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THE MESSAGE OF A MASTER: Ultimate Law of Attraction Masterclass – John McDonald (1929) · THE SECRET LAW OF ATTRACTION: Manifest Wealth, Success & Abundance

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  Speaker 1: John MacDonald The message of a Master introduction to the reader.
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  Speaker 1: The following pages are the result of a series of
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  Speaker 1: notes collected and set down in the form of a story,
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  Speaker 1: and a system of practice which accounts for the style
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  Speaker 1: of arrangement. The sequential order, as originally received, has been
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  Speaker 1: carefully adhered to that its value to the reader might
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  Speaker 1: not be lessened. It sets forth no creed or dogma,
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  Speaker 1: but teaches in a clear, understandable, simple way, step by step,
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  Speaker 1: a practical, workable procedure based upon divine law for the
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  Speaker 1: mastery of environment and conditions. Surely there is an unexplainable
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  Speaker 1: something within its pages which carries a wonderful power for helpfulness,
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  Speaker 1: and which saturates the reader with a dynamic realization and
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  Speaker 1: conviction of what it teaches. This is not a volume
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  Speaker 1: to be hurriedly or superficially read. It must be studied
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  Speaker 1: in order to gain the priceless wisdom which it contains. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: it is strongly urged that, after having been read through
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  Speaker 1: once or twice, it be given the slow, deep, deliberate
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  Speaker 1: study which has proved to be the profitable way with
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  Speaker 1: the work of this kind. Read it as though it
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  Speaker 1: were a message directed to none but yourself. Try to
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  Speaker 1: reason out each proposition to your own satisfaction and to
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  Speaker 1: get the spirit back of the words. Then apply its
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  Speaker 1: teachings to fit your own individual nature and understanding. During
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  Speaker 1: your perusal of these pages, should any ideas occur to
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  Speaker 1: you concerning your work or ambitions, it is well to
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  Speaker 1: lay the book aside for a few moments and meditate
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  Speaker 1: upon them. Many profitable ideas have come to readers in
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  Speaker 1: this way. John MacDonald, The Message of a Master, Part one,
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  Speaker 1: The Search, Chapter one. Presuming that there are many who
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  Speaker 1: are just as skeptical concerning things bordering on the extraordinary
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  Speaker 1: as I have been practically all of my life, I
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  Speaker 1: offer the following story in system of practice to each
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  Speaker 1: reader for what it is worth, with the suggestion that
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  Speaker 1: he take it or leave it just as he sees fit.
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  Speaker 1: It was Saturday afternoon, and I had returned from a
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  Speaker 1: late lunch. The help had left for the day, and
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  Speaker 1: I was alone. My business had dropped off considerably of late,
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  Speaker 1: and while conditions were not alarming, yet they were sufficient
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  Speaker 1: to cause me some concern. Then again, I had recently
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  Speaker 1: indulged in some real estate speculation which had not proved successful.
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  Speaker 1: Taking it all in all, it was not a very
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  Speaker 1: cheerful outlook. In fact, the most serious problem of my
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  Speaker 1: business career was up for solution. Sitting there in deep
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  Speaker 1: thought in an effort to discover a way out, I
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  Speaker 1: was aroused by the telephone bell. Placing the receiver to
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  Speaker 1: my ear, I was startled at hearing the familiar voice
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  Speaker 1: of my old friend David B. It required no great
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  Speaker 1: stretch of the imagination to believe it a voice from
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  Speaker 1: the dead. For less than a month before, he had
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  Speaker 1: left for Europe on the urgent advice of his physician
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  Speaker 1: to take an ocean voyage, preferably, but get away somewhere
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  Speaker 1: in the hope that a change would effect improvement in
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  Speaker 1: his condition, which was a serious breakdown due to worry
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  Speaker 1: over conditions which strangely were similar to what I was
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  Speaker 1: now experiencing. As he spoke, his voice carried such striking
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  Speaker 1: power and feeling that I was reminded of my last
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  Speaker 1: impression of Dave as we sorrowfully parted with him, a
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  Speaker 1: miserable shadow of his former self, and we questioned as
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  Speaker 1: to whether we would ever see him again. But here
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  Speaker 1: he was back again, and surely some great change had
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  Speaker 1: taken place in him, remarking that a miracle must have happened.
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  Speaker 1: He assured me that I had guessed about right, adding, Tom,
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  Speaker 1: I know that you are puzzled over my early return,
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  Speaker 1: and I also know that you never expected to see
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  Speaker 1: me again. But I'm back, and I'm the luckiest man
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  Speaker 1: in the world, for I learned something that I never
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  Speaker 1: knew existed. Tom, nothing is impossible with me any more,
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  Speaker 1: for I can do anything. I am master of my
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  Speaker 1: own destiny, and I can make my life anything that
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  Speaker 1: I wish it to be. Oh, don't think I'm crazy,
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  Speaker 1: Wait until you hear my story. Feigning a laugh to
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  Speaker 1: cover my serious curiosity, I remarked that he must have
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  Speaker 1: stumbled over some newfangled religion, to which he replied on
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  Speaker 1: the contrary, it concerns no religion of any kind or
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  Speaker 1: of anybody. You See, I met a master, a wonderful
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  Speaker 1: man who has so developed his powers that he can
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  Speaker 1: do anything. And he taught me a secret that no
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  Speaker 1: price could ever buy. You know that I lost my
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  Speaker 1: health and I lost my wealth. Well, I have regained
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  Speaker 1: my health and I will have the wealth in no time.
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  Speaker 1: Oh it's a strange story, of course. I became excited
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  Speaker 1: to see him at once, and went to his inquiry
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  Speaker 1: about the club. I replied that there were no changes.
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  Speaker 1: He hung up after saying, meet me there at nine
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  Speaker 1: o'clock to night, and I will unfold a series of
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  Speaker 1: the most remarkable and fortunate happenings that could fall to
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  Speaker 1: the lot of any man. I sat there unmoved for
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  Speaker 1: some minutes, like a man in a dream, so completely
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  Speaker 1: absorbed had I become in the remarkable recital. Upon recovering myself,
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  Speaker 1: I became possessed of the feeling that I had suddenly
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  Speaker 1: grown too big for the office, that I had outgrown
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  Speaker 1: that little place. I must get outside and expand in
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  Speaker 1: the fresh air. Feverish with excitement, I put on my
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  Speaker 1: hat and stepped out. Feeling that there was something wonderful
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  Speaker 1: for me in his story, I was seized with an
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  Speaker 1: uncontrollable desire to hear it. At once. I turned in
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  Speaker 1: the direction of his office, but recalling that he was
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  Speaker 1: no longer there, was forced to wait until evening. The
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  Speaker 1: remainder of that day was spent in restlessly pacing the streets,
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  Speaker 1: and I was greatly relieved when the hour to go
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  Speaker 1: to the club, arrived, Having resolved to get Dave away
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  Speaker 1: where we would not be disturbed. I entered and stepped
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  Speaker 1: quickly to the desk, only to be informed that he
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  Speaker 1: had telephoned some time before to tell me that he
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  Speaker 1: had been called away and would be back the following evening.
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  Speaker 1: Trying to conceal disappointment and feelings, I turned quickly and
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  Speaker 1: was greeted by three friends who had seen him, and
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  Speaker 1: each was excitedly trying to tell me of the wonders
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  Speaker 1: that had taken place. Miserable and disconsolate, I broke away
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  Speaker 1: from them without uttering a word, walked out into the
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  Speaker 1: night and home, too agitated for sleep. The greater part
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  Speaker 1: of the night was passed in restless confusion. Assailed by
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  Speaker 1: the most illogical thoughts. I decided that the whole thing
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  Speaker 1: was a myth conjured up in a mind weakened as
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  Speaker 1: the result of affliction. How utterly ridiculous to allow myself
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  Speaker 1: to become upset by such a fairy tale. But no,
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  Speaker 1: somehow the thing would not go away, but kept forcing
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  Speaker 1: itself upon me, until, in desperation, I tried to console
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  Speaker 1: myself with the assurance that I would at any cost
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  Speaker 1: learn the truth or falsity of the whole matter the
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  Speaker 1: next day, Chapter two, following instructions which I had left
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  Speaker 1: at the club to be delivered to him immediately upon
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  Speaker 1: his return, Dave picked me up at my home in
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  Speaker 1: a new, high priced car, and we drove out to
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  Speaker 1: a highway cafe. There, in a private dining room, undisturbed
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  Speaker 1: by the present of others, I had opportunity to study
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  Speaker 1: my old friend. Surely, some miraculous change had taken place
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  Speaker 1: in him. His countenance allowed with health and vitality, in
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  Speaker 1: his calm, poised bearing, inspired wonderful admiration and confidence. But
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  Speaker 1: while I felt perfectly at ease in his company, I
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  Speaker 1: also felt the force of some presence in him that
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  Speaker 1: I could neither understand nor describe. Whatever it was, it
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  Speaker 1: had the effect of putting one at ease, and yet
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  Speaker 1: had the tendency to command respect for something one did
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  Speaker 1: not understand. While I felt greatly relieved after the excitement
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  Speaker 1: of the previous day, yet I found difficulty in concealing
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  Speaker 1: the emotions that surged up within me. For I felt
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  Speaker 1: satisfied and convinced that he had something that I sorely needed,
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  Speaker 1: and I had the strangest fear lest something might occur
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  Speaker 1: even then. To prevent my getting it, he broke a
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  Speaker 1: momentary silence that seemed hours to me by asking Tom,
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  Speaker 1: do I look any different than the day I left?
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  Speaker 1: I had to admit that he was both a revelation
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  Speaker 1: and a mischief to me. He continued, It was in
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  Speaker 1: a theater in London that I met the Man, or
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  Speaker 1: the Master, as he is called that I am deeply
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  Speaker 1: grateful for the privilege of calling my friend Tom. You
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  Speaker 1: didn't know that I left here determined to end at all.
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  Speaker 1: I had made such a mess of my affairs, but
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  Speaker 1: I feared to live and I feared to die. I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't rest to keep moving was my only relief. I
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  Speaker 1: guess I was what the world would call a hopeless case.
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  Speaker 1: As I look back upon that evening in London, how
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  Speaker 1: well I now realized that my utter despondency and the
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  Speaker 1: intense longing to find something to relieve me drew me
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  Speaker 1: and my dear friend together. I had decided upon a
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  Speaker 1: regular orchestra seat, but discovered that for some unexplainable reason,
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  Speaker 1: I had ordered a box and found myself seated beside
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  Speaker 1: my friend. Extraordinary happenings such as this occur frequently to
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  Speaker 1: many of us, and are explained away because of our
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  Speaker 1: ignorance as merely coincidences. But I know differently now. I
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  Speaker 1: could feel that my uneasiness attracted his attention. The wonderful
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  Speaker 1: radiance of his countenance assured that he was an unusual personage,
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  Speaker 1: and I felt an instinctive urge to open my heart
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  Speaker 1: to him. The remark I am sorely troubled, uttered by
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  Speaker 1: a character upon the stage started our acquaintance. I replied,
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  Speaker 1: so am I in just a whisper. But my friend
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  Speaker 1: heard it. In Turning to me, he asked, are you troubled?
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  Speaker 1: I nodded my head in response, and you may believe
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  Speaker 1: me or not, But almost immediately I was at ease.
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  Speaker 1: Something seemed to tell me that I had the good
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  Speaker 1: fortune of being in the presence of one of those
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  Speaker 1: great spiritual people of whom I had read quite a
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  Speaker 1: bit in earlier years. I felt convinced that I had
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  Speaker 1: met my deliverer, and at the close of the performance,
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  Speaker 1: was overjoyed at his invitation to accompany him to a
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  Speaker 1: nearby cafe. I noticed that the attention of those in
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  Speaker 1: the cafe was drawn toward him as we entered, and
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  Speaker 1: that the management was noticeably respectful and courteous toward him.
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  Speaker 1: Having convinced myself that this man possessed some sort of
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  Speaker 1: magical power, I determined to ask him all the questions
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  Speaker 1: that I could think of, and, with his permission, make
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  Speaker 1: notes of his answers. Learning that he was taking steamer
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  Speaker 1: for New York the next day, I asked if I
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  Speaker 1: might accompany him, to which he assented. At the conclusion
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  Speaker 1: of our talk, I observed that he merely wrote his
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  Speaker 1: initials on the bill, and as we stepped outside to
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  Speaker 1: call the cab, I questioned him regarding this, and he
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  Speaker 1: admitted that he was not known there, as this was
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  Speaker 1: his first visit to the place, but he assured me
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  Speaker 1: that they would be paid, adding, I did this to
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  Speaker 1: show you that man, in his right domain controls every situation.
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  Speaker 1: I was still puzzled, but carried the subject no further,
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  Speaker 1: hoping that it would all be made plain to me.
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  Speaker 1: Later that night, as I lay in a doze, the
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  Speaker 1: events of the evening kept passing through my mind, and
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  Speaker 1: at times I found difficult in realizing that my good
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  Speaker 1: fortune was real rather than the illusion of a dream.
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  Speaker 1: That night, I had the first peaceful sleep in Months
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  Speaker 1: Chapter three. The following morning, up early and supremely happy
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  Speaker 1: and eager for what the day would unfold, I immediately
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  Speaker 1: applied for a reservation on the steamer, only to be
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  Speaker 1: informed that they had a full passenger list. But as
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  Speaker 1: I turned away, almost heartbroken at such an unfortunate turn
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  Speaker 1: of events, I was recalled by the clerk with the
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  Speaker 1: information that a reservation had just been canceled and that
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  Speaker 1: I might have it Instantly. I felt forcibly struck with
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  Speaker 1: the thought that here was more of my Friend's magic,
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  Speaker 1: as I then called it, and I was not mistaken
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  Speaker 1: for he later admitted that he had made a place
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  Speaker 1: for me. Of course, you do not understand how the
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  Speaker 1: thing works, Tom, Neither did I at the time, but
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  Speaker 1: I do now, and it is oh so simple. I
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  Speaker 1: believe its simplicity causes it to be overlooked. Presently, my
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  Speaker 1: friend arrived with servant and, as usual, being surrounded by
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  Speaker 1: attendants eager to be of service and assistance. I clung
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  Speaker 1: to him persistently throughout the entire voyage, and he appeared
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  Speaker 1: to enjoy my company. The first evening out I visited
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  Speaker 1: him in his luxuriously furnished stateroom, for he has the
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  Speaker 1: best of everything wherever he goes. And while explaining the
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  Speaker 1: wonderful forces that man, in his ignorance, has permitted to
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  Speaker 1: lie dormant within him, he gave me several demonstrations of
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  Speaker 1: the powers that he has developed. He did things that
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  Speaker 1: were actually astounding. He asked, why cannot you do what
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  Speaker 1: I do? Why cannot all do as I do? I
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  Speaker 1: have no powers that you are not endowed with. Here
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  Speaker 1: is my answer, Because of my knowledge of universal law,
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  Speaker 1: I have developed the God given powers within me, while you,
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  Speaker 1: in your ignorance, have been dissipating in scattering yours. All
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  Speaker 1: men use the same power, For in all the universe
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  Speaker 1: there is but one power. This is self evident, as
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  Speaker 1: you shall see. Continuing, he said, the great masses of
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  Speaker 1: humanity are using the law destructively or partially so, and
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  Speaker 1: the scales are balanced against them. Here and there among
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  Speaker 1: the masses we find an occasional outstanding figure who has
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  Speaker 1: achieved greatness or success, and he is erroneously singled out
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  Speaker 1: as lucky or as a genius, when the fact is
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  Speaker 1: that he has made use of the law, whether knowingly
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  Speaker 1: or unknowingly. It matters not at least sufficiently to have
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  Speaker 1: the scales balanced in his favor. How plain this is
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  Speaker 1: to the one who knows. Before the discovery of the
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  Speaker 1: law governing the use of electricity, this great force was
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  Speaker 1: lying dormant throughout the universe, at least as far as
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  Speaker 1: man's knowledge was concerned. He had first to discover the
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  Speaker 1: law before he could turn it to his advantage. Just
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  Speaker 1: so with this universal law, happiness is man's rightful heritage.
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  Speaker 1: It is the sumumbonum of his aspirations. The very soul
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  Speaker 1: of man cries out for happiness, but he misinterprets it
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  Speaker 1: in terms of money. Why because money is a means
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  Speaker 1: to an end. It is the motive power which drives
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  Speaker 1: us on in our quest or the ultimate which is
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  Speaker 1: happiness in the world. There cannot be happiness without money.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore the occupation of acquiring money is a worthy and
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  Speaker 1: commendable one. Why should man, the supreme creation of the universe,
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  Speaker 1: suffer all sorts of lack, misery, and unhappiness when such
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  Speaker 1: inferior creatures as the beasts of the field, the birds
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  Speaker 1: of the air, and the fish of the sea, are
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  Speaker 1: bountifully supplied for any man, no matter what his station
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  Speaker 1: in life, to take the stand that it is the
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  Speaker 1: destiny of man to want for anything that will contribute
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  Speaker 1: to his happiness or that of his family is ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody discovers the law governing the use of etheric waves,
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  Speaker 1: and we have radio. Millions of people are now enjoying
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  Speaker 1: its advantages. They tune into what they want and they
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  Speaker 1: get it. There is a great lesson in this for
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  Speaker 1: believe me, you may have anything you want and in
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  Speaker 1: abundance when you learn to tune in with an infinitely
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  Speaker 1: greater power than electricity or its vehicle radio, with a
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  Speaker 1: power that you have had from the beginning. The captain
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  Speaker 1: of this ship could just as easily own it as
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  Speaker 1: run it. One position is no more difficult of attainment
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  Speaker 1: than the other. He tuned into the captaincy successfully. Ownership
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  Speaker 1: was a little more distant, and he did not try
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  Speaker 1: for distance. That is all. The actual difference in the
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  Speaker 1: two positions is merely the difference in two words, nothing more.
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  Speaker 1: As you shall see very plainly when we get a
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  Speaker 1: little further along. Each night, after retiring to my room,
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  Speaker 1: I would sit up until early morning, reading my notes
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  Speaker 1: of the day, in preparing questions for the next He
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  Speaker 1: told me that I was very perceptive because of my eagerness, sincerity,
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  Speaker 1: and trust, and that it was a pleasure to instruct me.
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  Speaker 1: And in gratitude I acknowledged that no price was too
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  Speaker 1: high or sacrifice too great, in return for such knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: In answer to my question as to when and how
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  Speaker 1: he discovered such a secret, he said, I discovered nothing
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  Speaker 1: into me. It is no secret. This knowledge has been
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  Speaker 1: in our family as far back as our records go.
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  Speaker 1: I use it because I know it to be the easy,
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  Speaker 1: certain way of accomplishing a purpose, while you have known
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  Speaker 1: only the difficult, uncertain way. He seemed never to want
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  Speaker 1: to take credit for anything, always claiming that no credit
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  Speaker 1: was due him. Chapter four. I was rapidly regaining my
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  Speaker 1: health and strength, and was becoming fired with an irresistible
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  Speaker 1: ambition to get back and start all over again, censuring
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  Speaker 1: myself for having wasted so many valuable years in fruitless
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  Speaker 1: effort in my old way. I was eager to start
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  Speaker 1: in a new way. Approaching the end of our voyage
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  Speaker 1: and feeling that I was soon to part from my
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  Speaker 1: great benefactor, to whom I had become greatly attached and
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  Speaker 1: to whom I owed so much, I handed him my
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  Speaker 1: card and asked for his, to which he replied, I
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  Speaker 1: have no card, no name, no address. I am like
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  Speaker 1: the wind. I come from nowhere and I go everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: As for my name, you may call me friend. Saying
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  Speaker 1: that I would much prefer to call him master, he replied, No, no,
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  Speaker 1: not master, just friend. That will do. Glancing at my card,
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  Speaker 1: he said, I turn up at the most unexpected places.
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  Speaker 1: I might be out to see you soon. If I do,
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  Speaker 1: I will write to you. I shall never forget the
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  Speaker 1: parting instructions that he gave me. In a manner like
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  Speaker 1: a parent with a child, he said, you are indeed
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  Speaker 1: a fortunate man. Just think of the millions of gifted,
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  Speaker 1: highly talented people, many blessed with rare qualities for success
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  Speaker 1: and leadership, whose achievements would mean so much to their
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  Speaker 1: fellow men, happiness and contentment to themselves and their families,
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  Speaker 1: who do not know what you know, but who go
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  Speaker 1: on striving and straining, wasting their precious life force, only
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  Speaker 1: to find themselves dissatisfied, discouraged, disheartened, crushed as you once were,
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  Speaker 1: yet spurred on by that divine spark, that irresistible urge
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  Speaker 1: within by which they instinctively realize that there is a way,
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  Speaker 1: but which they, in their ignorance, misinterpret and consequently find
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  Speaker 1: themselves failures. After years of despairing effort, all this you
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  Speaker 1: can now avoid. Go home. You have learned all that
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  Speaker 1: you will need. If you will diligently follow the instructions
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  Speaker 1: that I have given, you may reach any heights. You
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  Speaker 1: may accomplish any worthy purpose easily and quickly. There need
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  Speaker 1: be no limit to your possibilities. Your successes will multiply
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  Speaker 1: an increase in proportion to your master of the law.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: With each success, your faith in the law grows stronger.
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  Speaker 1: Until you reach the point of conviction, then you are invincible.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Bear in mind the warning that I have repeatedly given
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: you reveal nothing of this to even your dearest friend.
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  Speaker 1: To do so before you are powerfully fortified in the
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: law would only tend to interfere with your plans, but
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  Speaker 1: particularly it would result in the scale sattering of your forces,
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  Speaker 1: and consequently weaken their power for your good. Therefore, keep
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  Speaker 1: your secret securely locked within your heart. You will never
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  Speaker 1: be able to work out another's problems. Neither will another
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  Speaker 1: be able to work out yours. This is strictly a
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  Speaker 1: matter for each individual accomplishment of anything in any line
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: is the result of the operation of this inner force
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  Speaker 1: discovered and set to work, and this must be done
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  Speaker 1: by each one for himself. There is no other way.
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  Speaker 1: When the time arrives that you shall have retired from
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  Speaker 1: commercial pursuits, you may, after seeking the guidance of your conscience,
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  Speaker 1: release it for the benefit of others. Thus, liberated from
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: further commercial allurements, you will be free to devote your
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: life to the uplift of your fellow man, lending your
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: help to freeing him from the bondage of want, misery,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: and unhappiness. Reluctantly parting with my benefactor as he entered
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: a taxi with his servant and gave directions to this hotel,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: I started down the street, unconscious the crowds, and with
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: such a peculiar sensation of exaltation and buoyancy that I
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: seemed to be just floating along rather than walking. Sleep
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: had no attraction for me, and it was with difficulty
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: that I induced myself to retire to a hotel. On
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: the train speeding home, I carefully avoided all unnecessary contact
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  Speaker 1: with my fellow passengers. I kept to my state room.
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  Speaker 1: Oh how I wanted to be alone, and to think
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: I could not think of sparing any of my precious
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: time for worthless, idle conversation and gossip. How useless it
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: seemed to me now when there was so compelling purpose
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: to try out my new teaching, and not another day
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: could be wasted. Nothing else interested me, and nothing else
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: mattered there. You have as much of my story as
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: I am at liberty to reveal at this time, and
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: I give you this much in the hope that it
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: will encourage you to such an extent that you will
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: consider any personal sacrifice well worth the price of such knowledge.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: For years I have been blindly seeking what I never
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: imagine and existed, and now that I have it, no
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: fortune is large enough to buy it. Noticing upon me
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: the appalling effect of his inability to enlighten me further,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Dave attempted to ease my feelings with the assurance that
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: he would see that I got in touch with the
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Master upon his arrival. This only intensified my determination, as
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: I excitedly exclaimed, I'll never wait for an arrival that
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: might never occur. By the Gods, I'll find him if
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: you will give me the name of his hotel. So
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: different from his former excitable nature. He remained calm and
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: poised as he replied that he had not overheard the
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: name Chapter five. There was nothing for me to do now,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: but settled down as best I could to impatiently waiting
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: and hoping, while he immediately plunged into his former occupation,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: that of operating in the market. Because of his secretiveness,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: we knew little of his affairs, although we met him
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: a few times at the club. On such occasions, none
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: of you seemed to have the courage to question him
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: regarding himself, and he talked on every set object but that. However,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: it was but a short time until his activities reached
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: such proportions that he was compelled to carry on his
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: operations to some extent through a few of his close friends,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: including myself. It was then that I learned in part
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: the magnitude of them. Fearing that such successes could not last,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: I attempted to advise greater caution, warning him that some
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: day his bubble would burst, and then where would he be.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: With a quick turn toward me and with his characteristic
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: dominant expression, he replied, Tom, you need have no concern
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: about my welfare. I operate according to definite unerring law,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: if you want to get the square feet contained in
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: this room, you would get the two dimensions, and following
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: a process laid down by the law mathematics, you would
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: arrive at a definite result. You would be certain of
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: the success of the process from the beginning. Just so
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: with my work, I know the outcome before I start.
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  Speaker 1: That was the last mention I ever made to him
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: of his affairs, and he never referred to them. There
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: seemed to be no stopping to him, for he went
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: on from one success to another. His perpetual energy and
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: vitality seemed to never lay, and the dynamic force with
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: which he seemed to dominate every situation and overwhelm all
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: opposition to his progress was actually superhuman. At the few
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: social gatherings which he attended, his magnetic personality and the
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: mystery with which his name was associated made him the
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: center of attention. Because of his desire to avoid notice.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: I saw little of him for some time, and, hearing
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: no news of the Master, I had just about become
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: resigned to my fate when one day his secretary telephoned
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: that there was a letter at his office which would
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: interest me. Hurrying over I was handed a letter written
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: on the stationery of a prominent hotel and address to him,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: which read, detained by important affairs, regret to have to
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: forego a visit with you this time, and signed your friend.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: At last my chance had come. The hotel was my
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: only clue, but it was enough. Hastily getting my three
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: interested associates together, we left, and that evening found us
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: speeding eastward in our quest of the Master and its secret,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: entering the hotel. Upon our arrival, I went direct to
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: the manager and informed him of our mission. He knew
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: immediately and told me that because of the many visitors
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: who were crowding the Master, he had departed, leaving no address.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: He had no further information to give us. Again, I
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: was thoroughly disheartened. Was I ever to learn that secret?
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: I really believed that I was not. However, we got
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: a good description of him and decided to continue our search.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: We separated in order to work more effectively, but our
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: search was without success until the night of the fifth day.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: I sat alone in the lobby of our hotel. That night,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: after my associates had retired, following an hour of argument,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: in an effort to persuade me to return home. I
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: decided that I would not give up. I would continue
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: the search forever if necessary. Sitting there in a deserted
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: corner at that hour in the early morning, my feelings
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: suddenly changed from utter despondency to joyous elation. Somehow I
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: knew that my search was at an end, And while
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: pondering over this, I became possessed of a sense of
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: some presence behind me. Immediately, a hand touched my shoulder.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: I arose turned, and there before me I looked into
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: the most magnificent face that I have ever seen, and
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: the eyes they sparkled like jewels, and a voice said,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: are you looking for me? I merely answered I am,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: for I knew it was he. I will not go
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: into his explanation of the causes which led up to
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: our meeting, but after a long talk, during which he
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: explained that his time was so busily occupied that there
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: was no way in which he could give any instructions,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: that he was not even receiving visitors during this short
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: visit to this country, but that he would advise me
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: of his next visit, I vehemently exclaimed, with all the
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  Speaker 1: intensity of my being, that I was desperately in need
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: of him, that we had come thousands of miles to
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: learn his wisdom, and that I was willing to sacrifice
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: anything for just a little of his knowledge. My desperation
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: and the intensity of my appeal must have aroused his compassion,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: for he agreed to receive us for instructions the following
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: morning at his apartment. Chapter six. The sight that met
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: our eyes as we entered his apartment that morning will
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: stand out vividly in my memory. Never before or since
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: have I seen such luxuriance and extravagance displayed as in
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: the furnishings of that place. It seemed like desecration to
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: tread upon those magnificent silk rugs as we were led
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: by his servant through a room delicately perfumed I in
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: abundance of flowers, artistically arranged to a room which appeared
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: to be his study, and where chairs had already been
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: placed for us. His entry immediately after was followed by
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: a round of introductions, names, occupations, and general remarks. We
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: had expected to see him attired in some gorgeous style
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: in keeping with his surroundings, but were struck by the
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: simplicity in both his dress and his bearing. My impression
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: was that, being conscious of his power, he preferred to
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: shun publicity and people rather than be the object of
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: any attention. And he explained the presence of the furnishings
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: by saying that he loved beautiful things and therefore surrounded
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: himself with them. He began our instructions by saying, you
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: may have come here in expectation of seeing a mysterious
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: being endowed with mystic powers, a sort of magician who
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: can pull a fortune out of the air and pass
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: it over to you. You have very much misled yourselves.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: I am just an ordinary man, no different than you are.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: The world calls such as me a master, and so
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: I am, but only in the sense that I have
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: learned how to master environment and conditions, that I have
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: developed in me the powers that abide alike in all
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: of us, and that I am more nearly lit life
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: as it should be lived. I realize that you have
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: come here because of your faith in me, and that
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: you look upon me somewhat as an exalted personality. But
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: in order that you may gain the greatest benefit from
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: these teachings, I will ask that you wipe out any
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: impression that you may have of me as a personality.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: I assure you that I am worthy of no honor
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: or homage. I am just a human like yourself. I
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: am not a superior being. Rather, I am a humble being,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: thankful for the knowledge that I have gained. I made
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: no discoveries. I received these instructions in much the same
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: manner that I am about to give them to you.
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  Speaker 1: You will find no difficulty in putting these principles into
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: practice in your everyday affairs. They are as available to
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: you as to me. For this great law is no
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: respector of persons. It is the highest and most effective
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: possible in worldly affairs, and is well worth learning, for
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: its practice results in a life that is well worth living.
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  Speaker 1: Employing these principles wisely and intelligently, there can be no
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: uncertainty as to the outcome of any undertaking, and no
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: limit to your possibilities. As you go on and on,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: your confidence increases and you find that your powers are increasing.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: You accomplish greater things with greater ease and greater speed.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: As its growth in you increases, your accomplishments increase. Likewise,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: with many remarkable improvement comes quickly, as in the case
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: of your friend who is responsible for you being here today.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: With others, the growth is more gradual. The difference is
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: not any difference in the individual, for all are endowed
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: with the same capacity, but it is a difference in
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: the degree of intensity employed. However, no man could ever
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: receive these instructions and not become a better man because
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: of them. No greater things are accomplished in the consciousness
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: of personality. That is impossible, for personality is limiting. Therefore,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: except these these lessons for just what they mean to
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: you alone as an individual entity. Let not my presence
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: of your impression of me influence you in any way
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: in your studies. Learn from my words only, not from me.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Now let us proceed the end of Part one, John
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: mac donald, The Message of a Master, Part two The
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Message Chapter one. In imparting the principles of this law
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: to you, I will ask that you overlook any apparent contradictions,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: for of necessity they are bound to occur when treating
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: upon a subject of this kind, in order that propositions
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: otherwise obscure may be made clear. And again you must
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: understand that I am using your language to convey my meaning,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: and I meet with some difficulty in doing so I
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: want you to bear in mind this advice. Take these
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: teachings for just what they mean to you individually. If
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: some statements do not appear to you at this time,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: make no effort to force yourself to accept them. What
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: you might reject or fail to understand now will, no doubt,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: appear plain and become valuable to you later as your
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: capacity to receive increases. There are times when the changing
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: of words makes a subject more clear and appealing to
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: people of different mentalities. Therefore, if you find that the
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: replacing of my words for your own at times makes
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: any statement clearer or seems to fit in with your
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: particular mental make up or belief, you may do so freely.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: He who is wise in his own conceit, who approaches
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: a subject in an attitude of doubt and resistance, will
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: learn little. There is not much hope for him. But
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: he who takes up any subject in an open mind,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: willing to learn anything that will contribute to his advancement, comfort,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: and happiness, is wise. Therefore, while I do not ask
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: that you believe all that I tell you, for to
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: do so would be to intrude upon your God given
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: freedom of thought, Yet neither do I wish you to
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: doubt or resist what I tell you, for that would
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: prevent you from gaining the help you are seeking for
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: your own highest and greatest good. Your attitude should be
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: just this. I am going to take these teachings in
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: an open minded, neutral attitude, determined that I shall gain
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: all the benefit there is in them for me. The
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: fact that I do not understand or even believe any
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: particular statement or proposition at this time does not necessarily
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: make it any the less true. To be able to
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: make use of the law as outlined, it is necessary
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: that you have a clear understanding of its operation. To
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  Speaker 1: this end, I will illustrate, wherever possible the different propositions
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: with examples in nature that you will find all about you,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: and that will help you in reasoning out these truths
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: to a logical conclusion. Your mind, which is yourself, can
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: be likened to a house which the accumulation of years
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: has cluttered with thousands of unnecessary pieces of furniture, pictures, ornaments,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: and other things, all strewn around and heaped everywhere, with
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: the result that while the outside of that house might
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: present a good appearance, the inside is a mass of care, infusion,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: and disorder. How utterly impossible to accomplish anything under such conditions,
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  Speaker 1: For you cannot go after one thing without stumbling over another.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: No order, no purpose, no progress. The first necessary move, then,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: is to rid that house of all but the furnishings
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: essential to success. Chapter two. How did you get here?
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: You grew from a minute cell smaller than the point
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: of a pin. Just think a cell or seed the
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: size of a pinpoint, contained within itself, in essence and
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: in entirety, the wonderful being that you are to day.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Surely that cell could not possibly contain the material forms,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: no matter how infinitesimal they might be, of body, head, hair, arms, legs, hands, feet,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: and all the wonderful organs of the body. Well, then,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: how did you arrive at your full stature as you
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: now appear? There is but one logical answer. That cell
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: contained a spark of mind, the one and only power
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: supreme in man. That spark of mind, true to the
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: law of its own being, held a fixed image or
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: picture of you, and you, unfolded, grew and eventually outpictured
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: or become objectified in obedience to that law. Surely you
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: cannot reasonably deny that in the process of nature you
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: originated in a cell, and you will not deny that
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: you could not be contained bodily in that cell. Therefore,
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: the only conclusion is that you must have been in
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: that cell mentally. Should your understanding fail to immediately grasp
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: this truth, your reasoning faculty will readily admit that there
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: is a power at work in that cell, unfolding according
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: to a definite plan. So intelligence must be present. Admitting
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: the presence of intelligence, it follows that we must admit
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: of the present of mind. It is necessary at this
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: point to get one fact clearly before you, for it
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: is the fundamental basis from which we proceed, And that
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: clearly is this, that mind, no matter what form it
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: is apparently contained in, holds images, pictures, and any picture
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: firmly held in any mind, in any form, is bound
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: to come forth. This is the great, unchanging universal law, which,
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: when we cooperate with it intelligently, makes us absolute masters
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  Speaker 1: of conditions and environment. Can you not recall instances when
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: you have secretly expressed a desire within yourself for some
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: particular thing, or that you might meet a particular person,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: When shortly that thing becomes your possession or that person appears,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: and you might exclaim, isn't it a coincidence I was
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: thinking of you just this morning. It is no coincidence
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: at all, not at all strange. It was the natural
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: outcome of the operation of definite law. If this be true,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: why do not all wishes or thoughts appear? Many do,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: but because of the absence of alertness, due to ignorance
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: of the law, they pass unnoticed. And again many do
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: not manifest at all. To illustrate this, I can use
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: your knowledge of radio. You attempt to tune into one
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: station for some delightful music, but because of there being
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: a number of others on the air, your reward is
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: a jumble of confusion. But should you reach that station
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: when others are temporarily off, you get it clearly and
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: your desire is gratified. The answer to the question is this.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: It happened that, by chance, those thoughts or desires which
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: appeared arose at just the instant when there were no
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: other conflicting thoughts present to nullify their power, and the mind,
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: instead of being divided among many thoughts, through its great
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: force in with the one, and it became outpictured or externalized.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: You have experienced times when your mind became a complete
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: blank for just a moment, and you found yourself staring
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: out into space. It at that instant it were possible
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: to inject any wish, any desire, with sufficient force. Nothing
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: upon Earth could prevent it from coming forth instantly. Now,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: what is the cause of the confusion prevailing in mind
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: which weakens your thoughts? It is the false belief that
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: there is a power of powers outside of you greater
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: than the power within you. If through a system of practice,
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: conditions within you became such that every constructive thought automatically outpictured,
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: you would be master of all conditions or circumstances that
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: in any way concerned you or affected your life, would
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: you not Chapter three? The next step in your instructions
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: is this The consciousness or fixed picture in mind of anything,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: any condition, any circumstance is the actual thing itself, And
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  Speaker 1: what you experienced through the five sense is the mental
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  Speaker 1: picture outpictured or made visible or tangible, identically the same
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  Speaker 1: as the artist who puts his mental pictures upon the canvas,
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  Speaker 1: the hand in his case being merely the instrument through
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  Speaker 1: which the mind expresses, and which is under the guidance
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  Speaker 1: and direction of the mind. Does not medical science agree
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  Speaker 1: that the human body undergoes a complete change every eleven months.
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  Speaker 1: This means that the cells of which your entire body
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  Speaker 1: is composed die and are passed off at such a
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  Speaker 1: rate that you do not possess as little as one
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  Speaker 1: cell of the body you had a year ago. You
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  Speaker 1: remember many years back? Do you not many happenings or
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  Speaker 1: your childhood can be recalled to memory? How can you
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  Speaker 1: remember back through those many years and your brain is
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  Speaker 1: not yet a year old? Because you are mind. You
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  Speaker 1: are not body as an individual entity functioning in an
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  Speaker 1: individual sphere, which is true of each one of us.
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  Speaker 1: You are all powerful mind, and your body is the
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  Speaker 1: vehicle through which you function. You are master, and your
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  Speaker 1: body is your servant. It is your instrument of expression.
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  Speaker 1: That is all now. Which is the real body, the
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  Speaker 1: one that remains pictured or imaged forever in mind as
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  Speaker 1: long as you exist here, or the one that decays
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  Speaker 1: in its entirety and passes into the earth every eleven months,
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  Speaker 1: And which are the real things? Those things imaged or
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  Speaker 1: pictured in mind, or those things seen in the outer
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  Speaker 1: and which disintegrate after a short existence Right here? I
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  Speaker 1: do not wish to have you misled into the impression
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  Speaker 1: that the outer is of little or no importance in
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  Speaker 1: human achievement, but it is only secondary, while a fundamental
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  Speaker 1: knowledge of the operation of mind is of primary importance
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  Speaker 1: to you. At the start, I wish it were possible
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  Speaker 1: to explain so that you might understand the process by
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  Speaker 1: which a picture in mind becomes objectified. But it would
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  Speaker 1: require hours to even make an effort in this direction,
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  Speaker 1: and then I might only confuse you, for words are
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  Speaker 1: feeble things. When one attempts to explain these deeper things
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  Speaker 1: of universal law, one really must gradually and patiently advance
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  Speaker 1: up to and into them to understand. However, it is
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  Speaker 1: not necessary to know this in order to use the law,
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  Speaker 1: any more than it is necessary to know the law
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  Speaker 1: by which the Sun's rays are transmitted to Earth in
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: order to enjoy them. You have faith in my sincerity
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  Speaker 1: of purpose, very well place the same amount of faith
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  Speaker 1: in the power of this law, and anything you undertake
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  Speaker 1: will be possible of accomplishment. Let us get on to
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  Speaker 1: the next step. Chapter four. You may have heard it
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  Speaker 1: said that there are many minds, But such a statement
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  Speaker 1: is merely an idiom. There is nothing in science or
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: reality to support such a predicate. There is but one mind,
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  Speaker 1: as there is but one electricity, one air or atmosphere.
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  Speaker 1: The many minds referred to are but a multiplicity of
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  Speaker 1: expressions of the one. We use mind as we use
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  Speaker 1: air or electricity, as our individual needs require. I will
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  Speaker 1: now ask that you bear with me for a time
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  Speaker 1: while I make use of a contradiction in order that
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: I may simplify the next subject. It becomes necessary for
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: me to refer to three minds, or properly speaking, three
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  Speaker 1: phases of mind. You are apparently made up of three minds,
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  Speaker 1: the one which controls the function of the body, in which,
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  Speaker 1: for want of a better word, I will call the
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  Speaker 1: deeper mind. This mind we are not particularly concerned with,
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  Speaker 1: and properly should not be. It knows its duties better
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  Speaker 1: than we do. We can cooperate with this mind to
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  Speaker 1: our great profit in both health and strength, by keeping
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  Speaker 1: our thoughts off the body, by forgetting that we have
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  Speaker 1: a body, and thereby refraining form interfering with the proper
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  Speaker 1: functioning of this deeper mind, we will find that it
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  Speaker 1: will get along very nicely. The other two minds in
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: which we are greatly interested, and with which we must
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  Speaker 1: deal from this time forth, are what I might name
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: the inner and outer minds. Those two minds you will
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: readily recognize from the fact that when you take sides
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  Speaker 1: within yourself upon a subject, and find yourself carrying on
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  Speaker 1: a spirited controversy with yourself, you are engaging these two minds.
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  Speaker 1: The proper office of the outer mind, which is in
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: touch with external things through the medium of the five senses,
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  Speaker 1: is to transmit its desires to the inner mind, which
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: is the seed of power within you you, and which
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: by its very nature has no consciousness of duality, since
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  Speaker 1: it has no faculty of discrimination. It knows no impossible,
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  Speaker 1: no failure, no obstacle or limit or lack. It depends
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  Speaker 1: upon the guidance of the outer mind, and throws its
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  Speaker 1: great unlimited force into anything that the outer mind may direct.
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  Speaker 1: I can better illustrate the character of the inner mind
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  Speaker 1: by again comparing it with electricity. As electricity is the
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  Speaker 1: greatest power in the world, so is the inner mind
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  Speaker 1: the greatest power in your being. Of themselves, neither operates independently,
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: but depends upon a separate agency to incite them to action,
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: and both bring helpful or harmful results according to the
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  Speaker 1: wisdom or ignorance with which they are directed. This being true,
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: how important then for the outer to unite with the
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  Speaker 1: inner and cooperate with it. And if this were the
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: condition in human affairs, man would be master of his
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: environment instead of being the slave of circumstance. Why are
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: all not super instead of merely men? For this reason,
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: the outer mind forms a desire which is automatically taken
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  Speaker 1: up by the inner mind, and in turn it immediately
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: proceeds to function toward bringing it forth. It scarcely has
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: time to turn its great force in that direction before
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: the outer has found a new fancy or has conjured
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: up illusionary obstacles. And the inner, not being on the surface,
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: not in contact with outer things, and consequently dependent upon
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: the outer for guidance, is forced to again divert its power.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: And thus it goes on and on, like leaks in
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: a steam pipe, scattering its wonderful power everywhere, but getting nowhere.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: Why is the inner mind thus thwarted in every move
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: it makes toward accomplishment? Why because the outer judges everything
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: by what the eye and ear reports and transmit that
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: message to the inner. What do we find humanity doing?
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: We find them taking pictures of what they experienced daily
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: in the outer world developing the sensitized film, than printing
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: those pictures upon themselves within. The procedure should be just
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: the reverse. I know whereof I speak when I say
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  Speaker 1: that we have been endowed with the capacity and the
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: power to create desirable pictures within and to find them
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  Speaker 1: automatically printed in the outer world of our environment. And
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: it is a simple process, as you will see later.
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  Speaker 1: When we can do this, we have mastery, and not before. Well,
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: then you would say the need must be to discipline
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  Speaker 1: the outer mind, since it seems to be the offender
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: just so, but since it meets up with thousands of
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: experiences almost daily, ordinary methods of training might require years
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: to accomplish results, or at best such training would be
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: a long drawn out process. There is a quicker and
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: better way, a method which, when put into operation, employs
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: the usefulness of the outer mind without taking into account
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: its vacillating wilfulness Chapter five, and the first step in
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: this direction follows. We will suppose that there is an
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  Speaker 1: urgent need for you to reach a certain town as
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: quickly as possible. When you step into your automobile, you
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: naturally picture in mind a given point of destination and
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: turn your face in that direction. If that point be distant,
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: you may become diverted on to wrong roads many times.
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: But upon noting this, you return and again take the
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: proper course, guided by what by the picture and mind
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: of the place you are headed for, and you get there.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: You held to a set definite objective until you reached it.
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: You held your objective or destination in mind without any
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: particular effort or strain, and merely returned the car to
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: the proper road when you found that it had strayed,
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: and you got there. Thus it is with us a
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: set definite objective must be established if we are to
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: accomplish anything in a big way. What do I mean
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: by establishing a set definite objective? Is it as simple
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: as it sounds? No? Not at the start. Would you
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: set your objective at a million immediately and start out
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: thoughtlessly to make it overnight? Yes you might, if you
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: have the capacity to see a million as an immediate possibility,
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: But this is quite rare. The wise thing to do
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: is to grow to it. As the marathon runner begins
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: by first running a mile. Then he goes two miles,
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: then three. Thus he expands his capacity to eventually cover
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: the full distance. Why is a set definite objective necessary?
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: There are three reasons. First, the inner mind is the
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: positive pole of your being, while the outer is the
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: negative pole. As in geology, the north pole is the
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: positive and the south pole the negative. There must be
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: a positive and negative in everything in the universe in
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: would be no activity, no motion. To illustrate this, there
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: would be no go forward. If we had no backward,
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: there could be no up. If there were no down,
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: there never could have been such a quality as good
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: if there were no evil so called, How could there
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: have been light without darkness? For us to be conscious
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: of one thing, there must be another opposite by which
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: to compare it, or it remains non existent to us. Now,
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: In everything that is obedient to law, the positive dominates
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: and governs, and the negative serves. But mankind reverses this.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: The outer mind looks out upon the world and reports strife, competition, obstacles, impossibilities,
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: and similar conditions. Why, because of the absence of direction,
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: it is left to wander without a purpose, and thus
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: aimlessly wandering It accepts everything The set definite objective firmly
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: imaged or pictured in mind immediately whips the outer into
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: line by giving it a fixed duty to perform. This automatically,
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: without any effort on your part, infuses into it the
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: positive quality of the inner mind. And since the law
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: of the universe, and therefore also of your being cannot change,
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: negative conditions, including individuals, serve it. And therefore you, and
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: again automatically, positive conditions and individuals are attracted to you
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: as surely as the steel particles are attracted to the magnet.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: That is the first reason. Second, the atmosphere, or ether
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: as we prefer to name it, is filled with millions
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: upon millions of thoughts which are forever in motion. The
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: hundreds of stations in your country, all broadcasting simultaneously give
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: you a slight idea of the thoughts in the air.
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: Every human being is a broadcasting station, and everybody is
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: a receiving set. This explains why I am able to
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: answer your questions instantly before you have had to form
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: them into words. The fact that I have been getting
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: your thoughts before you have expressed them, and which have
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: been puzzling you, is now made clear. This is a
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: faculty developed after years of training. This faculty was always
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: in me and is within you. I have brought out
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: and made use of mine, while yours lies dormant, almost entirely.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: To get back to our subject, the man who has
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: no set, definite objective is tuning in too everything and
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: getting nothing. He is unfortunate, indeed, for he is at
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: the mercy of millions of conflicting thoughts, and his is
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: a life of confusion and distress. Some of those in
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: my work have so perfected themselves that they are able
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: to see these thoughts by virtue of the same law
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: developed in themselves by which you will soon by enjoying
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: motion pictures transmitted to you over the radio. Therefore, we
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: know what we are talking about when we speak of
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: the chaos of thoughts in the air. On the other hand,
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: the man who has a set definite objective deliberately tunes
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: into one thing, which action automatically makes him positive and
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: consequently wipes out the others. If it is money he wants,
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: he gets it. If it is position he wants, he
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: gets it. Nothing that such a man tunes in to
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: can be withheld from him. Third, when you set your
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: mind upon anything, whether it be small or large, a pencil,
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: a hat, automobile, a home, or great riches, whether it
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: be tangible like these or intangible such as an education,
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: a profession, or travel. You transfer a portion of your
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: life force to that thing, or how could it be
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: otherwise drawn to you, and you continue to nourish it
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: as long as it is held in mind, and the
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: intensity of your desire governs the power with which the
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: force is directed. So you can see that we're even
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: a positive man. To direct his force at several objectives,
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: that force becomes divided, and each objective receives but a
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: feeble stimulus, resulting in slow reaction, or none at all.
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: Have you a great ultimate goal to reach, requiring the
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: attainment of lesser objectives on the way, Well, then let
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: the many lie inactive, and direct your force at the
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: nearest or first first, and that being accomplished, take up
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: the next, and thus follow on as they occur in
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: sequential order. Have I now given you the law in
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: its entirety? Well, in a sense I have then again
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: I have not to instruct one as to what to
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: do is good, but to show one how to do
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: it is better. It is not only necessary that we
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: learn how to attain, but we must also learn how
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: to maintain. I will therefore go further and give you
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: an important requirement in successful achievement, and that is secretiveness
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: Chapter six. Before I explain the value of secretiveness, I
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: will have to change form our subject at hand for
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: a while. When you declare I am, I will I did,
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: you are making a most mighty and profound utterance. There
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: are very few who realize the power released when the
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: I is expressed. Here the great proclamation I am that
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: I am from the lips of the prophet which has
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: lived and rung out death, the ages in which, when understood,
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: unites each one with that impersonal universal power. The body
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: you have is personal, but the eye you express is universal.
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  Speaker 1: For in all the universe there is but one eye,
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: as in all the universe there is but one figure one.
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  Speaker 1: The other Figure seven, for instance, is the one repeated
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: so many times. It is the understanding of those in
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: my work that the eye is the root from which
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: the figure one has sprung. From what I have said,
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: you should be able to see this that when you
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: work in the to me consciousness outer mind, you are
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: working from the personal limited standpoint. When you work in
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: the eye consciousness inner mind, you invoke and receive the
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: help of the impersonal, unlimited resources of the universe. Well,
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: you ask how am I to arrive at this state easily?
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: I will say, for by merely following the system of
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: practice that I am outlining, you naturally grab into it unknowingly.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: Now listen attentively. If there is but one eye, and
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: you cannot express yourself without using it, it follows that
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: as far as you individually are concerned, there must be
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: but one gew. You do not get this clearly, Well,
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: did you ever apply the pronoun I to any other
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: human being? Of course you did not. You could not.
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: You might say he, she bey you, we, but never I.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: For there is but one I, and that is you.
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: And I say there is but one gew. Yes, applied individually,
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: there is but one gew. We will suppose that, through
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: a slight accident, you were to be rendered unconscious for
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: five minutes. During that period, the world would cease to exist.
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: It would be absolutely wiped out. But you will say
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: it would go on just the same. Yes, but without
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: your consciousness of it. It is not it is non existent.
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: Proving that there is but one you. Since the great
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: and mighty I is, when expressed individually, none other than yourself,
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: you can see what power you have at your command.
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: You can see what a wonderful being you are. You
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: can see that you are now a master, not yet developed, perhaps,
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: but the qualities are their awaiting unfoldment in use. If
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: you do not clearly understand what I have just given,
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: pass it by for this time and let us go
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: on to the next. You can later reason it out
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: for yourself and see the truth of it. You might
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: question the value of such detailed explanation, But I have
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: a purpose, and that purpose is to force you to think,
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: to think deeply with intensity. Right here, I would not
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: have you confuse the word intensity with tenseness. Tenseness implies
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: mental strain and arises out of fear and anxiety. It
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: is destructive to both mind and body. My use of
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: intensity here suggests men mental force or power, and its
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: results are constructive. You know thus far that progress depends
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: upon the degree of sustained intensity in a given direction,
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: and you know that progress is very rapid these days.
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: We must travel as rapidly as the world or give up,
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: and when we give up, we immediately begin to retrograde.
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: To enjoy enduring success, we should travel a little in
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: advance of the world. The persistent inner urge in the
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: race mind to reach an objective more speedily, eventually crystallized
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: and out pictured itself in the form of an automobile,
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: which was the first big step in fast transportation for
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: general use. But since it is the nature of mind
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: to forever reach out for greater achievement, the airplane came
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: into being in obedience to the mind of man to
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: find a way faster and not subject to the obstacle's
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: incident to automobile travel. And thus mind moves, and thus
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: it will move forever. Open your eyes and look about you.
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: Cannot you discern the trend mind is forever reaching out
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: and has not stopped at The airplane has a rapid
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: mode of travel. I hesitate to tell you what the
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: next great step in this direction will be, but I
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: will tell you this mind is so rapidly coming into
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: its own that in a not far distant future, the
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: man who knows the law and uses it will be supreme,
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: and the ignorant one who refuses to see this will
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: just remain in bondage to his false beliefs. How important, then,
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: to learn the law of thinking things through, rather than
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: follow the time worn method of attempting to force them through.
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: One is mastery and the other slavery. Returning to the subject,
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: the value of secretiveness lies in the fact that, being
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: impersonal and universal, the I throws its power in with
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: whatever words it is coupled. And when your plans are
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: expressed in words verbally, they become released and their force
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: is spent. The outer mind has found a way of escape,
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: and your purpose has lost its necessary momentum. Chapter seven.
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: The next requisite I might term your nourishment or reserve.
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: We know that few are capable of sustained effort, and
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: that is the reason why we have comparatively few outstanding successes.
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: You have learned that your great power lies not upon
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  Speaker 1: the surface, but deep within your being, in your inner mind.
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  Speaker 1: The average human lives upon the surface, ignorant of his
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  Speaker 1: great interior power, placing what little faith he has in
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  Speaker 1: the outer mind. He is governed by its false reports,
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  Speaker 1: and as a result, he is constantly in a turmoil
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  Speaker 1: of confusion, strife, and strain, until he succumbs, discouraged and disheartened,
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  Speaker 1: broken in health and spirit. Why is this so? Why
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  Speaker 1: is it a common expression that a man who accumulates
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  Speaker 1: wealth pays dearly for it in health and vitality, because,
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  Speaker 1: as I have already told you, when he intensifies upon
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  Speaker 1: a given objective, he automatically transfers to it a portion
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  Speaker 1: of his vital life force. This is all very well
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  Speaker 1: and necessary, but such a practice continued with no replenishment
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  Speaker 1: to keep that life force nourished, drains it, and the
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  Speaker 1: result is trouble. It is your rightful heritage, your birthright,
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  Speaker 1: to have anything that you desire and without limit, For
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  Speaker 1: as I have said, you are, in a sense the
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  Speaker 1: only one here, For yours is the only consciousness in existence.
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  Speaker 1: As far as you are concerned, you can never know another.
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  Speaker 1: Those things that you desire were put here for you
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  Speaker 1: to use and enjoy. If not, why are they here?
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  Speaker 1: And since only you can be conscious of your own
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  Speaker 1: individual desires, those things were placed here specifically for you. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you may have riches and position, and with them health
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  Speaker 1: and happiness. When you know the law of your being,
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  Speaker 1: co operate with it. I have no patience with the
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  Speaker 1: one who proclaims that poverty is a blessing. Poverty is
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  Speaker 1: the greatest curse upon earth. The one who preaches such
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  Speaker 1: a doctrine is untrue to himself, For while such remarks
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  Speaker 1: are proceeding from his lips, the desire for the good
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  Speaker 1: things of life is gnawing at his heart, knowing so
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  Speaker 1: well that each individual, being differently constituted, given the fundamental
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  Speaker 1: principles of the law, will each work it out somewhat
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  Speaker 1: differently accordingly to his own particular inherent nature. I have
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  Speaker 1: purposely avoided referring to my method so that you might
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  Speaker 1: have your entire freedom of interpretation and decision. But since
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  Speaker 1: I feel prompted to do so, I will give you
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  Speaker 1: a hint of how I work, advising that you let
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  Speaker 1: this not influence or change you in your method. Because
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  Speaker 1: of it having come from me, you cannot attain dominion
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  Speaker 1: Patterning after another, or following custom or tradition. Sheep and
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  Speaker 1: plotters do that masters and leaders never do. A painting
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  Speaker 1: would be a dull, uninteresting thing were the artist, in
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  Speaker 1: featuring a great oak tree, to fail to include its
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  Speaker 1: natural surroundings of grass, brush, flowers, leaves, and possibly sky
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  Speaker 1: in clouds. The true artist creates a faithful reproduction. Our
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  Speaker 1: methods are similar. While he places upon the canvas, I
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  Speaker 1: place mine within. He places the oak upon the canvas
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  Speaker 1: and gives it its natural surroundings. I do the same
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  Speaker 1: to bring his picture forth. He is compelled to concentrate
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  Speaker 1: upon it to the exclusion of all else that would
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  Speaker 1: tend to draw him away from his purpose. So am I.
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  Speaker 1: At times something in the external suggests the picture to him,
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  Speaker 1: at other times inspiration suggests it. It is the same
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  Speaker 1: with me. A hundred things in a day may come
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  Speaker 1: up to distract him and attempt to draw him away,
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  Speaker 1: But with his picture uppermost, he does not resist those distractions,
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  Speaker 1: but gives them their due attention, and returns to the picture.
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  Speaker 1: Just so with me, his picture completed, he begins another.
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  Speaker 1: I also do. For I am never consciously mentally inactive.
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  Speaker 1: Inactivity is retrogression. Should I desire the presence of my
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  Speaker 1: servant at this moment, I would see him before me
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  Speaker 1: in my mind, pictures surround me by what is within
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  Speaker 1: my vision here in shortly the picture out pictures. Were
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  Speaker 1: I to desire wealth, I would surround that picture with
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  Speaker 1: all of wealth's natural accompaniments, of conditions and possessions that
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  Speaker 1: would instinctively present themselves for inclusion. I would get my suggestions,
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  Speaker 1: if necessary, from the out picturing or externalized picture of
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  Speaker 1: another success. I would go about my duties as usual.
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  Speaker 1: It matters little what I appear to be dying in
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  Speaker 1: the outer. It matters much what I am doing within.
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  Speaker 1: If I were a beginner and desired, for instance, a
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  Speaker 1: new automobile or home, I would select a picture in
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  Speaker 1: colors of the one or closely resembling the one I desired,
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  Speaker 1: from a trade or home periodical, and place it where
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  Speaker 1: it would meet my eyes. Frequently. This would tend to
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  Speaker 1: hold the outer mind in lined and hasten the out
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  Speaker 1: picturing of my idea. Chapter eight, I will now give
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  Speaker 1: you a list of powerful words which will not only
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  Speaker 1: tend to keep the life force nourished, but also to
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  Speaker 1: bear you up, sustain, and carry you through whenever the
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  Speaker 1: strength each particular word creates is needed. Concentration, peace, poise, harmony, goodwill,
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  Speaker 1: non resistance, justice, freedom, guidance, wisdom, understanding, inspiration, intelligence, memory,
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  Speaker 1: law and order, faith, confidence, spirit, health, strength, energy, activity, vitality, power, life, youth, success, happiness, alertness, resourcefulness, persistence, purpose, achievement, mastery, dominion.
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  Speaker 1: After the day's activities devoted to your ordinary duties and affairs,
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  Speaker 1: and the consequent devitalization of your life force, more or less,
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  Speaker 1: it is well to set apart an hour or half hour,
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  Speaker 1: as your judgment might dictate, each evening, when you can
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  Speaker 1: be alone and undisturbed, and in the quiet and stillness
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  Speaker 1: of your own being. Take each word separately down the list,
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  Speaker 1: or if you feel so disposed, select such words from
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  Speaker 1: the list as you feel your particular needs require. At
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  Speaker 1: the time, firmly impress your being with each word, and
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  Speaker 1: at the same time interpreting its meaning and its effect
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  Speaker 1: upon you, not necessarily in the terms of its generally
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  Speaker 1: accepted meaning, but strictly as it appeals to you. Although
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  Speaker 1: I am continuing impressing you with the fact that you
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  Speaker 1: are the eye the power in your world, and that
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  Speaker 1: you are to stand upon your own two feet firmly
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  Speaker 1: and lived, not particularly display it, but live it. Great
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  Speaker 1: characters shrink from display and publicity because of the littleness
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  Speaker 1: of it. Yet I do not advise that the declaration
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  Speaker 1: I am be used in connection with these words unless
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  Speaker 1: you are at the time in a positive frame of mind,
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  Speaker 1: unless you have a full conviction of what you are
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  Speaker 1: repeating to declare. For example, I am power lays the
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  Speaker 1: inner mind open to attack from the outer in the
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  Speaker 1: form of denial or doubt, whereas when the words only
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  Speaker 1: are repeated, they do not take upon themselves the nature
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  Speaker 1: of declaration, and consequently the outer mind has not been
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  Speaker 1: given the opportunity to become aroused in opposition. To simplify
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  Speaker 1: explanation of your right attitude during this practice, I might
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  Speaker 1: say that keeping your thoughts off, the body, off external
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  Speaker 1: affairs and things automatically places you in the ideal mood.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, the outer mind will wander and bring up
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  Speaker 1: hundreds of things hundreds of times. But like the automobile
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  Speaker 1: that I mention becoming diverted on to the wrong road,
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  Speaker 1: you bring it back and bring it back, each time
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  Speaker 1: setting it on the right road. This wandering propensity of
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  Speaker 1: the outer mind will gradually lessen during these periods, and
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  Speaker 1: you will find yourself becoming a master of concentration. There
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  Speaker 1: should be no strain, striving, anxiety, or concern connected with
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  Speaker 1: this practice. You devote each evening, unless otherwise taken up
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  Speaker 1: by occasional business, social, or family duties, to allowing these
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  Speaker 1: words to sink in and penetrate your being, And, like
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  Speaker 1: drops of pure water entering a vessel of impure water,
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  Speaker 1: drop by drop, the non essentials are forced out and
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  Speaker 1: the essentials remain. These powerful words, acting upon you your being
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  Speaker 1: in the same way that food does upon your body,
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  Speaker 1: automatically find their own needed places and uses within in
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  Speaker 1: the same manner as do the elements in the food
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  Speaker 1: which you eat. And you should not look for results
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  Speaker 1: from this practice any more than you look for results
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  Speaker 1: from what you eat daily. You are to practice this
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  Speaker 1: system every evening as regularly and diligently as your affairs
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  Speaker 1: will permit, and then forget them entirely until the next evening.
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  Speaker 1: They will be doing their work below the surface, unknown
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  Speaker 1: to you, but their effects will show forth in you
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  Speaker 1: and your affairs. Chapter nine. Approaching the close of your instructions,
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  Speaker 1: I believe it well to outline an example of procedure
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  Speaker 1: for you, since, as I have previously said, words are
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  Speaker 1: often so inadequate to convey the proper meaning when dealing
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  Speaker 1: with a subject of this kind, I will approach facts
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  Speaker 1: from different angles for better elucidation. Here is an example
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  Speaker 1: invoking the aid of this law. Neither money, friends, or
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  Speaker 1: influence are necessary to the attainment of whatever your heart
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  Speaker 1: is set upon. Whether you are a banker, a clerk,
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  Speaker 1: or a boot black, it is no respector of person
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  Speaker 1: or position, whether your ambition lies in direct line with
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  Speaker 1: the position you are now occupying, or whether it necessitates
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  Speaker 1: an entire change from what you are doing. You may
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  Speaker 1: have no definite plan in life except the fact that
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  Speaker 1: you want to get ahead. Since all the desire in
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  Speaker 1: the world will get you nowhere, it becomes necessary that
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  Speaker 1: a definite objective be first arrived at and then firmly
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  Speaker 1: established within. After intelligent deliberation, you decide upon one supreme goal.
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  Speaker 1: It is distant, perhaps, but the glorious assurance is that
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  Speaker 1: it can be attained. What is your first step? If
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  Speaker 1: a banker or merchant, is it a definite increase in
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  Speaker 1: volume monthly, or if an employee, is it a position
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  Speaker 1: above There you have your first and nearest objective in
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  Speaker 1: the direction of your supreme objective. When the first objective
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  Speaker 1: is reached, what then set another one beyond that immediately? Why?
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  Speaker 1: Because the peculiar nature of the outer mind is to
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  Speaker 1: drop back into inertia after being forced through to an objective.
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  Speaker 1: You can imagine the outer mind reflecting something after this fashion. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I have been mercilessly whipped about and forced through to
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  Speaker 1: that thing, but I reached it, and now I will
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  Speaker 1: have a rest, and your answer will be no rest
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  Speaker 1: for you, for I have already started you upon another.
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  Speaker 1: Because once having at that valuable momentum, maintain it, cling
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  Speaker 1: to it. And as the momentum increases, the steps in
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  Speaker 1: your progress become more rapid, until eventually it will be
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  Speaker 1: possible to reach an objective almost immediately, as is the
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  Speaker 1: practice of those in my work. The course followed in
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  Speaker 1: bringing forth your objective can be likened exactly to the
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  Speaker 1: process that takes place in a seed. Being fixed in
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  Speaker 1: the darkness of the soil, it proceeds to express or outpicture,
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  Speaker 1: the exact picture held within its life cell, and in
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  Speaker 1: obedience to law, it sends up a shoot seeking the light.
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  Speaker 1: At the same time it sends down roots seeking nourishment.
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  Speaker 1: If on the way up that shoot encounters obstacles in
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  Speaker 1: any form, it does not attempt to force them out
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  Speaker 1: of its way. It travels around them. If the roots
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  Speaker 1: fail to find the required nourishment, it withers away. If
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  Speaker 1: all goes well, it blossoms forth, and, having reached its goal,
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: a seed is again dropped. In the process repeated it
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: bear in mind that the actual process takes place in
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  Speaker 1: darkness beneath the surface. Thus it is with us that
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  Speaker 1: is where all great and important ideas are developed. Now,
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  Speaker 1: are you going to cast glances out of the corner
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  Speaker 1: of your eye to see how the thing is proceeding?
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  Speaker 1: Are you going to set to wondering how the thing
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  Speaker 1: works or if it really is working not at all?
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  Speaker 1: You set the objective. You therefore planted the seed. You
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  Speaker 1: would not dig up a seed in your garden to
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  Speaker 1: see if it were sprouting. You planted and watered it,
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  Speaker 1: and are satisfied that, according to the law of its being,
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  Speaker 1: it will come forth. Likewise, nothing upon earth can prevent
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  Speaker 1: your objective from becoming externalized, because nothing in the world
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  Speaker 1: can nullify universal law. You plant the seed idea, you
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  Speaker 1: hold it there, you nourish it. You have done your part,
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: trust the law to do its part. Will you encounter resistance? Oh? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: your activity creates it? Why because action requires reaction to
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  Speaker 1: support it. Resistance is the negative pole of action or
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: activity the positive pole, as you have already heard, and
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  Speaker 1: you need both. If there were no resistance, action would
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  Speaker 1: be nonexistent. It is resistance that keeps the airplane soaring.
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  Speaker 1: Without resistance, it could not fly, Neither could the birds
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  Speaker 1: or the fish, swim, or you walk. As the power
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  Speaker 1: of the engine increases, the greater the momentum of the airplane,
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  Speaker 1: and the greater the resistance necessary to support it. The
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  Speaker 1: greater the momentum, the greater the altitude or height possible
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  Speaker 1: to attain. With the decrease in engine power, comes the
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  Speaker 1: decrease in momentum and the consequent dropping of the plane.
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  Speaker 1: This is an example for us. Momentum must be attained
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  Speaker 1: and then maintained if we are to reach the heights
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  Speaker 1: of it achievement, and the work is delightful after the apparent
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  Speaker 1: difficult of the first steps are past. For there is
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  Speaker 1: nothing more joyous than the satisfaction of having achieved something
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  Speaker 1: worth while. Are you to recognize resistance in any guise, No,
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  Speaker 1: for if you recognize it as a power opposed to
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  Speaker 1: your progress, you are resisting it. Therefore you automatically acknowledge
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  Speaker 1: it as a power greater than you. For no lesser
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  Speaker 1: power can retard the progress of a greater one that
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  Speaker 1: is plain and going further. Remember this great truth. Whoever
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  Speaker 1: or whatever you resist, be it in thought, word, or action,
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  Speaker 1: be it in the form of criticism, envy, jealousy, hatred,
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  Speaker 1: or otherwise you must assuredly help, and you weaken yourself proportionately.
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  Speaker 1: Why because you have deliberately taken a portion of your
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  Speaker 1: precious life for so necessary to your progress, and transferred
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  Speaker 1: it to that person or thing. Have you not witnessed
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: the case at times of one becoming exhausted after a
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: fit of rage over another. Exhaustion is depletion, and to
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: deplete means to empty something went out yes to the
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: other person, to his profit and the other's loss. This
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  Speaker 1: is an example of the transfer of life force in
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  Speaker 1: a violent form. You are very fortunate in having learned
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  Speaker 1: this wisdom. Now by all means practice it. Chapter ten,
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  Speaker 1: What then, should be your daily attitude? What is the
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  Speaker 1: attitude of the wind? As it speeds on its way
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  Speaker 1: to its destination? It yields recognition to neither person, place,
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  Speaker 1: or thing as having any power to hinder it. The
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  Speaker 1: harm or te help it gives is measured only by
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: the welfare of the particular one it effects. It is
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  Speaker 1: aware of causing neither harmful nor helpful results, for it
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: is impersonal. The sun shines, tea Ronnie falls, and the
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  Speaker 1: wind blows upon all alike. The choose no pertinenticular persons
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  Speaker 1: or things to help or harm. There is your lesson.
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  Speaker 1: You are not to be consciously aware of resisting or
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  Speaker 1: harming anyone in your way. As you speed along to
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  Speaker 1: your goal. Those who attempt to hinder you are helping
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  Speaker 1: you and should be considered your friends. This is the
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  Speaker 1: wisdom of the highest order. Keeping the secret of your
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: aspirations locked securely within you sets up antagonism in the
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: outer mind, for due to its nature, it rebels against
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: discipline and subjugation. That evident weakness which stifled your great
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: ambitions in the past, is an illustration of the nature
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: of this outer mind, that is its habitual trait. Seeing
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  Speaker 1: that it is about to be deprived of its wanton freedom,
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: it will, like a wild bull in a stockade, seek
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  Speaker 1: to escape by every means except the way that you
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: have provided. I am warning you. It will bring up
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  Speaker 1: every sort of argument to bear upon the futility of
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  Speaker 1: your purpose. It will tempt you to mention your plans
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: and ambitions to others, to slow up in your activity,
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  Speaker 1: to doubt the power of the law operating in your behalf.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: It will try every known conceivable way to thwart you,
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: and your answer to all this will be obey, I
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  Speaker 1: am master. Here, stand as master of your own being,
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  Speaker 1: and hold your course steadfast to the goal. You may
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  Speaker 1: be led through strange places and take circuitous roots at times,
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: but let that not disturb you. With the wisdom of
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  Speaker 1: the inner mind. At the helm, you are being led
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  Speaker 1: the quickest way, although it might appear to be the longest.
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  Speaker 1: This advice is necessary for you now as a beginner,
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  Speaker 1: but as you grow in practice, you will find that
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: these qualities become a part of your very being. They
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: then function automatically, entirely, without any conscious effort on your part.
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  Speaker 1: What is the result. Due to the persistent holding to
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  Speaker 1: the goal and your absolutely air tight secretiveness, the outer
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: mind finds no escape for its increasing energy, and in
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: desperation it plunges through like the over load of steam
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: through the safety valve of a boiler. And your objective
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  Speaker 1: is reached. We have come to the close of your instructions.
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  Speaker 1: Go forth and practice what you know. Living the law
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  Speaker 1: will make you a character of notice. People will be
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  Speaker 1: instinctively attracted to you, both upon the street and among
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: your social and business associates, without knowing why. You will
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: become a mysterious being to the world. Let this not
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: turn your head, but rather, in humble gratitude, give thanks
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  Speaker 1: to the great Supreme Power that has made this possible.
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  Speaker 1: The end