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THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY: Master the Mind and the Universal Laws - Charles F. Haanel (1924) · THE SECRET LAW OF ATTRACTION: Manifest Wealth, Success & Abundance

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  Charles F. Hanell, The New Psychology, Chapter one, The Psychology of
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  success. When any object or purpose is held clearly in thought, its precipitation
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  in tangible and physical form is merely a question of time. The vision always
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  precedes and itself determines the realization. Lilian Whiting. The man with the money
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  consciousness is constantly attracting money. The man with the poverty consciousness is constantly attracting
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  poverty. Both fulfill the exact conditions by thought, word, and deed that
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  make the path for the thing of which they are conscious come to them.
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  As a man thinks in his heart, so is he job said the thing
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  I greatly feared has own upon me. In modern psychological language, it might
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  better have been stated this way, The thing I was greatly conscious of came
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  upon me. Consciousness or thought in faith are mental wires by which the thing
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  we are conscious finds its way to us. The family that expects burglars is
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  the family that attracts burglars. The person who has no fear or consciousness of
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  burglars entering his home is never molested. The highwayman never attacks the absolutely fearless
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  man or person. There is something that forbids him. The man with a
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  fearful consciousness invites attack, just as the timid, fearful dog in the street
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  is instinctively the target for all other dogs to attack. Man is the architect
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  of his own fortune. He can make or unmake himself. He can be
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  weak or strong, rich or poor, according to the way he manipulates his
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  consciousness and develops his inherent ability. He requires will, power, determination,
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  self improvement through work, activity, and study. He must learn to clothe
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  his mind with beautiful garments of strength and power. He must be willing to
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  spend as much money, time, and pay to bring about this mental garment
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  as he would in clothing his body beautifully and efficiently. By fulfilling the law
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  of faith and proper adjustment. In the business world, nothing is impossible.
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  You have an inheritance of worth that is endless. While it is already given
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  to you, it will only be possessed by you in so far as you
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  make paths for it to come to you by the fulfillment of natural, mental,
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  and spiritual laws. Great objects and purposes in life are not obtained by
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  haphazard methods. You need one talent only to be great and powerful. But
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  this talent must not be wrapped up in a napkin and hidden away. It
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  must be brought forth in used. It must be cultivated. If you would
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  be great, discover your talent. Then say to yourself, this is one
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  thing I do forgetting all other things, I press toward the high calling of
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  my place. You have a royal birthright. If this birthright is not used,
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  it remains unknown. There is success, fame, and glory at the
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  top, for the reason that few arrive to possess the abundance. There is
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  room for you there, There is wealth for you. There, There is
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  glory for you there. If therefore you desire to attain the heights, deny
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  the lower things the right to hold your attention with inherent power of will and
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  desire rise above their vibration. Remember that the intention governs the attention. Have
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  an ideal that is great and glorious. Let this ideal ever be beyond you.
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  It may be necessary to create a new ideal frequently as you progress,
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  because having arrived, it ceases to be an ideal. Study your ideal.
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  Commune with your ideal, Visit with it, dream with it. Let your
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  heart be fixed upon it. Let your ambition and energy carry you toward it.
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  Where your treasure is there, will your heart be also the value you
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  place on yourself. Speak so loud and so forcefully that people instinctively feel it.
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  In every sentence you utter a man's gift, mocketh room for him,
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  and bringeth him before great men. Have faith in yourself, and you will
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  find your gift, and your gifts will exalt you and crown you with success.
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  But keep this faith to yourself. Have you a great future mapped out
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  for yourself, then see that you tell no man if you would arrive.
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  Have you a great plan or scheme, more invention in the process of hatching,
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  Keep it to yourself. If you do not, it will be aborted.
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  These are your private property, your faith in yourself, your future success
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  are strictly your private pictures, and no one should be allowed to see them
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  except yourself. Keep these things in the womb of your brain, and when
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  they are ready to be born, the world will know of them. Every
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  building, great or small, was first a mental idea. From the idea
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  state, it grew into a menace picture. From the mental picture, it
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  grew into a drafting or drawing on a piece of paper. From the paper,
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  it grew into material expression and form by the erection of a steel or
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  wooden frame, followed with the exterior walls of wood, brick, stone,
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  or cement. This is the method by which a building comes into visible expression.
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  Every building had its mental form first, then the material form. Back
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  of the mental form was the original idea. Ideas come from the realm of
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  the invisible. Ideas accepted and approved become visible. All big business, all
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  great success first existed in big ideas, great plans, and cooperation with the
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  divine mind of the universe. In visualizing or building mental pictures of your business,
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  always keep within the bounds of reasonable growth and development. A permanent success
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  is usually of moderate growth and development. If you build your mental picture of
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  skcs CSS larger than reason warrants, you are very sure to fall down with
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  it. Premature success cannot be retained. Visualize one thing until you attain that
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  one thing. Then visualize a larger success until you have attained that, then
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  a still larger success. Always keeping within the bounds of reason, and always
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  making allowance for the improbable or unforeseen emergency. At the top. There are
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  large opportunities because few men are capable of sufficient self development, persistence, and
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  faith to climb to the top. The man who is now getting five hundred
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  dollars a month will not get one thousand dollars until he can render a thousand
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  dollars worth of service per month. You yourself, are the architect of your
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  fortune. When your real worth becomes so great and valuable as to make your
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  services necessary, business men will seek you with tempting salaries. You can then
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  name your own price, and you will get it. Be willing to invest
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  money in mental tools, do anything that will develop worth in thus creating success
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  for yourself. You are necessarily creating success for others because success depends to some
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  extent on others. Others must succeed in order that you may have success.
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  Those who have nothing cannot purchase your service or product. Hence, you must
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  stimulate success in others. The more you are successful in this, the more
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  complete will your success be. You get what you give. In giving much,
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  you receive more because the thoughts of others give you mental momentum, and
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  in this momentum you are carried along with the power of the great oversoul,
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  which is the source of all power. The impossible is constantly being made possible
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  because someone dared to believe that it was possible. The great inventions of the
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  past were brought about by those who believed more than others could believe. Their
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  faith stimulated action, study, thought, and effort. When faith is backed
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  up by works, it brings forth fruit. This is the universal law.
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  There is still much to be accomplished by the men of faith. If you
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  have faith, you are the one who will penetrate far into the realm of
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  knowledge and bring forth from the unseen the new and astounding thing. This is
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  work for one who is brave enough to stand in the lions den fearless and
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  unafraid, while the lions of criticism roar with ridicule or threaten his life.
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  To accomplish much, you must conserve your forces. You must consecrate these forces
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  to the attainment of your ideal. The minor digs deep into the bowels of
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  the earth, laboring assiduously, denying himself pleasure and luxuries, that he may
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  obtain the precious metal in order that he may secure the necessities of life in
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  a larger and better measure. There are mental gold mines as well as material
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  gold mines. The mental gold minds are penetrated by concentration diligence and interpenetrative thought.
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  Thus a man closes himself with mental gold, which enables him, through
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  practical, ingenious, and legitimate methods, to attract material wealth. Hard thinking
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  is mental mining, and deep penetrative thinking enables the thinker to convert gold in
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  the mind into gold in the hand. Mental mining, like gold mining,
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  requires concentration. To concentrate is to fix the attention on a common center.
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  To centralize and intensify attention. To make the mind one pointed one hundred percent
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  attention is concentration. Dynamite is concentrated and crystallized energy. Mind becomes dynamic when
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  concentrated, Such a mind accomplishes wonders. The dynamic mind makes a success where
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  other fail. This is true because it evolves and invents means and methods of
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  attracting success. It has power to carry out it plans. The path to
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  success is upward, and in the upward climb there are many things to be
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  transcended and overcome, which, like gravitation, tend to hold us down.
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  Many educated people are failures because their knowledge is superficial and intellectual rather than practical
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  and vital. It has therefore not contacted them with the source of power.
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  Many uneducated people have attained success and honor because of that spirit within which knows
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  no defeat. The impossible is constantly being made possible. To attain the powers
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  of the master mind, you must be free to think, to believe,
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  and to practice. The conscious repetition of any statement, commendatory or otherwise calls
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  forth in yourself the very quality expressed in the statement, give yourself a bad
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  name, defame it, speak evil of it, and it will live up
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  to the reputation you give it. On the contrary, if you will remember
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  that in reality, your real self is perfect and ideal because it is spiritual,
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  and that spirit can never be less than perfect. If you speak well
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  of it and praise it, even though it seems to fail you, it
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  will live up to the good reputation you give it, and you will eventually
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  find that you have indeed found the pearl of great price. The ability to
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  concentrate is the distinguishing mark of genius. It consists in the ability to hold
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  the mind open to the source of limitless knowledge and thus secure mental accuracy,
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  wisdom, knowledge power, inspiration and unfoldment, and avoid misdirected and undirected mind
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  power which are responsible for the many failures in life. Too many enter upon
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  the business of life in a haphazard way, without definite aims or purposes.
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  The first consideration in life should be to become familiar with universal laws which govern
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  the mental and physical planes of existence. Using the simile of electricity, the
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  spirit may be likened unto high tension power, the mind to a transforming station.
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  When the trolley is off the wire, the condition of man is inert,
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  uncertain, and timid, and if if he ventures before he re establishes
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  this contact, his efforts meet with failure. To know himself psychologically is to
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  know how to make the necessary contact and thus apply the motive power to the
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  problems of life with the greatest success and the least resistance. The difference in
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  men lies in their knowledge of the application of the laws governing this power and
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  used power is not unlike hidden gold. It is of no value until discovered
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  and applied. Spiritual power is convertible into any asset. Properly directed, it
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  will accomplish any purpose. This power is the pearl of great price. It
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  is a treasure hidden in the field that a man discovered while plowing and went
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  and sold all that he had and purchased the field. It is the talent
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  wrapped up in a napkin and hidden away that men must discover and uncover in
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  order to accomplish anything of value. This pearl of great price may be secured
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  through the exercise of persistent, in intelligent, and well directed effort. Man
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  is an epitome of all the law, force, and manifestation of nature.
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  The telephone, camera, flying machine, typewriter all have their representation in the
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  complex nature and make up of man. It still remains true that the greatest
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  study of mankind is man. Man is twofold in his nature, namely spirit
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  and body. Take away the spirit, and there is left an inert mass
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  of earthly matter. The spirit of man has its definite laws of operation and
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  manifestation. The study of these laws is called psychology. Psycho means soul,
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  ology means information, philosophy, or law. Psychology is therefore the science of
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  the soul. A practical application of the laws governing in this science will enable
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  you to find the solution to any problem in life, and thus save yourself
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  from many unhappy experiences. When we say that a man puts his whole spirit
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  into his work, we mean that he allows his spirit to direct the work
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  he is doing. All work, all art. In fact, all undertakings
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  in life must have solen them to be successful. Soul and spirit are practically
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  synonymous terms, and the laws governing them are as definite, certain and unerring
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  in their result as the law of mathematics. Any person without the knowledge of
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  geography and without the compass would have great difficulty in finding a foreign country or
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  city. But with knowledge of geography, possession of a compass, and the
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  necessary means of travel, he could readily find such a destination. With knowledge
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  of psychology, man is a knower on the path of life, and every
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  step he takes is in the right direction. Thus may he avoid the loss
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  of both time and money, and to a very large extent, control the
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  conditions and experiences with which he is to meet in life. The universal law
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  is always the same, so far as off off spring is concerned, each
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  bringing forth after its own kind. This is true on the spiritual as well
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  as on the physical plane. The spirit of you is the universal spirit,
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  extended into and manifesting through human form. You are a branch of the infinite
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  One, in the same sense that a twig is a member of a tree
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  or vine. It is of the same nature. Man is more than man.
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  All the possibilities of the Divine Self await unfoldment through him. Just as
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  the unblossomed rose slumbering in the plant in midwinter is brought forth in summer by
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  the intelligence of the bush through growth and effort. The intelligence in the rose
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  bush and all other flowering plants dreams of flowers in the silence blossoms are its
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  glory and lo the spirit in the plant brings forth, in its mature expression,
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  the fulfillment of its dreams. So man longs for success, for power,
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  for glory. These are evidences of his oneness with the divine being.
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  These desires are the hunger that shall be fulfilled as soon as he comes into
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  an understanding of the universal law by which he is governed. Those who fail
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  are walking in darkness or uncertainty. They are out of touch with the light
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  or guidance of the universal law. They are doing the will of the personal
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  self rather than of the divine self. They have not yet obtained the knowledge
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  that makes them free. The psychology of old ideals must pass. Behold,
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  I create all things new, a psychology of new ideals. Is coming,
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  and up to the present America has furnished the greatest example of that newer diviner
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  plan. America is the nation among the nations, and America, with its
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  high idealism and spirit of magnanimity, is creating a world sentiment that will bring
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  about a world of nations whose citizens shall know no more of war or rumors
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  of war. One man shall not sow in another reap. The lion and
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  the lamb shall feed together. There shall be no more crying nor weeping.
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  There shall be no more death. The crooked places shall be made straight,
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  the high places shall be made low, and the low places lifted up.
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  And the desert shall bloom as the garden. And there shall be no night
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  there nor anything that mocketh afraid. Charles F. Hannell, The New Psychology,
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  Chapter three. The master Mind. Great men or masters stand like solitary
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  towers in the eternal city, and secret passages running deep beneath external nature,
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  give their thoughts intercourse with high intelligence, which strengthens and controls them, and
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  of which the laborers on the surface do not even dream. The master Mind
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  is within your body and soul, yet interpenetrating both. It is the Grand
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  man, the god man of each of us. It is the same in
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  all human beings, and is what is familiarly called that I am. A
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  master is one who is not controlled or ma ustered by flesh, blood,
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  the devil, or others. He is not a subject, but a ruler.
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  He knows, and he knows that he knows. Because of this,
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  he is free and can be dominated by no one. When you have reached
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  the point where you are steadily mastering, in overcoming and clothing your mind with
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  more and more knowledge, you have your face toward the light and are moving
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  onward and upward. Law becomes your servant and is no longer your master.
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  You speak your thought or word, accompanied with faith, will, and the
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  proper mental picture, and your word accomplishes that whereunto it is sent, or
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  in other words, the creative law hastens to fulfill your word. High tension
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  power represents direct contact with spiritual power, and just as in the electrical world,
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  it must be reduced to a lower tension to be of practical mechanical value.
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  So this high tension power in man must be transformed and reduced in the
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  soul or sub conscious mind to become of practical utility. In the business world.
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  We become masters by self study, self control, and self directed effort.
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  The thirst for the unrevealed and hidden knowledge should be so great that we
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  are well nigh ready to welcome death to obtain it. The idols of conventionality,
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  custom and respectability must in no way be allowed to become a stumbling block
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  or barrier on the path. Every One who has ascended to the mastery has
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  had to come to the place where he dared to defy the thought, the
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  judgment, and the reason of the objective world. The story is told of
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  a student placing himself under the tutelage of a sage. The sage seemed indifferent
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  and careless in his work of advancing the student. The stew dent complained to
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  the sage that he was not being taught. The sage said, very well,
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  young man, follow me. He led him over the hills, through
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  the valleys and fields, and out into a lake, into the deep waters.
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  The sage then plunged the student beneath the water and held him there until
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  all other desires of the young man were conson trotted into the one all important
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  desire, namely air, gold, wealth, honor, riches and fame.
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  Were no longer important to him. Finally, when nearly dead for want of
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  breath, the sage lifted him up and said, young man, what did
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  you want most when you were under the water. The young man replied,
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  air, Air. Air. Then his teacher said, when you want wisdom
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  as badly as you wanted air, you will get it. Intense desire,
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  therefore, is the first requisite in becoming a master mind. Those who have
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  made a mark in this world, those who have ascended to the heights are
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  those who desired intensely and incessantly. Those weak in desire never reach mastery or
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  the heights until they become strong and soulfully passionate in desire. The attraction and
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  repulsion between chemicals is wholly a matter of intelligence and polarity, or we might
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  say love and hate. Just so, mind may be a magnetic pole to
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  attract success, or it may be a magnetic pole to attract failure. Your
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  mind becomes a money magnet in accordance with the manner in which you manipulate your
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  consciousness. When it is a money magnet, every transaction apparently results in profit.
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  A man's commercial worth depends upon his internal worth and the effectiveness with which
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  he can bring his internal worth into his external consciousness and active it t y.
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  In other words, it is the inner gold that attracts the outer gold.
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  It is the inner value that attracts the outer value. A man who
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  has the consciousness of wealth and value added with an equivalent knowledge will always find
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  a place. Some one has said sublime is the dominion of the mind over
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  body, that for a time can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and strong
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  sinews like steel, so that the weak become mighty. For a well regulated
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  mind sees all things as they should be seen, appraises them at their price.
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  Upper value turns them to its own advantage, and adheres firmly to its
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  own opinions, as it knows all their force and weight. There are laws
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  which, if violated, will weaken or prevent the development of what would otherwise
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  result in a powerful mind. These laws, fulfilled and observed, prevent weakness
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  and develop and bring into expression that quality of mind which is recognized as power.
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  Do not allow anyone to dominate your mind. Many are afraid to express
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  the royalty of their own thoughts and convictions because a friend, neighbor, or
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  relative may disagree or disapprove. This is suppression or repression, and nothing can
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  grow great or strong under repression. Expression is the law of growth. The
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  timidity that prohibits you from thinking along forbidden lines of thought always stultifies the mind
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  and prevents it from being clothed with power. Prolonged halting between two opinions prevents
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  the growth of a powerful mind. Dare to be an explorer in the realm
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  of thought. Dare to think deeply and radically, For the mind, like
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  muscles, grows strong with use. Greatness lies unborn and unexpressed in the bosom
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  of thousands of men and women because of lack of initiative. The lack of
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  initiative is due to fear. Fear is due to the belief in the reality
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  of two powers, good and bad. And he whose greatness lies unborn in
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  the womb of his soul has a greater belief in the power of evil than
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  in the power of good. And because of this fear, he does not
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  venture to fulfill the call of his soul and thus obtain the crown of an
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  overcomer and conqueror. In failing to act, he is already overcome in not
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  daring to act. In this sense. Fear is the great devil, the
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  foundation and source of all poverty, unhappiness, ill health, and crime.
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  Let any human being feel and believe that he can never lack in the possession
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  of any good thing, and he is already on the path to prosper Material
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  scientists have discovered that so called old matter cannot be destroyed. Its form may
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  be changed, it can be reduced to invisibility, but it still exists.
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  If every ton of inflammable substance were consumed by fire, the planet would weigh
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  exactly the same after as it did before, proving that nothing can be destroyed.
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  The form is changed, but the matter still exists in other forms.
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  This itself is evidence that matter is eternal and indestructible. If tons of visible
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  substance can be floated out into the atmosphere and become invisible through the disintegrating power
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  of fire, we know that it must be equally true that the invisible can
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  be made visible. This is being proven today by the great nitrate plants.
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  Through electrical vibration. They are condensing and crystallizing the nitrogen of the atmosphere,
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  and it remains for the inventive mind yet to bring out of the atmosphere,
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  the foods that we are now taking out of the earth by the process of
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  cultivation. They who can think far enough and deep enough into the undiscovered realm
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  of knowledge and law as related to electricity and other ethereal forces, will be
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  the inventors and discoverers whose names will be written in the Hall of fame.
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  Such men must be free from fear, men unmoved and unswerved by ridicule and
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  derision, Men who keep their minds fixed and centered upon one great purpose.
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  Such men press on and on regardless of what others may think or say.
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  This is initiative, and it is initiative that causes ideals to become real.
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  He who believes that all things are possible. To him, all things are
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  possible. Such a believer walks in the path of a master. The light
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  of inspiration shines upon his path, directs his every step, saves him from
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  pitfalls and stumbling blocks, and leads him triumphantly to the heights of victory.
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  Nearly every person who has reached mature life has had various manifestations and experiences that
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  reveal to him the fact that there is a mind in him that knows and
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  reveals facts and events that are beyond the possibility of the normal concept or intellectual
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  plane of mind. These manifestations may come in the form of the still small
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  voice or a vivid prophetic dream or vision. Many times it comes simply as
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  an impression or feeling. Especially is this true with the successful business man who
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  acts in accord with the inner voice or impression, rather than according to appearance
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  or judgments on the external plane, No matter how favorable these judgments may appear
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  to the reasoning mind. These experiences are the inner voice that indicates superior knowledge
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  and wisdom coming to the conscious mind from some mysterious source. It is the
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  same mind that spoke through all the great masters of ancient or modern times.
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  This supermind also knows of green pastures and still waters, figures of abundance and
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  peace. It leads the responsive student who listens in the silence to its wisdom,
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  and thus he is given opportunities where without this counselor and guide he would
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  be overcome with dangers and fruitless efforts and advances. Solomon, the greatest financier
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  among the kings of Israel, had this super consciousness connected with his outer consciousness,
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  thus manifesting efficiently in his private kingly and financial affairs, so that he
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  became the wealthiest and most glorious king in the House of Israel. Sometimes all
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  other avenues of activity or progress become close to us, and then moving into
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  this only open avenue, we meet with success which could have been ours much
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  earlier if we had but known something of the voice of the silence. When
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  you have established a unity with the super conscious mind, you have with you
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  a revealer, which, in a quiet way makes known to you the heart
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  and intent of all persons who come into your presence. The wolf in sheep's
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  clothing, the devil in the garb of an angel, and the fox in
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  the garb of a gentle dog are revealed to you in a measure sufficient to
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  put you on guard. This all knowing mind literally becomes a counselor advocate and
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  guide. This inner voice or intuition will direct you wisely. It will also
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  warn you and find a way of escape in every time of need. In
• 28:06
  order that this may take place, it is important that you should have seasons
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  of solitude, quietness, or silence, in which you should allow no interruptions.
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  Every muscle should be relaxed and the mind withdrawn from all external things and
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  given wholly to a receptive attitude, so that the supermind may come forth into
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  manifestation and energize, illumine, and clarify the outer planes of conscious mind.
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  It is good practice to have a set time or times every day for this
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  silence. You may have other moments of silence, such as a few minutes
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  at your desk, in your parlor, or while riding in the street car
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  or train. Do not be discouraged if wonderful things do not occur in the
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  silence. These wonderful things usually occur after the silence, rather than in it.
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  Do not do the thinking yourself, but let the infinite One think through
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  you and for you. At first, when thoughts begin to come, they
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  may not be very clear or very correct. Just listen as the stream of
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  thought flows on, it clarifies itself, and in a few moments you will
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  be receiving wisdom that will help you in your life and work. If you
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  seem to receive no conscious thought at all, you may be sure that it
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  is being registered on the subconscious mind and will be brought forth into the conscious
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  mind when needed. In the silence, you become illuminated and inspired and are
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  no longer as experimenter or speculator on the path of life. In the silence,
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  your experiences will be of a character pertinent to your evolution and unfoldment.
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  Some will catch fertile thoughts and plans. Others will have a feeling or impulse
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  to do or not to do the thing they contemplate. The idea and purpose
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  of the silence is to make connection with the great storehouse of wisdom, to
• 29:49
  be charged with magnetic vibrations according to your specific need, much the same as
• 29:55
  charging an electrical storage battery. Thus, when you are low on wisdom,
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  energy or tact, go into the silence and replenish yourself. This is charging
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  yourself with power, so that you go back into the business world richly supplied
• 30:08
  with energy. It is thus that you may go victoriously forward. There are
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  but few who find the path that really leads to the Holy Grail. It
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  is a secret trail. The entrance is obscured. The careless, shiftless,
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  non concentrated mind passes it by. They who practice the silence discover the entrance,
• 30:33
  they reach their goal. A razor blade has penetrative power because of an
• 30:37
  extremely fine edge. It meets with little resistance in passing through and between the
• 30:42
  molecules of substance. The concentrated mind is one pointed, sharp and penetrative,
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  and finds a way through hard problems. It thus dissolves and disintegrates the seemingly
• 30:53
  impossible. Many a perplexed business man has turned the tide of failure into success
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  by devoting a few minutes each day to silent meditation in his place of business.
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  This accomplishes two purposes. It puts him into tune with the universal law
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  and places the law of attraction into operation, which acts as a magnet in
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  the same manner that honey in the blossom draws the honey bee. The silence
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  is the university of the master mind. It is here that all wise men
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  have received their wisdom. It is here that the greatest teacher of all teachers
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  instructs the devotee. The true silence brings forth the hidden glory. Just as
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  the glory of the lily hidden within the bud is drawn out by the opening
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  of the bud, so the wisdom and power hidden in man is drawn into
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  expression or bloom through self, faith and the use of the silence. This
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  is real education. The word education comes from the Latin word edushio, which
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  means to draw out from within. If you make it a point to enjoy
• 31:56
  the silence just as much as you would a visit with a very dear friend,
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  then you will get results much more readily. The attitude should be one
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  of earnest desire, solicitude, and determination to accomplish the greatest result. Determine
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  first your greatest desire, then concentrate upon that. Affirm that it can be
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  accomplished. Affirm that Heaven and Earth lend you their assistance. Know that you
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  are not alone, but the indwelling mind works with you, watches over you,
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  and guides your thought, decisions, and actions. Relax every muscle,
• 32:31
  be quiet, Contemplate the infinite resources at your command. Great captains of industry
• 32:38
  have few intimates. They know that great thoughts, great actions, and great
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  achievements are born in the silence. Charles Honnell, The New Psychology, Chapter
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  four, The law of attraction. We have discovered that premeditated orderly thinking for
• 32:57
  a purpose matures that purpose into fixed form, so that we may be absolutely
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  sure of the result of our dynamic experiment. Francis Larimer Warner. Traction is
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  the power that is sweeping through eternity, a living stream of relative action,
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  in which the basic principle is ever active. It embraces the past and carries
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  it forward into the ever widening future. A movement where relative action, cause
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  and effect go hand in hand, where law dovetails into law, and where
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  all laws are the ever willing handmaids of this great creative force. This power
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  stretches beyond the utmost planets, beyond a beginning, beyond an ending, and
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  on into a beginningless and endless eternity. It causes the things we see to
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  take form and shape. It brings the fruit from the blossom and the sweetness
• 33:45
  from the honey. It measures the sweep of the countless orbs. It lurks
• 33:51
  in the sparkle of the diamond, and in the amethyst and the grape.
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  It works in the scene and in the unseen, and it permeates the All
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  It is is the source of perfect justice, perfect unity, perfect harmony,
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  and perfect truth, while its constant activity brings perfect balance, perfect growth,
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  and perfect understanding. Perfect justice because it renders equal retribution, perfect unity,
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  because it has oneness of purpose, perfect harmony because in it all laws blend,
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  perfect truth, because it is the one great truth of all existence.
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  Perfect balance because it measures unerringly, perfect growth because it is a natural growth,
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  perfect understanding, because it solves every problem of life. The reality of
• 34:38
  this law lies in its activity. For only through action, constant change can
• 34:44
  this law come to be, And only through inaction can it cease to be.
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  But as there is no inaction, there can be no cessation. The
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  one purpose of this law is unchangeable. In the silence of darkness, in
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  the glory of light, in the turmoil of action and the pain of reaction,
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  it moves ever forward toward the fulfillment of its one great purpose, perfect
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  harmony. We see and feel its urge in the myriad and myriad of plant
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  forms on hill and in dale, as they push forth from the same darkness
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  into one light. And though bathe by the same waters and breathed upon by
• 35:16
  the same air, yet all varieties maintain their own individuality. That is,
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  the rose is always a rose, and differs from the violet, which is
• 35:25
  always a violet. The acorn gives the world the oak, and never a
• 35:30
  willow or any other variety of tree. And though all send out roots into
• 35:34
  the same soil and blossom in the same sunshine. Yet some are frail,
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  some are strong, some are bitter, and some are sweet, while others
• 35:42
  are repulsive, some are beautiful. Thus all varieties draw to themselves through their
• 35:47
  own roots and from the same elements, that which differentiates them from each other.
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  And this great law of life, this constant urge, this hidden force
• 35:57
  in the plant, causing it to manifest, to grow, and to attain.
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  Is this law of attraction, bearing forward in silent majesty, bringing all
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  fruition, dictating nothing, yet making each unit of growth true to its own
• 36:08
  individual nature. In the mineral world, it is the cohesion of the rock,
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  sand, and clay. It is the strength in the granite, the
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  beauty in the marble, the sparkle in the sapphire, and the blood in
• 36:22
  the ruby. Thus do we find it working in the things we see.
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  But its unseen power, as it works in the mind of man, is
• 36:30
  greater. This law of attraction is neither good nor evil, neither moral or
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  immoral. It is a neutral law that always flows in conjunction with the desires
• 36:39
  of the individual. We choose our own line of growth, and there are
• 36:45
  as many lines of growth as there are individuals. And although no two of
• 36:49
  us are exactly alike, yet many of us move along similar lines. These
• 36:53
  lines of growth are made up of past, present, and future desires,
• 36:58
  manifesting in the ever forming present, where they establish the central line of our
• 37:01
  being along which we advance. The nature of these desires has no power to
• 37:07
  check the action of this for its function is to bring to maturity the bitter
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  as well as the sweet. An illustration of the neutrality and action of this
• 37:15
  law is found in the grafting of an apple tree bud into a wild crab
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  tree, where we find in due time eatable and uneatable fruits growing together on
• 37:23
  the same tree, that is, wholesome and unwholesome fruits nourished and brought to
• 37:29
  maturity by the same sap. In applying this illustration to ourselves, we find
• 37:34
  that the cultured apples and the wild crabs represent our different desires, while the
• 37:38
  SAP represents this law of growth. Just as the sap bring to maturity the
• 37:44
  different kinds of fruit, just so will this law bring to fruitfulness are different
• 37:47
  kinds of desires. Whether they be wholesome or unwholesome, it matters not to
• 37:52
  the law, for its place in life is to bring to our minds the
• 37:55
  conscious realization of the results that follow. All desires we hold as well as
• 38:00
  their nature, their effect, and their purpose. In Man's division of the
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  law, we come in contact with a larger activity, one that is utterly
• 38:09
  unknown to the primitive mind, which leads us to a conscious awakening of a
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  newer power in a larger field of action. In other words, a larger
• 38:19
  truth, a greater understanding, and a deeper insight. We are touching a
• 38:22
  greater reality. For let us understand that reality lies in activity and not outside
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  of it. To exist is to be alive to the action of the laws
• 38:31
  about us. The hidden urge in the plant is its reality, and not
• 38:37
  the outer form we see. True knowledge comes to us through our own activities,
• 38:42
  borrowed knowledge through the activities of others. Both together evolve our intellects,
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  and slowly we are forming a unique self, an individualizing unit. As we
• 38:52
  move out into the power of our growing intellects into an ever moving consciousness,
• 38:58
  we are learning to seek for the wherefore and war why of things, And
• 39:00
  in this search we think and imagine that we are original, when in fact
• 39:04
  we are only students of established beliefs, notions and facts gathered throughout generations of
• 39:09
  tribal and national life. We live in a state of fear and uncertainty until
• 39:15
  we find and make use of the unvarying uniformity running through all laws. This
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  is the central truth that we must know and use before we can become masters
• 39:23
  of self or masters of conditions. The law of growth ripens collectively, for
• 39:29
  its one function is to act upon that which we give it to act upon.
• 39:34
  As the nature of the cause governs the effect, so does the thought
• 39:37
  precede and predetermine action. Each one must use this law knowingly and consciously,
• 39:43
  otherwise we use it blindly. Use it we must. In our growth from
• 39:49
  primitive man to conscious man. There are three seeming divisions or sections. First
• 39:54
  our growth through the savage or unconscious state, Second our growth through the intellectual,
• 40:00
  ual, and conscious growing state, and third our growth into conscious recognition
• 40:05
  of our conscious state. We all know that the bulb must first send out
• 40:08
  roots before it can send out shoots, and it must send out shoots before
• 40:13
  it can come to blossom in the sunlight. It is just so with us.
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  Like the plant, we must first send out roots. Our roots are
• 40:22
  our thoughts, before we can evolve from our primitive or animal bulb like state
• 40:25
  into the intellectual and conscious growing state. Next, we, like the plant,
• 40:30
  must send forth shoots before we can evolve from a purely intellectual state of
• 40:35
  conscious growing into a conscious state of conscious knowing. Otherwise, we would always
• 40:39
  remain only creatures of the law, and never masters of the law. Lastly,
• 40:45
  we, like the plant, must individualize, must come to full bloom.
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  In other words, we must give forth the radiating beauty of a perfected
• 40:53
  life. We must stand revealed to ourselves and to others as a unit of
• 40:59
  power and a mass over those laws that govern and control our growth. Each
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  has a force within itself, and this force is the action of laws set
• 41:07
  into activity by ourselves. It is through this consciousness that we begin to master
• 41:12
  laws and to bring results through our conscious knowledge of their operation. Life is
• 41:17
  a rigid conformity to laws, where we are the conscious or unconscious chemists of
• 41:22
  our own life. For when life is truly understood, it is found to
• 41:27
  be made up of chemical action. As we breath in oxygen, chemical action
• 41:31
  takes place in our blood. As we consume food and water, chemical action
• 41:36
  takes place in our digestive organs, in our use of thought, chemical action
• 41:39
  takes place in both mind and body. In the change called death, chemical
• 41:45
  action takes place and disintegration sets in. So we find that physical existence is
• 41:49
  chemical action. Life is made up of laws, and as we make use
• 41:53
  of these laws, so do we get results. If we think distress,
• 41:58
  then we get distress. If we think success, then we get success.
• 42:02
  When we entertain destructive thought, we set up a chemical action that checks digestion,
• 42:07
  which in turn irritates other organs of the body and reacts upon the mind,
• 42:12
  causing disease and sickness. When we worry, we churn a cesspool of
• 42:16
  chemical action, causing fearful havoc to both mind and body. On the other
• 42:22
  hand, if we entertain constructive thoughts, we set up a healthy chemical action.
• 42:27
  When we entertain negative thoughts, we put into action a poisonous chemical activity
• 42:31
  of a disintegrating nature that stupefies our sensibilities and deadens our nerve actions, causing
• 42:37
  the mind and body to become negative and therefore subject to many ills. On
• 42:42
  the other hand, if we are positive, we put into action a healthy
• 42:45
  chemical activity of a constructive nature, causing the mind and body to become free
• 42:51
  from the many ills due to discordant thoughts. These analyzes can be carried through
• 42:55
  every avenue of life, but enough has been shown to indicate that life is
• 43:00
  largely chemical action, and that the mind is the chemical laboratory of thought,
• 43:04
  and that we are the chemists in the workshop of mental action, where everything
• 43:07
  is prepared for our use, and where the product turned out will be in
• 43:10
  proportion to the material used. In other words, the nature of the thought
• 43:15
  we use determines the kinds of conditions and experiences with which we meet. What
• 43:21
  we put into life, we get out of life no more, no less.
• 43:24
  Life is an orderly advancement governed by the law of attraction. Our growth
• 43:30
  is through three seeming sections. In the first, we are creatures of law,
• 43:36
  in the second users of law, and in the third we are masters
• 43:39
  of law. In the first we are unconscious users of thought power, in
• 43:44
  the second conscious users of thought power, and in the third we are conscious
• 43:49
  users of conscious power. So long as we persist in using only the laws
• 43:53
  of the first section, we are held in bondage to them. So long
• 43:58
  as we remain satisfied with the laws and growth of the second section, we
• 44:01
  shall never become conscious of a greater advancement. In the third section, we
• 44:07
  awaken to our conscious power over laws of the first and second sections, and
• 44:12
  become fully awake to the laws governing the third. When rightly understood, life
• 44:16
  is found not to be a question of chance, not a question of creed,
• 44:21
  not a question of nationality, not a question of social standing, not
• 44:24
  a question of wealth, not a question of power. No, all of
• 44:29
  these have a place to fill in the growth of the individual. But we
• 44:31
  must all eventually come to know that harmony comes only as a result of a
• 44:36
  compliance with natural law. This rigid exactness and stability in the nature of law
• 44:42
  is our greatest asset. And when we become conscious of this available power and
• 44:45
  use it judiciously, we shall have found the truth that will make us free.
• 44:51
  Science has of late made such vast discoveries, has revealed such an infinity
• 44:54
  of resources, has unveiled such enormous possibilities, and such unsuspected. It forces
• 45:00
  that scientific men more and more hesitate to affirm certain theories as established and indubitable,
• 45:06
  or to deny certain other theories as absurd or impossible, And so a
• 45:10
  new civilization is being born. Customs, creeds, and cruelty are passing vision,
• 45:17
  faith and service are taking their place. The fetters of tradition are being
• 45:22
  melted from humanity, and as the dross of militarism and materialism are being consumed,
• 45:28
  thought is being liberated and truth is rising full orbed before an astonished multitude.
• 45:34
  We have caught only a glimpse of the possibility of the rule of mind,
• 45:37
  which means the rule of spirit. We have just begun to realize in
• 45:40
  a small degree, what this newly discovered power may do for us. That
• 45:45
  it can bring success in this world's affairs is beginning to be understood and practiced
• 45:51
  by thousands. The whole world is on the eve of a new consciousness,
• 45:54
  a new power, and a new realization of resources within the self. The
• 46:00
  last century saw the most magnificent material progress in history. May the new century
• 46:06
  produce the greatest progress in mental and spiritual power. Thought is deeper than all
• 46:12
  speech, feeling deeper than all thought. Soul to soul can never teach at
• 46:15
  unto itself, is taught Charles F. Honnell, The New Psychology, Chapter
• 46:22
  five, The Universal Mind. How to master the thought machinery to meet one's
• 46:28
  desire is not as difficult as it may appear to be to those unacquainted with
• 46:31
  true mental discipline. That a man can change himself, improve himself, recreate
• 46:37
  himself, control his environment, and master his own destiny is the conclusion of
• 46:42
  every mind who is wide awake to the power of right thought in constructive action.
• 46:46
  Larsen he nervous system is matter, its energy is mind. It is
• 46:53
  therefore the instrument of the universal mind. It is the link between matter and
• 46:59
  spirit, between in our consciousness and the cosmic consciousness. It is the gateway
• 47:04
  of infinite power. Both the cerebrospinal and the sympathetic nervous system are controlled by
• 47:09
  nervous energy, that is alike in kind, and the two systems are so
• 47:13
  interwoven that their impulses can be sent from one to the other. Every activity
• 47:17
  of the body, every impulse of the nervous system, every thought, uses
• 47:22
  up nervous energy. The system of nerves may be compared to a telegraph system.
• 47:28
  The nerve cells corresponding to the batteries, the fibers to the wires in
• 47:32
  the batteries is generated electricity. The cells, however, do not generate nervous
• 47:38
  energy. They transform it, and the fibers convey it. This energy is
• 47:45
  not a physical wave like electricity, light, or sound. It is mind.
• 47:51
  It bears the same relationship to the mind as a piano does to its
• 47:53
  player. The mind can only have perfect expression when the instrument through which it
• 47:59
  functions is in order. The organ of the cerebrospinal nervous system is the brain.
• 48:05
  The organ of the sympathetic nervous system is the solar plexus. The first
• 48:09
  is the voluntary of conscious, the latter is the involuntary or the subconscious.
• 48:15
  It is through the cerebrospinal nervous system and the brain that we become conscious of
• 48:20
  possessions. Hence, all possession has its origin in consciousness. The undeveloped consciousness
• 48:25
  of a babe or the inhibited consciousness of an idiot cannot possese the mental condition.
• 48:31
  Consciousness increases in direct proportion to our acquisition of knowledge. Knowledge is acquired
• 48:37
  by observation, experience, and reflection. We become conscious of these possessions by
• 48:44
  the mind, so that we recognize that possession is based on consciousness. This
• 48:47
  consciousness we designate the world within. Those possessions of form that we acquire are
• 48:53
  of the world without that which possesses in the world within is mind, that
• 49:00
  which enables us to possess in the world without his Also mind, mind manifests
• 49:05
  itself as thoughts, mental pictures, words, and actions. Thought is therefore
• 49:10
  creative. Our power to use thought to create the conditions, surroundings, and
• 49:16
  other experiences of life depends upon our habit of thinking. What we do depends
• 49:22
  upon what we are. What we are is the result of what we habitually
• 49:25
  think. Before we can do, we must be. Before we can be,
• 49:30
  we must control and direct the force of thought within us. Thought is
• 49:35
  force. There are but two things in the universe, force and form.
• 49:40
  When we realize that we possess this and direct it, and by it act
• 49:44
  on the forces and forms in the objective world, we shall have made our
• 49:47
  first experiment in mental chemistry. The universal mind is the substance of all force
• 49:53
  and form, The reality that underlies all, in accordance with fixed laws,
• 50:00
  from itself and by itself, is all brought into being and sustain It is
• 50:05
  the creative power of thought in its perfect expression. The universal mind is all
• 50:09
  consciousness, all power, and is everywhere present. It is essentially the same
• 50:15
  at every point of its presence. All mind is one mind. This explains
• 50:20
  the order and harmony of the universe. To comprehend this statement is to possess
• 50:24
  the ability to understand and solve every problem of life. Mind has a twofold
• 50:30
  expression, conscious or objective, and subconscious and subjective. We come into relationship
• 50:37
  with the world without by the objective mind, and with the world within by
• 50:40
  the subconscious mind. Though we are making a distinction between the conscious and subconscious
• 50:45
  minds, such a distinction does not really exist, but this arrangement will be
• 50:51
  found convenient. All mind is one mind. In all phases of the mental
• 50:57
  life. There is an indivisible unity and oneness. The subconscious mind connects us
• 51:01
  with the universal mind, and thus we are brought into direct relationship with all
• 51:06
  power. In the subconscious is stored up the observations and experiences of life that
• 51:12
  have come to it through the conscious mind. It is the storehouse of memory.
• 51:16
  The subconscious mind is a great seed plot in which thoughts have been dropped
• 51:22
  or experiences conveyed by observation or happenings planted to come up again into consciousness with
• 51:28
  the fruitage of their growth. Consciousness is the inner and thought is the outward
• 51:32
  expression of power. The two are inseparable. It is impossible to be conscious
• 51:38
  of a thing without thinking of it. We have captured the lightning and changed
• 51:44
  its name to electricity. We have harnessed the waters and made the remorseless flood
• 51:49
  our servant. By the miracle of thought, we have quickened water into vapor
• 51:52
  to bear the burdens and move the commerce of the world. We have called
• 51:58
  into being floating palaces that plows the highways of the deep. We have triumphed
• 52:02
  in our conquest of the air, although we have moored in the silver archipelago
• 52:07
  of the Milky Way. We have conquered time and space. When two electric
• 52:12
  wires are in close proximity, the first carrying a heavier load of electricity than
• 52:16
  the second, the second will receive by induction some current from the first.
• 52:22
  This will illustrate the attitude of mankind to the universal mind. They are not
• 52:27
  consciously connected with the source of power. If the second wire were attached to
• 52:31
  the first, it would become charged with as much electricity as it could carry.
• 52:37
  When we become conscious of power, we become a live wire. Because
• 52:40
  by consciousness we are connected with the power. In proportion to our ability to
• 52:45
  use power, we are enabled to meet the various situations that arise in life.
• 52:51
  The Universal Mind is the source of all power and all form. We
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  are channels through which this power is being manifested. Consequently, within us is
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  power, unlimited, possibilities without end, and all under the control of our
• 53:06
  own thought. Because we have these powers, because we are in living union
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  with the Universal Mind, we may adjust or control every experience that may come
• 53:15
  to us. There are no limitations to the Universal Mind. Therefore, the
• 53:20
  better we realize our oneness with this mind, the less conscious will we be
• 53:23
  of any limitation or lack, and the more conscious of power. The Universal
• 53:29
  Mind is the same at every point of its presence, whether in the infinitely
• 53:32
  large or the infinitely small. The difference in the power relatively manifested lies in
• 53:37
  the ability of expression. A stick of clay and a stick of dynamite of
• 53:43
  equal weight contain much the same amount of energy, but in the one it
• 53:47
  is readily set free, whereas in the other we have not yet learned how
• 53:51
  to release it. In order to express, we must create the corresponding condition
• 53:57
  in our consciousness, either in the silence or by repetition. We impress this
• 54:01
  condition upon the subconscious. Consciousness apprehends and thought manifests the conditions desired. Conditions
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  in our life and in our environment are but the reflection of our predominant thoughts,
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  So the importance of correct thinking cannot be overestimated. Having eyes and seeing
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  not, having ears and hearing not, Neither do they understand is another way
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  of expressing the truth that without consciousness there can be no apprehension. Thought constructively
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  used creates tendencies in the subconsciousness. These tendencies manifest themselves as character. The
• 54:37
  primary meaning of the word character is an engraved mark, as on a seal,
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  and means the peculiar qualities impressed by nature or habit on a person,
• 54:46
  which separates the person possessing them from all others. Character has an outward and
• 54:52
  an inward expression, the inward being purpose and the outward ability. Purpose directs
• 54:59
  the mind to towards the ideal to be realized, the object to be accomplished,
• 55:02
  or the desire to be materialized. Purpose gives quality to thought. Ability
• 55:08
  is the capacity to cooperate with omnipotence, although this may be done unconsciously.
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  Our purpose and our ability determine our experiences in life. It is important that
• 55:21
  purpose and ability be balanced. When the former is greater than the latter,
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  that dreamer is produced. When ability is greater than purpose, impetuosity is the
• 55:30
  result producing much useless activity. By the law of attraction, our experiences depend
• 55:37
  upon our mental attitude. Like is attracted to like. Mental attitude is as
• 55:43
  much the result of character as character is of mental attitude. Each acts and
• 55:49
  reacts on the other. Chance. Fate, luck, and destiny seem to
• 55:53
  be blind influences at work behind every experience. This is not so. But
• 55:59
  every experience is governed by immutable laws, which may be controlled so as to
• 56:04
  produce the conditions that we desire. Everything visible and tangible in the universe is
• 56:08
  composed of matter which is acted upon by force. As a matter is known
• 56:14
  to us by its external appearances, we shall designate it as form. Form
• 56:19
  may be divided into four classes, that possessing form only, or the inorganic,
• 56:24
  as for example iron or marble. Form that is living, or the
• 56:30
  organic as for example plants and the vegetable world. In general, form that
• 56:35
  has both sensation and voluntary motion, as in animals. Form that, in
• 56:39
  addition to sensation and voluntary motion, is conscious of its own being and its
• 56:44
  possessions. As man, the fundamental principle underlying every successful business relation or social
• 56:51
  condition is the recognition of the difference between the world within and the world without,
• 56:55
  the subjective world and the objective world as the center of it. The
• 57:00
  world without revolves matter, organized life, people, thoughts, sounds, light,
• 57:07
  and other vibrations. The universe itself, with its numberless millions of phenomena,
• 57:12
  all sending out vibrations toward you, vibrations of light, of sound,
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  of touch, loudness, softness, of love, hate, of thoughts good
• 57:22
  and bad, wise and unwise, true and untrue. These vibrations are directed
• 57:28
  towards you, your ego, by the smallest as well as by the greatest,
• 57:31
  the farthest, and the nearest. A few of them reach your world
• 57:36
  within, but the rest pass by, and as far as you are immediately
• 57:38
  concerned, are lost. Some of these vibrations or forces are essential to your
• 57:45
  health, your power, your success, your happiness. How is it that
• 57:50
  they have passed you by and have not been received in your world within?
• 57:54
  Luther Burbank says, we are just beginning to realize what a wonderful machine is,
• 57:59
  the huge human brain. We are at the threshold of knowledge, But
• 58:02
  until yesterday we were outside. The human race has been broadcasting and receiving perhaps
• 58:08
  millions of years without knowing, but suffering all the while from bad thoughts received
• 58:14
  and inflicting suffering by bad thoughts sent. The radio, while but a very
• 58:19
  simple instrument as compared with the brain, is helping us to understand what the
• 58:22
  brain is capable of doing and is doing. Those who are familiar with the
• 58:28
  radio know what jamming means, the crowding into a narrow wave belt of a
• 58:31
  great many sending stations, all operating at once. Since we are all transmitting
• 58:37
  every time we think, it is obvious that the jamming in wave length belts
• 58:42
  used by radio transmitters is as nothing compared with the din made by a billion
• 58:46
  and a half human brains. Din may seem to be a strange word to
• 58:51
  use in connection with the ether over a quiet meadow, for instance, but
• 58:54
  those who know how to operate radio receiving sets will understand no matter how much
• 59:00
  jamming is going on, a radio receiving set is as quiet as the grave
• 59:05
  until it is adjusted and made resonant by establishing harmony within it. The silence
• 59:09
  may change into what may seem to be almost screaming with everybody broadcasting at once.
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  It follows that the ether must be the sounding chamber into which is crowded
• 59:20
  every kind of human thought. As we do not broadcast with the same intensity,
• 59:24
  it follows that the weaker vibrations must be drowned out by the stronger ones.
• 59:30
  Weak thoughts must soon fall flat, while strong ones may go to the
• 59:34
  ends of the earth. For anyone knows, but it seems logical to believe
• 59:38
  that thoughts held in common by millions may, because of their identical nature,
• 59:44
  swell into tremendous chorus, even though the human transmitters may not individually be very
• 59:47
  strong senders. Considering consciousness as a general term, we may say that it
• 59:53
  is the action of the objective upon the subjective. This takes place continuously,
• 59:59
  whether we are awake or asleep. Consciousness is the result of sensing or feeling.
• 1:00:06
  We easily recognize three phases of consciousness, between each of which there are
• 1:00:09
  enormous differences. One simple consciousness, which all animals possess in common. It
• 1:00:16
  is the sense of existence by which we recognize that we are and that we
• 1:00:22
  are where we are, and by which we perceive the various objects and varied
• 1:00:25
  scenes and conditions. Two. Self consciousness possessed by all mankind, except infants
• 1:00:32
  and the mentally deficient. This gives us the power of self contemplation, i
• 1:00:37
  e. The effect of the world without upon our world within self contemplate self,
• 1:00:44
  amongst many other results. Language has thus come into existence, each word
• 1:00:49
  being a symbol for a thought or an idea. Three. Cosmic consciousness.
• 1:00:53
  This form of consciousness is as much above self consciousness as self consciousness is above
• 1:00:59
  simple cons consciousness. It is as different from either as sight is different from
• 1:01:04
  hearing or touch. A blind man can get no true notion of color.
• 1:01:08
  However, keen his hearing or sensitive is touch. Neither by simple consciousness nor
• 1:01:14
  by self consciousness can one get any notion of cosmic consciousness. It is not
• 1:01:19
  like either of the many more than sight is like hearing. A deaf man
• 1:01:22
  can never learn of the value of music by means of his senses of sight
• 1:01:27
  or of touch. Cosmic consciousness is all forms of consciousness. It overrides time
• 1:01:34
  and space. For apart from the body, in the world of matter,
• 1:01:37
  these do not exist. The immutable law of consciousness is that in the degree
• 1:01:42
  that the consciousness is developed, so is the development of power in the subjective
• 1:01:46
  and its consequent manifestation in the objective. Cosmic consciousness is the result of the
• 1:01:52
  creation of the necessary conditions so that the universal mind may function in the direction
• 1:01:57
  desired. All vibrations in harmony with the ego's well being are caught and used.
• 1:02:04
  When the truth is directly apprehended or becomes a part of consciousness without the
• 1:02:08
  usual process of reasoning or observation, it is intuition. By intuition, the
• 1:02:15
  mind instantly perceives the agreement or the disagreement between two ideas. The ego always
• 1:02:21
  so recognizes truth. By intuition, the mind transforms knowledge into wisdom, experience
• 1:02:27
  into success, and takes into the world within the things that have been waiting
• 1:02:30
  for us in the world. Without intuition, then, is another phase of
• 1:02:36
  the universal mind that presents truth as facts of consciousness. Charles Hannell, The
• 1:02:40
  New Psychology, Chapter six, The conscious Mind. All the lost minds of
• 1:02:47
  Mexico, all the argacies that ever sailed from the Indies, all the gold
• 1:02:52
  and silver laden ships of the treasure fleets stored in Spain, count no more
• 1:02:55
  in value than a beggar's dole, compared to the wealth that is created every
• 1:03:00
  eight hours by modern business ideas. Opportunity follows perception, action follows inspiration,
• 1:03:07
  growth follows knowledge, and environment follows progress. Always the mental first, then
• 1:03:12
  the transformation into the illimitable possibilities of character and achievement. The progress of the
• 1:03:17
  United States is due to two per cent of its population. In other words,
• 1:03:22
  all our railroads, all our telephones, our automobiles, our libraries,
• 1:03:28
  our newspapers, and a thousand other conveniences, comforts, and necessities are due
• 1:03:34
  to the creative genius of two percent of the population. As a natural consequence,
• 1:03:38
  the same two percent are the millionaires of our country. Now who are
• 1:03:44
  these millionaires, these creative geniuses, these men of ability and energy, to
• 1:03:49
  whom we owe practically all the benefits of civilization. Thirty per cent of them
• 1:03:53
  were sons of poor preachers who had never earned more than one thousand, five
• 1:03:58
  hundred dollars a year, twenty five percent were the sons of teachers, doctors,
• 1:04:01
  and country lawyers, and only five percent were the sons of bankers.
• 1:04:06
  We are interested, therefore, in ascertaining why the two percent succeeded in acquiring
• 1:04:12
  all that is best in life and the ninety eight percent remain in perpetual want.
• 1:04:16
  We know that this is not a matter of chance, because the universe
• 1:04:20
  is governed by law. Law governs solar systems, sun stars, and planets.
• 1:04:28
  Law governs every form of light, heat, sound, and energy.
• 1:04:32
  Law governs every material thing and every immaterial thought. Law covers the earth with
• 1:04:39
  beauty and fills it with bounty. Shall we then not be certain that it
• 1:04:43
  also governs the distribution of this bounty. Financial affairs are governed by law just
• 1:04:48
  as surely, just as positively, just as definitely as health, growth,
• 1:04:53
  harmony, or any other condition of life. And the law is one with
• 1:04:57
  which anyone can comply. Many are already unconsciously complying with this law. Others
• 1:05:02
  are consciously coming into harmony with it. Compliance with the law means joining the
• 1:05:08
  ranks of the two percent. In fact, the new era, the Golden
• 1:05:13
  Age, the industrial emancipation, means that the two percent is about to expand
• 1:05:16
  until the prevailing conditions shall have been reversed. That two percent will soon become
• 1:05:20
  the ninety eight percent. In seeking the truth, we are seeking ultimate cause.
• 1:05:27
  We know that every human experience is an effect. Therefore, if we
• 1:05:30
  may ascertain the cause, and if we shall find that this cause is one
• 1:05:34
  that we can consciously control. The effect or the experience, will be within
• 1:05:39
  our control. Also, human experience will then no longer be the football of
• 1:05:44
  fate. A man will not be the child of fortune, but destiny.
• 1:05:47
  Fate and fortune will be controlled as readily as a captain controls a vessel or
• 1:05:51
  an engineer his train. All things are finally resolvable into the same thing.
• 1:05:57
  And as they are thus translatable one thing into the other, they must ever
• 1:06:00
  be in relation, and may never be in opposition to one another. In
• 1:06:05
  the physical world, there are innumerable contrasts, and these may, for the
• 1:06:09
  sake of convenience, be designated by distinctive names. There are surfaces, colors,
• 1:06:15
  shades, dimensions, or ends to all things. There is a north
• 1:06:19
  pole and a south pole, an inside and an outside, a scene and
• 1:06:24
  an unseen. But these expressions merely serve to place extremes. In contrast,
• 1:06:30
  they are names given to two different parts or aspects of the same quantity.
• 1:06:34
  The two extremes are relative. They are not separate entities, but are two
• 1:06:39
  parts or aspects of one whole. In the mental world, we find the
• 1:06:43
  same law. We speak of knowledge and ignorance. But ignorance is but a
• 1:06:46
  lack of knowledge, and is therefore found to be simply a word to express
• 1:06:50
  the absence of knowledge. It has no principle of itself. In the moral
• 1:06:56
  world, we speak of good and evil, But upon investigation we find that
• 1:07:00
  good and evil are but relative terms. Thought precedes and predetermines action. If
• 1:07:05
  this action results in benefit to ourselves and others, we call this result good.
• 1:07:12
  If this result is to the disadvantage of ourselves and others, we call
• 1:07:15
  it evil. Good and evil are therefore found to be simply words that have
• 1:07:19
  been coined to indicate the result of our actions, which in turn are the
• 1:07:24
  result of our thoughts. In the industrial world, we speak of labor and
• 1:07:29
  capital as if there were two separate and distinct classes. But capital is wealth,
• 1:07:32
  and wealth is a product of labor, and labor necessarily includes industry of
• 1:07:38
  every kind, physical, mental, executive, and professional. Every man or
• 1:07:43
  woman who depends in whole or in part for his or her income upon the
• 1:07:46
  results of his or her effort in the industrial world must be classed as labor.
• 1:07:51
  We therefore find that in the industrial world there is but one principle,
• 1:07:56
  and that is labor. Or industry. There are many who are seriously,
• 1:08:00
  in earnestly trying to find the solution to the present industrial and social chaos,
• 1:08:03
  and we hear much of production waste efficiency, and sometimes something in regard to
• 1:08:09
  constructive thinking. The thought that humanity is on the borderland of a new idea,
• 1:08:15
  that the dawn of a new era is at hand, that a new
• 1:08:17
  epoch in the history of the world is about to take place, is rapidly
• 1:08:20
  spreading from mind to mind and is changing the preconceived ideas of man and his
• 1:08:25
  relation to industry. We know that every condition is the result of a cause,
• 1:08:30
  and that the same cause invariably produces the same result that has been the
• 1:08:35
  cause of similar changes in the thought of the world, such as the Renaissance,
• 1:08:40
  the Reformation, and the Industrial Revolution. Always the discovery and discussion of
• 1:08:45
  new knowledge. The elimination of competition by the centralization of industry into corporations and
• 1:08:50
  trusts, and the economies resulting therefrom has set man to thinking. He sees
• 1:08:56
  that competition is not necessary to progress, and he is asking what will be
• 1:09:00
  the outcome of the evolution that is taking place in the industrial world, And
• 1:09:04
  gradually the thought begins to dawn. The thought that is rapidly germinating, that
• 1:09:10
  is about to burst forth in the minds of all men everywhere. The thought
• 1:09:14
  that is carrying men off their feet and crowding out every selfish idea, The
• 1:09:17
  thought that the emancipation of the industrial world is at hand. This is the
• 1:09:21
  thought that is arousing the enthusiasm of mankind as never before. This is the
• 1:09:28
  thought that is centralizing force and energy, and which will destroy every barrier between
• 1:09:31
  itself and purpose. It is not a vision of the future. It is
• 1:09:36
  a vision of the present. It is at the door, and the door
• 1:09:40
  is open. The creative instinct in the individual is his spiritual nature. It
• 1:09:45
  is a reflection of the universal creative principle. It is therefore instinctive and innate.
• 1:09:51
  It cannot be eradicated. It can only be perverted. Owing to the
• 1:09:57
  changes that have taken place in the industrial world world, this creative instinct no
• 1:10:00
  longer finds expression. A man cannot build his own house, He can no
• 1:10:05
  longer make his own garden. He can, by no manner of means,
• 1:10:10
  direct his own labor. He is therefore deprived of the greatest joy that can
• 1:10:13
  come to the individual. The joy of creating achievement, and so this great
• 1:10:17
  power for good is perverted and turned into destructive channels. Becoming envious, he
• 1:10:24
  attempts to destroy the works of his more fortunate fellows. Thought results in action.
• 1:10:30
  If we wish to change the nature of the action, we must change
• 1:10:33
  the thought. And the only way to change the thought is to substitute a
• 1:10:36
  healthy mental attitude for the chaotic mental conditions existing at present. It is evident
• 1:10:43
  that the power of thought is by far the greatest power in existence. It
• 1:10:47
  is the power that controls every other power. And while this knowledge has until
• 1:10:51
  recently been the possession of the few, it is about to become the priceless
• 1:10:55
  privilege of the many. Those who have the imagination the vision will see the
• 1:11:00
  opportunity of directing this thought into constructive and creative channels. They will encourage and
• 1:11:05
  foster the spirit of mental adventure. They will arouse, develop, and direct
• 1:11:11
  the creative instinct, in which case we shall soon see such an industrial revival
• 1:11:15
  as the world has never before experienced. Henry Ford visions the approach of the
• 1:11:20
  new era in The Dearborn Independent. He says, the human race is now
• 1:11:27
  on the border line between two periods, the period when to use is to
• 1:11:30
  lose, and the period when not to use is to waste. For a
• 1:11:35
  long time, mankind has been conscious of, somehow coming to the end of
• 1:11:39
  irresponsible childhood. The provision made by the parent of mankind has seemed to be
• 1:11:44
  coming to the end of its lavishness. That is, there has been a
• 1:11:47
  sense that the more we use, the less we had in reserve. This
• 1:11:51
  feeling has been expressed in a popular adage, you can't eat your cake and
• 1:11:55
  have it. But now that man is learning enough to plant his supply as
• 1:12:00
  well as reap it, to make his supply a recurrent crop instead of a
• 1:12:02
  slowly diminishing original store of natural resources, the time is coming when, instead
• 1:12:08
  of being afraid of wasting our resources by using them, we shall be afraid
• 1:12:12
  of wasting them by not using them. The stream of supply will be so
• 1:12:15
  full and constant that when people worry, it will not be worry about not
• 1:12:18
  having enough, but about not using enough. If you can imagine a world
• 1:12:24
  in which the source of supply will be so plentiful that people will worry about
• 1:12:28
  not using enough of it, instead of worrying, as we do now about
• 1:12:30
  using too much you will have a picture of the world that is soon to
• 1:12:34
  be. We have long depended on the resources which nature long ago stored up,
• 1:12:40
  the resources which can be exhausted. We are entering an era when we
• 1:12:44
  shall create resources which shall be so constantly renewed that the only loss will be
• 1:12:48
  not to use them. There will be such a plenteous supply of heat,
• 1:12:53
  light and power that it will be sin not to use all we want.
• 1:12:57
  This era is coming in now, and it is coming by way of water.
• 1:13:00
  With the fuel question settled, and the light question settled, and the
• 1:13:04
  heating question settled, and the power question settled on such terms as actually liberate
• 1:13:10
  the whole world from the crushing weight of these four great burdens. And not
• 1:13:14
  only that, but with the whole fuel and light and heat and power situation
• 1:13:17
  turned around so that people will have to use all that they want in order
• 1:13:20
  to prevent waste. Don't you see how economic life will swing loose and breathe
• 1:13:25
  deeply as if a new spring day had dawned for humanity. That is the
• 1:13:30
  era we are approaching. There is no question about that. There will be,
• 1:13:36
  of course, the usual preliminary skirmish between selfishness and service, but service
• 1:13:42
  will win. The ownership of a coal mine located on a man's property may
• 1:13:46
  easily be granted to private parties, but the ownership of a river nature itself
• 1:13:53
  rebukes the man who would claim ownership of a river. Our next period is
• 1:13:57
  before us, not the first period of reckless waste, nor the second period
• 1:14:01
  of anxious accounting, but the third period of overlapping abundance, which compels us
• 1:14:05
  to use, and use, and use to fulfill every need. Thought is
• 1:14:11
  mind in motion, just as wind is air in motion. Mind is a
• 1:14:15
  spiritual activity. In fact, it is the only activity that the spiritual man
• 1:14:19
  possesses, and spirit is the creative principle of the universe. Therefore, when
• 1:14:26
  we think, we start a train of causation. The thoughts go forth and
• 1:14:30
  meet other similar thoughts. They coalesce and form ideas. The ideas now exist
• 1:14:35
  independently of the thinker. They are the invisible seeds which exist everywhere, and
• 1:14:40
  which sprout and grow and bring forth fruit, some a hundredfold and some a
• 1:14:44
  thousandfold. We have been led to believe, and many still seem to think,
• 1:14:48
  that wealth is something very material and tangible, that we can secure and
• 1:14:53
  hold it for our own exclusive use and benefit. We somehow forget that all
• 1:14:58
  the gold in the world only amounts to a very few dollars per capita.
• 1:15:02
  The entire supply of gold for the world is only eight billion dollars. This
• 1:15:08
  includes all the gold coined or in bars in the various banks or government treasuries
• 1:15:13
  of the world. This quantity of gold could be easily contained in a sixty
• 1:15:17
  foot cube. If we depended upon the supply of gold, it would be
• 1:15:21
  exhausted in a single day. And yet with this as a basis, we
• 1:15:25
  spend hundreds and thousands, millions and now billions of dollars daily, and yet
• 1:15:30
  the original supply of gold is not altered. The gold is simply a measure
• 1:15:35
  a rule. With one ruler, we may measure thousands and hundreds of thousands
• 1:15:41
  of feet. So with one five dollar bill, hundreds and thousands and millions
• 1:15:44
  of people may have the use of it by simply passing it from one to
• 1:15:46
  the other. So it is that if we can only keep the tokens of
• 1:15:50
  wealth, which we call money, circulating, everyone could have all he or
• 1:15:55
  she might want. There need be no lack. The sense of lack comes
• 1:16:00
  only when we begin to hoard when we are seized with fear and panic and
• 1:16:03
  fail to give out to release. It is therefore evident that the only way
• 1:16:08
  we can get any benefit from wealth is by its use, and to use
• 1:16:12
  it we must give it out so that someone else can get the benefit of
• 1:16:15
  it. We are then cooperating for our mutual benefit and putting the law of
• 1:16:18
  abundance into practical operation. We also see that wealth is by no means as
• 1:16:25
  substantial and tangible as many suppose, but that, on the contrary, the
• 1:16:30
  only way to get it is to keep it going. As soon as there
• 1:16:32
  is any concerted movement. Whereby there is any danger of stopping the circulation of
• 1:16:38
  this medium of exchange, there is stagnation, fever, panic, and industrial
• 1:16:42
  death. It is this intangible nature of wealth that makes it peculiarly susceptible to
• 1:16:46
  the power of thought, and has enabled many men to secure fortunes in a
• 1:16:50
  year or two which others could not hope to acquire in a lifetime of effort.
• 1:16:56
  This is due to the creative power of mind. Helen Wilma gives an
• 1:17:00
  interesting description of the practical operation of this law in the Conquest of poverty.
• 1:17:05
  She says there is an almost universal reaching out for money. This reaching out
• 1:17:11
  is from the acquisitive faculties only in its operations are confined to the competitive realm
• 1:17:15
  of the business world. It is a purely external proceeding. Its mode of
• 1:17:20
  action is not rooted in the knowledge of the inner life with its finer,
• 1:17:24
  more just and spiritualized wants. It is but an extension of animality into the
• 1:17:30
  realm of the human and no power can lift it to the divine plane.
• 1:17:32
  The race is now approaching. For all lifting on this plane is the result
• 1:17:38
  of spiritual growth. It is doing just what Christ said we must do in
• 1:17:43
  order to be rich. It is first seeking the kingdom or Heaven, within
• 1:17:47
  where alone it exists. After this kingdom is discovered, then all these things
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  external wealth shall be added. What is there within a man that can be
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  called the kingdom of heaven? When I answer this question, not one reader
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  out of ten will believe me. So utterly bankrupt of knowledge of their own
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  internal wealth are the great majority of people. But I shall answer it nevertheless,
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  and it will be answered truly. Heaven exists within us, in the
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  faculties latent in the human brain, the superbundance of which no man has ever
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  dreamed. The weakest man living has the powers of a god folded within his
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  organization, and they will remain folded until he learns to believe in their existence
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  and then tries to develop them. Men generally are not introspective, and this
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  is why they are not rich. They are poverty stricken in their own opinions
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  of themselves and their powers, and they put the stamp of their belief on
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  everything they come in contact with. If a day labor, let us say,
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  does but look within himself long enough to perceive that he has an intellect
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  that can be made as great and far reaching as that of the man he
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  serves. If he sees this and attaches due importance to it, the mere
• 1:18:59
  fact of his seeing it has to a degree loosened his bonds and brought him
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  face to face with better conditions. But there is wanted something more than the
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  fact of knowing that he is, or may become, by recognition of self
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  his employer's intellectual equal. There remains the fact that he needs also to know
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  the law and claim its provisions, namely, that his superior knowing relates him
• 1:19:21
  to a superior position. He must know this and trust it for it is
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  by holding this truth in faith and trust that he begins to ascend bodily.
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  Employers everywhere hail with delight the acquisitions of employees who are not machines. They
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  want brains in their business and are glad to pay for them. Cheap help
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  is often the most expensive, in the sense of being the least profitable.
• 1:19:45
  As brain growth or development of thought power in the employee increases his value to
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  his employer. And as the employee grows to the degree of strength where he
• 1:19:53
  is capable of doing for himself, there will be another not yet grown so
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  strong to take his place. The A gradual recognition by a man of his
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  own latent powers is the heaven within that is to be brought forward in the
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  world and established in these conditions which correlate it. A mental poor house projects
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  from itself the spirit of a visible poor house, and this spirit expresses itself
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  in visible externals correlated to its character. A mental palace sends forth the spirit
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  of a visible palace, with results that correlate it. And the same may
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  be said of sickness and sin, of health and goodness. Charles Hannell,
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  The New Psychology, Chapter ten, Equilibrium Thinking leads man to knowledge. He
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  may see and hear, and read and learn whenever he pleases, and as
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  much as he pleases, he will never know anything of it except that which,
• 1:20:45
  by thinking he has made the property of his own mind. Is it
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  then saying too much? If I say that man, by thinking only becomes
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  truly man, take away thought from man's life, and what remains pestilazzi.
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  Nature is forever trying to bring about equilibrium, and in accordance with this law
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  we find constant action and reaction. The concentration of matter implies the dissipation of
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  motion. Conversely, the absorption of motion implies the diffusion of matter. This
• 1:21:16
  accounts for the entire cycle of changes passed through by every existence. Moreover,
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  it applies to the entire cycle of each existence, as well as to each
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  detail of its history. Both processes are going on at every instance, but
• 1:21:31
  always there is a differential result in favor of one or the other, and
• 1:21:36
  every change, even though it is only a transposition of parts, inevitably advances
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  one of the factors. The law of attraction eventually results in an equilibrium.
• 1:21:46
  The quantity of motion implied by dispersion must be as great as the quantity of
• 1:21:50
  motion implied by aggregation, or rather must be the same motion, taking now
• 1:21:56
  the molar form and now the molecular form. And from this result there arises
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  the conception not only of local evolutions and dissolutions throughout our sidereal system, but
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  of general evolutions and dissolutions alternating indefinitely. Giordano Bruno was burned alive in Rome
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  in sixteen hundred for giving expression to the following thought, that which was seed
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  at first becomes grass the ear, then bread, nutritive, juice, blood,
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  animal, seed, embryo, man, corpse, then again earth stone
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  or other mineral, and so forth. Herein we recognize therefore a thing which
• 1:22:32
  changes into all these things and essentially remains ever one and the same. This
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  eternal and ceaseless ebb and flow of minute particles, changeless in themselves, has
• 1:22:44
  been called the food cycle. It is enough to remark of the changes and
• 1:22:47
  cycles through which matter passes in the universe, and which man has partly followed
• 1:22:51
  by balance and measuring rod, that they are without end and limit, dissolution
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  and generation, destruction and rest inmation. Clasp hands everywhere in an endless circle,
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  in the bread that we eat, in the air that we breathe,
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  we draw in the matter that once built up the bodies of our forefathers.
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  Nay, we ourselves give every day a portion of the matter forming our bodies
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  to the outside world, and shortly after we retake this substance or matter similarly
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  given off by our neighbors. Of the conquerors on the battlefield, we can
• 1:23:24
  literally say that they take advantage of their success by literally eating their enemies as
• 1:23:29
  daily bread, for the bones of the battlefields are often carted off in great
• 1:23:32
  quantities and converted into fertilizer. All energy on this earth, organic or inorganic,
• 1:23:39
  is directly or indirectly derived from the sun, the flowing water, the
• 1:23:44
  driving wind, the passing clouds, the rolling thunder and the flashing lightning,
• 1:23:48
  the falling rain, snow, dew, frost or hail, the growth of
• 1:23:54
  plants, the warmth and motion of animal and human bodies, the combustion of
• 1:23:58
  wood, of coal, and everything else is the result of solar energy.
• 1:24:03
  Through the process of combustion, the total amount of the vanished sunshine laid up
• 1:24:08
  in wood or coal may again be evolved. The force that urges forward the
• 1:24:13
  locomotive is simply sunshine. Converted into power. In eighteen fifty seven, mister
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  Murray of London published a biography of the famous English engineer George Stephenson, in
• 1:24:24
  which an interesting description of the light and heat cycle is given. On Sunday,
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  just when the company had returned from church and were standing on the terrace
• 1:24:32
  overlooking the railway station, a train rushed by, leaving a long line of
• 1:24:36
  white steam behind. Now, said Stevenson to Buckland, the well known geologist,
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  Can you tell me what power moves that train? Why, replied the
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  other. I suppose it is one of your big engines. But what moves
• 1:24:50
  the engine? Oh, probably one of your stout Newcastle engine drivers. What
• 1:24:57
  do you say to the light of the sun. What do you mean nothing
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  else moves the engine, said the great engineer. It is light which for
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  thousands of years has accumulated in the earth, Light which was inhaled by plants
• 1:25:10
  that these, during the time of their growth, might fix the carbon,
• 1:25:13
  and which now, after having for thousands of years been buried in the cold
• 1:25:15
  beds of the earth, is again brought forth and set free to serve the
• 1:25:19
  great purposes of mankind. As here in the engine, the same energy of
• 1:25:25
  the sun takes up the water from the ocean in the form of vapor.
• 1:25:29
  Water would ever remain in perfect equilibrium of it were not for the action of
• 1:25:32
  the sun. The rays of the sun falling upon the ocean convert the water
• 1:25:38
  into vapor, and this vapor is taken up into the atmosphere in the form
• 1:25:41
  of mist. The wind gathers it together in the form of clouds and takes
• 1:25:45
  it across the continent. Here, through changes of temperature, it is again
• 1:25:50
  converted into rain or snow. Let anyone study the wonderful and beautiful forms of
• 1:25:56
  snowflakes or snow stars falling to the ground on a cold wind winter's day,
• 1:26:00
  and he can convince himself that one day the forms are quite different from those
• 1:26:03
  of the day before or of the day after, although the conditions may differ,
• 1:26:08
  but in the very slightest degree. Nevertheless, this minute difference has sufficed
• 1:26:13
  to evolve these very different forms. It shows that, as kers Sterne says,
• 1:26:18
  each of these fugitive forms is the exact expression of a special complex relation
• 1:26:23
  between the moisture motion, pressure, temperature, rarity, electrical tension, and
• 1:26:28
  chemical composition of the air that prevailed during their formation. With a many sidedness
• 1:26:33
  of ideas which anyone engaged in the drawing of patterns and designs for fabrics might
• 1:26:39
  envy. The intrinsic faculties of the simplest and most indifferent compounds we know of
• 1:26:44
  show themselves thus in opposition to the molding influences of the outer world. The
• 1:26:48
  action of the sun again converts the snow into water, and through the law
• 1:26:53
  of gravitation, it descends from the mountains to the various rivers by which it
• 1:26:56
  eventually reaches the parent ocean from which it came. These cycles are all governed
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  by a law of periodicity. Everything has periods of birth, growth, fruitage,
• 1:27:06
  and decline. These periods are governed by the septimal law. The law
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  of sevens governs the days of the week, the phases of the moon,
• 1:27:16
  the harmonies of sound, light, heat, electricity, magnetism, and atomic
• 1:27:21
  structure. It governs the life of individuals and of nations, and it dominates
• 1:27:27
  the activities of the commercial world. Statisticians know that every period of financial prosperity
• 1:27:33
  is followed by a period of depression, and they consequently have no difficulty in
• 1:27:38
  foretelling general conditions in the commercial world. We can apply the same law to
• 1:27:43
  our own lives, and thereby come into an understanding of many experiences that would
• 1:27:47
  otherwise appear inexplicable. Life is growth and growth is change. Each seven years
• 1:27:54
  period takes us into a new cycle. The first seven years is the period
• 1:27:59
  of infancy. The next seven the period of childhood, representing the beginning of
• 1:28:04
  individual responsibility. The next seven represents the period of adolescence. The fourth period
• 1:28:12
  marks the attainment of full growth. The fifth period is the constructive period when
• 1:28:16
  men acquire property, possessions, a home and family. The next from thirty
• 1:28:23
  five to forty two is a period of reactions and changes, and this in
• 1:28:27
  turn is followed by a period of reconstruction, adjustment, and recuperation, so
• 1:28:31
  as to be ready for a new cycle of sevens beginning with the fiftieth year.
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  There are many who think that the world is just about to pass out
• 1:28:40
  of the sixth period, that it will soon enter into the seventh period,
• 1:28:43
  the period of readjustment, reconstruction, and harmony, the period that is frequently
• 1:28:47
  referred to as the millennium. Numbers are symbols only. They indicate the quantity
• 1:28:54
  and quality of energy, and their symbols applied to everything in the universe takes
• 1:29:00
  seven periods to perfect the physical manifestation of any created thing, even an idea.
• 1:29:05
  Madame Blovatsky in her Secret Doctrine and other occultists in other works tell us
• 1:29:11
  that there are seven great cycles in the development of mankind upon the Earth,
• 1:29:15
  each of which produces a great race, and each great race, in turn
• 1:29:18
  is subdivided into seven sub races among the various nations. These seven creative forces
• 1:29:26
  of the cosmos have been identified with the rulers of the seven sacred planets,
• 1:29:30
  the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn.
• 1:29:34
  The moon changes its appearance every seven days. It is a well known
• 1:29:40
  fact that the phases of the moon not only rule the tides and vegetation,
• 1:29:44
  but in the higher forms of life, regulate the periodic functions of generations.
• 1:29:47
  In general, the number seven stands for the recognition of the oneness of the
• 1:29:53
  physical, mental, and spiritual being. It penetrates to the uttermost depths to
• 1:29:59
  reveal the mysteries life. Seven is the key number to Nature's law of cause
• 1:30:03
  and effect. In many ways, there is an actual, tangible, demonstrable
• 1:30:09
  relationship between numbers, letters, and ideas and all are acted upon and act
• 1:30:15
  upon the vibrations thus induced. These vibrations are both mental and physical. Nature
• 1:30:21
  makes no mistakes her Every manifestation presents some divine idea, and unwittingly our actions
• 1:30:28
  are made to conform to her laws. This eliminates the element of chance,
• 1:30:32
  and all that we are and do is the result of the action of the
• 1:30:35
  definite, unchanging laws and their reaction to our lives. All is in accordance
• 1:30:41
  with the one fundamental principle of life, which is motion or vibration, and
• 1:30:45
  which is forever seeking equilibrium. The universe, forcibly remarks the French philosopher Pascal,
• 1:30:51
  is a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. As
• 1:30:57
  matter is endless in time or eternal, so it is no less without beginning
• 1:31:01
  or end in space. In its real existence, it withdraws from the limitations
• 1:31:05
  imposed on our finite mind by the conceptions of time and space, conceptions from
• 1:31:10
  which it cannot free itself. In thought, whether we inquire about or investigate
• 1:31:15
  the extension of matter in the minutest of the greatest, we nowhere find an
• 1:31:18
  end or a final form. Whether we call to our aid experiment or reflection,
• 1:31:25
  when the discovery of the microscope or the juxtaposition of magnifying glasses opened up
• 1:31:30
  worlds unknown before and revealed to the gaze of the investigator a fineness and minuteness
• 1:31:34
  of organic life and organic form. Elements undreamed of until then man cherished the
• 1:31:39
  audacious hope of coming on the track of the final organic element, perhaps on
• 1:31:43
  the very basis of existence. This hope disappeared, in proportion to the improvement
• 1:31:48
  of our instruments. In the hundredth part of a drop of water was found
• 1:31:53
  a world of organic life, which, by their movements left no doubt that
• 1:31:57
  they were not without the two chief marks of animals life, sensation and will.
• 1:32:01
  The smallest of these under the highest magnifying power are barely recognizable as to
• 1:32:06
  their outlines. Their internal organization remains wholly unknown to us. It is also
• 1:32:13
  unknown to us what yet smaller forms of living things can or may exist.
• 1:32:17
  Shall we ask Scata, with yet improved instruments, see the monads as giants
• 1:32:23
  in a dwarf world of still smaller organisms. As the microscope guides us in
• 1:32:28
  the world of the minute, so does the telescope direct us in the world
• 1:32:30
  of the vast here. Also, astronomers audaciously dreamed of penetrating to the very
• 1:32:35
  limits of the universe. But the more they perfected their instruments, the more
• 1:32:40
  immeasurably did the worlds expand before their astonished gaze. The light white mists seen
• 1:32:45
  by the naked eye in the vault of Heaven were resolved by the telescope into
• 1:32:49
  myriads of stars, of worlds, of suns, of planetary systems, and
• 1:32:55
  the Earth, with its inhabitants so fondly and proudly deemed the very crown and
• 1:32:59
  center of existence, fell from its fancied exaltation to a mere atom moving in
• 1:33:03
  immeasurable space. All our experiments yield us not the slightest trace of a limit.
• 1:33:09
  Each increased power of the telescope only opens to our gaze new realms of
• 1:33:13
  stars and nebulae, which, if not consisting of galaxies of stars, are
• 1:33:17
  self illuminating matter. Charles F. Honnell, The New Psychology, Chapter two,
• 1:33:25
  The Law of Abundance. Thoughts are things. I hold it true that
• 1:33:30
  thoughts are things. They're endowed with bodies and breath and wings, and that
• 1:33:33
  we send them forth to fill the world with good results or ill, That
• 1:33:39
  which we call our secret thought speeds forth to Earth's remotest spot, leaving its
• 1:33:44
  blessings or its woes like tracks behind it as it goes. We build our
• 1:33:48
  future thought by thought, for good or ill, yet know it not yet,
• 1:33:54
  So the universe was wrought. Thought is another name for fate. Choose
• 1:33:58
  then your destiny weight for love brings love, and hate brings hate. Henry
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  van Dyck. Abundance is a natural law of the universe. The evidence of
• 1:34:10
  this law is conclusive. We see it on every hand. Everywhere Nature is
• 1:34:15
  lavish, wasteful, and extravagant. Nowhere is economy observed in any created thing.
• 1:34:23
  The millions and millions of trees and flowers and plants and animals, and
• 1:34:26
  a vast scheme of reproduction where the process of creating and recreating is forever going
• 1:34:30
  on, all indicate the lavishness with which nature has made provision for man.
• 1:34:35
  That there is an abundance for everyone is evident, but that many seem to
• 1:34:40
  have been separated from this supply is also evident. They have not yet come
• 1:34:44
  into realization of the universality of all substance. And that mind is the active
• 1:34:47
  principle which starts causes in motion, whereby we are related to the things we
• 1:34:51
  desire. To control circumstances, knowledge of certain scientific principles of mind action is
• 1:34:59
  required. Such knowledge is a most valuable asset. It may be gained by
• 1:35:04
  degrees and put into practice as fast as learned. Power over circumstances is one
• 1:35:11
  of its fruits. Health, harmony, and prosperity are assets upon its balance
• 1:35:15
  sheet. It costs only the labor of harvesting its great resources. All wealth
• 1:35:21
  is the offspring of power. Possessions are of value only as they confer power.
• 1:35:27
  Events are significant only as they affect power. All things represent certain forms
• 1:35:31
  and degrees of power. The discovery of a reign of law by which this
• 1:35:36
  power could be made available for all human efforts marked an important epoch in human
• 1:35:41
  progress. It is the dividing line between superstition and intelligence. It eliminated the
• 1:35:46
  element of caprice in men's lives and substituted absolute, immutable, universal law.
• 1:35:53
  Knowledge of cause and effect, as shown by the laws governing steam, electricity,
• 1:35:58
  chemical affinity, and gravitation, enables man to plan courageously and to execute
• 1:36:02
  fearlessly. These laws are called natural laws because they govern the physical world.
• 1:36:10
  But not all power is physical power. There is also mental power, and
• 1:36:14
  there is moral and spiritual power. Thought is the vital force or energy that
• 1:36:18
  is being developed and that has produced such startling results in the last half century
• 1:36:24
  as to bring about a world which would be absolutely inconceivable to a man who
• 1:36:28
  existed only fifty or even twenty five years ago. If such results have been
• 1:36:32
  secured by organizing these mental power houses in fifty years, what may not be
• 1:36:38
  expected in another fifty years? Some will say, if these principles are true,
• 1:36:43
  why are we not demonstrating them? As the fundamental principle is obviously correct,
• 1:36:47
  why do we not get proper results? We do. We get results
• 1:36:53
  in exact accordance with our understanding of the law and our ability to make the
• 1:36:57
  proper application, not secure results from the laws governing electricity until someone formulated the
• 1:37:03
  law and showed us how to apply it. Mental action inaugurates a series of
• 1:37:09
  vibrations in the ether, which is the substance from which all things proceed,
• 1:37:13
  which in their turn induce a corresponding grosser vibration in the molecular substance, until
• 1:37:17
  finally mechanical action is produced. This puts us in an entirely new relation to
• 1:37:24
  our environment, opening possibilities hitherto undreamt, and this by an orderly sequence of
• 1:37:29
  law which is naturally involved in our new mental attitude. It is clear,
• 1:37:33
  therefore, that thoughts of abundance will respond only to similar thoughts. The wealth
• 1:37:39
  of the individual is seen to be what he inherently is. Affluence within is
• 1:37:43
  found to be the secret of attraction, for affluence without the ability to produce,
• 1:37:48
  is found to be the real source of wealth of the individual. It
• 1:37:53
  is for this reason that he who has his heart in his work is certain
• 1:37:56
  to meet with unbounded success. He will give and continually give, and the
• 1:38:00
  more he gives, the more he will receive. Thought is the energy by
• 1:38:04
  which the law of attraction is brought into operation, which eventually manifests in abundance
• 1:38:10
  in the lives of men. The source of all power, as of all
• 1:38:15
  weakness, is from within. The secret of all success, as well as
• 1:38:17
  all failure, is likewise from within. All growth is an unfoldment from within.
• 1:38:25
  This is evident from all nature, Every plant, every animal, every
• 1:38:29
  human is a living testimony of this law. And the error of the ages
• 1:38:31
  is in looking for strength or power from without a thorough understanding of this great
• 1:38:38
  law which permeates the universe, leads to the acquirement of that state of mind
• 1:38:42
  which develops and unfolds a creative thought, which will produce magical changes in life.
• 1:38:46
  Golden opportunities will be strewn across your path, and the power and perception
• 1:38:51
  to properly utilize them will spring up within you. Friends will come unbidden,
• 1:38:57
  circumstances will adjust themselves to changed conditions, and you will have found the pearl
• 1:39:00
  of greatest price. Wisdom, strength, courage, and all harmonious conditions are
• 1:39:06
  the result of power, and we have seen that all power is from within.
• 1:39:11
  Likewise, every lack limitation or adverse circumstance is the result of weakness,
• 1:39:15
  and weakness is simply absence of power. It comes from nowhere, It is
• 1:39:20
  nothing. The remedy, then, is simply to develop power. This is
• 1:39:27
  the key with which many are converting loss into gain, fear into courage,
• 1:39:30
  despair into joy, and hope into fruition. This may seem to be too
• 1:39:35
  good to be true, but remember that within a few years, by the
• 1:39:40
  touch of a button or the turn of a lever, science has placed almost
• 1:39:43
  infinite resources at the disposal of man. Is it not possible that there are
• 1:39:47
  other laws containing still greater possibilities. Let us see what the most powerful laws
• 1:39:54
  in nature are. In the mineral world, everything is solid and fixed.
• 1:40:00
  In the animal and vegetable kingdom, it is in a state of flux,
• 1:40:02
  forever changing, always being created and recreated. In the atmosphere, we find
• 1:40:09
  heat, light, and energy. Each realm becomes finer and more spiritual as
• 1:40:14
  we pass from the visible to the invisible, from the course to the fine,
• 1:40:17
  from the low potentiality to the high potentiality. When we reach the invisible,
• 1:40:23
  we find energy in its purest and most volatile state. And as the
• 1:40:28
  most powerful forces of nature are the invisible forces, so we find that the
• 1:40:31
  most powerful forces of man are his invisible forces, his spiritual force. And
• 1:40:36
  the only way in which the spiritual forces can manifest is through the process of
• 1:40:41
  thinking. Thinking is the only activity that the spirit possesses, and thought is
• 1:40:46
  the only product of thinking. Addition and subtraction are therefore spiritual transactions. Reasoning
• 1:40:54
  is a spiritual process. Ideas are spiritual conceptions, Questions are spiritual searchlights and
• 1:41:00
  logic, Argument and philosophy are parts of the spiritual machinery. Every thought brings
• 1:41:05
  into action certain physical tissue parts of the brain, nerve, or muscle.
• 1:41:12
  This produces an actual physical change in the construction of the tissue. Therefore,
• 1:41:16
  it is only necessary to have a certain number of thoughts on a given subject
• 1:41:20
  in order to bring about a complete change in the physical organization of a man.
• 1:41:26
  This is the process by which failure is changed to success. Thoughts of
• 1:41:30
  courage, power, inspiration, and harmony are substituted for thoughts of failure,
• 1:41:35
  despair, lack, limitation, and discord. And as these thoughts, the
• 1:41:40
  physical tissue is changed and the individual sees life in a new light. Old
• 1:41:45
  things have actually passed away. All things have become new. He is born
• 1:41:49
  again, this time born of the spirit. Life has a new meaning for
• 1:41:54
  him. He is reconstructed and is filled with joy, confidence, hope,
• 1:41:59
  and end energy. He sees opportunities for success to which he was heretofore blind.
• 1:42:04
  He recognizes possibilities which before had no meaning for him. The thoughts of
• 1:42:11
  success with which he has been impregnated are radiated to those around him, and
• 1:42:15
  they in turn help him onward and upward. He attracts to him new and
• 1:42:17
  successful associates, and this in turn changes his environment, so that by this
• 1:42:23
  simple exercise of thought, a man changes not only himself but his environment,
• 1:42:28
  circumstances and conditions. You will see, You must see that we are at
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  the dawn of a new day, that the possibilities are so wonderful, so
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  fascinating, and so limitless as to be almost bewildering. A century ago,
• 1:42:43
  any man with an airplane or even a gatling gun could have annihilated a whole
• 1:42:46
  army equipped with the implements of warfare then in use. So it is at
• 1:42:51
  present. Any man with knowledge of the possibilities of modern metaphysics has an inconceivable
• 1:42:58
  advantage over the multitude. Mind is creative and operates through the law of attraction.
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  We are not to try to influence anyone to do what we think he
• 1:43:06
  should do. Each individual has a right to choose for himself. But aside
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  from this we would be operating under the law of force, which is destructive
• 1:43:15
  in its nature and just the opposite of the law of attraction. A little
• 1:43:19
  reflection will convince you that all the great laws of nature operate in silence,
• 1:43:25
  and that the underlying principle is the law of attraction. It is only destructive
• 1:43:30
  processes such as earthquakes and catastrophes, that employ force. Nothing good is ever
• 1:43:34
  accomplished in that way. To be successful, attention must invariably be directed to
• 1:43:41
  the creative plane. It must never be competitive. You do not wish to
• 1:43:45
  take anything away from any one else. You want to create something for yourself,
• 1:43:49
  and what you want for yourself you are perfectly willing that every one else
• 1:43:53
  should have. You know that it is not necessary to take from one to
• 1:43:57
  give to another, but that the supply for all is abundant. Nature's storehouse
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  of wealth is inexhaustible, and if there seems to be a lack of supply
• 1:44:05
  anywhere, it is only because the channels of distribution are as yet imperfect.
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  Abundance depends upon recognition of the law of abundance. Mind is not only the
• 1:44:16
  creator, but the only creator of all there is. Certainly nothing can be
• 1:44:20
  created before we know that it can be created, and then make the proper
• 1:44:25
  effort. There is no more electricity in the world today than there was fifty
• 1:44:30
  years ago. But until someone recognized that law by which it could be made
• 1:44:32
  of service, we received no benefit. Now that the law is understood practically,
• 1:44:39
  the whole world is illuminated by it. So with the law of abundance.
• 1:44:44
  It is only those who recognize the law and place themselves in harmony with
• 1:44:47
  it who shares in its benefit. Recognition of the law of abundance developed certain
• 1:44:53
  mental and moral qualities, among which are courage, loyalty, tact sagacity,
• 1:44:59
  individuality, and constructiveness. These are all modes of thought, and as all
• 1:45:03
  thought is creative, they manifest in objective conditions corresponding with the mental condition.
• 1:45:10
  This is necessarily true because the ability of the individual to think is his ability
• 1:45:15
  to act upon the universal mind and bring it into manifestation. It is the
• 1:45:19
  process whereby the individual becomes a channel for the differentiation of the universal Every thought
• 1:45:26
  is a cause and every condition an effect. This principle endows the individual with
• 1:45:31
  seemingly transcendental possibilities, among which is the mastery of conditions through the creation and
• 1:45:38
  recognition of opportunities. This creation of opportunity implies the existence or creation of the
• 1:45:44
  necessary qualities or talents that are thought forces and that result in a consciousness of
• 1:45:47
  power that future events cannot disturb. It is this organization of victory or success
• 1:45:54
  within the mind. This consciousness of power within which constitutes the responsive, harmonious
• 1:45:59
  action, whereby we are related to the objects and purposes we seek. This
• 1:46:02
  is the law of attraction. This law, being the common property of all,
• 1:46:08
  can be exercised by anyone having sufficient knowledge of its operation. Courage is
• 1:46:14
  the power of the mind, which manifests in the love of mental conflict.
• 1:46:18
  It is a noble and lofty sentiment. It is equally fitted to command or
• 1:46:23
  obey. Both require courage. It often has a tendency to conceal itself.
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  There are men and women too, who apparently exist only to do what is
• 1:46:32
  pleasing to others. But when the time comes and the latent will is revealed,
• 1:46:36
  we find under the velvet glove and iron hand, and no mistake about
• 1:46:41
  it. True courage is cool, calm, and collected, and is never
• 1:46:45
  foolhardy, quarrelsome ill natured or contentious. Accumulation is the power to reserve and
• 1:46:53
  preserve a part of the supply that we are constantly receiving, so as to
• 1:46:56
  be in a position to take advantage of the larger opportunities than will come as
• 1:47:00
  soon as we are ready for them. Has it not been said to him
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  that hath shall be given. All successful business men have this quality well devil
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  op ed James J. Hill, who died leaving an estate of over fifty
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  two million dollars, said, if you want to know whether you are destined
• 1:47:16
  to be a success or failure in life, you can easily find out.
• 1:47:21
  The test is simple and it is in fally blee. Are you able to
• 1:47:25
  save money? If not, drop out you will lose. You may think
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  not, but you will lose as sure as you live. The seed of
• 1:47:35
  success is not in you. This is very good so far as it goes.
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  But any one who knows the biogra p h y of James J.
• 1:47:44
  Hill knows that he acquired his fifty two million dollars by following the exact methods
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  we have given. In the first place, he started with nothing. He
• 1:47:54
  had to use his imagination to idealize the vast railroad that he projected across the
• 1:47:58
  western prairies. He then had to come into recognition of the law of abundance
• 1:48:02
  in order to provide the ways and means for materializing it. Unless he had
• 1:48:08
  followed out this program, he would never have anything to save. Accumulativeness acquires
• 1:48:14
  momentum the more you accumulate the more you desire. The more you desire,
• 1:48:18
  the more you accumulate, so that it is but a short time until the
• 1:48:21
  action and reaction acquire a momentum that cannot be stopped. It must, however,
• 1:48:28
  never be confounded with selfishness, miserliness, or penuriousness. They are perversions
• 1:48:33
  and will make any true progress impossible. Constructiveness is the creative instinct of the
• 1:48:40
  mind. It will be readily seen that every successful business man must be able
• 1:48:45
  to plan, develop, or construct. In the business world, it is
• 1:48:49
  usually referred to as initiative. It is not enough to go along in the
• 1:48:54
  beaten path. New ideas must be developed, new ways of doing things.
• 1:49:00
  It manifests in building, designing, planning, inventing, discovering, and improving.
• 1:49:06
  It is a most valuable quality and must be constantly encouraged and developed.
• 1:49:12
  Every individual possesses it in some degree because he is a center of consciousness in
• 1:49:16
  that infinite and eternal energy from which all things proceed. Water manifests on three
• 1:49:21
  planes, as ice, as water, and as steam. It is all
• 1:49:27
  the same compound. The only difference is the temperature. But no one would
• 1:49:31
  try to drive an engine with ice converted into steam. And it easily takes
• 1:49:35
  up the load. So with your energy. If you want it to act
• 1:49:40
  on the creative plane, you will have to begin by melting the ice with
• 1:49:43
  the fire of imagination, and you will find the stronger the fire, the
• 1:49:46
  more ice you melt, the more powerful your thought will become, and the
• 1:49:49
  easier it will be for you to materialize your desire. Sagacity is the ability
• 1:49:55
  to perceive and cooperate with natural law. True sagacity avoids trickery and dea seat
• 1:50:00
  as it would leprosy. It is the product of that deep insight that enables
• 1:50:03
  one to penetrate into the heart of things and understand how to set causes into
• 1:50:08
  motion that will innovate tably create successful conditions. Tact is a very subtle and
• 1:50:14
  at the same time a very important factor in business success. It is very
• 1:50:18
  similar to intuition. To possess tact, one must have a fine feeling and
• 1:50:24
  must instinctively know what to say or what to do. In order to be
• 1:50:28
  tactful, one must possess sympathy in understanding the understanding that is so rare for
• 1:50:33
  all men see and hear and feel, but how desperately few understand tact enables
• 1:50:40
  one to foresee what is about to happen and calculate the result of actions.
• 1:50:44
  Tact enables us to feel when we are in the presence of physical, mental,
• 1:50:47
  and moral cleanliness, for these are today invariably demanded as the price of
• 1:50:53
  success. Loyalty is one of the strongest links that bond men of strength and
• 1:50:58
  character. It is one that can never be broken with impunity. The man
• 1:51:02
  who would lose his right hand rather than betray a friend will never lack friends.
• 1:51:08
  The man who will stand in silent guard until death, if need be
• 1:51:12
  beside the shrine of confidence or friendship of those who allowed him to enter,
• 1:51:15
  will find himself linked with a current of cosmic power that will attract desirable conditions
• 1:51:19
  only it is inconceivable that such a person should ever meet with lack of any
• 1:51:25
  kind. Individuality is the power to unfold our own latent possibilities, to be
• 1:51:30
  a law unto ourselves, to be interested in the race rather than the goal.
• 1:51:34
  Strong men care nothing for the flock of imitators who trot complacently behind them.
• 1:51:41
  They derive no satisfaction in the mere leading of large numbers or the plaudits
• 1:51:45
  of the mob. This pleases only petty natures and inferior minds. Individuality glories
• 1:51:51
  more in the unfolding of the power within than in the servility of the weakling.
• 1:51:57
  Individuality is a real power inherent in all, and the development in consequent
• 1:52:00
  expression of this power enables one to assume the responsibility of directing his own footsteps,
• 1:52:06
  rather than stampeding after some self assertive bell weather Inspiration is the art of
• 1:52:12
  imbibing, the art of self realization, the art of adjusting the individual mind
• 1:52:16
  to that of the universal mind, The art of attaching the proper mechanism to
• 1:52:20
  the source of all power, the art of differentiating the formless into form,
• 1:52:25
  the art of becoming a channel for the flow of infinite wisdom, the art
• 1:52:29
  of visualizing perfection, the art of realizing the on the presence of omnipotence.
• 1:52:33
  Truth is the imperative condition of all well being. To be sure to know
• 1:52:39
  the truth and to stand confidently on it is a satisfaction beside which no other
• 1:52:44
  is comparable. Truth is the underlying verity, the condition precedent to every successful
• 1:52:49
  business or social relation. Every act not in harmony with truth, whether through
• 1:52:56
  ignorance or design, cuts the ground from under our feet leads to dis inevitable
• 1:53:00
  loss and confusion. For while the humblest mind can accurately foretell the result of
• 1:53:04
  every correct action, the greatest and most profound and penetrating mind loses its way
• 1:53:10
  hopelessly and can form no conception of the result due to a departure from correct
• 1:53:14
  principles. Those who establish within themselves the requisite elements of true success have established
• 1:53:20
  confidence organized victory, and it only remains for them to take such steps from
• 1:53:25
  time to time as the newly awakened thought force will direct. And herein rests
• 1:53:29
  the magical secret of all power. Less than ten percent of our mental processes
• 1:53:33
  are conscious. The other ninety percent are subconscious and unconscious, so that he
• 1:53:39
  who would depend on his Khan siahs thought alone for results is less than ten
• 1:53:43
  percent efficient. Those who are accomplishing anything worth while are those who are enabled
• 1:53:48
  to take advantage of this greater storehouse of mental wealth. It is in the
• 1:53:53
  vast domain of the subconscious mind that great truths are hidden, and it is
• 1:53:57
  here that thought finds its creative power, its powers to correlate with its object
• 1:54:00
  to bring out of the unseen the scene. Those familiar with the laws of
• 1:54:05
  electricity, understand the principle that electricity must always pass from a higher to a
• 1:54:10
  lower potentiality, and can therefore make whatever application of the power they desire.
• 1:54:15
  Those not familiar with this law can affect nothing, and so with the law
• 1:54:19
  governing in the mental world. Those who understand that mind penetrates all things,
• 1:54:25
  is on the present, and is responsive to every demand, can make use
• 1:54:29
  of the law and can control conditions, circumstances, and environment. The uninformed
• 1:54:33
  cannot use it because they do not know it. The fruit of this knowledge
• 1:54:38
  is, as it were, a gift of the gods. It is the
• 1:54:42
  truth that makes men free, not only free from every lack and limitation,
• 1:54:47
  but free from sorrow, worry, and care. Is it not wonderful to
• 1:54:51
  realize that this law is no respector of persons, that it makes no difference
• 1:54:57
  what your habit of thought may be, and that the way has been prepared.
• 1:55:00
  With the realization that this mental power controls and directs every other power that
• 1:55:04
  exists, that it can be cultivated and developed, and that no limitation can
• 1:55:09
  be placed upon its activity, it will become apparent that it is the greatest
• 1:55:13
  fact in the world, the remedy for every ill the solution for every difficulty,
• 1:55:17
  the gratification for every desire. In fact, that it is the creator's
• 1:55:23
  magnificent provy shound for the emancipation of mankind. Charles Honnell, The New Psychology,
• 1:55:30
  Chapter seven, The Creative Process. There is nothing truer than that the
• 1:55:34
  quality of thought which we entertain correlates certain externals in the outside world. This
• 1:55:41
  is the law from which there is no escape. And it is this law,
• 1:55:45
  this correlative of the thought with its object, that from time immemorial,
• 1:55:48
  has led the people to believe in special providence. Williams. F. The
• 1:55:55
  chemist produces nothing of value, nothing which can be converted into cash. We
• 1:56:00
  are not interested. But fortunately the chemist in this case produces an article that
• 1:56:05
  has the highest cache value of any article known to man. He provides the
• 1:56:11
  one thing which all the world demands, something which can be realized upon anywhere,
• 1:56:15
  at any time. It is not a slow asset. On the contrary,
• 1:56:20
  its value is recognized in every market. The product is thought. Thought
• 1:56:26
  rules the world. Thought rules every government, every bank, every industry,
• 1:56:30
  every person, in every thing in existence, and is differentiated from everything else
• 1:56:35
  simply and only because of thought. Every person is what he is because of
• 1:56:41
  his method of thinking, and men and nations differ from each other only because
• 1:56:45
  they think differently. What then, is thought? Thought is the product of
• 1:56:49
  the chemical laboratory possessed by every thinking individual. It is the blossom, the
• 1:56:55
  combined intelligence that is the result of all previous thinking processes. It is the
• 1:57:00
  fruit and contains the best of all that the individual has to give. There
• 1:57:04
  is nothing material about a thought, and yet no man would give up his
• 1:57:09
  ability to think for all the gold and Christendom. It is therefore of more
• 1:57:13
  value than anything which exists. As it is not material, it must be
• 1:57:17
  spiritual. Here, then, is an explanation of the wonderful value of thought.
• 1:57:24
  Thought is a spiritual activity. In fact, it is the only activity
• 1:57:29
  which the spirit possesses. Spirit is the creative principle of the universe, as
• 1:57:34
  a part must be the same in kind and quality as the whole, and
• 1:57:39
  can differ only in degree. Thought must be creative. Also, the ancients
• 1:57:43
  felt that every piece of sculpture was the embodiment of an idea or sentiment,
• 1:57:47
  and was produced on the principle that there is a perfect correspondence between mental states
• 1:57:51
  and physical expression. We of the present day recognize that there is a direct
• 1:57:57
  correspondence between mental states and the condition of the human body, and that knowledge
• 1:58:00
  has been so formulated that we now know that every condition is an effect,
• 1:58:04
  and this effect is a result of a cause that had its origin in an
• 1:58:09
  idea. Modern science is now directing attention to the fact that ideas are also
• 1:58:14
  responsible for every form of wealth and its distribution. The science of economics is
• 1:58:18
  therefore seen to be the science that treats of the laws governing ideas and their
• 1:58:23
  expression on a material plane. It takes the sun about two thousand years to
• 1:58:28
  pass from one sign of the zodiac to another. In Oriental literature, these
• 1:58:33
  are called sub race periods, for it is during such a period that a
• 1:58:36
  nation is born, matures, grows old, and dies. Most of the
• 1:58:42
  European nations are now ending their two thousand year cycle, and the necessary readjustments
• 1:58:46
  are taking place. It remains then for us, a new nation in a
• 1:58:51
  new world, to assist in the readjustment. In this readjustment, it might
• 1:58:56
  be well to remember that intelligence rules that constructive thought, intelligently directed automatically causes
• 1:59:01
  its object to materialize on the objective plane, that cause and effect are supreme
• 1:59:06
  in a universe governed by immutable law. That it is the mind alone which
• 1:59:11
  can furnish the knowledge with which to ameliorate the conditions of life. It is
• 1:59:15
  the mind that builds every house, writes every book, paints every picture.
• 1:59:20
  It is the mind that suffers and enjoys. It follows then, that a
• 1:59:24
  knowledge of the functions of the mind ranks first in importance to the human race.
• 1:59:29
  Senator Wadsworth recently said, I pray that the time will come when American
• 1:59:33
  public opinion will come to an appreciation of what organic chemistry means in the way
• 1:59:38
  of progress. We have been interested as a people in the development of material
• 1:59:44
  resources, the digging of iron and coal from the ground, the raising of
• 1:59:47
  crops upon the surface, and the engaging in transportation and other forms of commercial
• 1:59:53
  effort. As a people, we have paid little attention and given little encouragement
• 1:59:58
  to scientific research. But mister President and Senators, the progress of the future
• 2:00:02
  depends upon scientific research. It is the man working in a chemical laboratory who
• 2:00:08
  is to blaze the way for human progress. He went on to say,
• 2:00:13
  I believe that in organic chemistry lies the solution of the secrets of the past
• 2:00:16
  and of the future. I believe that its establishment and maintenance in this country,
• 2:00:21
  even under an embargo, means the happiness, the progress, and the
• 2:00:26
  security of one hundred million people. Senator Freelingheisen added, when we realized that
• 2:00:31
  it was due to the genius of the German chemists and the advance in the
• 2:00:35
  science by the German industries that enabled Germany to get almost to the channel ports.
• 2:00:40
  When we realize that the next war will be fought with chemicals, I
• 2:00:44
  think it is our patriotic duty to give this industry the highest protection that can
• 2:00:47
  be imposed. It is true that many of the more important discoveries in science
• 2:00:53
  are due to the genius of German chemists. It is also true that the
• 2:00:58
  next war, if there be one, will be fought with chemicals. But
• 2:01:01
  the next and all future wars will be won by an understanding of mental chemistry.
• 2:01:06
  Try to realize the situation. Think for a moment, See an army
• 2:01:13
  of men pass in review for abreast all men in the prime of life.
• 2:01:17
  See them march on and on. Men from Germany, men from France,
• 2:01:23
  from England, from Belgium, from Austria, from Russia, from Poland,
• 2:01:27
  from Romania, from Bulgaria, from Serbia, from Turkey, Yes, And
• 2:01:31
  from China and Japan, India, New Zealand, Australia, Egypt, and
• 2:01:36
  America. On they go marching all day long, all the next day,
• 2:01:41
  and the day after all the week they keep coming the next week, and
• 2:01:45
  the next week and the next month. For it would take months for this
• 2:01:47
  army of ten million men to pass any given point, all dead and dead.
• 2:01:53
  Only because a few men in high places were more concerned about organic chemistry
• 2:01:57
  than they were about mental chemistry. We did not know that force can always
• 2:02:00
  be met with equal or superior force. They did not know that a higher
• 2:02:05
  law always controls a lower law. And because intelligent men and women allowed a
• 2:02:10
  few men in high places to control their thinking processes, the entire world must
• 2:02:15
  sit in sackcloth and ashes. For the living will find it necessary to work
• 2:02:18
  the rest of their lives in order to even pay the interest on the obligations
• 2:02:23
  assumed, and their children will find these obligations and inheritance, and they in
• 2:02:27
  turn will pass them on to their children and their childrens children. A celebrated
• 2:02:32
  European statesman visions the present situation as follows. Unfortunately, the ills of a
• 2:02:39
  war like that of nineteen fourteen to nineteen eighteen are repaired, but with difficulty,
• 2:02:44
  given even the entire good faith of the conquered. If the latter,
• 2:02:47
  by conscientious labor, genuinely desired to help the world out of its sanguinary nightmare
• 2:02:51
  and back to normal life, that world would nonetheless remain for a long time,
• 2:02:56
  hopelessly adrift and at sea. We are at today, at the prolongation
• 2:03:00
  of a war which is not even likely to approach a conclusion unless there is
• 2:03:04
  a new orientation of a peace time, energy finances upside down, budgets artificially
• 2:03:11
  met rates of exchange giving sixty five francs to the pound and fourteen to the
• 2:03:15
  dollar, a terribly distorted fiduciary circulation, an ever increasing cost of living strikes,
• 2:03:20
  rapid changes in the stock markets, making commerce and industry impossible. Accumulation
• 2:03:26
  of stocks such as the ransom of these four years of war, it was
• 2:03:30
  materially impossible that either for conqueror or conquered, aught else should result from this
• 2:03:34
  world catastrophe than complete chaos. For all millions of men are not consecrated for
• 2:03:41
  fifty two months to a work of death and destruction. For the world to
• 2:03:44
  be re established on the morrow of peace. Such rapidly re acquired equilibrium is
• 2:03:49
  beyond the bounds of human practicability. It will be remembered that the master metaphysician
• 2:03:55
  said the same thing in somewhat different language many years ago. Then shall be
• 2:04:00
  great tribulation such as never was since the beginning of the world, nor never
• 2:04:03
  shall be afterwards. And if that period would not be shortened, no flesh
• 2:04:08
  at all would be saved. But for the elect's sake, that period will
• 2:04:11
  be shortened Matthew twenty four, Verses twenty one and twenty two. That people
• 2:04:17
  are beginning to think is evident. Formerly, when men were discontented or dissatisfied,
• 2:04:24
  they met in a nearby saloon, had a few drinks, and promptly
• 2:04:27
  forgot their discontent and dissatisfaction. The situation is very different under existing conditions.
• 2:04:34
  Men spend their time, reading, studying, and thinking, and the more
• 2:04:38
  they think, the less satisfied They become leaders of men. All know this
• 2:04:44
  for this reason. England has her ale, Scotland her whiskey, France her
• 2:04:47
  absent, Germany her beer, and we of America, who are recruited from
• 2:04:53
  all of these, have had all forms of alcohol. It is by far
• 2:04:57
  the easiest way of keeping the people happy and content. A man who has
• 2:05:00
  access to a fair percentage of alcohol will not ask too many questions if he
• 2:05:06
  does give him another drink. This method of reducing the citizens of a country
• 2:05:12
  to a kind of idiotic servility has the additional advantage in that it produces enormous
• 2:05:16
  revenues that may be used for reducing them to economic slavery as well as spiritual
• 2:05:20
  slavery. For the man who cannot think has but small prospect of ever coming
• 2:05:26
  into any understanding of spiritual truth. The history of the world confirms this conclusion.
• 2:05:31
  Egypt, once at the head of nations, has under the weight of
• 2:05:35
  her own effeminacy, downed down to the dust. The victories of Greece levin
• 2:05:41
  upon her glory with a night of ages, and Rome, whose iron foot
• 2:05:45
  trod down the nations and shook the earth, witnessed in her latter day's faintness
• 2:05:49
  of heart, and the shield of the mighty Viley cast away. Ten years
• 2:05:54
  ago, the securities of German corporations sold side by side with those of England
• 2:05:59
  and America. No one dreamed that they were not absolutely safe. The municipal
• 2:06:04
  bonds of any large German city sold freely on a four per cent basis.
• 2:06:09
  In London, Paris and New York, the mark was as stable as the
• 2:06:13
  dollar or pound sterling. The interest is still being paid upon these securities,
• 2:06:18
  and the principle will be paid at maturity, but in money that is hardly
• 2:06:21
  worth the paper it is printed upon. And so the conservative German investor,
• 2:06:27
  the man who made only safe investments, who was careful to buy only first
• 2:06:30
  mortgage bonds that yielded not more than four or five percent, is practically penniless.
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  But as a compensation he can reflect that a liberal government allowed the people
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  to have plenty of beer. And when men have plenty of beer, they
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  will unlikely be glad to let someone else do the thinking for them, for
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  the use of beer is not calculated to produce deep, clear, sustained or
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  logical thought. Thousands and tens of thousands of American citizens are slowly in painedully,
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  creating a fund that they hope will protect them in the days to come.
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  Is it possible that they too will be paid in valueless dollars ten years
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  from now? The reason that the dollar will probably remain at par Is because
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  we do not desire the kind of personal liberty that enriches a few at the
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  expense of the many, the kind of liberty that attempts to reduce American citizens
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  to automatons in order that a few may dictate the destiny of the nation.
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  We of America must remember that the large business of life is not economically conducted
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  unless we succeed in transforming our resources into the highest grade of physical, mental,
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  and moral persons evolvable. Marion Leroy Burton, president of the University of
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  Michigan, says, perhaps the most solemn question that can be put to a
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  person today is can you think? The test of individual efficiency and usefulness to
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  society centers in a man's ability to use his mind. Emerson never erected a
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  more arresting danger signal when he exclaimed, beware, when the Great God lets
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  loose a thinker on the planet. If we could only harness the mental power
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  of America to day, we could solve the gigantic problems of the world.
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  Not by appeals to prejudice and class interest, not by the hurling of epithets,
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  not by the ready acceptance of half truths, not by superficial but by
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  careful painstaking, scientific, scholarly thought, combined with wise and timely action,
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  will civilization be rescued and human freedom made secure? Upon education depends the future
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  of democracy. Therefore, loyal citizen, every self respecting person must utilize his
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  opportunities to strengthen his grip on knowledge and to stimulate his mind. The truth
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  has always made men free, and truth is available only for him who thinks.
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  Roger W. Babson says, if statistics have taught us any one thing
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  during the past twenty years, it is that the spiritual factor is the greatest
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  factor in the growth of communities and nations. It is well enough to talk
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  about land, labor, and capital. They all have their uses and functions,
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  but of themselves they are helpless in bringing about prosperity. Land, labor
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  and capital existed long before there was even civilization. Many great nations, such
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  as Babylon, Persia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and even Spain have
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  possessed land, labor, and capital in abundance, but fell for want of
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  this far more important quality, the spiritual factor. I'm looking out of my
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  window at the highway where a man is at work with a pick. The
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  highway is the land, the man is the labor and the pick is the
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  capital. This is a perfect illustration of land, labor, and capital,
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  but it also illustrates that such a combination can be used either to destroy or
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  to construct. To break up the road or to repair the road. The
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  man can use the pick to make the ruts and holes deeper or to fill
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  them up. It all depends upon the purpose, the motive, and the
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  desire of man. Purpose, motive, and desire are spiritual factors and are
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  all important. Land, labor and capital, and even education are mere tools
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  that can be used either for good or for evil. Two men graduate from
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  the same law school and get the same degree. One uses his education to
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  uphold the law and the other uses his education to help man evade the law.
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  Two chemists graduate from the same technical school in the same class. One
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  uses his training to make foods pure and the other uses the same training to
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  adulterate foods. Thinking is a creative process and combination is the key. Nature
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  combines electrons, atoms, molecules, cells, and the final result is the
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  universe. In the field of human endeavour, all progression, development and achievement
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  is the result of following the lesson learned from nature, and man has risen
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  step by step from the primitive brute state to his presence and position of mastership.
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  By combining, uniting and relating thoughts, things, and forces in the
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  domain of science and invention, in the realm of art, literature, and
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  business, in every department of human activity, by combining the common the usual,
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  the known man has unveiled and discovered the uncommon the unusual. The unknown
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  man has progressed rapidly in spite of the fact that the method pursued in finding
• 2:11:26
  out new combinations was used unconsciously and unsystematically. In order to eliminate accident and
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  chance, there must be employed a scientific method applied consciously and systematically, exhaustively,
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  earnestly, honestly, continuously, resulting in greater success, more wonderful discoveries,
• 2:11:45
  more numerous and astounding inventions. Every time we breathe, we take into
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  our lungs not only air, but spirit or prana, the breath of life.
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  Every element in the material world is in every breath we take from these
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  elements. The cabbage takes what it wants to form cabbage from these same elements.
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  The apple tree forms and colors in apple, and the rose from these
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  elements produces colors and perfumes arose. Surely it was intended that man should know
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  as much as the cabbage, the apple, or the rose about handling these
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  elements. There is one universal substance out of which all things are formed.
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  In the difference between flesh, vegetable, stone, iron, and glass is
• 2:12:30
  the difference in the vibration or motion of these particles of substance as they are
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  brought together and act and react upon one another. Form is the expression of
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  spirit, mind, life, and energy. The human brain is the finest,
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  most vibrant vehicle on this plane of existence, and thus it has power
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  to control all things. When we think or concentrate along any particular line,
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  we start a train of causation. And if our thought is sufficiently concentrated and
• 2:12:58
  kept continuously in mind, what happens. There is only one thing that can
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  happen. Whatever the vision we have, the imagination we have. The image
• 2:13:09
  is accepted by the universal intelligence expressing through the cells of our physical body and
• 2:13:13
  environment, and these cells send out their calls into the great formless energy.
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  For the material that corresponds with the image and harmonizes in its vibration with it.
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  If the image is for success along any particular line, or fear of
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  a particular thing. We call the atoms from out of the formless energy which
• 2:13:31
  make for the success or the thing we fear, and thus we relate with
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  conditions according to the energy created through the instrumentality of the human mind. Thought
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  acts upon the body or environment subconsciously. The New York Times tells how the
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  same result is being accomplished by the government by the use of mechanical means.
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  The subject of the article is how skill is gained in sleep. Whise folk
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  will refrain from expressing either amusement or incredulity when they read about the discovery at
• 2:14:00
  the government station near Pensacola that students in the radio school conducted there are gaining
• 2:14:03
  speed otherwise unattainable in the receiving of code radio from rapidly transmitted messages heard by
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  them through instruments strapped to their ears when they go to bed. Why the
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  expectation of getting the message does not keep them awake is a little mysterious.
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  But go to sleep they do. Before taking these strange lessons and discoveries made
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  in the last twenty years in the domain of the unconscious or subconscious are sufficient
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  to account for the possibility if teaching in this way. After all, whether
• 2:14:31
  it can be done or not is a matter of fact to be determined by
• 2:14:35
  experience. According to the officials at the station, the thing has been done
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  and now has become a routine procedure. The subconscious part of the brain possesses
• 2:14:46
  many remarkable abilities, some of which long have been known, though unrecognized for
• 2:14:50
  what they are, while others are coming to light almost daily as the investigations
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  of the psychologists go on. Not a few familiar activities are performed, and
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  really well, only after we have ceased to do them by conscious effort.
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  The skilled typist leaves the finding of the keys entirely as it seems to her
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  fingers, and the piano player does the same thing. The driver of a
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  motor car, who has to think what to do when an emergency arises,
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  is a dangerous person to ride with. To be safe, he must do
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  the right thing automatically, it used to be said, but now his efficiency
• 2:15:22
  is ascribed to the training which is subconscious has received. As the subconscious never
• 2:15:28
  sleeps and never forgets, the teaching it receives has lasting effects, and there
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  is no reason why such teaching should not be direct and intentional rather than indirect
• 2:15:37
  and unintentional, or at least unrealized, as it has been in the past.
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  If radio operators can attain by practice in receiving code messages while asleep,
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  a skill that is beyond their reach, when all their practicing is done while
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  awake, it seems more than probably that instruction for other purposes can be given
• 2:15:54
  in the same way. Thence the humorist presumably will imagine this describe schools and
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  colleges where both teachers and pupils do all their mental labor after they have gone
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  to bed and put the lights out. The fact, however, that a
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  theory can be reduced to an absurdity by pushing it to its logical extremity,
• 2:16:13
  does not prove the theory unsound when its application is kept within reasonable bounds.
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  Anybody who, under expert guidance, makes a list of the number of tasks
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  he daily entrusts with entire confidence to his subconscious powers will be surprised at their
• 2:16:26
  number. They begin with the beating of the heart and the drawing of the
• 2:16:31
  breath, and they go on to decide as to which hands shall be extended
• 2:16:33
  for shaking when we meet a friend, and into which pocket we shall reach
• 2:16:37
  to get a knife or a pencil. The difference between ability and inability to
• 2:16:41
  swim is a mystery to the conscious mind, for no swimmer can tell what
• 2:16:46
  he does after he learns that is different from what he did before that art
• 2:16:50
  was gained. But the subconscious knows and makes an easy job of what a
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  little before was an impossibility. Charles Hannell, The New Psychology, Chapter eight,
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  Vibration. We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those
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  who think through others. The latter are the rule, and the former the
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  exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egoists in
• 2:17:16
  the noble meaning of the word. It is from them only that the world
• 2:17:20
  learns wisdom, for only the light which we have kindled in ourselves can illuminate
• 2:17:24
  others Schopenhauer. Before any environment, harmonious or otherwise, can be created,
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  action of some kind is necessary, and before any action is possible, there
• 2:17:37
  must be thought of some kind, either conscious or unconscious. And as thought
• 2:17:41
  is a product of mind, it becomes evident that mind is the creative center
• 2:17:46
  from which all activities proceed. It is not expected that any of the inherent
• 2:17:50
  laws that govern the modern business world as it is at present constituted, can
• 2:17:54
  be suspended or repealed by any force on the same plane. But it is
• 2:17:58
  axiomatic that a higher law may overcome a lower one. Tree life causes the
• 2:18:03
  sap to ascend not by repealing the law of gravity, but by surmounting it.
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  The naturalist, who spends much of his time in observing visible phenomena,
• 2:18:11
  is constantly creating power in that portion of his brain set apart for observation.
• 2:18:18
  The result is that he becomes very much more expert and skillful in knowing what
• 2:18:22
  he sees and grasping an infinite number of details at a glance than his unobserving
• 2:18:26
  friend. He has reached this facility by exercise of his brain. He deliberately
• 2:18:31
  chose to enlarge his brain power in the line of observation. So he deliberately
• 2:18:37
  exercised that special faculty over and over with increasing attention and concentration. Now we
• 2:18:43
  have the result, a man learned in the lore of observation far above his
• 2:18:46
  fellow. Or on the other hand, one can, by stolid inaction,
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  allow the delicate brain matter to harden and ossify until his whole life is barren
• 2:18:54
  and fruitless. Every thought tends to become a material thing. Our desires are
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  seed thoughts that have a tendency to sprout and grow and blossom and bear fruit.
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  We are sowing these seeds every day. What shall the harvest be?
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  Each of us today is the result of his past thinking. Later we shall
• 2:19:16
  be the result of what we are now thinking. We create our own character,
• 2:19:20
  personality, and environment by the thought which we originate or entertain. Thought
• 2:19:26
  seeks its own. The law of mental attraction is an exact parallel to the
• 2:19:31
  law of atomic affinity. Mental currents are as real as electric, magnetic,
• 2:19:37
  or heat currents. We attract the currents with which we are in harmony.
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  Lines of least resistance are formed by the constant action of the mind. The
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  activity of the brain reacts upon the particular faculty of the brain employed. The
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  latent power of the mind is developed by constant exercise. Each form of its
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  activity becomes more perfect by practice. Exercises for the development of the mind present
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  a variety of motives for consideration. They involve the development of the perceptive faculties,
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  the cultivation of the emotions, the quickening of the imagination, the symmetrical
• 2:20:15
  unfoldment of the intuitive faculty, which, without being able to give a reason,
• 2:20:18
  frequently impels or prohibits choice. And finally, the power of mind may
• 2:20:22
  be cultivated by the development of the oral character. The greatest man, said
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  Seneca, is he who chooses right with invincible determination. The greatest power of
• 2:20:33
  mind then depends upon its exercise in moral channels, and therefore requires that every
• 2:20:39
  conscious mental effort should involve a moral end. A developed moral consciousness modifies consideration
• 2:20:46
  of motives and increases the force and continuity of action. Consequently, the well
• 2:20:52
  developed symmetrical character necessitates good physical, mental, and moral health. In this
• 2:20:56
  combination creates initiative power, resist useless force, and necessarily success. It will
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  be found that nature is constantly seeking to express harmony in all things, is
• 2:21:07
  forever trying to bring about an harmonious adjustment for every discord, every wound,
• 2:21:11
  every difficulty. Therefore, when thought is harmonious, nature begins to create the
• 2:21:18
  material conditions, the possession of which are necessary in order to make up an
• 2:21:22
  harmonious environment. When we understand that mind is the great creative power, what
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  does not become possible with desire as the great creative energy. Can we not
• 2:21:31
  see why desires should be cultivated, controlled, and directed in our lives and
• 2:21:37
  destinies. Men and women of strong mentality who dominate those around them really emanate
• 2:21:43
  currents charged with power, which, coming in contact with the minds of others,
• 2:21:46
  be cause the desires of the latter to be in accord with the mind
• 2:21:50
  of the strong individuality. Great masters of men possess this power to a marked
• 2:21:54
  degree. Their influence is felt far and near, and they secure compliance with
• 2:22:00
  their wishes by making others want to act in accord with them. In this
• 2:22:05
  way, men of strong desire and imagination may and do exert powerful influence over
• 2:22:09
  the minds of others, leading the latter in the way desired. No man
• 2:22:13
  is ever created without the inherent power in himself to help himself. The personality
• 2:22:18
  that understands its own intellectual and moral power of conquest will assert itself. It
• 2:22:24
  is this truth an infamined world craves today. The possibility of asserting a slumbering
• 2:22:31
  intellectual courage that clearly discerns and a moral courage that grandly undertakes is open to
• 2:22:35
  all. There is a divine potency in every human being. We speak of
• 2:22:41
  the sun as rising and setting, though we know that this is simply an
• 2:22:46
  appearance of motion. To our senses. The earth is apparently standing still,
• 2:22:50
  and yet we know it is revolving rapidly. We speak of a bell as
• 2:22:54
  a sounding body, yet we know that all that the bell can do is
• 2:22:58
  to produce vibration in the air. When these vibrations come at the rate of
• 2:23:03
  sixteen a second, they cause a sound to be heard in the mind.
• 2:23:07
  It is possible for the mind to hear vibrations up to the rate of thirty
• 2:23:11
  eight thousand a second. When the number increases beyond this, all is silence
• 2:23:16
  again, so that we know that the sound is not in the bell,
• 2:23:20
  it is in our own mind. We speak and even think of the Sun
• 2:23:24
  as giving light, yet we know it is simply giving fourth energy that produces
• 2:23:28
  vibrations in the ether at the rate of four hundred trillion a second, causing
• 2:23:33
  what are termed light waves, So that we know that what we call light
• 2:23:35
  is simply a mode of motion, and the only light existent is the sensation
• 2:23:39
  caused in the mind by the motion of these waves. When the number of
• 2:23:43
  vibrations increases, the light changes in color, each change in color being caused
• 2:23:48
  by shorter and more rapid vibrations, so that although we speak of the rose
• 2:23:54
  as being red, the grass as being green, or the sky as being
• 2:23:56
  blue, we know that these colors exist only in our minds, and are
• 2:24:01
  the sensations experienced by us as the result of the vibrations of light. When
• 2:24:07
  the vibrations are reduced below four hundred trillion a second, they no longer affect
• 2:24:11
  us as light, but we experience the sensation of heat. So we have
• 2:24:16
  come to know that appearances exist for us only in our consciousness. Even time
• 2:24:20
  and space become annihilated, time being but the experience of succession, there being
• 2:24:26
  no past or future except as a thought relation to the present. In the
• 2:24:31
  last analysis, therefore we know that one principle governs and controls all existence.
• 2:24:37
  Every atom is forever conserved. Whatever is parted with must inevitably be received somewhere.
• 2:24:43
  It cannot perish, and it exists only for use. It can go
• 2:24:48
  only where it is attracted, and therefore required. We can receive only what
• 2:24:52
  we give, and we may give only to those who can receive. And
• 2:24:56
  it remains with us to determine our rate of growth and the degree of harmony
• 2:24:58
  that we share express the laws under which we live are designed solely for our
• 2:25:03
  advantage. These laws are immutable, and we cannot escape from their operation.
• 2:25:11
  All the great eternal forces act in solemn silence, but it is within our
• 2:25:15
  power to place ourselves in harmony with them and thus express a life of comparative
• 2:25:18
  peace and happiness. Difficulties in harmonies and obstacles indicate that we are either refusing
• 2:25:26
  to give out what we no longer need or refusing to accept what we require.
• 2:25:30
  Growth is attained through an exchange of the old for the new, of
• 2:25:33
  the good for the better. It is a conditional or reciprocal action. For
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  each of us is a complete thought entity, and the completeness makes it possible
• 2:25:41
  for us to receive only as we give. We cannot obtain what we lack
• 2:25:46
  if we tenaciously cling to what we have. The principle of attraction operates to
• 2:25:50
  bring to us only what may be to our advantage. We are able to
• 2:25:54
  consciously control our conditions as we come to sense the purpose of what we attract,
• 2:25:58
  and are able to extract from each experience only what we require for our
• 2:26:03
  further growth. Our ability to do This determines the degree of harmony or happiness
• 2:26:07
  we attain. The ability to appropriate what we require for our growth continually increases
• 2:26:13
  as we reach higher planes and broader visions, and the greater our ability to
• 2:26:18
  know what we require, the more certain we shall be to discern its presence,
• 2:26:22
  to attract it, and to absorb it. Nothing may reach us except
• 2:26:26
  what is necessary for our growth. All conditions and experiences that come to us
• 2:26:31
  do so for our benefit. Difficulties and obstacles will continue to come until we
• 2:26:37
  absorb their wisdom and gather from them the essentials of further growth. That we
• 2:26:41
  reap what we sow is mathematically exact. We gain permanent strength exactly to the
• 2:26:46
  extent of the effort required to overcome our difficulties. The inexorable requirements of growth
• 2:26:52
  demand that we exert the greatest degree of attraction for what is perfectly in accord
• 2:26:58
  with us. Our highest happiness will be best attained through our understanding of and
• 2:27:03
  conscious cooperation with natural laws. Our mind forces are often bound by the paralyzing
• 2:27:09
  suggestions that come to us from the crude thinking of the race, and which
• 2:27:13
  are accepted and acted upon without question. Impressions of fear of worry, of
• 2:27:18
  disability, and of inferiority are given us daily. These are sufficient reasons in
• 2:27:24
  themselves why men achieve so little, why the lives of multitudes are so barren
• 2:27:28
  of results, while all the time there are possibilities within them which need only
• 2:27:33
  the liberating touch of appreciation wholesome ambition to expand into real greatness. Women,
• 2:27:39
  perhaps even more than men, have been subject to these conditions. This is
• 2:27:43
  true because of their finer susceptibilities, making them more open to thought vibrations from
• 2:27:48
  other minds, and because the flood of negative and repressive thoughts has been aimed
• 2:27:52
  more especially at them. But it is being overcome. Florence Nightingale overcame it
• 2:27:58
  when she rose in the Crimea to heights of tender sympathy and executive ability previously
• 2:28:03
  unknown among women. Clara Barton, the head of the Red Cross, overcame
• 2:28:09
  it when she wrought a similar work in the Armies of the Union. Jenny
• 2:28:13
  Lynde overcame it when she showed her ability to command enormous financial rewards while at
• 2:28:18
  the same time gratifying the passionate desire of her nature and reaching the front rank
• 2:28:22
  of her day In musical art, and there is a long list of women
• 2:28:26
  singers, philanthropists, writers, and actresses who have proved themselves capable of reaching
• 2:28:31
  the greatest literary, dramatic, artistic, and sociological achievement. Women as well
• 2:28:37
  as men, are beginning to do their own thinking. They have awakened to
• 2:28:41
  some conception of their possibilities. They demand that if life holds any secrets,
• 2:28:46
  these shall be disclosed. At no previous time has the influence and potency of
• 2:28:52
  thought received such careful and discriminating investigation. While a few seers have grasped the
• 2:28:58
  great fact that mind is the universal substance, the basis of all things,
• 2:29:01
  never before has this vital truth penetrated the more general consciousness. Many minds are
• 2:29:07
  now striving to give this wonderful truth definite utterance. Modern science has taught us
• 2:29:13
  that light and sound are simply different intensities of motion, and this has led
• 2:29:16
  to discoveries of forces within man that could not have been conceived of until this
• 2:29:20
  revelation was made. A new century has dawned, and now standing in its
• 2:29:26
  light, man sees something of the vastness of the meaning of life, something
• 2:29:28
  of its grandeur. Within that life is the germ of infinite potencies, one
• 2:29:35
  feels convinced that man's possibility of attainment cannot be measured, that boundary lines to
• 2:29:39
  his onward march are unthinkable. Standing on this height, he finds that he
• 2:29:45
  can draw new power to himself from the infinite energy of which he is a
• 2:29:48
  part. Some men seem to attract success, power, wealth, and attainment
• 2:29:54
  with very little conscious effort. Others conquer with great difficulty. Still others fail
• 2:29:58
  altogether to reach their ambitions, desires, and ideals. Why is this so?
• 2:30:05
  Why should some men realize their ambitions easily, others with difficulty, and
• 2:30:09
  still others not at all. The cause cannot be physical, else the most
• 2:30:15
  perfect men physically would be the most successful. The difference therefore must be mental.
• 2:30:20
  Must be in the mind. Hence, mind must be the creative force
• 2:30:24
  and must constitute the sole difference between men. It is mind, therefore,
• 2:30:30
  which overcomes environment and every other obstacle in the path of man. When the
• 2:30:35
  creative power of thought is fully understood, its effect will seem to be marvelous.
• 2:30:41
  But such results cannot be secured without proper application, diligence, and concentration.
• 2:30:48
  The laws governing in the mental and spiritual world are as fixed and infallible
• 2:30:52
  as in the material world. To secure the desired results, then it is
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  necessary to know the law and to comply with it. A proper compliance with
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  the law will be found to produce the desired result with invariable exactitude. Scientists
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  tell us that we live in the universal ether. This is formless of itself,
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  but it is pliable and forms about us, in us and around us.
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  According to our thought and word, we set it into activity by that
• 2:31:20
  which we think. Then that which manifests to us objectively is that which we
• 2:31:24
  have thought or said thought is governed by law. The reason we have not
• 2:31:31
  manifested more faith is because of lack of understanding. We have not understood that
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  everything works in exact accordance with definite law. The law of thought is as
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  definite as the law of mathematics, or the law of electricity or the law
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  of gravitation. When we begin to understand that happiness, health, success,
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  prosperity, and every other condition or environment are results, and that these results
• 2:31:54
  are created by thinking, either consciously or unconsciously, we shall realize the importance
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  of a working knowledge of the laws governing thought. Those coming into a conscious
• 2:32:05
  realization of the power of thought, find themselves in possession of the best that
• 2:32:09
  life can give. Substantial things of a higher order become theirs, and these
• 2:32:13
  sublime realities are so constituted that they can be made tangible parts of daily personal
• 2:32:18
  life. They realize a world of higher power and keep that power constantly working.
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  This power is inexhaustible and limitless, and they are therefore carried forward from
• 2:32:28
  victory to victory. Obstacles that seem insurmountable are overcome, Enemies are changed to
• 2:32:35
  friends, conditions are overcome, elements transformed, and fate is conquered. The
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  supply is inexhaustible, and the demand can be made along whatever lines we may
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  desire. This is the mental law of demand and supply. Our circumstances and
• 2:32:52
  environment are formed by our thoughts. We have perhaps been creating these conditions unconsciously.
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  If they are unsatisfactory, the remedy is to consciously alter our mental attitude
• 2:33:05
  and see our circumstances adjust themselves to the new mental condition. There is nothing
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  strange or supernatural about this. It is simply the law of being. The
• 2:33:16
  thoughts that take root in a mind will certainly produce fruit after their kind.
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  The greatest schemer cannot gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles. To improve
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  our conditions, we must first improve ourselves. Our thoughts and desires will be
• 2:33:31
  the first to show improvement. To be in ignorance of the laws of vibration
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  is to be like a child playing with fire, or a man manipulating powerful
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  chemicals without knowledge of their nature and relations. This is universally true because mind
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  is the one great cause that produces all conditions in the lives of men and
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  women. Of course, mind creates negative conditions just as readily as favorable conditions,
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  and when we consciously or unconsciously visualize every kind of lack, limitation and
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  discord, we create these conditions. This is what many are unconsciously doing all
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  the time. This law, as well as every other law, is no
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  respector of persons, but is in constant operation and is relentlessly bringing to each
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  individual exactly what he has created. In other words, whatever a man soweth
• 2:34:22
  that shall he also reap. Arthur Brisbane says, thoughts and its work include
• 2:34:28
  all achievements of man. Compare spirit and thought to the genius of the musician
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  and the sound that issues from the musical instrument. What the instrument is to
• 2:34:37
  the musician, the brain of the man is to the spirit that inspires thought.
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  However great the musician, the genius must depend for its expression upon the
• 2:34:46
  instrument that gives it reality in the physical world through sound waves produced in the
• 2:34:50
  material atmosphere, striking nerves that carry music to the brain. Give Paderewski a
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  piano out of tune, and he can give you only discord and lack of
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  harmony. Or give to Paganini, the greatest violinist that ever lived, a
• 2:35:05
  violin out of tune, and in spite of the genius of the musician,
• 2:35:09
  you will hear only hideous, disagreeable sounds. The spirit of music must have
• 2:35:13
  the right instruments for its expression. The spirit that inspires thought, the spirit
• 2:35:18
  of man, must have the right brain for its expression. The more complicated
• 2:35:24
  and highly developed the instrument, the more displeasing is the result when the instrument
• 2:35:28
  is out of tune. Among human beings, a highly developed brain out of
• 2:35:33
  tune is infinitely more painful and shocking than in the case of a human being
• 2:35:37
  with a mind in comparison feeble and simple. Our minds are so little accustomed
• 2:35:43
  to deal with the abstract. We live so much in the material world.
• 2:35:46
  Inanimate objects have so much meaning for us that many human beings live and die
• 2:35:52
  without ever thinking at all of the spirit. Yet the spirit is the only
• 2:35:56
  real thing in the universe, and thought is the expression of Spirit working through
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  a more or less imperfect human being. Bring yourself to think for some time
• 2:36:05
  earnestly of the nature and mysterious power of spirit. There is no thought more
• 2:36:11
  inspiring, fascinating, bewildering. Consider the Falls of Niagara, with their tremendous
• 2:36:16
  power, the vast moving machinery, the cities that are lighted, the blazing
• 2:36:22
  streets, the moving cars, all due apparently to the power in Niagara,
• 2:36:26
  Yet not due to that power in reality, so much as to the spirit
• 2:36:30
  expressed in the thought of man. It was the spirit that harnessed Niagara.
• 2:36:35
  It was spirit that transferred the power of the falls to distant cities. Yet
• 2:36:39
  that spirit has neither shape, nor weight, size, nor color, taste,
• 2:36:43
  nor smell. You ask a man what is the spirit, and he
• 2:36:48
  must answer that it is nothing, since it occupies no space and cannot be
• 2:36:52
  seen or felt. And yet he must answer also that the spirit is everything.
• 2:36:58
  The world only exists as it is because we see it in the eyes
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  of the spirit. The optic nerve takes a picture, sends it to the
• 2:37:05
  brain, and the spirit sees the picture. It was spirit acting on the
• 2:37:09
  brain of Columbus and threw him upon others that brought the first ship to America.
• 2:37:16
  It is the spirit working in expressing itself through the thought of brains more
• 2:37:18
  and more highly developed, that has gradually brought man from his former condition of
• 2:37:22
  savagery to his present comparative degree of civilization. And that same spirit, working
• 2:37:28
  in future ages through brains infinitely more superior to any that we can now conceive,
• 2:37:33
  will establish real harmony on this planet. Yet you know that spirit exists,
• 2:37:39
  and that it is you, and that except for that spirit that animates
• 2:37:41
  you, picks you up when you fall, inspires you in success, and
• 2:37:46
  comforts you in failure in misfortune, there would be nothing at all in this
• 2:37:50
  life, and you would not be different from one of the stones in the
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  field or some of the dummies that the tailor sets in front of his store.
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  Compare the spirit and the material world as you see it with the genius
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  that dwells in the brain of the great painter and the works that the painter
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  has to do. Every statue, painting, and church that Michelangelo created already
• 2:38:09
  existed in his spirit. But the spirit could not be content with that existence.
• 2:38:16
  It had to visualize itself. It had to see itself created. The
• 2:38:20
  spirit really lives completely only when it sees itself reflected in the material world.
• 2:38:26
  All the mother love is in the spirit of woman, but it has complete
• 2:38:30
  existence only when the mother holds the child in her arms and sees in reality,
• 2:38:35
  in flesh and blood, the being that she loves and has created.
• 2:38:39
  The achievements of the greatest men are all locked up within them from the first,
• 2:38:43
  but the spirit of such men can reach full realization only when the spirit,
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  acting through the brain and expressing itself through thought, created the work.
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  We know that all useful work is the result of sound thought. If we
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  realize that thought itself is the expression of the spirit, we are moved by
• 2:39:00
  a sense of duty to give to that spirit the best possible expression of which
• 2:39:03
  we are capable, the best chance that it can have. Dwelling in imperfect
• 2:39:07
  bodies and speaking through imperfect minds such as those we possess. It is an
• 2:39:11
  inspiration to realize that men here on earth, gradually improving and becoming less animal
• 2:39:18
  more spiritual as the centuries pass, are destined to develop in their own physical
• 2:39:22
  bodies instruments capable of interpreting properly the spirit that animates us. Human beings improve
• 2:39:28
  from generation to generation. That we know the improvement is due to the affection
• 2:39:33
  of fathers and mothers for each other and for their children. This race of
• 2:39:39
  ours one hundred thousand years ago was made up of animal like creatures with huge
• 2:39:43
  projecting jaws, enormous teeth, small foreheads, and hideously shaped bodies. Gradually,
• 2:39:50
  through the centuries we have changed. The brute has gradually disappeared, and
• 2:39:56
  the prognifist face of man has become fatter. The jaw has gone in the
• 2:40:01
  forehead has come out and behind the forehead, and gradually, thanks to the
• 2:40:05
  devotion and patient labor of women, we are developing a brain that will ultimately
• 2:40:07
  give decent and adequate expression to spirit. Spirit and thought are identical in the
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  sense that the genius of the musician and the sound that you hear when his
• 2:40:16
  music is played are identical. In music, the sound represents and interprets the
• 2:40:22
  musician's spirit and the interpretation in the accuracy of that interpretation depend upon the orchestra,
• 2:40:30
  the violin, or the piano. When the instruments are out of tune,
• 2:40:33
  it is not the genius of the musician, but a misinterpretation that you
• 2:40:37
  hear. And with our human brains, most of them out of tune,
• 2:40:41
  most of them incapable of expressing anything but the merest, faintest reflection of true
• 2:40:46
  spiritual life. There is as yet very little harmony through the perfected brain of
• 2:40:52
  man. The cosmic spirit in which each of us is a conscious atom,
• 2:40:56
  will speak clearly in then this earth, our little corner of the universe,
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  will be truly harmonious, governed by the spirit, distinctly expressed and instantly obeyed.
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  This cosmic spirit can and frequently does, operate through the brain of another
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  Many a man seems to be doing something very wonderful, when in reality,
• 2:41:15
  another man, another mind, not visible in the work, but actually at
• 2:41:18
  the work, does the heavy pulling. You may see the salesman, the
• 2:41:22
  editor, the floor walker, the engineer, the architect, any kind of
• 2:41:26
  man engaged in any kind of work, apparently doing something wonderful, yet he
• 2:41:31
  is not doing at all. An unseen power. Another man, another brain,
• 2:41:37
  perhaps some little man with a small body in a big head who keeps
• 2:41:41
  out of sight, is doing the work. Every one of us, without
• 2:41:43
  exception, is pulled along or pushed ahead by some force unseen. It may
• 2:41:48
  be the man in the inside office, usually invisible. It may be the
• 2:41:54
  woman at home setting a good example, giving to the man at work the
• 2:41:56
  inspiration and the power that no one else can get. It may be the
• 2:42:01
  paternal affection, enabling a man to do for a child what he could not
• 2:42:05
  possibly do for himself. Very often the power is one that has long disappeared
• 2:42:11
  from the earth, a father or mother whose energy and inspiration persists and does
• 2:42:15
  in the life of the sun at work what the man could never have accomplished
• 2:42:18
  of his own accord. Cause and effect is as absolute and undeviating in the
• 2:42:24
  hidden realm of thought as in the world of visible and material things. Mind
• 2:42:28
  is the master weaver both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment
• 2:42:33
  of circumstance. James Allen, Charles Hannell The New Psychology, Chapter nine,
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  causation. Universal intelligence leaves its source to become embodied in material forms, through
• 2:42:46
  which it returns to its source. Mineral life animated by electromagnetism is the first
• 2:42:52
  step of intelligence upward toward its universal source. Universal energy is intelligent, and
• 2:42:58
  this inn voluntary process by which matter is built up is an intelligent process of
• 2:43:03
  nature that has for its specific purpose the individualization of her intelligence. Stockwell says,
• 2:43:11
  the basis of life and consciousness lies back of the atoms and may be
• 2:43:15
  found in the universal ether. Hemstreet says, mind in the ether is no
• 2:43:20
  more unnatural than mind in flesh and blood. Stockwell says the ether is coming
• 2:43:26
  to be apprehended as an immaterial, superphysical substance, filling all space, carrying
• 2:43:33
  in its infinite throbbing bosom the specks of aggregated dynamic force called worlds. It
• 2:43:37
  embodies the ultimate spiritual principle and represents the unity of those forces and energies from
• 2:43:43
  which spring is their source. All phenomena physical, mental, and spiritual,
• 2:43:48
  as they are known to man. Dahlbet, in his great work on the
• 2:43:50
  Ether, says, besides the function of energy and motion, the ether has
• 2:43:56
  other inherent properties, out of which can emerge under proper curveircumstances. Other phenomena
• 2:44:01
  such as life or mind or whatever may be in the substratum the microscopic cell,
• 2:44:07
  a minute speck of matter that is to become man has in it the
• 2:44:09
  promise and germ of mind. May we not draw the inference that the elements
• 2:44:15
  of mind are present in those chemical elements carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen,
• 2:44:20
  sulfur, phosphorus, sodium, potassium, chlorine that are found in the
• 2:44:24
  cell. Not only must we do so, but we must go further,
• 2:44:28
  since we know that each of these elements and every other is built up of
• 2:44:31
  one invariable unit, the electron, and we must therefore assert that mind is
• 2:44:37
  potential in the unit of matter, the electron itself. Atoms of mineral matter
• 2:44:41
  are attracted to each other to form aggregates or masses. This attraction is called
• 2:44:46
  chemical affinity. Chemical combinations of atoms are due to their magnetic relations to each
• 2:44:52
  other. Positive atoms will always attract negative atoms. The combination will last only
• 2:45:00
  so long as a still more positive force is not brought to bear on it
• 2:45:03
  to break it apart. Two or more atoms brought into combination form a molecule,
• 2:45:07
  which is defined as the smallest particle of a substance that can maintain its
• 2:45:13
  own identity. Thus, a molecule of water is a combination of two atoms
• 2:45:18
  of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen H twenty. In building a plant,
• 2:45:22
  nature works with colloid cells rather than with atoms, for she has built up
• 2:45:26
  the cell as an entity, just as she built the atom and the molecule
• 2:45:31
  as entities with which to work. In mineral substance, the vegetable cell has
• 2:45:35
  power to draw to itself from earth, air, and water, whatever energies
• 2:45:39
  it needs for its growth. It therefore draws from mineral life and dominates it.
• 2:45:46
  When vegetable matter is sufficiently refined to be receptive to still more of the
• 2:45:50
  universal intelligent energy, animal life appears. The plant cells have now become so
• 2:45:54
  plastic that they have additional capacities those of individual consciousness, and n also additional
• 2:46:00
  powers, those of sensational magnetism. It draws its life forces from both mineral
• 2:46:05
  and plant life, and therefore dominates them. The body is an aggregate of
• 2:46:11
  cells animated by the spiritual magnetic life that tends toward organizing these cells into communities,
• 2:46:16
  and these communities into coordinated bodies that will operate the entire mass of the
• 2:46:20
  body as a conscious entity, able to carry itself from one place to the
• 2:46:24
  other. Atoms and molecules and their energies are now subordinated to the welfare of
• 2:46:30
  the cell. Each cell is a living conscious entity, capable of selecting its
• 2:46:35
  own food, of resisting aggression, and of reproducing itself. As each cell
• 2:46:41
  has its individual consciousness, intuition, and volition, so each federated group of
• 2:46:46
  cells has a collective individual consciousness, intuition, and volition. Likewise, each
• 2:46:52
  coordinated group of federations until the entire body has one central brain, where the
• 2:46:56
  great coordination of all the brains takes place. The body of an average human
• 2:47:03
  being is composed of some twenty six trillions of cells. The brain and the
• 2:47:07
  spinal cord by themselves consist of some two billion cells. The biogenic law proves
• 2:47:13
  that every vertebrate, like every other animal, evolves from a single cell.
• 2:47:18
  Even the human organism, according to Heckel, is at first a simple nucleated
• 2:47:22
  globule of plasma about one point one two five inches in diameter, barely visible
• 2:47:28
  to the naked eye. As a tiny point. The ovum transmits to the
• 2:47:31
  child by heredity the personal traits of the mother the sperms cell those of the
• 2:47:35
  father, and this hereditary transmission extends to the finest characteristics of the soul as
• 2:47:41
  well as the body. What is plasm? What is this mysterious living substance
• 2:47:46
  that we find everywhere as the material foundation of the wonders of life? Plasm
• 2:47:52
  or protoplasm is, as Huxley rightly said, the physical basis of organic life.
• 2:47:58
  To speak more precise, it is a chemical compound of carbon that alone
• 2:48:01
  accomplishes the various processes of life. In its simplest form, the living cell
• 2:48:07
  is merely a soft globule of plasm containing a former nucleus. As soon as
• 2:48:13
  it is fertilized, it multiplies by division and forms a community or colony of
• 2:48:18
  many special cells. These differentiate themselves, and by their specialization or modification,
• 2:48:24
  the tissues that compose the various organs are developed. The developed many celled organisms
• 2:48:31
  of man and all higher animals resemble a social civil community, the numerous single
• 2:48:35
  individuals of which are developed in various ways, but were originally only simple cells
• 2:48:41
  of one common structure all life on this earth. As doctor Butler points out
• 2:48:46
  in How the mind cures began in the form of a cell that consisted of
• 2:48:50
  a body animated by a mind. In the beginning and long afterward, the
• 2:48:54
  animating mind was the one we now call the subconscious. But as the forms
• 2:49:00
  grew in complexity in produced organs of sense. The mind throughout an addition,
• 2:49:05
  forming another part, the one we now call the conscious. While at first
• 2:49:09
  all living creatures had but one guide that they must follow in all things,
• 2:49:13
  this later addition to mind gave the creature a choice. This was the formation
• 2:49:18
  of what has been termed free will. Each cell is endowed with an individual
• 2:49:22
  intelligence that helps it carry on, as by a miracle its complex labors.
• 2:49:28
  The cell is the basis of man, and this fact must be constantly borne
• 2:49:33
  in mind in dealing with the wonders of mental chemistry. As a nation is
• 2:49:37
  made up of a large number of living individuals, so the body is made
• 2:49:41
  up of a large number of living cells. The citizens of a country are
• 2:49:46
  engaged in varied pursuits. Some in the work of production in field, forest,
• 2:49:50
  mine, factory. Some in the work of distribution in transportation in warehouse,
• 2:49:56
  store, or bank. Some in the work of regulation in lad legislative
• 2:50:00
  halls, on the bench in the executive chair, some in the work of
• 2:50:03
  protection soldiers sailors, doctors, teachers, preachers. Likewise, in the body,
• 2:50:11
  some cells are working on production mouth, stomach, intestines, lungs,
• 2:50:16
  supplying food, water, air. Some are engaged in distribution of supplies and
• 2:50:22
  elimination of wastes, heart, blood, limph, lungs, liver, kidneys,
• 2:50:26
  skin. Some perform the office of regulation brain, spinal cord nerves.
• 2:50:33
  Some are occupied in protection white blood, corpusals, skin, bone, muscle.
• 2:50:37
  There are also cells that are entrusted the reproduction of species. As the
• 2:50:43
  vigor and welfare of a nation depend fundamentally on the vitality and efficiency and cooperation
• 2:50:48
  of its citizens, so the health and life of the body depend upon the
• 2:50:52
  vitality, efficiency, and cooperation of its myriad cells. We have seen that
• 2:50:58
  the cells are gathered into systems and groups for the performance of particular functions essential
• 2:51:03
  to physical life and expression, such as we see in organs and tissues.
• 2:51:07
  So long as the several parts all act together in concord and with due regard
• 2:51:11
  to one another in the general purposes of the organism, there is health and
• 2:51:16
  efficiency. But when from any cause discord arises, illness supervenes. Disease is
• 2:51:22
  lack of comfort and harmony. In the brain and nervous system, the cells
• 2:51:26
  are grouped in their action according to the particular functions that they are called upon
• 2:51:31
  to perform. It is in this way that we are able to see,
• 2:51:35
  to taste, to smell, to feel, and to hear. It is
• 2:51:39
  also in this way we are able to recall past experiences, to remember facts
• 2:51:43
  and figures, and so on. In mental and physical health, these various
• 2:51:48
  groups of neurons work in fine harmony, but in disease they do not.
• 2:51:52
  In normal conditions, the ego holds all these individual cells and groups, as
• 2:51:58
  well as systems of cells, in harmonious and coordinate action. Disease represents dissociated
• 2:52:05
  organic action. Certain system or groups, each of which is made up of
• 2:52:09
  a vast number of microscopic cells, begin functioning independently and hence inharmoniously, and
• 2:52:15
  thus upset the tone of the whole organism. A single organ or system can
• 2:52:20
  thus get out of tune with the rest of the body and do serious harm.
• 2:52:24
  This is one kind of disease. In a federation of any sort,
• 2:52:28
  efficiency and concord of action depend upon the strength and confidence accorded the central administration
• 2:52:33
  of its affairs, and just in proportion to the degree of failure to maintain.
• 2:52:37
  These conditions are discord and confusion sure to ensue. Mel's Quevli makes this
• 2:52:43
  clear in cell Intelligence. He says, the intelligence of man is the intelligence
• 2:52:48
  possessed by the cells in his brain. If man is intelligent, and by
• 2:52:54
  virtue thereof is able to combine and arrange matter and force so as to affect
• 2:52:58
  structures such as houses and railroads, why is not the cell also intelligent when
• 2:53:03
  he is able to direct the forces of nature so as to affect the structures
• 2:53:07
  we see, such as plants and animals. The cell is not compelled to
• 2:53:11
  act by reason of any chemical and mechanical force any more than his man.
• 2:53:16
  He acts by reason of will and judgment of his own. He is a
• 2:53:20
  separate, living animal. Bergson, in his creative Evolution, seems to see
• 2:53:24
  in matter and life a creative energy. If we stood at a distance watching
• 2:53:30
  a skyscraper gradually grow into completeness, we would say there must be some creative
• 2:53:33
  energy back of it, pushing the construction. And if we could never get
• 2:53:37
  near enough to see the men and builders at work, we would have no
• 2:53:41
  other idea of how that skyscraper came into existence, except that it was caused
• 2:53:46
  by some creative energy. The cell is an animal, very highly organized and
• 2:53:50
  specialized. Take the single cell called amiba, for instance, he has no
• 2:53:56
  machinery with which he can manufacture stof He does, however, carry with him
• 2:54:03
  building material with which he can, in an emergency, save his life by
• 2:54:07
  covering himself with a coat of armour. Other cells carry with them a structure
• 2:54:11
  that is called chromatophor. With this instrument, these cells are able to manufacture
• 2:54:16
  starch from the crude substances of earth, air, and water by the aid
• 2:54:20
  of sunlight. From these facts, it must appear evident to the reader that
• 2:54:24
  the cell is a very highly organized and specialized individual, and that to look
• 2:54:30
  at him from the point of view of being mere matter and force is the
• 2:54:33
  same as to compare the actions of a stone rolling down a hill with that
• 2:54:35
  of an automobile moving over a smooth pavement. One is compelled to move by
• 2:54:41
  reason of the force of gravitation, while the other moves by virtue of the
• 2:54:45
  intellect that guides it. The structures of life like plants and animals are built
• 2:54:50
  from the materials taken from the earth, air, and water, just as
• 2:54:54
  are the structures man builds, like railroads and skyscrapers. If if we were
• 2:55:00
  asked how it is possible for man to effect the construction of these railroads and
• 2:55:03
  buildings, we would say that it is by reason of the fact that he
• 2:55:07
  is an intelligent being. If the cell has gone through the same process of
• 2:55:11
  social organization and evolution as man, why is it not also the same intelligent
• 2:55:16
  being as man? Did you ever stop to think what takes place when the
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  surface of the body is cut or bruised. The white blood cells, or
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  corpusals as they are called, who are the general caretakers of the body,
• 2:55:28
  whose duty it is to look after everything in general, such as the fighting
• 2:55:33
  of bacteria and disease germs, and the general repair work, will sacrifice their
• 2:55:37
  own lives by thousands if necessary to save the body. They live in the
• 2:55:41
  body, enjoying complete liberty. They do not float in the bloodstream except when
• 2:55:46
  in a hurry to get somewhere, but move around everywhere as separate, independent
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  beings, to see that everything goes right. If a bruise or cut happens,
• 2:55:56
  they are at once informed and rushed to the spot by thousands, and
• 2:55:58
  direct the repair work and if necessary, they change their own occupation and take
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  a different job, that of making connective tissue, in order to bind the
• 2:56:07
  tissues together. In nearly every open sore, bruise, or cut, they
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  are killed in great numbers in their faithful effort to repair and close up the
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  wound. A text book on physiology briefly speaks of it as follows. When
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  the skin is injured, the white blood cells form new tissue upon the surface,
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  while the epithelium spreads over it from the edges, stopping growth and completing
• 2:56:31
  the healing process. There seems to be no particular center in the body around
• 2:56:35
  which intelligence revolves. Every cell seems to be a center of intelligence and knows
• 2:56:41
  what its duties are wherever it is placed and wherever we find it. Every
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  citizen of the Cell Republic is an intelligent, independent existence, and all are
• 2:56:50
  working together for the welfare of all. Nowhere can we find more absolute sacrifice
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  of the lives of the individuals to the general welfare of all than we do
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  in the Cell Republic. The results cannot be obtained in any other way,
• 2:57:05
  or at any less cost of individual sacrifice, so it is necessary to their
• 2:57:09
  social existence. The principle of individual sacrifice to common welfare has been accepted and
• 2:57:15
  agreed upon as the right thing and as their common duty. Impartially distributed among
• 2:57:20
  them, and they perform their allotted work and duties regardless of their own individual
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  comfort. Mister Edison says, I believe that our bodies are made up of
• 2:57:30
  myriad units of life. Our body is not itself the unit of life or
• 2:57:35
  a unit of life. Let me give you as an example, the s
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  s Mauritania. The Mauritania is not herself a living thing. It is the
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  men in her that are alive. If she is wrecked on the coast,
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  for instance, the men get out, and when the men get out,
• 2:57:50
  it simply means that the life units leave the ship. And so in the
• 2:57:54
  same way, a man is not dead because his body is buried, and
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  a vital principle that it is the life units have left the body. Everything
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  that pertains to life is still living and cannot be destroyed. Everything that pertains
• 2:58:09
  to life is still subject to the laws of animal life. We have myriads
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  of cells, and it is the inhabitants in these cells, inhabitants which themselves
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  are beyond the limits of the microscope, that vitalize our body. To put
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  it in another way, I believe that these life units of which I have
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  spoken banned themselves together in countless millions and billions in order to make a man.
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  We have too facily assumed that each one of us is himself a unit.
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  This I am convinced is wrong, even by the high powered microscope.
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  And so we have assumed that the unit is the man who we can see,
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  and have ignored the existence of the real life units, which are those
• 2:58:48
  we cannot see. No man to day can set the line as to where
• 2:58:52
  life begins and ends. Even in the formation of crystals, we see a
• 2:58:58
  definitely ordered plan of work. Certain solutions will always form a particular kind of
• 2:59:03
  crystal without variation. It is not impossible that these life entities are at work
• 2:59:09
  in the mineral and plant, as in what we call the animal world.
• 2:59:13
  The idea is prevalent that both light and heat come all the way from the
• 2:59:16
  Sun, a distance of ninety three million miles. If this were true,
• 2:59:22
  all space would be flooded with light, and no star would ever be visible,
• 2:59:26
  for stars are not visible in the light. The Sun is a great
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  dynamo eight hundred and eighty six thousand miles in diameter, it turns on its
• 2:59:35
  axis like the planets, it sends electromagnetic currents throughout all Solar space, which
• 2:59:41
  is something like six billion miles from end to end. And it is but
• 2:59:43
  one of thousands of similar systems of suns and planets, many of them much
• 2:59:48
  greater, and all of them moving forward in space, and all moving around
• 2:59:52
  one common center. It is clear then that instead of giving light and heat,
• 2:59:56
  the Sun gives fourth electrical energy. Only this energy contacts with the atmosphere
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  of the Earth in the form of rays. As the Earth is revolving at
• 3:00:07
  the incredible speed of more than a thousand miles an hour at its circumference,
• 3:00:11
  the atmosphere coming in contact with the electric rays of the Sun causes friction,
• 3:00:15
  which produces both light and heat as the Earth revolves at a constantly decreasing speed.
• 3:00:20
  As we reach the poles, the friction becomes less and less, and
• 3:00:24
  so we find less light and less heat as the poles are reached, until
• 3:00:28
  at the poles there is little light or heat. What we know as light
• 3:00:31
  appears only in the atmosphere and not outside of it, and only in that
• 3:00:35
  part of the atmosphere that is turned toward the Sun. We know that as
• 3:00:39
  we ascend from the Earth, the atmosphere becomes rarer, and there is consequently
• 3:00:43
  less friction and therefore less light and less heat. As the direct rays of
• 3:00:48
  electric energy from the Sun reach only that part of the Earth that is turned
• 3:00:52
  toward the Sun, light appears only on that side. The other side of
• 3:00:56
  the Earth being turned away from the Sun, there is no friction and consequently
• 3:01:01
  no light. But as the Earth turns upon its axis at the tremendous velocity
• 3:01:05
  of something like one thousand miles an hour, the atmosphere gradually comes in contact
• 3:01:09
  with the electrical rays from the Sun, and light gradually appears. The more
• 3:01:15
  perpendicular the rays strike the Earth, the stronger the friction, the brighter the
• 3:01:18
  light, and the greater the heat. The solar phenomena we call morning,
• 3:01:24
  noon and night. This solar fluid is the ethereal atmosphere, or the ether,
• 3:01:30
  and is limited to the Solar system. It is the medium for the
• 3:01:33
  transmission of the potencies originating in the various planets, and holds in solution the
• 3:01:37
  basic elements of all life and thought. This ether is the only possible fluid
• 3:01:43
  that is sufficiently subtle to carry the delicate vibrations that are constantly being broadcasted over
• 3:01:48
  the radio, and which penetrate iron, wood, steel, and every other
• 3:01:52
  barrier, and which are not limited by wither space and time. Each planet
• 3:01:56
  is also an electro vital dynamo, but the the nature of the vibrations that
• 3:02:01
  they send depends upon the particular nature of that planet, as well as its
• 3:02:05
  ever changing position in the zodiac. These emanations are constantly being impressed upon all
• 3:02:11
  the worlds of our system by the perfect conductivity of the solar ether. The
• 3:02:16
  Sun is not only the source of electrical energy by which light and heat are
• 3:02:20
  developed, but it is the source of life itself. No life of any
• 3:02:24
  kind could exist on this planet without the energizing and vitalizing magnetism derived from the
• 3:02:30
  Sun. As the Earth approaches the Sun in spring, we see the result
• 3:02:35
  in the myriad plants and flowers and the verdure with which the fields are covered.
• 3:02:39
  The life giving force becomes everywhere apparent. The effect of this influence is
• 3:02:45
  seen in the temperament of the people inhabiting the globe. When the perpendicular rays
• 3:02:48
  reach the people, we find a cheerful, optimistic, sunny disposition. But
• 3:02:54
  as we reach the far north, where the absence of light and heat make
• 3:02:58
  life a struggle, we find the people correspondingly dark and gloomy. Thus we
• 3:03:03
  find that not only the Sun, but Venus, Mars, Saturn, the
• 3:03:07
  Moon, and all of the other planets radiate their own peculiar characteristics. This
• 3:03:13
  influence, in turn, is reflected in the character of those who come under
• 3:03:16
  the influence of these vibrations. As the nature of the energy that the Sun
• 3:03:22
  radiates is in accordance with its intrinsic nature, so the nature of the vibration
• 3:03:26
  sent out by the planets is in accordance with their intrinsic natures. Venus has
• 3:03:31
  long been regarded as the goddess of love. Consequently, the characteristics of those
• 3:03:35
  coming under her influence are affectionate, sympathetic, refined, and contented. Mars
• 3:03:41
  has long been known as the god of war, and his influence is therefore
• 3:03:46
  courageous, venturesome, aggressive, and fearless. The influence of the Moon is
• 3:03:52
  reflective, receptive and productive. Of Mercury, intellectual, accomplished, skillful and
• 3:03:58
  clever. Of Jupiter, generous, philanthropic, moral, charitable, and sincere.
• 3:04:05
  Of Saturn, prudent, cautious, patient, and reserved of Uranus,
• 3:04:09
  original, ingenious, talented and intuitive, of Neptune, idealistic, mystical,
• 3:04:16
  inspirational, and peculiar. As we all come under the influence of each of
• 3:04:20
  these planets to some extent, we all manifest many of these characteristics to some
• 3:04:26
  degree. In addition to the influence of particular planets, there is the influence
• 3:04:31
  of the various combinations of planets. These are usually divided into cardinal, fixed,
• 3:04:37
  and common signs. The influence of the cardinal sign is to stir the
• 3:04:41
  latent forces into action, promote change, and create initiative. The influence of
• 3:04:48
  the fixed sign is for stability. The individual may be slow in plotting,
• 3:04:52
  but he will be persistent. He will know no defeat. He will concentrate
• 3:04:56
  upon one point and pursue it to the end. His zeal will almost be
• 3:05:00
  fanatical. The influence of the common sign is flexibility and change. This influence
• 3:05:07
  is purely mental or spiritual, and gives purpose and incentive to action. The
• 3:05:13
  cardinal type therefore is active, the common restless, and the fixed is rigid.
• 3:05:18
  As material success depends upon action, the important factors in the world's work
• 3:05:22
  are derived from this type. As stability is a necessary factor in important industrial
• 3:05:28
  undertakings. The fixed type frequently shares the material and financial success with the cardinal
• 3:05:35
  type. The common type is, however, adverse to effort. They want
• 3:05:39
  adventure, change, and travel. They are therefore the promoters who bring manufacturer
• 3:05:46
  and inventor together. They are the vendors and middleman agents who negotiate between buyer
• 3:05:52
  and seller. They are also the sensitives and react more keenly to the experiences
• 3:05:56
  of life. They carry the heavier burden because they feel more. They participate
• 3:06:03
  in the issues of life to a greater degree, because they carry not only
• 3:06:07
  their own burden, but the burdens of those around them. The greater possibilities
• 3:06:11
  of inner unfoldment, understanding, and development are always with the sensitive. The
• 3:06:16
  sensitive use is not only reason, but imagination, vision, intuition, and
• 3:06:22
  insight. The fixed types are usually the materialists, who are content with objective
• 3:06:28
  possessions and attainments. They use their reason and are interested in that only which
• 3:06:33
  can be measured or which can be seen felt handled. They are the doers
• 3:06:37
  rather than the dreamers, and are utterly stable. They fill many responsible positions
• 3:06:43
  with great success, and are valuable members of society. Neither type is superior,
• 3:06:50
  they are simply different. Both are necessary. Each planet has its own
• 3:06:54
  rate of vibration, and its influence upon the Earth depends upon the angle that
• 3:06:58
  it forms, certain angles causing the vibrations to be accelerated or diminished, magnified
• 3:07:05
  or retarded. These angles of planetary influences have been found to produce effects just
• 3:07:11
  as certain and definite as the various angles in chemistry. Thus, the seven
• 3:07:16
  planets give the seven rays or vibrations or tunes, and the Earth is the
• 3:07:20
  organ upon which these notes are played, and the harmony or in harmony resulting
• 3:07:24
  therefrom is the influence, which we call good or evil, as the effect
• 3:07:28
  is pleasing or the reverse. It is the operation of these seemingly different influences
• 3:07:33
  that gave the Romans the idea of dualism, of a universe with two forces
• 3:07:37
  in it, one good, the other evil, and which they subsequently personalized
• 3:07:41
  and called God and Satan, resulting in much confusion of thought. We now
• 3:07:46
  know, however, that there is but one universal power, and that the
• 3:07:50
  operation of this power is perfect. This power manifests in infinite diversity. Form
• 3:07:56
  disappears and new form appears, but it is a is one infinite cosmic substance,
• 3:08:01
  and this substance is but the manifestation of one cosmic principle. This,
• 3:08:07
  then, is the laboratory in which nature is forever combining the spiritual forces that
• 3:08:11
  result in the infinite diversity on every side. For all are parts of one
• 3:08:16
  stupendous whole. There are those who seem to think that by force of will,
• 3:08:20
  they can coerce the law, that they can so seet of one kind,
• 3:08:22
  and by will power make it bear fruit of another. But the idea
• 3:08:26
  of forcing a compliance without wishes by the power of the individual will is an
• 3:08:31
  inverted conception, which may appear to succeed for a while, but is eventually
• 3:08:35
  doomed to failure because it antagonizes the very power which it is seeking to use.
• 3:08:41
  Charles Hannell, The New Psychology, Chapter eleven Physiology Thought. In Gender's
• 3:08:48
  thought, place one idea upon paper, another will follow it, and still
• 3:08:52
  another. Until you have written a page, you cannot fathom your mind.
• 3:08:58
  It is a well of thought which has no bottom. The more you draw
• 3:09:01
  from it, the clearer and fruitful it will be. If you neglect to
• 3:09:05
  think yourself and use other people's thoughts, giving them utterance. Only you will
• 3:09:09
  never know what you are capable of. Ga. Sola. One of the
• 3:09:15
  most interesting features of the human system is its series of manufacturing plants, in
• 3:09:20
  which are produced the chemical agents necessary to mobilize the constituents of food. And
• 3:09:24
  it is a part of the fine natural economy that the secretions containing these chemical
• 3:09:30
  agents should serve several other purposes. Also, in general, each may be
• 3:09:35
  said to have an alternative effect upon the others, or at least upon the
• 3:09:39
  activities of the other plants. Also, they act upon the inward bound nerve
• 3:09:43
  paths as exciters of effects in both the conscious and the subconscious activities. Radiant
• 3:09:48
  energy, whether consciously or subconsciously, released from the body, becomes the medium
• 3:09:54
  of sensory impressions that flash back to the perceptive centers and their set up reactions
• 3:09:58
  that are interpreted by these centers according to their stage of development of self.
• 3:10:03
  And therefore they interpret these messages exactly as they are received, without attempt to
• 3:10:07
  think about them or to analyze them. The process is as mechanical as an
• 3:10:11
  impression made by the actinic rays of the sun on a photographic plate. The
• 3:10:16
  general principle by which an idea is preserved is vibratory. Like all other phenomena
• 3:10:22
  of nature, every thought causes vibrations that will continue to expand and contract in
• 3:10:28
  wave circles, like the waves started by a stone dropped in a pool of
• 3:10:31
  water. Waves form other thoughts may counteract it, or it may finally succumb
• 3:10:37
  of its own. Inanition, thought will instantly set in motion the finest of
• 3:10:41
  spiritual magnetism, and this motion will be communicated to the heavier and coarser densities
• 3:10:46
  and will eventually affect the physical matter of the body. Life is not created,
• 3:10:52
  It simply is. All nature is animate with this force we call life.
• 3:10:56
  The phenomena of life on this physical plane with which we are chiefly concerned
• 3:11:01
  are produced by the involution of energy into matter, and matter is itself an
• 3:11:07
  involution of energy. But when the stage of matter is reached in the process
• 3:11:11
  of nature's involution, matter then begins to evolve forms under the action upon it
• 3:11:16
  and within it, so that growth and life are the results of a simultaneous
• 3:11:20
  integration of matter and energy. Evolution starts with the lowest form of matter and
• 3:11:26
  works upward through refining processes to serve as a matrix of energy. The internal
• 3:11:31
  secretions constitute and determine much of the inherited powers of the individual and their development.
• 3:11:39
  They control physical and mental growth and all the metabolic processes of fundamental importance.
• 3:11:45
  They dominate all the vital functions of man. They cooperate in an inanimate
• 3:11:50
  relationship that may be compared to an interlocking directorate. A derangement of their functions
• 3:11:56
  causing an insufficiency of them, an excess, or an abnormal upsets the entire
• 3:12:01
  equilibrium of the body with transformed effect upon the mind and the organs blood chemistry
• 3:12:07
  of our time is a marvel undreamed of a generation ago. These achievements are
• 3:12:11
  a perfect example of accomplished fact, contradicting all former prediction and criticism. One
• 3:12:18
  of the greatest advances of modern medicine has been the study of the processes and
• 3:12:22
  secretions of the hitherto obscure duckless glands. Endocrinology, as this study is called,
• 3:12:28
  has thrown much valuable light upon certain abnormal physical conditions about which science had
• 3:12:33
  until now been in the dark. We now know that most of the freaks
• 3:12:37
  of nature we see on exhibition are such, owing to endocrine disturbance, the
• 3:12:41
  disturbance of the duckless glands, the bearded lady, a victim of pagniasis,
• 3:12:48
  the victims of obesity and of skeletonization, of acromegalis, or giantism, of
• 3:12:52
  micromagalia, or lilliputianismal such evolutional deviations are due to subnormalities or abnormalities of the
• 3:13:00
  chemical elements that the glands produce and send into the blood stream. These are
• 3:13:05
  no mere theories, for they have been rigorously tested in the laboratories of science.
• 3:13:09
  As Sir William Oser, one of the world's most illustrious luminaries of knowledge,
• 3:13:15
  has said, for man's body two is a humming hive of working cells,
• 3:13:20
  each with its specific function, all under central control of the brain and
• 3:13:24
  heart, and all dependent on materials called which lubricate the wheels of life.
• 3:13:30
  For example, remove the thyroid gland just below the atom's apple, and you
• 3:13:33
  deprive man of the lubricants which enable his thought engines to work. It is
• 3:13:39
  as if you cut off the oil supply of a motor, and gradually the
• 3:13:41
  stored acquisitions of his mind cease to be available, and within a year he
• 3:13:46
  sinks into dementia. The normal processes of the skin cease, the hair falls,
• 3:13:52
  and the features bloat, and the paragon of animals is transformed into a
• 3:13:56
  shapeless caricature of humanity. These essential lubs, of which a number are now
• 3:14:01
  known, are called hormones. You will recognize from its derivation how appropriate is
• 3:14:05
  the term. The name is derived from the Greek verb meaning to rouse or
• 3:14:11
  set in motion. The name was given by Startling and Balis, two great
• 3:14:15
  Englishmen noted for their research work in endochronology. Cretance can be cured by the
• 3:14:20
  administration internally of the thyroid glands of sheep, with truly miraculous results, because
• 3:14:26
  credanism is caused by the lack or absence of thyroid gland secretions. As an
• 3:14:33
  instance of the fascination of these studies, consider the conception that the thyroid played
• 3:14:37
  a fundamental part in the change of sea creatures into land animals. Feeding the
• 3:14:43
  Mexican axile novel purely aquatic newte breathing through gills on thyroid quickly changes it into
• 3:14:48
  the ambustoma terrestrial salamander breathing by means of lungs. The endocrine glands produce secretions
• 3:14:56
  that enter the bloodstream and vitally affect the bodily structure and function. The pituitary
• 3:15:01
  is a small gland located near the center of the head, directly under the
• 3:15:05
  third ventricle of the brain, where it rests in a depression in the bony
• 3:15:09
  floor plate of the skull. Its secretions have an important part in the mobilizing
• 3:15:13
  of carbohydrates, maintaining blood pressure, stimulating other glands, and maintaining the tonicity
• 3:15:20
  of the sympathetic nerve system. Its under or over activity during childhood will produce
• 3:15:26
  marked characteristics in the body structure and what concerns us more equally, marked characteristics
• 3:15:31
  of mental development and function. The thyroid gland is located at the frontal base
• 3:15:37
  of the neck, extending upward in a sort of semicircle on both sides,
• 3:15:41
  with the perithyroids near the tips. The thyroid secretion is important in mobilizing both
• 3:15:48
  proteids and carbohydrates. It stimulates other glands, helps resist infections, affects hair
• 3:15:54
  growth, and influences the organs of digestion and elimination. It is a strongly
• 3:15:58
  determining factor in the all around physical development and also in the mental functioning.
• 3:16:05
  A well balanced thyroid goes a long way toward insuring an active, efficient,
• 3:16:09
  smoothly coordinated mind and body. The adrenal glands are located just above the small
• 3:16:16
  of the back. These organs have been called by some writers the decorative glands,
• 3:16:20
  since one of their functions appears to be that of keeping the pigments of
• 3:16:24
  the body in proper solution and distribution. But of greater importance is the agency
• 3:16:30
  of the adrenal secretion in other directions. It contains a most valuable blood pressure
• 3:16:35
  agent. It is a tonic to the sympathetic nerve system, hence to the
• 3:16:39
  involuntary muscles, heart, arteries, intestines, and so on, as well
• 3:16:43
  as to the perceptive paths. It responds to certain emotional excitement by an immediate
• 3:16:50
  increase in volume of secretion, thus increasing the energy of the whole system and
• 3:16:54
  preparing it for effective response. The cerebrospinal nervous system is the telephone system of
• 3:17:01
  the conscious mind. It is a very complete wiring system for communication from the
• 3:17:05
  brain to every part of the body, especially the terminals. It is the
• 3:17:09
  intelligence department of self conscious man. The sympathetic nervous system is the system of
• 3:17:16
  the subconscious mind. Behind the stomach and in front of the spine is the
• 3:17:20
  center of the system, known as the solar plexus. It is composed of
• 3:17:24
  two masses of brain substance, each in the shape of a crescent. They
• 3:17:30
  surround an artery whose function it is to equalize the blood pressure of all the
• 3:17:33
  abdominal organs. Just as the brain and the voluntary nervous system constitute the apparatus
• 3:17:39
  of self conscious man, in like manner, the solar plexus and the sympathetic
• 3:17:43
  system comprise the special apparatus of the subconscious mind. The function of the sympathetic
• 3:17:50
  nervous system is to maintain the equilibrium of the body, to act as a
• 3:17:54
  balance wheel to prevent over or under action of the cerebrospinal system. As it
• 3:18:00
  is directly affected by emotional states such as fear, anger, jealousy, or
• 3:18:05
  hatred, these may easily throw out of gear the operation of the automatic functions
• 3:18:09
  of the body. That is to say, those emotional states such as joy,
• 3:18:13
  fear, anger, and hatred may upset such functions of the body as
• 3:18:18
  digestion, blood circulation, general nutrition, and so forth. Nerves and all
• 3:18:24
  the unpleasant experiences that follow in the way of bodily discomfort and ill health are
• 3:18:28
  caused by negative emotions such as fear, anger, hatred, and the like.
• 3:18:33
  They break down the resistance that has been offered by the various plexii,
• 3:18:37
  which, when in normal working order, have a definite capacity to inhibit the
• 3:18:41
  effect of such emotions. The sympathetic system is the apparatus whose function it is
• 3:18:48
  to maintain the body in a normal and healthy working order and to replace the
• 3:18:52
  wastage due to ordinary wear and tear, both emotional and physical. The kind
• 3:18:56
  of emotions that we entertain is therefore of great importance. If positive, they
• 3:19:01
  are constructive, if negative they are destructive. Happiness, prosperity, and contentment
• 3:19:07
  are the result of clear thinking and right action, for the thought precedes and
• 3:19:11
  predetermines the nature of the action. A little artificial stimulation in the form of
• 3:19:16
  intoxicating liquor may temporarily still the senses and thus serve to confuse the issue.
• 3:19:22
  But as in economics and mechanics, where every action is followed by a reaction,
• 3:19:26
  so in human relations in every action is followed by an equal reaction.
• 3:19:31
  And so we have come to know that the value of things depends upon the
• 3:19:33
  recognition of the value of persons. Whenever a creed becomes current that things are
• 3:19:39
  of more importance than people, programs become fixed that set the interest of wealth
• 3:19:43
  above the interests of people. This action must necessarily be followed by a reaction.
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  But because the opium traffic furnishes millions of revenue for englishmen, millions of
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  Chinese must be sacrificed, And because the sale and distribution of alcohol furnishes million
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  dollars accounts for large banks and trust companies one hundred thousand dollar fees for corporation
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  attorneys. Because it makes it possible to lead large masses of men to the
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  polls for the purpose of voting for political parties that are both morally and politically
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  bankrupt, there are those who would again inflict this deadly curse upon the citizens
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  of our country. Doctor Woods Hutchinson tells us that the death rate for the
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  United States has fallen in the last three years from fourteen point two to twelve
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  point three one thousand, which represents a saving of over two hundred thousand lives
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  a year. Since the Brewer's business was closed down. Almost unanimous reports from
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  public school teachers, school and district nurses, welfare workers among the poor,
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  intelligent, police chiefs and heads of charitable organizations show that never in all their
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  experience has there been so striking an improvement in the feeding, the clothing,
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  the general comfort and welfare of school children as within the last two years.
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  And yet there are those who favor them modification of the Valstead Act. There
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  is probably not a single individual in existence whose thinking processes are in such an
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  infantile stage of development that he does not know that when a door has been
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  partly opened, it requires but the pressure of the little finger to push it
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  wide open, So that modification is but another word for a moment, with
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  all of its physical, mental, moral, and spiritual degradation, disaster,
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  and all of the sorrow, suffering, infamy, shame, and horror that
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  this most monstrous curse has inflicted upon suffering humanity. Experience has decided that any
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  stimulus applied statedly to the stomach, which raises its molecular tones above the point
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  at which it can be sustained by food and sleep, produces when it has
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  passed away, debility, a relaxation of the overworked organ proportioned to its preternatural
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  excitement. The life giving power of the stomach fails, of course, as
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  much below the tone of cheerfulness and health as it was injudiciously raised above it.
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  If the experiment be repeated often, it produces an artificial tone of stomach
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  essential to cheerfulness and muscular vigor, entirely above the power of the regular sustenance
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  of nature to sustain, and creates a vacuum which nothing can fill but the
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  destructive power which made it. And when protracted use has made the difference great
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  between the natural and the artificial tone and habit has made it a second nature.
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  The man is a drunkard, and in ninety nine instances in a hundred
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  is irretrievably undone. Beer has been recommended as a substitute and a means of
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  leading back the captive to health and liberty. But though it may not create
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  in temperate habits, as soon it has no power to allay them, it
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  will even finish what alcohol has begun. And with this difference only that it
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  does not rasp the vital organs with quite so keen a file, and enables
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  the victim to come down to his grave by a course somewhat more dilatory and
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  with more of the good natured stupidity of the idiot, and less of the
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  demoniac frenzy of the madman. Wine has been prescribed as a means of decoying
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  the intemperate from the ways of death. But habit cannot be thus cheated out
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  of its dominion, nor ravening appetite be amused down to a sober in temperate
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  demand. It is not true that wine will restore the intemperate or stay the
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  progress of the disease. Enough must be taken to screw up nature to the
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  tone of cheerfulness, or she will cry give with an importunity not to be
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  resisted. And long before the work of death is done, wine will fail
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  to minister as stimulus of sufficient activity to rouse the flagging spirits, or will
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  become acid on the enfeebled stomach, and whiskey and brandy will be called in
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  to hasten to its consummation, the dilatory work of self destruction. In one
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  of Tolstoy's essays, we find that the seeing spiritual being, whose manifestation we
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  commonly call conscience, always points with one end towards right and with the other
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  towards wrong, and we do not notice it while we follow the course it
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  shows the course form wrong to right. But wa one need only do something
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  contrary to the indication of conscience to become aware of this spiritual being, which
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  then shows how the animal activity has diverged from the direction indicated by conscience.
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  And as a navigator conscious that he is on the wrong track, cannot continue
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  to work the ore's engine or sales till he has adjusted his course to the
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  indications of the compass, or has obliterated his consciousness of this divergence. Each
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  man who has felt the duality of his animal activity and his conscience can continue
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  his activity only by adjusting that activity to the demands of conscience, or by
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  hiding from himself the indication's conscience gives him of the wrongness of his animal life.
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  All human life, we may say, consists solely of these two activities,
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  one bringing one's activities into harmony with conscience, or two hiding form one's
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  self the indications of conscience in order to be able to continue to live as
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  before. Some do the first, others the second to attain the first.
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  There is but one means. Moral enlightenment, the increase of light in one's
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  self and attention to what it shows. For the second, there are two
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  means, one external and the other internal. The external means consists in occupations
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  that divert one's attention from the indications given by conscience. The internal method consists
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  in darkening conscience itself. As a man has two ways of avoiding seeing an
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  object that is before him, either by diverting his sight to other more striking
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  objects or by obstructing the sight of his own eyes. Just so, a
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  man can hide from himself the indications of conscience in two ways, either by
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  the external method of diverting his attention to various occupations, cares, amusements,
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  or games, or by the internal method of obstructing the organs of attention itself.
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  For people of dull limited moral feeling, the external diversions are often quite
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  sufficient to enable them not to perceive the indication's conscience gives of the wrongness of
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  their lives. But for morally sensitive people those means are often insufficient. The
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  external means do not quite divert attention from the consciousness of discord between one's life
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  and the demands of conscience. This consciousness hampers one's life and people in order
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  to be able to go on living as before have recourse to the reliable internal
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  method, which is that of darkening conscience itself. By poisoning the brain with
• 3:26:20
  stupefying substances, one is not living as conscience demands, yet lacks the strength
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  to reshape one's life in accord with its demands. The diversions that might distract
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  attention from the consciousness of this discord are insufficient or have become stale, and
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  so people stop the activity of the organs through which conscience manifests itself. As
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  a man by covering his eyes hides from himself what he does not wish to
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  see, not in the taste, nor in any pleasure, recreation, or
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  mirth. They afford lies the cause of the worldwide consumption of opium, whence
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  and tobacco, but simply in man's needs to hide from himself the demands of
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  cost unscience. Not only do people stupefy themselves to stifle their own consciences,
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  but when they wish to make others commit actions contrary to conscience, they intentionally
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  stupefy them. That is, arranged to stupefy people in order to deprive them
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  of conscience. When a fortified place has been captured, the soldiers do not
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  sack it and slay the defenseless old men and children. Orders are often given
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  to make them drunk, and then they do what is expected of them.
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  Everyone knows people who have taken to drink in consequence of some wrongdoing that has
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  tormented their conscience. Anyone can notice that those who lead im moral lives are
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  more attracted than others by stupefying substances. Bands of robbers or thieves cannot live
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  without intoxicants. In a word, it is impossible to avoid understanding that the
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  use of stupefiers, in large or small amounts, occasionally or regularly in the
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  higher or lower circles of society, is evoked by one and the same cause,
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  the need to stifle the voice of conscience in order not to be aware
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  of the discord existing between one's way of life and the demands of one's conscience.
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  In that alone lies the reason of the widespread use of all stupefying substances,
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  and among the rest of tobacco probably the most generally used and most harmful.
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  Any smoker may detect in himself the definite desire to stupefy himself with tobacco
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  at certain especially difficult moments. I look back at the days when I used
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  to smoke. When was it that I felt a special need of tobacco.
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  It was always at moments when I did not wish to remember certain things that
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  presented themselves to my recollection, when I wished to forget, not to think.
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  I sit by myself doing nothing and know I ought to set to work,
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  but didn't feel inclined to, so I smoke and go on sitting.
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  I have promised to be at someone's house by five o'clock, but I have
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  stayed too long somewhere else. I have remembered that I have missed the appointment,
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  but I do not like to remember it, so I smoke. I
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  I get vexed and say unpleasant things to someone and know I am doing wrong,
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  and see that I ought to stop, but I want to give vent
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  to my irritability, so I continue to smoke and continue to be irritable.
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  I play at cards and lose more than I intended to risk, so I
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  smoke. I have placed myself in an awkward position, have acted badly,
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  have made a mistake, and ought to acknowledge the mess I am in and
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  thus escape from it. But I do not like to acknowledge it, So
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  I accuse others and smoke. I write something and am not quite satisfied with
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  what I have written. I ought to abandon it, but I wish to
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  finish what I have planned to dose. I smoke. I dispute and see
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  that my opponent and I do not understand and cannot understand one another. But
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  I wish to express my opinion, so I continue to talk, and I
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  smoke. Emancipation from this evil will be an epoch in the life of humanity,
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  and that epoch seems to be at hand. The evil is recognized.
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  An alteration has already taken place in our perception can discerning the use of stupefying
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  substances. People have understood the terrible harm of these things and are beginning to
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  point them out. And this almost unnoticed alteration in perception will inevitably bring about
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  the emancipation of men from the use of stupefying things, and will enable them
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  to open their eyes to the demands of their consciences, and they will begin
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  to order their lives in accord with their perceptions. Physiology has scientifically demonstrated the
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  connection between the brain and the mind in the well known experiments of vivisection performed
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  by physiologists on the brains of living animals, which experiments defy all contradiction.
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  The most famous among these experiments are those of the French physiologist Flowerings, who
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  experiments on animals whose physical constitution enables them to endure considerable injuries to cranium and
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  brain. He cut away the upper portions of the brain layer by layer,
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  one after another, and it is not saying too much to assert that as
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  the layers disappeared one by one, the mental faculties of the animals diminished at
• 3:30:58
  the same time and eventually disappeared altogether. Thus Flowering succeeded in reducing fowls to
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  a condition in which every mental function and every capacity of receiving sensational impressions or
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  of performing any conscious action were completely annihilated, and yet physical life went on.
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  The animals remained motionless at any spot in which they were placed, as
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  though they were in a deep sleep. They responded to no external stimulus,
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  and were kept alive by artificial feeding. They led as it were a mere
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  vegetable existence. Thus they remained alive for months and years, and increased in
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  weight and size of the body. Similar experiments have been successfully performed on higher
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  animals, that is to say, on mammals. If the cerebral hemispheres of
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  a mammal are cut away piecemeal, says Valentine, the mental activity descends all
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  the deeper the further the quantitative loss extends. As a rule, when the
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  ventricles are reached complete unconsciousness supervenes. That stronger proof of the connection between mind
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  and brain can there exist than that of the anatomist scalpel. Where truth abides,
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  truth is within ourselves. It takes no rise from outward things. Whatever
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  you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all where truth abides
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  in fullness, and around wall upon wall, the gloss flesh hems it in
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  this perfect clear conception which is truth, A baffling and perverting carnal mesh blinds
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  it and makes all error. And to know rather consists in opening out a
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  way, whence the imprisoned splendor may escape, than in affecting entry. For
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  a light supposed to be without Robert Browning