Part Seven - Page 1

1. Visualization is the process of making mental images, and the image is the mould or model which will serve as a pattern from which your future will emerge.
2. Make the pattern clear and make it beautiful; be bold; make it grand; remember that you are as free as you believe you are free; you are free as to cost of material; draw on the Infinite for your supply, construct it in your imagination; it will have to be there before it will ever appear anywhere else.
3. Make the image clear and clean-cut, hold it firmly in the mind and you will gradually and constantly bring the thing nearer to you. You can be what you will to be.
4. This is another psychological fact which is well known, but unfortunately, reading about it will not bring about any result which you may have in mind; it will not even help you to form the mental image, and bring it into manifestation. Work is necessary - labor, hard mental labor, the kind of effort which some are willing to put forth.
5. The first step is idealization. It is likewise the most important step, because it is the plan on which you are going to build. It must be solid; it must be permanent. The architect, when they plan a 30-story building, has every line and detail pictured in advance. The engineer, when they span a chasm, first ascertains the strength requirements of a million separate parts.
6. They see the end before a single step is taken; so you are to picture in your mind what you want; you are sowing the seed, but before sowing any seed you want to know what the harvest is to be. This is Idealization. If you are not sure, return to the chair daily until the picture becomes plain; it will gradually unfold; first the general plan will be dim, but it will take shape, the outline will take form, then the details, and you will gradually develop the power by which you will be enabled to formulate plans which will eventually materialize in the objective world. You will come to know what the future holds for you.

Part Seven - Introduction

Through all the ages people have believed in an invisible power, through which and by which all things have been created and are continually being re-created.

We may personalize this power and call it God, or we may think of it as the essence or spirit, which permeates all things, but in either case the effect is the same.

So far as the individual is concerned, the objective, the physical, the visible, is the personal, that which can be cognized by the senses. It consists of body, brain and nerves. The subjective is the spiritual, the invisible, the impersonal.

The personal is conscious because it is a personal entity. The impersonal, being the same in kind and quality as all other Being, is not conscious of itself and has therefore been termed the subconscious. The personal, or conscious, has the power of will and choice, and can therefore exercise discrimination in the selection of methods whereby to bring about the solution of difficulties. The impersonal, or spiritual, being a part or one with the source, and origin of all power, can necessarily exercise no such choice, but, on the contrary, it has Infinite resources at its command. It can and does bring about results by methods concerning which the human or individual mind can have no possible conception.

You will therefore see that it is your privilege to utilize the potentialities of Infinity by making use of the subconscious mind. Here, then, is the scientific explanation of the wonderful power which has been put within your control, if you but understand, appreciate and recognize it.

One method of consciously utilizing this omnipotent power is outlined in Part Seven.

Part Six - Study Questions with Answers

51. What are some of the effects which can be produced by electricity?
    Heat, light, power, music.
52. Upon what do these various effects depend?
    Upon the mechanism to which electricity is attached.
53. What is the result of the action and interaction of the individual mind upon the Universal?
    The conditions and experiences with which we meet.
54. How may these conditions be changed?
    By changing the mechanism by which the Universal is differentiated in form.
55. What is this mechanism?
    The brain.
56. How may it be changed?
    By the process we call thinking. Thoughts change brain cells, and these cells respond to the corresponding thought in the Universal.
57. Of what value is the power of concentration?
    It is the very highest personal accomplishment which can be acquired, and the distinguishing characteristic of every successful person.
58. How may it be acquired?
    By faithfully practicing the exercises in this System.
59. Why is this so important?
    Because it will enable us to control our thoughts, and since thoughts are causes conditions must be effects; if we can control the cause we can also control the effect.
60. What is changing conditions and multiplying results in the objective world?
    People are learning the basic methods of constructive thinking.

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29. A single idea may be worth millions of dollars, and these ideas can only come to those who are receptive, who are prepared to receive them, who are in a successful frame of mind.
30. People are learning to place themselves in harmony with the Universal Mind; they are learning the unity of all things; they are learning the basic methods and principles of thinking, and this is changing conditions and multiplying results.
31. They are finding that circumstances and environment follow the trend of mental and spiritual progress; they find that growth follows knowledge; action follows inspiration; opportunity follows perception; always the spiritual first, then the transformation into the infinite and illimitable possibilities of achievement.
32. As the individual is but the channel for the differentiation of the Universal, these possibilities are necessarily inexhaustible.
33. Thought is the process by which we may absorb the Spirit of Power, and hold the result in our inner consciousness until it becomes a part of our ordinary consciousness. The method of accomplishing this result by the persistent practice of a few fundamental principles, as explained in this System, is the master-key which unlocks the storehouse of Universal Truth.
34. The two great sources of human thriving at present are bodily health and mental calmness. These may be readily traced to the observance of Natural Law. This is, no doubt, owing to the fact that knowledge has largely become complete, the blue sky has been revealed recently and with it many of the joys that attend perfect information.

That a person can change themselves, improve themselves, re-create themselves, control their environment, and master their own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought in constructive action. - Inspired by Larson

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22. Try it, you who have had experience in concentrating the thought on a definite purpose or object. Choose any single object and concentrate your attention on it for a definite purpose for ten minutes; you can do it; the mind will focus steadily on the original purpose, and the effect will have been won and at the end of the ten minutes something will have been gained, because you have been able to hold your thought steadily to the purpose.
23. It is, however, through attention that you will finally be able to clear your path onward and upward, and the only way to acquire this wonderful power is by practice -- practice makes perfect, in this as in anything else.
24. In order to cultivate the power of attention, bring a photograph with you to the same seat in the same room in the same position as heretofore. Examine it closely at least ten minutes, note the expression of the eyes, the form of the features, the clothing, the way the hair is arranged; in fact, note every detail shown on the photograph carefully. Now cover it and close your eyes and try to see it mentally; if you can see every detail perfectly and can form a good mental image of the photograph, you are to be congratulated; if not, repeat the process until you can.
25. This step is simply for the purpose of preparing the soil; next week we shall be ready to sow the seed.
26. It is by such exercises as these that you will finally be able to control your mental moods, your attitude, your consciousness.
27. Great financiers are learning to withdraw to solitude more and more, that they may have more time for planning, thinking and generating the right mental moods.
28. Successful business people are constantly demonstrating the fact that it pays to keep in touch with the thought of other successful business people.