence another
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 1: at a distance preparatory to a personal interview. The principle
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 1: is the same in all cases. The student who has
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 1: gone over these lessons carefully will discover much that will
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 1: be missed by the casual reader. He will be able
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 1: to read between the lines. If you are on the
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 1: right track, much that has been stated will appear plainer
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 1: to you. With each reading, you will get new ideas
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 1: every time you take up a lesson and read it,
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 1: whilst the casual reader will merely skim over it and
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: not enter into its spirit, the result being that such
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 1: person will miss the esoteric teachings and will only see
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 1: the outward or esoteric meaning, and will find the explanations
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 1: and exercises about as clear as mid This is just
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: as it is intended man thindeth that which he seeketh.
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 1: One man will find coal plainly exposed, whilst another will
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 1: find the diamond embedded in the earth. But both diamond
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 1: and coal are composed of the same material as in
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: ye shall receive, seek and ye shall find. In concluding
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 1: this lesson, let me say that whilst the powers of
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 1: the mind, as illustrated in the form set forth in
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 1: this and preceding lessons, may appear wonderful, the power of thought,
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 1: as exemplified by what is known as the adductive power
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 1: of thought, far exceeds the phases of which I have
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 1: told you. I will endeavor to impart to you an
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 1: idea of this wonderful subject in our next lesson, Lesson eleven.
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 1: The adductive quality of thought that great writer on the
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 1: Power of the Mind, Prentice Molford, has summed up much
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 1: of his philosophy in the statement thoughts are things. In
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 1: these words he gave expression to a mighty truth which,
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 1: if fully apprehended by mankind, would revolutionize the world. Thought
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: is not only a dynamic force. It is a real thing,
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 1: just as is any other material object. Thought is merely
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 1: a finer form of matter or a grosser form of spirit.
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 1: You may call it either with equal correctness. Matter is
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 1: but a grosser form of mind. Mind but a finer
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 1: form of matter. There is but one substance in nature,
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 1: but that substance has many forms, ranging from the most
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 1: material so called forms, to the highest form spirit. When
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 1: we think, we send out vibrations of a fine ethereal substance,
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: which is as real as the finer vapors or gases
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: the liquids. The solids. We do not see thought. Neither
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 1: do we see the finer vapors or gases. We cannot
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 1: smell or taste thought. Neither do we smell or taste
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 1: the pure air. We can feel it, however, as many
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 1: can testify, which is more than we can say of
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 1: the powerful magnetic vibrations of a mighty magnet, which, whilst
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 1: exerting a force sufficient to attract toward it a piece
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 1: of steel weighing one hundred pounds, is absolutely without effect
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: upon us. Its vibrations may pass through our bodies in
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 1: exist its force on the steel, while we may be
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 1: unaware of its existence. Light and heat send out vibrations
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 1: of a lower intensity than those of thought, But the
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 1: principle is the same. The evidence of the five senses
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 1: is not absolutely necessary to establish the existence of a
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 1: material substance or force. The annals of science are full
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 1: of proofs of this fact. Professor Alisha Gray, an eminent scientist,
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 1: says in his little book The Miracles of Nature. There
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 1: is much food for speculation in the thought that there
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: exists sound waves that no human ear can hear, and
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 1: color waves of light that no eye can see. The
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 1: long dark, soundless space between forty thousand and four hundred
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: trillion vibrations per second, and the infinity of range beyond
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: seven hundred trillion vibrations per second where light ceases in
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 1: the universe of motion, makes it possible to indulge in speculation. M. M. Williams,
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 1: in his work entitled Short Chapters in Sciences says there
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: is no gradation between the most rapid undulations or tremblings
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 1: that produce our sensation of sound and the slowest of
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 1: those which give rise to our sensations of gentless warmth.
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 1: There is a huge gap between them, wide enough to
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 1: include another world of motion, all lying between our world
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: of sound and our world of heat and light. And
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 1: there is no good reason whatever for supposing that matter
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: is incapable of such intermediate activity, or that such activity
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 1: may not give rise to intermediate sensations, provided there are
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 1: organs for taking up and sensifying these movements. I cite
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 1: the above authorities merely to give you food for thought,
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 1: not to attempt to demonstrate to you the fact that
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 1: thought vibrations exist. The last mentioned subject would be far
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 1: beyond the scope and purposes of this work, and only
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: can be touched upon Hirin. The character of the thought
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 1: vibrations sent out by us depend upon the nature of
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 1: the thought itself. If thoughts had color, and some say
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 1: that they have, we should see our fear and worthy
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 1: thoughts as murky heavy clouds hanging close to the earth
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 1: are bright, cheerful and happy. Confident, I can and I
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 1: will thoughts as light, fleecy vapory clouds traveling swiftly and
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 1: mingling with others of their kind, forming fleecy cloud banks
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 1: high above the level of the dense mephitic foul exhalations
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 1: produced by fear and worry. I can't thoughts. No matter
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 1: how far your thought waves may travel, they retain a
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 1: certain connection with you and exert an influence over you,
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 1: as well as others. You cannot easily get rid of
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 1: the influence of these children of your mind. If you
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 1: have been sending out bad thoughts, you are subject to
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: their influence, and your only hope is to neutralize and
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 1: counteract them by sending out strong new thought waves of
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 1: the proper sort, or by asserting the I am and
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 1: thereby creating a mental aura, or by both means. The
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 1: old sayings like attracts like and birds of a feather
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 1: flock together are both literally exemplified by the tendencies of
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 1: thought waves. There is what is known as the adductive
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: quality of thought, the word adductive being derived from the
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 1: Latin word adductum. To bring to the manifestation of This
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 1: quality of thought is one of the most wonderful features
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 1: in the realm of psychic phenomena. Fear or worry thoughts
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 1: will attract others of their own kind and will combine
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: with them, the result being that you will be afflicted
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 1: not only by the product of your own mind, but
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: also by those emanating from the minds of others, the
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 1: whole forming a heavy burden, and the longer that you
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 1: persist in that line of thought, the heavier will be
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  Speaker 1: your burden. On the other hand, if you think bright, cheerful,
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  Speaker 1: and happy thoughts, they will draw to themselves others of
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  Speaker 1: the same degree, and you will feel brighter, more cheerful,
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  Speaker 1: and happier from their combined influence. This is absolutely true,
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  Speaker 1: but you are not asked to accept it on faith alone.
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  Speaker 1: Try it and be convinced. But in the experiment, be
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  Speaker 1: sure to couple the thoughts with a feeling of confidence
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  Speaker 1: in the outcome, and you will obtain much better and
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  Speaker 1: quicker results. Half Hearted doubting thoughts have only a small
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  Speaker 1: percentage of the force of confident, expectant ones. If you
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  Speaker 1: think along the lines of discouragement, lack of confidence, afraid
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  Speaker 1: to try, no, I can't lines, you will attract to
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  Speaker 1: yourself the force of other murky thoughts of the same kind,
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  Speaker 1: and you will find that you really can't. And moreover,
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  Speaker 1: everyone else will seem to entertain just the same opinion
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  Speaker 1: regarding your ability. But just brace up and send out earnest, confident,
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  Speaker 1: fearless I can and I will thought waves, and you
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  Speaker 1: will attract to yourself the similar thought waves of others,
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  Speaker 1: which will still further stimulate and strengthen you and help
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  Speaker 1: you to accomplish your aims. If you send out jealous,
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  Speaker 1: envious thoughts, they will come home, bringing their mates with them,
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  Speaker 1: and you will be wretched until the effect passes off.
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  Speaker 1: So will waves of hate return to harm you, having
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  Speaker 1: gained force and power on their journey. The old proverb
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: curses like chickens come home to roost, is much nearer
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  Speaker 1: the real truth than is generally supposed. Anger thoughts arouse
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  Speaker 1: anger in the other man unless he has rendered himself
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  Speaker 1: positive to them, and he sends back his return thought waves,
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  Speaker 1: besides which other anger waves mingle and help on the
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  Speaker 1: vicious work. You have heard people say that a man
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  Speaker 1: always finds what he looks for. Of course he does.
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  Speaker 1: He cannot help it, for his thought attracts others of
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  Speaker 1: the same sort, and he sees a world of the
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  Speaker 1: same color as his mental spectacles. Good thought attracts good.
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  Speaker 1: Evil thoughts evil. If you hate a man and send
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  Speaker 1: him your hate thoughts, you will get hate in return,
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  Speaker 1: and will face a hating and hateful world. In the
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  Speaker 1: thought world, you get back what you send out with
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  Speaker 1: good interest. Send out kind thoughts, and kind thoughts will
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  Speaker 1: return to you with compound interest, and you will find
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  Speaker 1: yourself greeted by a kind, helping world, and will be
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  Speaker 1: much the gainer. If only from a selfish point of view.
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  Speaker 1: It pays to think the best thoughts. If you will
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  Speaker 1: practice thinking along these lines for say one month, you
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  Speaker 1: will find the greatest difference in things, the greatest change
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  Speaker 1: in yourself. And you will find that you look with
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  Speaker 1: aversion in disgust upon your old, mean, low, miserable way
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  Speaker 1: of thinking, and would not return to it under any consideration, No,
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  Speaker 1: not for a fortune. Before the month will have passed,
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  Speaker 1: you will be conscious of the helpful force of the
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  Speaker 1: responsive thought waves, and your life will seem entirely different
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  Speaker 1: to you. Try it. Try it now, you will never
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  Speaker 1: regret it. There are two particularly bad thoughts which you
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  Speaker 1: should root out first of all, and you will find
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  Speaker 1: that when you have rid yourself of them, the balance
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  Speaker 1: will die out of their own accord. I allude to
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  Speaker 1: fear and hate. These two foul weeds are the parents
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  Speaker 1: of most of the others. Worry is the oldest child
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  Speaker 1: of fear and bears a close resemblance to its father. Envy, Malice,
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  Speaker 1: and anger are some of the numerous brud claiming hate
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  Speaker 1: as their parent. Destroy the bold ones, and you will
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  Speaker 1: not be troubled with their offspring. I will speak further
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  Speaker 1: on this point in the Lesson on character building. I
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  Speaker 1: will now proceed to another phase of the adductive quality
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  Speaker 1: of thought. I refer to its exhibition along the lines
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  Speaker 1: of success by right thinking. It may seem almost incredible
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  Speaker 1: to you, but it is a fact that all successful
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  Speaker 1: men owe their greatness to their earnest, forceful, concentrated thought vibrations.
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  Speaker 1: They fixed their mind upon a certain line of thought,
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 1: brought the aid of will, the recognition of the I
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  Speaker 1: am to bear on that line of thought, allowed that
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  Speaker 1: line of thought to mold. Their characters went straight to
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  Speaker 1: the mark at which they had aimed in the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: Others had aimed for the same mark, but failed because
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  Speaker 1: they failed to hold the thought and had allowed themselves
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  Speaker 1: to become discouraged, intimidated, tempted, or coaxed away from their ideal.
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  Speaker 1: The requisites for the successful following up of a thought
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  Speaker 1: ideal to the end are first an overpowering desire, not
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  Speaker 1: a mere wish. Second, a strong belief in your ability
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  Speaker 1: to accomplish your desire, not a mere half hearted faith.
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  Speaker 1: And third, an invincible determination to win, not a mere backballness.
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  Speaker 1: I'll try to. The above qualities of mind will invariably
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  Speaker 1: win out if persisted in They will mold the character
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  Speaker 1: to suit the task. As thought takes form in action,
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  Speaker 1: they will endow you with strong powers of influencing others.
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  Speaker 1: They will produce the thought waves of the quality to
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  Speaker 1: attract other thought waves to your aid. If you think
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  Speaker 1: I can't, thoughts, you project vibrations which will lead others
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  Speaker 1: to feel that indeed you cannot, and they will have
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  Speaker 1: no use for you or need for your services. Self
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  Speaker 1: preservation makes men fight shy of fellows of this kind.
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  Speaker 1: The world is not attracted towards I can't men. This
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  Speaker 1: form of thought produces conditions that repel rather than attract.
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  Speaker 1: But think I can and I will, thoughts, and the
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  Speaker 1: vibratory waves will go dancing along, charged with their inspiriting message,
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  Speaker 1: and the world will be strongly attracted towards you, and
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  Speaker 1: things will come your way. Strong men will feel a
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  Speaker 1: fellow feeling towards you and will be glad to co
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  Speaker 1: operate with you. Weaker men will feel your strength, will
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  Speaker 1: need your aid, and will be unconsciously influenced by and
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 1: attracted to you. This is an example of the attracting
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  Speaker 1: properties of thought. Try it. The adductive quality of thought
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 1: does more than this. It also draws towards you men
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  Speaker 1: who are interested in the same line of work. They
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 1: feel attracted towards you, and you to them, and you
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 1: each aid one another to your mutual advantage. It draws
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  Speaker 1: towards you men who need your services or whatsoever you
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  Speaker 1: have to offer, and they avail themselves of it to
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 1: your advantage. It attracts towards you those who will help
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 1: you and advance your interests. Did you ever feel attracted
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 1: towards some fellow of this kind and help him before
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 1: you got through with him? Of course you have. Why
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 1: Why do you like to patronize some men and fight
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 1: shy of dealing with others just as good? Just the
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 1: power of thought vibrations. That's all. Then the same quality
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 1: of thought will attract you toward others whose vibrations are
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 1: pitched on the same scale, and you will instinctively find
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 1: those who will be of service and aid to you.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you that your own will come to you
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  Speaker 1: if you will only recognize the law. It is a
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  Speaker 1: strange thing and difficult to explain without leading you into
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 1: metaphysical depths. But the measure of success by this plan
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 1: seems to depend materially upon your belief in the force.
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 1: A half hearted belief will bring only half way results,
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 1: whilst in earnest, firm, confident belief that your own will
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  Speaker 1: come to you will accomplish results little short of marvelous.
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  Speaker 1: Cultivate that sort of belief and accompany it with a
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 1: firm mental demand for what you want, and you will succeed.
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  Speaker 1: Ask and ye shall receive. Knock in it show be
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 1: opened unto you, But accompany the asking in knocking with
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 1: the firm belief and expectation of success. Helen Wilman says,
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  Speaker 1: he who dares assert the eye may calmly wait while
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  Speaker 1: hurrying fate meets his demand with sure supply. But the
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  Speaker 1: words calmly wait refer only to the state of mind,
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  Speaker 1: and indicates that calm, confident expectation of a sure thing.
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  Speaker 1: It does not mean that a man shall sit down
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  Speaker 1: and fold his hands and do nothing more than calmly
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  Speaker 1: wait for hurrying fate to drop its reward in his lap.
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  Speaker 1: Oh No, Helen Wilmans never meant that. She is not
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  Speaker 1: built that way. The man who is possessed of the
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  Speaker 1: dominating desire and concentrated thought impulses does not sit down
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  Speaker 1: and merely wait. He couldn't do that without sacrificing his
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 1: keen desire and earnest pursuit. Thought manifests itself in action.
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 1: The firmer the thought, the stronger the action. You may
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  Speaker 1: want a thing the worst way, and be fully confident
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  Speaker 1: of your ability to secure it, but you are going
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 1: after that thing the best you know how, and are
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 1: going to get it. You will agree with Garfield who said,
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 1: do not wait for a thing to turn up. Go
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 1: out and turn something up with all your might and main,
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  Speaker 1: but carrying with you the calm demand that that thing
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 1: will be turned up as the result of your going
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 1: out and turning, and you will feel all the time
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  Speaker 1: the confident expectation of the thing obeying your command. I
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 1: wish that my space would allow me to tell you
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  Speaker 1: of the wonderful results of this plan of thinking and acting.
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 1: But I can merely touch upon it and call your
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 1: attention to the workings of the law. But after all,
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 1: one must learn a thing by experience before they will
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  Speaker 1: appreciate its truth. The I am is not satisfied in
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  Speaker 1: any other way. I want every one who reads this
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  Speaker 1: lesson to start in and practice this new thought plan.
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  Speaker 1: You will have to accept what I say on faith
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 1: at first, but you will soon begin to demonstrate its
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 1: correctness by personal experience, and then you will know it
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  Speaker 1: to be true and will put push forward to success.
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  Speaker 1: Anything is yours if you only want it hard enough.
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  Speaker 1: Just think of it. Anything, try it, Try it in
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  Speaker 1: earnest and you will succeed. It is the operation of
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  Speaker 1: a mighty law. Our next lesson will take up the
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  Speaker 1: subject of character building, and will show you that as
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  Speaker 1: a man thinks in his heart, so is he. Lesson
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  Speaker 1: twelve Character Building by mental control. The student who has
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  Speaker 1: read the preceding lessons has doubtless said, after reading some
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 1: of the statements contained therein, Yes, that is all true enough,
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  Speaker 1: and I could accomplish these results if I but possessed
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  Speaker 1: the necessary qualities of mind and character. This seems to
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  Speaker 1: be the great stumbling block to many. They know just
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 1: what is necessary to produce success, but because they do
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  Speaker 1: not possess the characteristics of the successful man, they fancy
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 1: that the prize is beyond their reach. There is no
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  Speaker 1: greater mistake in the world than this false belief, this
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  Speaker 1: and of fear thought, this lack of recognition of the
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 1: power of the I am man can so mold his
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  Speaker 1: mind by the power of the will, that he can
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 1: make of himself practically what he will. He can make
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 1: over himself without a doubt. A man is just what
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  Speaker 1: he wills himself to be. This is a bold statement,
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  Speaker 1: but it is absolutely true, and we have hundreds of
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 1: instances of it in every city in this land. Hundreds
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 1: of men can testify to its correctness, and many hundreds
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 1: of others are on the road. Regeneration is no idle dream.
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  Speaker 1: It is a living truth. You will realize just what
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  Speaker 1: this means if you will stop to consider that every
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 1: effect has its cause. Business success is due to certain
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  Speaker 1: qualities of mind, character, or temperament. Of these three qualities,
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  Speaker 1: the first is the only real one, as the last
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 1: two are but the results of the first. Those who
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 1: have the given qualities produce the given result. Those lacking
• 2:01:59
  Speaker 1: the said quality fail to obtain the result. When once
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 1: you realize that these qualities are within your grasp, that
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  Speaker 1: you can make them a part of yourself, you will
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 1: readily see that wonderful possibilities are open to you. The
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 1: acquirement of these qualities is key to the situation. You
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 1: know just what these necessary qualities are energy, ambition, determination, courage, confidence, perseverance, patience, prudence,
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  Speaker 1: and the rest of the list. All persons possess some
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 1: of these qualities and lack others. Some are strong in
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 1: some of these qualities and weak in others. And every
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 1: man instinctively knows in just what respect he falls short.
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 1: He may not admit it to his friends or even
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 1: to his wife, but deep down in his inner consciousness
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 1: lurks the knowledge of the truth. If he could acquire
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 1: the missing qualities by a mere wish, he would know
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 1: just what to wish for, no doubt about that. But
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 1: he lacks the confidence and perseverance thought to be necessary
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  Speaker 1: for the acquirement of that which he knows he needs.
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  Speaker 1: He is not willing to pay the price of attainment.
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  Speaker 1: If some great scientist would announce to the world that
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  Speaker 1: he had discovered some wonderful chemical combination or some new
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 1: serum that would develop the shrunken and atrophied faculties of
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 1: the mind, and which would render a man strong in
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 1: the qualities wherein heretofore he had been weak. What a
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 1: rush there would be for the new regenerator. Thousands would
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 1: want it, and every man would be able to tell
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 1: just what brand of serum he needed. He would need
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 1: no diagnosis or prescription for that. Every man would be
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 1: able to diagnose his own case and order the serum
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 1: indicated by his symptom. One would want triple extract of energy,
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 1: another that stick to it brand, another the vile bearing
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 1: the confident I can label, and so on. They would
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 1: all know that if they could get the proper kind
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 1: of serum, they would be able to round out their
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 1: characters and command success. Now there is no drug that
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 1: will produce this result, and there never will be. But
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 1: the desired result can be obtained by the operation of
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 1: the law of mental control. I can give you but
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  Speaker 1: a general idea of the workings of this great law.
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  Speaker 1: But if you will pay attention to what I have
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  Speaker 1: to say on the subject. You will grasp the principle
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  Speaker 1: and will be able to work out your own salvation.
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  Speaker 1: The first point to remember is that we are all
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  Speaker 1: creatures of habit, bodily and mentally. Our characteristics are largely
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  Speaker 1: the result of habits of thought. We may have inherited
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 1: impulses which make it easier to form certain habits and
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 1: more difficult to form others, and we consequently move along
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 1: the lines of the least resistance. But the character is
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 1: after all the result of certain acquired habits. We follow
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 1: well worn mental paths in preference to making new paths
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  Speaker 1: through the woods, even although we know that the new
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 1: path would be the better by far, and that it
• 2:04:55
  Speaker 1: would be as easy to travel over as the present
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 1: one when it was finally formed. We know all this.
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 1: It is an old story. Then why do we not
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 1: start in to make the new path? Simply because it
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 1: is too much trouble? We lack the will power, determination,
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  Speaker 1: and persistency to do it. I admit that it is
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 1: no easy task, but think of the reward. These things
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 1: are ancient history to you, of course, But I have
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  Speaker 1: something else to say to you on the subject that
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  Speaker 1: is not so antiquated. I purpose to make you a
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 1: present of a labor saving path maker, which is guaranteed
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  Speaker 1: to clear away the underbrush and rubbish in but a
• 2:05:35
  Speaker 1: fraction of the time, and with much less labor that
• 2:05:38
  Speaker 1: the old plot in clearing away process. This new plan
• 2:05:42
  Speaker 1: is very simple, but very effective, and will enable you
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 1: to make yourself over without the ripping apart process attendant
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 1: upon the old method. I will tell you about it
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  Speaker 1: in as few words as possible. I have already explained
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  Speaker 1: to you that your minds possessed two planes of effort
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  Speaker 1: to new functions, the active and the passive. The active
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 1: function does the volitional, original thinking, whilst the passive function
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 1: does only what it is told to do by the
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 1: active function or by others. The passive function is the
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 1: easygoing partner of the firm to whom I introduced you
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  Speaker 1: in a previous lesson. It is this part of the
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  Speaker 1: mind upon which hypnotists operate after lulling to sleep. The
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 1: active function the critical partner the passive function, although in
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 1: a sense the inferior really rules us unless we know
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  Speaker 1: how to manage it. It is the habit function, the
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 1: beaten track function of whose existence. We are all conscious.
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  Speaker 1: It is easily influenced, but nevertheless is set in its ways.
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  Speaker 1: Tell it a thing over and over, something which you
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  Speaker 1: wish it to believe, and it will end up in
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 1: accepting the new thought, and being as set in the
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 1: new notion as it was in the former one. This
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  Speaker 1: is the secret of breaking up the habits of thought, action, disposition, character.
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  Speaker 1: The suggestion upon which the passive function acts may come
• 2:07:04
  Speaker 1: from your own active mind or from the mind of another.
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  Speaker 1: This is the explanation of the beginning of a habit,
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  Speaker 1: good or bad. To break up old thought habits and
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 1: to replace them with new habits of thinking, one or
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 1: more of several plans may be used. One may accomplish
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  Speaker 1: the result by sheer force of will, another by hypnotic
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  Speaker 1: suggestion from an experienced, qualified operator, another by what is
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 1: known as auto suggestion given by your active to your
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 1: passive mind. A fourth by that which I will term
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 1: thought absorption. Breaking up thought habits by sheer force of
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  Speaker 1: will is a most difficult task, as most of us know,
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 1: for we have all tried it. It is a plan
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  Speaker 1: by which only the strongest succeed, whilst the weaker are
• 2:07:47
  Speaker 1: defeated and relinquished the effort, experiencing additional discouragement and despair.
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  Speaker 1: We accomplish this result by the strengthening of the will,
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 1: or more correctly, by the strengthening of the active function
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  Speaker 1: of the mind, by the will enabling it to step
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  Speaker 1: in and simply command the passive function to drop the
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 1: old thought habit and adopt the new in its place.
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  Speaker 1: It is a magnificent feat, but very difficult of performance.
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  Speaker 1: The same result can be obtained by easier plans. The
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 1: very habit of making the passive mind more amendable to
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 1: the commands of the active function can be acquired by
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  Speaker 1: the easier plan of which I will speak in this lesson.
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 1: The second plan, the changing of the thought habit by
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 1: hypnotic suggestion, has been followed by many with excellent results,
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 1: provided always that the operator was a proper person, thoroughly
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 1: understanding his profession and being fully acquainted with the latest
• 2:08:39
  Speaker 1: methods of eradicating undesirable thought habits. In this connection, I
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 1: would say that one should be very careful in whose
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 1: hands they placed themselves for treatment of this sort. One
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 1: should not trust their case to a person just because
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 1: that person could give hypnotic suggestion. One would not employ
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  Speaker 1: a man as cashier of a bank just because the
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 1: applicant could keep books and count money rapidly. The third plan,
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 1: that of producing the result by auto suggestion, is good,
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 1: especially when accompanied by thought absorption. In auto suggestion, you
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 1: simply keep on repeating to the passive mind the statement
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  Speaker 1: that the new habit exists, ignoring the old one, and
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 1: the passive mind, although inclined to be a little rebellious
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 1: at first, will eventually accept what you say as truth.
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 1: It will adopt the new thought habit as its own thought,
• 2:09:26
  Speaker 1: just as do some people under like circumstances. Auto suggestion
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 1: is practically self hypnosis of the passive mind by the
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 1: active mind. It is a case of every man his
• 2:09:38
  Speaker 1: own hypnotist. The third plan, thought absorption, consists in the
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 1: placing of yourself in a perfectly passive condition at frequent intervals,
• 2:09:47
  Speaker 1: and fixing the mind intently upon the idea or mental
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 1: statement that the new habit exists, picturing yourself, by an
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 1: effort of the imagination, as being a man possessed of
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 1: the desired qualities. You should carry the thought with you,
• 2:10:01
  Speaker 1: continually picturing yourself as possessing the desired habit. In every
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 1: leisure moment, day and night, and in other ways acting
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 1: out the belief. This is purely an action of the
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 1: passive mind assisted by the imagination. It seems very simple,
• 2:10:17
  Speaker 1: but the results which have been attained by it seem
• 2:10:19
  Speaker 1: little short of marvelous. It is by far the easiest
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 1: and one of the most effective methods of making over
• 2:10:26
  Speaker 1: your character. The imagined thing becomes a reality in a
• 2:10:29
  Speaker 1: comparatively short time, and action follows close upon the heels
• 2:10:33
  Speaker 1: of thought. In my opinion, the combination of auto suggestion
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 1: and thought absorption affords the ideal treatment in character building.
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  Speaker 1: If persisted in, it will accomplish the most marked results
• 2:10:45
  Speaker 1: in a comparatively short space of time, the effect being
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 1: felt from the very first. Do not pass over this
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  Speaker 1: lightly because it seems so simple. It is a secret
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 1: worth thousands of dollars to you, and one which you
• 2:10:58
  Speaker 1: would not part with for any money once you have
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 1: experienced its benefits. I will now give you a brief
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 1: explanation of the several methods above referred to. Let us
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 1: take the fear worry thought habit as an illustration. It
• 2:11:13
  Speaker 1: affords an excellent illustration of a bad habit of thought,
• 2:11:16
  Speaker 1: for it does more to unfit one for the duties
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 1: of life than all the rest of the bad thoughts combined,
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 1: and also brings with it the vile brood of miserable,
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 1: weakening thought habits of which it is the parent. The
• 2:11:27
  Speaker 1: man who has torn out by the roots the vile
• 2:11:29
  Speaker 1: fear thought worry thought has progressed a long distance on
• 2:11:33
  Speaker 1: the road to freedom. Fear thought never helped any one,
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  Speaker 1: and never will, But it has wrecked the careers of
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 1: thousands of men and women, paralyzing their energies, preventing their progress,
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 1: in feebling their minds, and diseasing their bodies. We have
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 1: all felt it, and those of us who have banished
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 1: it would not return to its thraldom. Under any consideration.
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 1: Life is an entirely different thing. To the man who
• 2:11:56
  Speaker 1: has rooted out this noxious weed, he becomes an intent
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 1: highly different order of being. Most of the things we
• 2:12:03
  Speaker 1: fear never occur, and the few that do occur can
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  Speaker 1: be routed by a bold front, aided by the strength
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  Speaker 1: which the absence of fear and worry imparts. The energy
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 1: and vital force wasted on worry is more than sufficient
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  Speaker 1: to enable us to conquer our real troubles when they occur.
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  Speaker 1: You remember the tale of the old man on his
• 2:12:22
  Speaker 1: death bed giving his son good advice, who said, John,
• 2:12:26
  Speaker 1: I have lived eighty years and have had many troubles,
• 2:12:28
  Speaker 1: the majority of which never occurred. The old man merely
• 2:12:32
  Speaker 1: voiced the experience of all men or women who have
• 2:12:35
  Speaker 1: lived to old age. The moral is obvious. I will
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 1: suppose that you are a victim to fear thought, and
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 1: I am very likely correct, and that you are about
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  Speaker 1: to try the four plans of ridding yourself of it.
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  Speaker 1: I will suppose that you will try them in turn,
• 2:12:50
  Speaker 1: one after the other. You will first try the power
• 2:12:54
  Speaker 1: of the will, and will say to yourself, I will
• 2:12:56
  Speaker 1: not fear, I command fear to depart. This is the
• 2:13:00
  Speaker 1: heroic remedy. I shall not go into details of this treatment.
• 2:13:05
  Speaker 1: You know all about it already, you have all tried it.
• 2:13:10
  Speaker 1: You will next try the effect of hypnotic suggestion, and
• 2:13:13
  Speaker 1: will employ a good suggestionist who will place you in
• 2:13:15
  Speaker 1: an easy position, cause you to relax every muscle, quiet
• 2:13:19
  Speaker 1: every nerve, and assume a state of mental calm, and who,
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 1: having secured your undivided, concentrated attention, will give you strong
• 2:13:27
  Speaker 1: repeated suggestions of fearlessness. Courage, hopefulness, confidence, et cetera. The
• 2:13:33
  Speaker 1: capable suggestionist will study each case closely, and by carefully
• 2:13:37
  Speaker 1: selected and properly administered suggestions, will plant the seed of
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 1: the new thought habit, which is designed to supplant and
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 1: crowd out the old one. Splendid results are obtained by
• 2:13:48
  Speaker 1: this line of treatment. The writer has cured many persons
• 2:13:52
  Speaker 1: of undesirable thought habits in this way when they felt
• 2:13:55
  Speaker 1: that they preferred outside help. He has also used this
• 2:13:58
  Speaker 1: form of treatment in order to get the patient started
• 2:14:01
  Speaker 1: on the right mental path, to give him confidence in
• 2:14:03
  Speaker 1: himself and in the efficacy of this form of mental development,
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 1: and then instructive him in the theory and practice of
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 1: auto suggestion and thought absorption, leaving him to finish the
• 2:14:12
  Speaker 1: fight himself. You will then try the power of auto
• 2:14:16
  Speaker 1: suggestion by constantly repeating to yourself the words I am fearless,
• 2:14:20
  Speaker 1: I am confident, I have abolished fear, I fear nothing,
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 1: et cetera. These auto suggestions must be made earnestly, just
• 2:14:28
  Speaker 1: as if you were suggesting to another person, and you
• 2:14:30
  Speaker 1: must endeavor to live up to them. Let your passive
• 2:14:34
  Speaker 1: mind see that you believe what you say, and it
• 2:14:36
  Speaker 1: will have confidence in your statements, and, accepting them as correct,
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 1: will act accordingly. If you go about this practice in
• 2:14:44
  Speaker 1: good faith and in earnest you will notice an improvement
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 1: from the first. You must remember, however, that if the
• 2:14:50
  Speaker 1: passive mind thrusts a worry thought upon your consciousness, you
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 1: must redouble your assertion of fearlessness until the intruder retreats.
• 2:14:59
  Speaker 1: This may bother you at the first, for the worry
• 2:15:01
  Speaker 1: thought is pretty confident of a friendly reception. But like
• 2:15:04
  Speaker 1: any other mangy cur, it will soon learn that you
• 2:15:07
  Speaker 1: carry a club and will beat a hasty retreat at
• 2:15:09
  Speaker 1: the mere sight of it. Carry this idea of the
• 2:15:12
  Speaker 1: cur and the club in your mind, and you will
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 1: have but little trouble with the brute. You will learn
• 2:15:18
  Speaker 1: to despise the worry thought as you do the snarling,
• 2:15:21
  Speaker 1: snapping cur and will not hesitate to deal him a
• 2:15:23
  Speaker 1: good sound whack with your mental club. Provided he stays
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 1: long enough to be hit, he will soon retreat with
• 2:15:30
  Speaker 1: his tail between his legs, and will thereafter manifest a
• 2:15:33
  Speaker 1: wholesome respect for the club. Don't wait until he actually
• 2:15:37
  Speaker 1: bothers you, but get in the habit of reaching out
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 1: for the club at the first sight of the yellow
• 2:15:41
  Speaker 1: hide of the mongrel, and now you are ready to
• 2:15:44
  Speaker 1: try the effects of thought absorption. In this case, you
• 2:15:48
  Speaker 1: place yourself in the suggestible passive condition, just as you
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 1: did at the bidding of the suggestionist when he was
• 2:15:54
  Speaker 1: preparing to give you helpful suggestions. The more passive you become,
• 2:15:58
  Speaker 1: the better will be the effect. In other words, you relax,
• 2:16:03
  Speaker 1: let go, and become perfectly passive bodily and mentally. You
• 2:16:08
  Speaker 1: thus relieve the active mind from duty and allow the
• 2:16:11
  Speaker 1: passive mind to have undisputed control. You then carry the
• 2:16:15
  Speaker 1: thoughts of I am fearless and the others above given
• 2:16:18
  Speaker 1: calmly and firmly. You also picture yourself in your imagination
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  Speaker 1: as being fearless, acting fearlessly, having moral and physical courage,
• 2:16:28
  Speaker 1: and as driving away the worry mongrel with our mental club.
• 2:16:31
  Speaker 1: Give your imagination full scope, but hold it down to
• 2:16:34
  Speaker 1: the desired line of thought. You will find the exercises
• 2:16:38
  Speaker 1: in concentration most valuable. Here. You also will carry the
• 2:16:43
  Speaker 1: thought of fearlessness with you all the time, and endeavor
• 2:16:46
  Speaker 1: to act the part naturally. I mean just what I say,
• 2:16:49
  Speaker 1: act the part, just as does the actor when he
• 2:16:51
  Speaker 1: assumes a role. The assumed character will soon become more real,
• 2:16:56
  Speaker 1: and in time will be the real thing with you.
• 2:17:00
  Speaker 1: Uter a little practice, it will become second nature to
• 2:17:02
  Speaker 1: you and eventually will become your real nature. As I
• 2:17:06
  Speaker 1: have said before, the combination of thought absorption and auto
• 2:17:09
  Speaker 1: suggestion forms the ideal treatment in character building. I will
• 2:17:14
  Speaker 1: close this lesson with a few exercises designed to aid
• 2:17:17
  Speaker 1: you in thought absorption. Do not forget to practice the
• 2:17:20
  Speaker 1: concentration exercises, but do not wait to master them before
• 2:17:24
  Speaker 1: commencing your fight on the fear thought cur Commence this
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 1: fight at once. Cut your club today and just lay
• 2:17:32
  Speaker 1: for the brute once. Get him out of the way,
• 2:17:35
  Speaker 1: and you will be able to pursue the study of
• 2:17:37
  Speaker 1: this subject without the annoyance of having him around, howling
• 2:17:41
  Speaker 1: and yelping at you. The treatment for lack of energy, confidence, perseverance,
• 2:17:46
  Speaker 1: et cetera is identical with that directed for fear thought,
• 2:17:50
  Speaker 1: the words of the auto suggestions and affirmations, of course,
• 2:17:54
  Speaker 1: being altered to suit the particular case. The practice of
• 2:17:57
  Speaker 1: thought absorption, one find a secure, quiet place as far
• 2:18:03
  Speaker 1: as possible, removed from the scenes and sounds of the
• 2:18:05
  Speaker 1: outside world. If the ideal conditions cannot be secured. You
• 2:18:10
  Speaker 1: must content yourself with the best obtainable conditions. The idea
• 2:18:14
  Speaker 1: is to shut out the distracting impressions and enable you
• 2:18:18
  Speaker 1: to be alone with yourself. Two place yourself on a couch,
• 2:18:23
  Speaker 1: bed or easy chair, obtaining a position of absolute ease
• 2:18:26
  Speaker 1: and comfort. Relax every muscle, withdraw attention from every nerve.
• 2:18:31
  Speaker 1: Allow yourself to be perfectly limp all over from head
• 2:18:35
  Speaker 1: to feet. Breathe deeply and slowly, retaining the breath for
• 2:18:39
  Speaker 1: several moments before expelling it. Continue the deep breathing until
• 2:18:43
  Speaker 1: a feeling of calm, RESTful quiet manifests itself. Three. Concentrate
• 2:18:48
  Speaker 1: your whole attention inwardly upon yourself, shutting out all outside impressions.
• 2:18:54
  Speaker 1: Concentration exercises will enable you to do this. Four. Having
• 2:18:59
  Speaker 1: obtained the proper conditions of bodily and mental relaxation, fix
• 2:19:03
  Speaker 1: your thought firmly, calmly, and steadily upon the word fearless,
• 2:19:07
  Speaker 1: letting its outward forms sink into your mind as to
• 2:19:10
  Speaker 1: die into the wax. Give yourself up to the thought
• 2:19:13
  Speaker 1: and the word. Then think of the meaning of the word,
• 2:19:17
  Speaker 1: the characteristics of a person possessing that quality, et cetera. Five,
• 2:19:22
  Speaker 1: Form the mental picture of yourself possessed of the desired quality.
• 2:19:26
  Speaker 1: Act it out in your mind as in a dream.
• 2:19:28
  Speaker 1: Think of yourself doing certain things by reason of the
• 2:19:31
  Speaker 1: possession of the quality. See yourself in your relations to
• 2:19:34
  Speaker 1: other men and women, you being possessed of the desired quality.
• 2:19:38
  Speaker 1: In short, indulge in a pleasant day dream, having for
• 2:19:42
  Speaker 1: its theme your possession of the quality desired. Give your
• 2:19:45
  Speaker 1: imagination full sway, merely insisting upon its sticking to the text,
• 2:19:50
  Speaker 1: and its always showing you successful in the scenes and
• 2:19:52
  Speaker 1: occurrences of the dream. Always conclude this dream with a
• 2:19:57
  Speaker 1: strong impression in thought of I am. This will give
• 2:20:00
  Speaker 1: you additional strength and confidence. In fact, it is better
• 2:20:04
  Speaker 1: to alternate the thought of the quality with the idea
• 2:20:07
  Speaker 1: and recognition of the I AM. Six. Repeat these exercises
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  Speaker 1: as often as possible. It is like the dripping of
• 2:20:15
  Speaker 1: the water on the stone. The repeated thought takes root
• 2:20:19
  Speaker 1: and grows rapidly. It is a good plan to practice
• 2:20:23
  Speaker 1: this exercise when you retire for the night, and also
• 2:20:26
  Speaker 1: during your waking hours at night, if you have any
• 2:20:29
  Speaker 1: The exercises will not keep you from slumber, but will
• 2:20:32
  Speaker 1: rather tend to induce the desire for sleep. If you
• 2:20:36
  Speaker 1: feel yourself dropping into a dose, do not resist it,
• 2:20:39
  Speaker 1: as the impression which you carry with you into sleep
• 2:20:41
  Speaker 1: will dwell with you and will do its work even
• 2:20:44
  Speaker 1: while you are slumbering. In the above exercises, I have
• 2:20:48
  Speaker 1: used the word fearless and its accompanying thought to illustrate
• 2:20:51
  Speaker 1: the process of inducing thought absorption. You will understand that
• 2:20:56
  Speaker 1: you are to use the word expressing the quality of
• 2:20:58
  Speaker 1: which you are desirous of acquiring. If you wish to
• 2:21:01
  Speaker 1: rid yourself of an undesirable quality, select the word expressing
• 2:21:05
  Speaker 1: the opposite thought. For instance, if you are inclined to
• 2:21:09
  Speaker 1: be indolent, select the word active or energy, et cetera,
• 2:21:13
  Speaker 1: and so on. You must remember that when we wish
• 2:21:16
  Speaker 1: to brighten a room, we do not have to drive
• 2:21:19
  Speaker 1: out the darkness first. We merely open the blinds and
• 2:21:22
  Speaker 1: admit the light, and lo the darkness has departed. Do
• 2:21:26
  Speaker 1: not bother about the undesirable thoughts, but concentrate on their opposites,
• 2:21:30
  Speaker 1: and the positive will neutralize the negative. Do not become
• 2:21:34
  Speaker 1: discouraged if the results do not come as soon as
• 2:21:36
  Speaker 1: you would like, remember they are sure to come in time.
• 2:21:42
  Speaker 1: All that you require is repeated practice. The mind can
• 2:21:46
  Speaker 1: be developed, just as can be the muscle, and by
• 2:21:48
  Speaker 1: the same process continued practice, you have been given the
• 2:21:52
  Speaker 1: means of remedying your defects. If you do not avail
• 2:21:56
  Speaker 1: yourself of its benefits, it is simply because you do
• 2:21:59
  Speaker 1: not want. If you have desires strong within you, you
• 2:22:03
  Speaker 1: will do it. If you lack the strong desire, I
• 2:22:06
  Speaker 1: cannot help you. If you prefer to sell your glorious
• 2:22:10
  Speaker 1: birthright of mental control for the mess of pottage, of
• 2:22:12
  Speaker 1: present indulgence, that is your own business. You are your
• 2:22:16
  Speaker 1: own master. Make of yourself what you will. Lesson thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: The art of concentering. In ordinary conversation, we make frequent
• 2:22:27
  Speaker 1: use of the word concentration in the sense of bringing
• 2:22:30
  Speaker 1: together or diminishing in bulk and increasing in strength or consolidating,
• 2:22:35
  Speaker 1: et cetera. In order to avoid an erroneous conception, I
• 2:22:39
  Speaker 1: have preferred to use the term concentering. A plain definition
• 2:22:43
  Speaker 1: of the word concentering is the bringing to a common
• 2:22:46
  Speaker 1: center or focusing. Carry in your mind. The analysis of
• 2:22:51
  Speaker 1: the word thus consenter to bring to a center. The
• 2:22:55
  Speaker 1: word consenter has its exoteric or common meaning, and its
• 2:22:59
  Speaker 1: esoteric or hidden meaning when used in connection with the
• 2:23:02
  Speaker 1: exercise of the powers of the mind. The exoteric idea
• 2:23:07
  Speaker 1: is the concentering of the mind upon the one particular
• 2:23:09
  Speaker 1: thought or action, inhibiting all outside thoughts or impressions. The
• 2:23:14
  Speaker 1: esoteric idea is the concentering of the mind upon the
• 2:23:17
  Speaker 1: ego the I am, inhibiting all thoughts of the material
• 2:23:21
  Speaker 1: body or of the grosser self, and dwelling in the
• 2:23:23
  Speaker 1: higher regions of the soul. The first mentioned form of
• 2:23:27
  Speaker 1: concentering is a most valuable acquirement for man in his
• 2:23:30
  Speaker 1: everyday life. The second form is a most desirable acquirement
• 2:23:34
  Speaker 1: for those who would know more of their real self,
• 2:23:37
  Speaker 1: and who aspire to know something of the secrets of
• 2:23:39
  Speaker 1: the silence. In this lesson, I will speak exclusively of
• 2:23:43
  Speaker 1: the practical side of concentering, that being the purpose of
• 2:23:46
  Speaker 1: this work. I have, however, given the reader hints of
• 2:23:50
  Speaker 1: the esoteric phase, that he may know how to proceed
• 2:23:53
  Speaker 1: if he is attracted to the same. The art of
• 2:23:56
  Speaker 1: concentering upon a given thought or action is one of
• 2:23:59
  Speaker 1: the most desirable acquirements which a man can possess. We
• 2:24:03
  Speaker 1: have been told the advantage of doing a thing with
• 2:24:06
  Speaker 1: all our might, and doing one thing at a time,
• 2:24:09
  Speaker 1: and doing it well, et cetera. We all know of
• 2:24:12
  Speaker 1: the painter who attributed his excellent work to the fact
• 2:24:15
  Speaker 1: that he mixed brains in his paint, and of the
• 2:24:17
  Speaker 1: miner who put a little brains into his pick. We
• 2:24:21
  Speaker 1: know that the simplest task is better performed if we
• 2:24:24
  Speaker 1: but combine consentered thought with the action Workmen differ in
• 2:24:28
  Speaker 1: degree according to the amount of consentered thought placed in
• 2:24:31
  Speaker 1: their work. The man who takes an interest in his work,
• 2:24:35
  Speaker 1: and who finds an intellectual pleasure in his daily task,
• 2:24:39
  Speaker 1: is the man who does the best work, and is
• 2:24:41
  Speaker 1: also the happier man. The man who keeps his eye
• 2:24:44
  Speaker 1: on the clock, or who leaves his pick in the
• 2:24:47
  Speaker 1: air at the sound of the whistle, is a mere
• 2:24:49
  Speaker 1: machine and will never amount to anything unless he changes
• 2:24:52
  Speaker 1: his point of view regarding work. The man who thinks
• 2:24:56
  Speaker 1: with his hands, or who can carry a message to
• 2:24:58
  Speaker 1: Garcia is in demand. He is a scarce article, and
• 2:25:03
  Speaker 1: many employers are looking for him. When will our boys
• 2:25:06
  Speaker 1: learn to appreciate this fact? Well, what has all this
• 2:25:10
  Speaker 1: to do with consentering? Just this that the interest and
• 2:25:14
  Speaker 1: brains that a man puts into his work is the
• 2:25:16
  Speaker 1: result of an exercise of volitional consentering. The man who
• 2:25:20
  Speaker 1: practices concentering in his daily life shuts out distracting impressions
• 2:25:25
  Speaker 1: and gives his best thought, forced to the task before him,
• 2:25:28
  Speaker 1: and does better work by reason thereof. Whether he be
• 2:25:31
  Speaker 1: day labor architect, clerk, salesman, poet, painter, or banker, every
• 2:25:37
  Speaker 1: man who has arrived has developed the art of consentering.
• 2:25:42
  Speaker 1: He may not realize it, but he has just the
• 2:25:44
  Speaker 1: same and more. Any man who will develop the art
• 2:25:48
  Speaker 1: of consentering will parrive try it and be convinced. Why.
• 2:25:54
  Speaker 1: You can see it for yourself. It cannot help producing
• 2:25:57
  Speaker 1: the result. If you consenter on an object and hold
• 2:26:00
  Speaker 1: the thought firmly, you cannot help doing the best work.
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  Speaker 1: And if you do the best work, you will receive
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  Speaker 1: the proper reward, providing you have the sense with which
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  Speaker 1: you were born and have not allowed yourself to be
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  Speaker 1: hypnotized into a belief that you are a worm of
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  Speaker 1: the dust or a human doormat. If you do the
• 2:26:16
  Speaker 1: best work, you will find a market for your services.
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  Speaker 1: If your present employer doesn't appreciate you, there are plenty
• 2:26:22
  Speaker 1: of others who will. But you will have to do
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  Speaker 1: the work. Don't forget that. No man is going to
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  Speaker 1: be fool enough to pay you for something that you
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  Speaker 1: do not do. Oh no, he is not built that way,
• 2:26:35
  Speaker 1: and he would not arrive if he did. But just
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  Speaker 1: the same, he will not permit you to leave his
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  Speaker 1: employ for that of his rival if you do the
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  Speaker 1: best work, and you will do the best work, if
• 2:26:46
  Speaker 1: you only will get down to business and consenter. If
• 2:26:49
  Speaker 1: you have been discouraged by your apparent lack of success
• 2:26:52
  Speaker 1: in your vocation, just you learn how to consenter and
• 2:26:55
  Speaker 1: do it. Spit on your hands and take a fresh
• 2:26:57
  Speaker 1: grip a little higher up and pull for all you worth.
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  Speaker 1: You Just pull hard enough, and something will be sure
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  Speaker 1: to give at the other end of the rope. Don't
• 2:27:07
  Speaker 1: you waste your time complaining of the oppression of capital
• 2:27:10
  Speaker 1: and all that sort of thing. If you are a
• 2:27:13
  Speaker 1: concentering man, capital will soon fall all over itself to
• 2:27:16
  Speaker 1: secure your services or to buy your goods. Can't you
• 2:27:20
  Speaker 1: see it? Man? Of course you do. Well, then stop
• 2:27:26
  Speaker 1: fooling around about it and get to work in earnest,
• 2:27:29
  Speaker 1: get a move on and hustle. If you refuse to
• 2:27:33
  Speaker 1: accept the means of financial salvation now offered you. Why
• 2:27:36
  Speaker 1: just lie around and be a human door mat all
• 2:27:39
  Speaker 1: your life? Who cares? If a man is too lazy
• 2:27:43
  Speaker 1: to be saved, Why just let him be the other thing?
• 2:27:47
  Speaker 1: It serves him right. Some of you fellows need a
• 2:27:50
  Speaker 1: man around you with a spiked club, with instructions to
• 2:27:53
  Speaker 1: give you a good bang every time you slack up
• 2:27:55
  Speaker 1: and engage in mental wool gathering. Stop your mooning and
• 2:27:59
  Speaker 1: get down to business. Some people spend their life in
• 2:28:03
  Speaker 1: dreaming of the hereafter, where they expect to spend their
• 2:28:06
  Speaker 1: time loafing around the throne. Now, they're sure to be
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  Speaker 1: fooled about that. All nature is in motion, and God
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  Speaker 1: is working hard every day. And I believe that when
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  Speaker 1: you get to the other shore, you will be confronted
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  Speaker 1: with a sign having thereon inscribed the words no loafing permitted.
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  Speaker 1: If you take an interest in your work, you rob
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  Speaker 1: it of its terrors. Start in, man, and work out
• 2:28:29
  Speaker 1: your own salvation from poverty and unhappiness. Do it, and
• 2:28:33
  Speaker 1: do it now. The man who can consenter has at
• 2:28:37
  Speaker 1: his hand a sure remedy for the blues. How why
• 2:28:42
  Speaker 1: just by shutting off the unpleasant thought and concentering on
• 2:28:45
  Speaker 1: a brighter subject. Now, don't say that you can't do this.
• 2:28:50
  Speaker 1: You can do it if you acquire the NAK. Thousands
• 2:28:54
  Speaker 1: of people have found this plan as specific for the blues, discouragement, worry, fear,
• 2:28:59
  Speaker 1: and the rest. Try it and you will find that
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  Speaker 1: life will appear entirely different to you. Try it and
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  Speaker 1: you will feel so good that you would not call
• 2:29:09
  Speaker 1: the president your cousin. Try it and you will feel
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  Speaker 1: the thrill of life along your keel and will thank
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  Speaker 1: God that you are alive instead of cursing the day
• 2:29:18
  Speaker 1: when you were born. You will do your work better,
• 2:29:21
  Speaker 1: you will feel better, You will be better. Is it
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  Speaker 1: not worth the trial? You may have an idea that
• 2:29:28
  Speaker 1: you know something about concentering. Well maybe you do. Let's see.
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  Speaker 1: Take up a lead pencil and try to sharpen it properly,
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  Speaker 1: take your time to it, and turn out a first
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  Speaker 1: class job. Now see if you can consenter on that
• 2:29:43
  Speaker 1: pencil sharpening to the exclusion of all outside thoughts. Try
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  Speaker 1: to devote your best energy and thought to the task
• 2:29:50
  Speaker 1: at hand for the moment, live for the sole purpose
• 2:29:53
  Speaker 1: of getting an A one point on that pencil. Well,
• 2:29:57
  Speaker 1: how did it feel? Pretty hard? Job? Wasn't it, Yes,
• 2:30:02
  Speaker 1: I thought. So you need practice, young man. Take up
• 2:30:07
  Speaker 1: the exercises given in this lesson, and go over them
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  Speaker 1: until you can do anything whatsoever without your thought wandering.
• 2:30:14
  Speaker 1: Anyone can consenter upon an agreeable task, But just give
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  Speaker 1: them an unpleasant or monotonous job, and you will find
• 2:30:21
  Speaker 1: that their thought will wander away in spite of them,
• 2:30:24
  Speaker 1: that is, until they learn to consenter by an effort
• 2:30:26
  Speaker 1: of the will. That is the test, the ability to
• 2:30:30
  Speaker 1: consenter upon an unpleasant, unattractive, monotonous task. When you have
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  Speaker 1: overcome this trouble, you will know that you have broken
• 2:30:38
  Speaker 1: the backbone of waste, effort and lost motion. By consentering,
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  Speaker 1: you are able to focus your attention, thought, and energy
• 2:30:45
  Speaker 1: upon a given thing, thereby obtaining the best possible results.
• 2:30:50
  Speaker 1: The rays of the sun, when focused upon an object
• 2:30:53
  Speaker 1: by means of a sunglass, produce a heat many times
• 2:30:56
  Speaker 1: greater than the direct rays of the same source of
• 2:30:59
  Speaker 1: light and heat. So it is with that attention. Scatter
• 2:31:03
  Speaker 1: it and you get but ordinary results. But focus it
• 2:31:07
  Speaker 1: upon a thing to be done, and you obtain a
• 2:31:09
  Speaker 1: wonderful amount of energy. The concentering man focuses his attention
• 2:31:14
  Speaker 1: and thought force upon an object, and the result is
• 2:31:17
  Speaker 1: that his every action, voluntary and involuntary, is in the
• 2:31:21
  Speaker 1: direction of the attainment of that object. As I said
• 2:31:24
  Speaker 1: in a previous lesson, a man can have everything he
• 2:31:27
  Speaker 1: wants if only he wants it hard enough. If his
• 2:31:30
  Speaker 1: energies are focused upon a thing to the exclusion of
• 2:31:33
  Speaker 1: everything else, the force so generated and focused must bring
• 2:31:37
  Speaker 1: the result. The moral of all this is, whatsoever you do,
• 2:31:41
  Speaker 1: do it with all your might. Do it in earnest
• 2:31:45
  Speaker 1: do one thing at a time, and do it well.
• 2:31:49
  Speaker 1: In order to obtain the best results from the thought forces,
• 2:31:52
  Speaker 1: as explained in preceding lessons, he should acquire the art
• 2:31:55
  Speaker 1: of concentering by focusing the thought. You add to its
• 2:31:59
  Speaker 1: strength as a moment's reflection will show you. The exercises
• 2:32:03
  Speaker 1: accompanying the preceding lessons should be accompanied by the exercises
• 2:32:07
  Speaker 1: in concentering. These exercises are more or less tedious and monotonous,
• 2:32:12
  Speaker 1: but should be persisted in until perfected. You will be
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  Speaker 1: repaid for your work by the conscious increase in your
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  Speaker 1: powers of concentering, which will be apparent from the first.
• 2:32:23
  Speaker 1: There is one thing more that I wish to say
• 2:32:25
  Speaker 1: to you before starting in with the exercises, and that
• 2:32:28
  Speaker 1: is to point out to you the advantage of concentering
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  Speaker 1: as a means of mental and physical rest. If this
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  Speaker 1: were the only result obtainable by the exercises, it would
• 2:32:38
  Speaker 1: be worth your while to acquire it. Suppose you feel
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  Speaker 1: completely tired out by some physical or mental labor and
• 2:32:45
  Speaker 1: are sadly in need of rest. If you lie down,
• 2:32:48
  Speaker 1: the thought which has been occupying your mind returns to
• 2:32:51
  Speaker 1: haunt you and prevents your mind from obtaining the much
• 2:32:54
  Speaker 1: needed rest. Now, the theory is that each thought calls
• 2:32:58
  Speaker 1: into operation activity, so certain sets of brain cells, the
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  Speaker 1: other cells of course taking a rest in the meantime.
• 2:33:05
  Speaker 1: This being the case, you will see readily that when
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  Speaker 1: one set of brain cells become utterly fagged out by
• 2:33:11
  Speaker 1: excessive exercises and work, its only chance of getting an
• 2:33:15
  Speaker 1: entire rest is for you to consenter upon an entirely
• 2:33:18
  Speaker 1: different line of thought, shutting out the cells which you
• 2:33:21
  Speaker 1: have just tired out and which are still vibrating with
• 2:33:23
  Speaker 1: excitement from the strong impetus given them. By concentering upon
• 2:33:28
  Speaker 1: the new thought, the old cells are relieved from further
• 2:33:31
  Speaker 1: work and obtain a much needed rest. These cells are
• 2:33:34
  Speaker 1: hungry for work, and may attempt to return to their
• 2:33:37
  Speaker 1: task in spite of you. But if you once have
• 2:33:39
  Speaker 1: acquired proficiency in the art of concentering, you have learned
• 2:33:42
  Speaker 1: to master them. You doubtless remember the time when your
• 2:33:46
  Speaker 1: brain felt exhausted by the hard work of the business day.
• 2:33:49
  Speaker 1: But when you picked up an interesting novel, you became
• 2:33:52
  Speaker 1: so interested in it that your old brain cells knocked
• 2:33:55
  Speaker 1: off for a while, And when the novel was completed,
• 2:33:57
  Speaker 1: you felt completely refreshed, not with standing the fact that
• 2:34:01
  Speaker 1: the reading of the book was in itself no slight
• 2:34:03
  Speaker 1: exercise of the mind. That is the theory. Now put
• 2:34:08
  Speaker 1: it into practice, and you will have no need to
• 2:34:10
  Speaker 1: complain of mental overwork. You will be able to put
• 2:34:14
  Speaker 1: thoughts off and on like your coat, changing them whenever
• 2:34:17
  Speaker 1: you see fit. I will now give you a few exercises,
• 2:34:21
  Speaker 1: the practice of which will enable you to develop the
• 2:34:23
  Speaker 1: power of concentering. In leaving this phase of the subject,
• 2:34:27
  Speaker 1: I again would remind you that the underlying principle of
• 2:34:30
  Speaker 1: concentering is the focusing of the attention upon a certain
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  Speaker 1: thought or action. Any exercise which will strengthen the faculty
• 2:34:38
  Speaker 1: of volitional inhibition of non essential thoughts will be of value.
• 2:34:41
  Speaker 1: The exercises herein given, here being merely furnished as suggestions
• 2:34:45
  Speaker 1: of others. Lesson fourteen. The practice of concentering a The
• 2:34:51
  Speaker 1: first requisite of concentering is the ability to shut out
• 2:34:54
  Speaker 1: outside thoughts, sounds, and sights to conquer in attention. To
• 2:34:59
  Speaker 1: obtain perfect control over the body and mind, the body
• 2:35:03
  Speaker 1: must be brought under the direct control of the mind,
• 2:35:06
  Speaker 1: the mind under the direct control of the will. The
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  Speaker 1: will is strong enough, but the mind needs strengthening. By
• 2:35:12
  Speaker 1: being brought under the direct influence of the will, the mind,
• 2:35:16
  Speaker 1: strengthened by the impulse of the will, becomes a much
• 2:35:19
  Speaker 1: more powerful projector of thought vibrations than otherwise, and the
• 2:35:23
  Speaker 1: vibrations have much greater force and effect. In these exercises,
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  Speaker 1: I will begin with training the body to readily obey
• 2:35:31
  Speaker 1: the commands of the mind. The first exercise, and one
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  Speaker 1: which must be mastered before the succeeding exercises are undertaken,
• 2:35:39
  Speaker 1: is the control of the muscular movements. This at first
• 2:35:43
  Speaker 1: sight may appear very simple, but a few experiments will
• 2:35:46
  Speaker 1: convince you that you have much to learn. The following
• 2:35:50
  Speaker 1: exercises will be of great benefit to you in acquiring
• 2:35:53
  Speaker 1: perfect control of the muscles a one sit still. This
• 2:35:59
  Speaker 1: is no easy to time, as it will at first
• 2:36:02
  Speaker 1: try your powers of concentering to refrain from involuntary muscular movements.
• 2:36:06
  Speaker 1: But by a little practice, you will be able to
• 2:36:08
  Speaker 1: sit still without a movement of the muscles for fifteen
• 2:36:12
  Speaker 1: minutes or more. The best plan is to place yourself
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  Speaker 1: in an easy chair, assuming a comfortable position, then relax
• 2:36:19
  Speaker 1: all over and endeavor to remain perfectly quiescent for a
• 2:36:23
  Speaker 1: period of five minutes. Continue this exercise until you can
• 2:36:27
  Speaker 1: accomplish it with ease, and then increase the time to
• 2:36:30
  Speaker 1: ten minutes. After you have mastered the ten minutes exercise,
• 2:36:34
  Speaker 1: increase the time to fifteen minutes, which is about as
• 2:36:37
  Speaker 1: far as you need pursue the exercise. You should not
• 2:36:40
  Speaker 1: tire yourself with this or any other of our exercises.
• 2:36:45
  Speaker 1: The better plan is to practice a little at a time,
• 2:36:48
  Speaker 1: but as often as possible. Bear in mind that you
• 2:36:51
  Speaker 1: must not sit in a rigid position. There must be
• 2:36:53
  Speaker 1: no strain on the muscles. You must relax completely. This
• 2:36:58
  Speaker 1: plan of relaxing will prove valuable to you when you
• 2:37:00
  Speaker 1: wish to get a good rest After fatiguing physical exertion.
• 2:37:04
  Speaker 1: It is an ideal rest cure and may be taken
• 2:37:07
  Speaker 1: either sitting in a chair or lying down on a
• 2:37:09
  Speaker 1: couch or bed. A two. Sit erect in your chair
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  Speaker 1: with your head up and your chin out and shoulders
• 2:37:17
  Speaker 1: thrown back. Raise your right arm until it is level
• 2:37:20
  Speaker 1: with your shoulder pointing to the right. Turn your head
• 2:37:24
  Speaker 1: and fix your gaze on your hand, and hold the
• 2:37:26
  Speaker 1: arm perfectly steady for one minute. Repeat with the left arm.
• 2:37:31
  Speaker 1: When you are able to perform this feat perfectly, increase
• 2:37:35
  Speaker 1: the time to two minutes, then to three, and so
• 2:37:38
  Speaker 1: on until you are able to maintain the position for
• 2:37:40
  Speaker 1: five minutes. The palm of the hand should be turned downward,
• 2:37:44
  Speaker 1: this being the easiest position. By keeping the eyes fixed
• 2:37:48
  Speaker 1: on the tips of the fingers, you will be able
• 2:37:51
  Speaker 1: to see whether you are holding your arm perfectly steady.
• 2:37:54
  Speaker 1: A three. Fill a wine glass full of water, and
• 2:37:58
  Speaker 1: taking the glass between the finger, extend the right arm
• 2:38:01
  Speaker 1: directly in front of you, fix the eyes upon the glass,
• 2:38:05
  Speaker 1: and endeavor to hold the arm so steady that no
• 2:38:08
  Speaker 1: quiver will be noticeable. Commence with one minute exercises and
• 2:38:13
  Speaker 1: increase until the five minute limit is reached. Alternate right
• 2:38:17
  Speaker 1: and left arms A four. In your everyday life, Endeavor
• 2:38:22
  Speaker 1: to avoid a tense strain condition of the muscles when
• 2:38:26
  Speaker 1: you should be at ease. Endeavor to acquire a self
• 2:38:29
  Speaker 1: poised attitude and demeanor. Cultivate an easy, self possessed manner
• 2:38:35
  Speaker 1: in preference to a nervous, strained, over anxious appearance. Mental
• 2:38:40
  Speaker 1: exercise will help you to acquire the proper carriage and demeanor.
• 2:38:44
  Speaker 1: Stop beating the devil's tattoo on the table or chair.
• 2:38:49
  Speaker 1: Such actions indicate a lack of self control. Don't tap
• 2:38:53
  Speaker 1: on the floor with your foot, nor swing your feet
• 2:38:55
  Speaker 1: backward or forward while talking or sitting. Don't rock backward
• 2:38:59
  Speaker 1: and forward word in a rocking chair as if you
• 2:39:01
  Speaker 1: were working a machine at so much an hour. Don't
• 2:39:05
  Speaker 1: bite your nails, nor chew your lips or cheek, nor
• 2:39:08
  Speaker 1: wiggle your tongue around in your mouth whilst reading or
• 2:39:11
  Speaker 1: studying or writing. Don't wink or blink your eyes. Get
• 2:39:16
  Speaker 1: rid of any habit of twitching or jerking of any
• 2:39:19
  Speaker 1: part of the body which may have become second nature
• 2:39:21
  Speaker 1: to you. You can stop it easily by carrying the
• 2:39:25
  Speaker 1: thought and practicing concentering. Train yourself to bear with equanimity
• 2:39:30
  Speaker 1: and composure noises which have been startling you heretofore, such
• 2:39:34
  Speaker 1: as the banging of a suddenly closed door, the dropping
• 2:39:36
  Speaker 1: of a book or other object, et cetera. In other words,
• 2:39:40
  Speaker 1: keep yourself well in hand. The above exercises will be
• 2:39:44
  Speaker 1: of great assistance to you in getting yourself just where
• 2:39:47
  Speaker 1: you want b The above exercises were given to teach
• 2:39:51
  Speaker 1: you the art of controlling in voluntary muscular movement, thus
• 2:39:54
  Speaker 1: bringing your body under the control of the voluntary functions.
• 2:39:58
  Speaker 1: The following exercise are designed to enable you to bring
• 2:40:02
  Speaker 1: your voluntary muscular movements under the direct control of the will.
• 2:40:05
  Speaker 1: In other words, to train the mental faculties producing voluntary
• 2:40:09
  Speaker 1: muscular movement. Be one sit in front of a table,
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  Speaker 1: placing your hands upon the table, the fists clinched and
• 2:40:17
  Speaker 1: lying with the back of the hand on the table,
• 2:40:19
  Speaker 1: the thumb being doubled over the fingers. Fix your gaze
• 2:40:23
  Speaker 1: upon the fist for a while, and then slowly extend
• 2:40:26
  Speaker 1: the thumb, keeping your whole attention fixed upon the act,
• 2:40:29
  Speaker 1: just as if it was of the greatest importance. Then
• 2:40:32
  Speaker 1: slowly extend your first finger, then your second, and so on,
• 2:40:36
  Speaker 1: until they are all open and extended. Then reverse the process,
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  Speaker 1: closing first the little finger and continuing the closing until
• 2:40:43
  Speaker 1: the fist is again in its original position, with the
• 2:40:46
  Speaker 1: thumb closed over the fingers. Repeat with the left hand.
• 2:40:51
  Speaker 1: Continue this exercise five times at a sitting, and then
• 2:40:55
  Speaker 1: increase it to ten times. This exercise will make you tired,
• 2:40:59
  Speaker 1: but you must persevere as it is of importance to
• 2:41:02
  Speaker 1: you in the direction of training your attention by directing
• 2:41:04
  Speaker 1: it to trivial and monotonous exercises. In addition, it will
• 2:41:08
  Speaker 1: give you direct control over all of your muscular movements.
• 2:41:12
  Speaker 1: You soon will feel the benefit accruing from these simple
• 2:41:15
  Speaker 1: and apparently unimportant exercises. Do not fail to keep the
• 2:41:19
  Speaker 1: attention closely upon the closing and unclosing of the fingers.
• 2:41:24
  Speaker 1: That is the main point. If you neglect it, you
• 2:41:26
  Speaker 1: lose the entire benefit of the exercise. B two. This
• 2:41:32
  Speaker 1: exercise is nothing more or less than the old trick
• 2:41:35
  Speaker 1: often observed among our country cousins, known as twirling the thumbs.
• 2:41:40
  Speaker 1: Place the fingers of one hand between the fingers of
• 2:41:42
  Speaker 1: the other hand, leaving the thumbs free. Then slowly twirl
• 2:41:47
  Speaker 1: the thumbs one over the other with a circular motion,
• 2:41:50
  Speaker 1: be sure to keep the attention firmly fixed upon the
• 2:41:53
  Speaker 1: ends of the thumbs. B Three, place the right hand
• 2:41:58
  Speaker 1: on the knee, the fingers and thumb closed with the
• 2:42:01
  Speaker 1: exception of the first finger, which must be pointed out
• 2:42:03
  Speaker 1: in front of you. Then move the finger slowly from
• 2:42:07
  Speaker 1: side to side, keeping the attention firmly fixed upon the
• 2:42:10
  Speaker 1: end of the finger. These exercises may be extended indefinitely,
• 2:42:15
  Speaker 1: and you may exercise your ingenuity in supplying additional ones
• 2:42:18
  Speaker 1: Under this head. The main idea is that the exercise
• 2:42:22
  Speaker 1: shall consist of some trivial, familiar, monotonous muscular movement, and
• 2:42:26
  Speaker 1: that the attention must be kept firmly fixed upon the
• 2:42:29
  Speaker 1: moving part of the body. Your attention will revolt that
• 2:42:32
  Speaker 1: the slavery enforced upon it, and will endeavor in every
• 2:42:36
  Speaker 1: possible way to escape its thraldom. This is where the
• 2:42:39
  Speaker 1: training comes in, and you must insist that your attention
• 2:42:42
  Speaker 1: does its work from beginning to end and not wander
• 2:42:45
  Speaker 1: away to more congenial scenes or occupations. Think of yourself
• 2:42:50
  Speaker 1: as a strict schoolmaster, and of your attention as a playful,
• 2:42:53
  Speaker 1: fun loving boy who tires of looking at his book
• 2:42:56
  Speaker 1: and wishes to steal sly glances out of the window
• 2:42:58
  Speaker 1: and door at the more attractive sights on the outside.
• 2:43:02
  Speaker 1: Your business is to keep the boy at his book,
• 2:43:04
  Speaker 1: knowing that it will be better for him, although he
• 2:43:06
  Speaker 1: cannot see it just that way. Now, before long, you
• 2:43:10
  Speaker 1: will notice that you have a much better control over
• 2:43:12
  Speaker 1: your muscular movements, carriage, and demeanor, and will also observe
• 2:43:16
  Speaker 1: an increased power of attention and concentering in your everyday affairs,
• 2:43:20
  Speaker 1: which will be of considerable advantage to you. See, this
• 2:43:24
  Speaker 1: class of exercises is intended to aid you in concentering
• 2:43:27
  Speaker 1: your attention upon some material object not connected with yourself.
• 2:43:32
  Speaker 1: Take some uninteresting object, such as a pencil, and consenter
• 2:43:36
  Speaker 1: your entire attention upon it for five minutes. Look at
• 2:43:40
  Speaker 1: it intently, Think of it, turn it over, consider it,
• 2:43:43
  Speaker 1: Think of its uses, its object, of the materials of
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  Speaker 1: which it is made, the process of manufacture, et cetera.
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  Speaker 1: Think of nothing else but the pencil. Imagine that your
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  Speaker 1: chief object in life is the study of that pencil.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine that there exists nothing else in the world but
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  Speaker 1: you and a pencil. Only one world, and but two
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  Speaker 1: things in it. Pencil and I do not let your attention.
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  Speaker 1: Get away from the pencil, but keep it down to
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  Speaker 1: its work. You will realize what a rebellious creature your
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  Speaker 1: attention is when you try this exercise. But don't let
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  Speaker 1: him get the upper hand of you. It is very
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  Speaker 1: tiresome to him, but it is for his own good,
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  Speaker 1: so stick to him. When you have conquered the rebellious attention,
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  Speaker 1: you will have achieved a greater victory than you now realize.
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  Speaker 1: Many a time in after life, when you need the
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  Speaker 1: closest attention upon some matter before you, you will thank
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  Speaker 1: me for putting you on to this exercise. This exercise
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  Speaker 1: can be varied each day, always choosing some uninteresting and
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  Speaker 1: familiar object upon which to consenter the attention. Don't select
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  Speaker 1: an interesting object, for it requires no effort to consenter
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  Speaker 1: upon that. You need something that will seem like work
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  Speaker 1: to the attention. The less interesting the oden, the more
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  Speaker 1: the work, and the better the exercise. The trouble about
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  Speaker 1: this exercise is that you will soon run out of material,
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  Speaker 1: as the continued concentering of the attention upon uninteresting objects
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  Speaker 1: will in the end cause the attention in self defense
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  Speaker 1: to take an interest in the things upon which it consenters. However,
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  Speaker 1: when you have reached this stage, you will have but
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  Speaker 1: little further need of the exercise, as you then will
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  Speaker 1: be able to consenter your attention upon anything or anybody.
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  Speaker 1: The above exercises will be sufficient for your purposes. It
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  Speaker 1: being understood that you will extend the several exercises by
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  Speaker 1: materials supplied by your own invention and ingenuity. You may
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  Speaker 1: practice upon something occurring in your everyday work. You will
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  Speaker 1: not be at a loss for material upon which to practice.
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  Speaker 1: Now that you have the main idea impressed upon your memory,
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  Speaker 1: the exercises given in the preceding lessons can be practiced
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  Speaker 1: more intelligently. Now that you understand the advantage to be
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  Speaker 1: gained by concentering, you will be able to carry the
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  Speaker 1: thought better, to direct more energy into suggestions and into
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  Speaker 1: the projection of thought vibrations. Your eye exercises will take
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  Speaker 1: on a new phase, and so will the exercises in
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  Speaker 1: telepathic volation, et cetera. You will be able to overcome
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  Speaker 1: bad habits and acquire good habits in their place. In short,
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  Speaker 1: by the acquirement of the art of concentering, you will
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  Speaker 1: be able to do everything better than formerly. You will
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  Speaker 1: have acquired a firm control over body mind, and will
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  Speaker 1: find that you are now the master of your inclinations,
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  Speaker 1: not their slave. The power gained over yourself will manifest
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  Speaker 1: itself in the power to control others. The man who
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  Speaker 1: conquers himself has no trouble in impressing his will upon others.
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  Speaker 1: Continue the practice of concentering, in developing the amenability of
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  Speaker 1: the mind to the will, and you will become a
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  Speaker 1: very giant compared to men who have not acquired this power.
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  Speaker 1: Try your will power on yourself in different ways until
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  Speaker 1: you feel confident that you have won the mastery of self.
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  Speaker 1: Be satisfied with nothing else, when you have gained that
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  Speaker 1: the mastery of others is already yours Lesson fifteen Valedictory.
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  Speaker 1: I feel that those who have followed me through the
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  Speaker 1: preceding lessons must have felt within them the intuitive assurance
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  Speaker 1: of the truth contained in the instruction herein given. In
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  Speaker 1: a work of this size and character, I can do
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  Speaker 1: no more than merely direct the attention of my readers
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  Speaker 1: to the great facts underlying the science of the mind,
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  Speaker 1: to give them a hint of the great truth, to
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  Speaker 1: acquaint them with a few exercises which if followed conscientiously,
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  Speaker 1: will enable them to develop their latent powers. More than
• 2:47:41
  Speaker 1: this would be beyond the scope of this work, which
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  Speaker 1: is intended to give popular instruction in the exercise and
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  Speaker 1: use of personal magnetism and psychic influence in the affairs
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  Speaker 1: of everyday life. The average reader will rest satisfied with
• 2:47:54
  Speaker 1: the practical side of the subject and will not feel
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  Speaker 1: inclined to enter into the occult phase. To the few
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  Speaker 1: who feel an inclination to pursue the subject still further,
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  Speaker 1: who would penetrate behind the veil, there are other sources
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  Speaker 1: of information open, which I will be pleased to point
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  Speaker 1: out to those who may so request. A letter will
• 2:48:13
  Speaker 1: reach me if addressed to me at thirty Auditorium Building, Chicago.
• 2:48:18
  Speaker 1: Without attempting to go further into the subject, I would
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  Speaker 1: say that, in my opinion, an intelligent understanding of the
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  Speaker 1: laws underlying the science of mind supplies one with a
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  Speaker 1: most elevating rule of life and conduct. Brings to man
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  Speaker 1: a realizing sense of his own individuality, strength and power,
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  Speaker 1: a consciousness of the reality in imminence of his real self,
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  Speaker 1: the I am. The recognition of the ego carries with
• 2:48:42
  Speaker 1: it a sense of new duties and the means of
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  Speaker 1: performing them. The student of what is known as the
• 2:48:48
  Speaker 1: New thought finds himself surrounded with a mass of literature,
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  Speaker 1: much of which consists of froth and bubbles. Grains of
• 2:48:55
  Speaker 1: thought are there, but are surrounded by bushels of verbal chaff.
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  Speaker 1: The searcher for ideas receives words, words, words. The works
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  Speaker 1: on the subject which are really worth the time and
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  Speaker 1: trouble of reading are few, and the student alas knows
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  Speaker 1: not where to find them. Practical understandable works on this
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  Speaker 1: subject are being demanded by many minds, and, following the
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  Speaker 1: invariable rule which causes the production of the thing which
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  Speaker 1: is earnestly demanded, works of this kind are sure to
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  Speaker 1: appear speed the day. To the student, I would say,
• 2:49:30
  Speaker 1: do not be deluded by isms or leaders. You possess
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  Speaker 1: within you the real truth, and it will manifest itself
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  Speaker 1: to you in time, developing gradually and naturally as the flower.
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  Speaker 1: The recognition of the I Am will bring its reward.
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  Speaker 1: The small flame within will throw light on all subjects
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  Speaker 1: and illumine them. Pursue your way through life earnestly and calmly.
• 2:49:54
  Speaker 1: Hurry is not haste, bustle, is not energy. Noise is
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  Speaker 1: not strength. The man of calm, earnest and persistent qualities
• 2:50:03
  Speaker 1: reaches the goal long before his brother of opposite tendencies, Confidence, expectation,
• 2:50:09
  Speaker 1: and coln Demand is a threefold mighty dynamic force which
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  Speaker 1: would solve many problems if man but realized it. The
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  Speaker 1: wise man uses that which the fool neglects. The stone
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  Speaker 1: which the builders rejected becomes the corner stone of the temple.
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  Speaker 1: Do not crawl on your belly like a worm. Do
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  Speaker 1: not humble yourself in the dust and call upon Heaven
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  Speaker 1: to witness what a despicable creature you are. Do not
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  Speaker 1: call yourself a miserable sinner worthy only of eternal damnation. No,
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  Speaker 1: A thousand times no. Rise to your feet, raise your
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  Speaker 1: head and face the skies. Throw back your shoulders, and
• 2:50:47
  Speaker 1: fill your lungs with nature's ozone. Then say to yourself,
• 2:50:51
  Speaker 1: I am a part of the eternal life principle. I
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  Speaker 1: am created after the divine image. I am filled with
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  Speaker 1: the divine breath of life. Nothing can hurt me, for
• 2:51:00
  Speaker 1: I am a part of the eternal Go your way, friend,
• 2:51:04
  Speaker 1: strong in your new resolves, strong in your newfound strength.
• 2:51:08
  Speaker 1: Do your duty first to yourself. Then to your brother men.
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  Speaker 1: Recognize the brotherhood of man. Realize that all men are
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  Speaker 1: your brothers. Pretty poor lot of relations, but brothers for
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  Speaker 1: all of that. Do not impose on your brother man,
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  Speaker 1: But do not let him impose on you. If you
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  Speaker 1: give in to him against your judgment and conscience, you
• 2:51:28
  Speaker 1: not only hurt yourself but also injure him. Do not
• 2:51:32
  Speaker 1: start fights, but let no man smite you with impunity.
• 2:51:36
  Speaker 1: If a man smite you on one cheek, do not
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  Speaker 1: turn to him the other. But do a little smiting
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  Speaker 1: on your own account, and smite hard. Do not smite
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  Speaker 1: him with hate in your heart, and do not hesitate
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  Speaker 1: to forgive him after he has come to the doctrine
• 2:51:50
  Speaker 1: of non resistance is misunderstood. It does not mean that
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  Speaker 1: you should be a backboneless creature, a sheeplike, rabbit hearted
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  Speaker 1: specimen of humanity. No, no, When you allow a man
• 2:52:01
  Speaker 1: to impose on you and wrong you, you are not
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  Speaker 1: acting right toward the other man. Duty to him demands
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  Speaker 1: that you let him know just where he is at.
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  Speaker 1: I am speaking of real aggression or invasion of your
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  Speaker 1: rights now, not of fancied wrongs or mountains made of
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  Speaker 1: mole hills. That is the other extreme. But do not
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  Speaker 1: allow hate to find a lodging place in your heart.
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  Speaker 1: Go through the world with the grace of God in
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  Speaker 1: your heart and a good, strong hickory club in your hand.
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  Speaker 1: Don't use the club for offense, never do that, but
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  Speaker 1: keep it around to defend yourself with. If you are
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  Speaker 1: clad in the armor of a righteous cause, and the
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  Speaker 1: world sees that you have self respect and will stand
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  Speaker 1: no nonsense, it will treat you with respect. The dog
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  Speaker 1: who maintains a confident condemeanor is in but little danger
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  Speaker 1: of feeling the bootee of the passer by. But the
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  Speaker 1: white livered cur who draws himself up and places his
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  Speaker 1: tail between his legs that he may present a better
• 2:52:57
  Speaker 1: aim for the kick, gets the kick. He gets what
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  Speaker 1: he expects. What is true of the dog is equally
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  Speaker 1: true of the man. If you have followed the advice
• 2:53:07
  Speaker 1: and instructions contained in this little work, you will not
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  Speaker 1: have many kicks aimed at you. But remember no kicking
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  Speaker 1: of dogs on your part. You must be above that.
• 2:53:18
  Speaker 1: An old writer has summed up man's duty to man
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  Speaker 1: in the following words, which should be inscribed in letters
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  Speaker 1: of gold over every doorway in the land, wrong no man,
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  Speaker 1: and render unto every man his due. If the above
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  Speaker 1: words formed the rule of action and life of men,
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  Speaker 1: there would be no need of lawyers, courts or prisons.
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  Speaker 1: Life would then seem one long, sweet song. Try to
• 2:53:42
  Speaker 1: do your part in bringing about this result. Once more,
• 2:53:45
  Speaker 1: I caution you not to misuse your newfound power. Do
• 2:53:48
  Speaker 1: not drag the gift of the spirit through the mud.
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  Speaker 1: Use it freely in your own behalf in every legitimate way,
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  Speaker 1: but harm no man by reason of or by means
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  Speaker 1: of it. If you fail to grasp the meaning of
• 2:54:02
  Speaker 1: any of the teachings contained in this little work, do
• 2:54:05
  Speaker 1: not feel discouraged, for it will come to you later.
• 2:54:08
  Speaker 1: Read over the lessons which seem the most difficult to you,
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  Speaker 1: and then place yourself in the relaxed condition of body
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  Speaker 1: and mind. Enter the silence, and a new light will
• 2:54:17
  Speaker 1: break upon you. Knaw can it shall be opened unto
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  Speaker 1: you Ask and ye shall receive. And now, friends, we
• 2:54:25
  Speaker 1: have come to the parting of the ways. We may
• 2:54:28
  Speaker 1: meet again. But if not, let us part, feeling that
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  Speaker 1: we are none the worse with a short acquaintance. If
• 2:54:34
  Speaker 1: I have done you any good, if I have awakened
• 2:54:36
  Speaker 1: in you new thoughts, hopes, and aspirations. May you make
• 2:54:40
  Speaker 1: the manifest in actions and results. Our little journey along
• 2:54:44
  Speaker 1: the banks of the stream has been pleasant to me,
• 2:54:47
  Speaker 1: and I trust that I have not bored you, nor
• 2:54:49
  Speaker 1: caused you to regret the acquaintance, not a chance acquaintance.
• 2:54:53
  Speaker 1: You may rest assured for nothing ever happens. I thank
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  Speaker 1: you for your kind attention.