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THE GOD IN YOU: Master Law of Attraction & Manifest Unlimited Success with Divine Power - Robert Collier · THE SECRET LAW OF ATTRACTION: Manifest Wealth, Success & Abundance

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Speaker 1: The God in You by Robert Collier prolog Why is
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Speaker 1: it that most of the great men of the world,
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Speaker 1: most of the unusually successful men, started life under a handicap. Demosthenes,
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Speaker 1: the greatest order the ancient world produced, stuttered the first
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Speaker 1: time he tried to make a public speech. He was
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Speaker 1: laughed off the rostrum. Julius Caesar was an epileptic. Napoleon
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Speaker 1: was of humble parentage and so poor that it was
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Speaker 1: with the greatest difficulty that he got his appointment to
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Speaker 1: the Military Academy. Far from being a born genius, he
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Speaker 1: stood forty six in his class at the Military Academy,
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Speaker 1: and there were only sixty five in the class. His
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Speaker 1: shortness of stature and extreme poverty discouraged him to such
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Speaker 1: an extent that in his early letters to friends he
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Speaker 1: frequently referred to thoughts of suicide. Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln,
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Speaker 1: Andrew Jackson, and a number of our presidents started life
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Speaker 1: in the poorest and humblest of homes, with little education
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Speaker 1: and no advantages. Stewart, who started what is now the
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Speaker 1: John Wannamaker Store, came to New York with one dollar
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Speaker 1: and fifty cents in his pocket and no place where
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Speaker 1: he could hope to get more until he himself earned it.
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Speaker 1: Thomas Edison was a newsboy on trains. Andrew Carnegie started
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Speaker 1: work at four dollars a month. John D. Rockefeller at
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Speaker 1: about six dollars a week. Rezikhan, who became Shah of Persia,
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Speaker 1: started as an ordinary trooper in the Persian Army. Mustapha Kemal,
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Speaker 1: ruler of Turkey, was an unknown officer in the Turkish Army. Ebert,
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Speaker 1: first president of Germany after World War One, was a
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Speaker 1: saddle maker. A number of our own presidents were born
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Speaker 1: in log cabins, without money, without education. Sando, the strongest
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Speaker 1: man of his time, started life as a weakling. Annette
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Speaker 1: Kellermann was lame and sickly, yet she became diving champion
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Speaker 1: and one of the world's most perfectly formed women. George
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Speaker 1: Jowett was lame and a weakling until he was eleven
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Speaker 1: years old. An older boy bullied him and beat him
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Speaker 1: until he aroused such a feeling of resentment in young
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Speaker 1: Jowett that he determined to work in exercise until he
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Speaker 1: could pay back that bully and kind. In two years,
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Speaker 1: he was able to beat the bully. In ten years
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Speaker 1: he was the world's strongest man. Why is it that
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Speaker 1: men with such handicaps can outstrip all of those naturally
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Speaker 1: favored by nature. Why is it that the well educated,
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Speaker 1: well trained men, with wealthy and influential friends to help them,
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Speaker 1: are so often pushed aside to make way for some
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Speaker 1: nobody whose family no one ever heard of, but whose
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Speaker 1: sheer ability and force make him a power to be
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Speaker 1: reckoned with. Why because men with early advantages are taught
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Speaker 1: to look to material things for success, to riches or friends,
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Speaker 1: or influence, or their own training or abilities, and when
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Speaker 1: these fail them, they are at a loss where to
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Speaker 1: turn next. But when a man has no special skill
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Speaker 1: or ability, or riches or influence, he has to look
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Speaker 1: to something outside these for success, something beyond material means.
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Speaker 1: So he turns to the God in him, to his
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Speaker 1: cell of the godmind, and of that cell he demands
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Speaker 1: that it bring him fame or fortune, or power or position.
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Speaker 1: What is more, if he continues to demand it with
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Speaker 1: persistent faith, he gets it. You see, in every adversity
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Speaker 1: there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat,
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Speaker 1: there is a lesson showing you how to win the
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Speaker 1: victory next.
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Speaker 2: Time.
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Speaker 1: The turning point in the lives of most successful men
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Speaker 1: has come at some moment of crisis, when everything looked dark,
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Speaker 1: when there seemed no way out. That was when they
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Speaker 1: turned to their inner selves, when they gave up hope
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Speaker 1: in material means and looked to the God in them
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Speaker 1: for help. That was when they were able to turn
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Speaker 1: each stumbling block into a stepping stone to success. Isn't
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Speaker 1: it strange that princes and kings and clowns that caper
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Speaker 1: in sawdust rings, and common folks like you and me
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Speaker 1: are builders for eternity. Each is given a bag of tools,
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Speaker 1: a shapeless mass, a book of rules, and each must
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Speaker 1: make ere life is flown a stumbling block or a
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Speaker 1: stepping stone. You are one with the great I Am
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Speaker 1: of the universe. You are part of God. Until you
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Speaker 1: realize that and the power it gives you, you will
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Speaker 1: never know God. We are parts of one stupendous whole
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Speaker 1: whose body nature is and God the soul. God has
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Speaker 1: incarnated himself in man. He seeks expression. Give him work
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Speaker 1: to do through you, give him a chance to express
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Speaker 1: himself in some useful way. And there is nothing beyond
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Speaker 1: your powers to do or to attain It matters not
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Speaker 1: what your age, what your present circumstances or position. If
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Speaker 1: you will seek your help outside your merely physical self.
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Speaker 1: If you will put the God and you into some
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Speaker 1: worth while endeavor, and then believe in him, you can
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Speaker 1: overcome any poverty, any handicap, any untoward circumstance, relying upon
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Speaker 1: your personal abilities or riches or friends. As being like
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Speaker 1: the heathen of old, whom the prophet of the Lord taunted,
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Speaker 1: You have a god whom you must carry, he derided them,
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Speaker 1: we have a god who carries us. The God of
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Speaker 1: personal ability or material riches or friends is one that
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Speaker 1: you must continually carry. Drop him, and immediately you lose everything.
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Speaker 1: But there is a God in you who will carry
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Speaker 1: you and in the doing of it, provide you with
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Speaker 1: every good thing this world can supply. The purpose of
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Speaker 1: this book is to acquaint you with this God in you,
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Speaker 1: the God that only the fortunate few know, as the
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Speaker 1: poet so well expressed it, in your own self lies destiny.
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Speaker 1: Let this vast truth cast out all fear and prejudice,
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Speaker 1: all hesitation. Know that you are great, great with divinity.
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Speaker 1: So dominate environment and enter into bliss. Love largely, and
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Speaker 1: hate nothing hold no aim that does not chord with
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Speaker 1: universal good. Hear what the voices of the silence say.
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Speaker 1: All joys are yours. If you put forth your claim once,
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Speaker 1: let the spiritual laws be understood. Material things must answer
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Speaker 1: and obey. Some might think that merely a poet's dream,
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Speaker 1: But along comes doctor J. Be Rhine of Duke University
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Speaker 1: to prove its scientific fact as well. In his new
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Speaker 1: book The Reach of the Mind, doctor Rhine points out
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Speaker 1: that in the past, science seemed to feel that man
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Speaker 1: was entirely material. It had discovered how glands regulate personality
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Speaker 1: through their chemical secretions. It had shown that the child
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Speaker 1: mind matures only as the brain develops, that certain mental
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Speaker 1: functions are linked with specific areas of the brain, and
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Speaker 1: that if one of these is injured, the corresponding mental
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Speaker 1: function is lost. So science believed that it had accounted
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Speaker 1: for all the processes of thought and action, that it
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Speaker 1: could show a mattery ferial basis for each. But now
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Speaker 1: doctor Rhine and other experimenters have proved that knowledge can
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Speaker 1: be acquired without the use of the senses. Not only that,
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Speaker 1: but they have also proved that the powers of the
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Speaker 1: mind are not bound by space or limited by time.
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Speaker 1: Perhaps their greatest discovery is that the mind can influence
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Speaker 1: matter without physical means. This has been done through prayer,
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Speaker 1: of course, since time began, but such results have always
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Speaker 1: been looked upon as supernatural. Doctor Rhine and other experimenters
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Speaker 1: show that any normal person has the power to influence
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Speaker 1: objects and events to quote the reach of the mind.
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Speaker 1: As a result of thousands of experimental trials, we found
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Speaker 1: it to be a fact that the mind has a
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Speaker 1: force that can act on matter. There must therefore be
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Speaker 1: an energy convertible to physical action, a mental energy. The
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Speaker 1: one great essential to the successful use of this mental
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Speaker 1: energy seems to be intense interest or desire. The more
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Speaker 1: keyed up a person is, the more eager for results,
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Speaker 1: the more he can influence those results. Doctor Rine showed
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Speaker 1: through many experiments that when the subject's interest is distracted,
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Speaker 1: when he lacks ability to concentrate his attention, his mental
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Speaker 1: energy has little or no power over outside objects. It
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Speaker 1: is only as he gives his entire attention to the
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Speaker 1: object in mind, as he concentrates his every energy upon it,
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Speaker 1: that he gets successful results. Doctor Rine's experiments prove scientifically
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Speaker 1: what we have always believed, that there is a power
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Speaker 1: over and above the merely physical power of the mind
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Speaker 1: or body, that through intense concentration or desire we can
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Speaker 1: link up with that power, and that once we do,
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Speaker 1: nothing is impossible to us. It means, in short, that
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Speaker 1: man is not at the mercy of blind chance or fate,
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Speaker 1: that he can control his own destiny. Science is at
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Speaker 1: last proving what religion has taught from the beginning, that
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Speaker 1: God gave man dominion, and that he has only to
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Speaker 1: understand and use this tomas to become the master of
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Speaker 1: his fate, the captain of his soul. Body and mind
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Speaker 1: and spirit all combine to make the creature human and
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Speaker 1: divine of this great Trinity. No part deny. Affirm, Affirm
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Speaker 1: the great Eternal Eye. Affirm the body, beautiful and whole,
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Speaker 1: the earth expression of immortal soul. Affirm the mind, the
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Speaker 1: messenger of the hour, to speed between thee and the
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Speaker 1: source of power. Affirm the Spirit, the eternal Eye of
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Speaker 1: this great Trinity. No part deny, Ellow Wheeler Wilcox. The
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Speaker 1: God in You by Robert Collier, Chapter one, The God
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Speaker 1: in You. The Declaration of Independence starts with the preamble
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Speaker 1: that all men are born free and equal. But how
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Speaker 1: many believe that when one child is born in a
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Speaker 1: park avenue home, with doctors and nurses and servants to
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Speaker 1: attend to his slightest want, with tutors and colleges to
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Speaker 1: educate him, with riches and influence to start in his career,
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Speaker 1: how can he be said to be born equal to
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Speaker 1: the child of the ghetto, who has difficulty getting enough
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Speaker 1: air to breathe, to say nothing of food to eat,
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Speaker 1: and whose waking hours are so taken up with the
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Speaker 1: struggle for existence that he has no time to acquire
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Speaker 1: much in the way of education. Yet in that which
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Speaker 1: counts most, these two are born equal, for they have
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Speaker 1: equal access to the God in themselves, equal chance to
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Speaker 1: give him means of expression. More than that, the God
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Speaker 1: in one is just as powerful as the God in
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Speaker 1: the other, for both are part of that all powerful
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Speaker 1: God of the universe who rules the world. In effect,
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Speaker 1: we are each of us individual cells in the great
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Speaker 1: mind of the universe, the God Mind. We can draw
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Speaker 1: upon the mind of the universe in exactly the same
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Speaker 1: way that any cell in our own body draws upon
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Speaker 1: our brain for whatever it needs outside its immediate surroundings.
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Speaker 1: All men are born free and equal, just as all
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Speaker 1: the cells in your body are equal. Some of these
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Speaker 1: cells may seem to be more fortunately situated than others,
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Speaker 1: being placed in fatty portions of the body, where they
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Speaker 1: are so surrounded with nourishment that they seem assured of
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Speaker 1: everything they can need for their natural lives. Others may
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Speaker 1: be in hard worked parts, where they are continually having
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Speaker 1: to draw upon the lymph around them and through it
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Speaker 1: upon the blood stream and the heart, and where it
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Speaker 1: seems as though they cannot be sure of sustenance from
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Speaker 1: one day to the next. Still others may be in
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Speaker 1: little used and apparently forgotten parts, where they seem to
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Speaker 1: have been left to dry up and starve, as in
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Speaker 1: a scalp of the head, when the hair falls out
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Speaker 1: and the fatty tissue of the scalp dries, leaving the
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Speaker 1: cells there to shrivel and die. Yet, despite their apparent
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Speaker 1: differences in surroundings and opportunity, all these cells are equal.
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Speaker 1: All can draw upon every element in the body for sustenance.
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Speaker 1: At need to see how it is done, Let us
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Speaker 1: take a single nerve cell in our own brain and
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Speaker 1: see how it works. Look up the diagram of a
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Speaker 1: typical nerve cell in any medical work and what do
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Speaker 1: you find. From one side of the cell, A long
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Speaker 1: fire fiber extends, which makes connection with some part of
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Speaker 1: the skin or some group of cells, such as a muscle.
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Speaker 1: This fiber is part of the nerve cell. It is
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Speaker 1: the telephone line carrying orders or stimuli from the cell
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Speaker 1: to the muscle it controls, or from the sensory nerve
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Speaker 1: in the skin to the cell in the brain. Thoughts, emotions,
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Speaker 1: desires all send impulses to the nerves controlling the muscles
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Speaker 1: concerned and provide the stimuli which set these muscles in action,
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Speaker 1: thus transforming nervous energy into muscular energy. So if you
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Speaker 1: have a desire which requires the action of only a
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Speaker 1: single muscle, what happens. Your desire takes the form of
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Speaker 1: an impulse to the nerve cell controlling that muscle. The
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Speaker 1: order travels along the cell fiber to the muscle, which
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Speaker 1: promptly acts in accord with the stimulus given it, and
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Speaker 1: your desire is satisfied. But suppose your desire requires the
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Speaker 1: action of more than one muscle. Suppose it needs the
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Speaker 1: united power of every muscle in the body. So far
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Speaker 1: we have used only the long nerve fiber or telephone
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Speaker 1: line connecting the nerve cell with the muscle it controls.
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Speaker 1: But on the other side of each nerve cell are
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Speaker 1: short fibers, apparently ending in space, and as long as
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Speaker 1: the nerves are at rest, these fibers do lie in space.
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Speaker 1: But when you stir up the nerve cells, when you
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Speaker 1: give them a job that is greater than the muscles
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Speaker 1: that their command can manage, then these short fibers go
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Speaker 1: into action. Then they bestir themselves to some purpose. They
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Speaker 1: dig into the nerve cells near them. They wake these
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Speaker 1: and stimulate them in turn to stir up those on
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Speaker 1: the other sides of them, until if necessary, every cell
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Speaker 1: in the brain is twitching, and every muscle in the
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Speaker 1: body working to accomplish the job you command. That is
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Speaker 1: what happens in your body if even a single cell
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Speaker 1: in your brain desires something strongly enough, persistently enough to
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Speaker 1: hold to its purpose until it gets what it wants,
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Speaker 1: And that is what happens in the God body. When
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Speaker 1: you put the same persistence into your desires, you see,
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Speaker 1: you are a cell in the God body of the universe,
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Speaker 1: just as every cell in you is a part of
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Speaker 1: your body. When you work with your hands, your feet,
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Speaker 1: your muscles, you are using only the muscles immediately connected
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Speaker 1: with your brain cells. When you work with the money
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Speaker 1: you have, the riches or friends or influence you control,
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Speaker 1: you are using only the means immediately connected to your
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Speaker 1: brain cell in the mind of God, And that is
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Speaker 1: so infinitesimally small a part of the means and resources
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Speaker 1: at the command of that great God mind. It is
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Speaker 1: just as though you tried to do all the work
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Speaker 1: required of your body to day by using only the
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Speaker 1: tiniest muscle in your little finger, when by stirring up
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Speaker 1: the surrounding nerve cells, you could just as well draw
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Speaker 1: upon the power of the whole mind, or of the
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Speaker 1: entire body, if that were needed. It is as though
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Speaker 1: one of your nerve cells undertook to do the work
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Speaker 1: of the whole body and tried, with the single muscle
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Speaker 1: at its command to do it. You think that foolish.
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Speaker 1: If one tiny nerve cell out of the billions in
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Speaker 1: your brain undertook any such gigantic job, you'd know it
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Speaker 1: was hopeless that no one sell and no one muscle
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Speaker 1: could ever accomplish all that work. Yet you, as a
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Speaker 1: single cell in the godmind, have often attempted just as
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Speaker 1: impossible jobs when all you had to do to accomplish
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Speaker 1: everything you desired was to stir into action the cells
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Speaker 1: around you. How can you do this in the same
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Speaker 1: way that any cell in your own brain does it pray,
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Speaker 1: In other words, get an urgent, insistent desire. The first
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Speaker 1: principle of success is desire, knowing what you want. Desire
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Speaker 1: is the planting of your seed. It needs cultivation, of course,
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Speaker 1: but the first important step is the planting. Desire stirs
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Speaker 1: the nerve cells in your brain to use the muscles
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Speaker 1: under their control to do the work required of them.
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Speaker 1: Desire will set your nerve cell in the godmind vibrating,
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Speaker 1: using the muscle under its command, and stirring into action
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Speaker 1: all the nerve cells around it, until they two are
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Speaker 1: working with you to bring about the thing you wish.
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Speaker 1: That is the reason it was said in the Vedas
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Speaker 1: thousands of years ago that if any two people would
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Speaker 1: unite their psychic forces, they could conquer the world. That
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Speaker 1: is the reason Jesus told us, if two of you
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Speaker 1: shall agree as touching anything they shall ask, it shall
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Speaker 1: be done unto them. For when two or three are
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Speaker 1: gathered together in my name, there am I in the
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Speaker 1: midst of them, and I shall grant their request. When
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Speaker 1: two or more nerve cells unite for a certain action,
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Speaker 1: they get that action, even if to bring it about
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Speaker 1: they have to draw upon every cell in the whole
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Speaker 1: body for help. This does not mean that anything is
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Speaker 1: impossible to a single cell or a single person, merely
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Speaker 1: that when two or more are united for a common purpose,
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Speaker 1: the results are easier. But there is no good thing
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Speaker 1: any man can ask believing that he cannot get. In
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Speaker 1: the first chapter Sure of Genesis, it is written that
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Speaker 1: God gave man dominion over the earth.
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Speaker 2: And it is true. It is just as true.
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Speaker 1: As that any nerve cell in your whole body has
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Speaker 1: dominion over your body. If you doubt it, let one
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Speaker 1: nerve be sufficiently irritated, and see how quickly it puts
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Speaker 1: every nerve in your body to work to remove that irritation.
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Speaker 1: One nerve cell in your body with a strongly held
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Speaker 1: purpose can bring into action every cell in your body
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Speaker 1: to accomplish that purpose. One nerve cell in the god body.
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Speaker 1: In other words, one man or woman with a strongly
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Speaker 1: held purpose can bring into action every cell in the universe,
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Speaker 1: if these be necessary to the accomplishment of that purpose.
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Speaker 1: Does that mean anything to you? Does it mean anything
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Speaker 1: to know that the words of prophets and seers are true,
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Speaker 1: that the promises of the scriptures can be depended upon,
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Speaker 1: that there really is a power in the universe that
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Speaker 1: responds to the urge of the lowliest man or woman
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Speaker 1: just as readily as to the command of the highest.
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Speaker 1: The world is yours. It matters not whether you be
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Speaker 1: prince or pauper, blue blooded or red, white skinned, black,
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Speaker 1: yellow or brown. The God body of the universe makes
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Speaker 1: no more distinction between cells than do you in responding
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Speaker 1: to the impulses of the nerve cells in your own body.
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Speaker 1: Rich or poor, it's all one to you, highly placed
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Speaker 1: or low. One can cause you as much trouble or
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Speaker 1: give you as great satisfaction as another, And the same
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Speaker 1: is true of the God body.
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Speaker 2: Of the universe.
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Speaker 1: All men are created free and equal, All remain free
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Speaker 1: and equal nerve cells in the godmind of the universe.
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Speaker 1: The only difference lies in our understanding of the power
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Speaker 1: that is ours. How much understanding have you and what
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Speaker 1: are you doing to increase it? Seek first understanding, and
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Speaker 1: all things else shall be added. Unto you easier to
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Speaker 1: believe that now isn't it. With the right understanding, you
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Speaker 1: could run the world? Can you think of anything more
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Speaker 1: important than acquiring understanding? What turned the complaining, discouraged, poverty
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Speaker 1: stricken in quite ordinary young Bonaparte into the greatest military
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Speaker 1: genius of his age, man of destiny and master of
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Speaker 1: most of Europe? The talisman of Napoleon, the talisman of
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Speaker 1: every great and successful man. The only talisman that will
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Speaker 1: stir the whole body of the universe into action is
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Speaker 1: the same talisman as that needed to put the entire
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Speaker 1: physical body at the service of any one nerve cell.
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Speaker 1: A purpose so strongly held that life or death or
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Speaker 1: anything else seems of small consequence. Beside it, a purpose
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Speaker 1: and the persistent determination to hold to it until it
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Speaker 1: is accomplished. Love sometimes makes such a talisman, the love
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Speaker 1: that goes out to dare all and do all for
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Speaker 1: the loved one. Greed oftentimes brings it into being, hence
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Speaker 1: many of the great fortunes of to day. The lust
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Speaker 1: for power is a potent talisman that has animated men
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Speaker 1: since time. Being Greater still is the zeal of one
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Speaker 1: who would convert the world. That talisman has carried men
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Speaker 1: through fire and flood into every danger and over every obstacle.
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Speaker 1: Look how Mohammed, a lowly camel driver, became the ruler
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Speaker 1: of and profit to millions. Faith in charms, belief in luck,
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Speaker 1: utter confidence in another's leadership. All are talismans of greater
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Speaker 1: or lesser power. But the greatest of all is belief
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Speaker 1: in the God inside you. Belief in its power to
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Speaker 1: in a definite purpose it came here to fulfill, and
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Speaker 1: which can be fulfilled only through you. Have you such
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Speaker 1: a faith if not get it? For without such a faith,
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Speaker 1: life is purposeless, meaningless. What is more, until you lay
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Speaker 1: hold of that talisman, life will never bring anything worth
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Speaker 1: while to you. What was it one for grant over
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Speaker 1: his more brilliant opponents, the grim, dogged, persistent purpose to
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Speaker 1: fight it out along those lines? If it took all summer.
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Speaker 1: What is it that has made England victor in so
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Speaker 1: many of her wars, in spite of a nept leadership
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Speaker 1: fight is won. What was it that wore out the
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Speaker 1: unjust judge in the parable that Jesus told, And he
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Speaker 1: spake a parable unto them to this end that man
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Speaker 1: ought always to pray and not to faint, saying there
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Speaker 1: was in a city a judge which feared not God,
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Speaker 1: neither regarded man. And there was a widow in that city,
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Speaker 1: and she came unto him, saying, avenge me on mine adversary.
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Speaker 1: And he would not for a while. But afterward he said,
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Speaker 1: within himself, though I fear not God nor regard man. Yet,
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Speaker 1: because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest
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Speaker 1: by her continual coming she weary me. And the Lord said,
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Speaker 1: hear what the unjust judge seth. And shall not God
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Speaker 1: avenge his own elect which cry day and night unto him,
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Speaker 1: though he bear long with them. If the nerve in
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Speaker 1: a tooth keeps crying out that a cavity in that
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Speaker 1: tooth needs attention, won't you finally drop everything and seek
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Speaker 1: out a dentist who can satisfy that nerve's needs. And
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Speaker 1: if any other nerve prays continuously for attention, won't you
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Speaker 1: do likewise with it? Well, you are a nerve in
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Speaker 1: the God body. If you have an urgent need and
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Speaker 1: keep praying and insisting in demanding the remedy. Don't you
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Speaker 1: suppose you will get it? Just as surely, a definite
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Speaker 1: purpose held to in the face of every discouragement and failure,
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Speaker 1: in spite of all obstacles in opposition, will win no
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Speaker 1: matter what the odds. It is the one nerve cell
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Speaker 1: working against the indifference, the inertia, or even the active
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Speaker 1: opposition of the entire group. If the cell is easily discouraged,
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Speaker 1: it will fail. If it is willing to wait indefinitely,
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Speaker 1: it will have to wait. But if it keeps stirring
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Speaker 1: up the cell's next to it and stimulating them to
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Speaker 1: stir those beyond, eventually the entire nerve system will go
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Speaker 1: into action and bring about the result that single cell desires,
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Speaker 1: even if it be only to rid itself of the
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Speaker 1: constant irritation. You have seen young fellows determined to go
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Speaker 1: to college. You have thought them foolish in the face
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Speaker 1: of the obstacles facing them. Yet when they persisted, you
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Speaker 1: know how often those obstacles have won by one magically disappeared,
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Speaker 1: until presently they found themselves with the fruition of their desires.
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Speaker 1: A strongly held purpose persisted in believed in is as
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Speaker 1: sure to win in the end as the Moro's sun
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Speaker 1: is to rise. An earnest prayer is to the God body,
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Speaker 1: what a throbbing nerve is to yours. Hold to it,
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Speaker 1: insist upon it, and it is just as sure of
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Speaker 1: a hearing. But remember he that wavereth is like the
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Speaker 1: wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.
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Speaker 1: Yet not that man think that he shall receive anything
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Speaker 1: of the Lord. All are born free and equal. All
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Speaker 1: may not start with the same amount of wealth or
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Speaker 1: opportunity immediately available to them, but all can go to
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Speaker 1: the source of these and get just as much of
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Speaker 1: them as is necessary to satisfy their desires. We are
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Speaker 1: surrounded by riches. We have available unlimited wealth, but we
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Speaker 1: have to learn how to draw it to us. Years ago,
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Speaker 1: at Kimberly in South Africa, a poor boar farmer tried
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Speaker 1: to glean a living out of the rocky soil. His
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Speaker 1: boys oftentimes picked up pieces of dirty looking crystal and
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Speaker 1: used them as pebbles to throw at some wandering sheep.
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Speaker 1: After years of fruitless effort, the farmer abandoned his attempts
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Speaker 1: to make a living out of this rocky soil and
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Speaker 1: moved to a more fertile spot. Today, the farm he
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Speaker 1: tried so hard to cultivate is the sight of the
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Speaker 1: Kimberly Diamond Mines, one of the richest spots on the
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Speaker 1: face of the globe. And the bits of dirty crystal
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Speaker 1: that his boys threw at the sheep turned out to
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Speaker 1: be diamonds in the rough. Most of us are like
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Speaker 1: that poor boar farmer. We strive and struggle, and frequently
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Speaker 1: give up because of ignorance of our powers, ignorance of
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Speaker 1: the good things around us. We remain in poverty until
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Speaker 1: a long comes someone and shows that we were standing
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Speaker 1: on a diamond mine all the time. Russell Conwell tells
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Speaker 1: the story of a Pennsylvania farmer whose brother went to
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Speaker 1: Canada and became an oil driller. Fired with the brother's
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Speaker 1: tales of sudden wealth, the farmer sold his land and
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Speaker 1: went to Canada to make his fortune. The new owner,
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Speaker 1: in looking over the farm, found that where the cattle
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Speaker 1: came to drink from a little creek, a board had
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Speaker 1: been put across the water to hold back a heavy
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Speaker 1: scum which was washed down by the rains from the
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Speaker 1: ground above. He examined this scum and thought it smelled
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Speaker 1: like oil. So he had some experts come out and
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Speaker 1: looked the ground over. It proved to be one of
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Speaker 1: the richest oil fields in the state of Pennsylvania. What
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Speaker 1: riches are you overlooking? What opportunities? Tunity, says a famous writer,
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Speaker 1: is like oxygen. It is so plentiful that we fairly
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Speaker 1: breathe it. All that is necessary is a receptive mind,
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Speaker 1: a willingness to try, and the persistence to see things through.
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Speaker 1: There is some one thing that you can do better
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Speaker 1: than anyone else. There is some line of work in
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Speaker 1: which you can excel if you will just find that
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Speaker 1: one thing and spend all your time and effort in
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Speaker 1: learning to do it supremely well, don't worry if it
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Speaker 1: seems to be some humble thing that anyone ought to
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Speaker 1: be able to do. In a magazine some time ago,
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Speaker 1: there was the story of a Polish immigrant who could
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Speaker 1: speak scarcely a word of English, who had no trade
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Speaker 1: or training, and had to take any sort of job
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Speaker 1: that offered. He happened to get one in a nursery,
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Speaker 1: digging up dirt for the flowers. He dug so well
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Speaker 1: that soon he was attending to the planting of many
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Speaker 1: of the commoner varieties of flowers. Among these were the paeonies.
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Speaker 1: He loved those big paeonies, gave them such careful attention
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Speaker 1: that they thrived and grew more beautiful than ever. Soon
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Speaker 1: his paeonies began to attract attention. The demand for them
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Speaker 1: grew until he had to double and then quadruple the
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Speaker 1: space devoted to them. Today he is half owner of
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Speaker 1: that nursery. Two artists opened an office together, doing any
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Speaker 1: he happened to do cartoons for people, the results were
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Speaker 1: so effective that they came back for more. So he
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Speaker 1: made an especial study of cartoon drawing. Today, his earnings
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Speaker 1: are in the twenty five thousand dollar class, while his
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Speaker 1: fellow artist is still barely making ends meet as a
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Speaker 1: jack of all trades. A retail clerk found that she
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Speaker 1: had a special gift for satisfying complaining customers. She liked
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Speaker 1: to straighten out the snarls that others had caused, and
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Speaker 1: she did it so well that she soon attracted the
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Speaker 1: attention of her employers. Today she is head of the
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Speaker 1: complaint department. There is the switchboard operator with the pleasing
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Speaker 1: voice the reception clerk with the cheery smile, the salesman
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Speaker 1: with the convincing manner, the secretary with the knack of
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Speaker 1: saving the boss time, the drummer with the jolly manner.
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Speaker 1: Every one of us has something. Find out what one
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Speaker 1: thing you can do best, cultivate it, and you can
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Speaker 1: be the biggest man in that line in the world.
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Speaker 1: Success is where you are and within yourself. Don't try
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Speaker 1: to imitate what someone else is doing. Develop what you have.
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Speaker 1: There is something in you that will enable you to
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Speaker 1: reach the top in some one line. Put the spotlight
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Speaker 1: on your own characteristics, your own abilities. Find what you
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Speaker 1: can do best, what people like you best for, then
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Speaker 1: cultivate that. When the great comstock load was first discovered,
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Speaker 1: a fortune was taken out of it. Then the you
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Speaker 1: or petered out. The owners presently gave up and sold
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Speaker 1: out to a new group. These men spent several hundred
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Speaker 1: thousand dollars in a fruitless attempt to locate the rich load,
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Speaker 1: and they two were ready to give up, but someone
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Speaker 1: thought to try a borehole to the side of one
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Speaker 1: of the entries and struck an almost solid mass of
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Speaker 1: or so rich that nearly three hundred million dollars was
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Speaker 1: taken from it. In the early days of the prairie farms,
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Speaker 1: newcomers were frequently able to buy for a song the
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Speaker 1: homesteads of the original settlers, because the latter had been
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Speaker 1: able to find no water. They had dug wells, but
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Speaker 1: had been unable to reach the streams beneath. Oftentimes, however,
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Speaker 1: by digging only a few feet further, the newcomers found
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Speaker 1: water in abundance. The first settlers had quit when success
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Speaker 1: was almost within their grasp. The greatest success usually comes
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Speaker 1: from one step beyond the point where defeat overtook you.
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Speaker 1: He who loses wealth loses much, says an old proverb.
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Speaker 1: He who loses a friend loses more, but he who
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Speaker 1: loses his courage loses everything. Three things educators try to
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Speaker 1: instill into children, first knowledge, second judgment, third persistence, And
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Speaker 1: the greatest of these is persistence. Many a man has
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Speaker 1: succeeded without education, many even without good judgment. But none
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Speaker 1: has ever got anywhere worth while without persistence, without a
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Speaker 1: over obstacles through discouragements to the goal of his heart's desire,
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Speaker 1: nothing in the world can take the place of persistence,
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Speaker 1: said Calvin Coolidge. Talent will not. Nothing is more common
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Speaker 1: than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius
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Speaker 1: is almost a proverb. Education will not. The world is
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Speaker 1: The slogan press on has solved and always will solve
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Speaker 1: years ago on those who succeed and his figures showed
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Speaker 1: that of four thousand and forty three multimillionaires in this
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Speaker 1: country at that time, only sixty nine had even a
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Speaker 1: high school education. They lacked money, they lacked training, but
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Speaker 1: they had the urge to get somewhere, the persistence to
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Speaker 1: keep trying, and they succeeded. Compare that with the figures
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Speaker 1: Conwell gathered on the sons of rich men. Only one
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Speaker 1: in seventeen died wealthy, lacking incentive, having no urge within
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Speaker 1: them to get ahead, they not only failed to make
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Speaker 1: essential of success is a feeling of lack, a need,
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Speaker 1: a desire, for something you have not got. It is
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Speaker 1: the powerlessness of the cripple or invalid that makes him
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Speaker 1: long for strength, gives him the necessary persistence to work
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Speaker 1: for it until he gets it. It is the poverty
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Speaker 1: and misery of their existence that makes the children of
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Speaker 1: the ghetto long for wealth and gives them the persistence
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Speaker 1: You need that same urgent desire, that same determination and
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Speaker 1: persistence if you are to get what you want from life.
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Speaker 1: You need to realize that whatever it is you want
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Speaker 1: of life, it is there for the taking. You need
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Speaker 1: to know that you are a cell in the godmind,
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Speaker 1: and that through this godmind, you can put the whole
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Speaker 1: universe to work, if necessary, to bring about the accomplishment
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Speaker 1: of your desire. But don't waste that vast power on trifles.
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Speaker 1: Don't be like the fable of the woodsman, who, having
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Speaker 1: the task she set him, was told that he might
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Speaker 1: have in reward any three things he asked for. Being
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Speaker 1: very hungry, he promptly asked for a good meal. That eaten,
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Speaker 1: He noticed that the wind was blowing up cold, so
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Speaker 1: he asked for a warm cloak. With his stomach full
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Speaker 1: and a warm cloak about him, he felt sleepy, so
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Speaker 1: he asked for a comfortable bed to lie upon, and
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Speaker 1: are like that. We put the mountain in labor just
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Speaker 1: to bring forth a mouse. We strive and strain and
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Speaker 1: we were before. Demand much set a worthwhile goal. Remember
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Speaker 1: the old poem by Jesse b Rittenhouse from the Door
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Speaker 1: of Dreams, published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. I bargained
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Speaker 1: with life for a penny, and Life would pay no more. However,
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Speaker 1: I begged at evening when I counted my scanty store.
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Speaker 1: For life is a just employer. He gives you what
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Speaker 1: you ask. But once you have set the wages, why
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Speaker 1: you must bear the task. I worked for a menial's hire,
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Speaker 1: only to learn dismayed that any wage I had asked
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Speaker 1: of life, Life would have paid. Don't you be foolish
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Speaker 1: itself to give you what you want. The purpose of life,
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Speaker 1: from the very beginning has been dominion, dominion over every
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Speaker 1: adverse circumstance, and through his part of dominion, his nerves
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Speaker 1: sell in the mind of God, and his ability through
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Speaker 1: it to get whatever action he may persistently demand. Man
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Speaker 1: has dominion over everything. There is a spark of divinity
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Speaker 1: in you. What are you doing to fan it into flame?
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Speaker 1: Are you giving it a chance to grow, to express itself,
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Speaker 1: to become an all consuming fire? Are you giving it
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Speaker 1: greater worlds to conquer? Or are you letting it slumber neglected,
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Speaker 1: or perhaps even smothering it with doubt and fear? And
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Speaker 1: God said, let us make man in our image after
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Speaker 1: fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air,
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Speaker 1: and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and
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Speaker 1: over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. Do
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Speaker 1: you know what is the unpardonable sin in all of nature?
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Speaker 1: Read the following chapters and you will see affirmation. And
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Speaker 1: every morning I will say, there's something happy on the way,
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Speaker 1: And God sends love to me. God is the light
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Speaker 1: of my life, the source of my knowledge and inspiration.
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Speaker 1: God in the midst of me knows. He provides me
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Speaker 1: with food for my thoughts, ideas for excellent service, clear perception,
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Speaker 1: divine intelligence. The God in you by Robert Collier, Chapter two.
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Speaker 1: The goal of life. Mind is the master power that
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Speaker 1: molds and makes. And man is mind. And evermore he
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Speaker 1: takes the tool of thought and shaping what he wills,
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Speaker 1: brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand and ills. He
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Speaker 1: thinks in secret, and it comes to pass. Environment is
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Speaker 1: but his looking glass James Allen. In the beginning, God
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Speaker 1: created the heaven and earth, and the earth was without
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Speaker 1: face of the waters. And God said, in the beginning
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Speaker 1: was mind energy without form, without direction, like so much
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Speaker 1: static electricity. Then came the word the mental image, to
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Speaker 1: make all that power dynamic, to give it form and direction.
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Speaker 1: What matters at the form it took first. So long
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Speaker 1: as it had definite direction, it required an intelligence to
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Speaker 1: give it shape. That is the first great fact of
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Speaker 1: the scriptures, not that the heavens and earth were created
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Speaker 1: or light brought forth, but that any form presupposes a
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Speaker 1: you have an earth or a flower without an intelligence
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Speaker 1: In the beginning, not merely was the earth without form
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Speaker 1: and void, but the whole universe was the same way,
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Speaker 1: just as the interspaces of the universe are today. Everything
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Speaker 1: was static energy in flux. But the spirit of God
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Speaker 1: moved upon the face of the waters, and God said,
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Speaker 1: let there be light. Saint John puts it in the
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Speaker 1: beginning was the word, and the word was with God,
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Speaker 1: and the word was God. And what is the word?
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Speaker 1: As often mentioned before, a word is not a mere
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Speaker 1: sound issuing from the lips or so many letters written
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Speaker 1: by hand. A word is a mental concept, an idea,
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Speaker 1: an image. In the beginning was the mental image. Read
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Speaker 1: over that first chapter of Genesis, and you will see
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Speaker 1: that in everything God created. The word came first, then
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Speaker 1: the material form the word had to come first. You
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Speaker 1: cannot build a house without first having a clear image
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Speaker 1: of the house you are going to build. You cannot
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Speaker 1: make anything without first conceiving a mental image of the
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Speaker 1: thing to be created. Not even God could do that.
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Speaker 1: So when God said, let the earth bring forth grass,
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Speaker 1: he had in mind a clear mental picture of what
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Speaker 1: grass was like. As the scriptures put it, the Lord
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Speaker 1: God made the earth and the heavens, and every plant
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Speaker 1: of the field before it was in the earth, and
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Speaker 1: every herd of the field before it grew. First the word,
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Speaker 1: the mental image, then the creation. It requires intelligence to
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Speaker 1: form a mental concept. The animals cannot do it. They
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Speaker 1: can recall images of things they have seen, they cannot
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Speaker 1: conceive concepts from pure ideas. So, as stated above, creation
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Speaker 1: presupposes a mental image, and a mental image means a
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Speaker 1: a reading of the scripture's forces upon us, And the
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Speaker 1: second is that like reproduces like. Go over that first
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Speaker 1: six different times is the assertion repeated that everything reproduces
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Speaker 1: creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind.
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Speaker 1: Then God made man in his own image, after his likeness.
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Speaker 1: Notice that, after telling us repeatedly that everything reproduced after
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Speaker 1: God made man in his own image. That can mean
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Speaker 1: only one thing, that man, too is a god. For
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Speaker 1: throughout all nature, hybrids are sterile. Nothing can breed out
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Speaker 1: of its own kind. Different races, different strains of the
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Speaker 1: same species can interbreed, but all must be of the
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Speaker 1: same kind. So when God made man in his own
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Speaker 1: image and bade him be fruitful and multiply, he thereby
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Speaker 1: showed that man was no hybrid, but of the true
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Speaker 1: breed of God. And to prove it he gave man
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Speaker 1: dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
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Speaker 1: fowl of the air, and over every living thing that
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Speaker 1: earth and subdue it, and have dominion. Simple instructions and
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Speaker 1: easily carried out in part But as for subduing the
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Speaker 1: earth and having dominion over it, mankind is still in
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Speaker 1: the primer class. Yet if man is a god, and
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Speaker 1: he is, then he can do it, and anything so
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Speaker 1: worth while as that, is worth all our effort to
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Speaker 1: learn how to do. For if we are gods and
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Speaker 1: true sons of God, as the scriptures frequently assure us,
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Speaker 1: then we must possess all the properties of God. We
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Speaker 1: must be creators. Then why don't we create happier conditions?
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Speaker 1: Why don't we do away with poverty and disease and
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Speaker 1: all unhappiness? Why because it takes understanding and faith to
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Speaker 1: use our powers, and so few have the patience to
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Speaker 1: doctors or lawyers or engineers, and they will start the
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Speaker 1: practice of their professions in fear and trembling, realizing that
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Speaker 1: it will be years before they will have gained enough
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Speaker 1: practical knowledge from experience to be really competent in their work.
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Speaker 1: Yet they will read a book or two on psychology
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Speaker 1: or some of the mental sciences, and if they cannot
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Speaker 1: put the principles into practice next day, they give up
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Speaker 1: in disgust and condemn the principles as Tamirat. Of all
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Speaker 1: fields of study, none offers such possibilities as the study
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Speaker 1: of the inner powers of man. None offers such sure
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Speaker 1: rewards to the persevering, sincere student. Yet there is no
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Speaker 1: field so neglected by the average man. Nine men out often, yes,
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Speaker 1: ninety nine out of one hundred, merely drift through life
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Speaker 1: with generators inside them, capable of producing power enough to
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Speaker 1: accomplish any purpose they get. Nowhere they use their generators,
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Speaker 1: of course, but to what purpose? To sigh over some
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Speaker 1: movie idle, or thrill over the exploits of some notorious racketeer,
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Speaker 1: or wax indignant at the thieving of a fat city grafter.
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Speaker 1: Vicarious emotions, all of them. Yet, because it is so
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Speaker 1: much easier to enjoy one's thrills vicariously, most people go
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Speaker 1: through life experiencing few others. They speed up their generators,
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Speaker 1: but with no resultant good to themselves. Their experiences are
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Speaker 1: all dream pictures. When they leave the movies or put
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Speaker 1: down their paper or book, they wake up. They never
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Speaker 1: make the effort necessary to bring those thrills into their
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Speaker 1: own lives. Suppose the envelope air that surrounds the globe,
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Speaker 1: where a great storage battery of electrical energy. Every thought,
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Speaker 1: every fervent desire, every emotion adds to the energy there.
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Speaker 1: Every time you run your generator with feelings of love
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Speaker 1: or hate, or fear or envy, or hope or faith,
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Speaker 1: you put additional energy into that storage battery. But to
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Speaker 1: draw energy out of this storage battery, you must have
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Speaker 1: good conductors, good wires, the wires of a definite purpose,
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Speaker 1: strongly held, and to keep the energy from dissipating requires
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Speaker 1: the insulation of faith. You cannot get much current from
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Speaker 1: a storage battery by merely touching your wires to its posts,
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Speaker 1: letting them slip on and off continuously. You have to
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Speaker 1: twist them securely around the posts, fasten them there firmly
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Speaker 1: with the screw cap to get a constant current. And
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Speaker 1: you cannot use plain wires, or the current will run
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Speaker 1: off into the first conductor that comes in contact with it.
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Speaker 1: Your wires must be insulated so the current will go
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Speaker 1: directly from the battery to the appliance you wish it
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Speaker 1: to run. It is the same with the storage battery
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Speaker 1: of power all around you. You can draw upon it
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Speaker 1: at will. You can get flashes of power from it
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Speaker 1: at the touch of fervent prayer, or under the stress
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Speaker 1: of any other high emotion. But if you want a
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Speaker 1: continuous flow of power, you must have first a firmly
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Speaker 1: held purpose, then the insulation of serene faith. Given these,
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Speaker 1: there is no limit to the power you can draw
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Speaker 1: or the purposes to which it can be put. Now,
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Speaker 1: how would this help? If you were out of a job,
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Speaker 1: had a wife and children waiting for something to eat,
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Speaker 1: a home that was about to be taken away from you,
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Speaker 1: and you have been praying and trying in every way
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Speaker 1: you knew to raise the necessary money. How could you
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Speaker 1: use the idea? What would you need to do? Remember
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Speaker 1: in the Bible how it is told that the apostles
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Speaker 1: labored all night long and caught nothing. Yet, when Jesus
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Speaker 1: bade them cast their nets on the right side, and
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Speaker 1: they did so, their nets were filled to overflowing. You
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Speaker 1: have been praying and trying, and you have caught nothing.
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Speaker 1: Now it is your turn to cast your nets on
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Speaker 1: the right side and casting them their means. To disregard
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Speaker 1: the material world around you for a moment, and do
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Speaker 1: your fishing in the world of energy. All around you
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Speaker 1: is energy, unappropriated energy that you can turn into any form.
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Speaker 1: You wish the same flux out of which God created
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Speaker 1: the world. And you are a god, a creator, a
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Speaker 1: true son of the Father. You have the same power
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Speaker 1: to make of your world what you like that he has.
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Speaker 1: It requires only the same method he used. First the
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Speaker 1: word the mental image. What is it you want? Position, power, love, riches, success.
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Speaker 1: Make your mold. The best flux in the world will
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Speaker 1: not make a usable shape unless you have a mold
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Speaker 1: to pour it in. So make your mold your mental image.
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Speaker 1: See it clearly in your mind's eye.
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Speaker 2: Don't make it.
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Speaker 1: The home or position or riches that belong to someone else.
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Speaker 1: Use them as a model if you like, but make
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Speaker 1: your own out of virgin material. Second, the flux the
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Speaker 1: spirit of God moved on the face of the waters.
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Speaker 1: Throw your net, your spirit around as much of the
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Speaker 1: unappropriated energy about as you need to fill your mold.
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Speaker 1: Then hold to it with the dogged grip of the bulldog.
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Speaker 2: It is yours.
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Speaker 1: You have filed your claim upon it, and no one
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Speaker 1: can take it away from you unless you weaken and
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Speaker 1: let go hold to that knowledge with grim, unshakable purpose.
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Speaker 1: And there is nothing you cannot get whatsoever you ask for.
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Speaker 1: When you pray, believe that you receive it, and you
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Speaker 1: shall have it. Whatever you want, make your mental hold.
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Speaker 1: Then throw your net around the flux necessary to fill it,
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Speaker 1: and hold on to it until that flux has hardened.
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Speaker 2: It is yours. You have it.
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Speaker 1: You have only to believe to know that you have it,
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Speaker 1: in order to give that flux time to harden so
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Speaker 1: that all can see it. But to lose faith is
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Speaker 1: to pull away the mold. While your flux is still liquid,
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Speaker 1: it will run like quicksilver in all directions, and you
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Speaker 1: have to start all over again, making a new mold,
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Speaker 1: casting your net around new energy, starting again to give
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Speaker 1: it time to harden and become manifest. In every man
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Speaker 1: there is a seed of life with infinite power to
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Speaker 1: draw to itself whatever it conceives to be necessary to
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Speaker 1: its expression. It doesn't matter who you are, what your
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Speaker 1: environment or education or advantages. The seed of life in
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Speaker 1: you has the same power for good. What is it
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Speaker 1: makes a poor immigrant boy like Edward Bach overcome every
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Speaker 1: hand decap of language and education to become one of
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Speaker 1: the greatest editors the country has known. What is it
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Speaker 1: accounts for the fact that, as before mentioned, of four
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Speaker 1: thousand and forty three multimillionaires in this country a few
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Speaker 1: years before the First World War, All but sixty nine
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Speaker 1: started so poor that they had not even a high
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Speaker 1: school education. Isn't it that the more circumstances conspire to
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Speaker 1: repress it, the stronger becomes the urge of the life
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Speaker 1: in you for expression. The more it lacks channels through
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Speaker 1: which to expand, the more inclined it is to burst
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Speaker 1: its shell and flow forth in all directions. It is
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Speaker 1: the old case of the river that is dammed generating
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Speaker 1: the most power. Most of us are so placed that
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Speaker 1: some opportunity for expression is made easy for us, and
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Speaker 1: that little opportunity serves like a safety valve to a boiler.
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Speaker 1: It leaves us steam enough to do something worth while,
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Speaker 1: yet keeps us from getting up enough power to burst
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Speaker 1: the shell about us and sweep away every barrier that
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Speaker 1: holds us down. Yet it is only such an irresistible
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Speaker 1: head of steam as that which makes great successes. That
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Speaker 1: is why the blow which knocks all the props from
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Speaker 1: under us is often the turning point in our whole career.
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Speaker 1: Take the case of a man I know who, five
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Speaker 1: years after losing his job, reached his goal as head
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Speaker 1: of a rival company in the greatest authority on its
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Speaker 1: product in the country. Do you suppose he would ever
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Speaker 1: have won these rewards had he continued as salesman for
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Speaker 1: his original company.
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 1: Indeed, he was getting along too well. He had a
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Speaker 1: comfortable home, a fine family, a good income, and congenial
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Speaker 1: working conditions. Why should he disturb them. The old fable
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Speaker 1: of the dog with the bone looking at his reflection
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Speaker 1: in the water keeps many a man from taking a
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Speaker 1: chance at a better opportunity when he has a reasonably
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Speaker 1: good one within his grasp. He's afraid he may be
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Speaker 1: giving up the real for the chimera. Yet playing safe
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Speaker 1: is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You
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Speaker 1: cannot stand still. You must go forward or see the
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Speaker 1: world's slide past you. This was well illustrated by figures
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Speaker 1: worked out by one of the big economic services. Of
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Speaker 1: all those who have money at thirty five, eighty seven
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Speaker 1: percent lose it by the time they are sixty. Why
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Speaker 1: because the fortunes they have take away the need for
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Speaker 1: initiative on their part. Their money gives to them easy
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Speaker 1: means of expressing the urge in them without effort on
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Speaker 1: their part. It gives them dozens of safety valves through
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Speaker 1: which their steam continually escapes. The result is that they
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Speaker 1: not only accomplish nothing worthwhile, but they soon dissipate the
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Speaker 1: fortunes that were left them. They are like kettles, the
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Speaker 1: urge of life keeping the water at boiling point, but
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Speaker 1: the open spout of ease, letting the steam escape as
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Speaker 1: fast as it forms, until presently there is not even
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Speaker 1: any water left. Why do the suns of rich men
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Speaker 1: so seldom accomplish anything worthwhile because they don't have to.
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Speaker 1: Every opportunity is given them to express the urge in
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Speaker 1: them through pleasant channels, and they dissipate through these the
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Speaker 1: energies that might carry them to any height. The result
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Speaker 1: they never have a strong enough head of steam left
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Speaker 1: to carry through any real job. With us ordinary mortals, however,
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Speaker 1: sooner or later come a crisis in our affairs, and
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Speaker 1: how we meet it determines our future happiness and success.
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Speaker 1: Since the beginning of time, every form of life has
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Speaker 1: been called upon to meet such crises. So the goal
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Speaker 1: of life has always been dominion, a means of overcoming
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Speaker 1: all obstacles, of winning dominion over circumstances. In Weekly Unity Magazine,
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Speaker 1: some years ago, there was the story of a couple
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Speaker 1: who wanted to dispose of their house and move to
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Speaker 1: another town. But the so called depression was on at
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Speaker 1: that time and houses were a drug on the market.
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Speaker 1: Real estate agents held out no hope, So why not
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Speaker 1: try prayer? A friend asked, what can we lose? They
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Speaker 1: asked each other. So they sat down together and tried
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Speaker 1: to realize. One that there is only one mind, that
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Speaker 1: they were parts of that mind, and that those to
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Speaker 1: whom they must sell were also parts of it. Two,
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Speaker 1: that this godmind is working for the good of all,
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Speaker 1: for their good and for that of those who were
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Speaker 1: seeking just such a home as theirs. Three, that this
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Speaker 1: godmind was glad to help them, glad to help those
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Speaker 1: seeking such a home. So all they had to do
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Speaker 1: was to put their home in his hands and leave
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Speaker 1: the working out of the problem confidently, inserenely to him.
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Speaker 1: Within a short time, they sold the house for a
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Speaker 1: good price for cash. In another issue, Unity told about
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Speaker 1: a dealer who had bought a number of pianos on
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Speaker 1: credit and borrowed some of the money from the bank
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Speaker 1: to pay for them. The pinch came and the bank
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Speaker 1: notified him that his note must be paid by a
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Speaker 1: certain date. He went home worried and miserable. With the
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Speaker 1: help of his wife, however, he was able to throw
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Speaker 1: off the worry and put it up to the God
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Speaker 1: inside him to find the necessary funds. That afternoon, one
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Speaker 1: of the clerks came to him and said there was
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Speaker 1: a man cursing and swearing about something he had bought
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Speaker 1: from him the day before. He went over to the
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Speaker 1: man and found him ranting and raging about an inexpensive
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Speaker 1: article he had purchased for his son, on which some
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Speaker 1: of the strings had broken. The shopkeeper promptly gave him
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Speaker 1: a better article to replace it. That took all the
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Speaker 1: wind out of the complaining customer's sales, and he became
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Speaker 1: so apologetic that he felt he had to buy something
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Speaker 1: else to make up for his boorish behavior. It developed
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Speaker 1: that he was planning to get a fine piano for
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Speaker 1: his daughter's birthday, and the money he promptly paid for
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Speaker 1: this proved to be more than enough to take care
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Speaker 1: of the dealer's note at the bank. The goal of
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Speaker 1: life since the beginning of time has been dominion over
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Speaker 1: just such circumstances as these, and only through the God
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Speaker 1: in you can you win it, my soul, wait thou
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Speaker 1: only upon God bade the prophet of old, for my expectation.
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Speaker 2: Is from him.
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Speaker 1: But don't limit the channels through which his help can
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Speaker 1: come to you. Don't insist that it should be through
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Speaker 1: a legacy from some rich uncle, or a raise in
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Speaker 1: your pay, or the winning of some prize or order.
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Speaker 1: Develop any channel that looks promising, but leave all the
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Speaker 1: channels open, and then act as though you already possessed
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Speaker 1: the thing you want. Don't say, when this bill is
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Speaker 1: paid or this crisis passed, I shall feel so relieved.
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Speaker 1: Instead say I am relieved. I feel so content and
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Speaker 1: peaceful now that this load is off my shoulders. How
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Speaker 1: will you act when you get the thing you want? Well?
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Speaker 1: Act that way, now, think that way, and before you
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Speaker 1: know it, you will be that way. Remember the lines
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Speaker 1: by ellow Wheeler Wilcox. Thought is a magnet, and the
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Speaker 1: long for pleasure or boon or aim or object is
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Speaker 1: the steel, and its attainment hangs. But on the measure
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Speaker 1: of what thy soul can feel? How would you conduct
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Speaker 1: yourself if you full realize your oneness with God, if
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Speaker 1: you could truly believe that He is constantly offering you life, love,
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Speaker 1: and every good thing your heart can desire. Well, that
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Speaker 1: is exactly what he is doing. So act as if
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Speaker 1: you already had the thing you want, Visualize it as yours,
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Speaker 1: see the picture clear in every detail in your mind's eye.
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Speaker 1: Then let God make it manifest. Do what you can,
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Speaker 1: of course, with what you have where you are, But
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Speaker 1: put your dependence upon God and let his good gifts
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Speaker 1: come to you. Look at the first chapter of the Scriptures.
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Speaker 1: When God wanted light, did he strive and struggle trying
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Speaker 1: to make light? No, he said, let there be light.
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Speaker 1: When you want something very much, instead of trying to
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Speaker 1: make it come your way, suppose you try asking for
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Speaker 1: it and then letting it come. Suppose you just relax
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Speaker 1: and let God work through you, instead of trying to
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Speaker 1: make Him do something for you. Suppose you say to yourself,
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Speaker 1: I will do whatever is given me to do. I
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Speaker 1: will follow every lead to the best of my ability.
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Speaker 1: But for the rest it is all up to the
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Speaker 1: God in me. God in me knows what my right
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Speaker 1: work is, where it is, and just what I should
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Speaker 1: do to get it. I put myself and my affairs
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Speaker 1: lovingly in his hands, Secure that what ever is for
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Speaker 1: my highest good he will bring to me. Emerson used
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Speaker 1: to say that when we discern truth, we do nothing
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Speaker 1: of ourselves but allow a passage for its beams. They
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Speaker 1: express the same thought in electricity through the equation see
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Speaker 1: equals z slash ar. The current delivered at any given
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Speaker 1: point is equal to the voltage divided by the resistance.
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Speaker 1: With too much resistance, no current is delivered, no matter
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Speaker 1: how much may be available. When we worry and are
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Speaker 1: tense and fearful, we set up so great resistance that
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Speaker 1: God finds it difficult to get through to us. We
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Speaker 1: have to let go O before we can become good
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Speaker 1: conductors like John Burroughs. We must be able to say, serene,
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Speaker 1: I fold my hands and wait, nor care for wind
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Speaker 1: or tide, or see no more. I strive against time
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Speaker 1: or fate, for lo mine own shall come to me.
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Speaker 1: Unity has a favorite prayer of faith, written by hannahm
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Speaker 1: or Cohaus, which all of us might well use when
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Speaker 1: we are worried or sick or in need. If you
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Speaker 1: will relax and repeat it slowly aloud, it is calculated
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Speaker 1: to help you in any crisis. God, I ask my
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Speaker 1: help in every need. God does my every hunger feed
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Speaker 1: God walks beside me, guides my way through every moment
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Speaker 1: of the day. I now am wise. I now am true, patient,
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Speaker 1: kind and loving too. All things I am can do
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Speaker 1: and be through Christ, the truth that is in me.
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Speaker 1: God is my health. I can't be sick. God is
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Speaker 1: my strength, unfailing quick, God is my all. I know
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Speaker 1: no fear, since God and Love and truth are here.
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Speaker 1: A golden rule motto, I shall pass through this world
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Speaker 1: but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or
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Speaker 1: any kindness that I can show to any human being,
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Speaker 1: let me do it now. Let me not defer it
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Speaker 1: or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. Anonymous,
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Speaker 1: only a cause ug in a wheel. A man there was,
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Speaker 1: of unusual gifts, bearing an honored name. Life came to
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Speaker 1: him with outstretched hands, proffering wealth and fame, but he
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Speaker 1: carelessly turned his head away. The prize made little appeal,
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Speaker 1: contenting himself with a minor part. He was only a
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Speaker 1: cog in a wheel. When opportunity knocked at his door,
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Speaker 1: it found him asleep and death. Long and patiently it
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Speaker 1: waited there, but he did not come to himself. His
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Speaker 1: golden chances were wasted like chaff. He took no account
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Speaker 1: of the real Each day a monotonous grind to him.
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Speaker 1: He was only a cog in a wheel. In the
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Speaker 1: image of God, this man was made with power to
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Speaker 1: do and to serve. Strong of mind and body was he,
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Speaker 1: But he lacked essential nerve. So he drifted along from
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Speaker 1: day to day without ambition or zeal, playing a dull
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Speaker 1: and nondescript part. He was only a cog in a wheel.
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Speaker 1: What place do you fill in life's great machine? Are
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Speaker 1: you using your gifts aright to day? Have you brought
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Speaker 1: some truly fine thing? Can you claim to have fought
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Speaker 1: a good fight? Will it surely be said that you
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Speaker 1: played the game, that your life was productive and real?
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Speaker 1: Or will the world say, as it goes on its way,
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Speaker 1: he was only a cog in a wheel anonymous. Many
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Speaker 1: versions as to the true description of Christ have been
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Speaker 1: given to the world. Among the most authentic is this one,
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Speaker 1: written by Publius Lenilus, president of Judea, to Tiberius Caesar,
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Speaker 1: and first appeared in the writings of Saint Anselm of
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Speaker 1: Canterbury in the eleventh century. There lived at this time
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Speaker 1: in Judea, a man of singular virtue, whose name is
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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, whom the barbarians esteem as a prophet, but
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Speaker 1: his followers love and adore him as the offspring of
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Speaker 1: the immortal God. He calls back the dead from the graves,
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Speaker 1: and heals all sorts of diseases with a word or touch.
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Speaker 1: He is a tall man, well shaped, and of an
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Speaker 1: amiable and reverend aspect. His hair of a color that
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Speaker 1: can hardly be matched, falling into graceful curls, waving about
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Speaker 1: in very agreeably couched about, his shoulders parted on the
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Speaker 1: crown of his head, running as a stream to the front,
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Speaker 1: after the fashion of the Nazarites. His forehead high, large
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Speaker 1: and imposing, his cheeks without spot or wrinkle, beautiful with
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Speaker 1: a lovely red, his nose and mouth formed with exquisite symmetry,
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Speaker 1: His beard of a color suitable to his hair, reaching
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Speaker 1: below his chin, imparted in the middle like a fork.
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Speaker 1: His eyes bright and blue, clear and serene, look innocent, dignified, manly, immature. Oftentimes, however,
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Speaker 1: just before he reveals his divine powers, his eyelids are
1:00:35
Speaker 1: gently closed in reverential silence. In proportion of body most
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Speaker 1: perfect and captivating, his arms and hands are delectable to behold,
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Speaker 1: he rebukes with majesty, counsels with mildness, his whole address,
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Speaker 1: whether in word or deed, being eloquent and grave. No
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Speaker 1: man has seen him laugh yet His manners are exceedingly pleasant,
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Speaker 1: but he has wept frequently in the presence of men.
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Speaker 1: He is temperate, modest, and wise, a man for his
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Speaker 1: extraordinary beauty in divine perfection, surpassing the children of men
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Speaker 1: in every sense. The God in You by Robert Collier,
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Speaker 1: Chapter three, Your Mental Brownies. Mankind, like ancient gaul, can
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Speaker 1: be divided into three parts. First, those who are still
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Speaker 1: in a state of simple consciousness, living, acting, and thinking
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Speaker 1: as the animals do. Men and women in this class
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Speaker 1: can be said to exist nothing more. Second, those in
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Speaker 1: a state of self consciousness. This comprises the great bulk
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Speaker 1: of the higher races of mankind. They reason, they study,
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Speaker 1: they work, They sorrow and enjoy, But they are forced
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Speaker 1: to depend for all good things upon their own efforts,
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Speaker 1: and they are subject to all manner of circumstances and
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Speaker 1: conditions beyond their control. Theirs is a state of struggle. Third,
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Speaker 1: those entering into or who have reached the intuitional or
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Speaker 1: higher consciousness. That state which Jesus termed the Kingdom of
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Speaker 1: Heaven within us. Just as in the childhood of the race,
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Speaker 1: there was brought forth an Adam and Eve with such
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Speaker 1: advanced receptual intellects that they presently developed conceptual ideas i e.
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Speaker 1: Named impressions, and the ability to classify them, compare them,
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Speaker 1: and draw conclusions from them. So today are to be
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Speaker 1: found here and there the advance guard of the mental
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Speaker 1: age men and women is far ahead of the ordinary
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Speaker 1: conceptual intellect of their fellows. As this is in advance
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Speaker 1: of the simple consciousness of the animal. You see, the
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Speaker 1: animal recognizes only images. Each house is to him a
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Speaker 1: new house, with its own associations of food or famine,
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Speaker 1: of kindness or blows. He never generalizes or draws conclusions
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Speaker 1: by comparing one house with another. His is the simple
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Speaker 1: or receptual consciousness. Man, on the other hand, takes his
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Speaker 1: recept or image of a house and tabs it. He
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Speaker 1: names it a house, and then classifies it according to
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Speaker 1: its kind. In that way, he turns it from a
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Speaker 1: mere image into an idea or concept. It is as
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Speaker 1: though he were traveling on a railroad train and keeping
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Speaker 1: a tally of every house He passed to the animal,
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Speaker 1: it would mean filling his mind with the pictures of
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Speaker 1: a hundred or more houses. To a man, it would
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Speaker 1: be merely a matter of jotting down in the tablets
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Speaker 1: of his memory one hundred houses twenty five of the
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Speaker 1: colonial type fifteen tutor style, et cetera. If his mind
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Speaker 1: were too full of images, there would be no room
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Speaker 1: in it to work out conclusions from those images. So
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Speaker 1: man classifies those images into concepts or ideas, and thus
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Speaker 1: increases his mental capacity a millionfold. But now the time
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Speaker 1: has come in his mental development when his mind is
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Speaker 1: so full of concepts that a new short cut must
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Speaker 1: be found here and there. A few have already found
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Speaker 1: this short cut and penetrated to the highest plane of consciousness,
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Speaker 1: the intuitional or heaven consciousness. What is this higher consciousness?
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Speaker 1: Buck calls it the cosmic consciousness, and defines it as
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Speaker 1: a consciousness of the world about us, a consciousness that
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Speaker 1: does not have to stop and add concept to concept
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Speaker 1: like a column of figures, but which can work out
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Speaker 1: the answer immediately intuitively, as a lightning calculator can work
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Speaker 1: out a problem in mathematics, apparently without going through any
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Speaker 1: of the intermediate stages of addition and subtraction of labored
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Speaker 1: reasoning from premise to conclusion. You see, the conscious you
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Speaker 1: is merely that aggregation of images and sensations and concepts
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Speaker 1: known as the brain. But beyond and above this reasoning
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Speaker 1: mind is your intuitive mind, the soul of you, which
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Speaker 1: is one cell in the great oversoul of the universe God.
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Speaker 1: It is the connecting link between God and you. It
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Speaker 1: is part of Him. It shares in all his attributes,
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Speaker 1: all his power, in wisdom and riches, and that need.
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Speaker 1: It can draw the whole of these how in the
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Speaker 1: same way that any cell of your body can draw
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Speaker 1: upon the vitality of the whole body by creating the need,
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Speaker 1: by using what it has. There is nothing mysterious about
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Speaker 1: the way life works. It is all a logical growth
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Speaker 1: in the intellect. The young child first registers impressions, then
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Speaker 1: it recognizes and tabs them, finally classifying them and using
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Speaker 1: them as the basis for reasoning out ideas. By the
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Speaker 1: use of impressions and images, the child can know the
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Speaker 1: world it sees and feels. By concepts, it can construct
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Speaker 1: an imagination the world it has not seen.
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Speaker 2: Is this all? Is it the end? No?
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Speaker 1: Answers buck in cosmic consciousness, as life arose in a
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Speaker 1: world without life, as simple consciousness came into existence where
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Speaker 1: before was mere vitality without perception. As self consciousness soared
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Speaker 1: forth over land and sea, So shall the race of man,
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Speaker 1: which has been thus established, make other steps and attain
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Speaker 1: to a yet higher life than any heretofore experienced or
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Speaker 1: even conceived. And let it be clearly understood that the
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Speaker 1: new step is not merely an expansion of self consciousness,
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Speaker 1: but as distinct from it as that it's from simple consciousness,
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Speaker 1: or as is this last from mere vitality without any
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Speaker 1: consciousness at all. But how shall we know this new sense?
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Speaker 1: How recognize its coming? The signs are evident in every
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Speaker 1: man and woman of high mentality. You have seen accountants
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Speaker 1: who could write down a column of figures and give
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Speaker 1: you the total without consciously adding one to another. You
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Speaker 1: can recall instances when you have anticipated word for word
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Speaker 1: what someone was about to say to you, when you
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Speaker 1: have answered the telephone and known before he spoke, who
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Speaker 1: was at the other end of the wire. When you
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Speaker 1: have met a stranger and formed a snap judgment of him,
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Speaker 1: which afterwards turned out to be marvelously correct. We call
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Speaker 1: this intuition. It is the first stage of the cosmic consciousness.
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Speaker 1: It is a perfectly logical step in the growth of
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Speaker 1: the intellect in the jump from simple consciousness to self consciousness.
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Speaker 1: Man combined groups of recepts or images into one concept
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Speaker 1: or idea, just as we combine the three Roman numerals
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Speaker 1: three into the one symbol three. No longer did he
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Speaker 1: have to hold in his mind each individual tree in
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Speaker 1: a forest. He grouped them all together under one heading
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Speaker 1: of trees and called the group a forest. Now he
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Speaker 1: is advancing a step farther. Instead of having to first
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Speaker 1: study each tree individually to learn the properties of that forest,
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Speaker 1: he is getting that knowledge from the soul within him,
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Speaker 1: which is part of the great over soul of the
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Speaker 1: forest and of the universe, and therefore knows all things.
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Speaker 1: In other words, he is getting it intuitively. That is
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Speaker 1: the first step in reaching the heaven consciousness. To cultivate
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Speaker 1: your intuitions, to encourage them in every possible way. Your
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Speaker 1: soul is a cell in the great God body, just
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Speaker 1: as every cell in your body is part of you,
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Speaker 1: and as part of the oversoul of the universe, it
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Speaker 1: has access to all the knowledge of the universe. But
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Speaker 1: it needs exercise. It requires development. When you want to
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Speaker 1: develop any cell or set of cells in your body.
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Speaker 2: What do you do? You exercise them? Do you not?
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Speaker 1: You use them to the limit of their abilities. Then
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Speaker 1: what happens? They feel weak, exhausted, They become thin and emaciated.
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Speaker 1: Why because you have broken up those cells use the
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Speaker 1: energy in them, and they have not yet had time
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Speaker 1: to draw upon the blood stream for more. For the
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Speaker 1: first few days or weeks that you continue that hard usage,
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Speaker 1: they remain weak and nerveless. Again. Why because the amount
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Speaker 1: of energy your governor is accustomed to apportioning those cells
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Speaker 1: is not sufficient for such heavy work. But keep persevering,
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Speaker 1: and what happens. Those cells not only harden until they
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Speaker 1: are equal to any call you can make upon them,
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Speaker 1: but they grow in size and power. They have put
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Speaker 1: in a permanent order upon the governor for more life
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Speaker 1: giving energy, and as long as they can find use
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Speaker 1: for it, that energy will keep coming to them. That
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Speaker 1: is the first thing you must do to grow in
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Speaker 1: intuitive consciousness. Cultivate what you have, use it on every
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Speaker 1: possible occasion, even though you seem to strain it beyond
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Speaker 1: its powers. At first, listen for that still small voice,
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Speaker 1: and listen to it, and thine ears shall hear a
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Speaker 1: word behind thee promise the prophet of old saying, this
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Speaker 1: is the way, walk ye in it when ye turn
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Speaker 1: to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
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Speaker 1: What is the vision of the artist, the inspiration of
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Speaker 1: the writer, the discovery of the chemist or inventor, but
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Speaker 1: his intuitive consciousness at work. Ask almost any great author,
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Speaker 1: and he will tell you that he does not work
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Speaker 1: out his plots. They come to him. That's all the
1:09:58
Speaker 1: key to successful methods, says Thomas A. Edison, comes right
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Speaker 1: out of the air, a real new thing, like a
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Speaker 1: general idea, A beautiful melody is pulled out of space,
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Speaker 1: a fact which is inexplicable. Inexplicable, yes, from the viewpoint
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Speaker 1: of the conceptual intellect, but quite understandable from the intuitive
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Speaker 1: point of view. So much for the first step. It
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Speaker 1: is one possible to any man or woman of high
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Speaker 1: intellect when it involves a problem or a work of art,
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Speaker 1: or a story or a new discovery. It requires only
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Speaker 1: filling the mind with all available concepts related to the
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Speaker 1: desired result, then putting it up to the God in
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Speaker 1: you to work out the answer. The second step is
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Speaker 1: the earnest desire for a higher consciousness. That sounds simple enough.
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Speaker 1: Everybody would like to be able to learn without going
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Speaker 1: through all the labor of adding percept to recept, making
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Speaker 1: concepts of these, and then figuring out the answers. So
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Speaker 1: if the earnest desire is all that is needed, it
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Speaker 1: ought to be easy. Yet it is not. It is
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Speaker 1: the hardest step of all. Why because the desire must
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Speaker 1: be your dominant desire. It must not be merely a
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Speaker 1: means to the end of obtaining riches or winning to
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Speaker 1: high position. All agree on this. This heaven consciousness comes
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Speaker 1: only as the result of a tremendous desire for spiritual
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Speaker 1: truth and a hunger and thirst after things of the spirit.
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Speaker 1: Perhaps that can be better understood when you remember how
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Speaker 1: many ordinary people have had partial glimpses of it, when
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Speaker 1: almost at the point of death, or when coming out
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Speaker 1: from under the influence of anesthetics. What then, are the
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Speaker 1: necessary conditions. First, an understanding of the power latent in you.
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Speaker 1: An understanding that, regardless of how much or how little
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Speaker 1: education you have received, there is in you a power,
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Speaker 1: call it the subconscious or your soul or your good GENII,
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Speaker 1: or what you will capable of contacting the intelligence which
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Speaker 1: directs and animates all of the universe. Second, the earnest
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Speaker 1: desire for spiritual growth. To possess this, a man need
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Speaker 1: not be an ascetic or give up his family or
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Speaker 1: his business. In fact, he should be the better husband
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Speaker 1: and father and business man for it. For the man
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Speaker 1: of business to day is no longer engaged in cheating
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Speaker 1: his neighbor before the neighbor can cheat him. He is
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Speaker 1: trying to serve, and to the extent that he succeeds
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Speaker 1: in giving more and better service than others, he succeeds.
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Speaker 1: Can you conceive of any finer preparation for the heaven? Consciousness? Third,
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Speaker 1: the ability to thoroughly relax, as Boehm put it, to
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Speaker 1: cease from all thinking and willing and imaging your own
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Speaker 1: self conscious hearing and willing and seeing hinder you from
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Speaker 1: seeing and hearing God. When a new faculty appears in
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Speaker 1: a race, says Buck, it will be found in the
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Speaker 1: very beginning in one individual of that race. Later, it
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Speaker 1: will be found in a few individuals after a further time,
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Speaker 1: in a larger percentage of the members of the race.
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Speaker 1: Still later in half the members, and so on until
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Speaker 1: after thousands of generations. An individual who misses having the
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Speaker 1: faculty is regarded as a monstrosity. The heaven consciousness, or
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Speaker 1: cosmic consciousness, as Buck calls it, has reached the point
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Speaker 1: of being found in many individuals. When a faculty reaches
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Speaker 1: that point, it is susceptible of being acquired by all
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Speaker 1: of the higher type of members of that race who
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Speaker 1: have reached full maturity. And it is never too late
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Speaker 1: to develop this intuitive consciousness, for your mind never grows old.
1:13:32
Speaker 1: In his book The Age of Mental Virility, doctor Dorlyn
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Speaker 1: points out that more than half of mankind's greatest achievements
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Speaker 1: were accomplished by men over fifty years old, and that
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Speaker 1: more of these were done by men over seventy than
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Speaker 1: by those under thirty. In tests made by doctor Irving
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Speaker 1: Lordge of Teachers College, Columbia University, it was found that
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Speaker 1: while speed of learning might decline with years, the mental
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Speaker 1: powers do not decline. When the speed penalty was eliminated,
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Speaker 1: people of fifty and sixty made higher scores than those
1:14:03
Speaker 1: around twenty five. Doctor Lordge sums up his tests in
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Speaker 1: these words. As far as mental ability is concerned, there
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Speaker 1: need be no retiring age. The probabilities are that the
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Speaker 1: older a person becomes, the more valuable he becomes. He
1:14:20
Speaker 1: possesses the same mental power he had in his young manhood,
1:14:23
Speaker 1: plus his wealth of experience and knowledge of his particular job.
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Speaker 1: These are things that no youngster, however brilliant, can pick up.
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Speaker 1: You have an intuitive consciousness which has evidenced itself many
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Speaker 1: a time in hunches, and the like remains then only
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Speaker 1: to develop it. Robert Lewis Stevenson pointed the way when
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Speaker 1: he told how he worked out the plot for Doctor
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Speaker 1: Jekyll and Mister Hyde. My brownies, God bless them, said Stephenson,
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Speaker 1: who do one half of my work for me when
1:14:55
Speaker 1: I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood, do
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Speaker 1: the rest for me as well when I am wide awake,
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Speaker 1: and foolishly suppose that I do it myself. I had
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Speaker 1: long been wanting to write a book on man's double being.
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Speaker 1: For two days I went about racking my brains for
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Speaker 1: a plot of any sort, And on the second night
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Speaker 1: I dreamt the scene in Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde
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Speaker 1: at the window, and a scene afterwards split in two,
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Speaker 1: in which Hide pursued took the powder and underwent the
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Speaker 1: change in the presence of his pursuer. You have had
1:15:25
Speaker 1: similar experiences. You know how, after you have studied a
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Speaker 1: problem from all angles, it sometimes seems worse jumbled than
1:15:32
Speaker 1: when you started on it. Leave it, then for a while,
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Speaker 1: forget it, and when you go back to it you
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Speaker 1: find your thoughts clarified, the line of reasoning worked out,
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Speaker 1: your problem solved for you. It is your little mental
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Speaker 1: brownies who have done the work for you. The flash
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Speaker 1: of genius does not originate in your own brain. Through
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Speaker 1: intense concentration, you have established a circuit through your sub
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Speaker 1: conscious mind with the universal and it is from I
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Speaker 1: the inspiration comes. All genius, all progress is from the
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Speaker 1: same source. It lies with you merely to learn how
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Speaker 1: to establish this circuit at will, so that you can
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Speaker 1: call upon it at need.
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Speaker 2: It can be done.
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Speaker 1: There are many ways of setting the brownies to work,
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Speaker 1: says Dumont in The Master Mind. Nearly every one has
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Speaker 1: had some experience more or less in the matter, although
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Speaker 1: often it is produced almost unconsciously and without purpose and intent.
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Speaker 1: Perhaps the best way for the average person, or rather
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Speaker 1: the majority of persons, to get the desired results is
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Speaker 1: for one to get as clear an idea of what
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Speaker 1: one really wants to know, as clear an idea or
1:16:41
Speaker 1: mental image of the question you wish answered. Then, after
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Speaker 1: rolling it around in your mind mentally chewing it as
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Speaker 1: it were, giving it a high degree of voluntary attention,
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Speaker 1: you can pass it on to your sub conscious mentality
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Speaker 1: with the mental command attend to this for me work
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Speaker 1: out the answer, or some similar order. This command may
1:17:01
Speaker 1: be given silently or else spoken aloud. Either will do
1:17:05
Speaker 1: speak to the subconscious mentality or its little workers, just
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Speaker 1: as you would speak to persons in your employ Kindly,
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Speaker 1: but firmly, talk to the little workers and firmly command
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Speaker 1: them to do your work, and then forget all about
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Speaker 1: the matter, throw it off your conscious mind, and attend
1:17:22
Speaker 1: to your other tasks. Then in due time will come
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Speaker 1: your answer flashed into your consciousness, perhaps not until the
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Speaker 1: very minute that you must decide upon the matter or
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Speaker 1: need the information. You may give your brownie's orders to
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Speaker 1: report at such and such a time, just as you
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Speaker 1: do when you tell them to awaken you at a
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Speaker 1: certain time in the morning so as to catch the
1:17:43
Speaker 1: early train, or just as they remind you of the
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Speaker 1: hour of your appointment. If you have them all well trained.
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Speaker 1: Have you ever read this story by Richard Harding Davis
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Speaker 1: of the Man Who Could Not Lose? In it, the
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Speaker 1: hero is intensely interested in racing. He has studied records
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Speaker 1: and dope sheets until he knows the history of every
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Speaker 1: horse backward and forward. The day before the big race,
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Speaker 1: he is reclining in an easy chair thinking of the
1:18:08
Speaker 1: moro's race, and he drops off to sleep with that
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Speaker 1: thought on his mind. Naturally, his subconscious mind takes it up,
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Speaker 1: with the result that he dreams the exact outcome of
1:18:19
Speaker 1: the race. That was mere fiction, of course, But if
1:18:23
Speaker 1: races were run solely on the speed and stamina of
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Speaker 1: the horses, it would be entirely possible to work out
1:18:28
Speaker 1: the results in just that way. Unfortunately, other factors frequently
1:18:33
Speaker 1: enter into every betting game. But the idea behind Davis's
1:18:37
Speaker 1: story is entirely right. The way to contact your subconscious mind,
1:18:42
Speaker 1: the way to get the help of the man inside
1:18:45
Speaker 1: you in working out any problem is first, fill your
1:18:49
Speaker 1: mind with every bit of information regarding that problem that
1:18:52
Speaker 1: you can lay your hands on. Second, pick out a chair,
1:18:55
Speaker 1: re lounge, your bed where you can recline in perfect comfort,
1:18:58
Speaker 1: where you can forget your boss entirely. Third, let your
1:19:02
Speaker 1: mind dwell upon the problem for a moment, not worrying,
1:19:06
Speaker 1: not fretting, but placidly, and then turn it over to
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Speaker 1: the man inside. You say to him, this is your problem.
1:19:14
Speaker 1: You can do anything. You know the answer to everything.
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Speaker 1: Work this out for me, and utterly relax. Drop off
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Speaker 1: to sleep. If you can, at least drop into one
1:19:27
Speaker 1: of those half sleepy, half wakeful reveries that keep other
1:19:30
Speaker 1: thoughts from obtruding upon your consciousness. Do as Aladdin did,
1:19:35
Speaker 1: summon your genie, give him your orders. Then forget the matter,
1:19:39
Speaker 1: secure in the knowledge that he will attend to it
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Speaker 1: for you. When you waken, you will have the answer.
1:19:45
Speaker 1: The smartest man in the world is the man inside,
1:19:48
Speaker 1: said doctor Frank Crane. By the man inside, I mean
1:19:52
Speaker 1: that other man within each one of us that does
1:19:54
Speaker 1: most of the things we give ourselves credit for doing.
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Speaker 1: I say he is the smartest man in the world.
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Speaker 1: I know he is infinitely more clever and resourceful than
1:20:04
Speaker 1: I am, More than any other man is that I
1:20:06
Speaker 1: ever heard of. When I cut my finger, it is
1:20:09
Speaker 1: he that calls up the little phagocytes to come and
1:20:11
Speaker 1: kill the septic germs that might get into the wound
1:20:14
Speaker 1: and cause blood poisoning. It is he that coagulates the blood,
1:20:18
Speaker 1: stops the gash, and weaves the new skin. I could
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Speaker 1: not do that. I do not even know how he
1:20:25
Speaker 1: does it. He even does it for babies that know
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Speaker 1: nothing at all. In fact, does it better for them
1:20:31
Speaker 1: than for me. When I practice on the piano, I
1:20:35
Speaker 1: am simply getting the business of piano playing over from
1:20:37
Speaker 1: my conscious mind to my subconscious mind. In other words,
1:20:41
Speaker 1: I am handing the business over to the man inside.
1:20:45
Speaker 1: Most of our happiness, as well as our struggles and misery,
1:20:48
Speaker 1: comes from this man inside. If we train him in
1:20:51
Speaker 1: ways of contentment, adjustment, and decision, he will go ahead
1:20:55
Speaker 1: of us like a well trained servant and do for
1:20:57
Speaker 1: us easily most of the difficult tasks we have to perform.
1:21:01
Speaker 1: Read that last paragraph again. Most of our happiness, as
1:21:05
Speaker 1: well as our struggles and misery comes from this man inside.
1:21:09
Speaker 1: How then, can we use him to bring us only
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Speaker 1: the good things of life? By blessing instead of ranting
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Speaker 1: and cursing, by trusting instead of fearing. Every man is
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Speaker 1: what he is because of the dominating thoughts that he
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Speaker 1: permits to occupy his mind, and thus suggests to the
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Speaker 1: man inside those thoughts that are mixed with some feeling
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Speaker 1: of emotion, such as anger or fear, or worry or love,
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Speaker 1: magnetize that man inside, intend to drive him to such
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Speaker 1: action as will attract to you similar or related thoughts
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Speaker 1: and their logical reactions. All impulses of thought have a
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Speaker 1: tendency to bring about their physical equivalent, simply because they
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Speaker 1: set the man inside you to work trying to bring
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Speaker 1: about the physical manifestations of your thought images. Jesus understood
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Speaker 1: this when he said, by their fruits, shall ye know them? What, then,
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Speaker 1: is the answer? One realize that your thoughts are the
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Speaker 1: molds in which the man inside you forms your circumstances.
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Speaker 1: That as a man thinks, so is he. Two, remember
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Speaker 1: that there is nothing in all of God's universe which
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Speaker 1: you need to fear, for God is love, and you
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Speaker 1: are one with God. So make friends with your problems.
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Speaker 1: Don't try to run away from them, Walk up to them,
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Speaker 1: bring them into the open, and you will find that
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Speaker 1: they are not obstacles but stepping stones to something better.
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Speaker 2: Free.
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Speaker 1: If you are worrying or fearful, stop it. Put your
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Speaker 1: affairs into the hands of the God in you, and
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Speaker 1: forget them. Remember that all things are possible with God,
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Speaker 1: and all things are possible with you when you realize
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Speaker 1: that you are one with Him. So look to God
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Speaker 1: instead of to your difficulties. Look to the things you want,
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Speaker 1: not to those you fear for. Forget the past. Remember
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Speaker 1: now is the accepted time. Now is the day of salvation.
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Speaker 1: Look ahead to the great things that are before you,
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Speaker 1: not backward at the regrets of the past. Look to
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Speaker 1: what you want to see. Manifested, think of each day
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Speaker 1: as in itself a life, and say, each morning I
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Speaker 1: wake to do the work of a man. Five. Bless
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Speaker 1: all things, for under even the most unprepossessing exterior lies
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Speaker 1: a kernel of good. Remember that when fortune means to
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Speaker 1: man most good, she looks upon him with a threatening eye.
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Speaker 1: In Unity Weekly, the story is told of a farmer who,
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Speaker 1: when he plows a field, blesses every seed he puts
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Speaker 1: into it, and visualizes the abundant harvest it will bring
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Speaker 1: his neighbors marvel at the size of his crops. In
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Speaker 1: another issue, they tell of a guest in a western
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Speaker 1: hotel who was impressed by the atmosphere of joy and
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Speaker 1: peace in the room. She occupied living in it seemed
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Speaker 1: to be an inspiration. She was so filled with the
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Speaker 1: presence of good in it that she asked the maid
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Speaker 1: who had occupied it before to give it son such
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Speaker 1: a RESTful atmosphere. The maid told her it was not
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Speaker 1: the occupant but herself, that whenever she worked in a room,
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Speaker 1: she blessed it, and as she left it, she stood
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Speaker 1: in the door for a moment, affirming peace and restfulness
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Speaker 1: for it, and blessing for the one who would occupy it.
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Speaker 1: Arthur Geidermann has written a blessing for every home that
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Speaker 1: each of us might well use. Bless the four corners
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Speaker 1: of this house, and be the lintil blest, and bless
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Speaker 1: the hearth, and bless the board, and bless each place
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Speaker 1: of rest, and bless the door that opens wide to
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Speaker 1: stranger as to kin. And bless each crystal window pane
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Speaker 1: that lets the starlight in. And bless the roof tree overhead,
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Speaker 1: and every sturdy wall. The peace of God, the peace
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Speaker 1: of man, the peace of love on all consecration laid
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Speaker 1: on thy altar. My Lord Divine, accept my gift this
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Speaker 1: day for jesus sake. I have no jewels to adorn
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Speaker 1: thy shrine. Nor any world famed sacrifice to make. But
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Speaker 1: here I bring within my trembling hands this will of mine,
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Speaker 1: a thing that seemeth small. And only thou, dear Lord,
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Speaker 1: canst understand how when I yield THEE, this I yield mine.
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Speaker 1: All hidden therein thy searching eyes can see struggles of passion,
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Speaker 1: visions of delight. All that I love, or am or
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Speaker 1: fame would be deep loves, fond, hope, and longing infinite.
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Speaker 1: It hath been wet with tears, and dimmed with sighs,
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Speaker 1: clinched in my grasp till beauty. It hath none now
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Speaker 1: from thy footstool, where it vanquished lies the prayer ascendeth O,
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Speaker 1: may thy will be done. Take it, O, father, ere
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Speaker 1: my courage fail, and merge it so in Thine own will,
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Speaker 1: that e'en if in some desperate hour my cries prevail,
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Speaker 1: an Thou give back my gift. It may have been
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Speaker 1: so changed, so purified, so fair, have grown so one
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Speaker 1: with THEE, so filled with peace divine. I may not
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Speaker 1: know or feel it as my own, but gaining back
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Speaker 1: my will may find it Thine author unknown, The God
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Speaker 1: in You by Robert Collier, Chapter four, The Seed of
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Speaker 1: Life The fundamental law of the universe is that every
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Speaker 1: form of life holds within itself vitality enough to draw
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Speaker 1: to it every element it needs for growth and fruition.
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Speaker 1: But it is only as it casts off all outside
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Speaker 1: support and puts its dependence solely upon the life force
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Speaker 1: that created it and left its spark within it, that
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Speaker 1: it is able to draw to itself the elements it
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Speaker 1: needs for complete growth and fruition. Take the giant redwoods
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Speaker 1: of California. By no law known to man can they
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Speaker 1: draw water to their foliage hundreds of feet in the air.
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Speaker 1: Yet they do draw it hundreds of gallons every day.
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Speaker 1: It is not done through pressure from below from the roots.
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Speaker 1: It is done by pull from above. In other words,
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Speaker 1: the need is first established, then the need itself provides
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Speaker 1: the means or the pull, to draw to it the
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Speaker 1: elements it must have for expression. All through nature you
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Speaker 1: will find that same law. First the need, than the means.
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Speaker 1: Use what you have to provide the vacuum, then draw
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Speaker 1: upon the necessary elements.
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Speaker 2: To fill it.
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Speaker 1: Reach up with your stock, spread out your branches, provide
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Speaker 1: the pull, and you can leave to your roots the
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Speaker 1: search for the necessary nourishment. If you have reached high enough.
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Speaker 1: If you have made your magnet strong enough, you can
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Speaker 1: draw to yourself whatever elements you need, no matter if
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Speaker 1: they be at the ends of the earth. God formed
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Speaker 1: a seed of himself in you. He gave it power
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Speaker 1: to attract to itself everything it needs for its growth,
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Speaker 1: just as he did with the seed of the tree.
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Speaker 1: He gave it power to draw to itself everything it
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Speaker 1: needs for fruition, just as he did with the tree.
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Speaker 1: But he did even more for you. He gave your
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Speaker 1: seat of life power to attract to itself everything it
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Speaker 1: needs for its infinite expression. You see, life is intelligent,
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Speaker 1: Life is all powerful, and life is always and everywhere
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Speaker 1: seeking expression. What is more, it is never satisfied. It
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Speaker 1: is constantly seeking greater and fuller expression. The moment a
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Speaker 1: tree stops growing, that moment, the life in it starts
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Speaker 1: seeking elsewhere for means to better express itself. The moment
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Speaker 1: you stop expressing more and more of life, that moment,
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Speaker 1: life starts looking around for other and better outlets. The
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Speaker 1: only thing that can restrict life is the channel through
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Speaker 1: which it works. The only limitation upon it is the
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Speaker 1: limitation you put upon it. The secret of success lies
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Speaker 1: in this There is inside you a seed of God,
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Speaker 1: capable of drawing to you any element you need to
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Speaker 1: bring to fruition whatever of good you desire. But like
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Speaker 1: all other seeds, its shell must be broken before the
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Speaker 1: kernel inside can use its attractive power. And that shell
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Speaker 1: is thicker, harder than the shell of any seed on earth.
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Speaker 1: Only one thing will break it, heat from within, a
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Speaker 1: desire so strong, a determination so intense, that you cheerfully
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Speaker 1: throw everything you have into the scale to win what
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Speaker 1: you want. Not merely your work and your money and
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Speaker 1: your thought, but the willingness to stand or fall by
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Speaker 1: the result, to do or to die. Like the Master
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Speaker 1: when he cursed the fig tree for its barrenness, you
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Speaker 1: are willing to demand of the seed of life in
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Speaker 1: you that it bear fruit or perish. That is the
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Speaker 1: secret of every great success. That is the means by
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Speaker 1: which all of life, from the beginning of time has
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Speaker 1: won what it needed. What was it gave to certain animals,
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Speaker 1: protective shells to others, great speed to still others, a
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Speaker 1: sting to those who needed them, claws or horns. What
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Speaker 1: gave to the bold and strong, the means to destroy
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Speaker 1: to the weak and cowardly facilities for hiding or escape.
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Speaker 1: What but the seed of life in each giving to
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Speaker 1: every form of life, the means that form craves to
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Speaker 1: preserve its skin. Since the very creation of the earth,
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Speaker 1: life has been threatened by every kind of danger. Had
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Speaker 1: it not been stronger than any other power in the universe,
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Speaker 1: were it not indeed a part of God himself, it
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Speaker 1: would of perished ages ago. But God, who gave it
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Speaker 1: to us, endowed it with unlimited resource, unlimited energy. No
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Speaker 1: other force can defeat it, no obstacle can hold it back.
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Speaker 1: What is it that saves men in dire extremity who
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Speaker 1: have exhausted every human resource and finally turned to God
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Speaker 1: in their need. What but the unquenchable flame of God
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Speaker 1: in them? The seed of life He has given to
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Speaker 1: each of us, with power to draw to us whatever
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Speaker 1: element we feel that we need to save us from extinction.
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Speaker 2: The story is.
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Speaker 1: Told of a little girl for years old who had
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Speaker 1: been taught to believe in a protecting deity. She got
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Speaker 1: lost one day and was gone for hours. Her mother
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Speaker 1: was on the verge of desperation when at last she
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Speaker 1: saw her child coming home. She was all alone, yet
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Speaker 1: seemed to be holding somebody's hand. And her lips were
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Speaker 1: moving as if she were carrying on a sprightly conversation.
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Speaker 1: Her mother opened the front door just in time to
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Speaker 1: see her drop the invisible hand and to hear her say,
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Speaker 1: you may go now, God, this is where I live,
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Speaker 1: and thank you very much. It was all quite simple,
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Speaker 1: as she explained it to her mother. She had wandered
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Speaker 1: about until she got tired and hungry. Then she realized
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Speaker 1: that she didn't know the way home. I knew I
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Speaker 1: was lost, it, mother, she said, So I asked God
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Speaker 1: to take me home. I knew that he knew the way.
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Speaker 1: Then I started for home, and God showed me where
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Speaker 1: to go, and here I am. Why then, some will ask,
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Speaker 1: does not the God? And you exert itself to bring
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Speaker 1: you food when you are hungry, drink when you are thirsty,
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Speaker 1: clothing when you are cold, money when you are in debt.
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Speaker 1: Why because you don't put your dependence upon it for
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Speaker 1: these You look for these things to your hands, or
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Speaker 1: your friends, or some means within the power of those
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Speaker 1: around you. It is only when you despair of all
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Speaker 1: ordinary means. It is only when you convince it that
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Speaker 1: it must help you or you pairs that the seed
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Speaker 1: of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.
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Speaker 1: That is why psychological or metaphysical means so seldom cure
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Speaker 1: a patient who continues to put some of his dependence
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Speaker 1: upon drugs or treatments. It is not that the spirit
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Speaker 1: in you is a jealous God. It is that it
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Speaker 1: takes a real need to stir him into action. As
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Speaker 1: long as you show that you feel there is a
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Speaker 1: chance of your being saved through some other means, the
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Speaker 1: seed of life in you is not going to bestir
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Speaker 1: itself to help you. And as long as it sees
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Speaker 1: that you are depending upon your friends, or the stock market,
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Speaker 1: or some other method to supply your urgent need of money,
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Speaker 1: it is not going to worry itself about it. Unity
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Speaker 1: weakly tells of a woman alone in a big city, jobless,
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Speaker 1: anxious and discouraged, and worried about her husband, who was
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Speaker 1: seeking work in another town. Because there was no one
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Speaker 1: else to whom she could look for help, she prayed
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Speaker 1: until she was able to put utter faith in God,
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Speaker 1: to believe that he would look after her, and to
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Speaker 1: put all her dependence upon him. Then she was able
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Speaker 1: to go out into the street with springy step, with
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Speaker 1: a heart full of confidence and a face that radiated
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Speaker 1: belief in herself and in her ability to do things.
1:33:10
Speaker 1: She threw away her sheet of want ads and on impulse,
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Speaker 1: turned into a cheerful looking building and found a desirable
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Speaker 1: job within a day or two, after an unexpected check
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Speaker 1: came to her in the mail and a letter of
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Speaker 1: good news from her husband. Another case was that of
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Speaker 1: a subnormal boy about to be rejected by a school.
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Speaker 1: His mother had taught him to believe in God, so
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Speaker 1: he kept repeating to himself, God will tell me what
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Speaker 1: to do. God did to such good purpose that a
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Speaker 1: few years later he graduated at the head of his class.
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Speaker 1: Then there was a woman who was expected to die
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Speaker 1: from a seemingly incurable and painful disease. She asked that
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Speaker 1: her bed be moved to a window, and as she
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Speaker 1: looked out at the starry spaces in the long hours
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Speaker 1: of the night, she thought of God, of his power,
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Speaker 1: of his goodness, of his life, love for every creature,
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Speaker 1: of Jesus, saying that not even a sparrow fell without
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Speaker 1: His marking it. And as she pondered all this, belief
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Speaker 1: in his ability, in his willingness to cure her, came
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Speaker 1: to her until presently there began to flow into her
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Speaker 1: consciousness the belief that she was cured, and she amazed
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Speaker 1: her attendants by sitting up and asking for something to eat.
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Speaker 1: To day, she is alive and well. How can you
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Speaker 1: stir the boundless force of the God and you into action?
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Speaker 1: How can you draw upon its infinite resource for your
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Speaker 1: urgent needs? Utter faith, utter dependence. That is the only answer.
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Speaker 1: No half way measures will do. If you want help
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Speaker 1: and have exhausted all the methods that physicians and surgeons
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Speaker 1: and practitioners can offer you, and want now to go
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Speaker 1: direct to the source for new life, new health, and strength,
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Speaker 1: you cannot keep on dabbling with drugs and treatments and hope.
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Speaker 1: To stir the seed of life in you into action.
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Speaker 1: You must draw up everything else. You must put your
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Speaker 1: whole dependence upon the infinite power of that seed of
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Speaker 1: God in you. You must get the attitude of our
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Speaker 1: revolutionary patriots. Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish.
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Speaker 1: I give my hand and my heart to this cause.
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Speaker 1: Either I live by it or I die with it.
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Speaker 1: Get that attitude of mind and the stirring of your
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Speaker 1: seed of life into action is simple, say to yourself.
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Speaker 1: I am one with the life force that runs the universe.
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Speaker 1: The great I am, of which Jesus said before Abraham
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Speaker 1: was I am I am energy, I am power. I
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Speaker 1: am filled with omnipotent life. The vitality of God permeates
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Speaker 1: every fiber of my being. I am well and whole
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Speaker 1: in every part of my body. I am made up
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Speaker 1: of billions of cells of intelligent life, and that intelligence
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Speaker 1: is guiding me to health and happiness and prosperity. E.
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Speaker 1: Stanley Jones, author of Christ of the Indian Road, tells
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Speaker 1: how he broke down completely with nervous exhaustion and brain
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Speaker 1: fatigue at the end of eight years of missionary work
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Speaker 1: in India, just when he had learned the ways of
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Speaker 1: the people and conditions seemed ripe for him to do
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Speaker 1: the most good. He was terribly depressed and disappointed until
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Speaker 1: one night, in the midst of his prayers, he seemed
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Speaker 1: to hear a voice saying, are you yourself ready for
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Speaker 1: this work to which I have called you? No, Lord,
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Speaker 1: he answered, I am done, for I have reached the
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Speaker 1: end of my resources. If you will turn that over
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Speaker 1: to me, the voice told him, and not worry about it.
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Speaker 1: I will take care of it, Lord, he responded gladly.
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Speaker 1: I closed the bargain right here. That was many years ago.
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Speaker 1: The doctors had just told him he would have to
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Speaker 1: leave India and go back home for a couple of
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Speaker 1: years to rest. Instead, he threw himself with renewed energy
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Speaker 1: into his work, and he never before knew such health
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Speaker 1: as he has had since. He seems to have tapped
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Speaker 1: a new source of life for body, mind, and spirit.
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Speaker 1: Yet all he had to do was to take it.
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Speaker 1: Does this mean that you are to make no effort
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Speaker 1: to help yourself? By no means? This was never meant
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Speaker 1: for a lazy man's world. The whole purpose of existence
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Speaker 1: is growth, and all nature is continually growing. Whenever anything
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Speaker 1: stops growing, it starts to die. We were given hands
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Speaker 1: to work with, brains to think with. We were expected
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Speaker 1: to use these. For while it is not the roots
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Speaker 1: that send the moisture to the tops of the tall trees,
1:37:30
Speaker 1: it is the roots that dig down to the moisture
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Speaker 1: and nutriment To start it flowing. It requires an urgent
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Speaker 1: need to draw to you resources beyond the power of
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Speaker 1: your hands, just as it requires the exapperation of the
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Speaker 1: moisture in the leaves to pull the water to the
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Speaker 1: tops of the tallest trees. But unless the hands or
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Speaker 1: the roots do their part first, that need will never
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Speaker 1: be satisfied. The trouble with most people is that they
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Speaker 1: go as far as their hands or their immediate abilities
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Speaker 1: will take them, and stop there. It is as though
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Speaker 1: a tree sent up but stem only as high as
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Speaker 1: the root pressure carried the water from the earth, that
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Speaker 1: would give us a forest of stunted trees, just as
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Speaker 1: dependents upon their hands gives us the masses who live
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Speaker 1: in poverty and misery. It is only when you multiply
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Speaker 1: your hands by thousands. It is only when you conceive
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Speaker 1: and start great projects impossible of attainment by you alone,
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Speaker 1: that you call forth the power of the seed of
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Speaker 1: life in you to draw to you every element you
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Speaker 1: need for complete growth and fruition. When George Mueller of
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Speaker 1: England started his first orphanage, he had no money, no backers,
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Speaker 1: no material resources to depend upon. He saw the need,
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Speaker 1: that is all. So he went as far as he
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Speaker 1: could in supplying that need, and each time when he
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Speaker 1: had reached the end of his resources, yet kept confidently trying.
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Speaker 1: The need was met. In fifteen years he built five
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Speaker 1: orphanages and spent more than five million dollars, all without
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Speaker 1: a single visible means of support. When Street Teresa proposed
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Speaker 1: to build an orphanage, she was asked how much she
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Speaker 1: had on which to start. When it developed that her
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Speaker 1: total wealth was only three ducats, her superiors laughed at
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Speaker 1: the idea.
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Speaker 2: It is true.
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Speaker 1: She answered them that with only three ducats, I can
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Speaker 1: do nothing, But with God and three ducats, I can
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Speaker 1: do anything. And she proceeded to prove it by building
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Speaker 1: the orphanage, whose good work made her famous. In the
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Speaker 1: fields of philanthropy and religion, you can find hundreds of
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Speaker 1: similar stories, and in the fields of business you find
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Speaker 1: many thousands more. How many times have you read of
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Speaker 1: some great institution that was founded on nothing but hard
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Speaker 1: work and the faith of its founder. Henry Ford began
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Speaker 1: on little else. Stuart started what is now the John
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Speaker 1: Wannamaker's Store with a total cash capital of one dollar
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Speaker 1: and fifty cents. Sometimes, in fact, it seems to be
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Speaker 1: an advantage not to have enough money when you start
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Speaker 1: a new project. Then you don't put your faith in
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Speaker 1: the money. You put it in ideas. In other words,
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Speaker 1: you look to mind to supply the means. Some One
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Speaker 1: expressed it well when he said, we must work as
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Speaker 1: if everything depended upon us, and at the same time
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Speaker 1: pray as if everything depended upon God. What does an
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Speaker 1: oculist do when you go to him for glasses? Fit
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Speaker 1: your eyes with glasses that take away all the strain
1:40:20
Speaker 1: and enable you to see perfectly. No, indeed, the best
1:40:25
Speaker 1: oculists give you glasses a little short of the strength
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Speaker 1: necessary to take all the strain off your eyes. They
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Speaker 1: relieve you of the heavy burden, but they leave your
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Speaker 1: sight just enough short of perfection to keep your eyes
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Speaker 1: working towards that end. The result when you go back
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Speaker 1: six months or a year later, your eyes are stronger.
1:40:44
Speaker 1: You can take glasses which do less of your work,
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Speaker 1: until in time you do without them altogether. What do
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Speaker 1: business leaders advise young people to day? Live within your income? No, indeed,
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Speaker 1: go into debt, reach out, spread yourself, then dig the
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Speaker 1: harder to catch up. You are entitled to just as
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Speaker 1: much of the good things of life as Ford or
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Speaker 1: Rockefeller or Morgan, or any of the rich men around you.
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Speaker 1: But it is not they who owe it to you,
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Speaker 1: and it is not the world that owes you a living.
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Speaker 1: The world and they owe you nothing but honest pay
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Speaker 1: for the exact service you render them. The one who
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Speaker 1: owes you everything of good, riches and honor and happiness
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Speaker 1: is the God inside you. Go to him, stir him up.
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Speaker 1: Don't rail against the world. You get from it what
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Speaker 1: you put into it, nothing more. Wake up the God
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Speaker 1: inside you. Demand of him that he bring you the
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Speaker 1: elements you need for riches or success. Demand and make
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Speaker 1: your need seem as urgent as must have been the
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Speaker 1: need of the crustacean to develop a shell of the bird,
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Speaker 1: to grow wings of the bear to get fur. Demand
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Speaker 1: and know that you receive. The God in you is
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Speaker 1: just as strong as ever he was in those primitive
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Speaker 1: animals in prehistoric days. If he could draw from the
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Speaker 1: elements whatever was necessary to give the elephant its trunk,
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Speaker 1: the camel its hump, the bird its wings, and to
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Speaker 1: each creature the means it required to enable it to survive,
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Speaker 1: don't you suppose he can do the same to day,
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Speaker 1: to provide you with the factors you consider essential to
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Speaker 1: your well being. The answer is that you have already
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Speaker 1: brought into being your hump or your trunk, or whatever
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Speaker 1: it was that you felt you must have you are,
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Speaker 1: in short, what your thoughts and fears and beliefs have
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Speaker 1: made you. Your present condition reflects the successful result of
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Speaker 1: your past thought. Astonishing as it may sound to many people,
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Speaker 1: you are now living in a world of your own making.
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Speaker 1: But you don't have to keep on living there if
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Speaker 1: you don't like it. You can build a new world
1:42:51
Speaker 1: in exactly the same way you built that one, only
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Speaker 1: it would be well to build it on a different model.
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Speaker 1: It is the Einstein doctrine of the extended line, which
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Speaker 1: which must return to its source. An evil thought or
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Speaker 1: act goes out upon its course, but the eternal lawmaker
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Speaker 1: has decreed that it must return to its creator. A
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Speaker 1: good act or thought is governed in the same way.
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Speaker 1: By their fruits. Ye shall know them. So don't complain
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Speaker 1: of your lot, don't rail at the difficulties and obstacles
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Speaker 1: that confront you. Smile on them, Treat them as friends.
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Speaker 1: Bless them, for they can be made to bless you.
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Speaker 1: You see, they have not been sent from heaven to
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Speaker 1: punish you. You ask for them yourself. They are of
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Speaker 1: your own making, and they are your friends because they
1:43:40
Speaker 1: call forcibly to your attention. Some wrong method you have
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Speaker 1: been using All you have to do is to change
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Speaker 1: your methods, and the results will automatically change with them.
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Speaker 1: It is just as though you were doing some problem
1:43:52
Speaker 1: in multiplication and you kept saying one times one is two.
1:43:57
Speaker 1: That would throw your whole result out of balance, and
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Speaker 1: it would stay out until you learned your mistake and
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Speaker 1: made one times one equal one. You are not higher
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Speaker 1: than your lowest thought, or lower than the peak of
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Speaker 1: your desire. And all existence has no wonder wrought to
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Speaker 1: which ambition may not yet aspire. O man, there is
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Speaker 1: no planet, sun or star could hold you if you
1:44:20
Speaker 1: but knew what you are? What, then, is the method
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Speaker 1: to be used to get what you want from life? First, desire,
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Speaker 1: Decide what it is you want. Make it something so
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Speaker 1: worth while that all other things will seem small and unimportant.
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Speaker 1: Beside it, something so urgent that you can say to
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Speaker 1: the God inside you give me this, or I perish. Second,
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Speaker 1: see yourself having it. Visualize the thing you want, see
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Speaker 1: yourself with it. Try to get the feel of having
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Speaker 1: it the joy and thankfulness you would get out of it.
1:44:55
Speaker 1: In Burton Rascoe's memoirs, he tells how he worked out
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Speaker 1: his life on a predetermined schedule, in which everything came
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Speaker 1: true because he thought it, he desired it, and he
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Speaker 1: believed it. Here are a few typical lines from it.
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Speaker 1: When I was fifteen years old, I wanted to live
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Speaker 1: in Chicago some time, and I knew I would. The
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Speaker 1: university I wished to go to was the University of Chicago,
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Speaker 1: and I knew I would. There was only one newspaper
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Speaker 1: in the world. I ardently wished to work on the
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Speaker 1: Chicago Tribune, and I knew five years in advance that
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Speaker 1: I would some day work there. When I was a reporter,
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Speaker 1: I knew I would be some day literary editor. When
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Speaker 1: I was literary editor of the Chicago Tribune, I knew
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Speaker 1: I would some day live in New York and be
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Speaker 1: literary editor of the New York Tribune. In nineteen twenty seven,
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Speaker 1: I wanted fifty thousand dollars and knew I would get it.
1:45:44
Speaker 1: Within less than a year, I had over one hundred
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Speaker 1: thousand dollars, almost without any.
1:45:48
Speaker 2: Effort on my part.
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Speaker 1: Third be thankful for having received it. Remember the admonition
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Speaker 1: of the Master. Whatsoever things ye ask for, when ye pray,
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Speaker 1: believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them,
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Speaker 1: you cannot believe that you actually receive the things you
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Speaker 1: ask for without being thankful for them. So give thanks
1:46:08
Speaker 1: sincere thanks for having received the things you prayed for,
1:46:12
Speaker 1: and try to feel grateful. Remember to smile. Repeat aloud
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Speaker 1: daily Adelaide Proctor's poem, My God, I thank THEE who
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Speaker 1: has made the earth so bright, so full of splendor,
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Speaker 1: and of joy, beauty and light. So many glorious things
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Speaker 1: are here, noble and right. I thank THEE too, that
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Speaker 1: thou hast made joy to a bound, so many gentle
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Speaker 1: thoughts and deed circling us round, that in the darkest
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Speaker 1: spot of earth, thy love is found. Fourth Act, as
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Speaker 1: though you had already received the thing you asked for.
1:46:45
Speaker 1: Faith without works is dead. Do some physical thing each day,
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Speaker 1: such as you would do if you had the object
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Speaker 1: you prayed for. If you are asking for money, for instance,
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Speaker 1: give a little, even though it be only a dime,
1:46:58
Speaker 1: just to show the freedom for money worry that is
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Speaker 1: now yours. If you are asking for love, say a
1:47:04
Speaker 1: kindly word to each of those with whom you come
1:47:07
Speaker 1: in contact. If you are asking for health, dance about
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Speaker 1: your room, sing, laugh, Do some of those things you
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Speaker 1: will do when you have fully manifested the good health
1:47:16
Speaker 1: you crave. Fifth, show your affection for the thing you
1:47:20
Speaker 1: asked for. Give your love to it, Pour it out
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Speaker 1: just as you would if you had the object.
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Speaker 2: In your hands.
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Speaker 1: Only by making it real to you in your thoughts
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Speaker 1: can you materialize it in your life. We go. You
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Speaker 1: know in the direction of our thoughts what we long for,
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Speaker 1: and expect that we are headed towards. So look for
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Speaker 1: the kind of things you want to see. Look for
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Speaker 1: them in your own life and in the lives of
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Speaker 1: those around you. Look for them and begin doing them.
1:47:50
Speaker 1: Remember those lines of gerdis are you in earnest seize
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Speaker 1: this very minute what you can do or dream you
1:47:58
Speaker 1: can begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
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Speaker 1: Only engage and then the mind grows heated. Begin and
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Speaker 1: then the work will be completed. The God in You
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Speaker 1: by Robert Collier, Chapter five, After its kind. Do you
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Speaker 1: know what is the most important lesson in the whole Bible?
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Speaker 1: Do you know what principle was considered so vital that
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Speaker 1: God is said to have used it on three of
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Speaker 1: the six days of creation, And it is repeated no
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Speaker 1: less than six times in the first chapter of Genesis alone.
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Speaker 1: Just this everything reproduces after its kind. Go back over
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Speaker 1: the miracles of increase in the Bible. What do you
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Speaker 1: find When the widow of Zaraphath gave Elijah her oil
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Speaker 1: and meal, what did she get more oil and meal?
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Speaker 1: Did she not not gold or riches? But increase after
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Speaker 1: I t s kind? When another widow begged Alicia to
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Speaker 1: save her sons from bondage, he asked what hast thou
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Speaker 1: in the house, and when told not, save a pot
1:49:04
Speaker 1: of oil? It was the oil he increased, was it not?
1:49:08
Speaker 1: When the multitude lacked for bread and the apostles asked
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Speaker 1: Jesus what they should do, he did not turn the
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Speaker 1: stones into bread or bring forth gold with which to buy. No,
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Speaker 1: he asked how many loaves have you? And when told
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Speaker 1: five and two fishes, he based his increase upon them.
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Speaker 1: You see, it all comes back to terms of electrical energy.
1:49:30
Speaker 1: For what is energy but power? And what are personality?
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Speaker 2: Skill?
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Speaker 1: Ability, riches but different forms of power. If you want
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Speaker 1: to increase your stock of these, what must you do?
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Speaker 1: Put them to work? Must you not put them out
1:49:44
Speaker 1: at interest? As in the parable of the talents, No
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Speaker 1: energy ever expanded until it was released, No seed ever
1:49:52
Speaker 1: multiplied until it was sown. No talent ever increased until
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Speaker 1: it was used. You want more power, more riches, greater ability,
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Speaker 1: a wider field of usefulness. How are you going to
1:50:05
Speaker 1: get them? Only by putting out at interest that which
1:50:09
Speaker 1: you have. And the way to do this lies not
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Speaker 1: in working for riches as such, but for increase in
1:50:15
Speaker 1: the form of energy you have. Now, what have you
1:50:19
Speaker 1: in the house? What seed can you plant? What service
1:50:23
Speaker 1: can you give? In weekly unity? Some years ago there
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Speaker 1: was the story of a mother who had been well
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Speaker 1: to do, but had lost everything and was now hard
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Speaker 1: put to it to provide food and clothing for her
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Speaker 1: small boys. It was near Christmas and she was bewailing
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Speaker 1: to a friend the fact that she could buy no
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Speaker 1: gifts for her children, much less remember old friends and relatives.
1:50:44
Speaker 1: The friend smiled, money is not what you need. She
1:50:48
Speaker 1: told her, can money buy the gifts that live in
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Speaker 1: your heart? If I were in your place, I should
1:50:54
Speaker 1: stop repining and instead seek the guidance of your inner self.
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Speaker 1: The mother took the advice, and one night, as she
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Speaker 1: dropped off to sleep after having prayed for guidance, she
1:51:06
Speaker 1: saw a beautiful tree lighted with tapers and Beneath each
1:51:10
Speaker 1: light hung a small envelope. As she looked more closely,
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Speaker 1: she saw that the names written on the envelopes were
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Speaker 1: those of friends and relatives to whom she longed to give.
1:51:20
Speaker 1: Opening one of the envelopes, she found a piece of
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Speaker 1: blank paper, and she seemed to hear a voice saying, write,
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Speaker 1: and let that which you write bear witness of me.
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Speaker 1: As you write, give from your heart the treasures that
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Speaker 1: are stored there.
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Speaker 2: In my name.
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Speaker 1: I will fulfill every blessing according to your word. The
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Speaker 1: mother woke, and, going immediately to her desk, began to
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Speaker 1: write her blessings. She wrote words of life and wholeness
1:51:45
Speaker 1: for an aunt who had been bound with rheumatism for months,
1:51:48
Speaker 1: words of courage for an uncle who was having a
1:51:50
Speaker 1: difficult time with his farm, words of guidance for a
1:51:53
Speaker 1: young cousin who had seemed to lose her way a bit.
1:51:56
Speaker 1: Inspired by that inner self, she wrote ten blessings that night.
1:52:01
Speaker 1: She had never thought that she could write, but her
1:52:03
Speaker 1: own heart thrilled at the beauty of the words that
1:52:05
Speaker 1: came to her, and she was lifted up by their
1:52:08
Speaker 1: power and simplicity. Don't ever again say you have nothing
1:52:12
Speaker 1: to give. One of her friends told her later, I
1:52:16
Speaker 1: never received so richly in all my life, And throughout
1:52:20
Speaker 1: the years, the blessings that this mother gave out have
1:52:23
Speaker 1: continued to bear fruit. Give me gold, prayed Lavesco, that
1:52:28
Speaker 1: I may be helpful, not helpless. Give me gold that
1:52:31
Speaker 1: I may taste the pure joy of making others happy.
1:52:35
Speaker 1: Give me gold that I may see the beauties of
1:52:37
Speaker 1: this world in moments of leisure. Give me gold that
1:52:41
Speaker 1: I and mine may be secure in our declining years.
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Speaker 1: A worthy prayer, indeed, But prayer alone is not enough.
1:52:50
Speaker 1: You must plant the seed before you can hope to
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Speaker 1: reap the harvest. You must give before you can get.
1:52:57
Speaker 1: Do the thing, said Emerson, And you shall have the power.
1:53:01
Speaker 1: But they who do not the thing have not the power.
1:53:04
Speaker 1: Everything has its price, And if the price is not paid,
1:53:08
Speaker 1: not that thing, but something else is obtained. And it
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Speaker 1: is impossible to get anything without its price. For any
1:53:15
Speaker 1: benefit received, a tax is levied. In nature, nothing can
1:53:19
Speaker 1: be given. All things are sold. Power to him whose
1:53:23
Speaker 1: power exerts. Russell Conwell, the famous lecturer who built the
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Speaker 1: Baptist temple in Philadelphia and found a temple university, was
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Speaker 1: in the beginning merely the pastor of a very poor flock.
1:53:36
Speaker 1: His congregation consisted of working people, and many of them
1:53:39
Speaker 1: were in need, so he was continually offering prayers for money.
1:53:44
Speaker 1: One Sunday, it occurred to him that the old Jewish
1:53:47
Speaker 1: custom had been to make a gift or offering first,
1:53:50
Speaker 1: and then pray for what you wanted. So he announced
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Speaker 1: that the following Sunday he would reverse his usual method
1:53:56
Speaker 1: of procedure. Instead of offering his prayer for first first,
1:54:00
Speaker 1: he would first take up the collection, and he wanted
1:54:02
Speaker 1: all who had special favors to ask of God to
1:54:05
Speaker 1: give freely as an offering. We quote the result from
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Speaker 1: effective prayer. The question was asked afterward if anyone who
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Speaker 1: made a special offering on that particular day had not
1:54:16
Speaker 1: been answered, and there was no exception in the mass
1:54:18
Speaker 1: of testimony to the efficiency of each prayer that day.
1:54:22
Speaker 1: The recitals of the marvels which followed that prayerful offering
1:54:25
Speaker 1: were too startling for general belief. The people had complied
1:54:29
Speaker 1: with the conditions, and God had answered clearly according to
1:54:32
Speaker 1: his promise. They had brought the tithes into the storehouse,
1:54:36
Speaker 1: and the Lord had poured out the blessings as an
1:54:39
Speaker 1: infallible result. Cases of sudden and instanious recovery of the
1:54:43
Speaker 1: sick were related by hundreds. One poor man whose child
1:54:48
Speaker 1: was insane prayed for her recovery that afternoon when he
1:54:51
Speaker 1: went to the sanitarium, she met him in her right mind.
1:54:55
Speaker 1: A lady sold her jewelry and brought the proceeds as
1:54:58
Speaker 1: an offering as she prayed for him healing from sciatic rheumatism.
1:55:02
Speaker 1: She fell going from the church and arose to find
1:55:05
Speaker 1: the rheumatism gone. One old gentleman involved in a ruinous
1:55:09
Speaker 1: lawsuit brought all the profits of the previous week and
1:55:12
Speaker 1: deposited them as he prayed for a just outcome. Within
1:55:15
Speaker 1: the week the suit was withdrawn. A woman with an
1:55:19
Speaker 1: overdue mortgage on her home determined to risk all on
1:55:22
Speaker 1: one prayer and gave all she had as she prayed.
1:55:26
Speaker 1: When plumbers came to repair a leak the following week,
1:55:29
Speaker 1: they discovered a loose board in the floor under which
1:55:31
Speaker 1: her father had hidden all his money. The sum was
1:55:35
Speaker 1: more than enough to pay off the mortgage in its entirety.
1:55:38
Speaker 1: There were probably fifty such cases. You have to sow
1:55:42
Speaker 1: before you can reap you have to give before you
1:55:45
Speaker 1: can get, and when you sow. When you give, you
1:55:49
Speaker 1: must give freely, with no strings to it, as Jesus
1:55:53
Speaker 1: put it, Except a kernel of wheat fall into the
1:55:55
Speaker 1: ground and die, it abodeth alone. But if it die,
1:56:00
Speaker 1: it beareth much fruit. You remember the old fashioned hand
1:56:04
Speaker 1: pumps that are still to be found on many farms.
1:56:07
Speaker 1: To start them, you had to pour in a bucket
1:56:09
Speaker 1: of water in order to create a vacuum and thus
1:56:12
Speaker 1: be able to draw water from the well. The same
1:56:15
Speaker 1: principle applies in using a siphon. You pour in water
1:56:19
Speaker 1: to drive out the air and create a vacuum. Once
1:56:22
Speaker 1: the vacuum is formed, your water flows, and you can
1:56:26
Speaker 1: get unlimited quantities of it without having to give more.
1:56:29
Speaker 1: But you get none from pump or siphon until you
1:56:32
Speaker 1: first give some. You must give to get. You must
1:56:36
Speaker 1: sow the seed you have before you can reap the harvest.
1:56:40
Speaker 1: You cannot merely lend it. You must give it freely
1:56:44
Speaker 1: and fully. Accept A kernel of wheat fall into the ground,
1:56:48
Speaker 1: and dye, said the Master. Accept your seed of riches
1:56:51
Speaker 1: be given freely and fully. You get nothing from it,
1:56:55
Speaker 1: but if it die, it beareth much fruit. If it
1:56:59
Speaker 1: be dead to you, if it is gone beyond hope
1:57:01
Speaker 1: of return, then you can look for a harvest. He
1:57:05
Speaker 1: that findeth his life shall lose it, said the Master
1:57:07
Speaker 1: on another occasion. But he that last set his life
1:57:10
Speaker 1: for my sake shall find it. He that gives all
1:57:13
Speaker 1: he has in the service of his fellows shall find
1:57:15
Speaker 1: that in so doing he has planted seeds which will
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Speaker 1: bring him a harvest of happiness and plenty. You have
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Speaker 1: probably read the story of Charles Page, as given in
1:57:25
Speaker 1: the American Magazine a few years ago. Page was then
1:57:29
Speaker 1: a millionaire oil operator in Oklahoma, but a few years
1:57:32
Speaker 1: before he had little or nothing, and his wife was
1:57:35
Speaker 1: so sick he feared he was going to lose her
1:57:37
Speaker 1: as well. The surgeons at the hospital had given up
1:57:41
Speaker 1: hope for her. So as all other avenues seemed closed,
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Speaker 1: Page turned to God, Oh Lord, He prayed, don't take
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Speaker 1: her away from me. I just couldn't bear it. The
1:57:52
Speaker 1: words rang in his ears, and they had an empty
1:57:55
Speaker 1: ring as a prayer. It seemed to fall flat. Why
1:58:00
Speaker 1: should the Lord interfere for him if the only reason
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Speaker 1: he could offer was that he couldn't bear it. Plenty
1:58:05
Speaker 1: of husbands just as devoted as he had lost their wives,
1:58:09
Speaker 1: Why should the Lord specially favor him? The thought came
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Speaker 1: home to him with the power of a blow. What
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Speaker 1: had he ever done that the Lord should go out
1:58:18
Speaker 1: of his way to help him? What reason had he
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Speaker 1: to look for special consideration from above? None? He'd been
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Speaker 1: a decent enough citizen, but no more so than the average,
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Speaker 1: And kneeling there, he couldn't recall a single thing he
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Speaker 1: had done which would entitle him to ask favors from
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Speaker 1: the Lord. The thought appalled him. What chance had he
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Speaker 1: must he then lose the one dearest to him in
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Speaker 1: all the world, just because he had never done enough
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Speaker 1: to be worthy of keeping her. No, No, that was unthinkable.
1:58:51
Speaker 1: It wasn't too late. He would start that very minute.
1:58:56
Speaker 1: What was it the Master had said? Whatsoever ye do
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Speaker 1: unto the least of these, my brethren? Ye do it
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Speaker 1: unto me? The next morning, a poor widow was in
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Speaker 1: transports of joy to find under her doors o money
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Speaker 1: enough to carry her safely through the winter. But that
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Speaker 1: evening inquiry at the hospital elicited the information that Page's
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Speaker 1: wife was no better for a little. His faith faltered then,
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Speaker 1: as he thought back over the reason for his act.
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Speaker 1: It flamed up anew. Why had he helped the widow,
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Speaker 1: Not because he was interested in her welfare, not even
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Speaker 1: because it was the right thing to do, but because
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Speaker 1: he was trying to buy off the Lord. Thinking of
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Speaker 1: it in that light, it sounded ridiculous. He got down
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Speaker 1: on his knees again. I ain't makin a bargain with you, God,
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Speaker 1: he promised. I'm doin this because it's the right thing
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Speaker 1: for me to do. This time, it seemed to him
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Speaker 1: his message carried. He felt strangely cheered and relieved his
1:59:55
Speaker 1: prayer had gone through. Now comes the remarkable part of
1:59:59
Speaker 1: this incident. His wife, much to the astonishment of the surgeons,
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Speaker 1: took a turn for the better, and within a comparatively
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Speaker 1: short time, was well. From that day to this, Charles
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Speaker 1: Page has never failed in his covenant with God. Times
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Speaker 1: there were when everything looked black, times when it meant
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Speaker 1: a real struggle to find the Lord's share, but his
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Speaker 1: faith never faltered. He knew if he did his part,
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Speaker 1: he could depend upon God for his For a long time,
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Speaker 1: he gave a tenth of all his earnings. Then he
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Speaker 1: increased it to a fourth, later to a half, and
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Speaker 1: finally to all except what he needed for personal and
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Speaker 1: family expenses. He has given away literally millions. But don't
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Speaker 1: get the idea. He warns that, I'm telling you how
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Speaker 1: to get rich. It's the giving, not the getting, that
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Speaker 1: is important. Personally, I believe that it's only playing fair
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Speaker 1: to tithe or give a part of your income to God.
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Speaker 1: But it must be again, not an investment. Do you
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Speaker 1: get the difference? If you tithe in the right spirit,
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Speaker 1: you will get your reward just as sure as a
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Speaker 1: gun's iron. But the reward may not come in the
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Speaker 1: form of money. Often it's something far better than money.
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Speaker 1: What you keep to yourself you lose, wrote Manda, What
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Speaker 1: you give away you keep forever, and Irene Stanley expressed
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Speaker 1: much the same thought in her little poem. You have
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Speaker 1: to let go of the rum below when you reach
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Speaker 1: for the round above. There is no other way to climb.
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Speaker 1: You know you have to let go of the rum below.
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Speaker 1: Each upward step brings more of the glow and warmth
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Speaker 1: of the sun of Hove. You have to let go
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Speaker 1: of the rum below when you reach for the round above.
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Speaker 1: You see God incarnates himself through you. But he cannot
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Speaker 1: be shut up. He must be given out expressed. You
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Speaker 1: put him into everything you do, whether towards failure or success.
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Speaker 1: You are inseparable from the creative force. You are part
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Speaker 1: of the fountain head of supply. What then, must you
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Speaker 1: do to win riches and success?
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Speaker 2: Give?
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Speaker 1: Give freely of what you have, Give, and it shall
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Speaker 1: be given unto you good measure, pressed down and shaken
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Speaker 1: together and running over shall men give unto your bosom.
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Speaker 1: For with the same measure that ye meet with all,
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Speaker 1: it shall be measured to you again, Luke six thirty eight.
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Speaker 1: Does that require too great faith? You do not marvel
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Speaker 1: at the farmer who freely throws all his seed into
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Speaker 1: the ground, knowing he will never see it again, but
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Speaker 1: must depend upon its fruit for his increase. He shows
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Speaker 1: perfect faith. Should you show less? Remember the first law
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Speaker 1: of life, the law that was considered so important that
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Speaker 1: it was repeated six times in the first chapter of Genesis.
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Speaker 1: Everything increases after its kind. Do you expect that law
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Speaker 1: to be changed for you? Do you expect to reap
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Speaker 1: with the other sowing? There is that scattereth and increaseth.
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Speaker 1: Yet more, said that wisest of ancient sages, King Solomon,
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Speaker 1: And there is that withhold death more than is meet,
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Speaker 1: but it tendeth to poverty. The liberal soul shall be
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Speaker 1: made fat, and he that watereth shall be watered himself.
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Speaker 1: You see, life is logical. Life follows definite fundamental laws.
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Speaker 1: One of these laws is that you reap as you sow,
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Speaker 1: that he that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed.
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Speaker 1: For all motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limit
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Speaker 1: of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point. Thus,
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Speaker 1: any unselfish expenditure of energy returns to you laden with gifts.
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Speaker 1: Any unselfish act done for another's benefit is giving part
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Speaker 1: of yourself. It is an outward flow of power that
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Speaker 1: completes its cycle and returns laden with energy. Everything we
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Speaker 1: get we pay for, good or bad. Personal gain comes
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Speaker 1: through in personal service. Personal loss comes through selfishness. As
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Speaker 1: Emerson puts it, a perfect equity adjusts its balance in
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Speaker 1: all parts of life. Every act rewards itself. Any act
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Speaker 1: of ours that injures another separates us from God. Any
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Speaker 1: act of ours that helps others brings us closer to
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Speaker 1: God and good. One may think that his cheating of
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Speaker 1: another is a secret between them, but by his cheating
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Speaker 1: he has shaken the trust of another in human brotherhood
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Speaker 1: and damaged his idealism. Isn't that a definite affront that
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Speaker 1: is going to stand between him and God? When the
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Speaker 1: one who cheated tries to enlist God's help in enlarging
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Speaker 1: the activities of his own life, wouldn't it have been
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Speaker 1: better to say to himself, God gives me all my money.
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Speaker 1: Surely he has given me enough for all the needs
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Speaker 1: of my business. Or if he hasn't already given it,
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Speaker 1: it is on the way. If I need more, he
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Speaker 1: will give me more. So I am not even going
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Speaker 1: to think about trying to make easy money by taking
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Speaker 1: advantage of others. God provides me with plenty, and I
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Speaker 1: am going to run this business as if He were
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Speaker 1: always here beside me. One on God's side is a majority.
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Speaker 1: You are always together with God, So make him an
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Speaker 1: active partner in your business. Look to him for its needs.
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Speaker 1: Give the same loving service you feel that he would give.
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Speaker 1: Then cast off all worries, fears, and put your business
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Speaker 1: lovingly in his hands. When the future looks dark, when
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Speaker 1: problems confront you, just say to yourself, God lights the way.
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Speaker 1: No more I grope nor stumble on in troubled hope.
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Speaker 1: I sow no seeds of care and strife, but those
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Speaker 1: of love and joy and life. No more I strive
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Speaker 1: to plan my lot. The Father fills my cup unsought.
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Speaker 1: What is the unpardonable sin? What but damning the sources
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Speaker 1: of God's supply? Wo but trying to shut up the
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Speaker 1: God in you? Trying to keep him from expressing himself.
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Speaker 1: When the giant monsters of antiquity ceased developing and depended
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Speaker 1: upon their size and strength and fierceness, they perished. When
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Speaker 1: the vast empires of China and Greece, and Persia and
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Speaker 1: Rome stopped reaching out and tried merely to hold what
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Speaker 1: they had, they died. When the rich man or big
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Speaker 1: business of to day stops giving service and merely hangs
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Speaker 1: on to his fortune, he loses it. You cannot stand still.
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Speaker 1: You must go forward or die. There is a god
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Speaker 1: in you seeking expression. You cannot keep him shut up.
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Speaker 1: You must give him channels through which to express himself,
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Speaker 1: or he will rend you and come out of you.
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Speaker 1: What would you think of a man who spent years
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Speaker 1: in developing great muscles, then tried to keep them great
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Speaker 1: by not using them, by not wearing them out. You'd
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Speaker 1: call him a fool, wouldn't you, Because every one knows
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Speaker 1: that the only way to develop muscles is to use them.
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Speaker 1: The only way to keep them strong is to continually
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Speaker 1: exercise them. What everyone does not seem to know is
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Speaker 1: that all of life works in the same way. You
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Speaker 1: cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually
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Speaker 1: giving and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed,
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Speaker 1: you must sow it and reap anew. You cannot hold
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Speaker 1: on to riches, You must use them and get other
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Speaker 1: riches in return. The unpardonable sin is to stand in
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Speaker 1: the way of progress, try to stop the cycle of life.
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Speaker 1: You must give to get, you must sow to reap.
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Speaker 1: The improfitable servant in Jesus parable was not the first
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Speaker 1: or the only one to be cast into outer darkness,
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Speaker 1: where is weeping and gnashing of teeth from burying his talent.
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Speaker 1: The ones who became rulers over many things were those
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Speaker 1: who freely used what they had, who started riches flowing.
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Speaker 1: So when a talent is given, you don't try to
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Speaker 1: hide it away or bury it. Don't damn up the
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Speaker 1: channels of supply with the few dollars you have and
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Speaker 1: thus prevent the un limited riches of God from flowing
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Speaker 1: to you. Set up your generator, which is the service
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Speaker 1: you have to offer your fellow man. Turn on the
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Speaker 1: steam by giving to it all the power, all the skill,
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Speaker 1: all the intelligence you have. Then start the flow of
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Speaker 1: riches with your faith by cheerfully pouring into the channel
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Speaker 1: of service all that you have. That means, by the
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Speaker 1: things that are necessary to your development and that of
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Speaker 1: your family. Pay your just debts, though it leaves you
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Speaker 1: without a cent in your purse. Put your dependence not
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Speaker 1: on a few dollars you have in hand, but on
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Speaker 1: the great ocean of supply above and about.
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Speaker 2: You.
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Speaker 1: Use the few dollars you have to create the vacuum
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Speaker 1: which shall poke a hole in the bottom of that
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Speaker 1: ocean and start the unending flow of riches pouring into you.
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Speaker 1: You remember that Jesus once likened the power of God
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Speaker 1: to the leaven in bread. You put a tiny yeast
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Speaker 1: cake into a great pan of dough, and it affects
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Speaker 1: the whole mixture. It makes it grow. Apparently, it increases
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Speaker 1: the quantity of flour, milk, eggs, and other ingredients. Certainly,
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Speaker 1: it makes them bulk to several times their original size.
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Speaker 1: That yeast is the god in you that you put
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Speaker 1: into your circumstances, your affairs. Put it into fears and worries,
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Speaker 1: and it will increase them until they can hardly be borne.
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Speaker 1: Put it into your expenses, and it will make them
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Speaker 1: ever greater. Put it into love and life and good work,
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Speaker 1: and it will bring these back to you, increase a hundredfold.
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Speaker 1: Let's have a league of optimists, writes Elizabeth Swaller, and
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Speaker 1: let's have it to boost the world along. We are
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Speaker 1: so weary of the thought that everything is wrong. We're
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Speaker 1: surfeited with talk of lack, depression, gloom and fear. If
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Speaker 1: we but think of brighter things, good times will soon
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Speaker 1: be here. Tis time to turn and face about in
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Speaker 1: court conditions. Fine. By boosting I shall prosper yours, and
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Speaker 1: you will prosper mine. Put your yeast into optimistic thoughts,
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Speaker 1: into kindly words, into loving acts of service. Remember, the
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Speaker 1: hardest part of anything is the start. If you want something,
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Speaker 1: pray for it, then start doing, being giving whatever is
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Speaker 1: needful To set the yeast acting. You don't have to
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Speaker 1: make the dough expand when you put the yeast into it,
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Speaker 1: the yeast attends to that all you have to do
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Speaker 1: is to give the yeast a chance to get in
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Speaker 1: its work. So if you want to receive something of good,
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Speaker 1: show your faith by giving of what you have put
2:10:30
Speaker 1: a little yeast into your affairs. It doesn't matter how
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Speaker 1: poor you are, how much in debt, how weak or sickly.
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Speaker 1: You can always give something. But remember that everything increases
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Speaker 1: after its kind. So give of what you want to receive.
2:10:46
Speaker 1: Sow the seeds of the harvest you want to reap,
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Speaker 1: whether it be love, energy, service, or money, and pray.
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Speaker 1: Nearly two thousand years before Christ, it was said in
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Speaker 1: the Vedas that if two people would unite their sight forces,
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Speaker 1: they could conquer the world. Then came Jesus to put
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Speaker 1: it even more definitely. Again, I say unto you that
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Speaker 1: if two of you shall agree on earth as touching
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Speaker 1: anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for
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Speaker 1: them of my Father, which is in Heaven. For when
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Speaker 1: two or three are gathered together in my name, there
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Speaker 1: am I in the midst of them. In one of
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Speaker 1: his books, Russell Conwell tells of a little group in
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Speaker 1: his church who were in such straitened circumstances that they
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Speaker 1: decided to get together and see if by uniting their
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Speaker 1: prayers they could not improve their finances. So they met
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Speaker 1: at the house of one of their number, who happened
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Speaker 1: to be a book binder by trade, and decided that
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Speaker 1: each week the whole group would unite their prayers to
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Speaker 1: solve the difficulties of some one member. The bookbinder was
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Speaker 1: the first one chosen. He owed a great deal of
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Speaker 1: money and had no means of paying his debts, so
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Speaker 1: that evening the group prayed that he might receive help
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Speaker 1: in meeting his obligations. It was then agreed that at
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Speaker 1: noontime every day until the next meeting, each member would
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Speaker 1: stop whatever he was doing and spend a minute or
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Speaker 1: two in silent prayer that the bookbinder's needs might be met.
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Speaker 1: The meeting was on Tuesday.
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Speaker 2: Evening.
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Speaker 1: The next day, after lunch, as was his custom, the
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Speaker 1: book binder dropped into a publishing house near by for
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Speaker 1: a chat with some friends. He met there a man
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Speaker 1: from Washington who told him that for the first time
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Speaker 1: in his life, he had forgotten his train and must
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Speaker 1: now get back home on some urgent business without placing
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Speaker 1: a contract which he had intended to give to a
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Speaker 1: New York book binder the book binder suggested that he
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Speaker 1: also was in that business and possibly could help him,
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Speaker 1: But the other objected that the particular class of work
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Speaker 1: he wanted could be done only in New York. Upon
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Speaker 1: the Binder persisting, however, he explained his needs, and, being
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Speaker 1: convinced that they could be filled right there in as
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Speaker 1: satisfactory away and on more reasonable terms than in New York,
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Speaker 1: he not only gave the binder the contract, but advanced
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Speaker 1: enough money to more than take care of his difficulties.
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Speaker 1: The Binder hurried to the other members of his group
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Speaker 1: and told them of his good fortune. His problem was
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Speaker 1: so completely solved that he felt they ought to start
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Speaker 1: work at once for some other member, because all were
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Speaker 1: so badly in need. All felt so elated over their
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Speaker 1: success in helping the Binder solve his problem that they
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Speaker 1: chose the most difficult case of all as the next.
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Speaker 1: This was a jeweler who had grown so old and
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Speaker 1: forgetful that his business was in a deplorable condition. Bankruptcy
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Speaker 1: seemed so sure that his son had moved out of
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Speaker 1: town to avoid sharing the disgrace. Two or three days
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Speaker 1: after the group started working on the jeweler's problem, the
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Speaker 1: son came to town for a day to attend a funeral.
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Speaker 1: On the return trip from the cemetery, he fell into
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Speaker 1: conversation with one of the other mourners, in the course
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Speaker 1: of which the latter mentioned that he was looking for
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Speaker 1: an expert in clock making to superintend a new factory
2:13:55
Speaker 1: he was erecting in another city. The son told him
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Speaker 1: his father was a master of that art, but no
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Speaker 1: good at managing finances. The upshot of it was that
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Speaker 1: the jeweler applied for the position at the same time,
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Speaker 1: explaining his present financial difficulties. The manufacturer liked his letter,
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Speaker 1: went over the whole situation with him, and ended by
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Speaker 1: taking over the store as a retail outlet, paying off
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Speaker 1: the old debts, and forming a business connection with the jeweler,
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Speaker 1: which prospered both amazingly. An old lady who owned a
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Speaker 1: small notion store was next. Soon after the group united
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Speaker 1: in prayer for her, a fire destroyed the store next
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Speaker 1: door to her. The owner decided to build bigger than before,
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Speaker 1: and offered her not only an attractive price for her store,
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Speaker 1: but an interest in his business, which paid her enough
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Speaker 1: to live and comfort the rest of her days. Every
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Speaker 1: member of that group became prosperous. Do you too want
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Speaker 1: something very much, then give and pray. Get yourself a
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Speaker 1: small toy bank, a paper one will do eat each day.
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Speaker 1: Puts something into it, even though it be only a penny.
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Speaker 1: Give that money to God. Give it to him at
2:15:06
Speaker 1: the time you put it into the bank, but leave
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Speaker 1: it there until it amounts to a dollar or more.
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Speaker 1: Then use it for any good charitable purpose that presents itself.
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Speaker 1: Don't give it to some panhandler. Try to use it
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Speaker 1: where it will do the recipient some good. Use it
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Speaker 1: to help him to help himself, as in buying some
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Speaker 1: book for him that will show him the way out
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Speaker 1: of his difficulties. And as you give, pray, pray not
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Speaker 1: only for yourself but for others. Every morning at seven
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Speaker 1: we shall pray for protection for our own family, and
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Speaker 1: for all students of this course who will join with
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Speaker 1: us in uniting their psychic forces by agreeing as to
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Speaker 1: the thing they should ask. For this prayer, you cannot
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Speaker 1: do better than repeat the ninety first Psalm. Every day
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Speaker 1: at noon, we shall pray for abundant supply for all
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Speaker 1: of those among our readers who will join with us
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Speaker 1: in praying for the whole group.
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Speaker 2: For this prayer.
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Speaker 1: Hold in your hand any money you intend to give
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Speaker 1: that day for any good purpose, and any checks or
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Speaker 1: money you intend to use to pay bills, and say
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Speaker 1: with us, I bless you, and be thou a blessing.
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Speaker 1: May you enrich all who touch you. I thank God
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Speaker 1: for you, but even more I thank Him that there
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Speaker 1: are billions like you where you came from. I bless
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Speaker 1: that infinite supply. I thank God for it, and I
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Speaker 1: expand my consciousness to take it in here. Try to
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Speaker 1: see in your minds, I am niagara of money flowing
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Speaker 1: to you and to all who are praying with you.
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Speaker 1: See yourself and all of us bringing in a great
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Speaker 1: net full of money, like the nets the apostles pulled in,
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Speaker 1: bursting with fish. I release that infinite supply through all
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Speaker 1: my channels and the channels of all the students of
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Speaker 1: this course. Just as I freely release the money I
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Speaker 1: hold in my hand, giving it where it will do
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Speaker 1: the most good. The spirit that multiplied the loaves and
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Speaker 1: fishes for Jesus enters into this money, making it grow
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Speaker 1: and increase and bring forth fruit an hundredfold. All of
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Speaker 1: God's channels are now open, flowing for us the best
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Speaker 1: in ourselves for the world the best in the world
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Speaker 1: for us, then prepare for prosperity. When the Israelites of
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Speaker 1: old were suffering from drought and begged the prophet Alisia
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Speaker 1: to help them, what was the first thing he told
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Speaker 1: them to do? Fill the valley with ditches. Prepare to
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Speaker 1: receive the water that they asked for. You see, prayers
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Speaker 1: and affirmations are not for the purpose of influencing God.
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Speaker 1: He has already done his part. All of good is
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Speaker 1: always available to each of us. Our prayers and affirmations
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Speaker 1: are for the purpose of bringing our own minds to
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Speaker 1: the point where we can accept God's gifts. We don't
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Speaker 1: need to work on conditions. We need only to work
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Speaker 1: on ourselves. The only place we can cure our lax
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Speaker 1: and our troubles is in our own minds. When we
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Speaker 1: have done it there we shall find that they are
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Speaker 1: cured everywhere. Whatsoever things ye ask for when ye pray,
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Speaker 1: the Master assured us, believe that ye have received them,
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Speaker 1: and ye shall have them. That is the basis of
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Speaker 1: all successful prayer, whether for the healing of our bodies
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Speaker 1: or for material benefits. Once you convince your higher self,
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Speaker 1: which is the God in you that you have the
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Speaker 1: thing you want, it will proceed immediately to bring it
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Speaker 1: into being. But how you may ask, Can I convince
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Speaker 1: my higher self that I have riches or any other
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Speaker 1: good thing when my common sense tells me that I
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Speaker 1: am in debt up to my years and creditors are
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Speaker 1: hounding me day and night. You can't if you keep
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Speaker 1: thinking and acting debts. But here is a psychological fact.
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Speaker 1: The higher self accepts as fact anything that is repeated
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Speaker 1: to it in convincing tones often enough, and once it
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Speaker 1: has accepted any statement as fact, it proceeds to do
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Speaker 1: everything possible to make it true. That is the whole
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Speaker 1: purpose of affirmations, to bring the God in you to
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Speaker 1: accept as true the conditions that you desire, to the
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Speaker 1: end that he will then proceed to bring them into being.
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Speaker 1: It is a sort of auto suggestion. You keep saying
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Speaker 1: to yourself that you are rich, that you have the
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Speaker 1: things you desire, until the constant repetition is accepted by
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Speaker 1: the higher self and translated into its physical equivalent.
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Speaker 2: Debts.
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Speaker 1: Don't worry about them. Remember that the shadow of growing
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Speaker 1: grain kills the weeds. Keep your mind on the good
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Speaker 1: you want, and it will kill off the evil you fear.
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Speaker 1: Just as the turning on of light dispels darkness. A
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Speaker 1: farmer does not have to hoe the weeds out of
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Speaker 1: growing wheat any more than you have to sweep the
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Speaker 1: darkness out of a room. Neither do you have to
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Speaker 1: worry about debts or lack. Put all your thoughts and
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Speaker 1: all your faith in the riches you are praying for,
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Speaker 1: and let them dispel the debts. But don't worry. If
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Speaker 1: you can't summon such faith right out of the blue.
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Speaker 1: Most of us have to lead up to it gradually.
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Speaker 1: Start with COEs well known affirmation. Every day in every
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Speaker 1: way we are getting richer and richer.
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Speaker 2: Use that to.
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Speaker 1: Prepare your higher self for the stronger affirmations. Then, when
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Speaker 1: your faith has grown stronger, claim the thing you want.
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Speaker 1: Affirm that you have it, and in so far as possible,
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Speaker 1: actas though you had it. Write it in your heart
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Speaker 1: that each day is the best day of the year,
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Speaker 1: that now is the accepted time, now is the day
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Speaker 1: of salvation. Then thank God for the good you have
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Speaker 1: been praying for, believe that you have received, and give thanks.
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Speaker 1: Remember this, God's will always works when you offer no
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Speaker 1: resistance to it, So pray and then let His good
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Speaker 1: come to you. Don't fight the conditions about you, don't
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Speaker 1: try to overcome the obstacles in your path. Bless them.
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Speaker 1: Know that God is in them, that if you will
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Speaker 1: let them, they will work with you for good. Have
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Speaker 1: faith not only in God, but in people and things.
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Speaker 1: Don't look for a miracle to happen. Don't expect an
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Speaker 1: angel from heaven to come and open the way. Know
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Speaker 1: that God works through ordinary people and things, and it
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Speaker 1: is through them that your good will come. So bless them.
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Speaker 1: Serve them as you with the Lord, doing each thing
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Speaker 1: that is given you to do, as though you were
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Speaker 1: the greatest genius. And all day long, as the thought
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Speaker 1: occurs to you, keep repeating to yourself every day, in
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Speaker 1: every way, I am getting richer and richer, or whatever
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Speaker 1: it is that you desire. There is something about praying
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Speaker 1: for others that oftentimes does one more good than praying
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Speaker 1: for oneself. You see, you cannot give anything to others
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Speaker 1: without first possessing it yourself. When you wish another evil,
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Speaker 1: you draw that evil to yourself first, and you usually
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Speaker 1: get a part of it. When you bring good to another,
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Speaker 1: you bring it through yourself, and you share in it.
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Speaker 1: Remember the experience of Job in the olden days. Despite
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Speaker 1: his lamentations and prayers, he lost all his riches, and
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Speaker 1: his afflictions remained with him. But then misfortune fell upon
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Speaker 1: his friends as well, and in his sympathy for them them,
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Speaker 1: Job forgot his own ailments and prayed for his friends.
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Speaker 1: And it is written that the Lord turned the captivity
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Speaker 1: of Job when he prayed for his friends, and the
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Speaker 1: Lord gave him twice as much as he had before.
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Speaker 1: For who upon the hearth can start a fire and
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Speaker 1: never warm the stone, or who can cheer another's heart
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Speaker 1: and not his own? I still the hungry infants cry
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Speaker 1: with kindness, filled the stranger's cup, and lifting others, found
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Speaker 1: that I was lifted up the God in you. By
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Speaker 1: Robert Collier, Chapter six, How to Develop Faith Power for
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Speaker 1: Successful Living. To you, faith has doubtless been a term
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Speaker 1: properly applied in sermons and theological books, but which has
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Speaker 1: but little or no practical place or meaning in the
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Speaker 1: world of action and deeds, in the world in which
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Speaker 1: most of us live most of our time and perform
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Speaker 1: most of our actions. We assure you that faith power
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Speaker 1: is something having a most intimate and important relation to
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Speaker 1: personal power along practical lines and is something which, in
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Speaker 1: the current phrase, you need in your business. Mister Leon Jolson,
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Speaker 1: president of the huge netche sewing machine company, is today
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Speaker 1: worth many millions of dollars. A few years ago he
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Speaker 1: was a poor Polish immigrant who couldn't even speak English.
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Speaker 1: The newspaper account of his spectacular rise to success quoted
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Speaker 1: him as saying, I had unfaltering faith. I prayed for
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Speaker 1: guidance every step of the way I used head and footwork.
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Speaker 1: The general conception of faith, the idea of faith held
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Speaker 1: by most persons, is that it is an emotional state
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Speaker 1: independent of if not indeed actually contrary to reason. However,
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Speaker 1: we believe that the most important reasoning of practical, everyday
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Speaker 1: life is based on faith. We do not know positively
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Speaker 1: that the sun will rise tomorrow morning. All that we
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Speaker 1: know is that in the history of the race, the
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Speaker 1: sun always has risen in the morning, and we believe
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Speaker 1: that it will continue the practice on the morning. But
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Speaker 1: we do not know absolutely that such will be the case.
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Speaker 1: We cannot prove it absolutely by argument, even by mathematics,
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Speaker 1: unless we admit the existence of universal law or the
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Speaker 1: law of causation, whereby the same causes under the same
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Speaker 1: conditions will produce the same effects. You may object to
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Speaker 1: all this as silly, but instead it is the strictest
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Speaker 1: application of the rules and laws of practical thought. Of course,
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Speaker 1: you say that we know that the sun will rise
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Speaker 1: tomorrow morning, and may even tell to us second the
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Speaker 1: time of its rising. Certainly we know this, but we
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Speaker 1: know it only by an act of faith. That faith, moreover,
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Speaker 1: is the belief that there exists universal law, that natural
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Speaker 1: things act and move under law, that the same causes
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Speaker 1: under the same conditions produce the same results. In the
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Speaker 1: ordinary affairs of life and action. You act according to faith.
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Speaker 1: You do this so naturally and instinctively, so constantly and habitually,
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Speaker 1: that you are not aware of it. You start on
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Speaker 1: an airline flight, you buy your ticket having faith that
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Speaker 1: the plane will start from the airport named on the ticket,
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Speaker 1: and approximately on the time noted in it. You have
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Speaker 1: faith that it will proceed to the destination promised. You
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Speaker 1: do not know these things from actual experience, for you
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Speaker 1: cannot so know what lies in the future. You take
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Speaker 1: them for granted, you assume them to be true. You
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Speaker 1: act upon faith, you take your seat. You do not
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Speaker 1: know the pilot or the co pilot. You have never
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Speaker 1: seen them, nor do you even know their names. You
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Speaker 1: do not know whether or not they are competent, reliable,
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Speaker 1: or experienced. All that you know is that it is
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Speaker 1: reasonable to suppose that the plane company will select the
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Speaker 1: right kind of men for the task. You act upon
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Speaker 1: faith upon faith, rationally interpreted. You have faith in the company,
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Speaker 1: in the management, in the system of flights, in the woitment,
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Speaker 1: et cetera. And you stake your life and wholeness of
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Speaker 1: body upon that faith. You may say that you only
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Speaker 1: take a chance in the matter, But even so, you
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Speaker 1: manifest faith in that chance, or else you wouldn't take it.
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Speaker 1: You wouldn't take a chance of standing in the path
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Speaker 1: of a rushing express train, or of leaping from the
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Speaker 1: empire state building. Would you you manifest faith in something,
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Speaker 1: even if that something be no more than the law
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Speaker 1: of averages. You place your money in a bank. Here,
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Speaker 1: again you manifest faith, faith rationally interpreted. You sell goods
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Speaker 1: on credit to your customers. Faith again, you have faith
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Speaker 1: in your grosser, your butcher, your lawyer, your physician, your clerks,
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Speaker 1: your insurance company. That is to say, faith of some
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Speaker 1: kind or of some degree, else you would not trust
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Speaker 1: anything whatsoever to them. If you believe that a man
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Speaker 1: is dishonest, incompetent, or insane, you do not place confidence
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Speaker 1: in him, nor trust your affairs or interests to him.
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Speaker 1: Your faith is in his wrongness and not in his rightness.
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Speaker 1: But it is faith. Nevertheless. Every belief short of actual
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Speaker 1: positive knowledge, is a form or phase of faith. You
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Speaker 1: have the faith that if you step off a high
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Speaker 1: building into space, you will fall and be injured, perhaps killed.
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Speaker 1: This is your faith in the law of gravitation. You
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Speaker 1: have a similar faith in certain other physical laws. You
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Speaker 1: have the confident expectation that evil results to you will
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Speaker 1: follow certain courses of action concerning these physical laws. You
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Speaker 1: have faith that poisons will injure or destroy your physical body,
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Speaker 1: and you avoid such. You may object that you know
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Speaker 1: these things, not merely believe them. But you don't know
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Speaker 1: anything directly and immediately until you experience it, and you
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Speaker 1: cannot experience it, and you cannot experience a future happening
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Speaker 1: before its time. All that you can do concerning each
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Speaker 1: and every future experience is to believe certain things concerning it,
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Speaker 1: And that belief is nothing else but faith interpreted more
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Speaker 1: or less rationally incorrectly. You do not know certainly and positively,
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Speaker 1: by direct experience or by pure reason, a single thing
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Speaker 1: about the happenings of tomorrow, or of some day next week,
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Speaker 1: or of the corresponding day of next year. Yet you
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Speaker 1: act as if you did possess such knowledge. But why
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Speaker 1: simply because of your faith in the law and order
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Speaker 1: of the universe, of the operation of the law of causation,
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Speaker 1: whereby effects follow causes of the law of probabilities, or
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Speaker 1: of the law of average, or of some other natural law.
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Speaker 1: But your knowledge of and belief in such laws are
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Speaker 1: but forms of your faith, i e. Confident expectation that
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Speaker 1: things will work out according to the rule observed in
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Speaker 1: past actions. You cannot get away from faith in your
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Speaker 1: thoughts and beliefs concerning the present and the future, any
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Speaker 1: more than you can run away from your shadow in
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Speaker 1: the bright daylight. From the foregoing and the reflections aroused
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Speaker 1: in your mind. By the consideration of it, you will
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Speaker 1: perceive that faith has as true and as sound position
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Speaker 1: and place in the psychology of the human being as
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Speaker 1: have reason and intellect. Without the confident expectation of faith,
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Speaker 1: there will be no kindling of the flame of insistent desire.
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Speaker 1: No application of the steel of persistent determination. Unless faith
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Speaker 1: expresses itself in the confident expectation of the obtaining or
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Speaker 1: attainment of the thing desired and willed, Then will desire
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Speaker 1: find it difficult to want it hard enough, and will
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Speaker 1: will find it impossible to persistently determined to obtain it.
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Speaker 1: Desire and will depend upon faith for their inspirational forces.
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Speaker 1: By means of the latter, the energizing forces of desire
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Speaker 1: and the dynamic forces of will are inspired and vitalized
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Speaker 1: and have the breath of life breathed into them. How
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Speaker 1: sickness is cured by faith. Among the many phases and
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Speaker 1: forms of the application and manifestation of the mental principle
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Speaker 1: of faith power is that important phase or form, known
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Speaker 1: generally as faith cure. Faith cure is a term applied
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Speaker 1: to the practice of curing disease by an appeal to
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Speaker 1: the hope, belief, or expectation of the patient and without
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Speaker 1: the use of drugs or other material means. Formerly, faith
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Speaker 1: cure was confined to methods requiring the exercise of religious faith,
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Speaker 1: such as the prayer cure and divine healing, but has
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Speaker 1: now come to be used in the broader sense and
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Speaker 1: includes the cures of mental science. It is now generally
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Speaker 1: agreed that the cures made by the various practitioners of
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Speaker 1: the numerous schools and forms of faith cure have as
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Speaker 1: their underlying effective principle the mental condition or state of faith.
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Speaker 1: This principle operating so as to call forth the innate
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Speaker 1: power of the mental physical organism to resist and to
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Speaker 1: overcome the abnormal conditions which manifest as disease. Thus, all
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Speaker 1: cures wrought by the mental forces of the individual, under
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Speaker 1: whatever name or method, are, at the last faith cures.
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Speaker 1: This innate power of the organism, so lodged in the
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Speaker 1: subconscious mentality, is found to respond readily to the ideas
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Speaker 1: accepted as true by the individual, to his beliefs. In short,
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Speaker 1: these beliefs are forms of faith at the last. From
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Speaker 1: the psychological point of view, all these different kinds of
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Speaker 1: faith healing, as indeed all kinds of faith healing, as
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Speaker 1: indeed all kinds of mind cure, depend upon suggestion. In
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Speaker 1: faith healing proper, not only are powerful direct suggestions used,
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Speaker 1: but the religious atmosphere and the auto suggestions of the
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Speaker 1: patient cooperate, especially when the cures take place during a
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Speaker 1: period of religious revival, or at other times when large
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Speaker 1: assemblies and strong emotions are found. The suggestibility of large
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Speaker 1: crowds is markedly greater than that of individuals, and to
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Speaker 1: this greater faith must be attributed the greater success of
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Speaker 1: the fashionable places of pilgrimage. Analyzing the phenomena attributed to
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Speaker 1: suggestion and reducing the idea of suggestion to its essential elements,
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Speaker 1: we find that suggestions consists of one placing a strong
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Speaker 1: idea in the mind, grafting it on the mind as
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Speaker 1: it were, two arousing the expectant attention of the results
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Speaker 1: implied or indicated in the suggested idea, and three setting
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Speaker 1: into operation the activities of the subconscious mentality in the
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Speaker 1: direction of bringing about the result pictured by the expectant attention,
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Speaker 1: which in turn has been aroused by the suggested idea.
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Speaker 1: There you have the whole idea of suggestion in a nutshell. Now,
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Speaker 1: then all phenomena of faith cure and of suggestion as well,
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Speaker 1: are seen to depend upon the presence and action of
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Speaker 1: the element or principle of faith power in the mentality
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Speaker 1: of the individual. By an application of the first of
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Speaker 1: the above stated elements of this greater principle of your
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Speaker 1: being and of nature as a whole, you may keep
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Speaker 1: yourself in health, strength, and general desirable physical well being,
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Speaker 1: or you may bring about by it a gradual return
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Speaker 1: to health and physical well being if you have lost
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Speaker 1: these again, if you allow this principle to be directed
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Speaker 1: wrongly and abnormally, you may lose your physical well being
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Speaker 1: in health, and may start on the downward path of disease,
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Speaker 1: the end of which is an untimely death. Your physical
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Speaker 1: condition is very largely dependent upon the character and kind
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Speaker 1: of the ideas and ideals which you permit to be
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Speaker 1: planted in your mind, and by the degree of expectant
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Speaker 1: attention or faith which you permit to vitalize these ideas
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Speaker 1: and ideals. Briefly stated, the course to be followed by
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Speaker 1: you in this matter is as follows. One encourage ideas
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Speaker 1: and ideals of health, strength, and vitality, the ideas of
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Speaker 1: physical well being to take lodgment in your mind there
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Speaker 1: to send forth their root sprouts, blossoms, and fruit. Cultivate
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Speaker 1: these ideas and ideals, and vitalize them with a goodly
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Speaker 1: amount of expectant attention, confident expectation, and faith. Along the
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Speaker 1: lines of these conditions which you desire to be present
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Speaker 1: in yourself. See yourself in your mind's i as you
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Speaker 1: wish to be, and confidently expect to have these conditions
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Speaker 1: manifested in you by your subconscious mentality. To never allow
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Speaker 1: yourself to hold the ideas of diseased abnormal conditions, and
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Speaker 1: above all, never allow yourself to cultivate the mental habit
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Speaker 1: of expecting such conditions to manifest in your body. Cultivate
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Speaker 1: the attitude of faith and hope, and discard that of fear.
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Speaker 2: Free.
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Speaker 1: If your mind has been filled with these negative, harmful
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Speaker 1: and destructive mental ideas, end expectancy, and if your body
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Speaker 1: has manifested disease in response to them, you should proceed
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Speaker 1: to fill out these noxious mental weeds by a deliberate, determined,
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Speaker 1: and confident cultivation of the right kind of ideas and
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Speaker 1: ideals and states of expectancy. It is an axiom of
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Speaker 1: advanced psychology that the positives tend to inhibit and to
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Speaker 1: destroy the negatives. The weeds in the mental garden may
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Speaker 1: be killed out by the careful and determined cultivation of
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Speaker 1: the positive plants of hope, faith, end confident expectation of
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Speaker 1: the good and desirable faith power is present, active, It
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Speaker 1: is potent and powerful, and it is friendly to you.
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Speaker 1: If you recognize and realize its existence. It is ready
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Speaker 1: to serve you, and to serve you well, provided that
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Speaker 1: you call upon it properly and furnish it with the
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Speaker 1: proper channels through which to flow in its efforts to
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Speaker 1: manifest itself. This is the great truth back of the
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Speaker 1: special lesson of faith cure the mighty subconscious mind. The
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Speaker 1: subconscious that great field or plane of mental activity, is
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Speaker 1: the seat of far greater power and the source of
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Speaker 1: far deeper and broader streams of mental force than the
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Speaker 1: average person even begins to realize. In that field or
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Speaker 1: on that plane are performed over seventy five percent of
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Speaker 1: man's mental activities. Our mental world is far more extensive
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Speaker 1: than we usually conceive it to be. It has great,
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Speaker 1: comparatively unsound depths and equally grand, comparatively unsealed heights. The
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Speaker 1: explored and charted areas of our conscious mentality are incidental
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Speaker 1: and subordinate to those broad areas of which even the
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Speaker 1: brightest minds of our race have merely explored. The borderland,
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Speaker 1: the expanded, uncharted interior of the strange country, still awaiting
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Speaker 1: the exploring expeditions of the future. Our position in relation
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Speaker 1: to this great terra incognita of the mind is similar
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Speaker 1: to that of the ancient civilized world toward the Earth
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Speaker 1: as a whole. We are as yet awaiting the Columbus
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Speaker 1: who will explore the western continent of the mind, and
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Speaker 1: the living stones and Stanleys who will furnish us with
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Speaker 1: maps of the mental darkest Africa. Yet even the comparatively
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Speaker 1: small explored areas of the subconscious have revealed to us
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Speaker 1: a wonderful land, a land filled with the richest raw materials,
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Speaker 1: precious metals, wonderful species of animal and plant life. And
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Speaker 1: our daring investigators have discovered means of applying and using
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Speaker 1: some of the wonderful things which have been discovered in
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Speaker 1: even that borderland of the new mental world. The subconscious
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Speaker 1: entertains deep rooted convictions and beliefs concerning the general success
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Speaker 1: or non success of the individual. The person who has
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Speaker 1: constantly impressed upon his subconscious mentality that he is unlucky
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Speaker 1: and that fate is against me, has created a tremendous
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Speaker 1: power within himself which acts as a break or obstacle
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Speaker 1: to his successful achievement. He has created an enemy within
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Speaker 1: himself which serves to hold him back, and which fights
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Speaker 1: against every inner effort in the direction of success. This
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Speaker 1: hidden enemy hampers his full efforts and cripples his activities.
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Speaker 1: On the contrary, the person who believes that luck is
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Speaker 1: running my way and that things are working in my
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Speaker 1: favor not only releases all of his latent energies, but
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Speaker 1: also actually stimulates his full powers along subconscious lines as
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Speaker 1: well as conscious. Many men have become so convinced of
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Speaker 1: their propitious destiny that they have overcome obstacles which would
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Speaker 1: have blocked the progress of one holding the opposite conviction.
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Speaker 1: In fact, most of the men who have used their
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Speaker 1: failures as stepping stones to subsequent success have felt within
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Speaker 1: themselves the conviction that they would triumph in the end,
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Speaker 1: and that the disappointments and temporary failures were but incidents
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Speaker 1: of the game. Men have believed in their stars, or
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Speaker 1: in the presence and power of something outside of themselves
2:38:09
Speaker 1: which was operating in the direction of their ultimate triumph.
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Speaker 1: This has given to them an indomitable will and an
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Speaker 1: unconquerable spirit. Had these same men allowed the conviction of
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Speaker 1: the operation of adverse and antagonistic influences to take possession
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Speaker 1: of their souls, they would have gone down in the struggle,
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Speaker 1: and would have stayed down. In either case, however, the
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Speaker 1: real something which they have believed to be an outside
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Speaker 1: thing or entity has been nothing more nor less than
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Speaker 1: the influence and power of their own subconscious, in one
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Speaker 1: case pulling with them, and in the other pulling against them.
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Speaker 1: The man with his subconscious filled with belief and faith
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Speaker 1: in his non success and in the inevitable failure of
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Speaker 1: his efforts, The man whose confident expectation is that of
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Speaker 1: non success, failure, and inability, and whose expectant attention is
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Speaker 1: directed towards such an outcome and the incidents and circuitcumstances
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Speaker 1: leading up to it, is like a man in the
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Speaker 1: water who is swimming against the stream. He is opposing
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Speaker 1: the strong current, and his every effort is counteracted and
2:39:09
Speaker 1: overcome by the adverse forces of the stream. Likewise, the
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Speaker 1: man whose subconscious is saturated with the conviction of ultimate
2:39:17
Speaker 1: victory and final success, whose confident expectation is directed toward
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Speaker 1: that end, and whose expectant attention is ever on the
2:39:24
Speaker 1: lookout for things tending to realize his inner beliefs is
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Speaker 1: like the swimmer who is moving in the direction of
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Speaker 1: the current. Such a man not only is not really
2:39:33
Speaker 1: opposed by the forces of the stream, but instead has
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Speaker 1: these forces at work aiding him. The importance of having
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Speaker 1: the faith, confident, expectation, and expectant attention of the subconscious
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Speaker 1: directed towards your success, achievement and successful ultimate accomplishment, and
2:39:49
Speaker 1: the importance of not having these mighty forces operate against
2:39:52
Speaker 1: yourself may be realized when you stop to consider that
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Speaker 1: in the one case, you have three quarters of your
2:39:58
Speaker 1: mental equipment and power operating in your favor, and in
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Speaker 1: the other case you have that three quarters operating against you,
2:40:05
Speaker 1: and that three quarters in either case not only is
2:40:08
Speaker 1: working actively during your waking hours, but also works while
2:40:12
Speaker 1: you sleep. To lose the assistance of that three quarters
2:40:15
Speaker 1: would be a serious matter, would it not. But far
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Speaker 1: more serious is it to have that three quarters actually
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Speaker 1: working against you having it on the side of the enemy.
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Speaker 1: This is just what happens when the subconscious gets into
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Speaker 1: action under the influence of wrongly directed faith, expectant attention,
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Speaker 1: in confident expectation, get busy with your subconscious train it educated,
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Speaker 1: re educated, direct it incline it, teach it, suggest to
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Speaker 1: it along the lines of the faith in success and power,
2:40:46
Speaker 1: and not those of the faith in failure and weakness.
2:40:49
Speaker 1: Set it to work swimming with that current. The subconscious
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Speaker 1: is much given to faith. It lives on faith, It
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Speaker 1: acts upon faith. Then see that you supply it with
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Speaker 1: the right kind of faith, and avoid as a pestilence
2:41:03
Speaker 1: that faith which is based on fear and is grounded
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Speaker 1: in failure and despair. Think carefully and act how to
2:41:11
Speaker 1: develop enthusiasm for your work. Faith is the underlying principle
2:41:15
Speaker 1: of that remarkable quality of the human mind which is
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Speaker 1: known as enthusiasm. It is its essence, It is its substance,
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Speaker 1: It is its actuating principle. Without faith, there can be
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Speaker 1: no manifestation of enthusiasm. Without faith. There can be no
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Speaker 1: expression of the activities of enthusiasm. Without faith. There can
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Speaker 1: be no exhibition of the energies of enthusiasm. Without faith,
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Speaker 1: the quality of enthusiasm remains dormant, latent and static. Faith
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Speaker 1: is needed to arouse it, to render it active, to
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Speaker 1: cause it to become dynamic. Moreover, the faith required for
2:41:51
Speaker 1: the manifestation and expression of enthusiasm must be positive faith,
2:41:55
Speaker 1: faith in the successful outcome of the undertaking, faith exhibiting
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Speaker 1: its positive phases, faith in the attainment of that which
2:42:02
Speaker 1: is desirable and which is regarded as good. You can
2:42:06
Speaker 1: never manifest enthusiasm toward that which you confidently expect to
2:42:09
Speaker 1: be a failure, nor toward that which you feel will
2:42:12
Speaker 1: bring undesirable results and effects. Negative faith has no power
2:42:16
Speaker 1: to arouse enthusiasm. The presence of positive faith is necessary
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Speaker 1: to awaken this wonderful latent mental or spiritual force. Enthusiasm
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Speaker 1: is a mental or spiritual force which has always been
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Speaker 1: regarded by mankind with respect, often with a respect mingled
2:42:32
Speaker 1: with awe. To the ancients, it seemed to be a
2:42:35
Speaker 1: special gift of the gods, and by them it was
2:42:37
Speaker 1: regarded as animating the individual with almost divine attributes of power,
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Speaker 1: and as causing him to absorb a portion of the
2:42:44
Speaker 1: essence of the divine nature. Recognizing the fact that men
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Speaker 1: under the influence of enthusiasm often accomplish almost superhuman tasks,
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Speaker 1: the ancients came to believe that this added power and
2:42:55
Speaker 1: capacity arose from the superimposition of power from plains of
2:42:59
Speaker 1: being above that humanity. Hence, they employed terms to define it,
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Speaker 1: which clearly indicated their belief in its transcendent nature. The
2:43:08
Speaker 1: term enthusiasm is directly derived from the ancient Greek term
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Speaker 1: meaning to be inspired by the gods. The two compositive
2:43:16
Speaker 1: elements of the original term are, respectively, a term denoting
2:43:20
Speaker 1: inspiration and one denoting the gods or divinity. The two
2:43:24
Speaker 1: terms in combination meaning literally inspired by the gods. You
2:43:29
Speaker 1: have found that when you become quite intensely interested in
2:43:32
Speaker 1: a subject, object, study, pursuit, or cause, so that your
2:43:36
Speaker 1: enthusiasm is thoroughly aroused, then there comes to you a
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Speaker 1: highly increased and greatly intensified degree in amount of mental
2:43:42
Speaker 1: energy and power. At such times, your mind seems to
2:43:46
Speaker 1: work with lightning like rapidity, and with a wonderful sense
2:43:49
Speaker 1: of ease and efficiency. Your mental powers seem to be quadrupled.
2:43:53
Speaker 1: Your mental machinery seems to have some miraculous oil poured
2:43:57
Speaker 1: into the proper place, thus removing all friction and allowing
2:44:00
Speaker 1: every part of the mechanism to move smoothly and easily
2:44:03
Speaker 1: and with wonderful speed. At such times, you feel indeed
2:44:08
Speaker 1: actually inspired. You feel that a new world of attainment
2:44:12
Speaker 1: would be open to you if you could make this
2:44:14
Speaker 1: mental condition a permanent one. Looking around you, in your
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Speaker 1: world of practical, every day work and effort, you will
2:44:20
Speaker 1: see why business men other men of affairs regard as
2:44:23
Speaker 1: an important factor of successful work that mental quality known
2:44:26
Speaker 1: as enthusiastic interest on the part of the person's performing
2:44:30
Speaker 1: that work. This enthusiastic interest in the work or task
2:44:35
Speaker 1: is found to call forth all the mental and physical
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Speaker 1: powers of the worker. He not only puts into his
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Speaker 1: task every ounce of his ordinary capacity, but he also
2:44:44
Speaker 1: draws upon that hidden reserved force of his sub conscious
2:44:47
Speaker 1: mentality and adds that to his ordinary full energy. When
2:44:50
Speaker 1: he approaches the fatigue limit, his enthusiastic interest carries him on,
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Speaker 1: and before long he has caught his second wind and
2:44:58
Speaker 1: obtained his fresh start. Ask any successful sales manager for
2:45:02
Speaker 1: a list of the essential characteristics of the successful salesman,
2:45:06
Speaker 1: and on that list you will find this capacity for
2:45:08
Speaker 1: a habit of enthusiastic interest occupying a prominent place. This
2:45:14
Speaker 1: not only because of its highly important effect upon the
2:45:17
Speaker 1: work of the salesman himself, but also because enthusiasm is contagious,
2:45:21
Speaker 1: and the lively quickened interest of the salesman tends to
2:45:24
Speaker 1: communicate itself to the subconscious mentality of his customer. In
2:45:29
Speaker 1: the same way, the enthusiasm of the public speaker, orator, advocate,
2:45:33
Speaker 1: or statesman energizes and quickens his entire intellectual and emotional nature,
2:45:38
Speaker 1: thus causing him to do his best. Likewise communicating itself
2:45:41
Speaker 1: to his audience by means of mental contagion, the man,
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Speaker 1: with his soul of fire tends to fire the souls
2:45:48
Speaker 1: and hearts of those around him. The spirit of the
2:45:52
Speaker 1: enthusiastic leader, foreman, or boss is caught by those under him.
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Speaker 1: Enthusiasm is clearly a manifestation of the emotional phase of
2:46:01
Speaker 1: man's mentality, and it appeals directly and immediately to the
2:46:05
Speaker 1: emotional nature of others. Likewise, it is clearly a product
2:46:09
Speaker 1: of the subconscious mentality, and accordingly it appeals directly and
2:46:13
Speaker 1: immediately to the subconscious mentality of others. Its effect is
2:46:18
Speaker 1: characteristically animating, energizing, inspiring, quickening. It not only stirs the
2:46:24
Speaker 1: feelings and sets fire to the spiritual nature, but it
2:46:27
Speaker 1: also stimulates and vivifies the intellectual faculties. The live wires
2:46:33
Speaker 1: in the world of men. Are those individuals who possess
2:46:35
Speaker 1: the quality of enthusiastic interest, highly developed and habitually manifested.
2:46:40
Speaker 1: When the occasion calls for it, overdone, it defeats its object.
2:46:45
Speaker 1: The golden mean must be observed. But lacking it, the
2:46:48
Speaker 1: man is what is known in the idiom of practical
2:46:50
Speaker 1: men as a dead one. The man of true enthusiasm
2:46:54
Speaker 1: is characterized by his abiding faith in his proposition or subject,
2:46:58
Speaker 1: by his lively interest in it, by his earnestness in
2:47:01
Speaker 1: presenting it and working toward its accomplishment, by his untiring,
2:47:04
Speaker 1: indefatigable efforts.
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Speaker 2: On its behalf.
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Speaker 1: Faith, however, is the foundation upon which all the rest
2:47:11
Speaker 1: is built. Lacking faith, the structure of enthusiasm falls like
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Speaker 1: a house of cards. The more faith a man has
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Speaker 1: in that which he is doing, toward which he is working,
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Speaker 1: or that which he is presenting to others, the greater
2:47:23
Speaker 1: will be the manifestation of his own powers and capacity,
2:47:27
Speaker 1: the more efficient will be his performance of the work,
2:47:29
Speaker 1: and the greater will be his ability to influence others
2:47:32
Speaker 1: and to cause them to see things in the light
2:47:34
Speaker 1: of his own belief and interest. Faith arouses and sustains enthusiasm.
2:47:39
Speaker 1: Lack of faith deadens and inhibits it. Unfaith and positive
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Speaker 1: disbelief kill it. It is clear that the first step
2:47:46
Speaker 1: toward the cultivation and development of enthusiasm is that of
2:47:49
Speaker 1: the creation of faith in the subject or object toward
2:47:52
Speaker 1: which you wish to manifest and express enthusiasm. If you
2:47:56
Speaker 1: have no faith in the subject or object of your activities,
2:47:59
Speaker 1: then you will never be able to manifest enthusiasm concerning
2:48:03
Speaker 1: that subject or object. Life without faith and enthusiasm is
2:48:07
Speaker 1: a living death. Persons living that life are mere walking corpses.
2:48:12
Speaker 1: If you would be a live wire instead of a
2:48:14
Speaker 1: dead one, you must begin to arouse and develop enthusiasm
2:48:18
Speaker 1: in your heart and soul. You must cultivate that keen
2:48:22
Speaker 1: and quickened interest, and that lively and earnest faith in
2:48:25
Speaker 1: what you are doing and in the things to which
2:48:27
Speaker 1: you are giving your time and work. You must mentally
2:48:30
Speaker 1: breathe in and inspire that spirit of life which men
2:48:34
Speaker 1: for many centuries have called enthusiasm, and which is the
2:48:37
Speaker 1: twin sister of inspiration. Then will you know the exhilaration
2:48:41
Speaker 1: of that enkindled and kindling fervor of soul, that ardent
2:48:45
Speaker 1: and lively zeal, the mark of true enthusiasm, the flame
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Speaker 1: of desire essential to faith. Desire is the second factor
2:48:54
Speaker 1: of mental power. You must not only know definitely exactly
2:48:58
Speaker 1: what you want and manifest by means of idealization, you
2:49:02
Speaker 1: must also want it hard enough and manifest it an
2:49:05
Speaker 1: insistent desire. Desire is the flame and fire which create
2:49:09
Speaker 1: the steam of will.
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Speaker 2: The will never.
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Speaker 1: Goes out into effective action except when drawn forth by
2:49:15
Speaker 1: active and sufficiently strong desire. Desire furnishes that motive for
2:49:20
Speaker 1: will will never becomes active in absence of amotive. When
2:49:25
Speaker 1: we speak of a man having a strong will, we
2:49:27
Speaker 1: often mean really that he has strong desire desire, strong
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Speaker 1: enough to cause him to exert every ounce of power
2:49:33
Speaker 1: and energy in him toward the attainment or accomplishment of
2:49:36
Speaker 1: the object of desire. Desire exerts a tremendous influence upon
2:49:41
Speaker 1: all of the mental faculties, causing them to put forth
2:49:44
Speaker 1: their full energies and powers and to perform their work efficiently.
2:49:48
Speaker 1: It stimulates the intellect, inspires the emotions, and quickens the imagination.
2:49:54
Speaker 1: Without the urge of desire, there would be but little
2:49:56
Speaker 1: mental work performed. The keynote of desire is I want
2:50:01
Speaker 1: and to gratify and satisfy that want the mind puts
2:50:04
Speaker 1: forth its best energies. Without desire, you would do but
2:50:08
Speaker 1: little thinking, for there would be no motive for such
2:50:12
Speaker 1: Without desire, you would perform no actions, for there would
2:50:15
Speaker 1: be no moving reason for such. Desire is ever the
2:50:19
Speaker 1: mover to action to action, mental as well as physical. Moreover,
2:50:24
Speaker 1: the degree in the intensity of your work, mental or physical,
2:50:27
Speaker 1: is determined by the degree of desire manifested in you
2:50:30
Speaker 1: concerning the object or end of such work. The more
2:50:34
Speaker 1: you want a thing, the harder will you work for it,
2:50:37
Speaker 1: and the easier will such work seem to you to be.
2:50:40
Speaker 1: The task performed under the influence and incentive of strong
2:50:43
Speaker 1: desire will seem much easier than would be the same
2:50:46
Speaker 1: task performed without such influence and incentive, and infinitely easier
2:50:50
Speaker 1: than would the same task appear if its end and
2:50:52
Speaker 1: object were contrary to your desire. No argument is needed
2:50:57
Speaker 1: to establish these facts. They are matters of common novel
2:51:00
Speaker 1: and are proved by the experience of everyday life. The
2:51:03
Speaker 1: degree of force, energy, will, determination, persistence, and continuous application
2:51:09
Speaker 1: manifested by an individual in his aspirations, ambitions, aims, performances, actions,
2:51:15
Speaker 1: and work is determined primarily by the degree of his
2:51:18
Speaker 1: desire for the attainment of these objects, his degree of
2:51:21
Speaker 1: want and want to concerning that object. So true is
2:51:26
Speaker 1: this principle that some who have studied its effects have
2:51:28
Speaker 1: announced the aphorism you can have or be anything you
2:51:31
Speaker 1: want if you only want it hard enough. Without faith,
2:51:35
Speaker 1: it is practically impossible for you to manifest strong, ardent,
2:51:39
Speaker 1: insistent desire. If you are filled with doubt, distrust, unfaith,
2:51:44
Speaker 1: for disbelief in a thing or concerning the successful accomplishment
2:51:48
Speaker 1: or attainment of anything, you will not be able to
2:51:50
Speaker 1: arouse the proper degree of desire for that thing or
2:51:53
Speaker 1: for its accomplishment and attainment. Lack of faith or still
2:51:58
Speaker 1: more positive disbelief tends to paralyze the desire power. It
2:52:02
Speaker 1: acts as a break or as a damper upon its power. Faith,
2:52:07
Speaker 1: on the contrary, frees the breaks of desire or turns
2:52:10
Speaker 1: on the full draft of its fire. Here is the
2:52:13
Speaker 1: principle in concise form. Faith encourages and sustains, promotes and
2:52:18
Speaker 1: maintains desire in its highest degree of efficiency. Doubt, disbelief, distrust,
2:52:23
Speaker 1: and unfaith retard and restrict, inhibit and paralyze this efficient
2:52:27
Speaker 1: manifestation of desire. The mighty power of a strong will
2:52:33
Speaker 1: will action is the third factor of mental power. You
2:52:36
Speaker 1: must not only know clearly just what you want and
2:52:40
Speaker 1: see it in your mind's eye in ideal form. You
2:52:42
Speaker 1: must not only want it hard enough and arouse its
2:52:45
Speaker 1: power to a degree of insistence and demand which will
2:52:48
Speaker 1: not brook denial or defeat. You must also call into
2:52:51
Speaker 1: service the persistent, determine, indomitable application of the will, which
2:52:56
Speaker 1: will hold your energies and powers steadfastly and relentlessly to
2:52:59
Speaker 1: the task of accomplishment and attainment. You must will to will,
2:53:04
Speaker 1: and must make your will will itself in the act
2:53:06
Speaker 1: of willing. Will is perhaps the most mysterious of all
2:53:09
Speaker 1: of the mental powers. It seems to dwell on a
2:53:13
Speaker 1: mental plane alone by itself. It lies nearer and closer
2:53:17
Speaker 1: to the i ami or ego than does any other
2:53:20
Speaker 1: phase of mentality. It is the principal instrument of the
2:53:24
Speaker 1: i ami, the instrument which the latter employs directly and immediately.
2:53:29
Speaker 1: Its spirit is persistent determination, Its essence is action. Whenever
2:53:34
Speaker 1: you act, then do you employ your will. Will Power
2:53:38
Speaker 1: is the dynamic phase or aspect of mental power. All
2:53:42
Speaker 1: other mental force is more or less static. It is
2:53:45
Speaker 1: only when the will becomes involved in the process that
2:53:48
Speaker 1: mental power manifests its dynamic phase or aspect. Wise, men
2:53:53
Speaker 1: have held that all power is will power at the last,
2:53:56
Speaker 1: and that all activities are forms or phases of will
2:53:59
Speaker 1: action the last. In the cosmos as well as in
2:54:03
Speaker 1: the individual, will power is the essential and basic phase
2:54:06
Speaker 1: of power. How to attract the person you want? The
2:54:11
Speaker 1: law of mental attraction or mental gravitation acts along lines
2:54:15
Speaker 1: very similar to those of the action of physical gravitation.
2:54:19
Speaker 1: There is present and active the mutual and reciprocal pull
2:54:23
Speaker 1: between thoughts and things, and between thoughts and thoughts. Thoughts, however,
2:54:27
Speaker 1: are things at the last analysis. This principle extends even
2:54:32
Speaker 1: to so called inanimate objects. This mystery is explainable under
2:54:35
Speaker 1: the now well established law that there is mind in everything,
2:54:39
Speaker 1: even in the apparently inanimate objects of the universe, even
2:54:42
Speaker 1: in the atoms and particles of which material substances are composed.
2:54:47
Speaker 1: Not only do you attract thought vibrations, thought waves, thought currents,
2:54:51
Speaker 1: thought atmospheres, et cetera, of a harmonious character, and to
2:54:55
Speaker 1: which your thoughts have a natural affinity, you also attract
2:54:58
Speaker 1: to yourselves by the power of thought attraction other persons
2:55:02
Speaker 1: whose thoughts have an affinity and harmony with your own.
2:55:06
Speaker 1: In the same way you attract to yourself and are
2:55:08
Speaker 1: attracted toward other persons whose interests run along the same
2:55:12
Speaker 1: general lines as your own. You draw to yourself the
2:55:15
Speaker 1: persons who may be necessary for the successful carrying out
2:55:18
Speaker 1: of the plans and purposes the desires and ambitions which
2:55:22
Speaker 1: fill your thoughts most of the time, And in the
2:55:25
Speaker 1: same way you are drawn toward those into whose plans
2:55:28
Speaker 1: and purposes you are fitted to play an important part.
2:55:31
Speaker 1: In short, each person tends to attract toward himself those
2:55:35
Speaker 1: other persons whom he needs in order to materialize his
2:55:37
Speaker 1: ideals and to express his desires, providing that he wants
2:55:41
Speaker 1: hard enough, and providing that the other persons are in
2:55:44
Speaker 1: harmonious affinity with his plans and purposes. Persons who have
2:55:48
Speaker 1: had their attention directed toward the operations of the law
2:55:51
Speaker 1: of mental attraction, and who have learned to apply the
2:55:54
Speaker 1: principles of its manifestation in their own affairs in life,
2:55:57
Speaker 1: observe many wonderful instances of its power and the happenings
2:56:00
Speaker 1: of their everyday life. Books, newspaper items, magazine articles bearing
2:56:06
Speaker 1: on some subject which is prominent in their thoughts. All
2:56:08
Speaker 1: these come to hand in an almost uncanny way. Persons
2:56:12
Speaker 1: who fit into the general scheme of the thought plan
2:56:15
Speaker 1: come into one's life. Peculiar happenings come to pass in
2:56:19
Speaker 1: the same way. Things arise which fit in with the
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Speaker 1: general idea. Unexpected circumstances arise, which, although often at first
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Speaker 1: sight seemingly obstructive and undesirable, in the end are found
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Speaker 1: to dovetail perfectly into the whole scheme of things. No
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Speaker 1: wonder that many persons having these experiences are at first
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Speaker 1: inclined to attribute them to supernatural or superhuman influence. But
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Speaker 1: they are in full accordance with natural law, and are
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Speaker 1: a part of the powers of man. When rightly understood
2:56:50
Speaker 1: your conditions and environment, the circumstances and happenings which come
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Speaker 1: to you are very largely the result of the operation
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Speaker 1: of the law of mental attraction, and they are accordingly,
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Speaker 1: to a great extent, manifestations in objective material form of
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Speaker 1: your mental ideas, ideals, and pictures. The force and nature
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Speaker 1: of such manifestation depending largely upon the degree of faith
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Speaker 1: and confident expectation possessed and expressed by you and your
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Speaker 1: thoughts upon these subjects and events or upon them. Degree
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Speaker 1: of doubt, disbelief, distrust, and unfaith those negative phases of
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Speaker 1: faith which serve to slow down the action of faith power,
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Speaker 1: or perhaps even to reverse its machinery. You create environment, conditions, circumstances, events.
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Speaker 1: Assistance means to ends by mental power operating along the
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Speaker 1: lines of the law of mental attraction. Mental attraction, like
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Speaker 1: all forms or phases of mental power, is the transformation
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Speaker 1: of the subjective ideal into objective reality. The thought tends
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Speaker 1: to take form in action, The mental form tends to
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Speaker 1: take on objective materiality and substance. The ideal is represented
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Speaker 1: by the clear, strong, deafath in it mental picture or
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Speaker 1: ideal form manifested in idealization, desire furnishes the flame and
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Speaker 1: heat which generate the steam of will needed in the
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Speaker 1: creative process. But the idealization is impaired and weakened, the
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Speaker 1: desire dies away, the will loses its determination unless faith
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Speaker 1: be there to create the confident expectation. The less the
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Speaker 1: faith and confident expectation, or the greater the doubt, disbelief, distrust,
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Speaker 1: unfaith and lack of confidence, the weaker is the idealization.
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Speaker 1: The weaker the desire, and the weaker the will power
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Speaker 1: manifest it. Without faith, there can be no confident expectation
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Speaker 1: without faith. The fires of desire die away. Without faith,
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Speaker 1: the steam of will ceases to be generated, and thus
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Speaker 1: attainment becomes impossible. Whenever you think of the law of
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Speaker 1: mental attraction, think of faith, For faith is its very soul,
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Speaker 1: its inspiration. Believe in yourself. Among the many characteristics and
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Speaker 1: qualities which make for success of the individual, there is
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Speaker 1: none more fundamental, essential, and basic than that of self
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Speaker 1: confidence and self reliance, both of these terms being but
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Speaker 1: expressions of the idea of faith in oneself. The man
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Speaker 1: who has faith in himself not only brings under his
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Speaker 1: control and direction those wonderful powers of his subconscious mentality
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Speaker 1: and the full power of his conscious mental faculties and instruments,
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Speaker 1: but also tends to inspire a similar feeling in the
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Speaker 1: minds and hearts of those other individuals with whom he
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Speaker 1: comes in contact in the course of his pursuit of
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Speaker 1: the objects of his endeavors. An intuitive perception and realization
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Speaker 1: of one's own powers and energies, capacity and efficiency, possibilities,
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Speaker 1: and capabilities is an essential attribute of the individual who
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Speaker 1: is destined to success. A study of the world of
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Speaker 1: men will disclose the fact that those men who eventually succeed,
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Speaker 1: who arrive ultimately, who do things, are marked by this deep,
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Speaker 1: intuitive faith in themselves and by their confident expectation of
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Speaker 1: ultimate success. These men rise superior to the incidents of
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Speaker 1: temporary defeat. They use these failures as stepping stones to
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Speaker 1: ultimate victory. They are living expressions of Henley's invictus. They
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Speaker 1: indeed are the masters of their fate, the captains of
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Speaker 1: their souls. Such men are never really defeated. Like rubber balls,
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Speaker 1: they have that bounce which causes them to rise triumphantly
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Speaker 1: after each fall. The harder they are thrown down, the
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Speaker 1: higher do they rise on the rebound. Such men are
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Speaker 1: always possible, nay probable, and certain victors, so long as
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Speaker 1: they maintain this intuitive faith in self of self confidence.
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Speaker 1: It is only when this is lost that they are
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Speaker 1: really defeated or destroyed. The failures in life are discovered
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Speaker 1: usually to be either one those who have never manifested
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Speaker 1: this faith in self or self confidence, or else two
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Speaker 1: those who have permitted themselves to lose the same under
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Speaker 1: the bludgeonings of chance. Those who have never felt the
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Speaker 1: thrill of faith inas or of self confidence are soon
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Speaker 1: labeled by their fellows as lacking the elements of successful achievement.
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Speaker 1: The world soon gets their number and places them where
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Speaker 1: they belong. Their lack of self faith and self confidence
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Speaker 1: is felt by those with whom they come in contact.
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Speaker 1: The world lacks faith in them and has no confident
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Speaker 1: expectation of their success. The study of the life story
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Speaker 1: of the successful men in all walks of life will
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Speaker 1: illustrate this principle to you so forcibly that having perceived it,
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Speaker 1: you will never again doubt its absolute truth. In practically
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Speaker 1: every case, you will find that these successful men have
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Speaker 1: been knocked down and bowled out many times in the
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Speaker 1: early days of their careers, often even later on in life.
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Speaker 1: But the knockout, though perhaps dazing them for a short time,
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Speaker 1: never rob them of their gayeness, their will to succeed.
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Speaker 1: They always arose to their feet before they were counted out,
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Speaker 1: and they always firmly but resolutely faced fate. Though their
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Speaker 1: heads were bloody, they were unbowed as Henley triumphantly chance.
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Speaker 1: Fate cannot defeat such a spirit in time, Destiny recognizes
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Speaker 1: the fact that here is a man, and being feminine,
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Speaker 1: she falls in love with him and bestows her favors
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Speaker 1: upon him. When you have found your real self, that
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Speaker 1: something within this I am, I, then have you found
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Speaker 1: that inner and real self which has constituted the subject
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Speaker 1: and object of that faith and confident expectation which have inspired, animated, enthused,
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Speaker 1: and sustained the thousands of men who have reached the
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Speaker 1: heights of attainment by the path of definite ideals, insistent desire,
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Speaker 1: confident expectation, persistent determination, and balanced compensation. It is this
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Speaker 1: intuitive perception and consciousness of the real self which has
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Speaker 1: caused men to live out the ideal of Invictus in
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Speaker 1: the spirit of that glorious poem of Henley. Nothing but
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Speaker 1: this inner realization would have been sufficient to fill the
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Speaker 1: soul of man with this indomitable spirit and unconquerable will Invictus.
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Speaker 1: By w E. Henley, out of the night that covers
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Speaker 1: me black as the pit from pole to pole, I
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Speaker 1: thank whatever Gods there be for my unconquerable soul. In
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Speaker 1: the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced or
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Speaker 1: cried aloud under the bludgeonings of chance. My head is bloody,
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Speaker 1: but unbowed. Beyond this veil of doubt and fear looms
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Speaker 1: but the terror of the shade. And yet the passing
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Speaker 1: of the years finds and shall find me unafraid. It
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Speaker 1: matters not how straight the gate, how charged with punishments
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Speaker 1: the scroll. I am the master of my fate. I
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Speaker 1: am the captain of my soul. The wise teachers of
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Speaker 1: the race have for centuries taught that this faith in
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Speaker 1: the real self, in the I am I, will enable
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Speaker 1: the individual to convert into the instruments of his success,
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Speaker 1: even those circumstances which apparently are destined to defeat his
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Speaker 1: purposes and to transmute into beneficent agencies, even those inimical
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Speaker 1: forces which beset him on all sides. They have discovered
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Speaker 1: and passed on to their followers the knowledge that such
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Speaker 1: a faith is a spiritual power, a living force, which,
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Speaker 1: when trusted and rightly employed, will annihilate the opposition of
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Speaker 1: outward circumstances, or else convert them into workers for good.
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Speaker 1: Your real self is a ray from the great son
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Speaker 1: of Spirit, a spark from the great flame of Spirit,
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Speaker 1: a focal point of expression of that infinite self of Spirit.
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Speaker 1: The earnest faith in your real self and your confident
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Speaker 1: expectation concerning its manifestation and expression in your work. Your endeavors,
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Speaker 1: your plans, your purposes serve to bring into action your
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Speaker 1: full mental and spiritual power, energy, and force. It quickens
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Speaker 1: your intellectual powers. It employs your emotional powers efficiently and
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Speaker 1: under full control. It sets into effective action your creative imagination.
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Speaker 1: It places the powers of your will under your mastery
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Speaker 1: and direction. It draws upon your subconscious faculties for inspiration
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Speaker 1: and for intuitive reports. It opens up your mind to
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Speaker 1: the inflow of the illumination of your super conscious spiritual
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Speaker 1: faculties and powers. It sets into operation the law of
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Speaker 1: mental attraction under your direct control and direction, whereby you
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Speaker 1: attract to yourself or you to them the circumstances, events, conditions, things,
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Speaker 1: and persons needed for the manifestation of your ideals in
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Speaker 1: objective reality. More than this, it brushes away the obstacles
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Speaker 1: which have clogged the channels of your contact within communication
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Speaker 1: with Spirit itself, that great source of infinite power, which
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Speaker 1: in this instruction is called power. Discover your real self
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Speaker 1: your eye am I. Then manifest your full faith in
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Speaker 1: and toward it, and cultivate your full confident expectation concerning
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Speaker 1: the beneficent results of that faith. The God in You
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Speaker 1: by Robert Collier, Chapter seven, The Infinite loves You become
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Speaker 1: an invincible soul, the message of truth You yourself in
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Speaker 1: your essential and real being. Nature and entity are spirit
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Speaker 1: and naught but spirit in and of si. Spirit, spiritual
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Speaker 1: and not material. Materiality is your instrument of expression, the
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Speaker 1: stuff created for your use and service in your expression
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Speaker 1: of life, consciousness, and will. It is your servant, not
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Speaker 1: your master. You condition, limit and form, it, not at you.
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Speaker 1: When you recognize and realize your real nature and awaken
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Speaker 1: to a perception of its real relation to you and
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Speaker 1: you to it.
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Speaker 2: The report of.
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Speaker 1: Spirit received by its accredited individual centers of expression and
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Speaker 1: by them transmitted to you. Is this in the degree
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Speaker 1: that you perceive, recognize, and realize your essential identity with Me,
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Speaker 1: the supreme Presence, Power, the ultimate Reality. In that degree
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Speaker 1: will you be able to manifest my spiritual power. I
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Speaker 1: am over and above you, under and beneath you. I
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Speaker 1: surround you on all sides. I am also within you,
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Speaker 1: and you are in me. For me you proceed, and
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Speaker 1: in me you live and move, and have your being.
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Speaker 1: Seek Me by looking within your own being, and likewise
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Speaker 1: by looking for me in infinity. For I abide both
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Speaker 1: within and without your being. If and when you will
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Speaker 1: adopt and live according to this truth, then will you
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Speaker 1: be able to manifest that truth. In and by it
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Speaker 1: alone are freedom and invincibility, and true in real presence
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Speaker 1: and power to be found, perceived, realized, and manifested. Francis Thompson,
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Speaker 1: in his mystic poem entitled The Hound of Heaven, describes
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Speaker 1: with a tremendous power, and often with an almost terrible intensity,
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Speaker 1: the hunt of reality for the unwilling individual self. He
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Speaker 1: pictures divinity as engaged in a remorseless, tireless quest, a
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Speaker 1: seeking following tracking down of the unwilling individual soul. He
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Speaker 1: pictures the separated spirit as a strange, piteous, futile thing
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Speaker 1: that flees from the pursuing divinity down the nights and
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Speaker 1: down the days. The individual spirit, not knowing its relation
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Speaker 1: to an identity with the pursuing absolute, rushes in a
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Speaker 1: panic of terror, away from its own good. But, as
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Speaker 1: Emerson says, you cannot escape your own good, and so
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Speaker 1: the fleeing soul is captured at last by faith in
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Speaker 1: the infinite. However, the individual's soul overcomes its terror of
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Speaker 1: the infinite, and recognizing it as its supreme good, it
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Speaker 1: turns and moves toward it. Such is the mystic conception
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Speaker 1: of the effect and action of faith.
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Speaker 2: In the Infinite.
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Speaker 1: The complete poem The Hound of Heaven covers five pages,
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Speaker 1: but we here present a condensed version of these beautiful
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Speaker 1: and gripping lines by Francis Thompson. If you are not
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Speaker 1: reciprocating the great love of God, you may have a
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Speaker 1: feeling of remorse and.
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Speaker 2: Resolve to do better.
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Speaker 1: If this feel does not come to you, you must
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Speaker 1: have a heart of stone. The Hound of Heaven by
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Speaker 1: Francis Thompson. I fled him down the nights and down
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Speaker 1: the days. I fled him down the arches of the years.
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Speaker 1: I fled him down the labyrinthine ways of my own mind,
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Speaker 1: And in the midst of tears I hid from him, and,
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Speaker 1: under running laughter, up thisst hopes, I sped and shot,
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Speaker 1: precipitated a down titanic glooms of chasm. Fears from those
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Speaker 1: strong feet that followed followed after, but with unhurrying chase
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Speaker 1: and unperturbed pace, deliberate speed, majestic instancy. They beat, and
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Speaker 1: a voice beat more instant that the feet all things
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Speaker 1: betray thee who betrayeest me. I said to dawn be sudden,
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Speaker 1: to eve, be soon with thy young ski blossoms. Heap
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Speaker 1: me over from this tremendous lover, still with unhurrying chase
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Speaker 1: and unperturbed pace, deliberate speed, majestic instancy came on the
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Speaker 1: following feet, and a voice above their beat, Nott shelters
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Speaker 1: thee who wilt not shelter me. In the rash, lusty
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Speaker 1: head of my young powers, I shook the pillaring hours
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Speaker 1: and pulled my life upon me. Grimed with smears, I
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Speaker 1: stand amid the dust of the mounded years. My mangled
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Speaker 1: youth lies dead beneath the heap. My days have crackled
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Speaker 1: and gone up in smoke. Designer infinite. Awe must thou
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Speaker 1: char the wood, ere thou canst limb with it. My
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Speaker 1: freshness spent its wavering shower in the dust, And now
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Speaker 1: my heart is as a broken found. Now of that
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Speaker 1: long pursuit comes on at hand, the brute that voice
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Speaker 1: is round me like a bursting sea. How little worthy
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Speaker 1: of any love thou art, whom wilt thou find to
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Speaker 1: love ignoble thee, Save me, Save only me. All which
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Speaker 1: I took from THEE I did but take not for
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Speaker 1: thy harms, but just that thou mightest seek it in
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Speaker 1: my arms, all which thy child's mistake fancies as lost
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Speaker 1: I have stored for thee at home. Rise, clasp my hand,
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Speaker 1: and come halts by me. That footfall is my gloom
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Speaker 1: after all, shade of his hand outstretched caressingly. Ah, fondest, blindest, weakest,
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Speaker 1: I am he whom thou seekest. Thou dravest love from
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Speaker 1: THEE who dravest me. Prentice Mofort said, a supreme power
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Speaker 1: and wisdom governs the universe. The supreme mind is measureless
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Speaker 1: and pervades all space. The supreme wisdom, power, and intelligence
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Speaker 1: are in everything that exists, from the atom to the planet.
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Speaker 1: The Supreme Power has us in its charge, as it
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Speaker 1: has the suns and endless system of worlds in space.
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Speaker 1: As we grow more to recognize this sublime and exhaustless wisdom,
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Speaker 1: we shall learn more and more to demand that wisdom
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Speaker 1: draw to ourselves, and thereby be ever making ourselves newer
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Speaker 1: and newer. This means ever, perfecting health, greater power to
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Speaker 1: enjoy all that exists, gradual transition into a higher state
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Speaker 1: of being, and the development of powers which we do
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Speaker 1: not now realize as belonging to us. Let us, then
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Speaker 1: daily demand faith, For faith is power to believe and
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Speaker 1: power to see that all things are parts of the
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Speaker 1: infinite Spirit of God, that all things have good, were
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Speaker 1: God in them, and that all things, when recognized by
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Speaker 1: us as parts of God, must work for our good.
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Speaker 1: To sum up one, there exists a greater underlying something
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Speaker 1: that is beneficent and wealth disposed towards you, and which
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Speaker 1: tries to help, aid and assist you whenever and wherever
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Speaker 1: it can do so.
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Speaker 2: Two.
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Speaker 1: Faith and confident expectation regarding the beneficent power of that
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Speaker 1: something tends to open the channels of its influence in
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Speaker 1: your life, while doubt, unbelief, distrust, and fear tend to
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Speaker 1: damn up the channel of its influence in your life
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Speaker 1: and to rob it of the power.
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Speaker 2: To help you. Three.
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Speaker 1: To a great extent, at least, you determine your own
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Speaker 1: life by the character of your thought. By the nature
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Speaker 1: and character of your thoughts, you furnish the pattern or
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Speaker 1: mold which determines or modifies the efforts of the something
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Speaker 1: to aid you, either in the direction of producing desirable results,
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Speaker 1: or else in bringing about undesirable results by reason of
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Speaker 1: your damning up the sources of your good. In the
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Speaker 1: book of Psalms, in our own scriptures are to be
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Speaker 1: found several of the great masterpieces of the esoteric teachings
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Speaker 1: concerning faith. Power in them is given the essence of
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Speaker 1: the secret doctrine concerning faith in the Infinite. Chief among
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Speaker 1: these are the twenty third Psalm and the ninety first Psalm, respectively.
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Speaker 1: So important are these two great esoteric poems, So filled
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Speaker 1: with practical helpful information are they that we deem it
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Speaker 1: advisable to reproduce them here that you may avail yourself
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Speaker 1: of their virtue and power at this particular stage of
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Speaker 1: this instruction. Accordingly they are given on these pages the
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Speaker 1: Psalm of Faith Psalm twenty three. The Lord is my shepherd.
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Speaker 1: I shall not want he mocketh me to lie down
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Speaker 1: in the green pastures. He letteth me beside the still waters.
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Speaker 1: He restoreth my soul.
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Speaker 2: He letteth me in the.
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Speaker 1: Paths of rydeisms for his name's sake. YEA though I
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Speaker 1: walk through the valley of the shadow of death. I
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Speaker 1: will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy
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Speaker 1: rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a
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Speaker 1: table before me in the presence of mine enemies. Thou
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Speaker 1: anointest my head with oil. My cup runneth over. Surely
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Speaker 1: goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of
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Speaker 1: my life. And I will dwell in the house of
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Speaker 1: the Lord forever. The Psalm of Security Psalm ninety one.
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Speaker 1: He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most
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Speaker 1: High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I
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Speaker 1: will say of the Lord, he is my refuge and
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Speaker 1: my fortress, my God.
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Speaker 2: In him will I trust.
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Speaker 1: Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler,
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Speaker 1: and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with
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Speaker 1: his feathers, and under his wings. Shalt thou trust His
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Speaker 1: truth shall be thy shield and buckler. Thou shalt not
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Speaker 1: be afraid for the terror by night, nor for the
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Speaker 1: arrow that fleeth by day, nor for the pestilence that
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Speaker 1: walketh in darkness, nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
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Speaker 1: A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand
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Speaker 1: at thy right hand, But it shall not come nigh thee.
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Speaker 1: Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the
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Speaker 1: reward of the win. Because thou hast made the Lord,
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Speaker 1: which is my refuge, even the most high thy habitation.
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Speaker 1: There shall no evil befall thee. Neither shall any plague
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Speaker 1: come nigh thy dwelling. For He shall give his angels
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Speaker 1: charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways.
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Speaker 1: They shall bear thee up in their hands. Lest thou
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Speaker 1: dash thy foot against a stone, thou shalt tread upon
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Speaker 1: the lion and the adder, the young lion, and the dragon.
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Speaker 1: Shalt thou trample under feet. Because he hath set his
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Speaker 1: love upon me, and therefore will I deliver him. I
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Speaker 1: will set him on high. Because he hath known my name.
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Speaker 1: He shall call upon me, and I will answer him
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Speaker 1: and honor him with long life. Will I satisfy him
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Speaker 1: and show him my salvation. Lead kindly light. The teachers
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Speaker 1: and students of the Inner Teachings, the Ancient Wisdom the
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Speaker 1: Secret Doctrine are also aware of the esoteric spiritual significance
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Speaker 1: of the lines of the well known Him. Lead kindly light,
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Speaker 1: written by Newman in a period of spiritual stress. Few
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Speaker 1: who read or sing this him realize its esoteric spirit
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Speaker 1: and meaning. None but those who know, perceive and recognize
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Speaker 1: that which dwells under the surface of those wonderful words
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Speaker 1: and lines, the chant of faith power. Lead kindly light,
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Speaker 1: Lead kindly light amid the encircling gloom.
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Speaker 2: Lead thou me on.
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Speaker 1: The night is dark, and I am far from home.
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Speaker 1: Lead thou me on, keep thou my feet. I do
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Speaker 1: not ask to see the distant scene. One step enough
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Speaker 1: for me. Lead thou me on, Carry with you ever.
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Speaker 1: The spirit of the ancient aphorism of the wise Sage,
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Speaker 1: which is faith, is the white magic of power,