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PERSONAL POWER - YOUR MASTER SELF: Manifesting Your Greatness with the Law of Attraction - William Walker Atkinson · THE SECRET LAW OF ATTRACTION: Manifest Wealth, Success & Abundance

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  Speaker 1: Personal Power, Your Master Self by William Walker Atkinson forward.
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  Speaker 1: This book is devoted to the subject of the development, cultivation,
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  Speaker 1: and manifestation of personal power. Personal power in all its phases, aspects,
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  Speaker 1: and modes of manifestation and expression. Personal power, as understood
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  Speaker 1: and taught in this book may be defined as the
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  Speaker 1: ability or strength possessed by the human individual by which
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  Speaker 1: he does or may accomplish desired results in an efficient
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  Speaker 1: manner along the lines of physical, mental, and spiritual effort
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  Speaker 1: and endeavor. This book is not written with the purpose
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  Speaker 1: of reforming the world, nor of conducting a propaganda for
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  Speaker 1: the advancement of some particular creed, belief, body of teaching,
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  Speaker 1: or doctrine. Nor is it written on behalf of any
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  Speaker 1: particular organization, cult, society, or school interested in enlarging its
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  Speaker 1: membership or in spreading its doctrines. Instead, it is written
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  Speaker 1: for you. You are the individual in whom we are
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  Speaker 1: interested and for whom this instruction is intended. You have
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  Speaker 1: been attracted to this book and it to you by
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  Speaker 1: reason of certain ever operative, though little known laws of
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  Speaker 1: life and being. You have long awaited the coming of
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  Speaker 1: this book. You are now ready to absorb its teachings
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  Speaker 1: your own has come to you after your period of
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  Speaker 1: watching and waiting, and you will recognize it as your
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  Speaker 1: own by reason of a certain intuitive perception which comes
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  Speaker 1: to those who are ready to receive that which it contains.
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  Speaker 1: You have demanded this book here it is. This book
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  Speaker 1: is different in many respects from anything that you ever
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  Speaker 1: have read. A careful and earnest study of the truths
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  Speaker 1: presented in it will work a marked change in you.
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  Speaker 1: Though you may not fully realize it at this time,
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  Speaker 1: you will never be exactly the same. After its reading,
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  Speaker 1: it will have left its indelible impress upon you. You
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  Speaker 1: may come to think that you have put it aside,
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  Speaker 1: and that you have no further interest in its teachings.
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  Speaker 1: But you will find that certain memories of the statements
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  Speaker 1: contained and it will abide with you, and that echoes
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  Speaker 1: of its teachings will ring in the ears of your
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  Speaker 1: mind in the words of Whitman. Its words will itch
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  Speaker 1: in your ears till you understand them. Its basic truths
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  Speaker 1: and the suggestions as to their application will stick in
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  Speaker 1: your mind as the burst sticks in the fleece of
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  Speaker 1: the sheep which has acquired it in its wanderings. You
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  Speaker 1: can no more escape from the influence of the truths
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  Speaker 1: presented in its pages, than you can run away from
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  Speaker 1: your own shadow at every turn and cross roads of
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  Speaker 1: the path of experience. Hereafter you will find yourself almost
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  Speaker 1: unconsciously applying the principles of this instruction and employing some
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  Speaker 1: of the methods taught in it. You are hereby warned
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  Speaker 1: that such will be the case. If you are not
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  Speaker 1: willing to experience such results, now is your time to
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  Speaker 1: put away the book. If, however, you decide to proceed
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  Speaker 1: with the reading and study of this book, we have
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  Speaker 1: several suggestions to make to you. You need not expect
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  Speaker 1: to master this instruction at the first reading. There is
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  Speaker 1: much solid food contained in it. Many things require careful
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  Speaker 1: mental mastication, digestion, and assimilation. You will need to read
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  Speaker 1: the book several times from start to finish, with intervals
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  Speaker 1: between each reading. Yet the instruction is quite simple, and
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  Speaker 1: at each reading you will acquire many important facts, principles,
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  Speaker 1: and methods. The proper way in which to read this
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  Speaker 1: book for the purpose of study, in which to extract
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  Speaker 1: from its pages that which is condensed in them, is
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  Speaker 1: to start by reading it carefully from beginning to end,
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  Speaker 1: but without trying to memorize any particular portion, or to
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  Speaker 1: impress any particular detail upon your mind. Then lay it
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  Speaker 1: aside for a short time while you think over its
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  Speaker 1: teachings in a general way. In this mental rumination, try
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  Speaker 1: to classify the several most important topics and divisions of
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  Speaker 1: the general subject, but without direct reference to the book itself.
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  Speaker 1: Having done this, take up the book again, and this
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  Speaker 1: time carefully absorb each in every phase and feature of
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  Speaker 1: its instruction. Take your time in thus rereading any and
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  Speaker 1: re studying it. You will find something new in this
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  Speaker 1: book each and every time you take it up, no
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  Speaker 1: matter how many times you have previously gone over it. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: you are not asked to accept as true the instruction
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  Speaker 1: contained in this book merely because we have asserted it
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  Speaker 1: to be true. You have at your disposal the means
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  Speaker 1: of testing and proving the truth of our assertions, the
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  Speaker 1: test of actual application, experiment, and experience. If you will
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  Speaker 1: earnestly and persistently put into practice the principles and methods
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  Speaker 1: set forth in it, you will find yourself actually manifesting
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  Speaker 1: in demonstrating the results logically flowing from them. All that
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  Speaker 1: you are asked to do is to accept at least
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  Speaker 1: tentatively as a working hypothesis the general principles announced in
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  Speaker 1: this book, and to adopt as a working plan the
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  Speaker 1: methods it presents to you. Reserve for yourself the right
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  Speaker 1: to accept or to reject either principles or methods, or both,
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  Speaker 1: after you have subjected them to an earnest, faithful, diligent,
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  Speaker 1: and persistent trial in it actual life and work. If
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  Speaker 1: you will do this, you will, in all probability need
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  Speaker 1: no further argument to convince you of the truth of
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  Speaker 1: the underlying principles of this instruction and of the efficacy
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  Speaker 1: of the method suggested in it. Here is the prophecy.
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  Speaker 1: If you will recognize, by means of your intellect, the
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  Speaker 1: fundamental principles of personal power, and will realize them in
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  Speaker 1: your feeling, then will you be able to manifest and
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  Speaker 1: demonstrate them in your everyday life and work by means
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  Speaker 1: of the methods herein indicated, or by similar methods devised
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  Speaker 1: by yourself but based upon the same general principles. The
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  Speaker 1: principles are basic and fundamental. The methods are designed merely
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  Speaker 1: to enable you to apply effectively the principles. You are
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  Speaker 1: at liberty to adapt or to modify the latter to
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  Speaker 1: suit your own individual requirements. If you attain the first
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  Speaker 1: two of the above stages, then assuredly you will attain
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  Speaker 1: the third stage, the stage of manifestation. These first two
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  Speaker 1: stages may be attained by any person of average intelligence,
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  Speaker 1: provided that he will faithfully, in earnestly apply himself or
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  Speaker 1: herself to the task. You are hereby challenged to test
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  Speaker 1: the truth of this prophecy by such a trial and experiment.
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  Speaker 1: But that trial and experiment must be made in good faith,
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  Speaker 1: in an earnest serious spirit, and must be pursued with diligence, persistence,
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  Speaker 1: and insistence personal power. Your master Self by William Walker Atkinson.
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  Speaker 1: Your master self, the active agent of all of your
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  Speaker 1: conscious experience, is, of course yourself. The center of your
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  Speaker 1: conscious experience is that you, element of your being, that
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  Speaker 1: self conscious something or somewhat, the actual existence and presence
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  Speaker 1: of which you assert when you say I am I.
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  Speaker 1: This I am I element of yourself is the one
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  Speaker 1: fact of your existence of which you are always absolutely
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  Speaker 1: certain and concerning which you can never compel yourself to
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  Speaker 1: entertain any doubt. Every time you say or think I,
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  Speaker 1: you assert the existence of yourself and its presence in consciousness.
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  Speaker 1: No power of argument, no weight of evidence, no sophistry,
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  Speaker 1: no casuistry, no fallacy can ever really convince you that
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  Speaker 1: your eye does not exist, nor that it is not
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  Speaker 1: present in being. At that moment of consciousness. You cannot
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  Speaker 1: truthfully assert I am not in existence here and now,
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  Speaker 1: for even when you attempt to make such a denial
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  Speaker 1: and negation, you are conscious that it is the eye
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  Speaker 1: itself making the attempt and uttering the statement. Thus, even
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  Speaker 1: your very attempt at denial and negation is transmuted into
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  Speaker 1: an affirmation and assertion of your self existence and of
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  Speaker 1: the presence of yourself at that particular time and place.
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  Speaker 1: This conscious certainty of the existence and presence of the
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  Speaker 1: eye is the axiomatic basis of all philosophy. It is
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  Speaker 1: the one indisputable, incontrovertible, the refacable fact of your thought
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  Speaker 1: and consciousness, the one fact that cannot be gainsaid, denied, refuted,
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  Speaker 1: or overthrown. It is the one point concerning which you
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  Speaker 1: can feel absolutely sure and certain. Even the most acute
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  Speaker 1: metaphysical or philosophical argument will fail to shake your belief
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  Speaker 1: in your own existence and your presence in being. You
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  Speaker 1: are always able to declare, in the face of all arguments,
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  Speaker 1: I am I. You may doubt the evidence of your senses,
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  Speaker 1: but you can never doubt this consciousness of your own
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  Speaker 1: existence as a conscious being. Here, at least you feel
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  Speaker 1: that you are standing on the solid rock of certainty.
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  Speaker 1: Your uncertainties begin only when you start to ask yourself,
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  Speaker 1: what and why am I? And what else really I
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  Speaker 1: s But both of these questions imply your assurance that
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  Speaker 1: you yourself are present in existence at that time and place.
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  Speaker 1: When you say now, you mean the particular period of
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  Speaker 1: time or duration which you are then experiencing. When you
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  Speaker 1: say here, you mean the particular position in space or
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  Speaker 1: extension which you are then experiencing. Must always say and think,
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  Speaker 1: I am I here and now. But the here and
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  Speaker 1: now are relative to yourself and have no other meaning
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  Speaker 1: to you. If you think that we are here making
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  Speaker 1: much ado about nothing, and that we are telling you
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  Speaker 1: something which every one knows without being told, we will
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  Speaker 1: answer you by saying that upon this very point. Philosophers
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  Speaker 1: and metaphysicians have earnestly disputed from the beginning of human thought,
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  Speaker 1: this because they realized that this one point, if absolutely established,
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  Speaker 1: furnished man with his one solid rock of reasoning, his
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  Speaker 1: one certain point from which he might chart and diagram
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  Speaker 1: his world of experience. That they have reported, as they
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  Speaker 1: have been compelled to report, its certainty and essential reality,
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  Speaker 1: is an indication of its ultimate truth. For they have
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  Speaker 1: made every attempt to undermine or to surmount it. They
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  Speaker 1: saw the folly of merely taking it for granted. They
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  Speaker 1: knew that too many things which men took for granted
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  Speaker 1: are illusions or delusions, the flatness of the earth or
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  Speaker 1: the station mary position of the earth, for instance. Moreover,
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  Speaker 1: those great minds, which for thousands of years have been
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  Speaker 1: investigating the subject of personal power, long since discovered the
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  Speaker 1: fact that before one can hope to exercise any phase
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  Speaker 1: of personal power, he must first arrive at a clear,
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  Speaker 1: distinct and fundamental consciousness of himself, his I am I,
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  Speaker 1: as a reality transcending all of his mental and physical instruments,
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  Speaker 1: And that upon the degree of his actual consciousness of
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  Speaker 1: the independent existence of this I am I center of
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  Speaker 1: his being, depends the degree of his ability to manifest
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  Speaker 1: personal power. So you see, we are not wasting your
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  Speaker 1: and our time in telling you something not needing telling. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: we are endeavoring to awaken in you the actual and
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  Speaker 1: vivid conscious perception of a fundamental truth, without which you
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  Speaker 1: cannot hope to manifest or demonstrate personal power. Omitting this
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  Speaker 1: basic and fundamental instruction, there would be no reason for
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  Speaker 1: presenting the rest of the subject to you. This ego
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  Speaker 1: self I or I am I, which stands at the
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  Speaker 1: center of your conscious experience, and which is the real seer, doer, feeler, thinker, willer,
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  Speaker 1: and actor in your life journey, is the master self,
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  Speaker 1: the king on the throne of your personal being. To
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  Speaker 1: omit reference to it here would be like omitting the
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  Speaker 1: character of Hamlet from the play of that name. Before
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  Speaker 1: you can hope to manifest and demonstrate personal power, you
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  Speaker 1: must become consciously aware of that something or somewhat which
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  Speaker 1: employs and manifests that power. Personal power might be present
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  Speaker 1: in abundance, but unless there were also something present able
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  Speaker 1: to employ and use it, there would be no manifestation
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  Speaker 1: or demonstration possible. You are that something. You must become
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  Speaker 1: consciously aware of your essential and fundamental self before you
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  Speaker 1: will be able to employ the instruments at your hand.
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  Speaker 1: You must recognize your sovereignty before you may mount your
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  Speaker 1: throne and rule your kingdom. We wish, however, to state
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  Speaker 1: emphatically at the point that in our consideration of the
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  Speaker 1: Master Self, the ego or which asserts I am I,
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  Speaker 1: we shall confine ourselves entirely to the reports of consciousness
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  Speaker 1: concerning its presence and existence, its nature and character. We
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  Speaker 1: shall point out to you just how you may discover
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  Speaker 1: its presence at the center of your being, and how
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  Speaker 1: you may awaken its latent powers and possibilities, so that
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  Speaker 1: they may be applied effectively as personal power. We shall
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  Speaker 1: avoid entirely the advocacy of any particular one of the
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  Speaker 1: many various metaphysical, philosophical, or theological speculations or dogmas concerning
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  Speaker 1: its nature, character, source, or origin, or its destiny. We
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  Speaker 1: prefer to leave these subjects in the hands of those
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  Speaker 1: who specialize upon them. We have no desire to invade
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  Speaker 1: their special fields of thought, conjecture, or speculation. We prefer
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  Speaker 1: to base our thought upon the fundamental report of self consciousness,
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  Speaker 1: that inevitable, invariable, and infallible report made by self consciousness
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  Speaker 1: whenever it is awakened. For the purpose of our consideration
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  Speaker 1: of the Master Self in this book and that of
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  Speaker 1: the instruction to be based upon this, It is sufficient
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  Speaker 1: to assert merely one that there exists in you a
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  Speaker 1: master self ego I, I am I entity to which
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  Speaker 1: all your personal faculties, powers, and activities are subordinate. Two
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  Speaker 1: that this master Self, whatever else it may be or
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  Speaker 1: may not be, must be regarded as a focalized center
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  Speaker 1: of presence and power, manifested and expressed by the ultimate
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  Speaker 1: presence power in its manifestation and expression in the cosmos.
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  Speaker 1: These two general postulates are supported by all human thought
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  Speaker 1: on the subject, and in one form or the other,
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  Speaker 1: are accepted by all phases of philosophical, metaphysical, or theological thought,
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  Speaker 1: though variously interpreted and explained. Moreover, actual human experience is
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  Speaker 1: in agreement with them. We shall present the general argument
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  Speaker 1: to you as we proceed, showing you how firmly based
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  Speaker 1: and grounded they are in human thought and experience. But
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  Speaker 1: even so you are not asked to accept them as
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  Speaker 1: truth until your own reason and experience, so report them
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  Speaker 1: to you. Let us begin, then, with the consideration of
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  Speaker 1: the first of the above stated postulates, viz. There exists
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  Speaker 1: in you a master self ego eye or I am
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  Speaker 1: I entity to which all of your personal faculties, powers,
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  Speaker 1: and activities are subordinate. The argument and proof of this
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  Speaker 1: proposition is to be drawn entirely from your own conscious experience,
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  Speaker 1: and not from any philosophical, metaphysical, or theological theories or
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  Speaker 1: dogmas whatsoever. Self analysis will furnish you with the proof
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  Speaker 1: that proof, once so obtained, will be far more satisfying
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  Speaker 1: than the mere say so or thus seth of others.
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  Speaker 1: We earnestly ask you to proceed carefully with this process
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  Speaker 1: of self analysis, for it will bring to you results
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  Speaker 1: of the most practical and vital character. Do not pass
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  Speaker 1: over this part of the instruction as being merely theoretical
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  Speaker 1: or speculative, for it is far from being so. And
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  Speaker 1: above all, do not take the position that I am
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  Speaker 1: willing to take this for granted without actual proof, without
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  Speaker 1: bothering about the investigation, for by so doing you will
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  Speaker 1: miss the very kernel of the instruction. For know you
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  Speaker 1: that the process of self analysis will not only prove
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  Speaker 1: the thing to your satisfaction, it also will awaken within
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  Speaker 1: you the power of the I am I or master self,
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  Speaker 1: in a way impossible by any other means. You must
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  Speaker 1: not only recognize this I am I intellectually, but must
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  Speaker 1: also realize it in feeling before you can manifest and
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  Speaker 1: demonstrate it in action. In the following several sections of
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  Speaker 1: this book, we shall, through your own self analysis, make
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  Speaker 1: you acquainted with your master self, your ego, your I,
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  Speaker 1: or I am I. You will be led not only
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  Speaker 1: to see it, but also to feel it within yourself.
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  Speaker 1: This seeing and feeling constitute the first two stages or
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  Speaker 1: steps in personal power. That doing stage or step is
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  Speaker 1: the third, and results from the attainment of the first two.
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  Speaker 1: The more thoroughly grounded you are in the first two
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  Speaker 1: stages or steps, the better will you be able to
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  Speaker 1: attain the final one personal power Your master Self. By
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  Speaker 1: William Walker Atkinson, I am I. We ask you now
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  Speaker 1: to proceed to the discovery of your master self by
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  Speaker 1: the process of self analysis. In the most general sense,
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  Speaker 1: oneself is a composite of personal mental and physical qualities, parts, factors,
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  Speaker 1: and elements. When you say myself, employing the term in
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  Speaker 1: this sense, you mean your entire personal being outer and
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  Speaker 1: inner body and mind, and possibly spirit as well. You
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  Speaker 1: use the term self to distinguish your entire personal being
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  Speaker 1: from that of another person or those of other persons.
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  Speaker 1: Here you perform a process of analysis or separation. This
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  Speaker 1: is really the first stage or step of your self analysis,
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  Speaker 1: by which you proceed to discover your master self or
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  Speaker 1: real self. The second stage or step of self analysis
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  Speaker 1: is that in which you abstract your ego I am
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  Speaker 1: I or master self from the physical self, the inner
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  Speaker 1: from the outer. You may do this by an act
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  Speaker 1: of consciousness, in which reason cooperates with the imagination. You
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  Speaker 1: find that the innermost report of consciousness is that the
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  Speaker 1: IAMI consciousness is not necessarily involved with your consciousness of
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  Speaker 1: your body, but that, on the contrary, the IAMI may
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  Speaker 1: conceive itself as existent, even independent of the body which
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  Speaker 1: it inhabits. When self consciousness says I am I, it
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  Speaker 1: means thereby that itself, the I AMI consciousness, is not
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  Speaker 1: the body, but rather is a something or somewhat inhabiting
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  Speaker 1: in occupying the body, the latter being merely a physical
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  Speaker 1: garment which it occupies, or the instrument or machinery which
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  Speaker 1: it employs. In physical activity, the I am I may
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  Speaker 1: raise the hand attached to the physical body by an
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  Speaker 1: act of wile, operating the physical muscles by means of
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  Speaker 1: currents of nerve force directed by the mind, The I
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  Speaker 1: am I may stand aside and contemplate the moving hand
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  Speaker 1: and the act by which the hand is moved, just
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  Speaker 1: as it may contemplate any physical object not attached to
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  Speaker 1: the body. Try this, and you will see and feel
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  Speaker 1: this to be the case. You will find that you
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  Speaker 1: have the consciousness of your I. Am I deliberately moving
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  Speaker 1: your hand by an act of will, the hand being
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  Speaker 1: merely a portion of your physical machinery. Move your hand
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  Speaker 1: up and down, then sidewise, until the full conception and
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  Speaker 1: consciousness of your true relation to it is fully grasped
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  Speaker 1: by you. You will discover, by similar experiments that you
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  Speaker 1: may likewise move any in every part of your physical body,
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  Speaker 1: even the whole body itself. Gradually, there will dawn upon
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  Speaker 1: you the recognition and realization that your body, and each
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  Speaker 1: and every part or portion of it, is but a
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  Speaker 1: fine piece of physical machinery, the movements of which you
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  Speaker 1: control by your will and mind. You will, then, perhaps
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  Speaker 1: for the first time, realize that your body is merely
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  Speaker 1: your physical machinery, any part of which or the whole
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  Speaker 1: of which the IMI may use employ control, direct or
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  Speaker 1: set in motion, or render motionless. When it has learned
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  Speaker 1: the control of the nerves and muscles attached to in
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  Speaker 1: regulating the movement of the several parts of the body.
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  Speaker 1: It is true that the involuntary nervous system has taken
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  Speaker 1: over to a great degree certain movements of the physical body,
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  Speaker 1: particularly those movements and processes having to do with the
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  Speaker 1: internal organs. But science informs you that all of the
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: involuntary muscles were originally voluntary organs or tissues, and that
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  Speaker 1: they have been gradually transformed to the involuntary and subconscious
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  Speaker 1: field of activities, the change being made in the interest
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  Speaker 1: of vital economy, ie, that the self may have time
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  Speaker 1: in which to attend more closely to its voluntary physical activities.
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  Speaker 1: For that matter, most of your important voluntary muscular movements
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  Speaker 1: you have had to learn by practice and experiment, as
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  Speaker 1: for instance, the movements of walking, using your knife and fork, writing,
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  Speaker 1: dressing yourself, et cetera. Furthermore, it is known that the
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  Speaker 1: Hatha Yogis of India and others who have experimented along
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  Speaker 1: these lines, have regained the control of the involuntary muscles,
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  Speaker 1: and may start and stop their action or reverse the
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  Speaker 1: same at will. This being true not only of the
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  Speaker 1: muscles of the organs of digestion, assimilation and elimination, but
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  Speaker 1: even of the heart itself. Your reason recognizes the fact
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  Speaker 1: that the particles of your body are constantly changing, your
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  Speaker 1: body to day being entirely different from that which you
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  Speaker 1: occupied a few years ago, and quite different from that
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  Speaker 1: which you occupied when you were a child. But at
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: the same time, your consciousness informs you that your eye
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  Speaker 1: am I or ego or master self is identical with
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  Speaker 1: that of a few years ago, or even that of
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  Speaker 1: your childhood. You are the same I am I that
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  Speaker 1: you always have been so far as your memory can report.
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  Speaker 1: So you see that not only is your body something
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  Speaker 1: that is used, controlled, and moved it will by your
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  Speaker 1: I am I or master self through its established mental
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  Speaker 1: and physical machinery, but also that your body is not
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: at all the same body which you owned and used
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  Speaker 1: a few years back. In short, you see that while
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  Speaker 1: your body is constantly being changed, repaired, made over by
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  Speaker 1: the elimination of old, worn out material and the substitution
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: of new, fresh material, your iamite remains unchanged in essential identity.
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  Speaker 1: During your whole physical existence. The body is an impermanent
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  Speaker 1: and changing machine. While you're which operates, it is the
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: permanent and constant element of your being the same operator
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: engaged in running a constantly changing machine. Moreover, by using
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: your imagination, you will discover that while it is possible
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: for you to fancy yourself as occupying bodies of a
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: different kind, almost any kind, in fact, one after another,
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  Speaker 1: yet it is absolutely impossible for you even to imagine
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  Speaker 1: yourself as being a different I AM I. Under such conditions,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: the imagination will report that while it is able to
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: picture you as taking on and laying aside different bodies,
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  Speaker 1: just as you now change suits of clothing or costumes,
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  Speaker 1: yet it is unable to picture you as laying aside
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  Speaker 1: your identical I am I and becoming another. Even when
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  Speaker 1: exerted to its wildest flights, the imagination will be compelled
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: to report that the IAMI remains the same, no matter
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  Speaker 1: how different the various bodies successively occupied by it may be.
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  Speaker 1: The imagination is even able to picture you as standing
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: by your sleeping or dead body, viewing it as it
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  Speaker 1: would the body of another. In fact, many persons have
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: had this experience in their dreams. But even in that case,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: the I AMI is seen and felt to be the
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  Speaker 1: same old eye and as not having lost its sense
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  Speaker 1: of identity. Continuity or completeness. You can never imagine yourself
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  Speaker 1: as standing aside and viewing your i Am I or
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  Speaker 1: master self in this way, for when you try it,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: you will find either that one there is nothing to
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  Speaker 1: look at the i Ami, or else two that the
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: i Ami has nothing at which to look. You may
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: profitably try the above experiments with the imagination. They will
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: serve to fasten upon your consciousness certain essential limitations of
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  Speaker 1: the imagination which it cannot transcend, and certain essential attributes
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  Speaker 1: of the i Ami, of which it cannot be divested
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  Speaker 1: even by will and imagination. You will thereby gain a
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: vivid experience of certain fundamental facts of your mental being
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  Speaker 1: which have heretofore been unknown to you. The lesson taught
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: in this second stage of self analysis is this that
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  Speaker 1: the physical body, in its parts and in its totality,
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  Speaker 1: is not your i Ami or master self, but is
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: merely something belonging to and used by you in your
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: task of expression and physical manifestation. Whatever else your i
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Am I or master self may be or may not be,
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  Speaker 1: it certainly is not your physical body, in its parts
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: or in its totality. If you wish corroborative proof, you
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: have but to inquire of persons who have lost their arms,
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  Speaker 1: or legs, or other important parts of their body, they
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: will invariably inform you that their eye consciousness, their consciousness
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  Speaker 1: of self, is not in the least affected or diminished
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: by the loss of portions of their body. They will
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: tell you that the same old eye is present, feeling
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  Speaker 1: as complete as ever, and not being conscious of any
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: loss of real selfhood. More than this, authoritative medical annals
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: inform you that, in cases of paralysis extending over the
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  Speaker 1: greater portion of the body, the I am my consciousness
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  Speaker 1: is still intact and undiminished. The report always is, I
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: am still here. I am I just as much as
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: I ever was. We ask that you master this first
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: step of self analysis, at least to the extent that
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: you actually feel in consciousness, that there is a something
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: or somewhat which own occupies and uses your physical body
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: as an instrument of expression, a machine for producing physical activity,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: but which in itself is superior to and master of
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: that instrument or machine, And that that something or somewhat
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: is you, yourself. Do not rest content with merely acquiescing in
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: the statement by reason of your seeing it. Intellectually seek
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: to feel it as a fact of actual consciousness, for
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: thereby you gain an important step in the unfoldment of
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  Speaker 1: personal power. Do not hesitate to call to your aid
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: your imagination as well as your intellect, for both of
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: these are valid instruments of your mental mechanism, each performing
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: its own offices. For you. Do not say I can
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: imagine anything, for really you cannot. The above experiments will
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: show you that the imagination, as well as the intellect,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: has its limits and boundaries beyond which it may not proceed.
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  Speaker 1: Do not pass this by as mere fancy or as unimportant.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: It is quite important and has a distinct and particular
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  Speaker 1: part to play in the instruction which we are offering
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  Speaker 1: you in this book. We are seeking to have you
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  Speaker 1: see and feel that you are something or somewhat far
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  Speaker 1: more fundamental, essential, and real than you have ever imagined
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  Speaker 1: yourself to be. You may possibly think that, now having
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: shown you that the I am I or master self,
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  Speaker 1: is not the physical body, we are about to tell
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  Speaker 1: you that therefore it must be the mind. If so,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: you now look forward to the usual talk upon the
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: subject of all is mind, of which you have heard
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: so much, possibly too much. But you are mistaken. If
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: you suppose this, you will be required to disentangle yourself
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: from your mind stuff, as you have from your body stuff,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: before you are conscious of the full, clear, brilliant light
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: of the I am I or master self. You are
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: like the fly which is endeavoring to disentangle itself from
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: the sticky fly paper in which it was caught. You
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: have now released yourself from the body of the paper,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: but your legs and wings are still full of the
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: sticky stuff. You must now proceed like that fly, slowly
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: and carefully, to free yourself of the foreign materials which
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: keep you from using your wings and legs in perfect
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: freedom and under perfect control. The third stage of your
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: self analysis is that in which you abstract your I
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  Speaker 1: am I or masterself from that part of your mental
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  Speaker 1: nature which you call your emotional nature i e. Your
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: various feelings, emotions, agreeable or disagreeable mental states, and your desires. Remember, however,
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  Speaker 1: that you are not to be asked actually to discard
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  Speaker 1: this important part of your nature any more than you
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: are expected actually to discard your very useful physical body.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: On the contrary, you will be expected to employ still
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: more efficiently both physical body and emotional nature. Once that
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: you have discovered that they are but your instruments and machinery,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: physical and mental, rather than being essential and inseparable elements
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: of the I am I or master self. You are
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: being asked to learn how to use as a master
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: these instruments and the machinery, instead of being used by
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: them as their slave. But to be the master, you
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: must first discover that you are superior to and essentially
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: independent of, these useful instruments and pieces of machinery. When
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: you have learned this, then you may use these things
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  Speaker 1: as they should be used by you, as the master,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: not as the slave. First learn to know, then proceed
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: to use. You proceed to the attainment of the third
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: stage of your self analysis by three steps viz. One
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  Speaker 1: the discovery that your emotional states are temporary, impermanent, and changing.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Two the discovery that your emotional states may be observed, considered, examined, analyzed,
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  Speaker 1: and controlled by the I am I or master self,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: and that in such processes they are able to be
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: set aside as objects to which the attention of the
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: I am I or master self is being directed, the
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: latter always remaining as the subject which is conducting the examination.
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  Speaker 1: And three that after you have mentally abstracted or set
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  Speaker 1: aside all of your emotional states. There is still a
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: something or somewhat left, unchanged, unimpaired, constant, and permanent, which
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: cannot be set aside as an object of attention that
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: I am I or master self. The first of the
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  Speaker 1: three above mentioned steps is quite easy of accomplishment. You
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  Speaker 1: have already discovered that your emotional states are impermanent and changeable.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: You remember that only a few years ago, perhaps only
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: a few months, weeks, or days ago, you entertained an
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: assortment of feelings, emotions, likes and dislikes, wishes, wants, and
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: desires vastly different from those entertained by you to day.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Your loves and hates have changed many times, often exchanging places,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: perhaps at least changing in degree of intensity and in
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: direction of object. In some cases, they have faded away
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: so completely that it now requires a distinct effort of
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: memory to recall them as having been previously experienced by you.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Some persons are more constant in their feelings than are others,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: but some degrees of change are experienced by all persons.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: The feelings of the child change as the period of
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: adolescence is approached. The emotions of the adolescent are different
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  Speaker 1: from those of the child, and from those of the
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  Speaker 1: matured man or woman. The emotions of middle age are
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: different still, and those of old age have their own
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: particular character. Moreover, the constant play of circumstances and environment
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: works changes in the emotional states of the individual. You
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: have had personal experience of some of these changes, and
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: observation and inquiry will satisfy you as to the rest.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: But your own experiences and your inquiries concerning those of
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: others will disclose to you that in all such cases,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: the I am I of the individual his master self,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: remains constant, unchanged, and identical through all these innumerable changes
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: and transmutations of the emotional states. The I am I
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: or master self has survived these emotional storms, tempests, calms,
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  Speaker 1: and dead winds. In fact, its memory has forgotten many
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: of them. The individual frequently wonders, was it possible that
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  Speaker 1: I ever felt in this way about these things or
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: these persons. The high am I or master self is
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  Speaker 1: the constant, permanent something or somewhat which survives the temporary
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  Speaker 1: in ever changing winds and storms of the emotional states.
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  Speaker 1: The second step, likewise is easy when you have once
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: grasped the idea. It consists merely of the examination, consideration, observation,
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  Speaker 1: and analysis of your emotional states. You find it quite
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: easy to turn the light of attention upon any particular
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: emotional state previously experienced. Your attention being directed earnestly to it,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: you easily perceive its past history. How it originated, what
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: called it into expression, how it rose to its height
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: or climax, How it faded away or at least grew weaker.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: What ideas served to strengthen or weaken it, to feed
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  Speaker 1: or to starve it, how it became transmuted into another
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: form of feeling, and so forth and so on. In short,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: you will find that you are able to examine, consider, observe,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: and mentally analyze any emotional state experienced by you, just
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: as you would a tiny creature under the microscope. You
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: place the emotional state as the object to be viewed
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: under the microscope of attention, the I am I or
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: master self being always the subject conducting the examination at
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: the observation end of the microscope. Moreover, you remember many
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: instances in which you have controlled, held back, or urged forward,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: guided and directed, and generally managed some of your emotional states. This,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: in the degree of the awakening of your I am I,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: and by its employment of the will, you have learned,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: at least to some extent, how to restrain or inhibit
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: many of your emotional states, your feelings and impulses, your desires,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: and your tendencies. This in response to the dictates of prudence, ethics, morality, justice,
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  Speaker 1: self respect, or self interest, as the case may be.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: In short, you have demonstrated at least to some degree,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: that the I am I or master self is the
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: driver of the emotional steeds, the latter being the creatures
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: guided and directed by the reins bit and curb of will.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: And in doing this you have demonstrated that the I
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: AMI or master self is one thing and the emotional
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: states quite another thing, that the two are not identical
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: at all. In the third step of this stage of
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: your self analysis, you proceed to the discovery of the
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: fact that, after you have mentally abstracted and set aside
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: all of your emotional states, there is a something or
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: somewhat left unchanged and unimpaired, fixed, constant, and permanent, the
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: I am I or master Self abiding at the very
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: center of the kernel of your being. You may do
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: this by the exercise of your memory and of your imagination,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: aided by the employment of your power of pure self
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: conscious you will see that, just as in the past,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: your emotional states have changed or been transmuted, leaving the
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: I Am I or Master self present in constant, unchanged
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: and unaltered fullness of being. So may you now, at
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: the present time mentally picture your I Am I or
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Master self experiencing several entirely different sets or assortments of
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: emotional states, feelings, desires, et cetera, and yet ever remaining
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: the same I Am I or Master self in spite
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: of the changes. You may imagine yourself as playing many
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: different parts and characters in the drama of life, yet
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: always remaining the same identical I Am I or Master self,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: abiding behind the mask and under the distinguishing emotional garments
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: fitted to the role being played. Moreover, you may mentally
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: picture yourself as having no emotional feelings at all at
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: any given time, providing that the objects and ideas originally
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: calling forth your emotional states have been wiped out of
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: conscious or subconscious existence in your memory. But even in
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: such an extreme case, you will be fully convinced that
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: your i Ami or master self would remain the same, constant,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: identical something or somewhat that it is now and always
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: has been. The lesson taught in this third stage of
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: self analysis is this that the emotional nature, in all
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: of its stages, forms, aspects, modes, and manifestations, is not
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: the i Ami or master self, but instead merely something
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: belonging to that essential and permanent entity. Whatever else your
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: i Ami or master self may be or may not be,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: it certainly is not your emotional nature, in its parts
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: or in its totality. The fourth stage of self analysis
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: is that in which you abstract the i Ami or
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: master self from your thinking states. Your thinking states are
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: composed of thoughts of various degrees of complexity, ranging from
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: the simplest perception arising from sensation or sense report of
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: any kind, to the higher combination of thought, which we
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: call concepts, ideas, beliefs, judgments, conclusions, et cetera. By carefully
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: examining your thinking states, you will discover there a condition
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: which closely resembles that associated with your feeling states. That
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: is to say, you will find your thinking states to
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: be one impermanent in changing two capable of examination observation, experiment, analysis, control,
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  Speaker 1: and direction, thus being capable of being set aside as
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: objects of the attention directed by the I am I
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: or master self, the latter being the subject exercising the
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: power of attention and free that After you have mentally
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: set aside and examined all of these thinking states or thoughts,
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: there is a something or somewhat left constant, unchanged, unimpaired,
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: and permanent, the I am I or master self, which
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: remains identical throughout all the processes of thought and thinking,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: transcending them all just as you find the feeling states.
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  Speaker 1: So now you find that thinking states to be subject
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: to the law of change, modification, alteration, transformation, and transmutation.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: You have but to look backward over your past life,
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  Speaker 1: even but a few years back, for that matter, to
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: discover that there has been a constant evolution and development
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: in your thoughts, judgments, beliefs, and conclusions. You know that
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: new concepts, new ideas, new judgments, new conclusions have replaced
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: those formerly held by yourself. Your experience has wrought many
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: remarkable changes in this respect, many of your former beliefs, ideas,
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: and convictions having been perhaps entirely reversed, Moreover, you know
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: that impaired health, old age, overwork, fatigue, or other physical
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: causes have operated to alter, modify, and determine your ideas, opinions, beliefs,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: and convictions, and to alter and affect your powers of memory, reasoning,
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: and constructive imagination. Again, your experience has taught you that
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: environment and changed conditions have tended to modify greatly your thoughts, ideals,
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: and beliefs, as well as your feelings. In short, you
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: perceive that your thinking states are changeable, shifting in permanent things,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: and not fixed, constant, unchangeable and identical in nature. But equally,
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: are you convinced that back of and at the center
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: of these shifting currents of thought in thinking, there dwells
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: and has always dwelt a something or somewhat an I
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: am I or master self, which has remained constant, unchanged, unaffected,
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: and essentially identical. You are always you, and have always
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: remained you, and not but you. Notwithstanding all of these
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: changes of your thinking states or streams of thought, the
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: thinker has always been there, always the same, no matter
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: how the thoughts may have come and gone, changed and
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: altered as the years have passed by. Likewise, you know
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: that the a I am I or master self is
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: always the subject of the stream of thought which flows
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: before it. Moreover, you know that by turning the attention
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: upon any one set of ideas, it may detain them
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: in consciousness or thrust them out of consciousness at will.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: If the will has been trained to the work, Likewise,
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: you know that it may call upon the memory or
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: the imagination to do their respective work. The I am
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  Speaker 1: I or master self may create thoughts at will, combining
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  Speaker 1: the simpler elements into the more complex, comparing them, and
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  Speaker 1: passing judgment upon them. This constitutes the processes of reasoning.
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  Speaker 1: There is a clear distinction between that which knows and
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  Speaker 1: that which is known, between that which thinks and that
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  Speaker 1: which is thought. One is the subject thinker, the other
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  Speaker 1: the object thought. The hi am I is the substance
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  Speaker 1: or subject of consciousness and is not identical with any
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: known phase, aspect, or mode of thought. Finally, you will
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: discus cover that, having mentally abstracted and set aside all
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: of the thinking states in your process of self analysis,
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  Speaker 1: there is still something left constant, unchanged, unimpaired, permanent, and identical,
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  Speaker 1: the I am I or master self. This step or
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: stage of total abstraction from the thinking states is accomplished
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  Speaker 1: only by the use of the imagination. In the case
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  Speaker 1: of the ordinary individual, there are found. It is true
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: certain individuals, some of the oriental ascetics and mystics, for instance,
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  Speaker 1: who have deliberately trained their minds so as to obtain
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: a state of absolute quietude and freedom from the influence
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  Speaker 1: of the stream of thought. But such training is not
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  Speaker 1: advised for the ordinary individual, it having no practical advantage,
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  Speaker 1: but belonging rather to the category of abnormal psychology. There
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: is no advantage to be gained by reaching the stage
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  Speaker 1: in which you think of nothing, although it is worthy
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: of note that such mental states may be produced by
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: those who are willing to undergo certain, rigid and strenuous
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: training of the power of attention by the use of
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: the imagination. However, you may easily picture yourself as immune
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: to the impressions from the outside world, as in a
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: case of one whose sense organs are inactive, and as
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  Speaker 1: having shut off or inhibited the reports of memory. Were
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: your sense impressions temporarily inhibited, then you would have no
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: new raw material of thought. And if also your memory
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: were likewise temporarily inhibited, then your mind would be an
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: absolute blank, without any report of consciousness other than that
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: of self consciousness. But even so, there would still be
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: the report of self consciousness, the report of your own
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  Speaker 1: existence here and now, of that you could not divest
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  Speaker 1: yourself while you were conscious at all. What then would
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: be this report of self consciousness which would refuse to
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: be inhibited, and which would persist in spite of the
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: inhibition of the sense reports and the memory reports. The
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: answer is suggested by the definition of the term self
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: consciousness viz. The consciousness of oneself as exists and in being.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: With impressions from the outside world, and also the reports
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  Speaker 1: of memory. Temporarily inhibited or shut off, your consciousness would
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: be driven back upon that fundamental, essential, and ultimate report
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  Speaker 1: I am I. It is worthy of note here that
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: those who have cultivated the methods of total abstraction from
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: the thinking states. The Oriental ascetics, for instance, report that
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: even in the state of the utmost possible abstraction and detachment,
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: they still find the report of existence and being, the
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: consciousness of I am I, persisting, even though the consciousness
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: of the details of the personality have been abstracted. With
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: the rest of the knot states of consciousness. It would
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: seem that try as he may, man is never able
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: to escape the I am I consciousness while he is
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: conscious at all. It is something from which he cannot
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: abstract himself, and something which he cannot set aside from
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: his consciousness. But as we have said, you are not
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: advised to experiment with the production of abnormal psychological states
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: in order to to prove to yourself that it is
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: possible to absolutely inhibit the thinking states, and thus to
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: discover that I am I consciousness shining brightly in a
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: mental world otherwise devoid of the light of consciousness. In fact,
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: you are advised against indulging in any such extreme experiments.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: All that we wish you to do is to employ
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  Speaker 1: your imagination to the fullest, and thereby discover that it
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: is possible for you mentally to picture yourself in such
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: a condition to realize that such a mental state is possible.
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  Speaker 1: This is sufficient for the purpose before you. In this instruction.
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  Speaker 1: We wish you to realize fully that there exists at
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: the center of your being, at the center of your
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: thinking states as well as of your feeling states, a
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: something or somewhat which inevitably invariably and infallibly reports I
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: am I, so long as there is even the faintest
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: glow of consciousness manifested. This something or somewhat which reports
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: I am I is that master self, which is your
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: real self, you in yourself, of yourself, and by yourself.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: This I am I or master Self is the permanent
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  Speaker 1: subject of your thinking processes and activities, and yet is
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  Speaker 1: superior to them and capable of rising above them. The
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: thinking states rise and fall, appear and disappear, to be
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  Speaker 1: succeeded by others manifesting the same process of appearance, expression,
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  Speaker 1: and disappearance. But the I am I or master Self
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  Speaker 1: remains constant, permanent, and abiding throughout all of these processes
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  Speaker 1: of thought. The stream of thought may flow past, ever,
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: changing ever, passing, ever, becoming never the same for even
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: two consecutive moments, But the thinker on the banks of
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: the stream remains ever the same identical I am I
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  Speaker 1: or master self. Not a procession of eyes, nor a
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: series of changing eyes, but ever the same, identical, constant, unchanged, unimpaired.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: The lesson taught in this fourth stage of self analysis
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  Speaker 1: is this that the thinking states, in all of their stages,
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: forms aspects, modes, or manner. Manifestations of their activities and
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: processes are not you, the I, am I, or master self,
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: but are merely something belonging to and used by you.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: Whatever else your master self may be or may not be,
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  Speaker 1: it certainly is not your thinking states, in their parts
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  Speaker 1: or in their totality. The fifth stage of your self
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: analysis is that in which you abstract your I, am
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  Speaker 1: I or master self from that part of your mental being,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: which is indicated by the term will I e. The
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: power by means of which you perform actions. Mental or physical.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: Will is always concerned with action, mental or physical. The
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: will process is complete only when it manifests in action
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  Speaker 1: along mental or physical lines. Will is called into manifestation
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  Speaker 1: by desire, which in turn arises from feeling or emotion.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: It always goes out in the direction of an idea
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: which has aroused the feeling, emotion, or desire. Desire is
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: the connecting link between feeling and will. That which we
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: call the will is far nearer to the I, AMI
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: or master self than are the feeling states or the
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: thinking states. It lies closer than either to you. It
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: has an intimate character, so intimate that it is almost
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: impossible to divest yourself of it, even in imagination. It
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: is the body of the kernel of self, the germ
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  Speaker 1: of which is your I, am I or master self.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: Bigelow says, sensations originate outside of an inside of the body.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: Emotions originate inside of the body. But the will is
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: deeper than either, and they are both objective to it.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: We cannot classify it with anything else. We cannot modify
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: it by anything else. It itself modifies everything within its scope.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: Will is the assertion of a form of consciousness from
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: the center outward. When it is opposed by another form
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: of consciousness from the circumference inward, we recognize a hindrance
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: to the free action of the will. Bear It says.
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  Speaker 1: We know little about the will. We know that we
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: have wills and that we will. We are conscious that
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: willing is not thinking or imagining. Most of us know
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: little more. Some philosophers and metaphysicians have held that will
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  Speaker 1: is so intimately and closely bound up with the I,
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: am I or master self that it is impossible to
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: disentangle them. But practical psychology has discovered that even will,
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: like feeling and thinking, is capable of being abstracted and
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: set apart from the I am I or master self,
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: there to be examined, analyzed, and subjected to experiments. Thus
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: it is discovered one that will is impermanent in changing
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: in its manifestations and processes. Two that its processes may
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: be set apart as objects to be examined, observed, analyzed,
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: and subjected to experiment by the subject I am I
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: or master self. Free that you can conceive the I
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  Speaker 1: am I or master self as existing, unchanged, unimpaired, and
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: undisturbed in its totality, identical and constant, even when the
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: will states have been abstracted from it. These processes may
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: be performed with the will states as truly as with
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: the feeling states. You know from experience that there are
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: different degrees of will manifested by you at different times,
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  Speaker 1: that your will states vary at different times, that they change,
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  Speaker 1: are modified, are affected by changing feelings and emotions, and
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: changing ideas. You know from experience that by deliberately increasing
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: the force of your emotional feeling, you can fan the
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: fire of emotion so as to increase the supply and
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: power of the steam of will. You know from experience
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: that by deliberately directing and holding the attention upon certain
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: ideas or objects, you can cause the will to move
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: towards such ideas or objects. You know from experience that
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: you may deliberately and systematically develop, train, and cultivate will
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: power so as to increase enormously its effectiveness. In short,
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: you know by actual experience that there is a willer
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: behind and back of the will, and that the will
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: is but an instrument and machine operated by this willer.
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  Speaker 1: This willer, this director and master of will, can be
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  Speaker 1: nothing else but the I am I, or master self.
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  Speaker 1: There is nothing else to be the willer, and nothing
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  Speaker 1: else which can control and direct the will, that great
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: mover of the other mental states and conditions. The lesson
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: taught in this fifth stage of self analysis is this
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: that the will, in all of its stages, forms, aspects, modes,
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: or manifestations of its activities and processes, is not you yourself,
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: but is merely something belonging to and used by you.
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: Whatever else your master self may be or may not be,
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: it certainly is not your will in its parts or
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: in its totality. Personal power, your master self. By William
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  Speaker 1: Walker Atkinson Conscious egohood. There are seven stages of consciousness,
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  Speaker 1: as taught by the great masters of the science of being.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: Five of these stages we have just considered, viz. The
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: respective stages of One consciousness of separate existence of existence
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  Speaker 1: as a separate and distinct individuality. Two consciousness of the
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  Speaker 1: ownership and control of the instrument and machinery of the
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  Speaker 1: physical body. Three consciousness of the ownership and control of
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  Speaker 1: the instrument and machinery of emotion. Four consciousness of the
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  Speaker 1: ownership and control of the instrument and machinery of thought.
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: Five consciousness of the ownership and control of the instrument
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  Speaker 1: and machinery of will. There are two other and higher
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  Speaker 1: stages of consciousness remaining to be considered in your consideration
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: of the physical body, of the emotional states, of the
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: thought states, of the will states, respectively. You have found
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: it possible to abstract your consciousness of each of these
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: instruments from your consciousness of your I am I or
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: master self. Each and every one of these processes of
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: self analysis has found and left you conscious of the
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: existence here and now of that I am I or
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: master Self, independent of the several instruments and elements of
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: machinery which it owns and uses. At the center of
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: each even of will you found your I am I
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  Speaker 1: existing in firm, constant, and identical presence and power throughout
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: all the changes in the activities and processes of its
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: instruments and its machinery of expression and manifestation. But in
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: the sixth stage of self analysis, you will discover that
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: you are unable to abstract a certain kind of consciousness
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: from the I am I or master self. You will
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: be unable to set aside, examine, analyze, experiment with, and
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: detach this form of consciousness from your real self or
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: I am I. Try as you may. Hence you see
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: you will there have reached the stage of reality, of
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: ultimate fact and being within yourself. This is a most
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: important stage of your self analysis of your search for
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: the I am I or master self. Therefore you should
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: approach it carefully and conduct your inquiry with earnestness and diligence.
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: The sixth stage of your self analysis is that known
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: as ultimate self consciousness. First, ye should clearly understand just
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: what is meant and just what is not meant by
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: us in this employment of the term self consciousness. In
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: the popular usage, the term means an unpleasant and abnormal
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: state of consciousness or awareness of one's self as an
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: object of observation by others. The psychological usage, however, is
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: quite different. It indicates that state of consciousness in which
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: the I am I is fully, keenly and positively aware
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: of its own existence as an actual entity in being
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: here and now. It is from this state of consciousness
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: that the individual asserts positively and with conviction, I am
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: I here and now. Comparatively, very few individuals experience the
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: full degree of this stage of consciousness. Many, of course,
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: say I am I, thereby distinguishing themselves from others. This, however,
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: is merely the first stage of consciousness, not the sixth.
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: Few proceed further in their realization of self consciousness. Many
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: are unable to differentiate in consciousness between the I am
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  Speaker 1: I and the physical body. Still fewer are those who
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: are able to make the distinction between the I am
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  Speaker 1: I and the feeling states. And still fewer are those
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: who can realize the I am I as transcending the
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: thinking states. Very rare and far between, indeed, are those
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: who are able to distinguish between the consciousness of the
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: will states and the consciousness of the I am I.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: The great masses of the race think of the self
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: as an aggregate or composite of mind and body, feelings, emotions, thoughts,
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: will activities, et cetera, and seldom, if ever, catch even
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: a glimpse of the essential and ultimate selfhood of the
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: I am I or master self, the real self sixteen.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: But the great individuals of the race, those who stand
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: out from the masses, will usually be found to have
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: evolved into quite a full state of self consciousness, and
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: accordingly they will have experienced that sense of personal power
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: that comes with this recognition of the I am I,
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: master self, real self. This illuminating experience, once it comes
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: to the individual, leaves him changed, indifferent. He is never
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: again the same man. A new world is open to him,
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: A new and positive sense of the reality of his
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: essential being has impressed itself upon him. It comes to
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: many as an awakening from a troubled sleep or dream state,
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: the dawning realization that I am I in spite of
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: the dream illusion. In this dawn of the realization of
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: ultimate self consciousness, the individual finds himself at last. An
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: old English writer once said, whether we try to avoid
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: it or not, we must face this reality some time,
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: this reality of our own egohood, that which makes us
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: say I, and in saying I, leads to the discovery
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: of a new world. A leading American psychologist has said,
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: self consciousness is a growth. Many persons never have more
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: than a misty idea of such a mental attitude. They
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: always take themselves for granted and never turn to gaze inward.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: The dawn of self consciousness, the awakening from the dream
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: of simple consciousness in the individual, is accompanied by a
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: new awareness and consciousness of reality in actual existence. In fact,
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: so strong often becomes this new consciousness of the certainty
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: of real and actual existence that compared with it, all
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: other forms of conscious existence fade into comparative insignificance. This consciousness,
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: once firmly established, serves as a tower of strength for
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: the individual in which he may take refuge and then
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: defy the adverse conditions of the external world of thoughts
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: and things. The process of self analysis, according to which
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: you have proceeded to abstract in turn the consciousness of
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: the physical body, the emotional states, the thought states, and
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: the will states, respectively, has now brought you to the
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: point where you have nothing else left for you to
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: analyze for the purpose of possible abstraction, except the self consciousness,
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: of the existence of the I am I or master self,
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: the real self. But when you undertake to subject that
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: ultimate element of selfhood to such process, you discover that
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: further analysis, abstraction, simplification, and reduction is impossible. You have
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: reached something ultimate which defies further analysis or simplification or
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: separation into parts, elements, or factors. It is the irreducible element,
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: the insoluble residuum of selfhood. It is egohood itself in
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: its final essence and principle. You have discovered that this
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: I am I or master self is not subject to changes, alteration,
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: or modification. It is not subject to becoming, for it
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: is pure being, always identical with itself, always constant, ever
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: the same. It does not flow, nor is it in
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: a state of flux. It is never transformed, nor is
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: it transmuted. It does not change form, for it has
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: no form. It does not manifest degrees, for it is
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: absolute in its nature and being. It does not take
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: on aspects, modes, or conditions of appearance. It is always itself,
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: its whole self, and nothing but itself. In this respect
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: it is seen to be entirely different from any of
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: its instruments or machinery mental or physical. It is not
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: an instrument nor a part of the machinery. It is
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: that which owns and uses the instruments and the machinery
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: of mental and physical expression in manifestation. Moreover, your experiments
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: will show you conclusively that you cannot set aside or
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: abstract this I am I or master self for the
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: purpose of observation or experiment, as you have been able
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: to do with the physical and mental instruments or machinery
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: which belong to it. You can never make of it
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: an object to be examined or observed by your subjective observer.
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: Try the experiment. You will then find that if you
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: place the I am I at the objective end of
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: your microscope of attention, there will be no subjective I
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: am I left to conduct the examination from the other
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: end of the instrument. Likewise, if you place the I
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: am I at the subjective or observing end of the instrument,
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: then there will be no objective I am I at
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: the other end, ready to be observed. Just as the
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: eye sees all outside of itself but can never see itself,
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: so the I am I may observe and examine everything
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: outside of its essential self, but can never observe and
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: examine its essential self. Here you find a something or
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: somewhat in which subject and object are inseparably joined and combined. Here, indeed,
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: you find the hypothetical stick with only one end of
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: the old metaphysicians. Here you find something which is always
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: subjective and never objective, something which is all inside without
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: any outside aspect or part. Again, if you attempt to
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: set it aside as you did its instruments and machinery,
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: mental and physical, you will find that you have nothing
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: at all left of selfhood, nothing to still assert I
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: am I. You cannot even think it out of existence,
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: nor imagine it out of being. Try as you will.
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: If you try to think of a world without this
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: I am I existent in it, and then proceed to
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: examine this less world, you will find that it is
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: the I am I itself conducting the examination. If you
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  Speaker 1: seek to get rid of it by some metaphysical casuistry
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  Speaker 1: or subtle sophistry, you will eventually discover that the I
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  Speaker 1: AMI is still there, hidden behind some kindly metaphysical cloud,
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  Speaker 1: peering out cautiously, curious to observe how the world is
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  Speaker 1: getting along without it throw the I am I out
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  Speaker 1: of the door of your consciousness, and it will come
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  Speaker 1: in through the window. Lock the windows and doors against it,
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: and it will descend through the chimney. It will gain
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  Speaker 1: access somehow, some way. Even though in imagination you may
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  Speaker 1: picture yourself as occupying many different bodies successively, each with
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  Speaker 1: its own emotional thought and will character, yet you will
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  Speaker 1: always find that it is the same identical I am
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  Speaker 1: I playing the part of occupant. Or though you may
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  Speaker 1: imagine yourself in the role of the King of England,
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  Speaker 1: the Archbishop of Canterbury, or the President of the United States,
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  Speaker 1: yet you always find yourself playing these several parts. At
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  Speaker 1: the last, you will realize that you, that the same
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  Speaker 1: old eye, are the real actor, playing the several parts
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  Speaker 1: under the various masks and wearing different costumes. You may
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  Speaker 1: change characters, garbs, and rolls, but you never can change eyes.
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  Speaker 1: You are you and never can be not you. The
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  Speaker 1: unfoldment of ultimate self consciousness, conscious eaglehood will bring to
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  Speaker 1: you the realization that you are a focal center of
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  Speaker 1: power in the cosmos, a focal center of real power
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  Speaker 1: and real being. You will gradually realize that you are
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  Speaker 1: a center in the cosmos, just as the sun is
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  Speaker 1: a center with multitudes of objects whirling around it or
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  Speaker 1: flowing past it. The occult teachers of ancient days were
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  Speaker 1: wont to remind each of their students that he himself
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  Speaker 1: was the center in the cosmos. For in the cosmos,
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  Speaker 1: the circumference is nowhere, because the cosmos is infinite, and
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  Speaker 1: consequently the center is everywhere. Therefore, the student was introduced
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  Speaker 1: to himself and to think of himself as a focal
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  Speaker 1: center of power and being, as a central pivot of
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  Speaker 1: the cosmos, which all else revolved rightly understood and interpreted,
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  Speaker 1: this statement is truth. For each individual iami is in
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  Speaker 1: fact the pivotal center of his own universe, with all
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  Speaker 1: the rest revolving about him or passing in review before him.
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  Speaker 1: Do not for a moment imagine that this realization of
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  Speaker 1: conscious egohood, this I am I consciousness, will unfit you
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  Speaker 1: for the duties, tasks, and work of practical everyday life.
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  Speaker 1: On the contrary, it will render you many times more
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  Speaker 1: efficient in any particular phase of practical life. Realizing the
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  Speaker 1: nature of your real being and your relations towards your
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: mental and physical instruments and machinery, you will no longer
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  Speaker 1: be caught up in their movements, as a man might
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  Speaker 1: be caught in the machinery which he is operating. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: you will be able to detach yourself so that you
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  Speaker 1: may operate the machinery with increased skill, efficiency, and power.
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  Speaker 1: Conscious eglehood will cause the muddy waters of your mentality
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  Speaker 1: to become as clear as crystal, so as better to
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  Speaker 1: reflect the light of that brilliant star of the I
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  Speaker 1: am I, which is shining above, with a fierceness, clearness,
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  Speaker 1: and steadfastness, inexpressible in ordinary words. The most practical of
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  Speaker 1: all men is the man who realizes the realities of
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  Speaker 1: his own nature and being, and the character of his
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  Speaker 1: relations to his mental and physical instruments of expression and manifestation.
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  Speaker 1: When you recognize the nature of your power, when you
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  Speaker 1: realize the conscious feeling of that power, than will you
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  Speaker 1: be able to express and manifest that power to a
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  Speaker 1: wonderful degree and with an excellence otherwise impossible to you.
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  Speaker 1: Such recognition will make you a better business man, a
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: better engineer, a better lawyer, a better doctor, a better nurse.
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  Speaker 1: It will enable you to reach a higher point in
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: your life work, and to acquire a higher recompense for
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  Speaker 1: your services than would be possible without it. Cultivate the
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  Speaker 1: perception and realization of conscious egohood. Seek to develop it
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  Speaker 1: by means of thought, of feeling, of imagination. Use all
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  Speaker 1: of your mental powers to this end. Employ every instrument
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  Speaker 1: at your disposal to discover yourself, your real self. Assert
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: and affirm your real being by saying, thinking, and acting
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  Speaker 1: I am I. There is a magic in these words.
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  Speaker 1: Their vibrations will set into motion every atom of your being,
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  Speaker 1: and they will re echo the statement to your ears.
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  Speaker 1: You will find the affirmation a tower of strength in
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  Speaker 1: hours of need, in moments of weakness. It will revive
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  Speaker 1: your fears, failing courage, and dwindling determination. It will serve
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  Speaker 1: as a powerhouse from which you may send forth currents
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  Speaker 1: of power and energy. It will serve as a great
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  Speaker 1: magnet which will draw to you the things, persons, and
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  Speaker 1: circumstances which you will need in your tasks of life.
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  Speaker 1: Use the white magic of the I am I affirmation.
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  Speaker 1: As we proceed with our instruction, you will see that
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  Speaker 1: this I am I is even greater and grander than
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: we are now stating it to be. It is a
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  Speaker 1: focalized center of something or somewhat infinitely greater, the point
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  Speaker 1: of contact between the universal and the particular, the unmanifest
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  Speaker 1: and the manifest, the uncreate and the create, the infinite
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  Speaker 1: and the finite. You are far greater than you know.
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  Speaker 1: When you say I am I, you are uttering a
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  Speaker 1: tremendous statement of truth, the full meaning of which you
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  Speaker 1: as yet only faintly glimpse. The individual who can say
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  Speaker 1: I am I, with full recognition in thought and with
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  Speaker 1: full realization in feeling, has lighted for himself a lamp
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  Speaker 1: which can never be extinguished by the winds of adversity
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  Speaker 1: nor the reigns of circumstances. Such a one is well
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  Speaker 1: on the path to mastery. The seventh stage of your
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: self analysis, the stage to which you proceed after you
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  Speaker 1: have discovered the ultimate nature of the i Ami or
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  Speaker 1: master self, is that which is known as the stage
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  Speaker 1: of power consciousness. In this stage of consciousness, while holding
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  Speaker 1: firmly and with doubt defying conviction to the recognition and
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: realization of the I am I as the ultimate and
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  Speaker 1: essential base and ground of your individual being, you nevertheless
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  Speaker 1: intuitively are aware of the existence of an underlying reality
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  Speaker 1: with which, in some intimate and essential way you I
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  Speaker 1: Ami is united, connected and coordinated. When this consciousness is
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  Speaker 1: awakened by the proper methods, you will become as actually
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  Speaker 1: conscious of this intimate relationship as you are now conscious
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  Speaker 1: of the existence of your I Am I or master Self.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, the two phases of consciousness will seem gradually
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  Speaker 1: to coalct and combine in your higher perception of reality.
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  Speaker 1: Even when the intellect has not as yet been able
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  Speaker 1: to work out the puzzle or to free the riddle,
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: the intuitive faculties will report that it is true. Nevertheless,
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: in the following sections of this book, we shall point
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  Speaker 1: out the road whereby the intellect may logically approach the
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  Speaker 1: facts concerning this highest truth. For the present, we wish
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  Speaker 1: merely to indicate the general nature of the subject, and
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  Speaker 1: possibly to cause your intuition to begin to unfold, so
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  Speaker 1: as to receive the full strength of the rays of
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: the Sun of truth which is beating upon it. In
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: the stage of power consciousness, you will know that not
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: only is your I Ami, your master self, your real
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  Speaker 1: self or real center of power in the cosmos, you
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  Speaker 1: will also know that back of under and around that
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  Speaker 1: I Am I or real Self is the great ultimate
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  Speaker 1: principle of power itself, that the iami is in actual
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  Speaker 1: contact with that power, and that the rhythmic vibrations of
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  Speaker 1: power are at least faintly discernible as they throb and
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  Speaker 1: thrill through your being. Feeling this, all fear will drop
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  Speaker 1: away from you, and a new and strange courage will
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  Speaker 1: take possession of you. You will thereafter proceed to the
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  Speaker 1: great adventure of life fearlessly and confidently. You will enter
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  Speaker 1: into the conscious realization that power, all the power there is,
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  Speaker 1: is back up and supporting you. You will enter into
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: the conscious recognition that in the great substance and strength
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  Speaker 1: of power, you live and move and have your being.
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  Speaker 1: With the dawn of this consciousness, you will, in all
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  Speaker 1: truth be born again. While it is true that but
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: comparatively few individuals actually experience this consciousness in full degree,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: yet it is true that many experience it in at
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: least some degree. All may gradually unfold into it, if
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: they will but turn their attention to that direction. The
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  Speaker 1: men and women who have done things in the world
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: of everyday life, if they would speak frankly and freely
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: for publication, could give to the world the testimony that
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  Speaker 1: at some time in their lives had come to them
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  Speaker 1: a certain strange and wonderful, mysterious sense of actual contact
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  Speaker 1: with and relation to a great something, the essence of
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: which was felt to be strength or power. Varying as
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: are the reports of the different individuals who have testified
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  Speaker 1: to this phenomenon, there is found a common and general
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: agreement upon the fact that there has been an actual
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: contact with and intimate relation to a something or somewhat
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: infinitely powerful and strong. There is always the consciousness of
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: imminent presence and of power and strength. These individuals have
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: interpreted to themselves these experiences in many ways, each coloring
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  Speaker 1: it according to his previous trend of belief or general
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: philosophy of life. To some, it has appeared to partake
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: of a religious nature and color, as if the Supreme Being,
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: or at least one of his archangels, has hovered near,
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  Speaker 1: brooded over them, and reflected a portion of the infinite
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: power upon them. Many a successful man has experienced this
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  Speaker 1: strange phenomenon and has been comforted by the conviction that
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: he has God on his side, or that God is
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: working in and through me. One of the richest men
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: of our times has repeatedly made statements at least implicitly
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: expressing this idea, and many of the lesser lights of
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: the world of success have had similar experiences and resulting convictions.
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  Speaker 1: Others have attributed the experience to the presence and aid
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: of some friendly, beneficent entity or supernatural personality, a friendly
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: spirit from the other shore. Others have felt it to
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: be a hint of the presence in power of a
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  Speaker 1: kindly destiny or fate, or the influence of a beneficent star.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: Napoleon's belief in his star and the influence it exerted
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: over him for many years of his rapid rise, is
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: said to have arisen from an experience of this kind,
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: occurring at the Bridge of Lodi. He was reticent concerning
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: the actual experience, but he often spoke freely of his
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: Star of Destiny, at times going so far as to
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: indicate the particular star which he believed was favoring him.
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  Speaker 1: Others do not attempt to explain the experience, even to themselves.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: They are content to think of it as that something,
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  Speaker 1: the presence and strength of which they have felt the
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: resulting sense of power after the visitation of which they
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: have experienced. Many others could testify to these strange experiences
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  Speaker 1: of contact with power, and to the resulting remarkable increase
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  Speaker 1: of strength and power therefrom which afterward flowed into them
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  Speaker 1: and through them. The experience, however, is of such an
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: intimate nature, and so likely to be regarded as queer
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  Speaker 1: by others, that most of these individuals have but little
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  Speaker 1: or nothing to say concerning it. The following may be
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  Speaker 1: stated as the rule. The more successful the individual has been,
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  Speaker 1: the higher he has risen in his particular field of endeavor.
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  Speaker 1: The greater is the degree of probability that he has
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  Speaker 1: undergone some experience similar to that which we have just stated.
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  Speaker 1: There may be some who will criticize the above as
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: impractical and fantastic, but such criticism is not likely to
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  Speaker 1: come from those who have been exceptionally successful, who have
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  Speaker 1: done things and accomplish great achievements, and who also have
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  Speaker 1: good memories of their early experiences. Repeat this statement to
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  Speaker 1: some man or woman of this kind, then see that
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: individual smile in a peculiar way, and note the strange
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: expression which will pass over his or her face. Though
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: a direct answer may be avoided. This phenomenal experience is
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: not supernatural, nor is it mystic. On the contrary, it
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: is quite natural and intensely practical. In its effect. It
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: means simply that the individual, in the course of his
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  Speaker 1: mental or spiritual evolution, has arrived at a stage where,
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  Speaker 1: in the natural course of things, he contacts power itself,
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: the principle of power, which animates, energizes, and vitalizes the cosmos.
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  Speaker 1: He becomes actually aware of the contact and of the
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  Speaker 1: influx of power which results from it. Moreover, in many cases,
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: in most cases of the kind, in fact, when this
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: contact is once experienced and established, thereafter the individual finds
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  Speaker 1: it comparatively easy to make a short cut to power
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  Speaker 1: by opening himself to the inflow of strength and power
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: from the power principle. It is the phenomenon of the
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: spiritual trolley pole coming in contact with the great service
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  Speaker 1: cable of power. It is the most natural and the
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: most practical thing in the world. As we have said,
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  Speaker 1: it has been experienced in some degree by many of
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  Speaker 1: the most practical persons in the world, and much of
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: the subsequent success of such persons has arisen therefrom and
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: many of such know this to be the cause of
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: their success and power. Moreover, many of the world's most
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: practical individuals are recognizing the existence of this phase of
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: natural phenomena, and are striving to effect this contact of
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: the spiritual trolley pole. There is more inquiry concerning these
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: things on the part of such individuals than the great
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: masses of the people even dream of. This is not
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  Speaker 1: the statement of a new religion, nor of some strange
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  Speaker 1: philosophy or ism. It has nothing to do with supernaturalism, spiritism,
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  Speaker 1: or any other teaching of that character. It is instead
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  Speaker 1: the statement of a cold scientific fact or series of facts,
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  Speaker 1: all of which may be demonstrated by any person who
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  Speaker 1: will lay aside his prejudices and his skepticism sufficiently long
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  Speaker 1: for him to try out the idea and plan with
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: earnestness and in good faith for a reasonable length of time.
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  Speaker 1: The results are open to any such person who will
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  Speaker 1: place himself in the proper mental attitude towards the facts,
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  Speaker 1: and who will await confidently and expectantly the dawning of
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  Speaker 1: the experience and the inflow of the power from the
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: principle of power. It is true that many religious or
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: semi religious or quasi religious sects and cults, and many
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: new popular schools of philosophy and metaphysics, have recognized and
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: adopted the general and fundamental principles of this great truth,
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  Speaker 1: and have interpreted the same, each in the terms of
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: its own particular belief or theory, coloring it with the shade,
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: tint or hue of its particular beliefs or dogmas, labeling
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: it with one of many new and war wonderful titles,
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: expounding it in strange and often weird and bizarre fashion.
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: But the fundamental facts are greater than any of these
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: attempts to interpret and explain them in the terms of cults, sex,
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: and schools, too great to be dwarfed by the limitations
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: of the doctrines and dogmas built around them in the
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: attempt to confine them. There is no monopoly of this
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: great truth. No one has a corner on it, though
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: many attempts in that direction have been made. Those who
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: will seek the intellectual recognition of the relation of the
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: High Am I, as we shall set it forth in
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: this book, and who will open the doors of their
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  Speaker 1: being to the conscious realization of the contact with power
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  Speaker 1: which comes to those who await and are ready for it,
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: will gradually unfold the power and ability to manifest the
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: superimposed strength and energy of power through their mental and
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: physical channels of expression and manifestation. You are invited to
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  Speaker 1: test and prove this for yourself. Personal Power, Your Master
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  Speaker 1: Self by William Walker Atkinson Cosmic Power. In the second
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  Speaker 1: section of this book, we announce the two basic postulates
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  Speaker 1: upon which are grounded the teachings and instruction contained in
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: the book. These two basic postulates, which we shall here repeat,
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  Speaker 1: are as follows. One, there exists in you a master
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  Speaker 1: self Ego I or i Ami entity to which all
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  Speaker 1: of your personal faculties, powers and activities are subordinate. Two,
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  Speaker 1: This master Self, whatever else it may be or may
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  Speaker 1: not be, must be regarded as a focalized center of
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: presence and power, manifested and expressed by the ultimate presence
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: Power in its manifestation and expression in the cosmos. In
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: the foregoing sections we have directed you to the discovery
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: of the I, the I am I, the ego or
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: the master self, which is the center of your selfhood,
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: your real self. In the last preceding section, we have
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: directed your attention to power consciousness, i e. The conscious
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: recognition of the ultimate present power, the cosmic power of
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: which the I Am I or Master Self is the
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: focalized center of expression and manifestation. We now ask you
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  Speaker 1: to consider what the reason of man exercise, to its
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: limits along the line of logical reasoning inevitably, invariably and
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: infallibly reports concerning the presence and being of the principle
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: of cosmic power. The essence of this report of human
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: reason exercise to its limits along the lines of logical
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: thought may be stated as follows. There exists and is
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: present in eternal uncaused self exist in principle of power
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  Speaker 1: from which all manifestations of power directly or indirectly proceed.
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  Speaker 1: Let us now consider how and why the human reason
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: is compelled to accept this conclusion, which is inevitably, invariably
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: and infallibly reported when it extends itself to its limits
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: along the lines of logical thought. All human thought directed
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: along philosophical lines of inquiry in reasoning to cognition concerning
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: ultimate principles of being and the ultimate cause of things,
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: you will find finally arrives at a point at which
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: it is forced to postulate the presence and being of
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: an ultimate principle of presence power underlying and supporting that
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: manifestation which we know as the cosmos i e. The
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: universe conceived as proceeding according to law and order. The
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: discovery of this ultimate principle of presence power is the
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  Speaker 1: great aim and purpose, intention, and end of philosophy, and
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  Speaker 1: all schools of philosophy, metaphysics, and theology assume without question
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  Speaker 1: the necessary existence of such ultimate principle, though they differ
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  Speaker 1: greatly concerning its nature or character. Human reason is forced
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  Speaker 1: to this conclusion principally by the fact of its recognition
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  Speaker 1: of the following three axioms as necessary in fundamental basis
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  Speaker 1: of logical thought. Viz. One that the undoubted presence and
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  Speaker 1: manifestation of coordination i e. State of common action, movement
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  Speaker 1: and condition, and mutual adjustment, correlation and interdependence in us
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  Speaker 1: all of the objects, forms, and activities of the cosmos
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  Speaker 1: point inevitably, invariably and infallibly to a common source and
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  Speaker 1: origin and common essential nature of everything in the cosmos.
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  Speaker 1: Two that from nothing, no thing can proceed, and consequently
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  Speaker 1: that everything is capable of being traced back by steps
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  Speaker 1: and stages to an ultimate cause, origin, or principle of being.
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  Speaker 1: Three that the world of constantly changing things and activities
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  Speaker 1: may be accounted for and explained intelligently under no other
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  Speaker 1: conception than that of an ultimate principle of presence, power,
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  Speaker 1: which is the base ground and support of the world
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  Speaker 1: of changing things, the constant element, essence, or principle, which
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  Speaker 1: itself never changes, but which holds together and coordinates all
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  Speaker 1: the changing things. These axioms are regarded by the best
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: thinkers of the race as self evident, necessary truths, the
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  Speaker 1: contrary of which is unthinkable truth. So firmly established and
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  Speaker 1: universally accepted as axiomatic as is, this truth cannot be
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  Speaker 1: attacked unless the validity of reason is also attacked. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: we shall not attempt to argue or to prove the
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  Speaker 1: truth of these three axioms of human reason. We are
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  Speaker 1: content to rest upon the statement that the best thought
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  Speaker 1: of the race accepts them as true axioms or self
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  Speaker 1: evident truths, and that the contrary is unthinkable and repugnant
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  Speaker 1: to logical thought. We wish here to call your attention
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  Speaker 1: to several subordinate propositions attached to the three axioms above stated,
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: which are generally accepted as being axiomatic in nature, and
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: which logically follow the acceptance of the three basic axioms.
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  Speaker 1: These subordinate propositions are three in number, and are as follows. One,
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  Speaker 1: The ultimate principle of presence power is eternal. That the
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  Speaker 1: ultimate principle of presence power is eternal logically follows from
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  Speaker 1: a the recognization of it as ultimate, ie incapable of power, possible,
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  Speaker 1: resolution or analysis, final, basic, and fundamental, and be that
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: from nothing no thing can proceed. Ultimate principle, being ultimate, basic,
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  Speaker 1: and fundamental in the absolute sense, cannot have had a
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  Speaker 1: preceding cause, origin, or source. And as from nothing, no
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: things proceed, it cannot be conceived as having sprung from nothingness.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore it must always have existed without beginning, without interruption,
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  Speaker 1: without cessation. If there ever had been a time in
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: which it was not in existence, or ever a time
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  Speaker 1: in which it ceased to exist, then it could not
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  Speaker 1: be in existence now. If there ever was a time
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  Speaker 1: in which there was but nothing, then there would be
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  Speaker 1: but nothing now. Is a self evident statement of truth,
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  Speaker 1: accepted as such by all logical thought of whatever school. Two.
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  Speaker 1: The ultimate principle of presence power is uncaused. That which
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: is ultimate must necessarily be uncaused. That which is eternal
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  Speaker 1: must likewise be uncaused. The reasoning leading to this conclusion
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: has been stated in the preceding paragraph, and need not
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  Speaker 1: be repeated here. There is and never could have been
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  Speaker 1: anything which could have caused or created ultimate principle. And
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  Speaker 1: that which is eternal is by the fact of its
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  Speaker 1: eternity beyond cause or causing process. Three, the ultimate principle
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  Speaker 1: of presence power is self existent. That which is ultimate,
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  Speaker 1: eternal and uncaused must also necessarily be self existent, i e.
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  Speaker 1: Existing of and by itself, and not depending for origin, continuance,
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  Speaker 1: and support upon any other thing. There is nothing else
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  Speaker 1: but itself which can serve to support or sustain ultimate principle,
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  Speaker 1: and nothing not even itself, which could have originally brought
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  Speaker 1: it into being, it being conceived as ultimate, eternal and causeless,
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  Speaker 1: and as the whole thing in its essence and state
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  Speaker 1: of fundamental being. Thus, you see we cannot escape from
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  Speaker 1: the conclusion that the ultimate principle of presence power is eternal, uncaused,
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  Speaker 1: and self existent. Moreover, being the ultimate principle of presence power,
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  Speaker 1: it is seen that all things must proceed directly or
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  Speaker 1: indirectly from it, as from a source or origin. A
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: principle in this sense of the term is an ultimate
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  Speaker 1: in essential cause, source or origin from which all derivative effects, events,
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  Speaker 1: or things of any in all kinds proceede or flow.
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  Speaker 1: As we have said, all philosophical, metaphysical speculative thought has
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  Speaker 1: for its end and aimed the explanation of all separate
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  Speaker 1: and particular activities by some one common ultimate principle. All
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: theology likewise postulates a supreme ultimate being as the common
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  Speaker 1: source and origin of all manifested and created things. Whether
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: Ultimate principle be thought of as spirit, matter, or energy,
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  Speaker 1: as person, substance, or force, the basic and fundamental conception
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  Speaker 1: of it as ultimate principle is found to be essentially
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  Speaker 1: the same, whatever else. The various schools of philosophy, metaphysics,
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: and theology hold that ultimate principle must be and must
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: not be. They will be found in tacit agreement upon
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  Speaker 1: the point that power must be an essential attribute of
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  Speaker 1: its being, an attribute of which it cannot be divested.
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  Speaker 1: This because unless ultimate principle is power, or else possesses
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  Speaker 1: power as an attribute, than it never could have manifested, expressed,
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  Speaker 1: or created the cosmos and its activities. A powerless ultimate
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: principle would be merely a passive, inactive something or somewhat,
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  Speaker 1: and there would be nothing to flow or proceed from it.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, it would not be a true principle at all.
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  Speaker 1: Theology beyond question concedes the Supreme Being to be possessed
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  Speaker 1: of infinite power, as an essential attribute of which it
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: cannot be divested, and without which we cannot think of it.
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  Speaker 1: Without power, the Supreme Being could not have created the world,
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: nor have brought anything into existence in any way whatsoever. Again,
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: the very essence of religious feeling is that concerning the
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: existence of a power upon which the worshiper may safely
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: depend and upon which he may rest. Take away this conviction,
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: and the very spirit of religious feeling would fade into nothingness.
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: God without power would not be God at all. According
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  Speaker 1: to the accepted theological conceptions of God, there is no
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  Speaker 1: escaping this basic fact of theological teaching. But outside of
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: theology and religion, even among those who do not accept either,
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: we find an equal certainty that power must exist in
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: the something or somewhat which is held to be the
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: ultimate principle of the cosmos. Philosophers, metaphysicians, scientists, even the
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: most materialistic thinkers, hold as thoroughly as do the theologians,
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: that ultimate principle must be or else must possess power,
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  Speaker 1: whatever else may be asserted of it. This because without power,
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: the Ultimate principle could not perform work. Without cosmic power,
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: there would and could be no cosmos at all. Hence,
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: power is held to be self evident and a necessity
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: of thought on the subject of Ultimate principle or of
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: cosmic activities. Herbert Spencer indicated the spirit of his own
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: philosophy and also pointed out the path over which other
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: thinkers have since traveled when he made his famous statement
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: affirming the existence and the power of that infinite and
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: eternal energy from which all things proceed. John Fiske, in
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: his great work entitled Cosmic Theism, presented the following formula
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  Speaker 1: as a full and complete basic statement of his theory
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: of the cosmos. There exists a power to which no
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: limit in space or time is conceivable, of which all
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: phenomena are manifestations. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University,
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: sums up the conclusions of modern philosophical and scientific thought
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  Speaker 1: as follows. A strong, and in my view, the dominant
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: tendency in philosophy, powerfully supported by the results of scientific knowing,
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: is that which sees totality as energy, which is will
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: authoritative statements similar to those just given might be multiplied
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  Speaker 1: almost indefinitely. But the above will serve to illustrate the
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: general conviction on the subject. In whatever direction in the
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: field of human thought we may look whatever else we find,
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: we are certain to find this report of the necessary
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: presence in existence of power at the very center and
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: heart of things, as the common fount, source, and origin
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: of all things, in the ultimate principle of being, or
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: the ultimate cosmic principle. Call it what we will. Setting
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: aside all the points upon which the varying schools differ
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: concerning the essential nature of the ultimate principle, we find
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: remaining the constant element of power. This cannot be reasoned away,
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: nor can it be discarded from the problem or proposition
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: of ultimate principle. The ultimate principle, conceived of as spirit,
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: as substance, as energy or force, or or as matter,
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: the element and attribute or the essential fact of power
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: must always be ascribed to it. After the conflicting claims
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: have canceled each other out of the calculation, or else
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: have been reconciled, we still find power uncanceled, impossible of cancelation,
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: needing no reconciliation. The one undisputed and indisputable factor of
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: the calculation. It is that which remains when all else
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  Speaker 1: has been eliminated in the attempt to reach an absolutely
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: essential factor, the one factor which, if omitted or disregarded,
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: destroys the meaning and value of the whole calculation. In
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: view of the above facts, we feel that we are
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  Speaker 1: justified in employing the term power in this instruction to
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: indicate that something or somewhat which we find termed ultimate
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: principle of presence, power, ultimate cosmic principle, et cetera, and
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: from which all manifestations of power directly or indirectly proceed.
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  Speaker 1: In following with us this conception of ultimate principle as power,
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  Speaker 1: you are not asked, nor are you required, to discard
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  Speaker 1: your other conceptions of the nature and character of ultimate principle.
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  Speaker 1: Hold fast to these if you prefer to do so,
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  Speaker 1: but do not intrude them into the instruction, For there
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: are other students, equally earnest and equally clear of thought
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  Speaker 1: who hold fast to other impossibly contradictory conceptions concerning those
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: other elements. For the purposes of the present instruction, we
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  Speaker 1: ask you with them, to lay aside those points upon
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: which all of you cannot agree, and to confine yourself
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: to these particular points upon which all of you are
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: in common agreement in mutual harmony. Those points are discovered
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: to be represented in the present conception of the element
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: of power as an essential fact, element, and factor in
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: the final conception of ultimate principle, which accordingly, in this
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: instruction is termed power. All philosophical, metaphysical, theological, and scientific
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: thought concerning the ultimate nature of the fundamental principle of
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: presence and power eventually reaches a point where it is
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: confronted with an ultimate mystery, the mystery of the why
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: and wherefore of ultimate being or existence itself. This ultimate
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: mystery may be indicated by the question which has come
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: to each and every great thinker who has pursued the
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: quest of knowledge to this point, the question which may
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: be stated in these words, how and why is there
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: being an existence at all? How comes there to be
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: something or somewhat instead of nothing? Philosophy, metaphysics, theology, and
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: science each has wrestled with this problem, and each has
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: been compelled to withdraw from it in confessed or implied defeat.
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: Each has come out the door in which it went.
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: The deeper the thought seeking to plumb the depths of
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: this ultimate mystery, the greater is the mystery perceived to be.
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: As a great thinker has said, not only is this
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: ultimate mystery insoluble, but the degree and extent of the
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: mystery itself is almost inconceivable. The average mind does not
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: even begin to comprehend the nature of the problem, nor
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: the unsurmountable obstacles confronting those who dare to approach it
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: in a spirit of rational inquiry. There have been countless
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: theories and hypothesis advanced. It is true, so many, in fact,
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: that it has been said that philosophical, metaphysical, and theological
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: thought along these particular lines cannot be regarded as logical
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: and exact thought, for the reason that no two of
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 1: such thinkers have ever come into exact and perfect agreement
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: concerning these ultimate questions. Some cynical observer has said that
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: the search for the answer to these ultimate questions is
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: like the task of a blind man in a dark
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: room hunting for a black cat, which isn't there. Some
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: very careful thinkers indeed hold positively that the black cat
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: isn't there, for the reason that not only is the
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: question beyond the limits of the human reason, but that
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: also from the very nature of the case, there can
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 1: be no answer. It has been pointed out that the
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: human reason, understanding, and even the human imagination, being the
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: products of the power of the ultimate principle of being,
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 1: and being finite and limited in their nature, cannot be
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 1: so employed as to solve the secret of their source,
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: or to express infinity in the terms of finite thought
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 1: or imagination. They point out that thought which is the
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: result of causation cannot be expected to explain the causeless cause,
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: That thought which is temporal cannot be sufficient to explain
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: the eternal. That thought which is produced by and which
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: manifests change, cannot solve the riddle of the immutable and changeless.
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: They point out that the universe withholds its ultimate secrets,
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: and that though veil after veil will lift, there must
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: be veil upon veil Behind Godma, the Buddha warned his
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 1: followers against striving to measure with words the immeasurable, or
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 1: to engage in the feudal task of sinking the string
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: of thought into the fathomless. The ultimate mystery, however, lies
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: still deeper than the inability of the human mind to
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 1: fathom it, which inability results from the finite nature of
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: the human mind. As a few of the keenest thinkers
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: have pointed out to us, the very attempt to free
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: the riddle arises from an erroneous and fallacious fundamental mistake.
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: This fundamental mistake consists in the illogical attempt to find
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: an explanation, i e. A cause for that something or
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 1: somewhat which by its very nature is and must be
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: without cause, having no because attached to it. The human
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: mind is so accustomed to seek and to find causes
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: in of and for things, that it falls into the
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: childlike error of trying to find causes for the causeless.
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 1: The very conception of ultimate principle carries with it the positive,
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: fundamental and essential implication that such as something or somewhat
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: must necessarily be ultimate causeless, absolute and eternal, That which
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: is ultimate cannot have had a cause. That which is
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: absolute cannot have had a cause. Such as something or
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: somewhat must have always existed without a cause. Such is
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: the inevitable, invariable, and infallible report of reason, extended to
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: the full limits of its This when rightly understood, does
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 1: not really contradict experience, reason, or logic, though at first
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: it may seem to do so. All that our experience, reason,
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: or logic insists upon is that everything that comes into
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 1: existence must be the effect of a preceding cause, for
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: something cannot proceed from nothing. Reason reporting that there must
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: be conceded to be an ultimate principle of being is
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: not postulating that ultimate being as ever having come into existence. Indeed,
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: it positively reports that such an idea is absurd and unthinkable. Therefore,
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: there is no real demand for a cause for ultimate
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: principle inasmuch as it is not in the class of
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: things which have come into existence. Here then we see
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: that there is no explanation required for being or existence
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: in its state of ultimate principle. As an eminent thinker
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 1: has said, it is unexplainable simply because there is nothing
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: in it to explain. The same thinker points out to
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: us that even if if the ultimate principle be conceived
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 1: as being or having an omniscient mind, even then it
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: could not explain its own causeless being, for there would
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: be nothing to explain. Even such an omniscient mind could
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 1: only assert I am that I am again. This great
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 1: thinker has told us that to ask why is existence
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: is equivalent to asking why is the possible. Therefore, in
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: the present instruction, we shall make no attempt to explain
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: the ultimate mystery of being or existence. We shall content
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: ourselves with indicating the necessity of the conception of an
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 1: ultimate principle of presence power. This we call power, and
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 1: to pointing out the ways in which it manifests and
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: expresses itself in the activities of the cosmos, and particularly
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: to its manifestation as personal power in the individual in you.
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: We may not be able to pierce the veils of nature,
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: but we may at least report what has been learned
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: concerning the appearance of that something or somewhat which not
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: only conceals itself behind the veil, but which also reveals
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: discloses its presence there by pressing up against the veil,
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: and by causing forms and movements in and of the
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: substance of that veil. As the Sufis say, the veils
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: not only conceal the one, they also serve to reveal
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: and disclose his presence and movements. We ask you to
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: pause here for a moment in order to fix upon
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 1: your mind and memory, a mental picture, a symbol by
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: the means of which you may think of the cosmic
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 1: manifestation of power, the ultimate principle of power. Form a
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: picture of the cosmic manifestation as a great ocean of power,
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: in constant motion and activity, expressing on its surface many phases,
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: forms and aspects of its power, and indicating below its
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: surface many other forms, phases and aspects of power, but
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: their abiding in its utmost depths as something or somewhat
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: remaining unmanifest, calm, peaceful, undisturbed, in infinite and eternal presence,
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: being and power. In this great ocean of cosmic manifestation
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: is contained all the power manifested and expressed in nature,
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: even in yourself. You are a focalized center of activity
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: on the surface of that ocean, yet with vibrating and
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: whirling filaments extending far down beneath that surface until finally
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: they touch the uncreated depths of power. Verily, it has
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: well been said that the cosmos and all contained therein,
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 1: is bathed in a great ocean of power, in which,
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  Speaker 1: as the Greek poet Horatus, quoted by Saint Paul, said,
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  Speaker 1: we live and move and have our being, the ultimate
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  Speaker 1: power of which, as Paul himself said, is above all
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  Speaker 1: and through all, and in you all. From power. All
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  Speaker 1: power comes, including personal power. There is no other source
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  Speaker 1: or origin for personal power, your personal power, than that
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  Speaker 1: of power, the ultimate principle of power. All power flows
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: directly or indirectly from power, the universal source of power,
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  Speaker 1: the fount of power, the storehouse of cosmic power. All
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: power is in power, and he who would attain personal
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  Speaker 1: power must seek and obtain it from and through power.
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  Speaker 1: Let there be no mistake about this. There is no
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  Speaker 1: other source of personal power than power. There is nothing
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  Speaker 1: else competent to serve as the source of personal power.
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  Speaker 1: The heedless and ignorant are satisfied with personal power indirectly
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  Speaker 1: supplied them after flowing through many winding channels. The wise
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 1: seek to make a direct channel leading to power itself.
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 1: There are short cuts to personal power made by securing
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: direct connection with power. In the light of the above
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  Speaker 1: statements and teaching, we read our second basic postulate, viz.
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  Speaker 1: The Master Self ego I or I am I is
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  Speaker 1: a focalized center of being in power, manifested and expressed
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  Speaker 1: by ultimate power in its manifestations and expressions. In the cosmos.
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  Speaker 1: Remembering that you are this focalized center, you may begin
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  Speaker 1: to see the tremendous significance of that statement. Personal Power
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  Speaker 1: Your master Self by William Walker Atkinson, The Twin Manifestation.
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: In the preceding section of this book, we have shown
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  Speaker 1: you that it is impossible for the human mind to
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  Speaker 1: understand just what the ultimate principle of power, power in
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: itself is in its essential nature and being. Likewise, we
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 1: have shown you just how it is possible for us
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  Speaker 1: to know that there is such power at all. Just
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  Speaker 1: as you have seen that when you consider the I
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  Speaker 1: am I center of being within yourself, you must rest
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  Speaker 1: content with the inevitable, invariable, and infallible report of self
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 1: consciousness that I am I. So you find you must
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: rest content with the inevitable, invariable and infallible report of
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: your reason that power, the ultimate principle of all power
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  Speaker 1: I s and must be present and in being. In
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 1: both cases you are confronted with a final mystery. Not
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: two final mysteries, however, but the two aspects of the
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: one final mystery. But likewise, just as you find it
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  Speaker 1: possible to discover just how the IAMI manifests and expresses
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  Speaker 1: itself in your personal activities. So may you discover just
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 1: how power manifests and expresses itself in the activities of
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 1: the cosmos, and just how you may draw upon power
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  Speaker 1: for personal power to be manifested and expressed in your
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 1: personal activities. And after all, that is the main point
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 1: of practical instruction, designed to aid and assist you in
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: your life activities in this very practical world of very
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 1: practical things. The pragmatic philosophy needed by you in your
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: practical life here and now in this very practical world,
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  Speaker 1: properly concerns itself with the just how questions and leaves
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  Speaker 1: that just why insoluble problems for those who enjoy the
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: Sisyphian task of striving like the blind man in the
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: dark room seeking to find the black cat, which isn't there. Sisyphus,
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: you may remember, was that unfortunate character of ancient mythology
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  Speaker 1: who was subjected to eternal punishment in Tartarus, his task
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: consisting of the eternal rolling of a huge stone to
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: the top of a high mountain, the stone constantly recoiling
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: and thus rendering his task incessant, unceasing and unending, without
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  Speaker 1: possible accomplishment. In considering what observation, experiment, and reason teach
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  Speaker 1: us concerning just how power proceeds to manifest its strength
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  Speaker 1: and energy in the activities of the cosmos. Let us
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  Speaker 1: begin by quoting to you an ancient Oriental fable devised
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: by the earliest teachers to illustrate the cosmic activities as
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: well as the human activities along the lines of personal power.
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  Speaker 1: By carefully grasping the principles set forth in this old fable,
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  Speaker 1: and by fixing them in your mind, you will have
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  Speaker 1: ever before you a most useful and practical diagram of
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 1: the methods employed by power, and which also are to
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: be followed in your manifestation expression of personal power, both
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: the personal power you now possess, as well as the cultivated,
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: developed and trained personal power which you will acquire by
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  Speaker 1: applying the principles and methods embodied in the present instruction.
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  Speaker 1: The ancient fable, which has been told by teacher to
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  Speaker 1: pupil in Oriental lands for many thousand years, proceeds as follows.
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  Speaker 1: Once upon a time there dwelt in a vast forest
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  Speaker 1: two individuals, each of whom had been particularly blessed by
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  Speaker 1: the gods in certain ways, yet equally deprived of certain
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  Speaker 1: other particular blessings. Both of these individuals were giants in power,
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  Speaker 1: yet their power was so limited in certain directions that
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  Speaker 1: their lack was as great as was their possession. The
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  Speaker 1: first of these forest dwellers was a physical giant, filled
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  Speaker 1: with vigor and strength, and animated with a strong desire,
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  Speaker 1: longing and craving to move about, travel and to play
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  Speaker 1: an important part in the world of men. But Alas
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  Speaker 1: he had been born blind and could find his way
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  Speaker 1: about the forest only by clumsily groping and feeling his way,
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 1: stumbling along from tree to tree, always traveling in circles
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  Speaker 1: and never getting anywhere. He was never able to emerge
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  Speaker 1: from the forest and to reach the world of men.
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  Speaker 1: The name of this giant was volition, which means the
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  Speaker 1: power of willing. The second of the forest dwellers was
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  Speaker 1: a mental giant, possessed of wonderful powers of observation and perception,
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  Speaker 1: good judgment and discernment, able to reason and to plan,
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  Speaker 1: to imagine and invent. But Alas he had been born
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  Speaker 1: with withered legs and paralyzed arms, and was unable to
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  Speaker 1: travel around and about by means of his own powers
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: of locomotion, or to employ his arms in any natural activities.
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  Speaker 1: His great mental powers went to waste by reason of
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  Speaker 1: his physical deficiencies. In his way, he was quite as
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: helpless as the physical giant. The name of this second
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  Speaker 1: giant was ideation, which means the power of thinking. And
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 1: so these two great giants, one a physical giant, the
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 1: other a mental giant, dwelt apart from each other in
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  Speaker 1: the great forest, each being dependent upon friendly neighbors for
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 1: his food and rags, each living the life of a
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 1: helpless beggar, and each unable to fulfill that destiny for
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 1: which his great powers would seem to have fitted him in.
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 1: Neither existed that combination of seeing and doing, that necessary
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 1: coordination of essential powers. Yet each had what the other lacked,
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 1: and each lacked what the other possessed. In each was
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 1: power going to waste, power unable to express and manifest itself.
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  Speaker 1: One day, the blind giant, groping and stumbling around in
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  Speaker 1: a circle, chanced to come near to the paralyzed giant.
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  Speaker 1: The latter called loudly to the former, and directed his
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 1: steps to where the latter sat helpless. The two meeting
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 1: for the first time, conversed earnestly. Before long a strong
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 1: friendship was established between them. The bond of mutual sympathy
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 1: and of mutual need and lack served to unite them
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 1: in a mutual understanding in comradeship. Then there flashed into
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 1: the mind of Ideation a brilliant thought. He saw at once,
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 1: in a flash of intuitive insight, how the two giants
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 1: might form a most advantageous partnership to which each might
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 1: contribute his own particular powers, the powers which the other lacked.
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  Speaker 1: Volition would contribute the body in physical strength, his strong body,
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 1: strong legs and strong arms. Ideation would contribute his strong sight,
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: strong powers of observation and perception, strong powers of discrimination
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  Speaker 1: and judgment, strong powers of imagination, reasoning, and invention. The
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 1: combination would be perfect, said Ideation, and Volition enthusiastically embraced
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 1: the opportunity thus afforded him, and so Volition. The blind
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  Speaker 1: giant lifted up Ideation the paralyzed giant onto his shoulders,
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 1: and the pair started forth through the forest toward the
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 1: world of men. Guided by the keen eyes and brain
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 1: of Ideation, and carried by the sturdy legs and body
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 1: of Volition, the pair traveled far and fared well. The
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 1: eyes of ideation saw clearly and keenly, and his mind
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 1: not only pointed out the best paths and roads to travel,
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 1: but also planned well the journey. He mapped out new
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 1: scenes of travel and devised the best roots, and he
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 1: discovered the places at which food and shelter were obtainable.
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 1: He found work to be performed by devolition, and told
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  Speaker 1: him how to do it efficiently. In this way, the
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  Speaker 1: pairs supported themselves ably under the direction of the keen
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: sided and keen witted ideation. On the other hand, volition,
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 1: the blind giant, with his superb physical strength, carried the
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 1: pair easily and rapidly over the road, and performed the
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 1: physical work which served to support the pair and to
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 1: accomplish their joint purposes. He did his work well, the
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: work which such a strong, vigorous giant might be expected
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  Speaker 1: to do. Guided by ideation, he no longer wasted time
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 1: and effort in traveling about and in performing his tasks.
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 1: His sturdy body, legs and arms had found an equally
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 1: st strong pair of eyes and a brain capable of
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 1: functioning efficiently. And so, as has been said, the pair
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 1: traveled far and fared well. The wise. Ancient Oriental teachers
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 1: concluded their relation of the fable by the recitation of
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 1: its moral and application as follows. Here you have the
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 1: story of nature and of man. Nature in her earlier
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 1: years was like the blind giant, filled with power and
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: with longing to act, but unable to see its way
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 1: before it. It stumbled and groped, often traveling around in
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 1: circles and retracing its steps. Blind nature, though strong of will,
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 1: was unable to perform its desired tasks as it wished
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 1: to do. It made mistakes, it failed. It went round
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 1: and round, ever, trying to find a way, often proceeding
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 1: into the blind alleys of the forest, only to be
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 1: forced to retrace its steps it could not see. It
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 1: often acted like a sleep walker, with a strong purpose
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 1: but lacking definite direction. Only when it evolved its idea
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 1: powers and coordinated these with its blind will, was it
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 1: able to proceed with intelligence and indefinite directions. This is
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 1: the story of nature, my sons. Thus does it work?
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 1: Thus does it proceed? Thus does it create and accomplish?
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 1: Then the sages continued, and like unto it is the
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 1: story of man. In each man there is the blind,
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 1: giant of will, full of energy and vigor, filled with
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 1: the burning desire and urge to express and to manifest
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 1: its powers of action, yet of itself capable merely of
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: stumbling and blundering, groping and feeling its way, and usually
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: traveling in circles. Likewise, in every man there is found
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 1: the crippled and paralyzed thought, keen eyed and keen witted, resourceful, observing, discerning, planning, inventing,
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  Speaker 1: but of itself incapable of moving about and of performing
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 1: efficient work. Only when human thought mounts the shoulder of
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 1: human will and points out the way, the road, and
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 1: the direction. And only when human will permit and submits
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: itself to this direction and guidance, and consents to use
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 1: its strong body, strong legs, and strong arms to pursue
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 1: the path and to perform the work so pointed out
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 1: to it by human thought. Only when this cooperative partnership
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 1: is formed in the mind of man and proceeds to
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: manifest and express its combined and co ordinated powers. Only
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 1: then do the united pair that two in one become efficient, useful,
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 1: and capable of effective and efficient expression and manifestation. This
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 1: is the story of man. My sons. Thus does he work,
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 1: Thus does he proceed, Thus does he create and accomplish.
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 1: Postponing for the moment the application of this principle to
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 1: the personal power of man. We would say that many
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: of the brightest minds of philosophy have arrived at a
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 1: similar conclusion concerning the character of nature's activities, but alas
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 1: many of them saw only one side of the story
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 1: and ignored the other. Some, like Schopenhauer, saw only the
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 1: will aspect and sought to explain thought as an evolution
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 1: of will, a product of the activities of blind will
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 1: in nature. Others, certain of the great idealists, saw only
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 1: the thought aspect, and sought to explain will as a
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 1: product of evolved thought. Each of these schools of philosophy
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 1: explained matters quite satisfactorily up to a certain point, but
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 1: each failed to perceive the dual aspect of nature's activities,
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 1: the respective aspects of will and thought, the twin manifestations
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 1: combined and coordinated as equal partners, each impotent without the other.
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 1: Later philosophers, however, have seen the truth embodied in the
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 1: ancient Oriental fable, and have sought to build systems of
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 1: philosophy upon it, and the tendency is now in that direction.
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 1: And this is well, for it is the only way.
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 1: Schopenhauer postulated a cosmic blind will as the ultimate principle
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 1: of power and explained the universe in its terms. Others
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 1: followed him along these lines, with vs various modifications. Schopenhauer said,
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 1: will is the innermost essence, the kernel of every living thing,
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 1: and of the totality of existence. Others held similarly, defining
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 1: will as desire with the power to act or power
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 1: with the desire to act. Vunt said, the universe as
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 1: perceived by us is the outer wrapper or sheath, behind
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 1: which is hidden as spiritual creative activity, as striving feeling, sensing,
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 1: like that which we experience in ourselves, the active principle
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: of which is conation or impulse, tendency, desire, and will.
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 1: In this connection, you will recall the statement of Nicholas
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 1: Murray Butler previously quoted in this book, in which he says,
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 1: the dominant tendency in philosophy, powerfully supported by the results
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 1: of scientific knowing, is that which sees totality as energy,
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 1: which is will. On the other hand, we find the
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 1: idealists holding that the ultimate principle is ideation or ideative power,
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 1: the universe being a purely ideative creation, a drama, a
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 1: mental picture, a story, or perhaps even a day dream
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 1: or actual dream of a universal ideative power. The idealists
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 1: hold that the universe and everything in it is but
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 1: an idea or series of ideas in the ideative mind
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 1: of a supreme ideator. Idealism in this sense is defined
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 1: in the reference books as the philosophical doctrine, which holds
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 1: that the world is an idea, and which teaches that
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 1: material objects have no real existence, and that we have
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 1: no rational grounds for believing in the reality of anything
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 1: in the cosmos, but ideas and their relations. A variation
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 1: of this philosophy is that which holds that ideal forms
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 1: existing eternally constitute reality. These have the power and ability
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 1: to manifest and express outward semblances of themselves, which, however,
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 1: usually appear more or less distorted or imperfect. Vaughan Hartmann
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 1: came quite near to the combination of volition and ideation
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: in some portions of his Philosophy of the Unconscious. He said,
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 1: no one can will without willingness, and that only through
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 1: a definite direction does the will obtain the possibility of expression.
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 1: So in his philosophy he combined cosmic will and cosmic idea,
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 1: the two combined forming his cosmic principle. He compared the
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 1: two aspects of his cosmic principle to the color and
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 1: the fragrance of the rose, neither of which contradict or
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 1: oppose each other. Or again with the two poles of
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 1: the magnet with opposite qualities, on whose relation and correlation
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 1: the cosmic activities depend. A modern psychologist says, will is
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 1: called out by ideas. It goes out only in response
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 1: to ideas, and an idea, which is the object of will,
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 1: is transformed into a motive of voluntary action. So you
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 1: see the conception of the dual aspect or twin manifestation
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 1: is coming into prominence, as it was bound to do
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 1: in time. If you will observe the processes and activities
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 1: of nature, you will see everywhere the evidences of volition
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 1: and ideation, the blind will moving into activity under the
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 1: direction and impulse of thought. The idea is the form
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 1: or pattern which the will is always endeavoring to manifest
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 1: and express into objective and material existence. If you wish
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 1: a working philosophy of the ways and manner in which
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 1: nature proceeds and by which her creative activities seem to
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 1: be accomplished. You can do no better than to employ,
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 1: at least tentatively, the general idea of those philosophies which
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 1: include the conception of the coordination and correlation of will
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 1: and thought, of volition and ideation, as illustrated in the
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 1: ancient Oriental fable. By this, however, we do not mean
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 1: to indicate that we believe that power, the cosmic ultimate
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 1: principle I s in itself merely volition and ideation. On
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 1: the contrary, we rest on our previous statement that all
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 1: we can say of the essential nature of power is
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 1: simply that at I s and must be a maternal, uncaused,
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 1: and self existent. All that we mean to imply concerning
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 1: cosmic volition and cosmic ideation is that these appear to
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 1: constitute the twin manifestation of power in the cosmos, and
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 1: seem to be the special and particular instruments or machinery
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 1: by means of which power accomplishes its creative expression and
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 1: manifestation in the cosmos. Be sure that you understand us
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 1: correctly in this distinction for the differentiation is an important one.
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: It is as illogical to identify power with its instruments
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: and machinery as it is to identify the i Ami
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 1: or master self with its own particular instruments and machinery.
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 1: Personal power in man being a part of the general
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 1: manifestation and expression of power in the cosmos, For there
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 1: is no other power of which it may be. The
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 1: expression manifestation must come under the general rule of the
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 1: expression and manifestation of power in the cosmos. That is
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 1: to say, it must be governed by the twin manifestation
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 1: along the lines of volition and ideation of will and thought.
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 1: Investigation and observation aided by actual experiment, prove this to
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 1: be the case. As might be expected, the hi am
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 1: I or master self, being a focalized center of presence
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 1: and power created by power in its cosmic manifestation, naturally
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 1: proceeds to express and manifest itself in activity, just as
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  Speaker 1: does power manifest and express itself in its greater activities,
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  Speaker 1: i e. By employing the instruments and machinery of volition
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  Speaker 1: and ideation. All of man's activities are perceived to proceed
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  Speaker 1: under this rule. In this connection, However, you must not
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  Speaker 1: overlook the fact that the mental and physical activities of
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  Speaker 1: man proceed along the lines of subconscious processes as well
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  Speaker 1: as along those of the ordinary consciousness. There is subconscious
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  Speaker 1: will and subconscious thought as well as conscious will and
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 1: conscious thought. In fact, a very large percentage of man's
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  Speaker 1: will activities and thought activities proceed on the subconscious plane
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  Speaker 1: or levels of his being. Man's physical growth and the
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 1: processes of his physical organism proceed almost entirely along the
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  Speaker 1: lines of subconscious activity. There is ever present the will
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  Speaker 1: pressing forward to accomplish its work of growth, nutrition, repair, elimination,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera. There is also ever present ideation furnishing the
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  Speaker 1: mental pattern or design, which will proceeds to objectify and materialize.
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  Speaker 1: The idea of the oak tree is implicit in the
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  Speaker 1: germ within the acorn, and the will power in the
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  Speaker 1: acorn and in the growing tree, ever presses forward to
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  Speaker 1: make that ideal real, to objectify and materialize the ideal form.
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  Speaker 1: Ideation builds the inner form, and will strives to materialize
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  Speaker 1: into outer form that which first existed in ideal form.
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  Speaker 1: This is as true of the human life as that
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  Speaker 1: of the oak and of all forms of life. In nature,
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  Speaker 1: it is manifested equally and as truly in the formation
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  Speaker 1: of the crystals as it is in living things. In
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  Speaker 1: every natural activity in which things and events are perceived
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  Speaker 1: to move according to law and order, and apparently toward
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  Speaker 1: a certain pattern, design, or plan, there exists first the
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  Speaker 1: ideal or inner form around which the outer or material
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 1: form or movement builds itself. One who carefully observes nature's
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 1: processes cannot escape this conviction. Then, viewing man's mental activities
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 1: and processes, we perceive the same dual principle. In action,
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  Speaker 1: man uses his will in order to fasten his attention
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  Speaker 1: upon anything. He uses his will when he strives to
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  Speaker 1: think out anything, when he tries to bring back an
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  Speaker 1: image from memory, when he tries to imagine or invent anything.
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  Speaker 1: Even in his feeling states, the will is involved along
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  Speaker 1: sub conscious lines, and likewise there is always present the
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  Speaker 1: mental pattern of ideation. Will goes forth only in response
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  Speaker 1: to some idea. If ideas were shut out of the
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  Speaker 1: consciousness of man, then he would feel nothing in the
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  Speaker 1: way of emotion, would desire nothing, and would not act
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  Speaker 1: to accomplish anything whatsoever. If you wish to arouse the
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  Speaker 1: feelings or emotion of a man, you have but to
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  Speaker 1: present to him the appropriate ideas calling for those feelings
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 1: and emotions. If you wish to arouse him to will activity,
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 1: you have but to supply him with appropriate ideas calling
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  Speaker 1: forth such action. Very few persons understand the dynamic force
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  Speaker 1: of idea. To them, an idea is merely an intangible
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  Speaker 1: something in the mind, having but little, if anything to
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  Speaker 1: do with actual effort or activity. But the psychologists know
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  Speaker 1: and teach that ideation, by reason of its pulling power
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  Speaker 1: exercised over the will, is one of the most active
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  Speaker 1: elements of all human action. Without ideation, there would be
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  Speaker 1: no will action. With heightened ideation, the will action is
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  Speaker 1: enormously increased in power and efficiency. Practical psychologists now teach
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  Speaker 1: their students that it is possible to arouse, strengthen, and
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  Speaker 1: stimulate desire and will by repeatedly in constantly presenting to
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  Speaker 1: them the strong, clear and definite ideas of the things
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  Speaker 1: sought to be accomplished, objectified, and materialized. They likewise teach
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  Speaker 1: that one may restrain, restrict, or inhibit the activities of
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  Speaker 1: desire and will by resolutely withdrawing the attention from the
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  Speaker 1: idea in question, or else by directing the attention to
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 1: an idea of an exactly opposite nature and character. Professor Halleck,
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  Speaker 1: the eminent psychologist, says, an idea always has a motor element,
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  Speaker 1: however obscure. In other words, an idea is a practically
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  Speaker 1: incipient motor action. A motor action, unless restrained, tends to
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  Speaker 1: go out immediately in definite action. It is a matter
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  Speaker 1: of dispute whether or not all that is necessary in
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 1: voluntary effort has not been achieved when the mind has
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  Speaker 1: been kept filled with the idea until action results as
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  Speaker 1: a natural consequence. In order to act in the direction
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 1: of one idea in preference to another, we must first
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 1: dismiss the one involuntarily attacks, and to the other. The
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  Speaker 1: motor force, thus developed in connection with the dominant idea,
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  Speaker 1: lies at the bottom of every higher act of will.
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  Speaker 1: During the last quarter century or perhaps longer, there has
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  Speaker 1: been a great revival of interest in the subjective thought, thought, force, mind, power,
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  Speaker 1: or similar general conceptions involving the idea of the use
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  Speaker 1: of thought in the direction of bringing about desirable conditions
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  Speaker 1: of physical health and strength, prosperity, happiness, and the general
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 1: welfare of the individual. Under all of the many theories
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 1: seeking to express the essential spirit of this line of
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 1: thought as many call it, and back of the various names,
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 1: terms and titles employed to indicate and to designate the same,
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  Speaker 1: there will be found the fundamental and basic idea and
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  Speaker 1: conception of the tendency of thought or idea to manifest
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  Speaker 1: itself in action or in objective form and reality. The
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 1: kernel of the conception is that of the power of
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  Speaker 1: the ideal to become real. Thousands of persons all over
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  Speaker 1: the world have sought to demonstrate the power to create
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  Speaker 1: or to improve their environment, circumstance, health, success, and ability
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  Speaker 1: by means of right thinking. Many have fully demonstrated their
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  Speaker 1: ability to create or at least to improve to a
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 1: great extent, their own environment, to control circumstances, and to
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 1: determine their own destiny by the power of thought. They
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 1: have proceeded upon the general principles expressed in a biblical adage.
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  Speaker 1: As a man thinks, so is he, and in the
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 1: equally ancient Buddhistic adage, we are that which we have thought.
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  Speaker 1: Wrong thinking is held by them to produce undesirable results
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  Speaker 1: and effects, while right thinking is held to produce desirable
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  Speaker 1: effects and results. The general conception may be expressed in
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 1: the aphorism. Ideas tend to reproduce themselves in external form
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  Speaker 1: and effects. The ideal pattern tends to build around itself
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  Speaker 1: an objective material reality. In most of these teachings, however,
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 1: the element of idea or thought has been most strongly
• 2:01:59
  Speaker 1: emphasized overemphasized in some cases many have thought, while at
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 1: the same time the element of will has been underemphasized.
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 1: In fact, this last element, that of will, has been
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 1: practically neglected in some cases and in others even denounced
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  Speaker 1: as evil by some who prefer explaining the subject in
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 1: the terms of quasi religious transcendentalism. But it is now
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 1: being perceived by many of the most careful thinkers along
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 1: these lines that a failure to include the power of
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 1: will in connection with the power of thought results in
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 1: depriving the individual of one half of his mental creative power.
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 1: The effort to exclude will from association with idea is
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 1: akin to trying to assert the existence of a magnet
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 1: with only one poll. As a matter of fact, all
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 1: the results obtained through the power of thought have been
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 1: in part due to the correlated and co ordinated power
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 1: of will, though the persons obtaining these results have not
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 1: been aware of this fact. Ideation without volition, thought without
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 1: will is but the paralyzed, keen sighted giant of the fable,
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 1: who can do nothing of himself, but who requires the
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 1: strong body, strong arms, and sturdy legs of the blind
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 1: giant before effective results may be obtained. But at the
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 1: same time, we must ever remember that it is equally
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 1: true that the blind giant of will cannot proceed intelligently
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 1: or effectively until he has raised the paralyzed, keen sighted
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  Speaker 1: ideation to his shoulders. In this union alone is there
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  Speaker 1: the real strength of that which is called mind power,
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  Speaker 1: thought force, or thought power. Of these two combined, coordinated,
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 1: and correlated mental elements, may it be said, united they
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 1: stand divided, They fall to the many persons who are
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 1: earnestly seeking to manifest thought in action, objective form, and
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 1: material results, but who, while obtaining results sufficiently satisfactory to
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 1: justify them in asserting that there is something in it,
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 1: still feel that they have somehow, some way not quite
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 1: got hold of it. The idea of the correlation and
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 1: coordination of ideation and volition, thought and will, the partnership
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 1: of the two giants will come as a welcome revelation.
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  Speaker 1: Many such persons, once this idea has been presented to them,
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 1: will recognize its truth by reason of their own experience.
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 1: They will realize that they have at last discovered the
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 1: secret of personal power, and they will then proceed to
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 1: a greater and fuller manifestation of that power than has
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 1: heretofore been possible to them in their one sided view
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 1: of the principle involved. On the other hand, there are
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 1: many who have been striving for success by means of
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 1: the application of will power alone, but in many cases
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 1: this method has failed to attain the desired end. Such
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 1: persons are often found wandering around aimlessly, traveling around and
• 2:04:45
  Speaker 1: around in circles, like the blind giant, ever moving but
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 1: never getting anywhere. They feel strong desire and strong will
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 1: stirring within them, but they do not know in what
• 2:04:55
  Speaker 1: direction to apply these forces. They want to move and
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 1: to act, but they do not know where to move
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 1: or in what direction to act. They are like the
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 1: squirrel in the cage, constantly on the move, but never
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 1: making a step of real progress. It should require no
• 2:05:11
  Speaker 1: argument to convince one that without a pattern or mold,
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 1: mental or physical, it is impossible to create anything. Idea
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 1: is a mental image, form, pattern, or mold, which is
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 1: followed by will when it exercises its motive power in
• 2:05:25
  Speaker 1: creative activity in effort. This being seen, how can anyone
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 1: reasonably expect to create environment, conditions, or circumstances unless he
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 1: first mentally creates the idea, image, pattern, or mold, the
• 2:05:38
  Speaker 1: type or form of that which he wishes to create
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 1: in the objective material world. Likewise, it should require no
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 1: argument to prove that the clearer, the stronger, and the
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 1: more complete the mental pattern, mold, or image idea in short,
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 1: really is, then the better, the more efficient, and the
• 2:05:57
  Speaker 1: more complete will be the materialization of that idea. Just
• 2:06:01
  Speaker 1: as in nature, every process of materialization has been preceded
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 1: by an idealization, so in man, every achievement in the
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 1: direction of materialization, all of his creative work and results,
• 2:06:12
  Speaker 1: has been preceded by his idealization, the image formed in
• 2:06:16
  Speaker 1: a mind by ideation. This being so, every intelligent person
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 1: must see that if one wishes to attain success in
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 1: any creative undertaking, he should first strive to idealize and
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 1: create a clear, strong, definite mental picture pattern or design
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 1: of that which he wishes to materialize in objective form.
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 1: Successful men, indeed, have always followed this method, though they
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 1: may not have understood the psychology underlying their action, nor
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 1: the great cosmic principle involved in it. Many failures in
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 1: life are due directly or indirectly to a failure to
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 1: understand and to apply this principle. Those who hold to
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 1: the teachings of the New Metaphysical movement under some of
• 2:06:58
  Speaker 1: its many names, concerning the power of thought and the
• 2:07:01
  Speaker 1: power of mind will find in the ideas advanced in
• 2:07:04
  Speaker 1: this book not a contradiction of their own beliefs and convictions,
• 2:07:08
  Speaker 1: but rather an addition to them, and an explanation of
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 1: them all that they now believe concerning the power of
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 1: thought and its manifestations. This book also holds to be
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 1: true in principle, perhaps even more strongly and with greater
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 1: certainty than do they themselves. But this book strives to
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 1: lift the conception of dynamic thought from the realm of
• 2:07:27
  Speaker 1: shadowy unreality in ghostly being, to that of a living, real, acting,
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 1: striving creative power, the body of which is volition, will,
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  Speaker 1: and the mind of which is ideation thought. We ask
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 1: you boldly to face this truth, to recognize, realize, and
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 1: to manifest the twing giants of personal power, in whose
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 1: being vibrates the energy, force, and power of the ultimate
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 1: principles of power, those whom power hath put together. Let
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 1: no man put asunder. In fact, no man can put
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 1: them asunder if he would manifest personal power efficiently, For
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 1: they are not two separate and distinct things, but rather
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 1: the two poles or aspects of the same thing. Let
• 2:08:09
  Speaker 1: us now proceed to the consideration of the practical methods,
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 1: whereby the principles which have been considered, described and explained,
• 2:08:16
  Speaker 1: may be manifested efficiently in actual effort in your life work.
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 1: It is said that the proof of the pudding is
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 1: in the eating. So let us proceed to the table
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 1: upon which the feast of good things is spread. Personal Power,
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 1: Your master Self. By William Walker Atkinson. The Three Formulas
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 1: the ancient stages of Oriental lands were wont to remind
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  Speaker 1: their pupils that the practical rules and methods of manifesting
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 1: or expressing personal power could be reduced to three fundamental
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 1: and basic rules or formulas. The experience of modern investigators
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 1: of the subject tend to corroborate this conclusion of their
• 2:08:55
  Speaker 1: ancient brothers. Therefore, we have thought it well to present
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  Speaker 1: this phase of our subject to you in the form
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 1: of these three ancient formulas, adapted to modern needs and
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 1: expressed in the plain terms of the Western world rather
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 1: than in the verbal imagery of Eastern lands. The three
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 1: formulas of personal power are as follows, one the formula
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 1: of idealization, two the formula of affirmation, and three the
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 1: formula of actualization. A formula is a prescribed set, rule,
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 1: or method of application. You are asked to consider carefully
• 2:09:29
  Speaker 1: the description and instruction concerning these three several formulas as
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 1: hereinafter presented to you in detail under their respective headings
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 1: and categories. The formula of idealization. Idealization consists of the
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 1: act or process of creating the ideal mental form, pattern, design,
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  Speaker 1: or mold of that which you desire to materialize in
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 1: objective reality. Ideals dearly defined in outline and sharply defined
• 2:09:56
  Speaker 1: in configuration, while energized and vitalized by an inflow of
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 1: will power, tend to materialize themselves in objective reality by
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 1: means of a building up a corresponding ethereal pattern. Outline
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 1: design or mold around which is deposited the substance of materialization,
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 1: and be by means of attracting to themselves the persons, conditions, things,
• 2:10:19
  Speaker 1: and environmental factors which aid in the process of materialization.
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  Speaker 1: Materialization is the act or process of investing with material
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 1: form or material properties that which has previously existed in
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 1: idealized form or condition. In the formula of idealization, there
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 1: is embodied a wonderful truth concerning the manifestation of Nature's
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 1: finer forces, which truth was well known to the ancient
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 1: esoteric schools of philosophy, and which has always been accepted
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 1: in one form or another by the advanced students and
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 1: teachers of the ancient wisdom or esoteric doctrines of all
• 2:10:54
  Speaker 1: lands and in all times. Our Western science, however, has heretofore,
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 1: been disposed to treat all such teachings as idle superstition
• 2:11:03
  Speaker 1: or the cult nonsense. The wonderful discoveries of science during
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 1: the past twenty years, however, have tended to break down
• 2:11:11
  Speaker 1: the barrier between esoteric science and exoteric science, and at
• 2:11:16
  Speaker 1: the present time, many careful advanced thinkers in the ranks
• 2:11:19
  Speaker 1: of modern science are disposed to manifest a far greater
• 2:11:22
  Speaker 1: tolerance toward these ancient teachings, and are furnishing explanations along
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  Speaker 1: the lines of modern scientific discoveries which seek to account
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 1: for the phenomena explained in other terms by the ancient.
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 1: In the meantime, however, thousands of persons are making wonderful
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 1: demonstrations of these truths in their everyday life and work,
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 1: and consequently are not much concerned over what modern science
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 1: may or may not have to say concerning the explanation.
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 1: In modern scientific terms, they are interested far more in
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 1: the fact that the thing works, and in learning just
• 2:11:57
  Speaker 1: how it works, than in theories attempting to explain why
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 1: it works. If it does work as is claimed, The
• 2:12:03
  Speaker 1: gist of the ancient and modern teachings upon the subject
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 1: of the workings of the process of idealization may be
• 2:12:09
  Speaker 1: stated as follows. A strongly projected thought form or idealized form,
• 2:12:14
  Speaker 1: vitalized and energized by will power, tends to attract to
• 2:12:17
  Speaker 1: itself and to build around itself its materialized counterpart or
• 2:12:22
  Speaker 1: material representation. In this way, the ideal becomes real in
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 1: the sense of objective and material existence and condition, and
• 2:12:30
  Speaker 1: idealization is transformed into materialization. It is not our intention
• 2:12:36
  Speaker 1: nor our purpose in this book to go into technical details,
• 2:12:40
  Speaker 1: nor to enter into academic discussions concerning the processes performed
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 1: by nature in working these wonders. To attempt this would
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 1: be to enter into an endless discussion and explanation, which
• 2:12:50
  Speaker 1: would take the whole instruction out of the region of practical,
• 2:12:53
  Speaker 1: popular examination and consideration. But nevertheless, we wish to mention
• 2:12:59
  Speaker 1: briefly the get general principles involved, and thus to give
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 1: you a hint as to the direction in which the
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 1: technical explanation of these phenomenal eyes, and where it may
• 2:13:08
  Speaker 1: be sought if one so desires to pursue the inquiry
• 2:13:11
  Speaker 1: further in that direction. A leading writer upon the teaching
• 2:13:15
  Speaker 1: of ancient and modern magic says the central doctrine of
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 1: magic may be summed up as follows. One that a
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 1: super sensible and real cosmic medium exists, which interpenetrates, influences,
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 1: and supports the tangible and apparent world, and which is
• 2:13:31
  Speaker 1: amenable to the categories of both philosophy and physics. This
• 2:13:35
  Speaker 1: cosmic medium, or astrolte, is first cousin to the intangible
• 2:13:39
  Speaker 1: ether of the physicists from the earliest times occult philosophy
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 1: has proclaimed its knowledge of this medium, always describing it
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 1: as a scientific fact outside the range of our normal senses,
• 2:13:51
  Speaker 1: but susceptible of verification by the trained powers of the initiate.
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 1: It was the first object of occult education and initiation
• 2:13:59
  Speaker 1: to actualize this supersensible plane of experience, teaching the student
• 2:14:03
  Speaker 1: how to impose upon its forces the directive forces of
• 2:14:06
  Speaker 1: his own thought and will, as easily as he might
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 1: impose these upon the material things. Of sense two, that
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  Speaker 1: there is an established analogy and equilibrium between the material
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  Speaker 1: and supermaterial world. This doctrine of analogy or correspondence between
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  Speaker 1: the scene and the unseen worlds, is the basis of
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  Speaker 1: the speculations of occultism, as above, so below. As below
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  Speaker 1: so above, The first axiom of Hermes Trismagistus is also
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  Speaker 1: agreeable to all Platonists, says Eliphus Levi. Analogy is the
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  Speaker 1: last word of science and the first word of faith.
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  Speaker 1: It is the key of all the secrets of nature.
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  Speaker 1: It was admitted into the system of the Kabbalah, and
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  Speaker 1: Boehm and Speedenborg gladly availed themselves of its method in
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  Speaker 1: presenting their intuitions to the world. Sir Thomas Brown said,
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  Speaker 1: the severe schools shall never laugh me out of the
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  Speaker 1: philosophy of Hermes. That this visible world is but a
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  Speaker 1: picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things
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  Speaker 1: are not in material shapes, but in ideal shapes, which
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  Speaker 1: picture some material substance in that invisible framework. Three, That
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  Speaker 1: the equilibrium between the material and super material worlds may
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  Speaker 1: be controlled by the discipline, thought, and will of man.
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  Speaker 1: In its essence, magical initiation is a traditional form of
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  Speaker 1: mental discipline, strengthening and focussing the will, says Eliphus Levi.
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  Speaker 1: Just as the powers of the body can be developed
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  Speaker 1: to an amazing extent by athletics, so may the powers
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  Speaker 1: of the soul be likewise developed learn how to will.
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  Speaker 1: This power of the will is daily gaining recognition in
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  Speaker 1: the camps of science as the chief factors in religion
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  Speaker 1: and in therapeutics of the healing of the body and
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  Speaker 1: the healing of the soul. For our most advanced theories
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  Speaker 1: on these subjects are little more than the old wine
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  Speaker 1: in the new bottles. Modern philosophy, supported to a great
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  Speaker 1: extent by the facts of science, explain some of the
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  Speaker 1: asserted facts of magic, as just stated by the theory
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  Speaker 1: of unconscious will and unconscious idea as cosmic principles. The
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  Speaker 1: extension of this conception to man on the principle of
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  Speaker 1: analogy as above, so below, as below so above, giving
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  Speaker 1: the key to the secret of the creative activities of man.
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  Speaker 1: In short, it implicitly asserts that man the microcosm, may
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  Speaker 1: proceed to create by means of the deliberate employment of
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  Speaker 1: the same methods and processes and through the same principles
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  Speaker 1: as those employed by nature or the cosmos the thirty
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  Speaker 1: eight macrocosm, and as we shall show you in the
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  Speaker 1: following paragraphs, Modern science postulates the existence of a counterpart
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  Speaker 1: of the cosmic medium or astrolite of the occultists. Modern science,
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  Speaker 1: in the conception of the universal Ether, asserts the existence
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  Speaker 1: of an immaterial, imponderable substance similar to that postulated by
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  Speaker 1: the ancient Hindu philosophers under the name of Akasha or property.
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  Speaker 1: This universal ether is held by modern science to pervade
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  Speaker 1: all space and to be the ultimate state or condition
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  Speaker 1: of all materiality. Matter is held to be a derivative
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  Speaker 1: product of it, and to be destined eventually to return
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  Speaker 1: to it. Stockwell says, the ether is coming to be
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  Speaker 1: apprehended as immaterial, superphysical substance, filling all space, carrying in
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  Speaker 1: its infinite throbbing bosom, the specks of aggregated dynamic force
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  Speaker 1: called worlds. It embodies the ultimate spiritual principle and represents
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  Speaker 1: the unity of those forces and energies from which spring
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  Speaker 1: as their source all phenomena physical, mental, and spiritual, as
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  Speaker 1: they are known to us. Bigelow speaks of that extraordinary
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  Speaker 1: entity upon whose inferential existence the lines of modern scientific
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  Speaker 1: thought seem to converge, the instellar Ether, which seems likely
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  Speaker 1: to prove the ultimate form of matter out of which
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  Speaker 1: everything comes, and to which everything must eventually return. The
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  Speaker 1: Ether is unconditioned, an entity of no prime properties, or
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  Speaker 1: more exactly, not an entity at all, but an infinite possibility. So, then,
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  Speaker 1: if you demand to know what support our formula of
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  Speaker 1: idealization has an ancient thought or in modern science, you
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  Speaker 1: have it suggested to you in the foregoing there is
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  Speaker 1: this intangible substance which is capable of being worked up
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  Speaker 1: into material form by ideation, animated by will in the
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  Speaker 1: cosmic processes. It is but carrying the idea to its
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  Speaker 1: logical conclusion when it is asserted that the i ami,
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  Speaker 1: being a focalized center of the universal principle of power,
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  Speaker 1: may and does possess in at least some degree, the
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  Speaker 1: power to create in the same general way i e.
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  Speaker 1: By idealization energized and animated by willpower. Idealization, according to
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  Speaker 1: the formula, begins with the projection of an ideal form
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  Speaker 1: or thought form clearly defined in outline and sharply defined
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  Speaker 1: in configuration, while energized and vitalized by an inflow of
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  Speaker 1: will power. This ideal form or thought form is stated
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  Speaker 1: to tend to materialize itself into objective reality by means
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  Speaker 1: of a building up a corresponding ethereal pattern, outline, design,
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  Speaker 1: or mold around which is deposited the substance of materialization,
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  Speaker 1: and be by means of attracting to itself the persons, conditions, things,
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  Speaker 1: and environmental factors which aid in the process of materialization.
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  Speaker 1: You may project this ideal image or thought form by
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  Speaker 1: first creating a clear idea or mental picture, employing both
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  Speaker 1: thought and imagination in the process. You will find yourself
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  Speaker 1: aided in this by picturing the ideal image or thought
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  Speaker 1: form as superimposed upon the ethereal substance, whereupon it begins
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  Speaker 1: at once to crystallize into more substantial structure and body.
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  Speaker 1: You may be helped in this conception by employing the
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  Speaker 1: symbol of the projection of a picture by the familiar
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  Speaker 1: magic lantern. Think of your ideal image or thought form
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  Speaker 1: as the picture painted or photographed on the lantern slide,
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  Speaker 1: the ethereal substance as being screen or sheet upon which
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  Speaker 1: the picture is thrown or projected, Your attention being the
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  Speaker 1: lens of the lantern or projecting apparatus, which focalizes and
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  Speaker 1: concentrates the strength of the light. Your will as the
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  Speaker 1: light which projects the picture, your desire as the fuel
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  Speaker 1: or energy which causes the light of will to burn.
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  Speaker 1: The ideal image or thought form must be kept energized
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  Speaker 1: by will power. As you have been told in the formula,
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  Speaker 1: this is a very important factor in the process. Be
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  Speaker 1: the ideal image or thought form ever so clear, sharp,
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  Speaker 1: and strong, it will lack energy in power unless it
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  Speaker 1: be fed and kept supplied with the proper flow of
• 2:20:38
  Speaker 1: will power. In order to so supply it, you should
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  Speaker 1: keep your mind on those features of the picture which
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  Speaker 1: make it desirable and wished for by you. You should
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  Speaker 1: frequently picture in your mind the pleasure, content, and satisfaction
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  Speaker 1: which will be yours when the ideal is materialized when
• 2:20:55
  Speaker 1: the dream comes true. By thus arousing desire, you will
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  Speaker 1: keep flowing to the idea, ideal image, thought form, that energy, strength,
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  Speaker 1: and vitality of the will which it requires in order
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  Speaker 1: to grow an unfold itself. You will find that the
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  Speaker 1: power of your will, employed in this way will be
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  Speaker 1: stimulated and strengthened by means of the cultivation of a
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  Speaker 1: strong craving longing, hungry, thirsting desire for the materialization of
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  Speaker 1: your ideal image or thought form. By craving is meant
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  Speaker 1: urgently longing for, eagerly and strongly desiring and demanding, passionately
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  Speaker 1: longing for and demanding, insatiable longing for, et cetera. The
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  Speaker 1: stronger and more persistent and insistent the craving of desire,
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  Speaker 1: the greater is the will tension manifested in the ideal
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  Speaker 1: image or thought form. The flame of desire must be
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  Speaker 1: kept burning brightly in order that the light of will
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  Speaker 1: may be sufficient to do its work. Likewise, the will
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  Speaker 1: is stimulated to increased and intensified activity by the presence
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  Speaker 1: of the mental state of hope, faith belief in short,
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  Speaker 1: confident expectation of the suclce cesssful outcome of the attempt
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  Speaker 1: and task. Faith power is an important element of ideative
• 2:22:05
  Speaker 1: and volitional power. It must not be overlooked in your
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  Speaker 1: practice of personal power. The formula also states that the
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  Speaker 1: ideal image or thought form must be clear in outline
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  Speaker 1: and in configuration, clearly defined in both respects. Inasmuch as
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  Speaker 1: the ideal image or thought form is the pattern or
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  Speaker 1: framework around which your materialization is to be effected or built,
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  Speaker 1: it follows that the best effects are obtained when that
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  Speaker 1: pattern or framework is clearly defined and sharply outlined. The
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  Speaker 1: materialization proceeds to manifest along the lines of the idealization
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  Speaker 1: and cannot be expected to be better than is its
• 2:22:43
  Speaker 1: pattern and mold. It is realized by us, of course,
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  Speaker 1: that at least at first, you are not likely to
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  Speaker 1: find it easy to create or to build up a
• 2:22:52
  Speaker 1: perfect complete ideal image or thought form of that which
• 2:22:56
  Speaker 1: you wish to become materialized. Moreover, we realize that you
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  Speaker 1: may wish to fill in the outlines of your pattern
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  Speaker 1: or framework, or to add some new details or features
• 2:23:07
  Speaker 1: or to make some improvements upon the original plan as
• 2:23:10
  Speaker 1: you proceed. These things are all possible under this method
• 2:23:14
  Speaker 1: of idealization. In fact, nearly everyone who accomplishes results by
• 2:23:18
  Speaker 1: its means proceeds in just this way. From the very
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  Speaker 1: nature of the case, the principle of idealization is not
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  Speaker 1: affected by such additions or changes. The ideal image or
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  Speaker 1: thought form is not rigid and fixed, but rather is
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  Speaker 1: flexible and capable of being remolded, reshaped, altered, remodeled, and
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  Speaker 1: added to as you proceed. Even nature proceeds according to evolution, trial, experiment, adaptation, improvement,
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  Speaker 1: and combination. So thus may you also proceed. The best
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  Speaker 1: general rule for the practical performance of the projecting process
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  Speaker 1: of idealization is as follows. Acquire the faculty of forming
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  Speaker 1: the clearest possible outline of the things and conditions you
• 2:23:59
  Speaker 1: wish to materialize into objective form. If you cannot at
• 2:24:04
  Speaker 1: first fill in the details of your projected ideal image
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  Speaker 1: or thought form, you should at least build and draw strong, clear,
• 2:24:11
  Speaker 1: firm general outlines. And then as you proceed with your
• 2:24:14
  Speaker 1: idealization and its materialization, you may add the missing or
• 2:24:18
  Speaker 1: minor details, altering, changing, improving, remodeling and reshaping the ideal
• 2:24:24
  Speaker 1: pattern or framework. Do not hesitate to begin the process
• 2:24:28
  Speaker 1: of idealization simply because you cannot at first supply the
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  Speaker 1: details of your picture. The general outlines will be enough
• 2:24:34
  Speaker 1: to start with, but let these be as clear, sharp
• 2:24:37
  Speaker 1: and strong as possible. Finally, you should understand that by
• 2:24:41
  Speaker 1: the term ideal image or thought form we always mean
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  Speaker 1: simply the idea of that which you wish to do,
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  Speaker 1: or to be, or to happen. The object of your
• 2:24:50
  Speaker 1: desire will faith idea. In fact, this object may be
• 2:24:54
  Speaker 1: a plain, simple, an immediate thing, or again it may
• 2:24:59
  Speaker 1: be an elaborate, complex, and remote thing, but the general
• 2:25:02
  Speaker 1: principle remains unchanged, and the general method of applying it
• 2:25:06
  Speaker 1: is the same. The ideal image or thought form is
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  Speaker 1: the form and the seed which you wish to materialize
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  Speaker 1: into the form of the plant, flower, and fruit. The
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  Speaker 1: following suggestions may aid you in forming your mental picture. One,
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  Speaker 1: idealize the desired things, happenings, or conditions just exactly as
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  Speaker 1: if they were existent and active at that particular moment,
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  Speaker 1: right here and now before you. Two idealize yourself as
• 2:25:34
  Speaker 1: you wish to be or to do. Three Idealize others
• 2:25:38
  Speaker 1: as you wish them to be or to do. For
• 2:25:42
  Speaker 1: Idealize happenings as you wish them to occur. Five. Idealize
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  Speaker 1: conditions as you wish them to be. Six. Idealize your
• 2:25:51
  Speaker 1: environment as you wish it to be. Seven Idealize your power, strength,
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  Speaker 1: and ability as you wish them to be. Here is
• 2:26:00
  Speaker 1: the method in a nutshell. One, discover what you crave
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  Speaker 1: to be, or to do, or to have happened. Two
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  Speaker 1: Form a clear, strong, and distinct ideal image or thought
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  Speaker 1: form of such. Three vitalize and energize this by will
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  Speaker 1: power aroused by desire and stimulated by faith. Four Project
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  Speaker 1: the ideal image or thought form into the ethereal substance
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  Speaker 1: there to become materialized. Five Keep the picture clear, strong,
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  Speaker 1: and corrected up to date. In the same way, six,
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  Speaker 1: keep it supplied with continuous interest and attention, and energized
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  Speaker 1: by desire, faith and will power. Seven. Then wait confidently
• 2:26:44
  Speaker 1: and expectantly its materialization and realization. Forth low your own
• 2:26:50
  Speaker 1: shall come to you. In the above condensed statement, you
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  Speaker 1: have the essence of that which many books have been
• 2:26:56
  Speaker 1: written to express, many lessons have been given to teach,
• 2:26:59
  Speaker 1: and which might be expanded into many volumes of instruction,
• 2:27:03
  Speaker 1: commit it to memory, and repeat it often to yourself.
• 2:27:07
  Speaker 1: The formula of affirmation. Affirmation consists of the act or
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  Speaker 1: process of expressing in verbal form in words, the statement
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  Speaker 1: of the thought or idea of that which you desire
• 2:27:18
  Speaker 1: to materialize in objective reality. Words are crystallized thought. When
• 2:27:24
  Speaker 1: an idea is expressed in words, it takes on additional
• 2:27:27
  Speaker 1: strength and power. The verbal expression of an idea gives
• 2:27:31
  Speaker 1: to the latter of body and substance which it otherwise lacks.
• 2:27:35
  Speaker 1: The spoken word was held by ancient occultists to have
• 2:27:39
  Speaker 1: a mystical and esoteric significance and power. The experience of
• 2:27:43
  Speaker 1: modern mental science of various schools of interpretation of the
• 2:27:47
  Speaker 1: basic principles of its teachings has served to demonstrate the
• 2:27:50
  Speaker 1: value of affirmations in securing results of their idealistic thought
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  Speaker 1: directed toward practical ends. The human race did very little
• 2:27:59
  Speaker 1: intelligent or purposive thinking before it invented spoken language. Moreover,
• 2:28:04
  Speaker 1: the greater and more adequate is the vocabulary of a
• 2:28:07
  Speaker 1: people or of an individual. The greater is the capacity
• 2:28:10
  Speaker 1: for clear, definite thought on the part of that people
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  Speaker 1: or that individual. This does not mean that the more
• 2:28:16
  Speaker 1: a person talks or the more words he utters, the
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  Speaker 1: deeper is his thought. In fact, the reverse of such
• 2:28:23
  Speaker 1: proposition is often found to be true. But it is
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  Speaker 1: true that the more terms that a person has at
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  Speaker 1: his command for use in his thinking, the clearer and
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  Speaker 1: more definite will be his thought. Words may be, and
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  Speaker 1: often are, employed to disguise or to conceal thoughts, or
• 2:28:39
  Speaker 1: to conceal the lack of real thoughts and ideas. But
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  Speaker 1: without adequate terms, clear and close thinking is impossible. Arnold
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  Speaker 1: Bennett says, when a writer conceives an idea, he conceives
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  Speaker 1: it in the form of words. That form of words
• 2:28:54
  Speaker 1: constitutes his style, and it is absolutely governed by the idea.
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  Speaker 1: The idea can only exist in words. It can only
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  Speaker 1: exist in one form of words. You cannot say exactly
• 2:29:06
  Speaker 1: the same thing in two different ways. Slightly alter the expression,
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  Speaker 1: and you slightly alter the idea. A clear idea is
• 2:29:15
  Speaker 1: expressed clearly, and a vague idea vaguely. Haslett says, not
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  Speaker 1: only will an improvement in a thought improve its wording,
• 2:29:23
  Speaker 1: an improvement in wording will improve the thought. To study
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  Speaker 1: clearness of statement is to study means of improving thought.
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  Speaker 1: Thus you see affirmation has for one of its main
• 2:29:34
  Speaker 1: purposes the strengthening of the thought or ideal and the
• 2:29:37
  Speaker 1: creation of a more clear, distinct, and definite outline of it.
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  Speaker 1: You may hold the thought of the thing or condition
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  Speaker 1: which you desire to materialize. You may form a strong
• 2:29:48
  Speaker 1: mental picture of it, But neither the thought nor the
• 2:29:50
  Speaker 1: picture will possess its full measure of strength or dearness
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  Speaker 1: until you embody the thought or idea and describe the
• 2:29:56
  Speaker 1: picture in formal words. If you will care carefully write
• 2:30:00
  Speaker 1: down in words your thought or idea of the thing
• 2:30:03
  Speaker 1: or condition which you desire to materialize, and will correct
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  Speaker 1: that written statement until you feel that you have reached
• 2:30:08
  Speaker 1: the limits of your powers of effective verbal expression, you
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  Speaker 1: will then find that your thought and idea, and your
• 2:30:14
  Speaker 1: mental picture as well, have taken on a new strength, vigor, body,
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  Speaker 1: and degree of definiteness and clearness. We may mention in
• 2:30:22
  Speaker 1: passing rather for the purpose of suggestion and of indication
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  Speaker 1: of how men's minds in the past have taken hold
• 2:30:28
  Speaker 1: of this idea of the power of words, that many
• 2:30:31
  Speaker 1: teachers of the ancient esoteric schools held that all true
• 2:30:34
  Speaker 1: creative activities have proceeded from the original impulse imparted by words.
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  Speaker 1: This being true of the creation of the cosmos and
• 2:30:41
  Speaker 1: of the creations of man. There was a mystic significance
• 2:30:44
  Speaker 1: attached to the use of the term the word. Poe
• 2:30:48
  Speaker 1: refers to this old idea in his essay entitled the
• 2:30:51
  Speaker 1: Power of Words. The Oriental Sages have much to say
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  Speaker 1: concerning the power of mystic mantrums to awaken vibrations in
• 2:30:59
  Speaker 1: the ether and their thereby to cause materialization. The opening
• 2:31:03
  Speaker 1: paragraphs of the Gospel of jan Aar in the beginning
• 2:31:06
  Speaker 1: was the Word, and the word was with God, and
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  Speaker 1: the word was God. The same was in the beginning
• 2:31:12
  Speaker 1: with God. Moreover, reference to the first chapter of Genesis
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  Speaker 1: will show that God is pictured by the writer of
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  Speaker 1: that book as creating the world in successive stages, or
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  Speaker 1: by successive steps by divine fiat or authoritative spoken word,
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  Speaker 1: as for instance, and God said, let there be light,
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  Speaker 1: and there was light again. And God said, let there
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  Speaker 1: be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and
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  Speaker 1: let it divide the waters from the waters. And so on,
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  Speaker 1: verbal command succeeding verbal command. Until the work of creation
• 2:31:45
  Speaker 1: is completed, we shall not pursue this phase of the
• 2:31:48
  Speaker 1: subject further. The above will serve to indicate the trend
• 2:31:51
  Speaker 1: of man's thoughts concerning the power of the spoken word.
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  Speaker 1: There is no set rule or form for the expression
• 2:31:58
  Speaker 1: of the verbal affirmation. If you will state in words
• 2:32:02
  Speaker 1: positively and definitely that which is involved in your idea
• 2:32:05
  Speaker 1: and which you have sought to picture mentally in the
• 2:32:07
  Speaker 1: process of idealization, you will be performing efficiently the process
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  Speaker 1: of affirmation. There is no special virtue in any particular
• 2:32:15
  Speaker 1: combination of words, however, so do not fall into the
• 2:32:19
  Speaker 1: superstitious fallacy concerning verbal charms, et cetera, nor strive to
• 2:32:23
  Speaker 1: invent mantrums. The virtue and affirmations lies in the thought
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  Speaker 1: or idea back of the words, the spirit of the words,
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  Speaker 1: rather than their form, and not in any magic or
• 2:32:34
  Speaker 1: mystical combinations of words or sounds. If the words of
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  Speaker 1: your affirmation are clear, definite, and write to the point,
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  Speaker 1: they will serve the purpose effectively. Do not become a
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  Speaker 1: blind follower of cut and dried forms of affirmations announced
• 2:32:50
  Speaker 1: by teachers and others claiming authority. Your own forms are
• 2:32:53
  Speaker 1: just as good as these. They may really be better
• 2:32:56
  Speaker 1: if they more clearly and effectively express your own thought
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  Speaker 1: in the matter. Here, however, is an important point concerning
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  Speaker 1: the employment of affirmations. Always make your affirmative statements in
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  Speaker 1: the present tense. Do not say so and so will
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  Speaker 1: be such and such by and by, but instead speak
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  Speaker 1: up boldly in affirm that so and so is such
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  Speaker 1: and such right here and now and in truth such
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  Speaker 1: is the case. You are speaking the word of truth,
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  Speaker 1: which transcends time limitations, that so and so is such
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  Speaker 1: and such in the idealized form. The materialized form is
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  Speaker 1: even now crystallizing itself around it. Also make your affirmative
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  Speaker 1: statements earnestly and positively. Avoid half hearted or maybe statements
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  Speaker 1: lest only half hearted, or maybe results may materialize for you.
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  Speaker 1: Exercise the power of faith, express the confident expectation. Do
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  Speaker 1: not assume the tone of asking a favor. Speak the
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  Speaker 1: word of command and demand. You are not a beggar,
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  Speaker 1: you are a master. Denials or reversed affirmations are useful
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  Speaker 1: at times, particularly when you feel the need of protection
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  Speaker 1: and the necessity for clearing away obstacles which hinder your advance. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 1: positive affirmations should be employed constructive rather than destructive. It
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  Speaker 1: has well been said that darkness is more speedily and
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  Speaker 1: effectively dispelled by letting in the light than by attempting
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  Speaker 1: to shovel out the darkness. As a general rule, it
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  Speaker 1: is well to proceed upon this principle. But we are
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  Speaker 1: not among those who refuse to see any virtue at
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  Speaker 1: all in denials. On the contrary, we advise such method
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  Speaker 1: in certain cases. This always to be followed and fortified
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  Speaker 1: by positive affirmations. In employing denials or reversed affirmations, you boldly,
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  Speaker 1: firmly and positively deny out of your world of experience
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  Speaker 1: the obstacle or obstruction which is impeding your legitimate progress,
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  Speaker 1: or the antagonistic influence which is being directed against you.
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  Speaker 1: It is marvelous to see how, at cn such times
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  Speaker 1: these antagonistic or obstructive things and circumstances will disintegrate and
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  Speaker 1: dissolve into ineffective nothingness, so far as you, yourself are concerned.
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  Speaker 1: The following is an example of the general form of
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  Speaker 1: denial or reversed affirmation. I deny power and reality to
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  Speaker 1: this influence or obstacle over me. It has no power
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  Speaker 1: or influence for me, It has no obstructing power for
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  Speaker 1: my master self, my I am I. It has no
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  Speaker 1: practical existence. Accompany this with an idealized mental picture of
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  Speaker 1: the obstructing thing disappearing from the scene, leaving the remainder
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  Speaker 1: of the picture intact without the presence of the thing
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  Speaker 1: which has been denied out of your experience. Then follow
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  Speaker 1: up this process with those of idealization and affirmation along
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  Speaker 1: constructive lines, i e. Along the lines of the creation
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  Speaker 1: materialization of that which you desire to be manifested and
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  Speaker 1: expressed in reality. Finally, always fill your affirmation with feeling, faith,
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  Speaker 1: and will. Make it alive with feeling and emotion, desire,
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  Speaker 1: craving and insistent urge. Make it glow with faith, make
• 2:36:08
  Speaker 1: it strong with an inflow of will. Power fro will, faith,
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  Speaker 1: and feeling into your affirmation as well as into your idealization.
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  Speaker 1: Do not fall into the habit of affirming in dead words,
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  Speaker 1: repeated parrot like. Instead, throw yourself into them. Speak with
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  Speaker 1: the air of authority, as if to those who are
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  Speaker 1: in the habit of obeying your commands and of expressing
• 2:36:30
  Speaker 1: into action your wishes. Do not bluster or rant or rave,
• 2:36:35
  Speaker 1: but rather cultivate the voice of real strength and authority. Calm,
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  Speaker 1: well poised, and confident of itself. If you speak from
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  Speaker 1: the I am my consciousness, you will be able to
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  Speaker 1: do this effectively. The formula of actualization. Actualization consists of
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  Speaker 1: making actual by action that which you desire to materialize
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  Speaker 1: in objective reality and the idea of which is represented
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  Speaker 1: in your mental pictures of idealization and in your spoken
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  Speaker 1: words of affirmation. In actualization, you make the mental paths
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  Speaker 1: which lead to achievement and accomplishment. You also strengthen the
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  Speaker 1: idealized framework, pattern, design, or mold of your idealization, and
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  Speaker 1: give expression and manifestation to your verbal statements of affirmation.
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  Speaker 1: The greater your ability to act and act out the
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  Speaker 1: faith of realization that is in you, the greater will
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  Speaker 1: be your ability to bring about that material realization of
• 2:37:30
  Speaker 1: that which is now real in idealized form. In actualization,
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  Speaker 1: you proceed to exhibit in real action the spirit of
• 2:37:38
  Speaker 1: that which you have idealized and affirmed. In actualization, as
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  Speaker 1: in idealization and affirmation, there is a potent natural law
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  Speaker 1: or principle involved. We are not inventing these principles, nor
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  Speaker 1: are we claiming any right of discovery of them. On
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  Speaker 1: the contrary, we are but applying terms to and describing
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  Speaker 1: the operation of certain basic PRIs principles of nature's activities,
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  Speaker 1: which have always existed and always will exist, at least
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  Speaker 1: so long as there is a cosmos. The secret of
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  Speaker 1: the efficacy of actualization lies in a natural principle under
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  Speaker 1: which the measure of available strength is determined by the
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  Speaker 1: degree of the use and employment of such strength. In
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  Speaker 1: all nature, it is found that use determined supply. The
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  Speaker 1: available muscular strength of a man depends materially upon the
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  Speaker 1: degree of the previous use, exercise, or employment of his muscles.
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  Speaker 1: The man who exercises or employs a certain set of
• 2:38:34
  Speaker 1: muscles will be found to acquire a marked development of
• 2:38:37
  Speaker 1: those particular parts of his body, while the man who
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  Speaker 1: has not exercised or used these will be found to
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  Speaker 1: lack the special development and strength acquired by the first man.
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  Speaker 1: In the same way, exercise, employment, and use tend greatly
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  Speaker 1: to develop and cultivate any of the mental faculties. The
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  Speaker 1: increased rate of development of a mental faculty arises not
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  Speaker 1: alone by reason of acquaintance and familiarity with the task,
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  Speaker 1: but also from the increase of the available power of
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  Speaker 1: that faculty, which comes from its use and employment. The
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  Speaker 1: power comes in response to the demand and necessity for it,
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  Speaker 1: which arises in the course of its use and employment.
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  Speaker 1: The rule of nature is to send strength and power
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  Speaker 1: to those parts or faculties which are used, employed, and
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  Speaker 1: exercised in due measure, and to weaken an atrophy those
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  Speaker 1: which are either used to excess or else not employed
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  Speaker 1: in due measure. The norm or natural degree of strength
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  Speaker 1: depends largely upon the degree of the manifestation of the
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  Speaker 1: norm or the reasonable degree of natural expression, employment, use,
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  Speaker 1: and exercise. The physical giant and the mental giant each
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  Speaker 1: owes his power not alone to natural aptitude and equipment,
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  Speaker 1: but also, and in a large measure, to the natural
• 2:39:49
  Speaker 1: use and exercise of his aptitude and equipment. Without attempting
• 2:39:53
  Speaker 1: to illustrate the principle at greater length, we say to
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  Speaker 1: you that if you will proceed to act as if
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  Speaker 1: the desired per power and strength were gradually flowing into you,
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  Speaker 1: then there will come to you such a gradual inflow,
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  Speaker 1: and there will be manifested in you a greater capacity
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  Speaker 1: for personal power. Act out the part for which you
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  Speaker 1: are preparing yourself, rehearse the part which you are expecting
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  Speaker 1: to play in earnest in the drama of life. Acquire
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  Speaker 1: the motions, gestures, outward manifestations, inward feelings, viewpoints, outlook, et cetera.
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  Speaker 1: Of the individual you desire and expect to be. Train
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  Speaker 1: yourself for the part by earnest patient rehearsal. The process
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  Speaker 1: of idealization affirmation will bring power to the very gates
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  Speaker 1: of your individual irrigation channels. But you must actually raise
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  Speaker 1: the gates in order to permit the inflow of its
• 2:40:43
  Speaker 1: power and energy. You must use, employ, and apply its
• 2:40:46
  Speaker 1: power in actual work and activity if you wish the
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  Speaker 1: flow to continue. Personal power is given to you for
• 2:40:53
  Speaker 1: use and not for hoarding. There is a law of
• 2:40:57
  Speaker 1: use as well as a law of attraction in nature.
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  Speaker 1: Just as the will process is not complete short of
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  Speaker 1: actual action, just as idea is not complete until it
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  Speaker 1: moves into outward expression, so is your personal power not
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  Speaker 1: complete until you have begun to use, employ, manifest, and
• 2:41:13
  Speaker 1: express it. So do not content yourself merely with idealization affirmation,
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  Speaker 1: but instead get to work and complete the process by
• 2:41:22
  Speaker 1: actually manifesting in expressing the rays of power which are
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  Speaker 1: flowing into you, in order to bring about the materialization
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  Speaker 1: of that which you desire to manifest in objective form.
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  Speaker 1: Do not overdo the expression and manifestation, but do not
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  Speaker 1: underdo it. Strive ever, to maintain the golden mean, the
• 2:41:38
  Speaker 1: balance between the two extremes. In poise there is power.
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  Speaker 1: Much of the adverse criticism which has been directed towards
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  Speaker 1: the followers of the various school of the New Metaphysical
• 2:41:49
  Speaker 1: movement under its many names, is based upon the theory
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  Speaker 1: that such individuals are mere day dreamers, that they shirk
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  Speaker 1: the real tasks of living and refuse to look at
• 2:41:59
  Speaker 1: the actualities confronting them in everyday life, and instead content
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  Speaker 1: themselves with building castles in Spain and indulging in day
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  Speaker 1: dreams of what they would like to be, and to
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  Speaker 1: do and to possess. So far as many persons are concerned,
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  Speaker 1: such criticism is merited in some degree. But here the
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  Speaker 1: trouble arises not because of the true metaphysical teaching on
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  Speaker 1: the subject, but rather because these individuals see but two
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  Speaker 1: thirds of the truth and ignore the remaining one third.
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  Speaker 1: They are strong in idealization and affirmation, overstressing the latter particularly,
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  Speaker 1: but are very weak in actualization. In fact, they often
• 2:42:37
  Speaker 1: tacitly or expressly deny the need of it. One may dream,
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  Speaker 1: in fact, he must do so if he wishes to
• 2:42:44
  Speaker 1: create and construct. He may affirm his power. He must
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  Speaker 1: do so if he wishes to achieve. But he must
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  Speaker 1: also manifest into action the ideals and the power possessed
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  Speaker 1: by him. He must say, I dare an, I do
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  Speaker 1: as well as I can, and I will. He must
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  Speaker 1: act as well as think, feel, and plan. He must
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  Speaker 1: express himself in action, as well as impress his thought
• 2:43:08
  Speaker 1: and will upon the responsive ethereal substance. The word actual
• 2:43:13
  Speaker 1: is derived from the same root, as are the terms act, active,
• 2:43:17
  Speaker 1: or activity. Before a thing becomes actual, it must be
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  Speaker 1: the subject of action and activity. Actuality follows activity, and
• 2:43:27
  Speaker 1: activity results from action and action from act. Actualization is
• 2:43:32
  Speaker 1: a necessary factor of realization and materialization. Without it, idealization
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  Speaker 1: and affirmation are aborted and are never able to manifest
• 2:43:40
  Speaker 1: in the world of realization and materialization. So then, remember
• 2:43:45
  Speaker 1: always to transmute the thought and word into action. Otherwise
• 2:43:50
  Speaker 1: you are but a mere dreamer of dreams, a speaker
• 2:43:53
  Speaker 1: of words, and not a doer of deeds. Action is
• 2:43:57
  Speaker 1: the end and goal of thought and word. Personal power
• 2:44:01
  Speaker 1: your master Self by William Walker Atkinson. Realizing your ideals
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  Speaker 1: by means of the application of the combined powers of
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  Speaker 1: ideation and volition of thought and will, employed according to
• 2:44:15
  Speaker 1: the methods of the three formulas of idealization, affirmation, and actualization, respectively,
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  Speaker 1: you proceed to realize, i e. To make real, to
• 2:44:24
  Speaker 1: convert into actual objective existence, that which you have first
• 2:44:28
  Speaker 1: created in ideal form i e. In the form of
• 2:44:31
  Speaker 1: ideal image or thought. In other words, by employing these
• 2:44:35
  Speaker 1: powers according to the said methods, you proceed to materialize
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  Speaker 1: your idealized forms. Inasmuch as these idealized forms represent your
• 2:44:44
  Speaker 1: strongest desires, you are here proceeding to remake your world
• 2:44:47
  Speaker 1: of experience according to your heart's desire. In addition to
• 2:44:51
  Speaker 1: the instruction already given you along these lines, and for
• 2:44:54
  Speaker 1: the purpose of summing up the essential features of the
• 2:44:57
  Speaker 1: preceding instruction, we shall now present to your tension and
• 2:45:00
  Speaker 1: consideration the leading principles of the process of realizing your ideals,
• 2:45:05
  Speaker 1: of materializing that which you have idealized, of creating conditions
• 2:45:09
  Speaker 1: in accordance with your heart's desire. The essential base. To
• 2:45:14
  Speaker 1: begin with, you must always proceed from the base ground
• 2:45:18
  Speaker 1: and foundation of power, the ultimate principle of power. You
• 2:45:22
  Speaker 1: must never lose sight of the fact that all personal power,
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  Speaker 1: all the personal power you ever have had, have now
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  Speaker 1: or ever can have, must have power as its original
• 2:45:31
  Speaker 1: source and found. This original source must never be lost
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  Speaker 1: sight of by you. The more you recognize and realize
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  Speaker 1: that power is your great reservoir and storehouse of power,
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  Speaker 1: the closer will be your conscious relation to that original source,
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  Speaker 1: and the greater will be your ability to draw upon
• 2:45:48
  Speaker 1: that great reservoir or storehouse. You must always remember that
• 2:45:53
  Speaker 1: recognition and realization must always precede manifestation. In the degree
• 2:45:58
  Speaker 1: of your conscious recognition of power in thought and of
• 2:46:01
  Speaker 1: your conscious realization of it in feeling, so will be
• 2:46:03
  Speaker 1: the degree of your conscious manifestation of it in action.
• 2:46:07
  Speaker 1: Students often become so carried away by the wonderful possibilities
• 2:46:11
  Speaker 1: and the actual manifestations of personal power arising from the
• 2:46:14
  Speaker 1: application of the principles and methods involving will ideative energy, force,
• 2:46:19
  Speaker 1: and power according to the methods of the three formulas,
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  Speaker 1: that in time they tend to forget or to overlook
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  Speaker 1: this fundamental fact that all personal power must proceed from power.
• 2:46:29
  Speaker 1: They ignore the source of their supply. This, however, is
• 2:46:33
  Speaker 1: a grave error, for by proceeding in this manner, you
• 2:46:36
  Speaker 1: will tend to close the channel of infinite supply, and
• 2:46:39
  Speaker 1: thereby to limit lessen, and restrict the inflow of power
• 2:46:42
  Speaker 1: from power. Such course is akin to that of the
• 2:46:45
  Speaker 1: car conductor who allows his trolley pole to become detached
• 2:46:48
  Speaker 1: from the supply wire, and who thereby loses his connection
• 2:46:51
  Speaker 1: with the power which operates the driving machinery of his car.
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  Speaker 1: It would really be better for you to forget or
• 2:46:58
  Speaker 1: to overlook all the rest of this instruction, rather than
• 2:47:01
  Speaker 1: this its basic and fundamental principle. The focal center, second
• 2:47:07
  Speaker 1: only to the recognition, realization, and manifestation of power, is
• 2:47:11
  Speaker 1: the similar recognition, realization, and manifestation of that focalized center
• 2:47:16
  Speaker 1: of power, which is your i Am, I your master self,
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  Speaker 1: your real self. This i Ami, as we have repeatedly
• 2:47:23
  Speaker 1: told you, is a focalized center of being in power,
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  Speaker 1: created and established by power. In its cosmic manifestation, the
• 2:47:32
  Speaker 1: i Ami is to your individual world of experience that
• 2:47:35
  Speaker 1: which power is to the cosmos. It is the supreme
• 2:47:38
  Speaker 1: fact of your individual existence, just as power is the
• 2:47:41
  Speaker 1: supreme fact of all existence. It is the focalized center
• 2:47:46
  Speaker 1: through which power flows and operates in your individual activities.
• 2:47:50
  Speaker 1: It is the reflection of the sun of power in
• 2:47:52
  Speaker 1: the dewdrop of your mental and physical being. You must
• 2:47:56
  Speaker 1: always think of, picture and act according to the idea
• 2:47:59
  Speaker 1: of yours I am I as being a central point
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  Speaker 1: in your world of experience around which all the rest
• 2:48:05
  Speaker 1: moves and circles and passes. In review. You are the
• 2:48:09
  Speaker 1: real thing in the passing show, which passes before you
• 2:48:12
  Speaker 1: in an ever changing, ever preceding stream, and which is
• 2:48:15
  Speaker 1: presented to you for your edification, instruction, and experience. You
• 2:48:20
  Speaker 1: are it in that world of experience, the one thing
• 2:48:23
  Speaker 1: which you know from actual experience to be real. You
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  Speaker 1: are that something or somewhat which would continue to exist
• 2:48:30
  Speaker 1: even were all that world of experience wiped out of existence,
• 2:48:34
  Speaker 1: which will remain constant and unaffected so long as it
• 2:48:37
  Speaker 1: is maintained as a focal point by power. You must
• 2:48:40
  Speaker 1: always keep in mind this fact of your own reality
• 2:48:43
  Speaker 1: and your place in your world of experience. This consciousness
• 2:48:47
  Speaker 1: of eglehood must be brought to a pivotal and focused
• 2:48:50
  Speaker 1: point of intense recognition and realization in thought and feeling.
• 2:48:54
  Speaker 1: The consciousness of your reality and constancy amidst the world
• 2:48:58
  Speaker 1: of changing things and passings must be acquired by you.
• 2:49:02
  Speaker 1: It must become a part of your inmost consciousness of
• 2:49:04
  Speaker 1: thought and feeling. It is the real essence of the
• 2:49:08
  Speaker 1: practical application of personal power. You must grow to feel
• 2:49:12
  Speaker 1: that whatever else may change or pass away you, that
• 2:49:16
  Speaker 1: I am I, will remain, abiding, constant, and identical. You
• 2:49:21
  Speaker 1: must strive to acquire the consciousness of the philosopher, who,
• 2:49:24
  Speaker 1: being told that the world was coming to an end,
• 2:49:27
  Speaker 1: calmly replied, well, what of it? I can get along
• 2:49:30
  Speaker 1: without it? The thought of the crash of worlds must
• 2:49:34
  Speaker 1: not disturb you. You must learn to think and to
• 2:49:37
  Speaker 1: feel that these things move me not. But remember always
• 2:49:42
  Speaker 1: that this I am I, which is you, is not
• 2:49:45
  Speaker 1: the John Smith or the Mary Jones part of you,
• 2:49:48
  Speaker 1: the part made up of the instruments and machinery of
• 2:49:51
  Speaker 1: your personal expression and manifestation. It is not to the
• 2:49:55
  Speaker 1: mere garments of personality that you are ascribing such great
• 2:49:58
  Speaker 1: facts of being. It is to that which bears those garments.
• 2:50:01
  Speaker 1: For the time being, these incidental trappings of personality are
• 2:50:05
  Speaker 1: but the things of the impermanent, changing, passing phenomenal world
• 2:50:09
  Speaker 1: which you are now experiencing in consciousness. The high am
• 2:50:14
  Speaker 1: I is that reality which transcends these phenomenal instruments, machinery, garments,
• 2:50:19
  Speaker 1: or attachments, which in their aggregate constitute that John Smith
• 2:50:22
  Speaker 1: or Mary Jones's aspect of your individuality. Do not allow
• 2:50:27
  Speaker 1: yourself to become entangled in consciousness with this outer aspect
• 2:50:30
  Speaker 1: of personality. Free your inner individuality from it. In consciousness.
• 2:50:35
  Speaker 1: Do not allow yourself to become spiritually high bound by
• 2:50:39
  Speaker 1: this outer skin of your personality. Do not exchange your
• 2:50:42
  Speaker 1: birthright of permanent individuality for the mess of pottage of
• 2:50:46
  Speaker 1: transient personality. You must lay aside forever the erroneous notion
• 2:50:50
  Speaker 1: that you are a mere worm of the dust, a
• 2:50:53
  Speaker 1: lowly creature fit only to crawl along on its belly,
• 2:50:56
  Speaker 1: begging that it may not be trodden upon. You must
• 2:50:59
  Speaker 1: realize that you are you a magnificent manifestation and expression
• 2:51:03
  Speaker 1: of power. For you, the processes of evolution have toiled
• 2:51:07
  Speaker 1: and labored for many ages. For you. Nature has undergone
• 2:51:12
  Speaker 1: countless labor pains through an ages long period of delivery.
• 2:51:16
  Speaker 1: For you. Time has waited long now that you are
• 2:51:20
  Speaker 1: here in your present state of personal existence. It is
• 2:51:23
  Speaker 1: your right and duty to express and to manifest the
• 2:51:26
  Speaker 1: full might and power that is in you, and to
• 2:51:28
  Speaker 1: move forward fulfilling your manifest destiny. You are you, and
• 2:51:32
  Speaker 1: you are ready to express yourself to the full measure
• 2:51:35
  Speaker 1: of your inherent capacities. In all your work, in all
• 2:51:39
  Speaker 1: your play, in all your activities, physical and mental, carry
• 2:51:43
  Speaker 1: with you the consciousness that you are you a center
• 2:51:46
  Speaker 1: of power in the great cosmic manifestation of power. Base
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  Speaker 1: upon this consciousness all that you do, all your mental work,
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  Speaker 1: all your physical work, falter not be strong. Recognize and
• 2:51:59
  Speaker 1: realize always that you are a focused, focalized, concentrated point
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  Speaker 1: of reality, a focal point and center of the presence
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  Speaker 1: power of power. Recognize and realize that back of you,
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  Speaker 1: around you, and in you is power, all the power
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  Speaker 1: there is, and that in the measure that you allow
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  Speaker 1: it to flow freely through you, that will be the
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  Speaker 1: measure of your personal power. Learn to affirm the I
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  Speaker 1: am I in full consciousness of what the words mean.
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  Speaker 1: Mentally picture yourself as that I am I, and then
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  Speaker 1: live up to an act out the truth of your
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  Speaker 1: being so expressed in thought, in feeling, and in words
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  Speaker 1: by the careful observance of the foregoing instruction concerning the
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  Speaker 1: I am I, conceived as a focalized center of the
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  Speaker 1: power of power, and as being the permanent, constant, identical
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  Speaker 1: element in factor of your being, you will find yourself
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  Speaker 1: unfolding into a greater and far more efficient phase of
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  Speaker 1: personal power. You will not only be creating a more definite,
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  Speaker 1: more intensely concentrated, and more highly focalized center of manifestation
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  Speaker 1: of persons power, the source and real nature of which
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  Speaker 1: you have recognized and realized. Abiding on the higher and
• 2:53:05
  Speaker 1: hidden plains or levels of your consciousness, your subconsciousness, and
• 2:53:09
  Speaker 1: your super consciousness, you will also proceed to the gradual
• 2:53:12
  Speaker 1: unfoldment of a higher power of knowing, of feeling, and
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  Speaker 1: of doing, by means of the increased efficiency and power
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  Speaker 1: of your instruments and machinery of expression. This teaching of
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  Speaker 1: the eye am I, its powers, and its possibilities is
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  Speaker 1: not milk for babes. It is rather nourishing food for
• 2:53:31
  Speaker 1: strong men and those who wish to become strong. The
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  Speaker 1: practical test of truth is will this make me stronger, better,
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  Speaker 1: and more efficient? This teaching will meet the test of truth,
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  Speaker 1: for it will assuredly make you stronger, better, and more efficient.
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  Speaker 1: It is in accordance with the law of evolution, which
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  Speaker 1: law proceeds to manifest on the spiritual and mental planes
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  Speaker 1: as well as the physical plane. Fall in line and
• 2:53:57
  Speaker 1: proceed with the law of cosmic evolution, and the powers
• 2:54:00
  Speaker 1: of the cosmos will come to your aid, and you
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  Speaker 1: will become as one of the elect. If you oppose
• 2:54:05
  Speaker 1: or run contrary to the law, you will be ruthlessly
• 2:54:08
  Speaker 1: pressed to the wall and discarded as unfit. In the
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  Speaker 1: one case, you are nourished, supported, strengthened, and encouraged by
• 2:54:16
  Speaker 1: the law. In the other case, you are relentlessly crowded
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  Speaker 1: out by its operations. We hear quote from the statement
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  Speaker 1: of one of the present writers, made in a much
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  Speaker 1: earlier work from his pen. This statement is quite as
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  Speaker 1: true now as when it was written many years ago.
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  Speaker 1: If you are a true individual, this teaching is just
• 2:54:34
  Speaker 1: what you want. This is also true if you are
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  Speaker 1: not yet a true individual, but earnestly desire to be one.
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  Speaker 1: But if you are a weakling and prefer to remain
• 2:54:44
  Speaker 1: so instead of rising and claiming your birthright of strength,
• 2:54:48
  Speaker 1: your heritage of power, then by all means remain as
• 2:54:51
  Speaker 1: you are and depart in peace. In that case, you
• 2:54:55
  Speaker 1: leave these teachings for those of the race who will
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  Speaker 1: not sell their birthright of power for the mess of cottage,
• 2:55:00
  Speaker 1: of negative content and sheeplike passivity in docility, but who
• 2:55:03
  Speaker 1: boldly claim their own and demand their rightful portion. For
• 2:55:08
  Speaker 1: those strong brothers of yours are the individuals, the true individuals,
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  Speaker 1: who are the coming inheritors of the earth. By the
• 2:55:15
  Speaker 1: employment of the principles of combined ideation, will along the
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  Speaker 1: lines of idealization, affirmation, and actualization, you may build or
• 2:55:24
  Speaker 1: rebuild your physical body along the lines laid out and
• 2:55:26
  Speaker 1: patterned in your mind. You may make yourself over physically
• 2:55:31
  Speaker 1: in this way. Your degree of successful manifestation depending upon
• 2:55:35
  Speaker 1: your degree of successful recognition and realization of the principles involved,
• 2:55:39
  Speaker 1: and upon your degree of the efficient application of those principles.
• 2:55:43
  Speaker 1: This is no new and strange doctrine. On the contrary,
• 2:55:47
  Speaker 1: it is being taught and practiced by the many schools
• 2:55:50
  Speaker 1: of mind cure, mental healing, faith cure, metaphysical healing, et cetera,
• 2:55:55
  Speaker 1: et cetera, which have been so much in public view
• 2:55:58
  Speaker 1: during the past quarter century. Thousands have been transformed from
• 2:56:02
  Speaker 1: weak sick persons into strong, healthy individuals by means of
• 2:56:06
  Speaker 1: methods similar in general nature to those presented to you
• 2:56:09
  Speaker 1: in this book. Moreover, by means of systems of physical culture,
• 2:56:14
  Speaker 1: employing at least some of the elements of idealization and
• 2:56:17
  Speaker 1: the employment of ideation will. Many have literally made over
• 2:56:20
  Speaker 1: their physical bodies, building them up from frail, puny, undeveloped
• 2:56:25
  Speaker 1: forms into strong, sturdy, efficient, well developed physical instruments of expression.
• 2:56:31
  Speaker 1: The general principles involved in the process of realizing the
• 2:56:34
  Speaker 1: ideal body are those already presented to you. The methods
• 2:56:37
  Speaker 1: employed are those likewise presented to you in this book.
• 2:56:41
  Speaker 1: You start with the consciousness that the physical body and
• 2:56:44
  Speaker 1: all of its parts and organs, is but the instrument
• 2:56:47
  Speaker 1: of the I am, I master self and real self,
• 2:56:50
  Speaker 1: the latter being the focalized center of power. The master
• 2:56:54
  Speaker 1: self assumes control of its physical instrument in machinery, and
• 2:56:57
  Speaker 1: proceeds to build it up according to the highest possible pattern,
• 2:57:01
  Speaker 1: design or mold. In doing so, it employs the combined
• 2:57:05
  Speaker 1: principles of ideation will the ideal form energized by will power,
• 2:57:10
  Speaker 1: It proceeds by idealization or the creation and projection of
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  Speaker 1: the ideal image or thought form. It accompanies this by
• 2:57:18
  Speaker 1: the appropriate affirmation of the idea or thought. It also
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  Speaker 1: proceeds to apply the method of actualization by means of
• 2:57:26
  Speaker 1: which it lives out the idea, acts out the part,
• 2:57:29
  Speaker 1: and also performs such physical actions, exercises, and methods as
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  Speaker 1: may seem appropriate and observe such basic natural laws of
• 2:57:37
  Speaker 1: health and physical well being as are announced by the
• 2:57:39
  Speaker 1: best thinkers. Along these lines, such are the general principles
• 2:57:44
  Speaker 1: and methods employed in the processes of realizing the ideal
• 2:57:47
  Speaker 1: body of materializing into objective reality, the perfect, healthy, strong,
• 2:57:52
  Speaker 1: efficient body pictured in the mind as the ideal form.
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  Speaker 1: If you will apply the principles previously announced and explained
• 2:58:00
  Speaker 1: in the preceding sections of this book, particularly those included
• 2:58:03
  Speaker 1: in the description of the three formulas, and will employ
• 2:58:06
  Speaker 1: the methods also herein stated and explained carefully and intelligently
• 2:58:10
  Speaker 1: adapting them to the special requirements of your individual case,
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  Speaker 1: you should be able to manifest to a satisfactory degree
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  Speaker 1: the results which you seek. All this will require careful
• 2:58:21
  Speaker 1: and persistent effort, careful attention, and insistent perseverance. We are
• 2:58:26
  Speaker 1: not offering you a magic wand by means of the
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  Speaker 1: waving of which you may gain in a moment perfect
• 2:58:31
  Speaker 1: health and perfect physical well being. But if you will
• 2:58:35
  Speaker 1: observe the proper methods based upon the sound fundamental principles
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  Speaker 1: herein stated, and will manifest definite ideals, insistent desire, confident expectation,
• 2:58:45
  Speaker 1: persistent determination, and balance compensation, there is no reason why
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  Speaker 1: you should not acquire that which you seek. All this
• 2:58:52
  Speaker 1: means work, furnest work, persistent work. But the end is
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  Speaker 1: worth all the work which you bestow upon the task
• 2:59:00
  Speaker 1: realizing the ideal mind. What has just been said concerning
• 2:59:04
  Speaker 1: the process of realizing the ideal body may also be
• 2:59:07
  Speaker 1: said concerning the process of realizing the ideal mind. By
• 2:59:11
  Speaker 1: the employment of the general principles of combined ideation will
• 2:59:15
  Speaker 1: applied along the lines of idealization, affirmation, and actualization, you
• 2:59:20
  Speaker 1: may develop and cultivate your mind as a whole or
• 2:59:23
  Speaker 1: any of its special faculties or powers to a high
• 2:59:26
  Speaker 1: degree or state of efficiency. Here As in the case
• 2:59:30
  Speaker 1: of the physical body, the IAMI is in control of
• 2:59:33
  Speaker 1: its instruments and its machinery of expression, and is able
• 2:59:36
  Speaker 1: to cultivate and develop, train, and direct the operation of
• 2:59:39
  Speaker 1: those instruments or machinery. The I, am I or master
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  Speaker 1: self assumes active control of the mental faculties and begins
• 2:59:47
  Speaker 1: the process of exercising, energizing, stimulating, and generally building up
• 2:59:52
  Speaker 1: and rendering effective these instruments of its expression. In this work,
• 2:59:57
  Speaker 1: the IAMI calls to its aid the combined power or
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  Speaker 1: of ideation will, and employs the same along the lines
• 3:00:03
  Speaker 1: of idealization, affirmation, and actualization. All of the processes are
• 3:00:08
  Speaker 1: familiar to you by reason of their repeated presentation to
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  Speaker 1: you in this book. In idealization, the mind or its
• 3:00:15
  Speaker 1: special faculties under treatment is pictured by the ideal image
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  Speaker 1: or thought form as it is desired to become and
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  Speaker 1: to be. The ideal is kept constantly in mind as
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  Speaker 1: a pattern or mold along the lines of which materialization
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  Speaker 1: shall proceed. Affirmations or verbal statements tend to crystallize the
• 3:00:33
  Speaker 1: idea or thought expressed in idealization. It gives body and
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  Speaker 1: substance to the idea or thought so pictured, and thus
• 3:00:41
  Speaker 1: furnishes a firmer substance upon which materialization may proceed. In
• 3:00:46
  Speaker 1: the processes of actualization, however, the mind or its special
• 3:00:50
  Speaker 1: faculties is furnished with tasks calculated to exercise, unfold, develop, cultivate, strengthen, entrain.
• 3:00:57
  Speaker 1: The faculties or faculty under treatment. Mental faculties, like physical muscles,
• 3:01:03
  Speaker 1: may be fully developed only by use, exercise, and actual
• 3:01:07
  Speaker 1: employment in work. They grow strong and efficient only by
• 3:01:11
  Speaker 1: contact with and exercise upon the actual work for which
• 3:01:14
  Speaker 1: they are designed. One must actually think in order to
• 3:01:18
  Speaker 1: develop thinking power. One must actually will in order to
• 3:01:22
  Speaker 1: develop willing power. One must actually perceive and observe. In
• 3:01:26
  Speaker 1: order to develop perceptive power. One must actually plan and
• 3:01:30
  Speaker 1: invent in order to develop creative mental power, and so
• 3:01:34
  Speaker 1: on along the entire list of the mental powers. Mental development, cultivation,
• 3:01:39
  Speaker 1: and training always involve mental employment, exercise, use, and work.
• 3:01:45
  Speaker 1: There is no exception to this rule, and any attempt
• 3:01:47
  Speaker 1: to escape it results only in disappointment. So, in realizing
• 3:01:52
  Speaker 1: the ideal mind, the processes of actualization are vitally important
• 3:01:56
  Speaker 1: and essential, but they may be increased in power and
• 3:01:59
  Speaker 1: effect and given definite direction and form by following the
• 3:02:02
  Speaker 1: processes of idealization and affirmation, respectively. The mental faculties are
• 3:02:08
  Speaker 1: classified as follows. One faculties of thought, two faculties of feeling,
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  Speaker 1: three faculties of will, thought consists of a sensation B perception,
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  Speaker 1: C conception D generalization E. Comparison, F, deliberation G judgment.
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  Speaker 1: The higher processes of reasoning being conducted along the lines
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  Speaker 1: of induction and deduction, respectively. Memory and imagination are also
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  Speaker 1: important phases of thought activities. Feeling consists of a simple feeling,
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  Speaker 1: B complex feeling or emotion C. Desire will consists of
• 3:02:50
  Speaker 1: a desire will, B, deliberative will C action will in
• 3:02:55
  Speaker 1: all of their various forms and phases. In the process
• 3:02:59
  Speaker 1: of actual listsation directed toward the end of realizing the
• 3:03:02
  Speaker 1: ideal mind, he should consult the best textbooks treating upon
• 3:03:05
  Speaker 1: the special subjects of the particular faculties or groups of faculties,
• 3:03:10
  Speaker 1: and containing scientific exercises for the cultivation, development and training
• 3:03:15
  Speaker 1: of such faculties. There are a number of such good
• 3:03:18
  Speaker 1: text books on the market, which may be found at
• 3:03:21
  Speaker 1: any good bookstore. In the present volume, the full general
• 3:03:25
  Speaker 1: principles and the methods of applying them are given. By
• 3:03:28
  Speaker 1: applying these principles according to these methods, wonderful results may
• 3:03:32
  Speaker 1: be attained in the direction of general mind development by actualization.
• 3:03:36
  Speaker 1: But it will be readily seen that owing to the
• 3:03:39
  Speaker 1: general nature and broad field of the present book, it
• 3:03:41
  Speaker 1: is impossible to present here in extended form the details
• 3:03:44
  Speaker 1: of the cultivating, developing, and training by actualization of the
• 3:03:48
  Speaker 1: several sets of faculties above referred to. In fact, as
• 3:03:52
  Speaker 1: we have stated, several separate volumes are required to contain
• 3:03:55
  Speaker 1: such detailed presentation of these several important subjects. The therefore
• 3:04:00
  Speaker 1: we must refer to such separate and special books such
• 3:04:03
  Speaker 1: students who may wish to pursue any of these special
• 3:04:06
  Speaker 1: subjects in further detail. Realizing the ideal conditions or environment,
• 3:04:12
  Speaker 1: to realize the ideal conditions and environment, to manifest in
• 3:04:16
  Speaker 1: material objective existence, and form those day dreams of realizing
• 3:04:20
  Speaker 1: your ideals the conditions and environment in accordance with the
• 3:04:24
  Speaker 1: heart's desire. Surely this is to work a miracle of
• 3:04:27
  Speaker 1: everyday life. Yet such miracles are being performed by successful
• 3:04:31
  Speaker 1: men and women on all sides in our own times,
• 3:04:34
  Speaker 1: and have been so performed in the past by those
• 3:04:37
  Speaker 1: individuals who were able to transform thought into action and
• 3:04:40
  Speaker 1: to transmute the ideal conditions and environment into those of
• 3:04:43
  Speaker 1: materialized and objective form. By the application of the principles
• 3:04:48
  Speaker 1: and methods which we have asked you to consider in
• 3:04:50
  Speaker 1: this book, you may reasonably expect to attain quite satisfactory
• 3:04:54
  Speaker 1: results along these particular lines of manifestation. Indeed, it is
• 3:04:58
  Speaker 1: considered more than probable that the similar successes of the
• 3:05:01
  Speaker 1: men and women above referred to have in a large
• 3:05:03
  Speaker 1: measure been due to the more or less unconscious application
• 3:05:06
  Speaker 1: of these basic principles and the use of similar methods.
• 3:05:11
  Speaker 1: Many persons who never have heard these principles described, explained,
• 3:05:15
  Speaker 1: or illustrated, have intuitively become aware of them and have
• 3:05:18
  Speaker 1: applied them by methods similar to those herein announced by us.
• 3:05:22
  Speaker 1: These principles and methods were not discovered nor invented by us.
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  Speaker 1: They are universal and have always been employed to some
• 3:05:30
  Speaker 1: extent in some form and degree by men. We have
• 3:05:34
  Speaker 1: here merely stated them, formally explained their nature and action,
• 3:05:38
  Speaker 1: and have pointed out the methods which the experience of
• 3:05:40
  Speaker 1: the race has found to be the most effective. In
• 3:05:43
  Speaker 1: the present usage of the terms, conditions means state or
• 3:05:47
  Speaker 1: situation with regard to external circumstances or environment, and environment
• 3:05:52
  Speaker 1: means that which environs or surrounds surrounding conditions, circumstances, influences,
• 3:05:59
  Speaker 1: or forced. In short, conditions and environment are seen to
• 3:06:04
  Speaker 1: mean such portion of the external world as affects the
• 3:06:07
  Speaker 1: individual by reason of its influence upon him. If one
• 3:06:11
  Speaker 1: is able to control and direct his conditions and environment,
• 3:06:14
  Speaker 1: he is able to surround himself with conditions of life
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  Speaker 1: and details of environment in accordance with his heart's desire
• 3:06:20
  Speaker 1: and with his day dreams, ideals, plans, hopes, and ambition.
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  Speaker 1: Our teaching is that man is not a slave of
• 3:06:28
  Speaker 1: circumstances or conditions, not a prisoner to his environment. We
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  Speaker 1: hold on the contrary that the strong individuals of the
• 3:06:36
  Speaker 1: race have always shown their power to modify, change, improve, transform,
• 3:06:41
  Speaker 1: and transmute, at least to a considerable degree, their original
• 3:06:44
  Speaker 1: environment and their original conditions of life. The history of
• 3:06:48
  Speaker 1: every successful man and woman will show such to be
• 3:06:51
  Speaker 1: the case, and all the teaching of our young folks
• 3:06:54
  Speaker 1: is based upon such premises. The difference between the slave
• 3:06:58
  Speaker 1: mind and slave soul and the sud the mastermind and
• 3:07:01
  Speaker 1: master soul is largely the submission of the former to
• 3:07:04
  Speaker 1: its environment and its conditions, and the refusal of the
• 3:07:07
  Speaker 1: latter so to submit, accompanied by its determination to create
• 3:07:10
  Speaker 1: its own environment and to determine its own conditions of life.
• 3:07:14
  Speaker 1: The miracle of realizing the ideal conditions and environment, of
• 3:07:18
  Speaker 1: making the dreams come true, and of materializing one's ideal images,
• 3:07:23
  Speaker 1: is none the less a miracle because it happens to
• 3:07:25
  Speaker 1: be a common and familiar occurrence. Such miracles are being
• 3:07:29
  Speaker 1: performed every day. They are possible of being so performed
• 3:07:33
  Speaker 1: anywhere and everywhere, now and at any time, by anyone
• 3:07:36
  Speaker 1: or everyone who will put into operation the right principles
• 3:07:40
  Speaker 1: and who will employ the most effective methods. We believe
• 3:07:43
  Speaker 1: that the principles and methods set forth in this book
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  Speaker 1: contain the essence and cream of the best human thought
• 3:07:49
  Speaker 1: on this subject, based upon the best experience of the race.
• 3:07:53
  Speaker 1: We believe that the essential features of such principles and
• 3:07:56
  Speaker 1: methods have been involved in the mental processes of the
• 3:07:58
  Speaker 1: successful men and women, men who have conquered and recreated
• 3:08:01
  Speaker 1: their environment, and broken down and then recreated their circumstances
• 3:08:05
  Speaker 1: in life. And now to apply the principles and methods
• 3:08:09
  Speaker 1: of our teaching to this process of realizing the ideal
• 3:08:12
  Speaker 1: conditions and environment, how must you begin. Well, first of all,
• 3:08:17
  Speaker 1: you must set into active operation the twin powers of
• 3:08:20
  Speaker 1: ideation and will. You must start with the creation and
• 3:08:23
  Speaker 1: establishment the support and maintenance of a strong, dynamic idea
• 3:08:28
  Speaker 1: or creative ideation of the general conditions and environment which
• 3:08:32
  Speaker 1: you wish to realize and materialize in objective form in
• 3:08:35
  Speaker 1: the material world. You should here carefully re read and
• 3:08:39
  Speaker 1: re study what we have said to you in the
• 3:08:41
  Speaker 1: section of this book entitled the twin Manifestation of Power.
• 3:08:45
  Speaker 1: You must raise the giant of ideation to the shoulders
• 3:08:48
  Speaker 1: of the giant of will, and then bid the twin
• 3:08:50
  Speaker 1: giants to proceed to their task. You must pour into
• 3:08:54
  Speaker 1: your ideal image the energizing and vitalizing power of will.
• 3:08:58
  Speaker 1: You must not only strength in your ideal image by
• 3:09:01
  Speaker 1: means of idealization and affirmation, but you must also strengthen
• 3:09:05
  Speaker 1: and energize your steam of will by faith and confident expectation,
• 3:09:08
  Speaker 1: and by keeping fiercely burning the fires of desire. You
• 3:09:12
  Speaker 1: must fill yourself with definite ideals, insistent desire, confident expectation,
• 3:09:18
  Speaker 1: and persistent determination, so that that which you are holding
• 3:09:20
  Speaker 1: in your mind in idealized forms shall be manifested in
• 3:09:23
  Speaker 1: materialized form and activity in your world of circumstances and environment.
• 3:09:28
  Speaker 1: You must establish the one miss of idea and the
• 3:09:31
  Speaker 1: one miss of feeling which distinguishes the purposive will. Remember
• 3:09:36
  Speaker 1: our illustration of the magic lantern with its fierce flame
• 3:09:39
  Speaker 1: of desire, supporting and sustaining the light of will. The
• 3:09:42
  Speaker 1: light of will beat strongly and persistently upon the lantern
• 3:09:45
  Speaker 1: slide of idealization, upon which is painted or photographed the
• 3:09:49
  Speaker 1: ideal image or thought form. The picture is then thrown
• 3:09:52
  Speaker 1: clearly and strongly upon the screen or sheet of the
• 3:09:55
  Speaker 1: ethereal substance of the cosmos, and there is reproduced in
• 3:09:58
  Speaker 1: materialized form. Keep in mind this illustration, for it well
• 3:10:03
  Speaker 1: symbolizes the process of the materialization of the ideal the
• 3:10:07
  Speaker 1: transmutation of the ideal image or thought form into the
• 3:10:10
  Speaker 1: material form. Now, reread and re study carefully the preceding
• 3:10:14
  Speaker 1: section of this book entitled the Three Formulas. Read and
• 3:10:19
  Speaker 1: study carefully every word of what we have there stated
• 3:10:22
  Speaker 1: concerning the respective processes of idealization, affirmation, and actualization. Then
• 3:10:28
  Speaker 1: apply these processes to the task before you. Idealize the
• 3:10:32
  Speaker 1: conditions and environment which you wish to materialize and realize
• 3:10:36
  Speaker 1: in objective form. Affirm the idea by expressing it in
• 3:10:40
  Speaker 1: words and in affirming its reality. Actualize the idea by
• 3:10:45
  Speaker 1: acting out the part which you must play in relation
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  Speaker 1: to the conditions and environment which you are now proceeding
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  Speaker 1: to materialize according to the idealized form and affirmed statement,
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  Speaker 1: And proceed to perform the actual work on the mental
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  Speaker 1: and physical planes which are necessary to perfect the process
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  Speaker 1: and to accomplish the end sought. Form the clear mental
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  Speaker 1: image of that which you wish to materialize, vitalize and
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  Speaker 1: energize that image or picture by will power aroused and
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  Speaker 1: sustained by faith and desire. Project that ideal image or
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  Speaker 1: thought form into the ethereal substance there to be materialized.
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  Speaker 1: Keep the picture well defined and crystallized by positive affirmation
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  Speaker 1: of its reality and statements of your confident expectation of
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  Speaker 1: the outcome. Speak the word of its realization early and often,
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  Speaker 1: and with the spirit and tone of certainty. Deny out
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  Speaker 1: of existence the obstructing and opposing obstacles to its accomplishment.
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  Speaker 1: Create the mental path by actualization, and in the same way,
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  Speaker 1: prepare the physical ground for the realization. Perform each and
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  Speaker 1: all of these processes earnestly, confidently, persistently, patiently, insistently, with
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  Speaker 1: mind one pointed, and with every element of your being
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  Speaker 1: directed and devoted to the task. Finally, we wish to
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  Speaker 1: direct to your careful attention and consideration a certain course
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  Speaker 1: of procedure to be followed by all individuals wishing to
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  Speaker 1: achieve success and to reach the heights of attainment in
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  Speaker 1: any line or field of human endeavor, physical, mental, or spiritual.
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  Speaker 1: This course of procedure was taught, at least in principle
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  Speaker 1: by some of the oldest teachers of the race. It
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  Speaker 1: formed a part of the inner teaching of the ancient
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  Speaker 1: mysteries of many lands. It is based upon common sense
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  Speaker 1: and also uncommon sense, upon actual experience, and upon those
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  Speaker 1: intuitive glimpses of the higher truth which wise men and
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  Speaker 1: women have acquired through the channels of the super conscious
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  Speaker 1: faculties of the mind. It was and is followed in
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  Speaker 1: principle not only by the ancient mystics and their modern successors,
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  Speaker 1: but also by the most hard headed, cold blooded practical
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  Speaker 1: men of affairs of to day. It is universal in
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  Speaker 1: its field and scope and in its application in actual practice.
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  Speaker 1: It is known as the master formula of attainment, and
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  Speaker 1: it will be presented to you in the following section
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  Speaker 1: of this book. Personal Power, Your Master Self by William
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  Speaker 1: Walker Atkinson the Master Formula. In the preceding section of
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  Speaker 1: this book, we directed your attention to the Master Formula
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  Speaker 1: of Attainment, a working principle embodying the practical wisdom and
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  Speaker 1: extended experience of certain of the great ancient teachers and
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  Speaker 1: of their modern followers, and which in this instruction is
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  Speaker 1: presented to our students in plain words and reduced to
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  Speaker 1: the condensed form of a definite formula as follows. The
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  Speaker 1: Master Formula of Attainment consists of five elements one definite ideals,
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  Speaker 1: two insistent desire, three confident expectation, four persistent determination, five
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  Speaker 1: balanced compensation. Reduced to popular terms, the master formula may
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  Speaker 1: be expressed as follows. You may have anything you want,
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  Speaker 1: provided that you one know exactly what you want, two
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  Speaker 1: want it hard enough, three confidently expect to obtain it
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  Speaker 1: for persistently determined to obtain it, and five are willing
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  Speaker 1: to pay the price of its attainment. Definite ideals consist
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  Speaker 1: of certain well defined, clear, strong and positive ideas, ideals, ambitions, aims, ends, intentions,
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  Speaker 1: and purposes concerning the objects which you desire, hope, and
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  Speaker 1: will to attain. They necessitate strong, clear, definite purposes to
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  Speaker 1: attain and achieve. This element may be stated in popular
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  Speaker 1: terms as knowing exactly what you want. The clearer and
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  Speaker 1: more definite your ideas, ideals, and purposes, the greater is
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  Speaker 1: the strength of your process of idealization, and the more
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  Speaker 1: powerful your mental element of ideation. The importance of having
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  Speaker 1: definite ideals, of knowing exactly what you want cannot easily
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  Speaker 1: be overestimated. In fact, the fail to cultivate, develop, and
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  Speaker 1: maintain this mental state may be said to constitute one
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  Speaker 1: of the great causes of failure or of imperfect expression
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  Speaker 1: on the part of men and women. One may be,
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  Speaker 1: and often is, quite strong in his development and exercise
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  Speaker 1: of the other four of the elements of the master formula.
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  Speaker 1: But if he is lacking in the element of definite ideals,
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  Speaker 1: his efforts will be largely wasted and ineffective, and he
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  Speaker 1: will fail to attain success and full achievement in his
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  Speaker 1: life work. A person lacking in definite ideals, one not
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  Speaker 1: knowing exactly what he wants, is like a man undertaking
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  Speaker 1: a journey without a definite idea of his destination, his route,
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  Speaker 1: and the other details of his journey. Like the man
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  Speaker 1: in the popular song of a few years ago, he sings,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
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  Speaker 1: Or again. Such a one is like a man who
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  Speaker 1: fires his gun aimlessly, without pointing it toward any particular object,
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  Speaker 1: and still expects to hit something or once more. He
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  Speaker 1: is like a man trying to build house without having
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  Speaker 1: in his mind an idea of what kind of structure
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  Speaker 1: he desires to build, how many rooms it will contain,
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  Speaker 1: or what will be its dimensions. Everything that man has
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  Speaker 1: ever succeeded in building has first existed in ideal form
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  Speaker 1: in his mind. Everything that he has ever succeeded in
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  Speaker 1: accomplishing has been attained largely by reason of a definite
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  Speaker 1: purpose existing in his mind and serving to direct and
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  Speaker 1: employ his will. The more clearly he is able to
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  Speaker 1: idealize his desires and purposes, the more direct will be
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  Speaker 1: his work of actualization. The more clearly he is able
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  Speaker 1: to idealize his purpose, the firmer and more stable will
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  Speaker 1: that purpose become. The man who wishes to climb the
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  Speaker 1: mountain of attainment must have not only ideals, but also
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  Speaker 1: definite ideals. He must not only have a general idea
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  Speaker 1: which he wishes to materialize into reality. He must also
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  Speaker 1: have definite ideals which he wishes to take on definite objective,
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  Speaker 1: real form and manifestation. Hazy indefinite ideal result in scattered
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  Speaker 1: purpose and misdirected energy. The man who wants one thing
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  Speaker 1: today and another thing tomorrow will likely get neither. He
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  Speaker 1: must learn to want certain things definite things today, tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: and the day after, if he wishes to obtain them.
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  Speaker 1: Shifting purpose and conflicting desires prevent that concentration and focalizing
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  Speaker 1: of will, which is a necessary element of all successful
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  Speaker 1: striving and attainment. One must proceed to eliminate the less
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  Speaker 1: advantageous desires one by one in order to clear away
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  Speaker 1: the space around the great desires. By so doing, he
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  Speaker 1: is able to focus his attention upon the objects represented
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  Speaker 1: by the dominant desires and thus create a definite ideal
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  Speaker 1: concerning them. Many persons have found it difficult to create
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  Speaker 1: definite ideals because of the conflict of desires which they
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  Speaker 1: find within them. They want so many things that they
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  Speaker 1: are unable to decide just which things they want most.
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  Speaker 1: This being the case, it is almost impossible for them
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  Speaker 1: to create and maintain the definite ideals which constitute the
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  Speaker 1: first requisite of attainment. In that volume of the present series,
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  Speaker 1: which is entitled Creative Power. This phase of the subject
• 3:18:11
  Speaker 1: is considered in detail. If you are one who has
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  Speaker 1: been subjected to the embarrassment of riches belong the lines
• 3:18:18
  Speaker 1: of wants, and who has been unable to create a
• 3:18:20
  Speaker 1: strong and effective, definite ideal of that which you want most,
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  Speaker 1: then we feel justified in recommending to your attention the
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  Speaker 1: book in question. Make a mental note of this axiom.
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  Speaker 1: The first step on the ladder of attainment is that
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  Speaker 1: of definite purpose, the stage of knowing exactly what you want.
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  Speaker 1: Dot Unless your foot is firmly planted on that step,
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  Speaker 1: you will never be able to reach the successive steps
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  Speaker 1: above it on the ladder. Insistent desire consists of the insisting, persisting, persevering,
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  Speaker 1: demanding that your desire, wish, want, craving, longing, urge be
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  Speaker 1: gratified and satisfied. To insist is to take a stand
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  Speaker 1: and refuse to give way, to hold to something firmly
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  Speaker 1: and determinately. Examples of insistent desire are had in that statement,
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  Speaker 1: employed so repeatedly in the several books comprising the present
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  Speaker 1: course of instruction, viz. Desire as the starving man desires food,
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  Speaker 1: as the thirst cursed man desires water, as the drowning
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  Speaker 1: man desires air, as the mother desires the welfare and
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  Speaker 1: safety of her children, as the wild animal desires its mate.
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  Speaker 1: When you can and will desire like this, then you
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  Speaker 1: will manifest insistent desire. In the popular phrase, this is
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  Speaker 1: wanting the thing hard enough. Very few persons really know
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  Speaker 1: what it is to want the thing hard enough. They
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  Speaker 1: may think and say that they want the thing, even
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  Speaker 1: that they want it the worst way, but they have
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  Speaker 1: not learned to want with that fierce hunger or terrific
• 3:19:51
  Speaker 1: thirst of desire, which distinguishes the living creature that wants
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  Speaker 1: with a force which refuses to be denied. The difference
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  Speaker 1: between the men who do things and get things and
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  Speaker 1: those of the opposite type often consists largely of the
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  Speaker 1: element of insistent desire, The element of wanting the thing
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  Speaker 1: hard enough. What we call a strong will in a
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  Speaker 1: man is often found to be really an insistent desire,
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  Speaker 1: a power of desire which demands to be satisfied and
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  Speaker 1: will not rest content unless it be satisfied. If you
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  Speaker 1: know persons of this type, as you probably do, you
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  Speaker 1: will remember that their flame of desire burns fiercely, and
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  Speaker 1: that it draws freely upon the world for its fuel.
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  Speaker 1: You will also remember that persons antagonizing this fierce flame
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  Speaker 1: who come in contact with it are very apt to
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  Speaker 1: be burnt or at least singed, by it. The more
• 3:20:42
  Speaker 1: you analyze the spirit of will, the more you will
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  Speaker 1: see that its very essence consists of insistent desire. It
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  Speaker 1: is impossible for a man to have a strong will
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  Speaker 1: unless he first has insistent desire. Desire has been aptly
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  Speaker 1: spoken of as the flame which generates the steam of will.
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  Speaker 1: The stronger the flame, the greater the quality and power
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  Speaker 1: of the steam. A little self analysis will serve to
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  Speaker 1: reveal to you just what an important part is played
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  Speaker 1: by insistent desire in the processes of will power. You
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  Speaker 1: will see that every time in which you displayed great
• 3:21:16
  Speaker 1: will power, you first were filled with insistent desire. Likewise,
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  Speaker 1: looking backward, you will see that in cases in which
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  Speaker 1: your will power failed you, your desire was weak or
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  Speaker 1: lost its insistent quality. The more that you explore the
• 3:21:30
  Speaker 1: regions of will power, the more convinced will you be
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  Speaker 1: that insistent desire constitutes the very spirit and essence of
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  Speaker 1: that great mental power. To want the thing hard enough
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  Speaker 1: is not merely to wish it mildly, or to desire
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  Speaker 1: to have it come to you in some degree. To
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  Speaker 1: want it hard enough is to want it as the
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  Speaker 1: wild creature wants its food and its mate, as the
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  Speaker 1: mother wants her young when they have strayed away from her.
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  Speaker 1: Insistent desire is a strong elemental urge, a primeval aboriginal force.
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  Speaker 1: It is the force that animates all living things in
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  Speaker 1: their elemental conditions, and which seems to be present even
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  Speaker 1: in the inanimate forces of nature. It is the power
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  Speaker 1: manifesting in all evolution, in all progress, in all achievement.
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  Speaker 1: It is a raw force, something essentially elemental and primitive.
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  Speaker 1: It is the force that does things, that gains things
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  Speaker 1: in the world of change and becoming. In that volume
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  Speaker 1: of this series entitled Desire Power, we have considered the
• 3:22:30
  Speaker 1: subject of insistent desire in detail, and have indicated scientific
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  Speaker 1: methods for its development and cultivation. If you feel the
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  Speaker 1: need of helpful instruction along the lines of insistent desire,
• 3:22:42
  Speaker 1: we feel warranted in recommending to your attention the book
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  Speaker 1: in question. It cannot fail to strengthen you in this
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  Speaker 1: particular element of your character. Make a mental note of
• 3:22:52
  Speaker 1: this axiom. The second step on the latter of attainment
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  Speaker 1: is that of insistent desire, the stage of wanting the
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  Speaker 1: thing hard enough. Unless you plant your foot firmly on
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  Speaker 1: that step, you will never be able to reach the
• 3:23:05
  Speaker 1: successive steps above it. On the latter. Confident expectation consists
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  Speaker 1: of the certain, confident, undoubting faith that you will obtain
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  Speaker 1: the concerning which you have definite ideals and insistent desire.
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  Speaker 1: It is the quintessence of hope faith, the hope that
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  Speaker 1: is confident and the faith that knows. It is illustrated
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  Speaker 1: by your confident expectation that the sun will rise tomorrow morning,
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  Speaker 1: or that effect will follow cause, or that the sum
• 3:23:31
  Speaker 1: of two plus two will be four. When you can
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  Speaker 1: and will entertain this feeling toward the object of your
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  Speaker 1: definite purpose and insistent desire, then will you manifest confident expectation.
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  Speaker 1: Confident expectation is the essential spirit of faith, and faith
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  Speaker 1: has been termed the white magic of power. The psychological
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  Speaker 1: principle involved in expectant attention, confident expectation and hopeful faith
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  Speaker 1: is an important dynamic energy. The principle manifests and expresses
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  Speaker 1: it self in practically all forms of human endeavor. The
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  Speaker 1: figurative statement concerning the movement of mountains by the power
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  Speaker 1: of faith has a far more real and substantial practical
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  Speaker 1: basis than is imagined by the average person hearing or
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  Speaker 1: reading the words. Men are moving mountains of circumstances every day,
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  Speaker 1: mainly by their faith power. It is an axiom of
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  Speaker 1: practical business that a man can sell that in which
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  Speaker 1: he believes the most. Every sales manager knows why many
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  Speaker 1: of his salesmen sell certain styles or grades of goods
• 3:24:30
  Speaker 1: in far greater quantity than their fellow salesmen, and in
• 3:24:33
  Speaker 1: greater proportion to other styles or grades. They believe in
• 3:24:37
  Speaker 1: those particular styles or grades. That's all. Many a man
• 3:24:41
  Speaker 1: has failed to succeed in business simply because he couldn't
• 3:24:44
  Speaker 1: believe in that which he was trying to sell or promote.
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  Speaker 1: So true is this that the efficient sales manager knows
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  Speaker 1: that he must first sell to the prospective salesman before
• 3:24:54
  Speaker 1: the latter can sell to his customers. Likewise, he knows
• 3:24:59
  Speaker 1: that if the sales force once gets the idea that
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  Speaker 1: a certain line of goods is not desirable, if the
• 3:25:04
  Speaker 1: salesman once get to disbelieve in the goods, then that
• 3:25:07
  Speaker 1: line of goods is doomed. So far as that house
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  Speaker 1: is concerned. There is a subtle principle of psychology involved
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  Speaker 1: in the operation of faith, power, of confident expectation, and
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  Speaker 1: expectant attention. The mental attitude indicated by those terms is
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  Speaker 1: accompanied by a sharpening of the perceptive and reflective mental powers,
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  Speaker 1: by an increased draft operating upon the flame of desire,
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  Speaker 1: and by a generally stiffening and strengthening of the will.
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  Speaker 1: Lack of faith or worse still, confident expectation of failure
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  Speaker 1: and disaster will serve to deaden a flame of desire,
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  Speaker 1: to weaken the will, and to paralyze and stupefy the
• 3:25:44
  Speaker 1: faculties of perception and reflection. None of the mental faculties
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  Speaker 1: will operate to the full extent and in the most
• 3:25:51
  Speaker 1: efficient manner, if doubt, disbelief, and unfaith exist in the
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  Speaker 1: soul of that individual. To lose faith is to lose heart,
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  Speaker 1: and to lose heart is to lose desire and will.
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  Speaker 1: When such a negative mental attitude is manifested by you
• 3:26:07
  Speaker 1: toward your undertakings, then indeed does the bottom drop out
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  Speaker 1: of them. Every individual does his best when he earnestly
• 3:26:15
  Speaker 1: believes in the failure of the undertaking. Faith, confident expectation,
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  Speaker 1: and expectant attention cannot be left out of the master
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  Speaker 1: formula of attainment, nor may it be omitted from any
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  Speaker 1: other rule of practical efficient action. When doubt, disbelief, an
• 3:26:31
  Speaker 1: unfaith rise to the stage of confident expectation, or faith
• 3:26:35
  Speaker 1: in the adverse outcome of your endeavors, plans, projects, and undertakings,
• 3:26:40
  Speaker 1: then the negative quality is transformed into a quasi positive one.
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  Speaker 1: That is to say, it passes beyond the stage in
• 3:26:47
  Speaker 1: which it serves merely to retard, restrict, and interfere with
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  Speaker 1: the success of your plans and tasks. It becomes a
• 3:26:53
  Speaker 1: power which operates actively to bring about the failure and
• 3:26:56
  Speaker 1: undesirable outcome which you confidently expect and believe will result.
• 3:27:02
  Speaker 1: In this way, faith power is set into reverse and
• 3:27:05
  Speaker 1: your car of progress runs backward. This is no mere
• 3:27:09
  Speaker 1: fanciful statement or form of superstition. It is the statement
• 3:27:13
  Speaker 1: of an active, working, psychological principle which manifests itself in
• 3:27:17
  Speaker 1: the life of every individual who allows himself to fall
• 3:27:20
  Speaker 1: into this unfortunate mental attitude. Proofs of it are to
• 3:27:24
  Speaker 1: be found on all sides, in the experience of others,
• 3:27:27
  Speaker 1: and perhaps in your own past experience. In that volume
• 3:27:31
  Speaker 1: of this series entitled Faith Power, we have considered the
• 3:27:35
  Speaker 1: subject of Confident Expectation in detail, its underlying laws and
• 3:27:39
  Speaker 1: principles being explained fully, and rules and methods for its
• 3:27:42
  Speaker 1: successful application being presented to its readers. We feel justified
• 3:27:47
  Speaker 1: in recommending that book to your attention and study. If
• 3:27:50
  Speaker 1: you are one of the many who are weak on
• 3:27:52
  Speaker 1: faith power, and who have not as yet learned how
• 3:27:54
  Speaker 1: to set into operation the mighty forces of faith and
• 3:27:57
  Speaker 1: confident expectation, make a mental note of this axiom. The
• 3:28:02
  Speaker 1: third step on the ladder of attainment is that of
• 3:28:04
  Speaker 1: confident expectation, the stage of confidently expecting to obtain the thing.
• 3:28:09
  Speaker 1: Unless you plant your foot firmly on that step, you
• 3:28:12
  Speaker 1: will never be able to reach the higher ones of
• 3:28:14
  Speaker 1: the latter. Persistent determination consists of the persistent, insistent, unchanging, fixed, stable, tenacious,
• 3:28:23
  Speaker 1: unyielding in firm will, intent, determination and purpose of obtaining
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  Speaker 1: that which is fixed in your mind as definite ideals
• 3:28:30
  Speaker 1: in your emotional nature as insistent desire, and in your
• 3:28:34
  Speaker 1: faith as confident expectation. It is illustrated by Disraeli's famous
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  Speaker 1: statement a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence
• 3:28:45
  Speaker 1: upon its fulfillment, and by Buxton's equally famous expression of
• 3:28:49
  Speaker 1: faith in invincible determination a purpose once fixed, and then
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  Speaker 1: death or victory. When you can and due will and
• 3:28:57
  Speaker 1: determine action upon your definite ideals, insistent desire, and confident
• 3:29:01
  Speaker 1: expectation in this way, in this degree, to this extent,
• 3:29:06
  Speaker 1: then will you manifest persistent determination. Persistent determination is an
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  Speaker 1: attribute of will power and represents the essential principle of
• 3:29:14
  Speaker 1: that highly important mental faculty. It expresses the mental attitude
• 3:29:19
  Speaker 1: of indomitable will, the persistent determination that you must and
• 3:29:22
  Speaker 1: will accomplish that which you have set out to accomplish,
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  Speaker 1: and must and will succeed in obtaining that which is
• 3:29:27
  Speaker 1: the object of your ideals, desire, and faith to succeed.
• 3:29:32
  Speaker 1: To accomplish, you must determinately apply your will to the
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  Speaker 1: task before you, and must hold fast the cutting edge
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  Speaker 1: of your cold chisel of will to the work before you. Moreover,
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  Speaker 1: you must will to will, persistently and determinately, that the
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  Speaker 1: outcome of your endeavors must and shall be successful. You
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  Speaker 1: will catch the spirit of persistent determination when you consider
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  Speaker 1: the essential meaning of the two elements composing the term.
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  Speaker 1: Persistence is tenacity, dog goodness, staying quality. Determination is strength
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  Speaker 1: and firmness of mind, firm resolve or resolution, absolute direction
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  Speaker 1: to a certain end. The composite term indicates the staying, tenacious,
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  Speaker 1: dogged will manifesting in an absolute direction toward a set certain,
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  Speaker 1: fixed purpose or end. Or it may be said to
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  Speaker 1: indicate the fixed and tenacious aim, design, intention, resolution, determination,
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  Speaker 1: and will to accomplish or to reach some particular object
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  Speaker 1: or end. Persistent determination manifests its power in its work
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  Speaker 1: of steadying and holding to its task. The dynamic power
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  Speaker 1: of will. Will power must not be scattered or dissipated.
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  Speaker 1: It must be held firmly to the task before it.
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  Speaker 1: The man of strong will power accomplishes nothing until he
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  Speaker 1: is able to apply it effectively in a definite, determined direction.
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  Speaker 1: He must manifest his will in the spirit of steadfastness, firmness,
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  Speaker 1: fixed intention and purpose, positive direction, and unfailing constancy. He
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  Speaker 1: must set his hand to the plow and look not backward.
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  Speaker 1: He must persevere despite obstacles, and discouragements. He must manifest
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  Speaker 1: steadfastness in the face of opposition and hindrances. In the
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  Speaker 1: volume of this series entitled will Power, we have dwelt
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  Speaker 1: particularly upon this particular element of will power. We take
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  Speaker 1: the liberty of asking you to consider carefully the following
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  Speaker 1: passages from the work in question. The characteristics of persistent
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  Speaker 1: determination are stability, perseverance, fixedness of purpose, tenacity, doggedness, and
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  Speaker 1: persistent application. Persistent determination enables you to hold your will
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  Speaker 1: close to its task, to hold it there firmly and
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  Speaker 1: continuously until success is attained and the victory is won.
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  Speaker 1: Success in many instances depends upon the application of persistent determination,
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  Speaker 1: the manifestation of the power and determination to hold on
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  Speaker 1: to the last many a man possessing the other qualities
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  Speaker 1: of will power has fought a brave fight, but just
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  Speaker 1: before the tide turn in his favor, he has relinquished
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  Speaker 1: his efforts and has dropped out of the fight, defeated
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  Speaker 1: not by circumstances but by his own lack of persistent determination.
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  Speaker 1: By studying the lives of the great inventors Morse and Edison,
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  Speaker 1: for instance, you will see the utmost importance of this
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  Speaker 1: faculty of holding on and this spirit of never say die.
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  Speaker 1: In persistent determination and the voluntary action based upon it,
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  Speaker 1: the will deliberately choose as an end or object to
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  Speaker 1: be attained, and then proceeds to manifest the determination in
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  Speaker 1: outward form and action. It proceeds to its end with
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  Speaker 1: intensity of purpose and directness of aim. The end must
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  Speaker 1: be clear, definite, and capable of distinct visualization. The effort
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  Speaker 1: to gain that end must call into operation the whole
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  Speaker 1: nature of the will and the whole force and energy
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  Speaker 1: of the will power. As it has been said, the
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  Speaker 1: whole living strength of the will must be literally hurled
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  Speaker 1: into it, not once or twice, but again and again
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  Speaker 1: until it is accomplished. The persistent determination must be real.
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  Speaker 1: It must be meant by you with the full power
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  Speaker 1: of your soul. You must not trifle with such resolutions.
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  Speaker 1: You must be in deadly earnest about them. Remember that
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  Speaker 1: the honor and integrity of your will is at stake,
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  Speaker 1: and that you must not bring discredit upon it. To
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  Speaker 1: break such a resolution is to bring shame upon yourself
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  Speaker 1: and to your will. This is the essence and spirit
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  Speaker 1: of persistent, purposeful determination. Strive ever to attain sustain and
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  Speaker 1: manifest it. This is the flash of the will that
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  Speaker 1: can DOT. We feel warranted in recommending that volume of
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  Speaker 1: this series entitled will Power, from which we have just quoted,
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  Speaker 1: to your attention and study if you feel the need
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  Speaker 1: of strengthening the master formula developing and cultivating will power.
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  Speaker 1: It is devoted exclusively to the consideration of the principles
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  Speaker 1: and laws of will power and contains practical instruction along
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  Speaker 1: the lines of the development of that great mental force.
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  Speaker 1: Make a mental note of this axiom. The fourth step
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  Speaker 1: on the ladder of attainment is that of persistent determination,
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  Speaker 1: the stage of persistently determining to obtain the thing DOT.
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  Speaker 1: Unless you plant your foot firmly on that step, you
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  Speaker 1: will never reach the goal which you seek by means
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  Speaker 1: of that latter. Balanced compensation consists of the willingness to
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  Speaker 1: pay the price of attainment in the shape or form
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  Speaker 1: of a untiring and unyielding, persistent and persevering work leading
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  Speaker 1: towards your definite end and purpose, aim and intention, and
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  Speaker 1: be the sacrifice of desires, aims, purposes, ideas, feelings, likes
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  Speaker 1: and dislikes of all mental or emotional states in fact
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  Speaker 1: which oppose or contradict your definite ideals, and which threaten
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  Speaker 1: to impair, obstruct, or defeat their definite purpose. The law
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  Speaker 1: of compensation and balance runs through all nature and all life.
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  Speaker 1: One must always pay the price. Two ancient aphorisms illustrate this, viz. Said,
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  Speaker 1: the gods to man, what you want, take it, but
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  Speaker 1: pay the price. And do as thou wilt, but pay
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  Speaker 1: the price. The man who really wants anything hard enough
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  Speaker 1: is always ready and willing to pay the price in work, toil, effort,
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  Speaker 1: and in the relinquishment of all that obstructs, diverts, or
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  Speaker 1: obstructs the attainment of that which he desires and wills.
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  Speaker 1: Balanced compensation is a great law of nature. None escape it.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing is free from its laws. Everything is balanced by
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  Speaker 1: something else. Everything must give something in order to get something.
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  Speaker 1: Everything must give up something in order to get more
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  Speaker 1: or something else. Emerson has brought out this universal principle
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  Speaker 1: in his great essay entitled Compensation, and the experience of
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  Speaker 1: every individual serves to illustrate the operation of this law.
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  Speaker 1: Everything must be paid for in the price of something else.
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  Speaker 1: Everything maintains its position by reason of balance. The wise
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  Speaker 1: men of the race recognize this great principle and proceed
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  Speaker 1: in accordance with it. The fools seek to overcome it
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  Speaker 1: and fail by reason of their folly. All men who
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  Speaker 1: have obtained, attained, or achieved anything at all worth while
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  Speaker 1: have paid the price. The price paid by them consists
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  Speaker 1: of various elements. Work performed, persistent application, perseverance, industry, diligence.
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  Speaker 1: All these form a part of the price. Service rendered
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  Speaker 1: to others for which one receives compensation in one form
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  Speaker 1: or another. This is a part of the price, and
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  Speaker 1: a very important part too. Other forms of the price
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  Speaker 1: are found in the sacrifice and renunciation of ideas, ideals, feelings, desires, ambitions, aims, ends,
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  Speaker 1: which are opposed to the subject or object, representing the
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  Speaker 1: top values or prime motives of the individual. The successful
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  Speaker 1: man is found always to have sacrificed and renounced the
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  Speaker 1: lesser values for the greater ones. In the work of
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  Speaker 1: increasing your desire power and your will power, you will
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  Speaker 1: be called upon frequently to pay the price. Your great
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  Speaker 1: desires demand the sacrifice of many minor desires, which have
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  Speaker 1: been drawing to themselves a portion of the fuel required
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  Speaker 1: by the great wants. By extinguishing these minor flames, you
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  Speaker 1: serve to give to the great flame of desire all
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  Speaker 1: the fuel that is needed by it to generate the
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  Speaker 1: steam of will. Your will power, operating in the direction
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  Speaker 1: of persistent, purposeful determination, finds that of necessity it must restrain, control,
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  Speaker 1: or even inhibit entirely, certain tendencies of your nature which
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  Speaker 1: are perceived to work against the success of the main
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  Speaker 1: object of your desire and will. The will is ruthless
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  Speaker 1: in these fifty nine matters. It unhesitatingly sacrifices many of
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  Speaker 1: the little things of your emotional nature for the one
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  Speaker 1: big thing that represents your sumumbonum, or greatest good. In
• 3:38:00
  Speaker 1: the two volumes of this series, entitled Desire Power and
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  Speaker 1: will Power, respectively, considerable attention has been devoted to the
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  Speaker 1: particular subject of feeding the great desires and great objects
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  Speaker 1: of will by means of deliberately starving and inhibiting the
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  Speaker 1: lesser desires and objects of will which are found to
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  Speaker 1: interfere with the successful attainment of the big things. These
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  Speaker 1: books are recommended to your attention in case you feel
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  Speaker 1: the need of further and special instruction along the lines
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  Speaker 1: of balanced compensation. Most persons require such instruction, many fail
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  Speaker 1: by a lack of understanding of this great principle of life.
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  Speaker 1: Make a mental note of this axiom. The fifth and
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  Speaker 1: final step on the latter of attainment is that of
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  Speaker 1: balance determination, the stage of paying the price of attainment. Dot.
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  Speaker 1: Even though you have successfully climbed the four lower steps,
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  Speaker 1: yet you will fail of attainment if you are unable
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  Speaker 1: or unwilling to plant your foot firmly upon this fifth
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  Speaker 1: and final one. Unless you are willing to pay the price.
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  Speaker 1: Your definite ideals, your insistent desire, your confident expectation, your
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  Speaker 1: persistent determination be sufficiently strong and active, then the very
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  Speaker 1: force of their urge will often raise you up to
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  Speaker 1: this final step of the latter, and will make you
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  Speaker 1: willing and glad to pay the price. The secret of
• 3:39:16
  Speaker 1: the master formula, The master formula of attainment, which has
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  Speaker 1: been presented to you, is found to contain the quintessence
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  Speaker 1: of those dynamic forces of life and mind, known respectively
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  Speaker 1: as ideation, desire, faith, will, and balance. The simplicity of
• 3:39:33
  Speaker 1: the master formula may at first prevent you from fully
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  Speaker 1: realizing its tremendous importance. We trust, however, that you will
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  Speaker 1: mentally masticate and digest it, so that you may fully
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  Speaker 1: assimilate its great truths and effective ideas. The longer you
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  Speaker 1: consider it, the more you analyze and dissect it, the
• 3:39:50
  Speaker 1: more you synthesize its several elements into a working principle,
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  Speaker 1: the greater will be your appreciation of its value and efficacy.
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  Speaker 1: Hold fast to the master formula, for it will prove
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  Speaker 1: a tower of strength to you. We suggest that you
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  Speaker 1: visualize the diagram of it, which appears in the first
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  Speaker 1: portion of this book, directly facing the first page of
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  Speaker 1: reading matter. Make a mental picture of it, and let
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  Speaker 1: its statement be your working slogan. This is all that
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  Speaker 1: can be told you in the way of general directions.
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  Speaker 1: The details of the application must be worked out by yourself,
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  Speaker 1: But the forces which you have set into motion and
• 3:40:26
  Speaker 1: activity will render this task easy by awakening your subconscious
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  Speaker 1: and super conscious mental faculties, which will supply you with
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  Speaker 1: the necessary ideas and thoughts. The actual work must be
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  Speaker 1: done by yourself, but these awakened and aroused forces of
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  Speaker 1: your being will give you the strength and the power
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  Speaker 1: to do the work and accomplish the task. They will
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  Speaker 1: awaken an unsuspected second wind of power and energy within you,
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  Speaker 1: and will make you equal to the task. But above all,
• 3:40:52
  Speaker 1: your spirit must not weaken, and it will not weaken
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  Speaker 1: if you manifest the master formula of attainment of which
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  Speaker 1: we have just told you. You remember it definite ideals,
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  Speaker 1: insistent desire, confident expectation, persistent determination, and balanced compensation. Not
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  Speaker 1: only will the work of the materialization of the ideal
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  Speaker 1: proceed in the manner which we have repeatedly indicated in
• 3:41:16
  Speaker 1: this book, but you will also set into operation that
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  Speaker 1: wonderful law of nature called the law of attraction. This
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  Speaker 1: law operates in the direction of correlating you to the
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  Speaker 1: things serving to aid you in your work of materialization,
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  Speaker 1: and in attracting them to you. You will find things
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  Speaker 1: and persons, circumstances, and events gravitating towards you. As you proceed,
• 3:41:37
  Speaker 1: Nature's forces, one strongly set into operation, tend to attract
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  Speaker 1: to them that which they need for the full materialization
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  Speaker 1: of the idea. Involved in the process, the materials needed
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  Speaker 1: to fill in the picture, to fill the mold, to
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  Speaker 1: work out the pattern. All these will move toward the
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  Speaker 1: materializing ideal how you ask well, just as they do
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  Speaker 1: toward the idea in the acorn. As it proceeds to
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  Speaker 1: evolve into the oak tree, just as they do toward
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  Speaker 1: the well energized germ of life, from which evolves the
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  Speaker 1: final form of the adult, living creature. You are here
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  Speaker 1: setting into operation a great law of nature. Your own
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  Speaker 1: will come to you when you have aroused this law
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  Speaker 1: into activity. In these pages you have been asked to
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  Speaker 1: consider some great truths, to examine some tremendous principles, to
• 3:42:24
  Speaker 1: manifest some mighty powers of being, things far more potent
• 3:42:28
  Speaker 1: and potential than you now even begin to recognize or realize.
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  Speaker 1: As you proceed to manifest these in actual experience, the
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  Speaker 1: wonder will grow, rather than lessen. You will soon become
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  Speaker 1: conscious that you are in close contact with some of
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  Speaker 1: the most elemental and fundamental laws of nature and of
• 3:42:45
  Speaker 1: activities proceeding from that which lies back of and under nature.
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  Speaker 1: Herein you have had set before you some wonderful instruments
• 3:42:52
  Speaker 1: and machinery of being. Use them well, but do not
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  Speaker 1: misuse them. Do not trifle or play with them. If
• 3:42:59
  Speaker 1: you use them at all, use them earnestly and toward
• 3:43:02
  Speaker 1: definite and worthy ends. As we have said, these teachings
• 3:43:06
  Speaker 1: are not for weaklings nor for babes. They are for
• 3:43:09
  Speaker 1: full grown strong men and women, the true individuals of
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  Speaker 1: the race. They are for the fearless and the courageous,
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  Speaker 1: and they will make such still more fearless and still
• 3:43:19
  Speaker 1: more courageous. They will make their users stronger, better, and
• 3:43:24
  Speaker 1: more efficient. The end sought by all true individuals. Those
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  Speaker 1: who master these principles, who recognize, realize, and manifest the
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  Speaker 1: truth therein contained, They constitute the very elect of that
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  Speaker 1: world of true individuals which is now opening its hidden
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  Speaker 1: treasure to the race of strong individuals who are ready
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  Speaker 1: to inhabit it. The elements of these principles will constitute
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  Speaker 1: the stuff out of which the supermen will be made,
• 3:43:48
  Speaker 1: the supermen who will inherit the earth. We have passed
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  Speaker 1: on this message to you, charged with the spirit of
• 3:43:54
  Speaker 1: that which we wish to arouse within you. We trust
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  Speaker 1: that its vibrations will awaken responsive reriyth within your own being.
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  Speaker 1: We trust that our words will awaken in you definite
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  Speaker 1: ideals to achieve a certain end, insistent desire to express
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  Speaker 1: your inherent and latent powers, energies, and forces, and to
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  Speaker 1: manifest your real destiny, confident expectation which comes only to
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  Speaker 1: him or her who recognizes and realizes the truth in
• 3:44:19
  Speaker 1: thought and feeling, persistent determination, which will apply itself closely
• 3:44:24
  Speaker 1: to the task of realizing your ideals and manifesting your
• 3:44:27
  Speaker 1: latent and inherent powers of being and doing, and that
• 3:44:31
  Speaker 1: willingness to pay the price of balanced compensation for the
• 3:44:34
  Speaker 1: realization of your ideals. Above all, we trust that we
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  Speaker 1: have started you well on the road to the recognition, realization,
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  Speaker 1: and manifestation of that power from which all power proceeds,
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  Speaker 1: and of the focalized center of being in power of power,
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  Speaker 1: which is you, yourself, the I Am I, the master self,
• 3:44:53
  Speaker 1: the real self of you. If so, then you will
• 3:44:56
  Speaker 1: find yourself filled with the spirit of reality, conscious of
• 3:44:59
  Speaker 1: your own egohood, and intuitively in super consciously aware of
• 3:45:03
  Speaker 1: the power which is around you, under you, back of you,
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  Speaker 1: above you, and in you, and in which you live
• 3:45:09
  Speaker 1: and move and have your being, and which is your
• 3:45:11
  Speaker 1: eternal source of supply of personal power. If we have
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  Speaker 1: succeeded in our task, you will have advanced in the
• 3:45:18
  Speaker 1: scale of conscious being in existence. Your former fear has
• 3:45:22
  Speaker 1: given way to fearlessness, your former doubt to certainty, your
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  Speaker 1: former restless condition to poise and power, your former weakness
• 3:45:30
  Speaker 1: to strength. In that case, your battle cry will be changed.
• 3:45:35
  Speaker 1: You will plunge into the thick of the fight, filled
• 3:45:37
  Speaker 1: with the Bursuker's spirit of old, fearing nothing, sure of victory,
• 3:45:42
  Speaker 1: shouting your battle cry of freedom. I am, I I can,
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  Speaker 1: I will, I dare I do, You will plow your
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  Speaker 1: way through the ranks of the horde of ignorance and
• 3:45:52
  Speaker 1: negativity and triumphantly reach the victorious heights of the mount
• 3:45:55
  Speaker 1: of achievement. This is our message of personal power to you,
• 3:46:00
  Speaker 1: the individual who has found his real self and his
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  Speaker 1: source of power. We trust that its seed will find
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  Speaker 1: lodgment in fertile soil prepared for its reception, and that
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  Speaker 1: in due time it will send forth strong roots and
• 3:46:12
  Speaker 1: sturdy stalks from which will unfold stems and leaves and blossoms,
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  Speaker 1: and finally will bear the fruit of realization and achievement
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  Speaker 1: of that which for so long has been your ideal.
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  Speaker 1: Begin to day now to make your dreams come true,
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  Speaker 1: your ideals become real. You can, if you will, you
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  Speaker 1: will do, if you dare