LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. PART TWELVE.
Part Twelve is enclosed herewith. In the fourth
paragraph you will find the following statement:
"You must first have the knowledge of your power;
second, the courage to dare; third, the faith to do."
If you concentrate upon the thoughts given, if
you give them your entire attention, you will find
a world of meaning in each sentence, and will at-
tract to yourself other thoughts in harmony with
them, and you will soon grasp the full significance
of the vital knowledge upon which you are concen-
trating.
Knowledge does not apply itself; we as individ-
uals must make the application, and the application
consists in fertilizing the thought with a living pur-
pose.
The time and thought which most persons waste
in aimless effort would accomplish wonders if prop-
erly directed with some special object in view. In
order to do this, it is necessary to center your men-
tal force upon a specific thought and hold it there,
to the exclusion of all other thoughts. If you have
ever looked through the focusing screen of a camera,
you found that when the object was not in focus,
the impression was indistinct and possibly blurred,
but when the proper focus was obtained the picture
was clear and distinct. This illustrates the power of
concentration. Unless you can concentrate upon the
object which you have in view, you will have but a
hazy, indifferent, vague, indistinct and blurred out-
line of your ideal and the results will be in accord-
ance with your mental picture.
PART TWELVE.
1. There is no purpose in life that can-
not be best accomplished through a scien-
tific understanding of the creative power
of thought.
2. The power to think is common to all.
Man is, because he thinks. Man's power to
think is infinite, consequently his creative
power is unlimited.
3. We know that thought is building
for us the thing we think of and actually
brining it nearer, yet we find it difficult
to banish fear, anxiety or discouragement,
all of which are powerful thought forces,
and which continually send the things we
desire further away, so that it is often one
step forward and two steps backward.
4. The only way to keep from going
backward is to keep going forward. Eter-
nal vigilance is the price of success. There
are three steps, and each one is absolutely
essential. You must first have the knowl-
edge of your power; second, the courage
to dare; third, the faith to do.
5. With this as a basis you can con-
struct an ideal business, an ideal home,
ideal friends, ideal environment. You are
not restricted as to material or cost.
Thought is omnipotent and has the power
to draw on the Infinite bank of primary
substance for all that it requires. Infinite
resources are therefore at your command.
6. But your ideal must be sharp, clear-
cut, definite; to have one ideal today, an-
other tomorrow, and a third next week,
means to scatter your forces and accom-
plish nothing; your result will be a mean-
ingless and chaotic combination of wasted
material.
7. Unfortunately this is the result
which many are securing, and the cause is
self evident. If a sculptor started out
with a piece of marble and a chisel and
changed his ideal every fifteen minutes,
what result could he expect? And why
should you expect any different result in
moulding the greatest and most plastic of
all substances, the only real substance?
8. The result of this indecision and neg-
ative thought is often found in the loss of
material wealth. Supposed independence
which required many years of toil and ef-
fort suddenly disappears. It is often
found then that money and property are
not independence at all. On the contrary,
the only independence is found to be a
practical working knowledge of the crea-
tive power of thought.
9. This practical working method can-
not come to you, until you learn that the
only real power which you can have, is the
power to adjust yourself to Divine and un-
changeable principles. You cannot change
the Infinite, but you can come into an un-
derstanding of Natural laws. The reward
of this understanding is a conscious reali-
zation of your ability to adjust your
thought faculties with the Universal
Thought which is Omnipresent. Your
ability to co-operate with this Omnipotence
will indicate the degree of success with
which you meet.
10. The power of thought has many
counterfeits which are more or less fas-
cinating, but the results are harmful in-
stead of helpful.
11. Of course, worry, fear, and all neg-
ative thoughts produce a crop after their
kind; those who harbor thoughts of this
kind must inevitably reap exactly what
they have sown.
12. Again, there are the Phenomena
seekers who gormandize on the so-called
proofs and demonstrations obtained at ma-
terializing seances. They throw open their
mental doors and soak themselves in the
most poisonous currents which can be
found in the psychic world. They do not
seem to understand that it is the ability
to become negative, receptive and passive,
and thus drain themselves of all their vital
force, which enables them to bring about
these vibratory thought forms.
13. There are also the Hindu worship-
pers, who see in the materializing phenom-
ena which are performed by the so-called
adepts, a source of power, forgetting, or
never seeming to realize that as soon as the
will is withdrawn the forms wither, and
the vibratory forces of which they are com-
posed vanish.
14. Telepathy, or thought transference,
has received considerable attention, but as
it requires a negative mental state on
the part of the receiver, the practice is
harmful. A thought may be sent with the
intention of hearing or seeing, but it will
bring the penalty attached to the inversion
of the principle involved.
15. Hypnotism is positively dangerous
to the subject as well as the operator. No
one familiar with the laws governing in
the mental world would think of attempt-
ing to dominate the will of another, for by
so doing he will gradually but surely di-
vest himself of his own power.
16. All of these perversions have their
temporary satisfaction and for some a
keen fascination, but there is an infinitely
greater fascination in a true understanding
of the world of power within, a power
which increases with use; is permanent in-
stead of fleeting; which not only is potent
as a remedial agency to bring about the
remedy for past error or results of wrong
thinking, but is a prophylactic agency pro-
tecting us from all manner and form of
danger, and finally is an actual creative
force with which we can build new condi-
tions and new environment.
17. The law is, that thought will cor-
relate with its object and bring forth in
the material world the correspondence of
the thing thought or produced in the men-
tal world. We then discern the absolute
necessity of seeing that every thought has
the inherent germ of truth in order that
the law of growth will bring into mani-
festation good, for good alone can confer
any permanent power.
18. The principle which gives the
thought the dynamic power to correlate
with its object, and therefore to master
every adverse human experience, is the law
of attraction, which is another name for
love. This is an eternal and fundamental
principle, inherent in all things, in every
system of Philosophy, in every Religion
and in every Science. There is no getting
away from the law of love. It is feeling
that imparts vitality to thought. Feeling
is desire, and desire is love. Thought im-
pregnated with love becomes invincible.
19. We find this truth emphasized
wherever the power of thought is under-
stood, The Universal Mind is not only In-
telligence, but it is substance, and this sub-
stance is the attractive force which brings
electrons together by the law of attraction
so that they form atoms; the atoms in turn
are brought together by the same law and
form molecules; molecules take objective
forms; and so we find that the law of love
is the creative force behind every mani-
festation, not only of atoms, but of worlds,
of the Universe, of everything of which
the imagination can form any conception.
20. It is the operation of this marvelous
law of attraction which has caused men
in all ages and all times to believe that
there must be some personal being who re-
sponded to their petitions and desires, and
manipulated events in order to comply
with there requirements.
21. It is the combination of Thought
and Love which forms the irresistible
force, called the law of attraction. All nat-
ural laws are irresistible, the law of Gravi-
tation, or Electricity, or any other law
operates with mathematical exactitude.
There is no variation, it is only the channel
of distribution which may be imperfect.
If a bridge falls, we do not attribute the
collapse to any variation of the law of
gravitation. If the light fails us, we do not
conclude that the laws governing elec-
tricity cannot be depended upon, and if the
law of attraction seems to be imperfectly
demonstrated by an inexperienced or un-
informed person, we are not to conclude
that the greatest and most infallible law
upon which the entire system of creation
depends has been suspended. We should
rather conclude that a little more under-
standing of the law is required, for the
same reason that a correct solution of a
difficult problem in Mathematics is not al-
ways readily and easily obtained.
22. Things are created in the mental or
spiritual world before they appear in the
outward act or event. By the simple pro-
cess of governing our thought forces today,
we help create the events which will come
into our lives in the future, perhaps even
tomorrow. Educated desire is the most
potent means of bringing into action the
law of attraction.
23. Man is so constituted that he must
first create the tools, or implements by
which he gains the power to think. The
mind cannot comprehend an entirely new
idea until a corresponding vibratory brain
cell has been prepared to receive it. This
explains why it is so difficult for us to re-
ceive or appreciate an entirely new idea;
we have no brain cell capable of receiving
it; we are therefore incredulous; we do not
believe it.
24. If, therefore, you have not been
familiar with the Omnipotence of the law
of attraction, and the scientific method by
which it can be put into operation, or if
you have not been familiar with the unlim-
ited possibilities which it opens to those
who are enabled to take advantage of the
resources it offers, begin now and create
the necessary brain cells which will enable
you to comprehend the unlimited powers
which may be yours by co-operating with
Natural Law. This is done by concentra-
tion or attention.
25. The intention governs the attention.
Power comes through repose. It is by con-
centration that deep thought, wise speech
and all forces of high potentiality are ac-
complished.
26. It is in the Silence that you get
into touch with the Omnipotent power of
the sub-conscious mind from which all
power is evolved.
27. He who desires wisdom, power or
permanent success of any kind will find it
only within; it is an unfoldment. The un-
thinking may conclude that the silence is
very simple and easily attained, but it
should be remembered that only in ab-
solute silence may one come into contact
with Divinity itself; may learn of the un-
changeable law and open for himself the
channels by which persistent practice and
concentration lead to perfection.
28. This week go to the same room, take
the same chair, the same position as here-
tofore; be sure to relax, let go, both men-
tally and physically; always do this; never
try to do any mental work under pressure;
see that there are no tense muscles or
nerves, that you are entirely comfortable.
Now realize your unity with omnipotence;
get into touch with this power, come into
a deep and vital understanding, apprecia-
tion and realization of the fact that your
ability to think is your ability to act upon
the Universal Mind, and bring it into mani-
festation, realize that it will meet any and
every requirement; that you have exactly
the same potential ability which any in-
dividual ever did have or ever will have,
because each is but an expression or mani-
festation of the One, all are parts of the
whole, there is no difference in kind or
quality, the only difference being one of
degree.
--Though cannot conceive of anything
that may not be brought to expression.
He who first uttered it may be only the
suggester, but the doer will appear.
--Wilson.
PART TWELVE.
111. How may any purpose in life be best
accomplished?
Through a scientific understanding
of the spiritual nature of thought.
112. What three steps are absolutely es-
sential?
The knowledge of our power, the
courage to dare, the faith to do.
113. How is the practical working knowl-
edge secured?
By an understanding of Natural
laws.
114. What is the reward of an under-
standing of these laws?
A conscious realization of our ability
to adjust ourselves to Divine and un-
changing principle.
115. What will indicate the degree of
success with which we meet?
The degree in which we realize that
we cannot change the Infinite but
must co-operate with it.
116. What is the principle which gives
thought its dynamic power?
The Law of Attraction which rests on
vibration, which in turn rests upon
the law of love. Thought impregna-
ted with love becomes invincible.
117. Why is this law irresistible?
Because it is a Natural law. All
Natural laws are irresistible and un-
changeable and act with mathemati-
cal exactitude. There is no deviation
or variation.
118. Why then does it sometimes seem to
be difficult to find the solution to our
problems in life?
For the same reason that it is some-
times difficult to find the correct solu-
tion to a difficult mathematical prob-
lem. The operator is uninformed or
inexperienced.
119. Why is it impossible for the mind to
grasp an entirely new idea?
We have no corresponding vibratory
brain cell capable of receiving the
idea.
120. How is wisdom secured?
By concentration; it is an unfold-
ment; it comes from within.