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FEELING IS THE SECRET: A Guide to Success Through Manifestation & Reality Creation - Neville Goddard (1944) · THE SECRET LAW OF ATTRACTION: Manifest Wealth, Success & Abundance

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Feeling is the Secret by Nevill Goddard nineteen forty four forward. This book is
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concerned with the art of realizing your desire. It gives you an account of
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the mechanism used in the production of the visible world. It is a small
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book, but not slight. There is a treasure in it, a clearly
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defined road to the realization of your dreams. Were it possible to carry conviction
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to another by means of reasoned arguments and detailed instances, this book would be
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many times its size. It is seldom possible, however, to do so
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by means of written statements or arguments. Since to the suspended judgment, it
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always seems plausible to say that the author was dishonest or deluded, and therefore
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his evidence was tainted. Consequently, I have purposely omitted all arguments and testimonials
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and simply challenged the open minded reader to practice the law of consciousness as revealed
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in this book. Personal success will prove far more more convincing than all the
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books that could be written on the subject. Neville. Chapter one, Law
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and its operation. The world and all within it is man's conditioned consciousness.
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Objectified consciousness is the cause as well as the substance of the entire world.
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So it is to consciousness that we must turn. If we would discover the
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secret of creation, knowledge of the law of consciousness and the method of operating
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this law will enable you to accomplish all you desire in life. Armed with
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a working knowledge of this law, you can build and maintain an ideal world.
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Consciousness is the one and only reality, not figuratively but actually. This
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reality may, for the sake of clarity, be likened unto a stream,
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which is divided into two parts, the conscious and the subconscious. In order
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to intelligently operate the law of consciousness, it is necessary to understand the relationship
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between the conscious and the subconscious. The conscious is personal and selective. The
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subconscious is impersonal and non selective. The conscious is the realm of effect.
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The subconscious is the realm of cause. These two aspects are the male and
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female divisions of consciousness. The conscious is male, the subconscious is female.
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The conscious generates ideas and impresses these ideas on the subconscious. The subconscious receives
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ideas and gives form an expression to them. By this law, first conceiving
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an idea and then impressing the idea conceived on the subconscious. All things evolve
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out of consciousness, and without this sequence, there is not anything made that
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is made. The conscious impresses the subconscious, while the subconscious expresses all that
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is impressed upon it. The subconscious does not originate ideas, but accepts as
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true those which the conscious mind feels to be true, and, in a
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way known only to itself, objectifies the accepted ideas. Therefore, through his
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power to imagine and feel, in his freedom to choose the idea he will
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entertain, man has control over creation. Control of the subconscious is accomplished through
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control of your ideas and feelings. The mechanism of creation is hidden in the
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very depth of the subconscious, the female aspect or womb of creation. The
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subconscious transcends reason and is independent of induction. It contemplates a feeling as a
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fact existing within itself, and on this assumption, proceeds to give expression to
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it. The creative process begins with an idea, and its cycle runs its
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course as a feeling and ends in a volition to act. Ideas are impressed
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on the subconscious through the medium of feeling. No idea can be impressed on
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the subconscious until it is felt, but once felt, be it good,
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bad, or indifferent, it must be expressed. Feeling is the one and
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only medium through which ideas are conveyed to the subconscious. Therefore, the man
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who does not control his feeling may easily impress the subconscious with undesirable states.
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By control of feeling is not meant restraint or suppression of your feeling, but
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rather the disciplining of self to imagine and entertain only such feeling as contributes to
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your happiness. Control of your feeling is all important to a full and happy
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life. Never entertain an undesirable feeling, nor think sympathetically about wrong in any
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shape or form. Do not dwell on the imperfection of yourself or others.
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To do so is to impress the subconscious with these limitations. What you do
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not want done unto you, do not feel that it is done unto you
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or another. This is the whole law of a full and happy life.
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Everything else is commentary. Every feeling makes a subconscious impression, and unless it
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is counteracted by a more powerful feeling of an opposite nature, must be expressed.
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The dominant of two you feelings is the one expressed. I am healthy
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is a stronger feeling than I will be. Healthy. To feel I will
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be is to confess I am not I am is stronger than I am not.
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What you feel you are always dominates what you feel you would like to
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be. Therefore, to be realized, the wish must be felt as a
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state that is, rather than a state that is not. Sensation precedes manifestation
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and is the foundation upon which all manifestation rests. Be careful of your moods
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and feelings, for there is an unbroken connection between your feelings and your visible
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world. Your body is an emotional filter and bears the unmistakable marks of your
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prevalent emotions. Emotional disturbances, especially suppressed emotions, are the causes of all
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disease. To feel intensely about a wrong without voicing or expressing that feeling is
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the beginning of disease. Disease in both body and environment. Do not entertain
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the feeling of regret or failure, for frustration, vation, or detachment from
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your objective results in disease. Think feelingly only of the state you desire to
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realize. Feeling the reality of the state sought and living in acting on that
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conviction is the way of all seeming miracles. All changes of expression are brought
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about through a change of feeling. A change of feeling is a change of
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destiny. All creation occurs in the domain of the subconscious. What you must
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acquire, then, is a reflective control of the operation of the subconscious,
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that is, control of your ideas and feelings. Chance or accident is not
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responsible for the things that happen to you, nor is predestined fate the author
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of your fortune or misfortune. Your subconscious impressions determine the conditions of your world.
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The subconscious is not selective. It is impersonal and no respector of persons.
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The subconscious is not concerned with the truth or falsity of your feeling.
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It always except says true that which you feel to be true. Feeling is
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the assent of the subconscious to the truth of that which is declared to be
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true. Because of this quality of the subconscious, there is nothing impossible to
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man. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and feel as true. The
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subconscious can and must objectify Your feelings create the pattern from which your world is
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fashioned, and a change of feeling is a change of pattern. The subconscious
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never fails to express that which has been impressed upon it. The moment it
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receives an impression, it begins to work out the ways of its expression.
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It accepts the feeling impressed upon it, your feeling as a fact existing within
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itself, and immediately sets about to produce in the outer or objective world,
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the exact likeness of that feeling. The subconscious never alters the accepted beliefs of
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man. It outpictures them to the last detail, whether or not they are
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beneficial. To impress the subconscious with the desirable state, you must assume the
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feeling that would be yours had you already realized your wish. In defining your
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objective, you must be concerned only with the objective itself. The manner of
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expression or the difficulties involved, are not to be considered by you. To
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think feelingly on any state impresses it on the subconscious. Therefore, if you
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dwell on difficulties, barriers, or delay, the subconscious, by its very
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non selective nature, accepts the feeling of difficulties and obstacles as your request,
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and proceeds to produce them in your outer world. The subconscious is the womb
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of creation. It receives the idea unto itself through the feelings of man.
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It never changes the idea received, but always gives it form. Hence,
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the subconscious outpictures the idea in the image and likeness of the feeling received.
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To feel a state as hopeless or impossible is to impress the subconscious with the
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idea of failure. Although the subconscient us faithfully serves man, it must not
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be inferred that the relation is that of a servant to a master, as
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was anciently conceived. The ancient prophets called it the slave and servant of man.
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Saint Paul personified it as a woman and said the woman should be subject
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to man in everything. The subconscious does serve man faithfully gives form to his
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feelings. However, the subconscious has a distinct distaste for compulsion and responds to
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persuasion rather than to command. Consequently, it resembles the beloved wife more than
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the servant. The husband is head of the wife. Ephesians five. May
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not be true of man and woman in their earthly relationship, but it is
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true of the conscious and the subconscious, or the male and female aspects of
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consciousness. The mystery to which Paul referred when he wrote, this is a
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great mystery, he that loveth his wife loveth himself, and they too shall
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be one. Flesh is simply the mystery of consciousness. Consciousness is really one
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and undivided, but for creation's sake it appears to be divided into two.
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The conscious objective or male aspect, truly is the head and dominates the subconscious
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subjective or female aspect. However, this leadership is not that of the tyrant,
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but of the lover. So by assuming the feeling that would be yours
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were you already in possession of your objective, the subconscious is moved to build
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the exact likeness of your assumption. Your desires are not subconsciously accepted until you
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assume the feeling of their reality. For only through feeling is an idea subconsciously
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accepted, and only through this subconscious acceptance is it ever expressed. It is
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easier to ascribe your feeling to events in the world than to admit that the
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conditions of the world reflect your feeling. However, it is eternally true that
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the outside mirrors the inside, as within, so without, as above,
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so below, as below, so above, as within, so without as
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without, so within. Correspondence the second of the seven principles of Hermes Trismegistus.
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A man can receive nothing unless it is given him from heaven. John
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three. And the Kingdom of Heaven is within you Luke seventeen. Nothing comes
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from without. All things come from within, from the subconscious. It is
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impossible for you to see other than the contents of your consciousness. Your world,
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in its every detail, is your consciousness, objectified. Objective states bear
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witness of subconscious impressions. A change of impression results in a change of expression.
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The subconscious accepts as true that which you feel as true. And because
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creation is the result of subconscious impressions, you, by your feeling, determine
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creation. You are already that which you want to be, and your refusal
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to believe this is the only reason you do not see it. To seek
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on the outside for them which you do not feel you are is to seek
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in vain. For we never find that which we want. We find only
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that which we are. In short, you express and have only that which
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you are conscious of being or possessing to him that hath it is given Matthew
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thirteen, Mark four, Luke eight. Denying the evidence of the senses and
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Appropriating the feeling of the wish fulfilled is the way to the realization of your
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desire. Mastery of self control of your thoughts and feelings is your highest achievement.
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However, until perfect self control is attained, so that in spite of
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appearances, you feel all that you want to feel, you sleep and prayer
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to aid you in realizing your desired states. These are the two gateways into
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the subconscious. Chapter two. Sleep. Sleep, the life that occupies one
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third of our stay on earth, is the natural door into the subconscious.
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So it is with sleep that we are now concerned. Hich just two thirds
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of our life on earth is measured by the degree of attention we give sleep.
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Our understanding of and delight in what sleep has to bestow, will cause
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us, night after night, to set out for it as though we were
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keeping an appointment with a lover in a dream, in a vision of the
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night. When deep sleep faleth upon men in slumbering upon the bed, then
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he openeth the years of men and sealeth their instruction. Job thirty three.
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It is in sleep and in prayer, a state akin to sleep, that
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man enters the subconscious to make his impressions and receive his instructions. In these
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states, the conscious and subconscious are creatively joined. The male and female become
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one flesh. Sleep is the time when the male or conscious mind turns from
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the world of sense to seek its lover or subconscious self. The subconscious,
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unlike the woman of the world who marries her husband to change him, has
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no desire to change the conscious waking state, but loves it as it is
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and faith fully reproduces its likeness in the outer world of form. The conditions
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and events of your life are your children, formed from the molds of your
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subconscious impressions in sleep. They are made in the image and likeness of your
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innermost, feeling that they may reveal you to yourself. As in heaven,
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so on earth, Matthew six, as in the subconscious, so on earth.
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Whatever you have in consciousness as you go to sleep is the measure of
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your expression in the waking two thirds of your life on earth. Nothing stops
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you from realizing your objectives, save your failure to feel that you are already
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that which you wish to be, or that you are already in possession of
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the thing sought. Your subconscious gives form to your desires only when you feel
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your wish fulfilled. The unconsciousness of sleep is the normal state of the subconscious.
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Because all things come from within yourself, and your conception of yourself determines
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that which comes, you should always feel the wish fulfilled before you drop off
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to sleep. You never draw out of the deep of yourself that which you
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want. You always draw that which you are, and you are that which
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you feel yourself to be, as well as that which you feel is true
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of others. To be realized, then the wish must be resolved into the
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feeling of being or having or witnessing the state sought. This is accomplished by
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assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled. The feeling which comes in response to
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the question how would I feel where my wish realized? Is the feeling which
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should monopolize and immobilize your attention as you relax into sleep. You must be
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in the consciousness of being or having that which you want to be or to
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have before you drop off to sleep. Once asleep, man has no freedom
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of choice. His entire slumber is dominated by his last waking concept of self.
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It follows, therefore, that he should always assume the feeling of accomplishment
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and satisfaction before he retires in sleep. Come before me with singing and thanksgiving
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Psalm ninety five. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts
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with praise Psalm one hundred. Your mood prior to sleep defines your state of
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consciousness. As you enter into the presence of your everlasting lover, the subconscious,
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she sees you exactly as you feel yourself to be. If, as
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you prepare for sleep, you assume and maintain the consciousness of success by feeling
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I am successful, you must be successful. Lie flat on your back,
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with your head on a level with your body, feel as you would were
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you in possession of your wish, and quietly relax into unconsciousness. He that
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keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep Psalm one hundred and twenty one. Nevertheless,
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he giveth his beloved sleep Psalm one hundred and twenty seven. The subconscious
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never sleeps. Sleep is the door through which the conscious waking mind passes to
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be creatively joined to the subconscious. Sleep conceals the creative act, while the
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objective world reveals it. In sleep, man impresses the subconscious with his conception
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of himself. What more beautiful description of this romance of the conscious and subconscious
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is there than that told in the Song of Solomon. By night on my
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bed I sought him whom my soul loveth. I found him, whom my
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soul loveth. I held him, and I not let him go until I
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had brought him into my mother's house and into the chamber of her that conceived
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me. Preparing to sleep, you feel yourself into the state of the answered
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wish, and then relax into unconsciousness. Your realized wish is he whom you
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seek. By night on your bed, you seek the feeling of the wish
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fulfilled, that you may take it with you into the chamber of her that
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conceived you into sleep, or the subconscious which gave you form, that this
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wish also may be given expression. This is the way to discover and conduct
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your wishes into the subconscious. Feel yourself in the state of the realized wish,
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and quietly drop off to sleep. Night after night, ye should assume
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the feeling of being having in witnessing that which you seek to be possess and
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see manifested. Never go to sleep feeling discouraged or dissatisfied. Never sleep in
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the consciousness of failure. Your subconscious, whose natural state is sleep, sees
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you as you believe yourself to be, and whether it be good, bad,
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or indifferent, the subconscious will faithfully embody your belief as you feel.
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So do you impress her, and she, the perfect lover, gives form
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to these impressions, now pictures them as the children of her beloved. Thou
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art all fair, my love. There is no spot in thee song of
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Solomon. For is the attitude of mind to adopt before dropping off to sleep.
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Disregard appearances and feel that things are as you wish them to be.
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For he callath things that are not seen as though they were, and the
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unseen become seen Romans four. To assume the feeling of satisfaction is to call
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conditions into being which will mirror satisfaction. Signs follow, They do not proceed.
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Proof that you are will follow the consciousness that you are. It will
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not precede it. You are an eternal dreamer dreaming non eternal dreams. Your
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dreams take form as you assume the feeling of their reality. Do not limit
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yourself to the past. Knowing that nothing is impossible to consciousness, begin to
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imagine states beyond the experiences of the past. Whatever the mind of man can
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imagine, man can realize. All objective visible states were first subjective invisible states,
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and you called them into visible by assuming the feeling of their reality.
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The creative process is first imagining and then believing the state imagined. Always imagine
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and expect the best. The world cannot change until you change your conception of
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it. As within, so without. Nations as well as people, are
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only what you believe them to be. No matter what the problem is,
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no matter where it is, no matter whom it concerns, you have no
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one to change but yourself, and you have neither opponent nor helper in bringing
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about the change within yourself. You have nothing to do but convince yourself of
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the truth of that which you desire to see manifested. As soon as you
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succeed in convincing yourself of the reality of the state sought, results follow to
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confirm your fixed belief. You never suggest to another the state which you desire
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to see him express. Instead, you convince yourself that he is already that
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which you desire him to be. Realization of your wish is accomplished by assuming
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the feeling of the wish fulfilled. You cannot fail unless you fail to convince
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yourself of the reality of your wish. A change of belief is confirmed by
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a change of expression. Every night, as you drop off to sleep,
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feel satisfied and spotless, for your subjective lover always forms the objective world in
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the image and likeness of your conception of it, the conception defined by your
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feeling. The waking two thirds of your life on earth, ever, corroborates
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or bears witness to your subconscious impressions. The actions and events of the day
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are effects, They are not causes. Free will is only freedom of choice.
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Choose ye this day, whom ye shall serve Joshua twenty four. Is
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your freedom to choose the kind of mood you assume. But the expression of
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the mood is the secret of the subconscious. The subconscious receives impressions only through
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the feelings of man, and in a way known only to itself, gives
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these impressions form an expression. The actions of man are determined by his subconscious
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impressions. His illusion of free will, his belief in freedom of action,
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is but ignorance of the causes which make him act. He thinks himself free
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because he has forgotten the link between himself and the event. Man awake is
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under compulsion to express his subconscious impressions. If in the past he unwisely impressed
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himself, then let him begin to change his thought and feeling, for only
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as he does so will he change his world. Do not waste one moment
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in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to
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reinfect yourself. Let the dead bury the dead. Matthew eight. Turn from
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appearances and assume the feeling that would be yours were you already the one you
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wish to be. Feeling a state produces that state. The part you play
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on the world stage is determined by your conception of yourself. By feeling your
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wish fulfilled and quietly relaxing into sleep, you cast yourself in a star role
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to be played on Earth tomorrow, and while asleep you are rehearsed and instructed
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in your part. The acceptance of the end automatically wills the means of realization.
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Make no mistake about this. If as you prepare for sleep, you
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do not consciously feel yourself into the state of the answered wish, then you
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will take with you in to the chamber of her who conceived you the sum
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total of the reactions and feelings of the waking day, and while asleep you
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will be instructed in the manner in which they will be expressed tomorrow. You
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will rise believing that you are a free agent, not realizing that every action
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and event of the day is predetermined by your concept of self as you fell
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asleep. Your only freedom, then, is your freedom of reaction. You
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are free to choose how you feel and react to the day's drama, But
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the drama, the actions, events, and circumstances of the day have already
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been determined. Unless you consciously in purposely define the attitude of mind with which
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you go to sleep, you unconsciously go to sleep in the composite attitude of
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mind, made up of all feelings and reactions of the day. Every reaction
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makes a subconscious impression, and unless counteracted by an opposite and more dominant feeling,
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is the cause of future action. Ideas enveloped in feeling are creative actions.
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Use your divine right wisely. Through your ability to think and feel,
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you have dominion over all creation. While you are awake, you are a
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gardener, selecting seed for your garden. But except a corn of wheat fall
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into the ground and die, it abboteth alone. But if it die,
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it bringeth forth much fruit. John twelve. Your conception of yourself as you
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fall asleep is the seed you drop into the ground of the subconscious. Dropping
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off to sleep, feeling satisfied and happy compels conditions and events to appear in
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your world which confirm these attitudes of mind. Sleep is the door into Heaven.
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What you take in as a feeling you bring out as a condition,
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action, or object in space. So sleep in the feeling of the wish
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fulfilled. Chapter three. Prayer. Prayer, like sleep, is also an
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entrance into the subconscious. When you pray, enter into your closet, and
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when you have shut your door, pray to your father, which is in
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secs, and your father, which is in secret, shall reward you openly
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Matthew six. Prayer is an illusion of sleep which diminishes the impression of the
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outer world and renders the mind more receptive to suggestion from within. The mind
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in prayer is in a state of relaxation and receptivity, akin to the feeling
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attained just before dropping off to sleep. Prayer is not so much what you
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ask for, as how you prepare for its reception. Whatsoever things ye desire
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when ye pray, believe that you have received them, and ye shall have
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them Mark eleven. The only condition required is that you believe that your prayers
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are already realized. Your prayer must be answered if you assume the feeling that
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would be yours were you already in possession of your objective. The moment you
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accept the wish as an accomplished fact, the subconscious finds means for its realization.
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To pray successfully, then you must yield to the wish, that is,
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feel the wish fulfilled. The perfectly disciplined man is always in tune with
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the wish as an accomplished fact. He knows that consciousness is the one and
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only reality, that ideas and feelings are facts of consciousness and are as real
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as objects in space. Therefore, he never entertains a feeling which does not
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contribute to his happiness, for feelings are the causes of the actions and circumstances
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of his life. On the other hand, the undisciplined man finds it difficult
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to believe that which is denied by the senses, and usually accepts or rejects
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solely on appearances of the senses. Because of this tendency to rely on the
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evidence of the senses, it is necessary to shut them out before starting to
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pray, before attempting to feel that which they deny. Whenever you are in
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the state of mind I should like to, but I cannot. The harder
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you try, the less you are able to yield to the wish. You
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never attract that which you want, but always attract that which you are conscious
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of being. Prayer is the art of assuming the feeling of being and having
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that which you want. When the senses confirm the absence of your wish,
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all conscious effort to counteract this suggestion is feudle and tends to intensify the suggestion.
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Prayer is the art of yielding to the wish, and not the forcing
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of the wish. Whenever your feeling is in conflict with your wish, feeling
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will be the victor. The dominant feeling invariably expresses itself. Prayer must be
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without effort in attempting to fix an attitude of mind which is denied by the
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senses. Effort is fatal to yield successfully to the wish. As an accomplished
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fact, you must create a passive state, a kind of reverie or meditative
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reflection, similar to the feeling which precedes sleep. In such a relaxed state,
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the mind is turned from the objective world and easily senses the reality of
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a subjective state. It is a state in which you are conscious and quite
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able to move or open your eyes, but have no desire to do so.
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An easy way to create this passive state is to relax in a comfortable
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chair or on a bed. If on a bed, lie flat on your
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back with your head on a level with your body, close the eyes,
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and imagine that you are sleepy. Feel I am sleepy, so sleepy,
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so very sleepy. In a little while, a far away feeling, accompanied
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by a general lassitude and loss of all desire to move, envelopes you.
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You feel a pleasant, comfortable rest and not inclined to alter your position,
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although under other circumstances you would not be at all comfortable. When this passive
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state is reached, imagine that you have realized your wish, not how it
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was realized, but simply the wish fulfilled. Imagine in picture form what you
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desire to achieve in life. Then feel yourself as having already achieved it.
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Thoughts produce tiny little speech movements which may be heard in the passive state of
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prayer as pronouncements from without. However, this degree of passivity is not essential
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to the realization of your prayers. All that is necessary is to create a
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passive state and feel the wish fulfilled. All you can possibly need or desire
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is already yours. You need no helper to give it to you. It
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is yours. Now call your desires into being by imagining and feeling your wish
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fulfilled. As the end is accepted, you become totally indifferent as to possible
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failure, for acceptance of the end wills the means to that end. When
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you emerge from the moment of prayer, it is as though you were shown
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the happy and successful end of a play, although you were not shown how
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that end was achieved. However, having witnessed the end, regardless of any
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anticlimactic sequence, you remain calm and secure in the knowledge that the end has
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been perfectly defined. Chapter four. Feeling not by might nor by power,
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but by my spirit set the Lord of hosts Zechariah four. Get into the
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spirit of the state desired by assuming the feeling that would be yours were you
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already the one you want to be. As you capt sure the feeling of
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the state sought, you are relieved of all effort to make it so,
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for it is already so. There is a definite feeling associated with every idea
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in the mind of man. Capture the feeling associated with your realized wish by
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assuming the feeling that would be yours were you already in possession of the thing
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you desire, and your wish will objectify itself. Faith is feeling according to
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your faith feeling be it unto you Matthew nine. You never attract that which
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you want, but always that which you are, as a man is.
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So does he see to him that hath it shall be given, and to
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him that hath not it shall be taken away? Matthew thirteen. Mark four.
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Luke, eate that which you feel yourself to be, you are,
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and you are given that which you are. So assume the feeling that would
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be yours were you already in possession of your wish, and your wish must
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be realized. So God created man in his own image, in the image
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of God created he him Genesis one. Let this mind be in you,
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which was also in Christ. Jesus, who being in the form of God,
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thought it not robbery to be equal with God Philippians two. You are
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that which you believe yourself to be. Instead of believing in God or in
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Jesus, believe you are God or you are Jesus. He that believeth on
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me the works that I do, shall he do also? John fourteen.
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Should be he that believes, as I believe the works that I do,
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shall he do. Also. Jesus found it not strange to do the works
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of God because he believed himself to be God. I and my Father are
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one John ten. It is natural to do the works of the one you
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believe yourself to be. So live in the feeling of being the one you
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want to be and that you shall be. When a man believes in the
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value of the advice given him and applies it, he establishes within himself the
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reality of success.