Part Twelve - Study Questions with Answers

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 essential?
     The knowledge of our power, the courage to dare, the faith to do.
113. How is the practical working knowledge secured?
     By an understanding of Natural laws.
114. What is the reward of an understanding of these laws?
     A conscious realization of our ability to adjust ourselves to Divine and constant principle.
115. What will indicate the degree of success with which we meet?
     The degree in which we realize that we must cooperate with the Infinite.
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 impregnated with love becomes invincible.
117. Why is this law always in effect?
     Because it is a Natural law. All Natural laws are always in effect, constant and act with mathematical exactitude. There is only the same effect everytime.
118. Why then is it easy for some to find the solution to their situations in life?
     For the same reason that it is easy for some to find the correct solution to a difficult mathematical problem. The operator is informed and experienced.
119. Why is it possible for the mind to grasp an entirely new idea?
     We have corresponding vibratory brain cells capable of receiving the idea.
120. How is wisdom secured?
     By concentration; it is an unfoldment; it comes from within.

Part Twelve - Page 1

1. All purposes in life can be best accomplished through a scientific understanding of the creative power of thought.
2. This power to think is common to all. People are, because they think. People's power to think is infinite, consequently their creative power is always continuous.
3. We know that thought is building for us the thing we think of and actually bringing it nearer, we find it easy to invite love, calmness and encouragement, all of which are powerful thought forces, and which continually send the things we desire further towards us, so that it is always one step forward at a time.
4. Keep going forward. Eternal vigilance is the price of success. There are three steps, and each one is absolutely essential. You must first have the knowledge of your power; second, the courage to dare; third, the faith to do.
5. With this as a basis you can construct an ideal business, an ideal home, ideal friends, and an ideal environment. You are free as to material and 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, the same tomorrow, and the same next week, means to focus your forces and accomplish your ideal; your result will be a meaningful and ordered combination of fine material.
7. Fortunately this is the result which some are securing, and the cause is self evident. A sculptor starts out with a piece of marble and a chisel and keeps their ideal constant. And so should you in moulding the greatest and most plastic of all substances,the only real substance.
8. The result of this decisive and positive thought is often found in the gain of material wealth. But, the only independence is found to be a practical working knowledge of the creative power of thought.

Part Twelve - Introduction

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 attract to yourself other thoughts in harmony with them, and you will soon grasp the full significance of the vital knowledge upon which you are concentrating.

Knowledge does not apply itself; we as individuals must make the application, and the application consists in fertilizing the thought with a living purpose.

The time and thought which some people invest in focused effort accomplishes wonders because it is properly directed with some special object in view. In order to do this, it is necessary to center your mental force upon a specific thought and hold it there. If you have ever looked through the viewfinder on a camera, you found that when the proper focus was obtained the picture was clear and distinct. This illustrates the power of concentration. When you can concentrate only upon the object which you have in view, you will have a clear, passionate, definite, distinct and focused outline of your ideal and the results will be in accordance with your mental picture.

Part Eleven - Study Question with Answers

101. What is inductive reasoning?
     The process of the objective mind by which we compare a number of separate instances with each other until we see the common factor which gives rise to them all.
102. What has this method of studying accomplished?
     It has resulted in the discovery of a reign of law which has marked an epoch in human progress.
103. What is it that guides and determines action?
     It is need, want and desire which in the largest sense induce, guide and determine action.
104. What is the formula for the perfect solution of every individual situation?
     We are to believe that our desire has already been fulfilled; its accomplishment will then follow.
105. What great Teachers advocated it?
     Plato, Esther Hicks.
106. What is the result of this thought process?
     We are thinking on the plane of the absolute and planting a seed, which if left alone will germinate into fruition.
107. Why is it scientifically exact?
     Because it is Natural Law.
108. What is Faith?
     Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen.
109. What is the Law of Attraction?
     The Law by which Faith is brought into manifestation.
110. What importance do you attach to an understanding of this law?
     It has created the elements of law, reason, certitude and truth.

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32. Thought reaches its loftiest activity when plunged into its own mysterious depth; when it breaks through the narrow compass of self and passes from truth to truth to the region of eternal light, where all which is, was or ever will be, melt into one grand harmony.
33. From this process of self contemplation comes inspiration which is creative intelligence, and which is superior to every element, force or law of nature, because it can understand, modify, govern and apply them to its own ends and purposes and therefore possess them.
34. Wisdom begins with the dawn of reason, and reason is but an understanding of the knowledge and principles whereby we may know the true meaning of things. Wisdom, then, is illuminated reason, and this wisdom leads to humility, for humility is a large part of Wisdom.
35. We all know many who have achieved the seemingly impossible, who have realized life-long dreams, who have changed everything including themselves. We have sometimes marveled at the demonstration of an apparently irresistible power, which seemed to be ever available just when it was most needed, but it is all clear now. All that is required is an understanding of certain definite fundamental principles and their proper application.
36. For your exercise this week, concentrate on this statement, Whatsoever things you desire, when you meditate, believe that you receive them and you shall have them; notice that there is complete freedom, Whatsoever things is very definite and implies that the only limitation which is placed upon us in our ability to think, to be equal to the occasion, to rise to the emergency, to remember that Faith is a substance, the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Death is but the natural process whereby all material forms are thrown into the crucible for reproduction in fresh diversity.

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11. If you can conscientiously follow these directions, you will develop Faith, the kind of Faith that is the Substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen; you will develop confidence, the kind of confidence that leads to endurance and courage; you will develop the power of concentration which will enable you to focus only on the thoughts which are associated with your purpose.
12. The law is that thought will manifest in form, and only one who knows how to be the divine thinker of their own thoughts can ever take a Master's place and speak with authority.
13. Clearness and accuracy are obtained only by repeatedly having the image in mind. Each repeated action renders the image more clear and accurate than the preceding, and in proportion to the clearness and accuracy of the image will the outward manifestation be. You must build it firmly and securely in your mental world, the world within, before it can take form in the world without, and you can build something of value in the mental world only when you have the proper material. When you have the right material you can build anything you wish, but make sure of your material. You can only make wonderful broadcloth from fine silk.
14. This material will be brought out by millions of silent mental workers and fashioned into the form of the image which you have in mind.
15. Think of it! You have over five million of these mental workers, ready and in active use; brain cells they are called. Besides this, there is another reserve force of at least an equal number, ready to be called into action at the slightest need. Your power to think, then, is almost unlimited, and this means that your power to create the kind of material which is necessary to build for yourself any kind of environment which you desire is practically unlimited.