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THOUGHTS ARE THINGS: Mental Magnetism, Creative Thought & Law of Attraction – Edward Walker · THE SECRET LAW OF ATTRACTION: Manifest Wealth, Success & Abundance

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  Speaker 1: Thoughts are Things by Edward Walker nineteen o nine forward.
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  Speaker 1: This little book contains a message for you. You who
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  Speaker 1: are reading these lines. Think of the book what you
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  Speaker 1: will at first. Nevertheless, it will leave its message imprinted
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  Speaker 1: upon your mind, and you will be unable to forget it.
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  Speaker 1: The reading of it will form a distinct epoch in
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  Speaker 1: your life. Little as you may realize it at this moment,
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  Speaker 1: you will be different henceforth by reason of the message
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  Speaker 1: contained herein. You may not accept all of its statements,
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  Speaker 1: but some of them will stick in your mind, as
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  Speaker 1: does the burr in the wool of the passing sheep.
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  Speaker 1: As Whitman once said, my words will itchen your ears
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  Speaker 1: till you understand them, And often almost unconsciously, you will
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  Speaker 1: find yourself acting upon its advice, following its precepts, heeding
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  Speaker 1: its admonitions. But fear not. The message is for your betterment, advancement, strengthening.
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  Speaker 1: It will bring you power and possessions. It will make
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  Speaker 1: you a master of yourself and outside things. In its
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  Speaker 1: pages are condensed many important statements of truth and scientific fact.
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  Speaker 1: Its chapters blend and merge into each other, and what
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  Speaker 1: may at first glance seem to be repetition will later
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  Speaker 1: be seen to be but a new emphasis or a
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  Speaker 1: presentation of a new phase. The first reading of this
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  Speaker 1: book will serve as but a mere taste of its contents.
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  Speaker 1: It will need many rear readings in order to extract
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  Speaker 1: its full flavor. We advise that you read it through
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  Speaker 1: the first time without attempting to master its contents. Then
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  Speaker 1: read it again carefully in the light of the new
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  Speaker 1: ideas that have come to you from the first reading.
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  Speaker 1: You will find new things in it each time you
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  Speaker 1: go through its pages. The value of a book of
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  Speaker 1: this kind is not represented by the nominal price at
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  Speaker 1: which it is sold. When you realize the benefit that
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  Speaker 1: its teachings have been to you, you will feel that
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  Speaker 1: you have not paid fully for it. Then pay the
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  Speaker 1: balance by bringing it to the attention of someone else
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  Speaker 1: who may need it. Chapter one, Thoughts are things. Among
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  Speaker 1: the many remarkable statements of new and startling scientific fact,
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  Speaker 1: discovery and phenomena that we hear on all sides statements
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  Speaker 1: sounding strange to the ears of persons of the older
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  Speaker 1: habits of thought, Perhaps the most startling and unprecedented is
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  Speaker 1: that with which we head this chapter and entitle this
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  Speaker 1: book the statement that thoughts are things. Only a few
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  Speaker 1: years ago, an expression of this kind would have caused
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  Speaker 1: the significant lifting of eyebrows and the equally significant wagging
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  Speaker 1: of heads. It would have given rise to the suspicion
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  Speaker 1: of extreme queerness. But today, surrounded as it is with
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  Speaker 1: equally wonderful statements regarding the natural phenomena of life and
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  Speaker 1: the universe, it is accepted at least as possible and
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  Speaker 1: quite in keeping with other scientific ideas by those who
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  Speaker 1: keep abreast of the advanced thought of the day. We
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  Speaker 1: are indeed living in a wonderful age, and wonderful things
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  Speaker 1: have become commonplace, And this wonderful idea that thoughts are
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  Speaker 1: things is becoming so common that many fail to recognize
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  Speaker 1: the remarkable features of the fact, and the significance and
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  Speaker 1: importance of the discovery. And yet it is a matter
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  Speaker 1: that is closely bound up with the lives of each
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  Speaker 1: and every one of us, a matter that makes for
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  Speaker 1: the weal or woe of every human being. And consequently
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  Speaker 1: it behooves us to examine carefully this scientific fact that
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  Speaker 1: thoughts are things. The idea of the thinness of thoughts
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  Speaker 1: is diametrically opposed to the older view regarding mental activities. Formerly,
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  Speaker 1: thoughts were regarded as mere, abstract, idealistic somethings, far divorced
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  Speaker 1: from actuality. As we understand the term, thoughts were regarded
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  Speaker 1: as intangible somethings allied to dreams, fancies, and imaginings, vapory
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  Speaker 1: nothings that arise like the mist and again disappear like
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  Speaker 1: the mist before the morning sun. Important and real. As
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  Speaker 1: the results of thoughts were seen to be, the thoughts
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  Speaker 1: themselves were held to be the very antithesis of these results,
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  Speaker 1: the very essence of unreality. Therefore, this new doctrine that
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  Speaker 1: thoughts are things is revolutionary in the extreme, upsetting all
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  Speaker 1: the preconceived theories, ideas, and conceptions of the older schools
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  Speaker 1: of thought. But still so true is the doctrine seen
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  Speaker 1: to be, and so important a part does it play
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  Speaker 1: in the actual every day life of us. All that
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  Speaker 1: people are demanding to be informed regarding the underlying principles
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  Speaker 1: of the subject, the plain facts of the case, divested
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  Speaker 1: of academic verbiage and technical terms, and this little book
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  Speaker 1: attempts to fill this important demand and these requirements. At
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of our little talk regarding the thinness of thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: Let us understand each other concerning the exact meaning of
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  Speaker 1: the term thoughts as used in this connection. To many persons,
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  Speaker 1: the term thoughts signifies nothing more than the result of
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  Speaker 1: intellectual activity the ideas evolved by the reasoning facilities. But
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  Speaker 1: the term has a much wider and broader significance, particularly
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  Speaker 1: in connection with the phase of the subject now before
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  Speaker 1: us for consideration. For the purposes of our inquiry, we
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  Speaker 1: must hold that a thought is any mental state or
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  Speaker 1: mental activity, including those of the intellect, feelings, emotions, will desire, imagination,
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  Speaker 1: or memory, all mental states. In fact, concerning the above
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  Speaker 1: general definition, we would say that the mental states known
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  Speaker 1: as feelings, emotions, desires will in imagination have a degree
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  Speaker 1: of thickness more marked than the states of pure intellectual activity,
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  Speaker 1: for the former are creative in their nature, while the
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  Speaker 1: latter are merely activities in the direction of weighing, comparing, measuring,
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  Speaker 1: deciding upon, choosing, or determining upon the images, ideas, or
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  Speaker 1: concepts created by the first name set of mental activities.
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  Speaker 1: The dynamic power of the first name set of mental
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  Speaker 1: states is very much greater than those of the purely
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  Speaker 1: intellectual mental states. For reasons that we shall discover as
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  Speaker 1: we proceed. They are more elemental, basic, primitive, and accordingly
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  Speaker 1: more concerned with energy and expressive force than the more
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  Speaker 1: abstract activities of the mind. For example, compare the relative
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  Speaker 1: dynamic qualities of the strong feeling of love or hate
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  Speaker 1: accompanied by the desire to act in accordance therewith, on
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  Speaker 1: the one hand, and a strong intellectual effort to decide
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  Speaker 1: some disputed point of logic or philosophy, or perhaps a
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  Speaker 1: nice point in grammatical construction or a problem in differential calculus,
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  Speaker 1: on the other hand, which is apt to manifest its
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  Speaker 1: thinness in expression, activity, or materialization with the greatest dynamic force,
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  Speaker 1: or which is apt to manifest the greatest dynamic force
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  Speaker 1: the imaginative images of a Napoleon, a shakespeare An Emerson,
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  Speaker 1: a Darwin or Spencer, or the efforts of the reason
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  Speaker 1: exerted toward the statement of the exact distinction or resemblance,
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  Speaker 1: or both at the same time, between tweedle, dumb, and
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  Speaker 1: tweedled on the part of a great abstract philosopher like Hegel.
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  Speaker 1: The first set represents the life blood, the nerves, the
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  Speaker 1: meat and marrow of thought. The latter the dry bones,
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  Speaker 1: so when we say that thoughts are things, let us
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  Speaker 1: remember what we mean by thoughts. The thinness of thoughts
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  Speaker 1: manifests in a number of ways, the principle of which
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  Speaker 1: may be grouped into the following four classes of manifestation. Viz. One,
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  Speaker 1: manifestation in the direction of creating character and personality, both
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  Speaker 1: inward character and outward expression of personality. We create our
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  Speaker 1: own character and personality by the thoughts we originate, harbor, entertain,
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  Speaker 1: or except from others. We are, each of us the
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  Speaker 1: result of what we have thought in the past. We
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  Speaker 1: will be the result of what we are now thinking.
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  Speaker 1: Our today's are the result of our past thinking. Our
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  Speaker 1: tomorrows will be the result of our present thinking. We
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  Speaker 1: have been our own mental parents, and we will be
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  Speaker 1: our own mental children. Two manifestation in the direction of
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  Speaker 1: the materialization of our ideals, good or bad, into objective
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  Speaker 1: and concrete existence. Thoughts are mental things and tend to
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  Speaker 1: become material things. The ideal becomes real, our dreams come true.
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  Speaker 1: Our desires are seed thoughts that have a tendency to
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  Speaker 1: sprout and grow and blossom and bear fruit. And the
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  Speaker 1: blossom and the fruit are of the same nature as
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  Speaker 1: the seed. Thought. We are sowing these seeds every day.
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  Speaker 1: Are we prepared to accept the perfume of the blossom
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  Speaker 1: and taste the meat of the fruit? Free manifestation in
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  Speaker 1: the direction of drawing to ourselves the persons, things, and
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  Speaker 1: environments in harmony with and conducive to the character of
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  Speaker 1: our desires, mental images, feelings, and ideals, or else in
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  Speaker 1: urging and leading us in the direction of these persons, things,
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  Speaker 1: and environments in harmony with our thoughts. Just as the
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  Speaker 1: vibration of a particular atom attracts to it another atom,
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  Speaker 1: the vibrations of which are in harmonious rhythm with it
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  Speaker 1: or else, urges the first atom toward the other or both,
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  Speaker 1: so do the vibrations of our thoughts exert and urge
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  Speaker 1: and attraction upon us and upon others In harmony with
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  Speaker 1: our vibrations. Each thought seeks its own kind. Birds of
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  Speaker 1: a feather flock together. Oil and water will not mix.
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  Speaker 1: The law of atomic affinity is paralleled by the law
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  Speaker 1: of mental attraction. Four. Manifestation in the direction of vibratory
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  Speaker 1: waves radiating in all directions, influencing those in harmony therewith.
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  Speaker 1: Just as we are influenced by the thought waves of
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  Speaker 1: others with which we are in harmony. Mental currents are
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  Speaker 1: just as real as are currents of light, heat, electricity,
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  Speaker 1: or magnetism, flowing out in all directions, often at the
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  Speaker 1: greatest distance from their creators. They exert an effect upon
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  Speaker 1: all within their field of influence, but only in so
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  Speaker 1: far as those persons bear a harmonious relation to the thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: Each kind of thought has its own rate, degree, and
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  Speaker 1: character of vibration. There are shades and degrees of harmony
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  Speaker 1: and in harmony between these rates of vibration, just as
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  Speaker 1: there are in music. We attract our own kind of
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  Speaker 1: thought waves to us. We repel our opposites. Like the
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  Speaker 1: Marconi wireless telegraphic instruments. We receive only those messages with
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  Speaker 1: which we are in tune. We have the right and
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  Speaker 1: the power to establish our own rhythmic tune. Consciously or unconsciously.
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  Speaker 1: We are establishing our rhythmic rate and are attracting to
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  Speaker 1: us that which is in harmony therewith we are establishing
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  Speaker 1: mental connections with others of our own mental kind. Are
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  Speaker 1: we selecting mental company worthy of ourselves and conducive to advancement,
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  Speaker 1: power and betterment? That is a question that each must
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  Speaker 1: answer for oneself. Surely it is an important one. And
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  Speaker 1: these are the four classes of manifestation of the things
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  Speaker 1: of thought. Surely a careful consideration of the activities mentioned
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  Speaker 1: above leads one to an agreement to the proposition that
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  Speaker 1: thoughts are things, real, actual forms of energy and power,
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  Speaker 1: and not the airy, unreal appearances that we had thought them.
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  Speaker 1: And from whence does this quality of thingness of thoughts arise?
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  Speaker 1: Why is a thought a thing? Because mind itself, the
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  Speaker 1: field from which thoughts arise, is a real, actual, substantial
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  Speaker 1: form of energy. Mind in itself is believed to be
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  Speaker 1: a subtle form of static energy from which arise the
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  Speaker 1: activities called thought, which is the dynamic phase of mind.
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  Speaker 1: Mind is static energy. Thought is dynamic energy, the two
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  Speaker 1: phases of the same thing. Science informs us that every
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  Speaker 1: mental activity involves the production and manifestation of energy. There
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  Speaker 1: is a burning up of brain substance occasion by every thought,
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  Speaker 1: just as there is a burning up of bodily tissue
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  Speaker 1: during physical motion, and just as there is a burning
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  Speaker 1: up of the yellow of the battery when a telegraphic
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  Speaker 1: message is transmitted. There is a transformation of energy occasioned
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  Speaker 1: by the action of the brain. When a thought is created,
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  Speaker 1: science informs us that no energy is destroyed, and that
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  Speaker 1: all energy is transmuted into other forms of energy. This
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  Speaker 1: being so, it follows that the thought energy is capable
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  Speaker 1: of producing effects even at a distance, by means of
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  Speaker 1: vibratory thought waves, which travel along the ether. We shall
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  Speaker 1: see more about this phase in another chapter. Let us
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  Speaker 1: give you a general idea of what science is teaching
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  Speaker 1: regarding the fact that thought is a form of energy,
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  Speaker 1: a real, actual thing. Professor Akrowicz says, in this connection,
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  Speaker 1: every living being is a dynamic focus. A dynamic focus
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  Speaker 1: tends ever to propagate the motion that is proper to it.
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  Speaker 1: Propagated motion becomes transformed according to the medium it traverses.
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  Speaker 1: Motion tends always to propagate itself. Therefore, when we see
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  Speaker 1: work of any kind mechanical, electrical, nervic, or psychic, disappear
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  Speaker 1: without visible effect, then of two things one happens, either
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  Speaker 1: a transmission or a transformation. Where does the first end
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  Speaker 1: and where does the second begin? In an identical medium,
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  Speaker 1: there is only transmission. In a different medium, there is transformation.
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  Speaker 1: You send an electric current through a thick wire. You
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  Speaker 1: have the current, but you do not perceive any other force,
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  Speaker 1: but cut that thick wire and connect the ends by
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  Speaker 1: means of a fine wire. The fine wire will grow hot.
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  Speaker 1: There will be a transformation of a part of the
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  Speaker 1: current into heat. Take a pretty strong current and interpose
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  Speaker 1: a wire still more resistant, or a very thin carbon rod.
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  Speaker 1: The carbon will emit light. A part of the current
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  Speaker 1: then is transformed into heat and light. This light acts
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  Speaker 1: in every direction around about, first visibly as light, then
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  Speaker 1: invisibly as heat, and as electric current. Hold a magnet
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  Speaker 1: near it. If the magnet is weak and movable in
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  Speaker 1: the form of a magnetic needle, the beam of light
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  Speaker 1: will cause it to deviate. If it is strong and immovable,
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  Speaker 1: it will in turn cause the beam of light to deviate.
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  Speaker 1: And all this from a distance without contact, without special conductors,
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  Speaker 1: A process that is at once chemical, physical, and psychical
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  Speaker 1: goes on in a brain. A complex action of this
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  Speaker 1: kind is propagated through the gray matter, as waves are
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  Speaker 1: propagated in water. Regarded on its physiological side, an idea
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  Speaker 1: is only a vibration, a vibration that is propagated yet
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  Speaker 1: which does not pass out of a medium in which
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  Speaker 1: it can exist. As such, it is propagated as far
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  Speaker 1: as other like vibrations allow. It is propagated more widely
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  Speaker 1: if it assumes the character which subjectively we call a motive,
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  Speaker 1: but it cannot go beyond without being transformed. Nevertheless, like
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  Speaker 1: force in general, it cannot remain in isolation. It escapes
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  Speaker 1: in disguise. Professor Akrowicic says, further, thought stays at home.
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  Speaker 1: As the chemical action of a battery remains in the battery,
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  Speaker 1: it is represented by its dynamic correlate, called in the
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  Speaker 1: case of the battery, a current, and in the case
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  Speaker 1: of the brain, I know not what, but whatever its
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  Speaker 1: name may be, it is the dynamic correlate of thought.
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  Speaker 1: I have chosen the term dynamic correlate. There is something
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  Speaker 1: more than that. The universe is neither dead nor void.
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  Speaker 1: A force that is transmitted meets other forces, and if
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  Speaker 1: it is transformed only little by little, it usually limits
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  Speaker 1: itself to modifying another force at its own cost, though
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  Speaker 1: without suffering perceptibly thereby. This is the case particularly with
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  Speaker 1: forces that are persistent, concentrated, well seconded by their medium.
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  Speaker 1: It is the case with the physiological equilibrium, nervic force,
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  Speaker 1: psychic force, ideas, emotions, tendencies. These modify environing forces without
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  Speaker 1: themselves disappearing. They are but imperceptibly transformed, and if the
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  Speaker 1: next man is of a nature exceptionally well adapted to them,
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  Speaker 1: they gain an inductive action. We ask you to read
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  Speaker 1: carefully the above quotation from this scientific authority, who gives
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  Speaker 1: us one of the most striking presentations of the analogy
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  Speaker 1: existing between the so called physical energies and the energies
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  Speaker 1: of the mind and thought. We feel sure that after
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  Speaker 1: a careful reading, you will agree with us that modern
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  Speaker 1: physical science has met mental science face to face, and
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  Speaker 1: that the two have clasped hands in agreement. That dynamic
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  Speaker 1: correlate mentioned by Prof. Akrowix is called thought waves or
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  Speaker 1: currents of thought vibrations by us in this work. The
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  Speaker 1: space of this little book prevents a more elaborate argument
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  Speaker 1: and proof of the statement that thoughts are things from
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  Speaker 1: the scientific viewpoint. We trust that we have at least
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  Speaker 1: given you the important basic statement of fact supported by
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  Speaker 1: reasonable analogy. In the following chapters, you will doubtless find
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  Speaker 1: other korrobative instances agreeing with incidents within your own personal experience,
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  Speaker 1: and this, after all, is the best proof. Chapter two,
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  Speaker 1: Thought currents in the preceding chapter, we explain to you
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  Speaker 1: that the production of a thought is a manifestation of energy,
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  Speaker 1: a transformation of energy from one form to another. We
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  Speaker 1: close the chapter by a quotation from Professor Akrowix in
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  Speaker 1: which he compared the production of thought to the production
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  Speaker 1: of electric light and heat. You will remember that he
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  Speaker 1: then went on to speak of the light which was
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  Speaker 1: but transformed electricity, sending forth vibratory waves in all directions,
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  Speaker 1: which waves appear first as visible light and then as
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  Speaker 1: invisible heat and electric currents. He then makes the following statement,
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  Speaker 1: which bears a startling analogy to the phenomena of mental currents.
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  Speaker 1: Hold a magnet near it the beam of light. If
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  Speaker 1: the magnet is weak and movable in the form of
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  Speaker 1: a magnetic needle, the beam of light will cause it
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  Speaker 1: to deviate. If it is strong and immovable, it will
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  Speaker 1: in turn cause the beam of light to deviate. All
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  Speaker 1: this from a distance without contact, without special conductors. The
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  Speaker 1: professor then goes on to compare the action of electricity
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  Speaker 1: to that of thought, so far as its production is concerned.
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  Speaker 1: He says that in the production of thought, a process
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  Speaker 1: that is at once chemical, physical, and psychical, goes on
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  Speaker 1: in the brain. He tells us that an idea is
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  Speaker 1: only a vibration, and that a complex action of this
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  Speaker 1: kind is propagated through the gray brain matter as waves
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  Speaker 1: are propagated in water. He informs us that thought, like
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  Speaker 1: any other form of energy, cannot escape from the medium
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  Speaker 1: in which it originates without a transformation in form. He
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  Speaker 1: says that, like force in general, it cannot remain in isolation.
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  Speaker 1: It escapes in disguise. He says, thought stays at home.
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  Speaker 1: As the chemical action of a battery remains in the battery.
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  Speaker 1: It is represented by its dynamic correlate, called in the
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  Speaker 1: case of the battery, a current, and in the case
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  Speaker 1: of the brain, I know not what, but whatever its
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  Speaker 1: name may be, it is the dynamic correlative thought. This
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  Speaker 1: transformed thought force that is radiated from the brain in
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  Speaker 1: currents and waves, which Professor Acrowix conservatively styles the dynamic
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  Speaker 1: correlative thought, has not as yet received an authoritative scientific title.
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  Speaker 1: It is known by many names, chief among which are
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  Speaker 1: the following thought force, dynamic thought, mind power, et cetera,
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  Speaker 1: all of which, however, cover the static as well as
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  Speaker 1: the dynamic phases of thought. Currents. The students of the
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  Speaker 1: subject seem to prefer the terms thought, vibrations, thought waves,
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  Speaker 1: mental currents, et cetera. The matter of names, however, is
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  Speaker 1: not important, the vital fact being that every person is
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  Speaker 1: constantly sending forth mental currents of different degrees of power, character,
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  Speaker 1: and quality, which often travel to great distances, and which,
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  Speaker 1: coming in contact with the minds of other persons in
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  Speaker 1: whom is manifested a degree of harmony with the character
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  Speaker 1: of the thought there tends to induce or reproduce the
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  Speaker 1: original thought, emotion, feeling, desire, or other mental state. You
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  Speaker 1: will see that in view of this fact, thoughts are
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  Speaker 1: things in the fullest sense of the word. The phenomena
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  Speaker 1: of telepathy have attracted the attention of the public mind
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  Speaker 1: of recent years, and is justly regarded as being most wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: But the phenomena of mental currents and thought waves of feeling, desire,
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  Speaker 1: and emotion are far more common and exert a far
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  Speaker 1: more vital influence on the race than do the technical
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: psychological phenomena of telepathy. In experimental telepathy, there is a
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  Speaker 1: transference of a mental image of certain words, figures, designs,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera, from one mind to another. This transference is
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  Speaker 1: occasioned by the passage of thought waves, of course, but
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: the mental image transmitted is almost always some formal abstract idea,
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  Speaker 1: such as certain words, numbers, drawn, figures, et cetera, that
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  Speaker 1: have very little of the emotive power in them, and
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  Speaker 1: which consequently are very difficult to transmit. The fact that
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  Speaker 1: they are transmitted at all, even under exceptional circumstances and
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  Speaker 1: between people specially and rapport with each other, and with
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  Speaker 1: the advantage of the particularly sensitive organism of the recipient,
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  Speaker 1: is a striking proof of the power of thought waves
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  Speaker 1: and mental vibrations. But the very difficulty of reproducing such
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: delicate tests involving the presence of unusual powers of receptive
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  Speaker 1: sensibility and the transmission of abstract symbols or mental images,
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  Speaker 1: have caused many people to undervalue the importance of the
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  Speaker 1: subject and the universality of its manifestations. They agree that
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: these exhibitions and experiments are wonderful and interesting, but finding
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  Speaker 1: that they cannot be duplicated by everyone on all occasions,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: they regard the phenomena as unusual and abnormal, placing them
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  Speaker 1: in the category of clairvoyance, et cetera. Little do they
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  Speaker 1: realize that every one is constantly sending forth these mental
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  Speaker 1: currents which have an effect upon others, and that every
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  Speaker 1: one is receiving similar thought waves from others, which affect
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  Speaker 1: one according to the character of his own thought, according
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  Speaker 1: to his mental keynote. There are but few people who
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  Speaker 1: have not had experiences of their own which demonstrate the
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  Speaker 1: reality of these mental currents. Who has not suddenly sensed
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: the approach of some person before he put in an appearance,
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  Speaker 1: or before a letter was received from him? This fact
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: has been embodied in a common proverb, Speak of an
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  Speaker 1: angel and you hear the flapping of his wings, or
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: its correlate, speak of the devil, and his imps will appear.
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  Speaker 1: Who has not felt the pain or distress of some
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  Speaker 1: loved one at a distance. These experiences are too common
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  Speaker 1: and universal to require argument, and it will be noted
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  Speaker 1: that the majority of them are reproductions of emotive mental
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  Speaker 1: states of others, rather than mere words or abstract thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: As Professor Ackrowicz says, it is propagated more widely if
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  Speaker 1: it assumes the character which subjectively we call a motive.
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  Speaker 1: But there are certain fixed, persistent, abstract ideas which form
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  Speaker 1: mental images, as clearly defined as the strongest feeling, desire,
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  Speaker 1: or emotion, for instance, the result of the concentrated thought
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  Speaker 1: of an inventor, scientist, or artist, which produces a mental
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: image of a remarkable degree of depth and clearness, from
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  Speaker 1: which emanate thought waves of unusual power and vitality. As
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  Speaker 1: we have said, there is a great difference in the
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  Speaker 1: degree and character of the mental currents or thought waves
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: radiated from the minds of different individuals. There are, of course,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: as many rates, degrees, and character of thought vibrations as
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: there are varieties of thought, feelings, desires, emotions, et cetera.
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  Speaker 1: Every mental state has its own degree, quality, and character
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  Speaker 1: of vibration, and as the mental states intermingle and become
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: more complex, so do the variations of vibratory action become
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: more complex. But whether simple or complex, they tend to
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  Speaker 1: set up similar vibrations in the minds of others who
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: are attuned to receive them in the shape of thought waves.
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  Speaker 1: There are also many degrees of intensity, influence, and persistence.
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  Speaker 1: There is a difference as wide as the space between
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  Speaker 1: the poles between a strong, intense mental state and a
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: mere fanciful feeling or idea, and the vibrations of each
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: correspond there too. There are also the vibrations arising from
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: special mental states and from the general character of the
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: mental states of the individual. The latter are in the
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: nature of composite vibrations arising from the continued action of
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  Speaker 1: the mind after the actual thought has passed from the
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: field of consciousness into the subconscious regions of the mind.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: The vibrations arising from the general character of the thoughts
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  Speaker 1: of the individual, as a rule, are not projected very
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: far from his body, but remain around him in the
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: state of a thought atmosphere or aura as some have
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: called it, and which thought atmosphere has much to do
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  Speaker 1: with what we call the phenomena of personality. This subject
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  Speaker 1: of thought atmospheres will be considered in detail in our
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  Speaker 1: next chapter. Other thought waves arising from special mental states
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  Speaker 1: are projected at greater distance from the body according to
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  Speaker 1: their nature and intensity. The man of strong desires, feelings,
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  Speaker 1: will and imagination has a tendency to project his thought
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  Speaker 1: currents to a great distance. Not only do individuals have
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  Speaker 1: their distinctive thought waves and mental currents, but assemblies, communities, cities, countries,
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  Speaker 1: and nations have their collective thought waves, arising, of course
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: from the composite thought of the individuals composing them. It
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: should require no argument to convince a thinking individual of
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: the difference in character between the thought waves existing in
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  Speaker 1: a church and a concert hall, a college and a barroom,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: a scientific library and a five cent show. Those who
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: have traveled much know that every city has its personal
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: mental atmosphere peculiar to itself, and even the small towns
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  Speaker 1: differ from each other in similar degree. Think of the
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: personalities of Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, New York, San Francisco, respectively.
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  Speaker 1: Is there any danger of mistaking the characteristics of one
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  Speaker 1: for that of another. These things do not just happen.
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  Speaker 1: They are the result of the operation of the scientific
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: laws of mental currents. There are certain portions of every
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: city in which there appears to be a mental something
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  Speaker 1: at work that induces activity, business, energy, and enterprise, while
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  Speaker 1: only a block or so distant an entirely different state
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  Speaker 1: of affairs exists. There is a tendency of men of
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: like mental characteristics to attract each other to a common center,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: the result being that the center, once formed, serves to
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  Speaker 1: attract others to it and to become a thought whirlpool
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: around which the waters of business and commerce circle. It
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: is of common knowledge that in many cities there is
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: one side of a certain street that attracts to itself
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: the greater share of the business of the thoroughfare. Although
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: there is no parent physical explanation of the phenomena, the
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  Speaker 1: secret is that some strong mentality had originally started the
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: thought currents in that direction, and then others, feeling the attraction,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: have added to the original impulse, which then became permanent.
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  Speaker 1: The streets, the buildings, the street cars, and trains are
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: filled with the thought currents of the people frequenting them,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: and we are affected by them in two ways, viz.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: One in the direction of receiving the vibrations having some
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: marked degree of harmony with our own, and two by
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: feeling the resistance to our own expression of thought occasioned
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: by the opposing thought waves of others not in harmony
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: with us. The first is in the direction of the
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: affinity existing between similar things on all planes of activity, physical, mental,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: and spiritual, which manifests in the direction of attracting to
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  Speaker 1: a thing the other things in harmonic vibration with itself,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: and the repulsion of other things lacking such harmonic vibrations.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: The second is caused by the universal law of opposites
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  Speaker 1: operating likewise on all planes of activity, physical, mental, and spiritual,
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  Speaker 1: which manifests in a thing by tending to oppose, resist,
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  Speaker 1: and retard the expression of its opposite. The fact to
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: be remembered in considering the first of the above forms
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: of contact with thought currents of others is that we
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  Speaker 1: may decide the character of the thoughts that we shall
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  Speaker 1: receive by carefully observing the rule to think only along
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: such lines as may be worthy of us, and which
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: may tend to our betterment, strength, and advancement. In other words,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: we have the power to select our mental company, determine,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: to regulate your thoughts so that you will attract to
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: yourself only the thoughts conducive to your well being and advancement,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: and to carefully refrain from indulging in feelings, desires, imaginings,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: or other mental states that may be detrimental to you
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: in the direction of attracting to you similar thought waves
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: emanating from the minds of others. Many persons who exercise
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: great care in their selection of personal company are very
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: careless about the sune election of their mental comrades, and
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: the latter is just as important, if not more so
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: than the former. You avoid the companionship of persons in
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: whose company you are ashamed to be seen. Likewise, should
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: you avoid the companionship of thoughts that you would be
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: ashamed to have people know that you had formed acquaintance
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: in comradeship with. In the second form of contact with
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: the mental currents of others, the remedy lies in the
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: fact that we are able to counteract the opposing and
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: adverse thought currents of others in two ways viz. A,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: by avoiding, so far as is possible, the vicinity favored
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: by those of the opposing mental tendencies. People of similar
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: tastes are apt to congregate around each other owing to
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: the law of mental attraction, and it is easy to
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: avoid frequenting such places. Keep out of harm's way, avoid
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: bad company for this if no other reason. Refrain from
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: frequenting places having a bad mental atmosphere, and avoid people
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: whose personal atmosphere has a tendency to affe affect you adversely,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: for instance, in the direction of depressing you, giving you
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: detrimental suggestions, lowering influence, et cetera. Frequent the places and
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: cultivate the presence of the people from which you recognize
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  Speaker 1: the emanation of helpful and stimulating thought vibrations. But there
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: is still another and a better way, and that is
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: be to cultivate strong, positive thought vibrations of your own,
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  Speaker 1: which will overpower and beat off the opposing mental currents
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  Speaker 1: of others which have tended to retard you. The law
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: in the mental world, as in the physical, is that
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: positives overcome negatives. This is the law for you to
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: remember and put into effect. A positive mental state is
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  Speaker 1: one conducive to advancement, strength, and power, one that stimulates
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: and imparts vitality. A negative mental state is one that degrades, weakens,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: robs of power, one that depresses and enervates. They are opposites.
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  Speaker 1: There is no difficulty in distinguishing between them. Hold fast
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  Speaker 1: to the positives, discard the negatives, and remember, first, last,
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  Speaker 1: and all the time, that positives neutralize and destroy negatives.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter three Thought atmospheres. Every person has a thought atmosphere
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  Speaker 1: depending upon the general character of his thoughts, and every place, house, room, office,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: or workshop has its own distinctive mental atmosphere, arising from
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: the general character of the thoughts of the persons occupying it.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Proof of this statement is not necessary to persons who
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: have been out in the world of men and women,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: and who have learned to distinguish that subtle mental emanation
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: surrounding people and producing its effect upon those with whom
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: it comes in contact. This experience has come to nearly
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: every person who may read these words, who has not
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: felt that strange, unexplainable but distinct impression regarding strange people
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: the moment they have entered one's presence. Who has not
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: felt that peculi your sensation of like or dislike, confidence
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: or distrust, attention or aversion arising from the mere presence
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: of certain people who may not even be known to one.
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  Speaker 1: These things do not arise from mere fancy, but are
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: the result of perfectly natural laws that are understood by
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: those who have made a scientific study of the subject.
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  Speaker 1: There are certain public speakers, preachers, orators, statesmen, and others
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  Speaker 1: accustomed to addressing large numbers of people, who diffuse a
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: thought influence over their hearers merely by standing in their
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: midst and attracting their attention. Some men seem to claim
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: recognition as born leaders by reason of that strange thought
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: influence emanating from them, even before they have uttered a word. Others,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: perhaps equally brilliant intellectually, fail to produce this effect. There
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: seems to be something lacking in them. There are physicians
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: whose mere entry into the room in parts a feeling
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: of confidence and trust in the mind of the patient
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: and his family, and which changes the entire atmosphere of
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: the room. Other physicians, possessing equal knowledge, experience, and ability,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: fail to produce this effect. Some salesmen induce a feeling
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: of good fellowship the moment they come into one's presence,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: while others arouse but a feeling of indifference or even
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: actual repulsion. Some actors need but to appear before an audience,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: and even before the first words of the lines are uttered,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: something goes out from the man to the crowd that
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: is actually felt as a living force, while other actors
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: produce only a lack of interest and oftentimes a feeling
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: of being bored. But why multiply these instances of the
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: manifestations of mental atmosphere. Every one who has noticed anything
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: about the characteristics of people must have had his or
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: her attention directed to this matter by actual experience. Many
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: times it is a matter of such common experience that
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: the idea has but to be mentioned In order to
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: be recognized and admitted by some, this personal atmosphere of
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: people has been treated as if it were some strange, unknown,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: for unconnected with mind or body of the people emanating it.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: The term magnetism has been used in connection with it
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: very aptly, and this fact has led many to imagine
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: that it is something other than it is, And accordingly,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: many ingenious theories have been devised to account for it,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: and many have been the methods taught to be conducive
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: to its cultivation. Publishers and teachers have issued high price
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: courses purporting to instruct one in the art of acquiring
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: personal magnetism. Certain methods of breathing, certain modes of diet,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: certain physical exercises. All these have formed parts of the
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: so called instruction in the art of acquiring personal magnetism,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: particularly in its phase of personal atmosphere. But under all
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: of these methods there may be noticed a carefully veiled
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: allusion to the value of the mental attitude of the
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: person practicing the exercise, And in that little side issue
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: really lies all the virtue in the various methods. Personal
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: magnetism is first, last, and all the time nothing but
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: the result of mental energies, and depends entirely upon the character, quality,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: and degree of thought energy manifested by the person. One's
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: prevalent thoughts and feelings, his hopes, fears and desires, as
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: well as his mental pictures produced in his imagination, are
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: not only projected into space there to affect others, but
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: they also create around him what some of the old
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: writers called an aura or atmosphere of thought, vibrations which
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: may be felt distinctly by those with whom he comes
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: in contact. This mental atmosphere varies in degree, character quality,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: and extension according to the characteristics of the person. In
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: some the extension is great, that is, the mental atmosphere
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: may be felt at a great distance from them, while
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: in others it may be so feeble that it can
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: be noticed only when one is very near to them.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Then again, the degree of power differs materially. Some persons
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: radiate such much powerful thought vibrations that others are markedly influenced,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: more or less by simply remaining in the presence of
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: the persons emanating the force. Others radiate vibrations of but
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: a feeble character, which are capable of producing but a
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: faint effect, and so far as the character and kind
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: of vibrations emanated or radiated. One may see that the
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: variety is endless, depending as it does, upon the specific
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: character and thought, tendencies, and habits of the persons manifesting them.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: The whole matter may be summed up in the explanation
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: that each and every person is surrounded by a thought
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: atmosphere extending some distance from him, in which is reproduced
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: the general character of his mental states, and which atmosphere
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: may be and is felt by others with whom he
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: comes in contact. The degree of strength of the thought
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: atmosphere depends upon the degree of strength of the mental states.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: The degree of receptivity of others to this thought atmosphere
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: depends upon the particular temperamental receptivity of the other persons.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: This thought atmosph sphere is composed of subtle vibrations of
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: the ether, just as real and actual as the vibrations
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: which are known to us as electricity, magnetism, heat, and light.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: The matter is not one connected with mystical theories or
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: weird beliefs, but is recognized by the advanced science of today,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: having its underlying principles and laws of operation, which may
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: be understood by anyone who will take the trouble to
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: investigate the subjects scientifically. Beneath the strange theories and wild
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: assertions of some of the leaders of the many cults
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: and schools teaching some of the phenomena of the newer
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: phases of psychology, there is a solid basis of scientific
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: fact based upon experiment and rational investigation. As has been said,
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: not only do persons have their own thought atmospheres, but
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: places also have a similar condition manifested within them. That
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: is that every house, room, office, store, workshop, or other
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: place that is or has been occupied by people has
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: its own personal and particular thought atmosphere which is perceptible
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: to persons entering within its walls. This thought atmosphere is
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: the result of the thought vibrations of those who have
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: occupied it. This statement also is one that has but
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: to be mentioned in order to be recognized as being correct,
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: for nearly every person has had some personal experience of
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: this strange phenomena. Who has not felt, when entering into
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: a strange house, a peculiar feeling or impression about the place,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: even though its occupants may be utter strangers to the
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: visitor and may not yet have put in an appearance,
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: who has not experienced similar sensations when entering a strange
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: room in a hotel, school, railroad station, or other place,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: or in an empty house, who has not felt the
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: atmospheres of the several stores in which one deals. One
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: store gives the impression of activity and wide awakeness, while
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: another will convey the impression of sleepiness, non progressiveness, and
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: lack of interest. Another store will convey the impression of
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: fair dealing and a desire to satisfy the customer, while
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: another will give the undefinable feeling of trickiness, over shrewdness,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: and a desire to overreach the customer. Many persons receive
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: the above mentioned impressions quite readily and are influenced by them.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Some office building seem to be thrilling with life and activity,
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: while others give forth a somnolent, drowsy back. Number has
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: been here that is unmistakable. Ask any traveling salesman whether
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: he does not receive impressions of this kind from the
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: various places of business he visits on his trips. The
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: writer has been informed by a representative of one of
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: the great mercantile agencies who has acquired quite a reputation
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: for his ability to scent out unfavorable conditions in business.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: That the thought atmospheres of places of business, in many cases,
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: have been the first hint he received that there was
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: something queer under weigh in them. There is an entirely
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: different thought atmosphere around a business place in which things
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: are prosperous and progressive from that around one in which
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: the other opposite conditions prevail. Persons accustomed to entering business
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: places notice these things often, although they may not recognize
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  Speaker 1: the source of the impression, and may often attribute it
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  Speaker 1: to an instinct or intuition, It is really nothing but
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  Speaker 1: the impressions produced by the sensing of the particular mental
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  Speaker 1: atmosphere of the place. It may be asked how it
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  Speaker 1: is possible that places may possess mental atmospheres even after
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  Speaker 1: the persons causing them have departed from the place. The
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  Speaker 1: answer is to be found in the well established scientific
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  Speaker 1: law of the persistence of energy. A stove may be
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  Speaker 1: removed from a room, and yet its heat vibrations will
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  Speaker 1: remain for some time. A distant star may be blotted
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  Speaker 1: out of existence, and yet its light will travel for centuries.
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  Speaker 1: The light of the distant stars that we see every
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  Speaker 1: night left them in the shape of ethereal light vibrations
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  Speaker 1: hundreds of years ago. The perfume of the rose, which
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  Speaker 1: is but another form of vibration, lingers in the room
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  Speaker 1: for hours after the flower is removed. Old closets and
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  Speaker 1: bureau drawers retain the faint odor of perfume for years.
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  Speaker 1: Old letters, after being hidden away for quarter a century,
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  Speaker 1: give forth the subtle odor of the favorite perfume of
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  Speaker 1: the writer, bringing tears to the eyes of one who
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  Speaker 1: remembers the little ebony cabinet that Mary, Queen of Scots,
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  Speaker 1: brought over from France several centuries ago, still exhales the
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  Speaker 1: odor of the favorite perfume of that unhappy queen. A
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  Speaker 1: paper wafer may be laid upon the surface of a
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  Speaker 1: new razor, and the metal then breathed upon. When the
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  Speaker 1: moisture has evaporated, the wafer may be removed and no
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  Speaker 1: sign of its presence is apparent, but breathe upon it
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  Speaker 1: again a minute after, or a month or a year,
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  Speaker 1: and if the surface has not been previously disturbed, the
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  Speaker 1: spectral image of the wafer will reappear. The experiment may
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: be performed upon a good mirror with fair results. Let
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  Speaker 1: a sheet of paper be exposed to the bright sunlight
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  Speaker 1: after placing upon its surface another object, and then and
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  Speaker 1: carefully kept in the dark for several months after removing
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  Speaker 1: the object laid on it. If the sheet then be
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  Speaker 1: laid upon a plate of hot metal, still in the dark,
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  Speaker 1: the figure of the object will appear on its surface.
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  Speaker 1: Science gives us many analogies akin to that of the
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  Speaker 1: persistence of thought vibrations. But as we have said elsewhere
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  Speaker 1: in this little book, thought vibrations may be neutralized by
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  Speaker 1: others of a more positive character, or those of greater power,
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  Speaker 1: so that, no matter how negative may be the thought
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  Speaker 1: atmosphere of a place, it may be made positive by
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  Speaker 1: a change in the thoughts of those frequenting the place.
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  Speaker 1: By directing to the place a steady and frequent current
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  Speaker 1: of positive thought, the old conditions will disappear gradually, just
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  Speaker 1: as the darkness of a room may be driven out
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  Speaker 1: by letting in the light of the rising sun. The
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  Speaker 1: coming in of a positive person who radiates vigorous thought
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  Speaker 1: vibrations often changes the entire mental atmosphere of a place,
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  Speaker 1: and visitors may distinguish the difference at once. Each of
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  Speaker 1: you you may charge your room, house, office, or store
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  Speaker 1: with strong positive thought vibrations, if you will but begin
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  Speaker 1: to send forth the right kinds of thought and avoid
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  Speaker 1: the sending out of thoughts of a depressing, negative character.
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  Speaker 1: And just as the thought atmosphere of the place may
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  Speaker 1: be changed by right thinking, so may one's personal thought
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  Speaker 1: atmosphere be changed by the same process. Our personal thought
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  Speaker 1: atmospheres are just what we have made them by our
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: mental states, and we may alter, change, and improve them
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  Speaker 1: in the same way, if we will but go about
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  Speaker 1: it in earnest. The method of procedure is simple. This
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  Speaker 1: book is filled with it. The only thing needed is earnest, effort,
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  Speaker 1: and perseverance. The work itself becomes a pleasure and is
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  Speaker 1: helpful and power giving. For the reaction upon one's self
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  Speaker 1: of strong positive thoughts sent forth to create or improve
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: the mental atmosphere of one's self or one's room will
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: prove very beneficial, uplifting and strengthening. By action and reaction.
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  Speaker 1: Do we become so strong or weak according to the character
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  Speaker 1: of our thoughts and mental states? Chapter four. The magnet
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  Speaker 1: of thought. Thoughts are things, many things in fact, and
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  Speaker 1: one of the things that thought is is a magnet. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: a magnet, an actual magnet, not merely a figure of
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: speech magnet. This is one of the phases of the
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  Speaker 1: phenomena of thought thingness that possesses the most weird and
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  Speaker 1: magical interest to the investigator when he becomes aware of
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  Speaker 1: the truth of the proposition for the first time. Our
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  Speaker 1: thoughts constitute the elements of a great thought magnet that
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  Speaker 1: operates in the direction of drawing to us the persons
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  Speaker 1: things ideas knowledge and environment in harmony with our composite
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  Speaker 1: mental states, and conducive to the expression of our static
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: thought into dynamic action. And the reverse of this is true,
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: for the same peculiar property of the thought magnet operates
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  Speaker 1: in the direction of repelling and repulsing persons things ideas
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  Speaker 1: knowledge and environment of an opposite character and calculated to
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  Speaker 1: prevent the expression of our dominant thoughts. All this may
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  Speaker 1: seem strange and fanciful to one who has never investigated
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  Speaker 1: the subject, but it is proven not only by investigation
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  Speaker 1: and experiment, but also by analogy. All through nature, there
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  Speaker 1: is a manifestation of this law of attraction and repulsion.
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  Speaker 1: The atom attracts another in rhythmic harmony with itself, and
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: repels and repulses one of opposing vibratory rhythm, chemical affinity,
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  Speaker 1: molecular attraction, cohesion. Physical laws, all of them, as well
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  Speaker 1: as the phenomena of magnetism and electricity, all attest the
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: universality of this law. The mineral may be dissolved in
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: a liquid containing many other minerals or chemicals, and yet
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: when the opportunity for crystallization arises, we see the orderly
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: formation of its special crystal by gradual stages, the first
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: granule attracting to itself the materials of its own kind,
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: discarding and repelling atoms of different composition. The crystal acts
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  Speaker 1: almost most as if it knew its own kind. The
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: seed planted in the earth draws to itself from the
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: earth and water and light, precisely the kind of material
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  Speaker 1: it needs to build up its particular kind of plant.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: Take two tiny seeds, both practically alike so far as
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  Speaker 1: chemical analysis reveals, and plant them in the same earth,
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  Speaker 1: containing the same constituents. Plant them side by side, if
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  Speaker 1: you will, and from that same earth, and from the
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  Speaker 1: same water that falls upon them, and from the same
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: sunlight that invigorates them. Each plant draws to itself exactly
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: what is in rhythmic harmony with its inner nature, and
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: one develops into a deadly night shade, and the other
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  Speaker 1: into a fragrant rose. The honey of the bee and
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: the poison in its sting are both extracted from the
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  Speaker 1: same nectar it SIPs from. The flour the milk of
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: the cow and the virus of the cobra are drawn
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  Speaker 1: from the same elementary substances. Why there is no evidence
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  Speaker 1: of rational choice, as we use the term, in these things.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: There is but the operation of that universal principle, the
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  Speaker 1: law of attraction. Birds of a feather flock together like
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  Speaker 1: attracts like, And in the case of living things, we
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  Speaker 1: find that that mysterious process which we call nature provides
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  Speaker 1: that each thing shall draw to itself the other things
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  Speaker 1: that serve to nourish it and to enable it to
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  Speaker 1: grow and express the life that is within it. The
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  Speaker 1: desire for expression is a vital energy that causes the
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  Speaker 1: thing to struggle for existence and to draw to itself
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  Speaker 1: that which is conducive to its survival. Not only do minerals, plants, animals,
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: and men act in accordance with this law, but passing
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: on to the mental plane. We find that ideas, desires,
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: and mental states struggle for survival and expression. There is
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: always a conflict of desires, feelings, motives, and ideals going
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  Speaker 1: on within our mentality, and the strongest wins out. We
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: may throw the weight of our will into the struggle
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  Speaker 1: and decide the day it is true, But the principle remains,
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  Speaker 1: and each idea, desire, and feeling exerts its attractive power
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  Speaker 1: in the direction of drawing to itself other things of
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  Speaker 1: its own kind to serve, to strengthen and develop itself,
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  Speaker 1: and to allow it to express itself more fully. All
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: this refers to the inner workings of thought attraction. There
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  Speaker 1: is an outer phase. Have you never noticed that when
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  Speaker 1: a man is filled with a strong, burning desire to
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  Speaker 1: express a certain line of mental activity and sets to
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: work to make his thoughts take form in action, there
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: seems to be set into operation a train of circumstances
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: that tend to draw to him the persons, things, and
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: environments conducive to that particular line of expression, or else
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: to draw the man himself away from his old environment, occupation,
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: and surroundings into the presence of those better adapted to them.
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  Speaker 1: Expression of his thought. A little consideration will show you,
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: either from your own experience or that of others, how
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  Speaker 1: common is this occurrence. We hear much of people finding
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  Speaker 1: by chance the very things needed to complete their invention, story, theory,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera. We hear of others finding by accident the
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  Speaker 1: very book containing the information that they needed, or the
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  Speaker 1: person who could and would put them on the path
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  Speaker 1: of that which they sought. But there is no chance
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  Speaker 1: or accident about these things. They are a part of
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  Speaker 1: the working of the law of cause and effect in
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: its phase of thought attraction. Life is full of these occurrences,
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  Speaker 1: but we pass them by heedlessly and carelessly until we
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: become acquainted with the law. Thoughts are things just as
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  Speaker 1: much as are the chemicals, minerals, crystals, plants, seeds, and
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  Speaker 1: living things that we have mentioned above, And all things
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  Speaker 1: have this inclination toward expression, development, and growth, and the
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: corresponding power to draw to themselves as nourishment the things
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  Speaker 1: conducive to that expression and growth. And so thoughts manifest
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: this universal law of life, and under the same general
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: laws that govern all other things. An individual holding a
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: strong ideal, desire, feeling, or emotion sets into operation this
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  Speaker 1: natural principle, which tends to form an attractive center, similar
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  Speaker 1: to the center of the crystal, which then attracts to
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  Speaker 1: itself the things surroundings, environment and persons in harmony with
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  Speaker 1: its nature and conducive to its expression. As we have said,
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  Speaker 1: it may do this either by actually attracting these to itself,
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  Speaker 1: or else causing its owner to move toward them. This
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: attractive power operates gradually and more or less slowly at first,
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  Speaker 1: but like the rolling snowball or the growing crystal, its
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: rate of growth increases with its size. We have known
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  Speaker 1: many cases of men and women who have attained in
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: after years the ideals of their earlier days. In many cases,
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: they were apparently led away from the channels of expression
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: for a number of years, but then later there would
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: come to them a peculiar branching off or divergence in
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: a certain direction and low sometimes before or they realized
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: that they found themselves materializing and expressing their old ideals.
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: Every strong desire, ideal, or feeling is a seed action
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  Speaker 1: that will strive ever to express itself and draw to
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  Speaker 1: itself that which will tend to nourish it and enable
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  Speaker 1: it to manifest into action and objective shape and form.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, many of these seeds never grow. They are
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  Speaker 1: crowded out by other and stronger seeds, or else are
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  Speaker 1: killed out by the will. And in the same way,
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: the mental states that are watered by attention and surrounded
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  Speaker 1: by the rich soil of encouragement tend to develop more
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: strength and vigor and to outstrip their weaker companions. This
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: mental gardening is a worthy task for the individual, and
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: one that will bring to him a full measure of results.
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  Speaker 1: Not only are we largely what we have thought ourselves
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: into being, but we have around us largely those things
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: that we have attracted to us by our thoughts. This
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: may be objected to by some who say that they
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: have reaped the things they feared, rather than the things
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: they desired. The thing I feel has come upon me,
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: But what of that is not a fear a mental
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: state as much as his desire. Fear is the negative
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  Speaker 1: pole of the mental state of which the positive pole
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  Speaker 1: is desire. In both cases, a strong mental picture is
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  Speaker 1: held and the thought processes are set into operation to
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  Speaker 1: materialize it into objectivity. The man who continually holds the
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: mental picture of poverty in his mind surely attracts those
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  Speaker 1: conditions to him. The man who holds the idea of
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: prosperity before him attracts his own to himself. And right here,
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: at this very place, we wish to give you the
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: antidote and remedy for fear. It is this. If you
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: dislike a thing, and therefore find yourself evincing a fear
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: that it may materialize in your life, stop right there
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: and take mental stock of yourself. Then begin by steadily
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  Speaker 1: refusing to allow your mind to dwell upon the fear,
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  Speaker 1: but in its place build up the desire for and
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: the thought picture of the very opposite thing, the thing
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: or condition which, if realized, will save you from the
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: thing you are beginning to fear. Then concentrate all your
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: efforts upon the mental growth of this idea, desire, feeling,
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  Speaker 1: and hope for the thing you want, and try to
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  Speaker 1: forget the thing you have feared, driving it out of
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  Speaker 1: your mind. By will and determination. You will find that
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  Speaker 1: by cultivating and dwelling upon the positives, you will neutralize
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  Speaker 1: and kill out the negatives. If you will but realize
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  Speaker 1: the value of this little bit of advice that we
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: have just given you, and will begin to act upon it.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: You will ever look back upon this moment of the
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: first reading of it with feelings of joy and thankfulness,
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: for it is the antidote for fear, and fear is
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: the deadly night shade of the mind. Each of us
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: is a great thought magnet, ever drawing to us things, persons,
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: and environment circumstances, even in harmony with our composite thoughts,
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: and tending to enable those thoughts to express themselves. And
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: at the same time we are ever repelling, driving away,
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  Speaker 1: and repulsing the things of the opposite care. This being so,
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: does it not become of the greatest importance for us
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: to cultivate the right sort of thought magnet that we
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: may draw to ourselves at which we would desire. Does
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: it not become our duty to drive out from our
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: thought realm the thoughts that tend to attract to us
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  Speaker 1: the people and conditions calculated to pull us down in
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: the quick sands of life. Does it not become our
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: duty to ourselves to drag up by the roots that
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: deadly night shade of the mind, fear, and with it
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: its companion plants of hate, anger, and jealousy, all of
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: which tend to bring about undesirable conditions for us, and
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: all of which are negatives and not positives. We are
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: all thought magnets, whether we wish to be or not.
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: And this being so, is it not the height of
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: folly to refuse to take advantage of the understanding of
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: this law and to cultivate the positive qualities of thought
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: that will serve to draw to us the things that
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: will aid us and bring us greater happiness, health, and success.
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: If asked to choose between the results of the positive
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: qualities and those of the negative qualities, no sane man
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: or woman would hesitate a moment, And yet many shiver
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: on the brink of the great lake of life, unable
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: to decide whether it is worth while to choose between
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  Speaker 1: the boat of positivity, which will take them safely across
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  Speaker 1: to the shore of attainment by the use of the
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: oars of the will and the reason, on the one hand,
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  Speaker 1: or the rotten, heavy, flat bottomed scow of negativity, which
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: has no oars but just drifts along until it becomes
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: water logged and sinks. On the other hand, It is
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: a matter for your own choice. We have pointed out
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  Speaker 1: the way and stated the rules. You must do the rest.
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: In the parlance of the day. It is now up
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: to you. To those who object that this matter of
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: the magnetic power of thought savers too much of magic
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: or miracles, we would say that a careful consideration of
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: the principles of thought, waves and thought currents, radiating on
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: all sides, in all directions, from every individual, reaching those
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: for whom they are intended and with whom they are
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  Speaker 1: in harmony, will be seen to cover all all the
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: points and meet all the requirements of the case. It
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: is all a matter of natural, scientific principles and law.
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  Speaker 1: There is nothing miraculous or magical about it. It is
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: but another application of the principle of as ye sow,
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  Speaker 1: so shall ye reap. You sow seed thoughts, and you
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: reap materialized conditions. You sow thought, and you reap action.
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: Each seed grows trees, blossoms, and fruit according to its kind.
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: You are a thought magnet. What are you drawing to yourself?
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: Is it not time to stop attracting negative conditions? Do
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: you want positives? Then? Think, feel desire, and act accordingly.
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: Chapter five Creative Thought. In the preceding chapter we explain
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: to you the operations of the law of attraction, under
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: which thoughts tend to attract or draw to themselves the
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: things in harmony with themselves, and which are conducive to
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: the outward expression of the thought. In connection therewith, we
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: called your attention to the fact that there is a
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: universal tendency toward expression and manifestation. All things have the
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: inward urge prompting the fullest expression and manifestation, and the
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: law of attraction serves to draw the materials for the same.
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: Accompanying this active principle of nature, there is another law
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  Speaker 1: operative on both the mental and physical planes, and this
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: law we now ask you to consider. We refer to
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: the law of materialization or objective creative effort. The law
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: of materialization is universal, It is found on all planes
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: and manifests in various ways. Its underlying principle is its
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: inward tendency to create forms and outward manifestation. In the
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: mineral world we find a constant state of motion, change,
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: and building up of form. The electrons group themselves into atoms,
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: the atoms into molecules, and the molecules into various shapes
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: and forms and varieties. Underlying it all science perceives the
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: constant effort of the inner to express itself in the
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: outer the invisible striving to become visible, the unmanifest striving
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: to become manifest. We shall not dwell on this side
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: of the subject. We mention it merely to illustrate the
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: universality of the law. And not only do physical things
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: possess this inward urge toward outward materialization, but thoughts, being things,
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: also possess and manifest it to a great degree. Thoughts
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: strive to take form in action. Thoughts strive ever to
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: materialize themselves in objective material form. A strong mental state
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: produces mental unrest in its efforts to materialize itself, in
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: its striving for birth on the material plane. It sets
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: into operation both the law of attraction before mentioned, and
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: also starts into operation the sub conscious activities of the
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: mind in the direction of thinking out plans and means,
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: wherewith the materialization may be effected. Before considering further the
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: operation of this law and the thought world, let us
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: pause a moment and consider how perfectly natural and common
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: a thing is the materialization of thought. At first mention,
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: it seems unusual, to say the least, But when we
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: begin to consider that the entire creative and inventive work
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: of man is simply the result of the materialization of
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: his imaginings. The matter takes on another aspect. Every material
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: thing that man has created, built, erected, or constructed has
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  Speaker 1: first existed as a thought in the imagination of the inventor, maker,
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  Speaker 1: or builder. Every house that has been built has had
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  Speaker 1: its preceding thought form in the imagination of the architect
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  Speaker 1: or designer. This is true of every bridge that ever
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  Speaker 1: has been constructed, and of every piece of machinery, the locomotive,
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  Speaker 1: the steamboat, the telegraph, the telephone, the electric light, the telescope,
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  Speaker 1: the microscope, the printing press. Every invention, in fact, has
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  Speaker 1: had its mental image preceding its material construction. It existed
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  Speaker 1: first as a thought thing, and then as a material thing.
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  Speaker 1: And yet some people doubt that thingness of thought and
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  Speaker 1: regard the imagination as mere fancy. There is, it is true,
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  Speaker 1: a negative form of imagination that is but little more
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  Speaker 1: than mere fancy. But in its positive phase, the imagination
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  Speaker 1: is the great creative workshop of the world, and those
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  Speaker 1: who understand its mighty power no longer allow it to
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  Speaker 1: run away with them, but instead set it to work
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  Speaker 1: well harnessed, and then reap the result that comes to
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  Speaker 1: those who understand and apply the great laws of nature.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the statements that will follow may seem strange
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  Speaker 1: to you, But if you have firmly grasped the idea
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  Speaker 1: of the thinness of thoughts, you will see in the
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  Speaker 1: phenomena simply the transformation of the subtle form of things
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  Speaker 1: into a visible and material form. Just as Morse's telegraph
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  Speaker 1: was but the materialization of his thought form of it,
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  Speaker 1: just as Edison's electric light was but the materialization of
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  Speaker 1: his thought image of it. Just as the Brooklyn Bridge
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  Speaker 1: was but the materialization of its designer's imaginative forms. So
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  Speaker 1: are the great business enterprises, the great telegraph lines, the
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  Speaker 1: great railroad routes, the great trusts, the great financial houses,
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  Speaker 1: just the result of the thoughts of those who created them.
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  Speaker 1: Think of this for a moment until the truth of
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  Speaker 1: the statement sinks into your mind. Then listen to this
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  Speaker 1: further statement. Just as these things are objectified forms of
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  Speaker 1: subjective ideas, materialized forms of immaterial thoughts, so the ideas,
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  Speaker 1: mental images, ideals, hopes, and aspirations of all of us
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  Speaker 1: are the molds, patterns, or dies of the material things
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  Speaker 1: of our future. We are making patterns today that will
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  Speaker 1: be materialized tomorrow. We are making today the molds from
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  Speaker 1: which the materialized things of the future will emerge, but
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  Speaker 1: it may be urged. All ideals do not become real,
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  Speaker 1: all hopes are not realized, All aspirations are not possible
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  Speaker 1: of expression and attainment. Why The answer lies in the
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  Speaker 1: fact that the majority of people do not know how
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  Speaker 1: to desire, do not know what they want so far
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  Speaker 1: as desire is concerned. They content themselves with mere wishing
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  Speaker 1: or wanting or fretting because they haven't the thing. Real, active, burning,
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  Speaker 1: creative desire is foreign to their natures. They say they
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  Speaker 1: want things, but they don't want them hard enough. The
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  Speaker 1: men who attain are those who are filled with the
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  Speaker 1: burning thirst of desire, which leaves nothing undone to satisfy itself.
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  Speaker 1: The desire hardens into will and bends and draws everything
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  Speaker 1: toward its manifestation and accomplishment. Desire is the motive power
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  Speaker 1: that is behind all attainment, achievement, and action. Unless one
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  Speaker 1: possesses it, he does not act and move. And as
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  Speaker 1: to the matter of getting things, very few people really
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  Speaker 1: know just what they do want. They lack clear mental
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  Speaker 1: images of the desired thing. The same people who know
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  Speaker 1: exactly what they want so far as a small thing
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  Speaker 1: is concerned, and accordingly get it if their desire is
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  Speaker 1: strong enough and the will is firm or at sea.
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  Speaker 1: When it comes to imaging great things, they content themselves
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  Speaker 1: with merely vaguely wanting something different from what they have,
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  Speaker 1: and the result is that they wander around from one
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  Speaker 1: thing to another like a ship that has lost its rudder.
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  Speaker 1: The strongest desire, the most rigid will, will fail to
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  Speaker 1: accomplish anything for the person who has not formed a
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  Speaker 1: clear mental picture or idea of exactly what he does want. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: in the materialization of thought, one should first take mental
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  Speaker 1: stock of himself, then pick out the things that he
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  Speaker 1: really wants to accomplish or to acquire, and then proceed
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  Speaker 1: to build up the strongest kind of desire for those things.
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  Speaker 1: In this way he sets into operation the law of
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  Speaker 1: thought materialization, and incidentally the law of attraction and the
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  Speaker 1: preliminary operations, whereby the ideal becomes real or started in motion.
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  Speaker 1: A clear cut mental picture or idea of the things
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  Speaker 1: that one wishes to accomplish serves as a nucleus around
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  Speaker 1: which the cree creative forces of thought center and which
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  Speaker 1: they use as a basis of creative materialization. There must
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  Speaker 1: always be this creative center around which thought may build.
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  Speaker 1: This center must be formed in that wonderful creative region
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  Speaker 1: of thought, the imagination. In the imagination, you must form
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  Speaker 1: the clear mental picture or ideal that you wish to
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  Speaker 1: make real. At first, you will be able to see
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  Speaker 1: it but dimly, but repetition will deepen the lines and
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  Speaker 1: broaden the form until the ideal will be seen. In
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  Speaker 1: the actual process of realization and materialization, you will find
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  Speaker 1: that the ideal will develop and grow under the attention
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  Speaker 1: that you are giving to it. New details will work
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  Speaker 1: into the picture, and the fainter portions will come into
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  Speaker 1: plainer view, while the important details will stand out in
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  Speaker 1: still bolder relief. Very often you may not be able
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  Speaker 1: to form the complete mental image at the start, in
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  Speaker 1: which case do not be discouraged, but try to see
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  Speaker 1: the first step or the first detail of the thing
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  Speaker 1: as clearly as possible. This will serve serve as that
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  Speaker 1: see the image from which the complete picture will develop.
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  Speaker 1: Until you are able to form the ideal of what
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  Speaker 1: you want in your imagination, you do not really know
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  Speaker 1: just what you do want, train the imagination to show
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  Speaker 1: you the picture of the thing you want. This is
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  Speaker 1: the first important step in thought creative effort. Then bestow
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  Speaker 1: upon your mental picture or ideal a constant supply of desire.
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  Speaker 1: Look at your picture and then long for it, crave it,
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  Speaker 1: hunger and thirst for it. And by so doing you
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  Speaker 1: will set into motion the natural laws of the thought world,
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  Speaker 1: which will tend to make real your ideal. You will
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: find new plans, methods, and means flashing into your mind
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: from the great subconscious regions, and the law of attraction
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  Speaker 1: will bring to your aid the persons, things, and environments
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  Speaker 1: conducive to the materialization of your thought or else will
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  Speaker 1: lead you to them. You and the means will be
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  Speaker 1: brought together somehow, some way, sometime. It will not all
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  Speaker 1: be done at once. Just as the crystal slowly forms
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  Speaker 1: around its center, so will your materialize thought form around
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  Speaker 1: the ideal that serves as its center. Just as the
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  Speaker 1: tree grows from the seed, so will the tree of
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  Speaker 1: objective form and shape and condition grow from your seed ideal,
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  Speaker 1: if it be kept watered with care, attention, and persistency,
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  Speaker 1: and warmed by the sun of desire. Thus shall our
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  Speaker 1: dreams come true, our ideals become realities, our subjective thoughts
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  Speaker 1: become objective things. And so we see that the generally
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  Speaker 1: reviled imagination is really the mystic creative workshop of the mind,
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  Speaker 1: in which are first created the patterns, molds, and designs
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  Speaker 1: of all that shall afterward become the material realities of life. Consequently,
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: we should exercise care in the selection of the subject
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: and objects of our imagination. Drive out the negative pictures
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  Speaker 1: which tend to materialize their corresponding realities. Keep the attention
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  Speaker 1: and the imagination firmly fixed on the positives. Practice will
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  Speaker 1: enable you to do this. Hang bright pictures in the
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  Speaker 1: Gallery of the Mind, Chapter six, Your latent Powers. Another
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  Speaker 1: of the several important revelations attending the truth that thoughts
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: are things is the startling fact that the average individual
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  Speaker 1: is merely scratching the surface of his thought power in
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: his everyday thinking. It is now accepted as an established
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  Speaker 1: scientific fact that the creative faculty of thought may be
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  Speaker 1: operated not only in the direction of outward materialization, but
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: also in the direction of developing the powers of the self,
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: the faculties of one's own mind in brain building. In short,
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: it appears that the human race has been merely picking
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  Speaker 1: up the nuggets of thought from the surface of the
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  Speaker 1: mind and allowing the rich deposits lying beneath to remain undisturbed.
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  Speaker 1: As Professor William James says, we have not used our
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  Speaker 1: second wind of thought in this connection. We think that
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  Speaker 1: the following quotation from a recent magazine article of Professor
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  Speaker 1: James will be of interest to you. Here it is
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  Speaker 1: everyone knows what it is to start a piece of work,
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  Speaker 1: either intellectual or muscular, feeling stale or cold, as an
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  Speaker 1: Adirondack guide once put it to me, And everybody knows
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  Speaker 1: what it is to warm up to his job. The
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  Speaker 1: process of warming up gets particularly striking in the phenomenon
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  Speaker 1: known as second wind. On usual occasions, we make a
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  Speaker 1: practice of stopping an occupation as soon as we meet
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  Speaker 1: the first effective layer, so to call it a fatigue.
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  Speaker 1: We have then walked, played, or worked enough so we
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  Speaker 1: desist that amount of fatigue is an efficacious obstruction on
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  Speaker 1: this side of which our usual life is cast. But
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: if an unusual necessity forces us to press onward, a
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a
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  Speaker 1: certain critical point, when gradually or suddenly it passes away,
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  Speaker 1: and we are fresher than before. We have evidently tapped
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  Speaker 1: a level of new energy masked until then by the
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: fatigue obstacle usually obeyed. There may be layer after layer
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  Speaker 1: of this experience. A third and fourth wind may supervene
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: mental activity shows the phenomenon as well as physical, and
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: in exceptional cases we may find, beyond the very extremity
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  Speaker 1: of fatigue distress, amounts of ease and power that we
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  Speaker 1: never dreamed ourselves to own, sources of strength habitually not
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: taxed at all, because habitually we never pushed through the obstruction,
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: never passed those early critical points. Thus we see, on
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  Speaker 1: the evidence of one of the world's greatest authorities on psychology,
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  Speaker 1: the fact that there are great layers of thought power
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  Speaker 1: in the mind of man which are seldom used. It
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: is true that Professor James speaks of this second wind
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  Speaker 1: of thought as reached only by great effort and under
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  Speaker 1: exceptional circumstances. But one may go still further in this matter.
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  Speaker 1: Not only may these hidden powers of mind be reached
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  Speaker 1: by great effort and under exceptional circumstances, as states, but
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  Speaker 1: they may be uncovered by simple methods of gradual development.
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  Speaker 1: By the use of desire, will an imagination. One may
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  Speaker 1: develop any mental quality to a remarkable degree by means
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  Speaker 1: of the simple methods to be described in this chapter.
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  Speaker 1: One may suppress the activities of undesirable faculties in the
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  Speaker 1: same way, and one may actually create a new character
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  Speaker 1: for himself by the same procedure. This method of self development,
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  Speaker 1: unfoldment of the latent powers of mind, reconstruction of character,
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: brain building, or whatever we may prefer to call it,
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  Speaker 1: depends upon the operation of thought in the two directions
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  Speaker 1: mentioned in preceding chapters of this book, namely, one the
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  Speaker 1: law of materialization, under the operations of which thought tends
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  Speaker 1: to materialize itself into objective reality, and two the law
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  Speaker 1: of attraction, under the operations of which thought tends to
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: draw to itself the particular materials conducive to its materialization
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: and expression. In the preceding chapters, we have shown you
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  Speaker 1: how thought acts in accordance with these two laws in
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  Speaker 1: the direction of outward manifestation. We now invite you to
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  Speaker 1: consider thought employing the same laws in the direction of
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  Speaker 1: inward manifestation in manifestation in the brain which it uses.
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  Speaker 1: Without entering into theory we may say that we hold
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  Speaker 1: that the brain is merely the organ of the mind,
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  Speaker 1: the thinking machine which mind uses to produce thoughts. But
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: note this important fact, it is a machine also capable
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  Speaker 1: of being used to build up in large add to
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  Speaker 1: and change itself. Mind not only uses the brain to
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: produce thoughts, but it also uses thoughts to build up brain.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: By turning thought back upon the brain, it causes brain
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  Speaker 1: to develop in order that better and stronger thoughts may
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  Speaker 1: be produced, and so on. Action and reaction, ever a
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: strange procedure, but strictly in line with nature's evolutionary processes.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: And now let us plunge at once into the heart
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: of the method that may be used in this brain building,
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: self development, character creation, et cetera. This inner building work
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: of thought is accomplished by the employment of desire, will,
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: and the imagination operating under what in scientific parlance is
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: termed the law of use. By the latter is meant
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: that principle of nature which causes a part, muscle, organ
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  Speaker 1: or mental faculty, as well as many other things, to
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  Speaker 1: develop by active employment and use. You know how a
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: muscle develops by use, and how a part tends to
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: flabbiness and even atrophy by disuse. The same rule applies
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: to the mental faculties or brain centers. The fire of
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: desire generates an energy which demands expression and materialization. The
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  Speaker 1: imagination supplies the mental picture of the quality or power desired,
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  Speaker 1: which serves as a pattern or mold for the thing itself.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: Though will holds the attention firmly upon the desire mental
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: image and activity, and the active employment by use of
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  Speaker 1: the rudimentary faculty or brain center, tends to build up
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: a stronger and more active center or faculty. The law
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: of attraction and the law of materialization, respectively, aid in
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: the building up process, and thus is the latent power developed.
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  Speaker 1: You find yourself deficient in certain qualities, then begin to
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  Speaker 1: realize just what these qualities are in detail, and form
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  Speaker 1: a mental picture of yourself as you will be when
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: you develop these faculties or qualities. Make the mental picture
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  Speaker 1: as deep and clear as possible. Strive to imagine yourself
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  Speaker 1: as acting by reason of these qualities. See yourself as
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  Speaker 1: already in possession of them. Give the imagination a loose
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  Speaker 1: rain in this matter, so far as the forming of
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  Speaker 1: mental pictures is concerned, Although do not give yourself over today,
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  Speaker 1: dreaming at the expense of action. Then cultivate the strongest
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  Speaker 1: kind of desire for the materialization of the said qualities
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  Speaker 1: or faculties. Want them hard, hunger, and thirst after their attainment.
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  Speaker 1: Fill yourself with ambition and aspiration in that particular direction.
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  Speaker 1: Use your will in giving your strongest attention to the
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: matter at frequent intervals, and in preventing anything else to
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  Speaker 1: sidetrack you. Also use the will in the direction of
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: preventing you from acting along lines calculated to interfere with
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: the cultivation of the ideal. Then endeavor to exercise, employ,
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  Speaker 1: and use whatever faculties or qualities you may already possess
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  Speaker 1: along the lines of the ideal, no matter how little
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: of the desired quality you may possess, use it to
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: the utmost. Employ it actively upon all occasions. Exercise it
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  Speaker 1: freely and frequently, for by so doing you set the
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: laws into operation that will make it grow and develop.
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  Speaker 1: You will notice that this method consists of the seeing, desiring, willing,
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  Speaker 1: and acting along the direct lines of the object to
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: be attained. These four phases are necessary. You cannot omit
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  Speaker 1: any of them without weakening the method. Many fail in
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: similar practices because they content themselves with mere thinking and
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: desiring and omitting, the willing, and acting, particularly the acting.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: Every time you act out some little detail of your ideal,
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: you strengthen yourself tenfold in that detail. The manifestation of
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: a thought strengthens the brain center controlling that thought and
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: adds to its dynamic power. If you will keep before
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: your mind the idea of strengthening of a muscle, you
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: will be able to see more plainly the process whereby
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: you may strengthen your mental muscles or brain centers. Take
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  Speaker 1: the instance of a baby learning to walk. It sees
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: others walking and forms the mental picture of the act.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: If it were brought up in the company of crawling
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: creatures alone, it probably would never think of walking, but
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: would crawl about on all fours. Seeing others walk, it
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: forms the idea or mental picture of walking, and then
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: wants to walk itself. It forms the ideal. Then, finding
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: it difficult to walk, but still wanting to do so,
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  Speaker 1: its desire is set on fire, and it begins to
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: manifest a burning desire to stand, erect and step out.
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  Speaker 1: It uses its will to that purpose, and it develops
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  Speaker 1: not only the leg muscles, but also the co ordinate
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  Speaker 1: brain centers governing walking and strengthens both by use and
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: in the end. It does walk why because it knew
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  Speaker 1: what it wanted, wanted it hard enough, used well in
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: the process, kept its attention and imagination busily on the task,
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: and finally used every opportunity to manifest the mental state
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: into action. It saw itself walking before it could manifest
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: the act. It wanted a desire to walk, before the
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: desire could be materialized, It tried hard to walk before
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  Speaker 1: it succeeded. And in doing these things it unconsciously brought
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: into operation the various mental laws of thought, materialization, and expression.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: And these are just the stages of the process of
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: brain building, character development, self creation. This is the way
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: you may mind the deeper straita of thought expression. This
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: is how you may catch your second wind, or third, fourth,
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: or fifth wind. In fact, the method is scientific and simple,
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: but it requires patient and persistent practice. The thinking must
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: be supplemented by acting. Acts and thoughts react upon each other.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: Each action and reaction tending to strengthen and develop thoughts
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: along a given line made it easier for you to
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: act along those lines. Acts along those lines render it
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: easier for you to think along them to him who
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: hath shall be given. In conclusion, we think it well
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: to say that, in this process of development and brain building,
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: the rule already stated that to restrain a mental quality
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: or faculty develop its opposite is in full operation. If
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: your self building requires the restraint of some faculty or
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: quality of thought, the best and simplest plan is to
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: develop the opposite quality or faculty. The average person considers
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  Speaker 1: that his character or nature has been given to him
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  Speaker 1: once and for all, and is as unchangeable as the
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  Speaker 1: motion of the earth around the sun. And it is
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  Speaker 1: unchangeable unless he proceeds to turn back upon his brain.
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  Speaker 1: The power of the thought evolved therefrom that which enables
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  Speaker 1: the man to build up outside things by reason of
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  Speaker 1: his creative thought, that enables him to materialize his thought forms,
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  Speaker 1: may also be used by him in the direction of
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  Speaker 1: the addition to alteration, development, and unfoldment of his own
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  Speaker 1: thought machine. By means of thought power, he may explore
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  Speaker 1: the deep recesses of his mind or dig down into
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  Speaker 1: its depths, bringing forth to the light of consciousness many
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  Speaker 1: rare and beautiful things. A man's mind is like a
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  Speaker 1: great unexplored forest in the majority of cases, only by
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  Speaker 1: exploration along scientific lines may he discover what he has
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  Speaker 1: in it. By intelligent application of these principles, he may
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  Speaker 1: rid the forest of the noxious and dangerous creatures lurking
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  Speaker 1: in its depths, and at the same time bring forth
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  Speaker 1: many things that will well serve him in his life work.
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  Speaker 1: Why spend our days in striving for help from outside.
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  Speaker 1: Why pay great prices to others when within ourselves are
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  Speaker 1: to be found the most valuable of qualities and possessions,
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  Speaker 1: awaiting the hour of discovery and development. For after all,
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  Speaker 1: all this development, creation and building is in the nature
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  Speaker 1: of unfoldment of things that are wrapped up or enfolded
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  Speaker 1: in our mental being. They are there else they could
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  Speaker 1: never be unfolded. They are latent within our mentality, awaiting
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  Speaker 1: the time of expression and manifestation. They are there as seeds,
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  Speaker 1: awaiting the water and sun and chance to grow, blossom
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  Speaker 1: and bear fruit. They are there in static form, awaiting
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  Speaker 1: the process whereby they are transformed into dynamic forces. They
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  Speaker 1: are there impossibilities, awaiting transmutation into actualities. They are there
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  Speaker 1: as ideals, awaiting the call to reality. Verily, a great
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  Speaker 1: day is before us, when and our ideals become real,
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  Speaker 1: our dreams come true.