LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL.
PART TWENTY-ONE.
It is my privilege to enclose Part Twenty-one. In
paragraph seven you will find that one of the
secrets of success, one of the methods of organizing
victory, one of the accomplishments of the Master
Mind is to think big thoughts.
In paragraph 8 you will find that everything
which we hold in our consciousness for any length
of time becomes impressed upon our subconscious-
ness and so becomes a pattern which the creative
energy will weave into our life and environment.
This is the secret of the wonderful power of prayer.
We know that the universe is governed by law;
that for every effect there must be a cause, and that
the same cause, under the same conditions, will in-
variably produce the same effect. Consequently, if
prayer has ever been answered, It will always be
answered, if the proper conditions are complied
with. This must necessarily be true; otherwise the
universe would be a chaos instead of a cosmos. The
answer to prayer is therefore subject to law, and
the law is definite, exact and scientific, just as are
the laws governing gravitation and electricity. An
understanding of this law takes the foundation of
Christianity out of the realm of superstition and
credulity and places it upon the firm rock of scien-
tific understanding.
But, unfortunately, there are comparatively few
persons who know how to pray. They understand
that there are laws governing electricity, mathe-
matics and chemistry, but, for some inexplicable
reason, it never seems to occur to them that there
are also spiritual laws, and that these laws are also
definite, scientific, exact, and operate with immu-
table precision.
PART TWENTY-ONE.
1. The real secret of power is con-
sciousness of power. The Universal Mind
is unconditional; therefore, the more con-
scious we become of our unity with this
mind, the less conscious we shall become
of conditions and limitations, and as we
become emancipated or freed from condi-
tions we come into a realization of the
unconditional. We have become free!
2. As soon as we become conscious of
the inexhaustible power of the world
within, we begin to draw on this power
and apply and develop the greater possi-
bilities which this discernment has real-
ized, because whatever we become con-
scious of, is invariably manifested in the
objective world, is brought forth into tan-
gible expression.
3. This is because the Infinite mind,
which is the source from which all things
proceed, is one and indivisible, and each
individual is a channel whereby this Eter-
nal Energy is being manifested. Our
ability to think is our ability to act upon
this Universal substance, and what we
think is what is created or produced in the
objective world.
4. The result of this discovery is noth-
ing less than marvelous, and means that
mind is extraordinary in quality, limitless
in quantity and contains possibilities with-
out number. To become conscious of this
power is to become a "live wire"; it has
the same effect as placing an ordinary
wire in contact with a wire that is charged.
The Universal is the live wire. It carries
power sufficient to meet every situation
which may arise in the life of every indi-
vidual. When the individual mind touches
the Universal Mind it receives all the
power it requires. This is the world
within. All science recognizes the reality
of this world, and all power is contingent
upon our recognition of this world.
5. The ability to eliminate imperfect
conditions depends upon mental action,
and mental action depends upon conscious-
ness of power; therefore, the more con-
scious we become of our unity with the
source of all power, the greater will be
our power to control and master every
condition.
6. Large ideas have a tendency to
eliminate all smaller ideas so that it is
well to hold ideas large enough to coun-
teract and destroy all small or undesirable
tendencies. This will remove innumer-
able petty and annoying obstacles from
your path. You also become conscious
of a larger world of thought, thereby in-
creasing your mental capacity as well as
placing yourself in position to accomplish
something of value.
7. This is one of the secrets of suc-
cess, one of the methods of organizing vic-
tory, one of the accomplishments of the
Master-mind. He thinks big thoughts.
The creative energies of mind find no
more difficulty in handling large situa-
tions, than small ones. Mind is just as
much present in the Infinitely large as in
the Infinitely small.
8. When we realize these facts con-
cerning mind we understand how we may
bring to ourselves any condition by creat-
ing the corresponding conditions in our
consciousness, because everything which
is held for any length of time in the con-
sciousness, eventually becomes impressed
upon the sub-conscious and thus becomes
a pattern which the creative energy will
weave into the life and environment of
the individual.
9. In this way conditions are produced
and we find that our lives are simply the re-
flection of our predominant thought, our
mental attitude; we see then that the sci-
ence of correct thinking is the one science,
that it includes all other sciences.
10. From this science we learn that
every thought creates an impression on
the brain, that these impressions create
mental tendencies, and these tendencies
create character, ability and purpose, and
that the combined action of character,
ability and purpose determines the ex-
periences with which we shall meet in life.
11. These experiences come to us
through the law of attraction; through the
action of this law we meet in the world
without the experiences which correspond
to our world within.
12. The predominant thought or the
mental attitude is the magnet, and the law
is that like attracts like, consequently the
mental attitude will invariably attract
such conditions as correspond to its na-
ture.
13. This mental attitude is our per-
sonality and is composed of the thoughts
which we have been creating in our own
mind; therefore, if we wish a change in
conditions all that is necessary is to
change our thought; this will in turn
change our mental attitude, which will in
turn change our personality, which will in
turn change the persons, things,and con-
ditions, or, experiences with which we
meet in life.
14. It is, however, no easy matter to
change the mental attitude, but by per-
sistent effort it may be accomplished; the
mental attitude is patterned after the
mental pictures which have been photo-
graphed on the brain; if you do not like
the pictures, destroy the negatives and
create new pictures; this is the art of vis-
ualization.
15. As soon as you have done this you
will begin to attract new things, and the
new things will correspond to the new pic-
tures. To do this: impress on the mind a
perfect picture of the desire which you
wish to have objectified and continue to
hold the picture in mind until results are
obtained.
16. If the desire is one which requires
determination, ability, talent, courage,
power or any other spiritual power, these
are necessary essentials for your picture;
build them in; they are the vital part of
the picture; they are the feeling which
combines with thought and creates the
irresistible magnetic power which draws
the things your require to you. They give
your picture life, and life means growth,
and as soon as it begins to grow, the re-
sult is practically assured.
17. Do not hesitate to aspire to the
highest possible attainments in anything
you may undertake, for the mind forces are
ever ready to lend themselves to a pur-
poseful will in the effort to crystallize its
highest aspirations into acts, accomplish-
ments and events.
18. An illustration of how these mind
forces operate is suggested by the method
in which all our habits are formed. We
do a thing, then do it again, and again, and
again, until it becomes easy and perhaps
almost automatic; and the same rule ap-
plies in breaking any and all bad habits;
we stop doing a thing, and then avoid it
again, and again until we are entirely free
from it; and if we do fail now and then, we
should by no means lose hope, for the law
is absolute and invincible and gives us
credit for every effort and every success,
even though our efforts and successes are
perhaps intermittent.
19. There is no limit to what this law
can do for you; dare to believe in your own
ideal; remember that Nature is plastic
to the ideal; think of the ideal as an
already accomplished fact.
20. The real battle of life is one of
ideas; it is being fought out by the few
against the many; on the one side is the
constructive and creative thought, on the
other side the destructive and negative
thought; the creative thought is dominated
by an ideal, the passive thought is dom-
inated by appearances. On both sides
are men of science, men of letters and men
of affairs.
21. On the creative side are men who
spend their time in laboratories, or over
microscopes and telescopes, side by side
with the men who dominate the commer-
cial, political and scientific world; on the
negative side are men who spend their time
investigating law and precedent, men who
mistake theology for religion, statesman
who mistake might for right, and all the
millions who seem to prefer precedent to
progress, who are eternally looking back-
ward instead of forward, who see only the
world without, but know nothing of the
world within.
22. In the last analysis there are but
these two classes; all men will have to take
their place on one side or the other; they
will have to go forward, or go back; there
is no standing still in a world where all is
motion; it is this attempt to stand still
that gives sanction and force to arbitrary
and unequal codes of law.
23. That we are in a period of transi-
tion is evidenced by the unrest which is
everywhere apparent. The complaint of
humanity is as a roll of heaven's artillery,
commencing with low and threatening
notes and increasing until the sound is
sent from cloud to cloud, and the lightening
rends the air and earth.
24. The sentries who patrol the most
advanced outposts of the Industrial, Poli-
tical and Religious world are calling anx-
iously to each other. What of the night?
The danger and insecurity of the position
they occupy and attempt to hold is becom-
ing more apparent every hour. The dawn
of a new era necessarily declares that the
existing order of things cannot much
longer be.
25. The issue between the old regime
and the new, the crux of the social prob-
lem, is entirely a question of conviction in
the minds of the people as to the nature of
the Universe. When they realize that the
transcendent force of spirit or mind of the
Cosmos is within each individual, it will
be possible to frame laws that shall con-
sider the liberties and rights of the many
instead of the privileges of the few.
26. As long as the people regard the
Cosmic power as a power non-human and
alien to humanity, so long will it be com-
paratively easy for a supposed privileged
class to rule by Divine right in spite of
every protest of social sentiment. The
real interest of democracy is therefore to
exalt, emancipate and recognize the divin-
ity of the human spirit. To recognize
that all power is from within. That no
human being has any more power than
any other human being, except such as
may willingly be delegated to him. The
old regime would have us believe that the
law was superior to the law-makers; here-
in is the gist of the social crime of every
form of privilege and personal inequality,
the institutionalizing of the fatalistic doc-
trine of Divine election.
27. The Divine Mind is the Universal
Mind; it makes no exceptions, it plays no
favorites; it does not act through sheer
caprice or from anger, jealousy or wrath;
neither can it be flattered, cajoled or
moved by sympathy or petition to supply
man with some need which he thinks nec-
essary for his happiness or even his
existence. The Divine Mind makes no
exceptions in favor of any individual; but
when the individual understands and real-
izes his Unity with the Universal Princi-
ple he will appear to be favored because
he will have found the source of all health,
all wealth and all power.
28. For your exercise this week, con-
centrate on the Truth. Try to realize that
the Truth shall make you free, that is,
nothing can permanently stand in the way
of your perfect success when you learn to
apply the scientifically correct thought
methods and principles. Realize that you
are externalizing in your environment,
your inherent soul potencies. Realize
that the Silence offers an ever available
and almost unlimited opportunity for
awakening the highest conception of
Truth. Try to comprehend that Omnipo-
tence itself is absolute silence, all else is
change, activity, limitation. Silent
thought concentration is therefore the true
method of reaching, awakening and then
expressing the wonderful potential power
of the world within.
The possibilities of thought training
are infinite, its consequence eternal, and
yet few take the pains to direct their
thinking into channels that will do them
good, but instead leave all to chance.
--Marden.
PART TWENTY-ONE.
201. What is the real secret of power?
The consciousness of power, because
whatever we become conscious of, is
invariable manifested in the object-
ive world, is brought forth into
tangible expression.
202. What is the source of this power?
The Universal Mind, from which all
things proceed, and which is one and
indivisible.
203. How is this power being manifested?
Through the individual, each individ-
ual is a channel whereby this energy
is being differentiated in form.
204. How may we connect with this Om-
nipotence?
Our ability to think is our ability to
act on this Universal Energy, and
what we think is what is produced
or created in the objective world.
205. What is the result of this discovery?
The result is nothing less than mar-
velous, it opens unprecedented and
limitless opportunity.
206. How, then, may we eliminate imper-
fect conditions?
By becoming conscious of our Unity
with the source of all power.
207. What is one of the distinctive char-
acteristics of the Master Mind?
He thinks big thoughts, he holds
ideas large enough to counteract and
destroy all petty and annoying ob-
stacles.
208. How do experiences come to us?
Through the law of attraction.
209. How is this law brought into opera-
tion?
By our predominate mental attitude.
210. What is the issue between the old
regime and the new?
A question of conviction as to the na-
ture of the Universe. The old regime
is trying to cling to the fatalistic
doctrine of Divine election. The
new regime recognizes the divinity
of the individual, the democracy of
humanity.